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TALLER I: LYDIA CABRERA, A WOMAN AHEAD OF HER TIME

Saturday, April 27, 2019, at 4 pm

The first of three spring workshops on the legacy and significance of the work of Lydia Cabrera, a pioneer ethnographer of Cuba’s African culture, on the 120th anniversary of her birth. Each workshop will be held in a private home and will be open to members only, with pre-registration required. A reading list will be […]

CINE FOCUS: EMILIA, AN UNTOLD CUBAN-AMERICAN STORY

Friday, May 10, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

        Who created the Cuban Flag? Luis Pérez Tolón‘s new documentary, EMILIA, is a personal journey and search for ancestral roots to unravel the story of his ancestor, Emilia Teurbe Tolón, who sewed Cuba’s national flag while living in exile in New York in 1850. Emilia was the first woman deported from […]

TALLER II: LYDIA CABRERA’S MAGICAL WORLD OF STONES

Friday, May 17, 2019 at 6:30 pm

The second of three spring workshops on the legacy and significance of the work of Lydia Cabrera, a pioneer ethnographer of Cuba’s African culture, on the 120th anniversary of her birth. Each workshop will be held in a private home and will be open to members only, with pre-registration required. A reading list will be […]

CUBAN CLASSICS: THE ALONSO BROTHERS

Thursday, May 23, 2019 @ 7:30 pm

Kaufman Music Center & the Cuban Cultural Center of New York present a two-piano program featuring the Golden Era of Cuban music “It is never about showing off what they can do technically, but rather about bringing the listener into the meaning of the music. They are real virtuosos of their instrument not only because of their rock […]

CINCO HABANERAS

Friday, June 7, 2019 at 6:30 pm

An illustrated period study by gender historian Raquel Vinat featuring five women from 19th century Havana whose professional accomplishments were a catalyst for fostering change and a feminist consciousness amidst seemingly insurmountable obstacles in the social, economic, family, and personal realms. Their legacy also helped define a national identity under a despotic colonial regime. The […]

TALLER III: LYDIA CABRERA AND ‘THE CUBAN HOME’

Saturday, June 15, 2019, at 4 pm

The third of three spring workshops on the legacy and significance of the work of Lydia Cabrera, a pioneer ethnographer of Cuba’s African culture, on the 120th anniversary of her birth. Each workshop will be held in a private home and will be open to members only, with pre-registration required. A reading list will be […]

ICONIC HAVANA: ERNESTO FERRAND’S “EPPUR SI MUOVE”

Sunday, June 30 thru Wednesday, July 3, 2019~Opening Reception, June 30, 5 pm

As part of our year-long celebration of the 500th anniversary of the City of Havana, the CCCNY closes its Spring Season with a solo exhibit by Ernesto Ferrand, one of the most sought-after Cuban artists in photography today. Standing astride two worlds—a vanished past and a dissonant present—Ferrand’s Eppur Si Muove encompasses iconic shots of […]

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