In one of the most colorful surroundings of Old Havana, very close to the bay and in front of the Basílica Menor del Convento de San Francisco de Asís is the Carmen Montilla Gallery. Today it livens up its image with the exhibition Exquisitez femenil, by the ever surprising Yudit Vidal Faife, an artist who has come from the city of Trinidad together with 20 craftsmen who make up the project Entre hilos, alas y pinceles, which is designed and directed by this remarkable creator.

The Mexican writer Juan Rulfo only needed two books (one story book and one novel), to become one of the major narrators of the 20th century; on the 16th of May this mythical Latin American author would have been one hundred years old.

If we talk about children’s literature, I’m sure we will not fail to mention the famous novel The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, one of the most popular books of the last century in that genre.

Chronicles of Poor Lovers (Cronache di poveri amanti) by the writer Vasco Pratolini is a masterpiece of Italian neo-realism that was released on May 4, 1947, exactly 70 years ago, and with it the author began his career as a remarkable writer, both in Italy and abroad.

Two decades later, on May 2, of his death in São Paulo, Brazil, since he died in 1997, one continues to question and rethink the educational methods that are still used in the world and Freire’s proposal in that respect.

Before colonization the Andean people had a solid culture expressed fully in the dance, music, visual arts, literature, and religion. Although the conquest was fierce and artistic expressions, therefore, were subjugated, however there are still flashes of that work in many of their descendants.

It was the second day of May 1957, the month when spring began in this hemisphere, when the Cuban painter Carlos Enríquez Galope died at the age of 56.

For the past 35 years, every April 29, the world celebrates International Dance Day, a special time to bring together all the styles and manifestations of this artistic expression.