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LA ÚLTIMA CASA DE JOSÉ MARTÍ

Saturday, May 17, 2014 @ 1 pm

A visit to the last house where José Martí lived in Manhattan—the home of Dr. Ramón Miranda and family—where he spent one last snow-bound night before leaving hurriedly the following day, the morning of January 31, 1895, for his fateful voyage to join the armed struggle for Cuba’s independence.     Although Martí’s last residence in […]

HOJEAR ORÍGENES: SOLEDAD Y CONEXIONES DE UNA REVISTA CULTURAL

Friday, May 30, 2014 @ 6:30 pm

A celebration of the 70th anniversary of the first publication of Orígenes, Cuba’s most important literary journal of the twentieth century. Founded in the spring of 1944, Orígenes gathered the most distinguished Cuban poets, artists, critics and intellectuals of the time, who published not only their own work, but also the first translations of contemporary […]

HECHO A MANO EN TRINIDAD DE CUBA

Friday, June 13, 2014 @ 6:30 pm

The New York City launching of a unique book by Cristina González Béquer, who affectionately recreates from childhood memories—enhanced by impecably reproduced period photographs—the folklore and handicraft traditions of Trinidad, one of the best preserved colonial townships of the New World. The author conjures up the city’s cultural landscape in the wake of the triumph […]

NEW CUBAN POSTER ART: UNVEILING THE UNCONSCIONABLE

Friday, June 20, 2014, 6 pm to 9 pm

A unique exhibit of contemporary Cuban poster art by one of its leading exponents, Rolando Pulido, who has selflessly dedicated his talent to support the burgeoning civic resistance movement on the Island. Although within the stylistic continuum of the anti-capitalist poster art that emerged during the first decade of the Cuban revolution—including Alberto Korda’s universally […]

ACROSS THE POND: Art Songs from Cuba and Spain

Saturday, August 23, 2014 @ 6 pm

                        A unique concert of art songs crisscrossing the Atlantic between Cuba and Spain, featuring some of the most iconic composers from both countries, including Sindo Garay, Manuel de Falla, Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes, Joaquín Turina, Ernesto Lecuona, Eduard Toldrá, Ruperto Chapí, and Gonzalo […]

Ofill Echevarría’s EL MUNDO DE LOS VIVOS/THE REAL WORLD

Thursday, September 19, 2013 5 to 9 pm

  An exhibit and book launch featuring the unveiling of Moonbeams, large scale oil paintings, as well as a select group of moving pictures by Ofill Echevarría, a Cuban-American painter and multimedia artist who captures realistic images from urban life “that explore the world beneath and beyond the surface in a dynamic dialogue with the soul.” Jorge Moya, […]

EL INVENTARIO DE LAURA YMAYO TARTAKOFF

Viernes, 20 de septiembre, 2013 @ 6:30 pm

  Un conversatorio con Laura Ymayo Tartakoff a partir de su nuevo libro, Inventario y otros poemas. La autora se inscribe en la promoción de cubanos que muy jóvenes marcharon al exilio, y ha desarrollado su personal expresión poética en ese universo. Siente cierta nostalgia de paisajes y vínculos perdidos y sabe insertar en su creación una […]

TOP DRAWER

Thursday, September 26, 2013 @ 8 pm

                    Adelaide Mestre’s TOP DRAWER: Stories of dysfunction and redemption, is a poignant musical memoir that recounts a life of privilege and secrets, an autobiographical journey from the Upper East Side of Manhattan to the old city streets of Havana, Cuba. It was first presented at the […]

CUBAN CINEMA CYCLE: CELEBRATING LIFE IN UNION

Friday, October 18, 2013 @ 6 pm

Gladys Bensimon‘s award-winning documentary opens our Cuban Cinema Cycle this fall season. It is a story about human resilience, community, and brotherhood. Narrated by Andy García, the film follows a group of former Cuban political prisoners through their memory of imprisonment and their half-century fight against the aging Castro regime.  Having developed a strong community for themselves that […]

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