Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

The CCCNY caps its Fall Season with a special production by Repertorio Español of Exquisita Agonía (Exquisite Agony), the latest work by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Nilo Cruz. In this delicate but relentless story, Cruz explores a middle-aged woman’s obsessive quest to find fragments of love in a young man who is given the gift of life when […]

An archival musical and film tribute to the iconic Cuban singer Benny Moré on the centennial year of his birth. Known to his fans the world over as the inimitable Bárbaro del Ritmo, Moré was a masterful interpreter of all Cuban popular genres and is considered Cuba’s most gifted singer. El Beny, as he is […]

The Cuban Cultural Center of New York is happy to partner with the Museum of the City of New York for the screening of Live In Africa. In 1974, during the heyday of New York City’s salsa explosion, the Fania All-Stars, a group that brought together several of the Fania record label’s most popular artists, were invited to perform […]

The CCCNY opens its Spring season with I’M AN IMMIGRANT: So Are You, a solo exhibit by María Lino. One of the most cutting-edge Cuban artists to emerge from the New York City SoHo scene in the 1970’s, Ms. Lino continues to defy stereotype and sets out to confront one of the most relevant topics today: the rights […]

The New York City launching of Anna Veltfort‘s unique work, Adiós mi Habana (Editorial Verbum), subtitled Las memorias de una gringa y su tiempo en los años revolucionarios de la década de los 60. Veltfort’s is an autobiographical comic book, written and illustrated in the form of a graphic novel, where the author narrates with candor, […]

The New York City launching of Enrique Del Risco’s El compañero que me atiende, a compilation of fictional stories about the omnipresent surveillance in Cuban life. The 500-page anthology includes many renowned authors, such as Antonio José Ponte, Manuel Díaz Martínez, Damaris Calderón, María Elena Cruz Varela, Néstor Díaz de Villegas, Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, Norge Espinosa, Rolando […]

An exclusive screening of Severo secreto, an extended visual essay on the life of prominent Cuban exiled writer Severo Sarduy (1937-1993). A novelist, poet, and essayist, Sarduy is widely recognized as the creator of the Neo-Baroque in Latin American literature. The film focuses on Sarduy’s formative years in Cuba, his interest in black culture, performance, ritual, and experimental […]

An all-day two-session workshop on José Martí. Founding father of the Cuban nation and leader of its last war of independence, José Martí is also a towering figure in Cuban and Latin American literature. In his short life, he excelled as a poet, essayist, journalist, and revolutionary. Throughout the 1880’s and early 1890’s he worked as […]

                                                  The CCCNY resumes its book cycle with Pablo Medina‘s Soledades. In his most recent poetry collection (Editorial Betania, 2017), the master poet defines the borders of his poetic development, from […]

An unparalleled reading of poetry and prose denoting the rich cultural cross-currents between Cuba and the Canary Islands. Featuring poets and writers from both shores: Alicia Llarena, Magali Alabau, Manuel Adrián López, and Saida Santana Mahmut. Following the reading, there will be a Q&A, moderated by Hispanic literature Prof. María Hernández-Ojeda, director of the Instituto Canarias-América at […]