Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

A fascinating look into the life of the Cuban countess who captivated Havana, Madrid, and Paris. Alina García-Lapuerta will lecture on Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo, the subject of her biography La Belle Créole (Chicago Review Press). Known as the Comtesse Merlin, la Belle Créole was a Cuban-born star of nineteenth-century Parisian society. A daughter […]

A tribute to Santiago de Cuba on the 500th anniversary year of its founding. A unique presentation by historian and renowned cubanologist Emilio Cueto, who will provide the audience with a brief historical overview of the city of Santiago, the first capital of Cuba, as well as a visual journey through images representative of the […]

                                                    Let’s take the train and relive the thrill of another live jam at the Ridgefield Playhouse, this time with super-group and three-time Grammy nominee Tiempo Libre, one of the […]

The CCCNY caps its 2015 summer and fall program and celebrates the holiday season with an all-out dinner and dance party at La Nacional! Includes a delicious full-course menu, your all-time favorite hits spun by David Medina, the hottest DJ in the Big Apple, plus multiple raffles of treasurable items honoring Cuba’s cultural legacy, ideal Christmas […]

An all-day FILM FESTIVAL on the most renowned genres and beloved entertainers in Cuban popular music, including of course, Benny Moré, el Bárbaro del Ritmo (pictured above with his Banda Gigante). This event will be a bookend to our XIV Annual Congress held earlier this month. Details to come. In the meantime… …resístase quien pueda: […]

An exclusive double-bill presentation starring two of the most exciting performers in today’s classical music scene, the Brazilian soprano Angelica de la Riva and the Cuban pianist and conductor Orlando Alonso. Ms. de la Riva, praised for “a dazzling presence, a warm, agile and powerful voice, and the refinement and demeanor of a great singer,” […]

An exclusive sreening of three shorts by the young filmmaker Eliecer Jiménez Almeida, one of the most promising, daring, and independent voices in Cuban cinema today. Born in Camagüey in 1983, Jiménez Almeida has also excelled as director, screenwriter, and film critic. Among his most notable works to date are the short Para un príncipe enano, […]

The New York City launching of Uva de Aragón’s The Memory of Silence, a novel that explores the lives of two sisters separated at the outset of the Cuban Revolution. In 1959, at the age of 18, the twins Lauri and Menchu share a common past, but their lives abruptly take on seemingly irreconcilable differences […]

A concert in tribute to the formidable pedagogical legacy of the late Cuban Maestro Germán Diez (1924-2014), chairman for almost half a century of the piano department at the Greenwich House Music School in Manhattan’s West Village. First coming to the United States from Havana upon winning the National Music Award Competition in 1945, he […]

    This riveting debut feature by British director Lucy Mulloy premiered at the 2012 Berlin International Film Festival and 2012 Tribeca Film Festival to international critical acclaim, earning rave reviews. It made worldwide news when two of the film’s lead actors, Javier Nuñez Florián and Anailín de la Rúa de la Torre, on their […]

Join us for our opening Literature event in 2015, a presentation of Cuba in Splinters: Eleven Stories from the New Cuba (OR Books, 2014), with Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, the anthology’s editor, and fellow author Lizabel Mónica and translator Hillary Gulley, all of whom will discuss Cuban literature today on the cusp of the recent […]

                  Spend a magical afternoon at the breathtaking Salón Sorolla of the Hispanic Society of America! Relive the splendor of the elegant Havana salons of yesteryear, when the sun filtered through baroque stained-glass foyers and fashionable ladies swooned to the romantic lyrics of the most admired Cuban […]