Cuba: Events

What is happening in Cuba:

Cuba in spite of the pressures brought upon it by its great northern antagonist is yet able to have a number of events to celebrate.

January

• New Year's Day - January 1 - National Holiday

February

• Jordanas de la Cultura Camagneyana - First two weeks in February
• Carnival
• Havana international Jazz Festival - February on the even years

Carnival occurs in the last weekend in February and finishes on the first of March. There are parades in front of the capital building and along the Malecon.

March

• World Congress of Sexology - Sexuality and Human Development

April

• Semana de la Cutura - April in Baracoa
• Electroacoustisic Maisic Festival - in Varadero

May

• Labour Day - May 1 - National Holiday
• Romeria de Mayo - First week in May at Holguin
• Tourism Convention Cuba - May 5 - 10
• Simposio International de Tele-Educacion y Formacion Continua - May 18 - 23
• Annual Culinary International Festival - May 19 - 25
• International Culinary Festival - May - one week

June

• Fiestas Sanjuaneras - End of June in Trinidad
• Carnival - Santiago de Cuba
• Festival of Caribbean Culture - June or July
• International Symposium of Plant Biotechnology - June 17 - 21

July

• Annual Latin American Educational Mathematics Symposium
• Celebration of the National Rebellion - July 25 - 25 - National Holiday

October

• Annual Congreso Cariberio de Angiologioa y Cirugia Vascular
• Day of Cuban Culture - October 10
• Havana Festival of Contemporary Music
• Semana del la Cultura Trinitaria - Trinidad - late October

November

• Biotechnology Havana: Agro-Biotech in the New Millennium (lasts for one week)
• Congreso Internacional de Telematica

December

• Annual Chemistry Conference (three-day conference)
• International Festival of Latin American Film
• Christmas Day - December 25

Guyana celebrates the international Christian holiday of Christmas to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ. The feeling of peace, love and joy transcend all ethnic, religious and ethnic barriers.