Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

A discussion of the importance of Cuba and Cubans—including Lydia Cabrera and Wifredo Lam—in launching the career of Martinican poet Aimé Césaire (1913—2008) during WWII. Clayton Eshleman, Césaire’s foremost translator, and A. James Arnold, the leading editor of the poet’s French works, will read from their translation of Césaire’s Soleil cou coupe (Wesleyan University Press). […]

Classical pianists Eric Clark (U.S.), Vitaly Popov (Russia) and Chiemi Nakai (Japan) play European masters and then pay due hommage to George Gershwin and classical Cuban composers from the 19th and 20th centuries, including José White, Alejandro García Caturla, Ernesto Lecuona and others. Featuring a stellar performance by Cuban bass virtuoso Carlos del Pino, artistic […]

A dramatic reading from Cuban playwright José Triana’s Palabras comunes (1979-86), translated by Joanne Pottlitzer as “Common Words.” Widely regarded as Triana’s most important work, “Common Words” is set in Cuba between 1894 and 1914, from the prelude of the Spanish-American War to the eve of World War I. Pottlitzer, a New York-based producer, director […]

La destacada crítica Perla Rozencvaig entrevista a la autora sobre su primera novela, una vertiginosa historia en torno a una mujer con ansias de redimirse por las malos caminos que ha tomado en su vida. Como ha señalado Armando Añel, se trata de “un recorrido que descubre al lector sus intersticios con elegancia y sobriedad; […]

Renowned writers Roberto González Echevarría and Gustavo Pérez Firmat will discuss and read from their most recent publications Cuban Fiestas and The Havana Habit, both published by Yale University Press. The works explore, respectively, la fiesta cubana from the nineteenth century to the present, and the influence of Cuba in its various manifestations on U.S. […]

Una fascinante conferencia por la distinguida crítica María Hernández – Ojeda, en la que explora el estrecho vínculo entre las Islas Canarias y América mediante la obra literaria de Juana Fernández Ferraz, Nivaria Tejera, Mercedes Pinto y Josefina Plá. En su estudio de este cruce transatlántico, Hernández – Ojeda rescata el aporte de estas escritoras […]

What has made the music of The Beatles so universally popular and what made them such a dominant factor in the revolutionary decade of the 1960’s? Through vintage films and CD’s, Cuban composer and musician Armando Tranquilino will take us on a trip down Penny Lane, bringing to life a magical period in the history […]

A multimedia musical presentation on the turbulent history of the most universal of Cuban rhythms. Come and listen to the mambos that shook the 50’s to their core, with archival film footage of Ninón Sevilla, María Antonieta Pons, Amelia Aguilar, Tito Puente, Machito and his Afrokubans, the Dolly Sisters and the creator of the mambo […]