• Havana
• Cayo Largo
• Cienfuegos
• Varadero
• Cayo Coco
• Trinidad
• Santiago de Cuba

LATIN-AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN THEATER SEASON "MAYO TEATRAL"
May, 9^th to 18^th
Organizer: Casa de las Americas.
Venue: Casa de las Americas.
Organizing Committee: Mss. Vivian Martinez Tabares
E-mail: plastica@casa.cult.cu
Website: www.casadelasamericas.org
Casa de las Americas calls the 7^th Edition of Latin-American and Caribbean Theatre Season "Mayo Teatral", a season of confrontation between Latin-American and Caribbean theatres with presentations of important artists of this artistic expression. At the same time, workshops and conferences will be held.

"CUBADISCO 2008" INTERNATIONAL FAIR May 17th to 25th
Organizer: Cuban Institute of  Music
Venue: Pabellon Cuba, Havana.
Organizing Committee: Sr. Ciro Benemelis
E mail: E-mail: cubadisco@icm.cu
Website: www.cubadisco.soycubano.com
CUBADISCO 2008 comes once again with the slogan: MUSIC, IMAGE AND SOUND, on this occasion dedicated to Africa. From its very foundation, through colloquiums and symposiums, the CUBADISCO Fairs have created spaces for reflection and debates for theoreticians, creators and music executives where they can discuss different topics regarding the musical industry in order to promote exchanges, cooperation and knowledge, and therefore, to contribute to the widest and most efficient development of the Cuban discographic industry. 

"WEMILERE" FESTIVAL OF AFRICAN ROOTS
May, 25^th to 31^st
Organizer: Provincial Management Office of Culture and Guanabacoa´s Municipal nagement Office of Culture. 
Venue: Guanabacoa, Havana
Organizing Committee: 
E-mail: dmcgbcoa@cubarte.cult.cu
In the Village of Asunción de Guanabacoa – a place that holds in its narrows streets a lot of history and centennial folkloric traditions very near downtown Havana , "Wemilere", a  Festival of African roots is held. This Festival offers a wide range of activities from academic sessions including a colloquium and teaching cultural meetings up to tours around places of historic interest as well as a varied artistic program. This edition of the Festival is dedicated to ECOGUA (The Economic Community of Eastern African States). To attend “Wemilere represents finding centennial folkloric traditions inherited from African-Spanish cultural fusion and is also walking through a place where roots tell tales.

INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM "CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN THE CARIBBEAN "
May, 26^th to 31^st
Organizer: Casa de las Americas
Venue: Havana
Organizing Committee: Doctor Yolanda Woods Pujols
E-mail: caribe@casa.cult.cu
Web: www.casdelasamericas.or
Casa de las Americas, through its Centre for Caribbean studies has the pleasure to invite you to participate in this Colloquium "Cultural Diversity in the Caribbean ". In this edition the event will be about the immaterial patrimony, religion, oral speech, pop art and cultural routes. This event should favour an interchange of reflections about identity and cultural diversity in the Caribbean .

INTERNATIONAL HAVANA FESTIVAL OF POETRY
May, 26^th to 31^st 
Organizer: Association of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC)
Venues: San Francisco de Asis concert hall and other sites in Havana .
Organizing Committee: Sr. Alex Pauxides.
E. - mail: cubapoesia@uneac.co.cu, proyectosurcuba@uneac.co.cu
Web: www.cunapoesi.cult.cu
This is a Festival where poets from different parts of the world meet for cultural exchange and where the leading expressive voice is poetry. In the event, new authors are promoted and their works come to light. This edition will be dedicated to the autochthonous peoples´ poetry and the poetry of Asia . The participants will be able to take part in the World Meeting of Poets for Peace and in Defense of Humanity, reading sessions, concerts, plays, cinema and reading sessions in open public spaces, work places and universities.

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF THE AUDIOVISUAL FOR CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE
May, 28^th to June 1^st
Organizer: Cuban Institute for Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC)
Venue: Havana and other provinces of our country
Organizing Committee: Mss. Esther Hirtzel Galarza
E-mail: festival@animados.icaic.cu
Website: www.animados.icaic.cu
A meeting for exchanging ideas on genres like cartoon animation, fiction movie and documentary films. Cartoons created with digital technology and animation will also be made.