Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

Club Silencio The New York City premiere of the latest play by Cuban-American playwright Gabe Rodríguez, who has joined forces with director Juliana Kleist-Méndez to tell a universal story of healing and survival. A leading lady, Brooke Gomez, is an Oscar-winning, Cuban-American actress with a passion for Greek tragedy. She has successfully achieved the American Dream, only […]

The CCCNY closes its spring season with an amazing musical voyage into the very soul of Cuba—its music. Iván Acosta’s unique new book, WITH A CUBAN SONG IN MY HEART / CON UNA CANCIÓN CUBANA EN EL CORAZÓN features the artwork from 280 album covers from his collection of over 5,000 long-playing records. Throughout it […]

                                              The CCCNY opens its 2017 winter season with a special film event on the legendary artist Carmen Herrera, subject of the documentary THE 100 YEARS SHOW. The 101-year-old Herrera, born in Havana, […]

An illustrated talk by noted photography collector Ramiro A. Fernández, featuring historical gems from his intensely personal archive on Cuba, amassed with professional expertise, visual insight and a decidedly cinematic flair. Through hundreds of magnificently preserved vintage photographs and ephemera, Island Allure celebrates the culture of high style that prevailed in the Island from colonial times through […]

Our annual tribute to José Martí (1853-1895) on his birthday. Founding father of Cuba 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 1890’s and early 1990’s he worked as a foreign correspondent in New […]

The New York City premiere of a documentary on the art of famed Cuban caricaturist Aristídes Pumariega, known to all as Aristide, listed among the most recognized political cartoonists of the 20th century by Italy’s Centro Nazionale del Fumetto. The film is an insightful and humorous profile on his lives and times on three shores: […]

After attending the Sundance Film Festival in 2015, Zuzy Martin Lynch was inspired by the power of film to turn a brewing book project into a story about identity. After a string of serendipitous happenings and a somewhat successful crowdfunding campaign, the filmmaker took a leap of faith and began producing an insightful film that […]

Award-winning PBS journalist Rafael Pi Román interviews writer Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo on the New York City launching of the author’s latest book, Del clarín escuchad el silencio (Listen to the bugle’s silence). Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo is among the most sought after Cuban writers today and is considered one of the most eloquent voices […]

An archival musical tribute to Lupe Victoria Yolí (1939-1992), known as La Lupe, one of the most talented, controversial, and beloved entertainers in Cuban popular music, excelling in several musical genres. With a style all her own, La Lupe broke barriers, defied censorship, and reinvented herself in New York, where her large legion of Hispanic […]

Organized as an initiative by Grupo < >, an artists’ collective founded in New York City by five women from the Americas, this unique art exhibit brings together artists to engage in dialogue concerning their diverse works. Each founding member of Grupo < > has invited another artist to be part of this project, creating an […]