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RETRATO DE GASTÓN BAQUERO

Sunday, May 31, 2020 at 6:30 pm

A special New York City screening of Retrato de Gastón Baquero, a moving documentary by  Manuel Rodríguez Ramos and Marié Pereira on the long exile in Madrid, Spain of Gastón Baquero, one of Cuba’s most outstanding poets and intellectuals. The collage of testimonials is interspersed by audio clips of Baquero’s voice reading some of his […]

FORGOTTEN WRITERS: THE TRANSITION FROM COLONY TO REPUBLIC

Wednesday, June 17, and Tuesday, June 30, 2020 at 6:30 pm

A workshop* on four Cuban writers, today virtually forgotten, whose works reflect the unique experience of transitioning from Spanish colony to U.S. occupation to independence in a ten-year period. With archival photographs and film footage depicting the social and political context of the era. Led by Lourdes Gil, director of the CCCNY Literature Program. Prof. […]

CARMELO MESA LAGO: A LIFETIME CAREER TRIBUTE

Tuesday, June 23, 2020 at 6:30 pm

A lifetime career tribute to Cuban economist Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics and Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh, an internationally recognized scholar who is considered the dean of Cuban studies and the utmost authority on social security in Latin America, and whose contributions to the field are unequaled. Mesa-Lago is a […]

VIRGILIO PIÑERA’S “ELECTRA GARRIGÓ”

June 26 to 28, 2020: Friday and Saturday at 8 pm and Sunday at 3 pm

The Cuban Cultural Center of New York joins forces with Teatro Columna theater group to present a dramatic reading of legendary playwright Virgilio Piñera‘s seminal play, Electra Garrigó, based on Sophocles‘s tragedy, under the direction of the brilliant young director Leyma López. Originally planned as a full-stage production at The Clemente Cultural Center’s Teatro LaTea, this […]

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