Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

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, […]

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 […]

        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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]