Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

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, […]

A talk with artist Lydia Rubio on The Traveling Artist,* her featured artist project at Center for Book Arts, an exhibit featuring artistic documentation of Rubio’s travel narratives across linguistic and geographic landscapes. The works record the artist’s experiences across a variation of calligraphic, drawing and poetic compositions. This exhibition includes multiple series of works, […]

Join us for a fascinating lecture by Cuban-American clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst Ernesto Mujica on the impact of bilingualism on memory, affect, and access to dissociated aspects of traumatic experiences. The impact of bilingual psychotherapy on the therapeutic process, including transference and countertransference, will be explored. Followed by a Q&A with the audience. This event is […]

The concert to top all concerts! This season-closing event is being presented as a coda to our 18th Annual Conference and a grand finale to our year-long celebration of the 500th anniversary of the City of Havana, featuring the Golden Era of Cuban Music! Starring international singing sensation Olga Cerpa and the Banda Sinfónica Municipal de […]

The CCCNY opens its Spring Season with Cuba en USA, Emilio Cueto’s latest work on his never-ending quest for Cuban footprints around the globe. Cueto offers an invaluable documentation of the long, broad, and profound presence of the Caribbean island in the United States, through prints, images, and all kinds of objects from his collection […]

Critically acclaimed Cuban poets Magali Alabau and Manuel Adrián López join forces to engage in a groundbreaking dramatic reading and literary dialogue revolving around their latest works: Alabau’s Ir y venir and López’s Los días de Ellwood. Alabau‘s volume is a compilation of poems spanning thirty years (1986-2016), revealing a daily existential thread of angst […]

A nostalgic documentary on Havana’s ill-fated department store El Encanto, a renowned emblem of elegance, trend-setting fashions, and exclusive rights in the Americas to certain haute-couture brands, such as Christian Dior. Built in 1888 by Solís, Entiralgo y Cía., it grew to be the largest department store in Cuba, with close to one thousand employees, […]