The 19th edition of he Gibara International Low Budget Film Festival (Festival Internacional del Cine Pobre de Gibara) will take place from April 15 to 19 in this coastal city, with the aim of revitalizing Cuban and community cinema, as recently announced by the organizing committee.

Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez has denounced the United States' anti-Cuban policy, calling it "fanatical obscurantism," following the ban on a cultural exchange involving students from the Clarke College jazz band.

An approach to culture and patrimonial values will be offered by the 6th edition of the Spring Verbenas and the 1st Workshop on Early History and Archeology of Cuba and the Caribbean, to be held in the Holguín site of Güirabito on April 5 and 6, in this eastern Cuban region.

The concert of the Holguín Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Mexican maestro Jorge Vazquez, with New Zealand violinist Amalia Hall as guest, tops the list of nominees for the Suceso Cultural (Cultural Event) Award, during the past 2024 in this eastern Cuban city.