Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

On the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ Abbey Road, the last album in which all four Beatles participated, Cuban maestro and composer Armando Tranquilino returns to the CCCNY to take us behind the scenes of the carefully crafted recordings and ambitious musical arrangements, bringing to life a magical period in the history of popular music. […]

As a nod to Havana’s 500th anniversary, leading art historian José Ramón Alonso Lorea takes us on an illustrated voyage to the 1940s, when Cuba’s modern art movement was consolidated. The work of these artists was widely promoted by arts patron María Luisa Gómez Mena, founder of Galería del Prado, a pivotal figure in garnering […]

An exclusive screening of Néstor Almendros’s and Orlando Jiménez Leal’s Improper Conduct (1984), a groundbreaking and critically acclaimed documentary on the Cuban government’s persecution of political dissidents, poets, homosexuals, and those simply labeled by the authorities as “antisocial” elements, many of whom were imprisoned, tortured, or sent to forced labor camps. Released 35 years ago, the […]

A special screening of the critically acclaimed 2010 animated film by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal. Set in Havana in 1948, Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey – in the tradition of the Cuban […]

As a perfect coda to our three innovative workshops on Cuban ethnologist Lydia Cabrera (1899-1991) during our Spring Season, which explored little known aspects of her life and legacy, the CCCNY wraps up its celebration of the 120th anniversary year of her birth with a fall lecture by foremost Cabrera scholar Mariela Gutiérrez. Regarded by […]

We are delighted to bring back by popular demand one of Cuba’s most beloved classical pianists, the internationally acclaimed Juana Zayas, whose 1983 recording of the Chopin Études has been widely lauded as the greatest of the 20th century. Juana Zayas’ childhood is stuff of legend. Picking out piano pieces by ear as early as […]

The New York City launching of La hija olvidada / The Daughter’s Tale, an unforgettable story of love and redemption by Armando Lucas Correa, the bestselling author of The German Girl / La niña alemana. The novel is riveting from the outset. Elise Duval, eighty years old, receives a phone call from a woman recently […]

Two evenings of Cuban shorts by graduates of San Antonio de los Baños International Film School, in association with DocumentaMadrid under curator Guillermo G. Peydró, compiling a dazzling panorama of cinematic creativity. Within the documentary genre, the Cuban filmography generated by the San Antonio de los Baños school has attained its own forceful personality, modulated […]

The prolific Cuban writer Enrique del Risco makes his debut as novelist with Turcos en la niebla, awarded the prestigious Premio Unicaja de Novela Fernando Quiñones in Spain this year. It is a book that delves into collective and personal shipwrecks, and the means, or lack thereof, to survive them. The author’s narrative, a plot […]

In a jubilant musical celebration of Havana’s 500th anniversary, this unique overview will showcase many of the compositions dedicated to the city, a source of inspiration for poets and musicians the world over since its founding in 1519. Research scholar Andrés Castellanos will share a representative sample of close to 175 findings and the rich […]

Cuban Cultural Center of New York is proud to celebrate its 18th consecutive annual conference, this year dedicated to the 500th anniversary of the City of Havana, spanning its development from its founding in 1519 to the present, including its history and urban growth, its preeminence in Cuban architecture, music, and the arts, and its […]

The New York City launching of Escritas em transito. Cinco poetas cubanas em Nova Iorque, a bilingual anthology (Spanish/Portuguese) bringing together the poetry of Magali Alabau, Alina Galliano, Lourdes Gil, Maya Islas, and Iraida Iturralde, five Cuban poets who arrived as children or teenagers in the U.S., where they have studied and emerged as poets, […]