Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

                      Cuban Photography: La isla en su imagen durante dos siglos The Cuban Cultural Center of New York celebrates its 17th annual one-day conference, this year focusing on the origins and development of Cuban photography, from colonial times to the present, including illustrated formal presentations […]

El Ciervo Encantado, a Havana-based theatrical group, returns to New York City for a reprise of Departures, which premiered last year at The Greene Space. Written by Nelda Castillo, the group’s founder and director, Departures grapples with the phenomenon of Cuban emigration from 1959 through the present, and seeks communion with its audiences through personal history. Cuban migration has fragmented families, […]

An illustrated talk and recital on the music of Miguel Castellanos (1862-1940), a 19th century Cuban-American composer and pianist, praised by Camille Saint-Saëns and lauded by José Martí as one of the best Chopin interpreters of his day. The musical legacy of Miguel Castellanos is important, not only for the beauty of his compositions and his […]

A  celebration of the life and legacy of Padre Félix Varela (1788-1853), on the 230th anniversary of his birth. Varela was an outstanding scholar and paramount figure in the gestation of a Cuban national identity in the first half of the 19th century. His influence on intellectual thought and progressive ideas in Cuba, including equal education for women, […]

The New York City launching of Intruder between Rivers / Intruso entre ríos, the recently published bilingual volume of poetry by Ricardo Pau-Llosa and Enrico Mario Santí, with Pau-Llosa’s English originals and Santí’s translations of “Cuban” poems—poems with Cuban or Cuban exile themes. The reading will be bilingual, in English and Spanish—or rather, Cuban-Spanish. This reading, […]

An exclusive screening of British director Kim Hopkins’ Voices of the Sea, a moving documentary revealing stark realities for the poorest of rural Cubans. With unique access and empathy, the film tells the story of a 30-something mother of four longing for a better life. The tension between wife and aging husband—one desperate to leave, […]

The CCCNY caps its Fall Season with a special production by Repertorio Español of Exquisita Agonía (Exquisite Agony), the latest work by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Nilo Cruz. In this delicate but relentless story, Cruz explores a middle-aged woman’s obsessive quest to find fragments of love in a young man who is given the gift of life when […]

An archival musical and film tribute to the iconic Cuban singer Benny Moré on the centennial year of his birth. Known to his fans the world over as the inimitable Bárbaro del Ritmo, Moré was a masterful interpreter of all Cuban popular genres and is considered Cuba’s most gifted singer. El Beny, as he is […]

The Cuban Cultural Center of New York is happy to partner with the Museum of the City of New York for the screening of Live In Africa. In 1974, during the heyday of New York City’s salsa explosion, the Fania All-Stars, a group that brought together several of the Fania record label’s most popular artists, were invited to perform […]

The CCCNY opens its Spring season with I’M AN IMMIGRANT: So Are You, a solo exhibit by María Lino. One of the most cutting-edge Cuban artists to emerge from the New York City SoHo scene in the 1970’s, Ms. Lino continues to defy stereotype and sets out to confront one of the most relevant topics today: the rights […]

The New York City launching of Anna Veltfort‘s unique work, Adiós mi Habana (Editorial Verbum), subtitled Las memorias de una gringa y su tiempo en los años revolucionarios de la década de los 60. Veltfort’s is an autobiographical comic book, written and illustrated in the form of a graphic novel, where the author narrates with candor, […]

The New York City launching of Enrique Del Risco’s El compañero que me atiende, a compilation of fictional stories about the omnipresent surveillance in Cuban life. The 500-page anthology includes many renowned authors, such as Antonio José Ponte, Manuel Díaz Martínez, Damaris Calderón, María Elena Cruz Varela, Néstor Díaz de Villegas, Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, Norge Espinosa, Rolando […]

An exclusive screening of Severo secreto, an extended visual essay on the life of prominent Cuban exiled writer Severo Sarduy (1937-1993). A novelist, poet, and essayist, Sarduy is widely recognized as the creator of the Neo-Baroque in Latin American literature. The film focuses on Sarduy’s formative years in Cuba, his interest in black culture, performance, ritual, and experimental […]

An all-day two-session workshop on José Martí. Founding father of the Cuban nation and leader of its last war of independence, José Martí 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 he worked as […]