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A huge Cuban visual arts exhibition without precedents, called ¡CUBA! Arte e historia de 1868 hasta nuestros días (CUBA! Art and history from 1868 to our days) is being successfully exhibited at the Fine Arts Museum from Montreal, Canada) since January 29, 2008.

Representatives from the Cuban and Canadian Foreign ministries held official talks this week and agreed on the good status of bilateral relations between the two countries.

For most of us, Cuban dance is showgirls in feathered headdresses cha-cha-ing at the Tropicana or the sweaty couplings in the underground salsa clubs of Havana’s Miramar district. Lizt Alfonso Danza Cuba, the biggest dance troupe to come out of the country, explodes all those preconceptions.

Though Liszt Alfonso’s Danza Cuba is one of the Caribbean island’s most respected dance and music troupes, the artistic director got some odd reactions from people when she embarked on her current cross-Canada tour.

The prestigious company of Lizt Alfonso, currently on a tour in Canada, made its first presentations in Brampton, Montreal and Ottawa

Twenty-five young artists from the Canadian city are here in Havana, showing their outstanding work, which includes: photography, sculpture, video and performances.

A delegation of 24 plastic artists from Québec is visiting Cuba and will made the first exhibition of contemporary art of that country in Cuba.

Thousands of Cubans took part on Saturday in the Terry Fox Run against cancer, a disease that has killed millions of people worldwide.

“We intend to beat the record of 5,128 locations taking part in the Maracuba event and even have remote countryside areas participating in this race for life and against cancer,” said event organizer Carlos Gatorno in a press conference today.