Paris - Unesco has launched the call for the Jose Marti International Prize, which will be delivered in January 2019 in Havana during the IV International Conference ''For the Balance of the World,'' diplomatic sources reported.

The Municipal Museum José Rafael Lauzán dedicated a special tribute to two outstanding personalities: Odilio González Rodríguez (teacher and cultural promoter); and Ray Medina Febles (union leader and cultural promoter).

In San Antonio de los Baños, a new generation of young plastic artists impose new airs on the plastic arts. Among them, the art instructor, graduated in Sociocultural Studies, Adonis Marquetti Ponce, who stands out with his own light.

The cultural institutions in San Antonio de los Baños are preparing activities for the Ariguanabense Culture Week, to be held from September 17 to 23.

The activity ''Por el equilibrio del mundo'' organized by the Bosque Martiano of Ariguanabo will take place on September 18 at 9 am at the Casa de Cultura. The institution will also show an audiovisual on the 25th anniversary of its creation, belonging to the José Martí Cultural Society. This activity will take place at the Amado Fonseca school at 10 am.

The plastic artist Roberto Lázaro Conde Herrera from San Antonio de los Baños will inaugurate an exhibition entitled ''Ciudad Maravilla''. The exhibition, consisting of around 20 works, was created using the medium and large-format pen technique.

This week concludes the forming process for the organizing commission of the working groups in the Cuban provinces as part of the preparations for the IX Congress of the Writers and Artists Association of Cuba (UNEAC).