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Cuba’s National Statistics Office presented a new publication Thursday entitled Cuba’s Environmental Panorama 2007 as part of activities leading up to World Environment Day on June 5.

The exquisite sensitivity and humor of circus performance was brought to Havana’s Mella Theater by Brazil’s Udi Grudi Comic Musical Theater.

Last week, Cuban pianist Robertico Carcasses celebrated five years at the helm of the Interactivo project that mixes jazz, rock and rap; for which he deserves to be called a pioneer of timba-funk.

The publication Chilanguía, from the Cultural Secretary of Mexico City, highlighted the intense life of the José Martí Cultural Center from this capital during its 32 years of existence.

The version for the big screen of the novel "El amor en los tiempos del colera" (Love in Times of Cholera) by Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1982 Nobel Literature Prize, attracts the attention of film buffs in Havana.

Veteran and young members of Cuba’s main translating entity: ESTI (Team of Translation and Interpreting Services), are participating in a three-day symposium in Havana as part of activities to commemorate the 35th anniversary of this organization that offers its services in more than 15 languages.

Cubadisco in Pinar del Río had a great display of talent last night with the longest Rumba in the World that started at 8:30 p.m and reached its peak with the performance of the folkloric band Magino of Bahía Honda, Obán Yoko and the members of the rumba yard, who joined their charisma in La Sitiera cultural institution of Pinar del Río city, venue of the Cubadisco.

The famous choreographer and Prima Ballerina Assoluta Alicia Alonso will receive the Gold Medal of Merit in Fine Arts from the Spanish Council of Ministers, which every year awards personalities or entities that contribute to the promotion and spreading of art, culture and artistic heritage.

Cuban Radio achieved six awards at the competition called every year by the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) to stimulate the best productions of that media in the region.

Cuba will join the celebrations for the International Museum Day, next May 18, with different activities in the close to 300 institutions of that sort in the Capital.

The XII Edition of Barriocuento 2008 will last until next Sunday. The venues of the event will be the Casa de Africa and Casa de la Obra Pía, in Old Havana.

Children and youths from the eastern province of Holguin are participating in the fourth edition of the Video Art Festival based in each of the Community Video Clubs (VCJ) of the territory.

Cuban Record Industry hopes to boost the preservation of patrimonial values, forgotten by transnational and which constitutes the greater wealth of regional culture.

A new Cuban Cultural Guide was launched recently at the 28th International Tourism Fair of Havana.

An exhibition by renowned Cuban painter, engraver and ceramist Nelson Dominguez is displayed for the first time in Vietnam.