Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

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, […]

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 […]