Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

On the eve of Día de los Enamorados the CCCNY celebrates Valentine’s Day with an illustrated presentation by literary scholar Ana María Hernández, inspired by Mario Coyula‘s period novel, Catalina. The book is a song of love by the author to the beautiful and elegant Catalina de Lasa (1875-1930), a woman who came to personify […]

The World Premiere of Ricardo Bacallao‘s film documenting a unique tribute concert celebrating the music of Cuban jazz legend Bebo Valdés. Held on November 9, 2019 in Union City, New Jersey, the concert featured a big band of high-level musicians from the United States, Cuba, and Canada, all brought together by drummer and percussionist Emilio […]

To commemorate the 169th anniversary of the death of Father Félix Varela y Morales (1788-1853), Varela scholar Dagoberto Valdés will cover his Cartas a Elpidio contra la Impiedad, la Superstición y el Fanatismo en sus Relaciones con la Sociedad, of which Volumes I and II were published in New York in 1835 and 1838. This […]

The CCCNY opens its celebration of Women’s History Month with an incursion into the poetry of Cuban poet Isel Rivero through her recently published book Polaris, a retrospective collection of her work spanning 60 years. Curated by Benito del Pliego, the volume brings to light the thematic and stylistic diversity of the author, reflecting Rivero’s […]

The CCCNY resumes its celebration of Women’s History Month with an eye-opening presentation on Puerto Rican educator, journalist, and philosopher Eugenio María de Hostos and his daring proclamation for women’s equality in his groundbreaking series of lectures to the members of the Academy of Fine Letters in Santiago de Chile in 1873. Hostos scholar Orlando […]

The CCCNY caps its celebration of Women’s History Month with an illustrated historical journey led by historian Teresa Fernández Soneira, who will explore the contributions of Cuban women from early colonial times to the end of the War of Independence in 1898. Through detailed accounts, enhanced by archival photographs, she will bring to light the […]

Our 2021 cinema festival offers an unvarnished and complex portrait of a country viewed through different prisms. This year’s program includes a series of groundbreaking shorts and documentaries and two feature films, spanning a wide range of themes revealing Cuba inside out: a potential escape to another planet; an exile’s return to reconcile with a […]

In commemoration of September 8, Day of Nuestra Señora de la Caridad del Cobre, patron saint of Cuba, and in light of the escalation of arrests, summary trials and disappeared youth throughout the Island since July 11, including many writers and artists, the CCCNY answers the call of Mons. Octavio Cisneros, who is offering a […]

The CCCNY joins the New York Public Library for a special film screening in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Like pages from a personal diary rescued over the years, Iván Acosta reconstructs with artisan modesty those bitter and confusing hours that he had recorded in video form and then kept in a drawer […]

The Cuban Cultural Center of New York awards poet José Kozer the 2021 La Avellaneda Medal, its highest recognition in literature. Regarded by many as the pre-eminent Cuban poet of his generation, he is certainly the most prolific, having authored over 60 books of poetry. Born in Havana in 1940, to a Polish father and […]

A special history workshop inspired by Werner Herzog‘s outstanding 2018 documentary, Meeting Gorbachev, based on an in-depth interview with Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who helped bring the Cold War to an end. Although not directly about Cuba, the film gives rise to questions regarding Cuba within the context of the monumental changes brought about […]