Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

Winner of the 2023 Franz Kafka International Literary Award, Jorge Luis Arcos‘s El Castigo has been highly praised for its unique and undefinable structure, encompassing the genres of essay, memoirs, epistolary, and novel all at once. Subtitled ‘Letters Exchanged with Lorenzo García Vega and Other Texts, or How to (Re)Construct (Imagine) a Canon,’ the book […]

An illustrated presentation by John McAuliff on the parallel paths followed by Cuba and Ireland in their struggle to seek independence from their colonial masters in Spain and England. The presentation will reveal the role of Irish Cubans in the American revolution, and will focus on how their aspirations for a free Cuba were manifest […]

An in-depth interview with Joy Castro about her critically acclaimed new novel, One Brilliant Flame, inspired by actual events. Set in 1886, the booming cigar industry makes Key West the most prosperous city in Florida. The city also serves as a rebel base for the anti-colonial insurgency in Cuba. Against the backdrop of the Great […]

A poetry reading by Richard Blanco, National Humanities Medal recipient and Presidential inaugural poet. Blanco will read from his rich and intensely intimate collection of new poems, as well as his picks from previous volumes. The poems in Homeland of My Body range in subject and setting, but are all characterized by the poet’s keen eye and […]

A special screening of Danny González Lucena‘s The Harvard Cubans, a rare documentary that unearths a little known event in U.S. and Cuban history. In 1900, more than half of all Cuban public teachers boarded five American military ships to participate in a summer school organized by Harvard University. For the first time, the oldest […]

The U.S. premiere of Manuel Rodríguez Ramos‘s El rey de las aves, a play with a seemingly simple, yet profound, poetic text. Based on an ancient Mayan legend (rescued by Herminio Almendros in his collection Oros Viejos), the plot revolves around the dilemma of choosing a new king. With the impending resignation of their monarch, […]

            A not-to-be-missed presentation by Edel Rodriguez of Worm, a book that has been hailed as “a stunning graphic memoir.” Known for his iconic art on the cover of Time, Der Spiegel, and on jumbotrons around the world, Edel Rodriguez is among the most prominent political artists of our age. […]

For a detailed PROGRAM of the event, click on the image below: Our 23rd consecutive annual conference will be dedicated this year to Cuba’s history of exiles and migrations, from colonial times to the present, including 19th century emigré communities in New York City and Tampa, the social changes effected by the exiles in Mexico during […]

An end-of-season concert featuring the most emblematic Cuban composers of all time, with unique arrangements for flute and bass by maestro Carlos del Pino and flutist Kat Modiano, who will headline the recital. INSTITUTO CERVANTES  211 E 49th St, bet. 2nd & 3rd Aves., NYC FREE ADMISSION RSVP AT: info@cubanculturalcenter.org PROGRAM Cecilia Valdes Overture (Gonzalo […]

An intimate conversation between literary critic Isabel Álvarez-Borland and poet and writer Pablo Medina on the intellectual legacy of their late friend–Lourdes Gil, widely regarded among the best Cuban poets of her generation. They will share personal memories, and highlight her concerns regarding her role as a writer in the U.S., the spiritual and emotional […]

In commemoration of Human Rights Day, the CCCNY caps its Fall Calendar Season with Janisset Rivero‘s Cartas a Pedro, a critically acclaimed novel inspired by the life of Pedro Luis Boitel (1931-1972), a Cuban poet and dissident who opposed the governments of both Fulgencio Batista and Fidel Castro, and who died from a hunger strike […]