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LEO BROUWER’S CUBAN SKETCHES FOR PIANO

Friday, March 8, 2024 at 6 pm

An exclusive recital by brilliant young pianist and composer Mariel Mayz, featuring world premiere recordings of solo piano works by iconic Cuban composer Leo Brouwer. To know contemporary classical music is to know Leo Brouwer. An acclaimed composer, conductor, Brouwer has long been celebrated as a modern-day Mozart who has produced an inimitable body of work. […]

CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS SERIES: MARÍA MARTÍNEZ CAÑAS

Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 4 pm

An in-depth profile of the artistic trajectory of María Martínez Cañas, as described by the artist herself, whose work deals primarily with her Cuban heritage and journeys of discovery. Documents related to Cuba often have formed the basis for her photographs and are sometimes contrasted with doors and windows that suggest openings and closings; the […]

SERENATA CRIOLLA: A JAZZY TAKE ON LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC

Tuesday, September 12, 2023 at 7 pm

A unique concert by the Latin Jazz Chamber Trio, combining the colors of Caribbean music together with a jazz and chamber music setting, giving a new flavor to dancing pieces and sonorities. Featuring virtuoso musicians Juan Ruiz (clarinet), Amy Kang (cello), and arranger Pablo Zinger (piano). INSTITUTO CERVANTES 211 E 49th St, bet. 2nd & […]

CÍRCULO DE CULTURA PANAMERICANO: A 60 AÑOS DE SU FUNDACIÓN

Friday, September 22, 2023, at 6 pm

A special celebratory tribute to Dr. Elio Alba-Buffill In Memoriam (1930-2017) and his wife, Dr. Esther Sánchez-Grey Alba, for their invaluable work and dedication to the study and promotion of Hispanic culture as directors of Círculo de Cultura Panamericano (CCP) for more than four decades. Founded 60 years ago in New Jersey by Dr. Carlos […]

LOS FUNDADORES: JOSÉ MARTÍ Y RUBÉN DARÍO

Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 4 pm

An in-depth analysis by Argentinian literary critic and author Susana Cella regarding the two founding figures of Latin American modernism, a literary movement very closely identified to an autochthonous Hispanic American identity. Both poets, José Martí (Cuba, 1853-1895) and Rubén Darío (Nicaragua, 1867-1916) are tied to the renovation and change that consolidated an autonomous Hispanic […]

LOS ORISHAS

Friday, October 6, 2023 at 6 pm

Francisco Soto‘s collage series, Los Orishas, offers a visual representation of survival and resistance, paying homage to Afro-Cuban traditions. Inspired by the image of the Siete Potencias Africanas (Seven African Forces) in which the names of the seven popular Orishas or Yoruba deities (Changó, Orula, Ogún, Eleguá, Obatalá, Yemayá, Ochún) appear above the images of […]

‘THE APARTMENT’ ~ A NEW NOVEL BY ANA MENÉNDEZ

Tuesday, October 17, 2023 at 6 pm

The New York City launch of The Apartment, a new novel by critically acclaimed Cuban-American writer Ana Menéndez. Examining exile, homesickness, and displacement, The Apartment asks what—in our violent and lonely century—do we owe one another? If alone we are powerless before sorrow and isolation, it is through community and the sharing of our stories […]

THE HOUSE ON G STREET: A CUBAN FAMILY SAGA

Monday, October 23, 2023 at 6 pm

In The House on G Street, award-winning author Lisandro Pérez tells Cuba’s story through the lens of a single family: his own. His book relays the tales of two officers who fought against the Spanish for Cuban independence; a plantation owner who smuggles himself onto a ship; families divided by political loyalties; an orphaned boy […]

XXII CONGRESO ANUAL ~ JOSÉ MARTÍ: LEGADO, VIGENCIA Y GUÍA

Sunday, November 12, 2023 ~ 8:30 am to 7:30 pm

For a detailed PROGRAM of the event, click on this link: XXII-CONGRESO-ANUALJOSÉ-MARTÍ-PROGRAM The Cuban Cultural Center of New York presents its 22nd consecutive annual conference, this year titled José Martí: Legado, vigencia y guía, delving into the overarching legacy of the most prominent and consequential figure in Cuba’s history, widely regarded as the founder of […]

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