The first National Contest of Utilitarian Ceramics "Ideas in Forms", summoned by the National Museum of Cuban Contemporary Ceramics and the Caguayo Foundation for the Monumental and Applied Arts, has announced the closing of its call for next July 27th.

The piece, without a doubt, brings together all the elements of a masterpiece with a catchy melody, beautiful and vehement lyrics, but at the same time simple, and has the grace of the natural and spontaneous.

COVID-19 forces us to stay in our homes and from there we continue to communicate with our students, with our audience and with all the members of the group, through social media, says Arneldy Cejas Herrera, artistic director of the puppetry group Teatro La Proa.

In this sense, the TV program Cosas de Hombres (Men’s Things) stands out, an offering that is currently in the production phase and that next September will bring to the homes some tools to unlearn toxic macho values.

The Tablas-Alarcos Publishing House of the National Council for the Performing Arts, with the sponsorship of the Ministry of Culture and the collaboration of the Cuban Book Institute, calls for a new edition of the Virgilio Piñera Playwriting Award and the Dora Alonso Playwriting Award for Children and Puppets.

Heroes of Silence is the title of an online photographic exhibition organized in Italy on the work of Cuban collaborators facing COVID-19 in Turin, announced Friday Jose Carlos Rodriguez, Cuba’s ambassador to that European country.

On Saturday, July 18th and Sunday, July 19th, outstanding performers from the Afro-Cuban music tradition will join with musicians and presenters from Canada, the US, the Caribbean, Spain, and other European countries in A Concert for Cuba.

The jury was made up of theater experts on the Caribbean island, including director Carlos Díaz, actress Verónica Lyn, director Gerardo Fulleda, Carlos Pérez Peña and designer Nieves Laferté.