Encuentro sobre Manejo y Gestión de Centros Históricos

Under the motto of “Creative cities, cities of the twenty-first century,” specialists dedicating themselves to the rehabilitation of historical city centers and other heritage zones will be participating at conferences, discussion panels and workshops dealing with everything relating to creative cities. Between May 26th and 30th, after the end of the event, specialists who are involved in the Master Plan of the Office of the Historian of the City of Havana will deliver the post-graduate course entitled “La Habana Vieja: a public model of sustainable, overall rehabilitation” to talk about the labors of restoration that the institution has been carrying out over the last twenty years.


  • Coloquio Internacional El cuerpo y sus economías en la cultura y la historia de mujeres de la América Latina y el Caribe

    Coloquio Internacional El cuerpo y sus economías en la cultura y la historia de mujeres de la América Latina y el Caribe  LH 3

    This is one more in a series of colloquiums being held since 1994 on the subject of women and Latin American and Caribbean culture: some of the topics covered will be: Owner and slave/boss and servant …

    XXV Festival La Huella de España

    XXV Festival La Huella de España  LH 3

    Founded in 1989 by the ballerina Alicia Alonso, its general director, it is a tribute to one of the components making up Cuban nationality. Both in its more traditional elements as in its more contemp …

    Festival de Música Antigua Esteban Salas

    Festival de Música Antigua Esteban Salas  LH 3

    Dedicated to commemorate the anniversary of the death of the first Cuban musician of whom there is record of printed scores, every year the Esteban Salas Early Music Festival gathers outstanding perfo …

    Muestra Joven ICAIC 2014

    Muestra Joven ICAIC 2014  LH 3

    An event for stimulating awareness and consideration of new video/filmmakers and getting into contact with daring and inquisitive works usually produced outside the official production. The competitio …

    Festival Internacional de Poesía de La Habana

    Festival Internacional de Poesía de La Habana  LH 3

    A gathering of poets from all the continents on the globe will be engaged in an intense program including seminars, lectures taking place in all of Cuba’s provincial capitals, writing laboratories and …

    Premio y Coloquio Internacional de Musicología

    Premio y Coloquio Internacional de Musicología  LH 3

    The Musicology Prize was created to encourage scientific research and to spread knowledge and appreciation of Latin American musical culture; the competition covers unpublished papers on musical histo …

    British Culture Week in Havana

    British Culture Week in Havana  LH 3

    From a muddy football field where an invitational UK team took the veteran Cubans to task 6-1 to a party so secret that the British Ambassador was not let in, British week had the Habaneros wearing th …

    Cucalambeana country fair at El Cornito, Las Tunas

    Cucalambeana country fair at El Cornito, Las Tunas  LH 3

    This is a long way from the regular tourist circuit and is an opportunity to see real Cuban country folk. You may not like the cockfighting, but it undeniably has a place and a role in the countryside …

    Festival Internacional de la Trova Pepe Sánchez

    Festival Internacional de la Trova Pepe Sánchez  LH 3

    The International Pepe Sánchez Trova Festival began in 1962 in homage to local Santiago de Cuba composer José (Pepe) Sánchez (1856-1918), considered the father of Cuban trova (the troubadour genre of …

    Semana de Arte Contemporáneo

    Semana de Arte Contemporáneo  LH 3

    Held for the first time in 2006, the Week of Contemporary Art includes Espacio Cero, an exhibition/competition salon; Nexos & Intercambios, theoretical event that will hold a competition of essays on …

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