Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

Want to travel down memory lane with one of the indisputable giants in Cuban music? Come share an evening with 14-Grammy Award-winner Paquito D’Rivera, who will speak live about his life and times during a career than spans six decades! A master narrator in his own right, Mr. D’Rivera will give the audience an inside […]

A conversation with distinguished Cuban journalist Yoani Sánchez, founder of the independent digital journal 14ymedio, and one of the most followed bloggers worldwide through Generación Y  (translated into more than 17 languages and reaching over 14 million people), where she continues to express her views on the problems faced by Cuban society under the present regime. Generation Y was chosen by CNN […]

Experience an unforgettable journey through Cuban music—from the traditional contradanza to syncopated mambo—featuring world renowned composers, from Sindo Garay to Chucho Valdés… all through the prism of Carlos del Pino’s Sonidos de Cuba, the most dynamic jazz ensemble this side of Havana! Joining artistic director and bass virtuoso Carlos del Pino will be Tomás Estrada (percussion […]

  A unique exhibit by internationally acclaimed and multi-faceted Cuban artist Gladys Triana, who during her long career has excelled in painting, sculpture, etching, and photography. This solo exhibit, Reflections of Shadows, includes a video trilogy, as well as a selection of four of her photography series since 2008. Throughout her artistic trajectory, Triana has […]

We continue our celebration of Women’s History Month with an illustrated presentation by Ana María Hernández, author of a newly published annotated critical edition of Cecilia Valdés, Cirilo Villaverde’s anti-slavery classic, considered paramount among 19th century Latin American novels. Villaverde’s work is particularly important to our celebration because it also reflects the growing interest in […]

  A groundbreaking presentation by historian Raquel Vinat on the pivotal role played by Cuban women during colonial times and the early decades of the 20th century, featuring archival photographs and documents shown in public for the first time. Prof. Vinat focuses on three women —Ana Josefa Agüero, Emilia Casanova Rodríguez, and Evangelina Cosío Cisneros— […]

The Cuban Cultural Center of New York caps its celebration of Women’s History Month witha keynote lecture by the distinguished Cuban musicologist Miriam Escudero, recognized worldwide as the foremost authority on Cuba’s most important baroque composers, Esteban Salas and Cayetano Pagueras. Prof. Escudero’s illustrated lecture will be followed by a unique concert of Salas and […]

José Raúl Capablanca was a child prodigy surrounded by legends. During his best times he was considered to be unbeatable, and he is still considered by many to be the greatest chess talent of all time. Born in 1888 in Havana, he became Cuban champion at 13; in 1909 he sensationally defeated Marshall and was thus catapulted […]

The New York City premiere of three shorts by young Cuban filmmaker Eliecer Jiménez Almeida. Under the umbrella of Trilogía del agua, these 2012 films—La faz de las aguas, Verdadero Beach (a nod to Almendros), and Malyebao—are all suffused with the symbolism of water as the potential for man’s transcendence and purification, where the mediocrity and oppression of […]

An analytical profile of the life and legacy of prominent Cuban intellectual Jorge Valls Arango (1933-2015) by historian Rafael Rojas, who will reconstruct Valls’ humanist philosophy through the vantage point of Valls’ lifelong civic activism, as well as through his writings, including his books, Donde estoy no hay luz y está enrejado, Veinte años y […]

El Olimpo Vacío is a powerful Argentine political film revolving around the figure of an outsider intellectual, Juan José Sebreli, but manages to transcend it. Sebreli becomes a touchstone to go through Argentina and its dilemmas, and questions almost everything it should be ashamed of. Through national icons like Gardel, Evita, Che, and Maradona, the […]