Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

The CCCNY opens its 2019 Winter Calendar and rings in the New Year with an ALL-OUT PARTY to celebrate with members and friends the traditional Christmas feast of the Epiphany at Manhattan’s legendary Mesón Sevilla, in the heart of the world-renowned Restaurant Row. The feast will include a delicious menu especially prepared by the head chef to greet […]

Our annual tribute to José Martí on his birthday. Founding father of Cuba and leader of its last war of independence, José Martí (1853-1895) is also a towering figure in Cuban and Latin American literature. In his short life, he excelled as a poet, essayist, journalist, and revolutionary. Throughout the 1880’s and early 1890’s Martí worked as […]

A conversation between scholars Lisandro Pérez and Esther Allen about Pérez’s recent book, Sugar, Cigars & Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York. A hundred years before the Cuban Revolution of 1959, Cubans were settling in New York City in what became the largest community of Latin Americans in the 19th-Century Northeast United States. Pérez traces the formation of […]

The New York City launching of Entre Islas: Poetas cubanas de Nueva York, by literary critics Elena M. Martínez and Francisco Soto. The authors have compiled an ambitious volume of essays, including their own, dedicated to the work of five Cuban poets from New York: Magali Alabau, Alina Galliano, Lourdes Gil, Maya Islas and Iraida Iturralde, […]

                        A unique presentation on Mexico’s cine de rumberas, a cinematic tour de force that turned the rumba, the popular Cuban dance, into veritable melodrama, and launched the careers of statuesque bombshells Ninón Sevilla, María Antonieta Pons, and Amalia Aguilar, Cuban dancers whom the press referred to as “The […]

An exclusive one-night-only screening of Jorge Dalton’s En un rincón del alma, an exceptional documentary that registers the moving testimonial of the Cuban novelist, journalist and screenwriter Eliseo Alberto, who died on July 31, 2011 in Mexico City, where he had lived since 1990. The film traces the Cuban Revolution since its inception through the memory of […]

CCCNY is proud to co-sponsor LPEN’s CU CINE FILM FESTIVAL, a one-day screening of films on the most pertinent topics on Latin America and the Latinx experience, featuring two riveting full-length films: Kim Hopkins‘s heartrending documentary on Cuba, Voices of the Sea (BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND this season), and Ciro Guerra‘s mesmerizing masterpiece, The Embrace […]

A presentation by the distinguished Cuban historian Rafael Rojas, at the New York City launching of his latest book, El cambio constitucional en Cuba, a compilation of essays about Constitutional changes on the Island from a multidisciplinary perspective. Alongside texts by other authors, the volume offers a tour of Cuban Constitutional history, from the founding text of Hispanic […]

A unique concert highlighting the music of internationally recognized Cuban composer Keyla Orozco, in celebration of Women’s History Month. Orozco’s works, imbued with a deep sense of empathy, embrace the complexity of being an immigrant, transcending geographic, political, and artistic boundaries, and exploring cultural crosscurrents to express our common humanity. Featuring complementary works by Ernesto […]

A convergence between the literary and the visual, artist Aurora De Armendi and scholar Adriana Méndez Rodenas have produced a limited-edition artist’s book honoring Ana Mendieta’s Rupestrian Sculptures, a series of low-relief sculptures created in 1981 at the Escaleras de Jaruco, a national park outside Havana. The low-relief sculptures, directly carved on the limestone walls of a cave, were meant […]

A special screening of one of the boldest films to come out of Cuba in recent years, Marilyn Solaya‘s feature film debut His Wedding Dress (Vestido de Novia). Based on true events, the film recreates the theme of transexuality and gender violence. The story is set in 1994, the worst year of Cuba’s so-called special period, […]