Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

  A groundbreaking presentation by historian Raquel Vinat on the pivotal role played by Cuban women during colonial times and the early decades of the 20th century, featuring archival photographs and documents shown in public for the first time. Prof. Vinat focuses on three women —Ana Josefa Agüero, Emilia Casanova Rodríguez, and Evangelina Cosío Cisneros— […]

The Cuban Cultural Center of New York caps its celebration of Women’s History Month witha keynote lecture by the distinguished Cuban musicologist Miriam Escudero, recognized worldwide as the foremost authority on Cuba’s most important baroque composers, Esteban Salas and Cayetano Pagueras. Prof. Escudero’s illustrated lecture will be followed by a unique concert of Salas and […]

José Raúl Capablanca was a child prodigy surrounded by legends. During his best times he was considered to be unbeatable, and he is still considered by many to be the greatest chess talent of all time. Born in 1888 in Havana, he became Cuban champion at 13; in 1909 he sensationally defeated Marshall and was thus catapulted […]

The New York City premiere of three shorts by young Cuban filmmaker Eliecer Jiménez Almeida. Under the umbrella of Trilogía del agua, these 2012 films—La faz de las aguas, Verdadero Beach (a nod to Almendros), and Malyebao—are all suffused with the symbolism of water as the potential for man’s transcendence and purification, where the mediocrity and oppression of […]

An analytical profile of the life and legacy of prominent Cuban intellectual Jorge Valls Arango (1933-2015) by historian Rafael Rojas, who will reconstruct Valls’ humanist philosophy through the vantage point of Valls’ lifelong civic activism, as well as through his writings, including his books, Donde estoy no hay luz y está enrejado, Veinte años y […]

El Olimpo Vacío is a powerful Argentine political film revolving around the figure of an outsider intellectual, Juan José Sebreli, but manages to transcend it. Sebreli becomes a touchstone to go through Argentina and its dilemmas, and questions almost everything it should be ashamed of. Through national icons like Gardel, Evita, Che, and Maradona, the […]

The New York City launching of Margarita García‘s Antes de “Cuba libre,” a groundbreaking historical profile on the life of Tomás Estrada Palma, the first president of the Republic of Cuba, before taking office and facing “an ocean of difficulties” (as George Washington described the task before him days before being sworn in as first […]

Discover the world of Cuban science fiction at a bilingual reading with Anabel Enríquez Piñeiro, Erick J. Mota, and Yoss, whose far-out work is featured in the May issue of Words without Borders edited by Esther Allen and Hillary Gulley. Deji Olukotun (Nigerians in Space) will moderate a discussion about this exciting literary frontier that adds new dimensions […]

Spend an afternoon at Madison Square Park exploring the ever-changing wonders of Fata Morgana with its creator, Cuban-American artist Teresita Fernández. Fata Morgana is Madison Square Park Conservancy’s largest and most ambitious outdoor sculpture to date. The outdoor sculpture consists of 500 running feet of golden, mirror-polished discs that create canopies above the pathways around […]

                        Join us under the tent on the field next to the Playhouse with Live Cuban Jazz by Chuchito Valdés and his Latin Quartet. Following in the footsteps of his famed father Chucho Valdés and grandfather Bebo Valdés, Chuchito continues the legacy of great […]