Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

By popular demand, the CCCNY is proud to sponsor its first domino tournament for its members and friends, including a complimentary overview of the history of the game on the Island and the origins el doble-nueve, unique to Cuba. El dominó, considered Cuba’s second national pastime, continues to be played by Cubans wherever they settle, […]

Journalist Alberto Muller‘s in-depth interview with Martí scholar Emilio J. Sánchez on the most relevant of the more than 50 biographies that have been published on José Martí, some virtually unknown. The conversation was recently filmed at PBS public television station WLRN as part of host Muller’s regular programming on Cuba and its history. The […]

The Cuban Cultural Center of New York is pleased to bestow on Emilio Cueto, the 2023 El Titán Award, our highest recognition for excellence, for his multiple contributions toward promoting and preserving our cultural heritage. He will be honored at a Cultural Gala at the elegant Manhattan Manor, in the heart of New York City, […]

The CCCNY opens its Winter Season with its traditional celebration of Three Kings Day, this year with the exclusive screening of an in-depth documentary on Los Tres Reyes Magos. Who were the Three Wise Men from the Orient? Is there scientific data to confirm or disavow their existence? And if they existed, who were they […]

  The New York City launching of  Memoria (Editorial Betania, 2022), by the young Cuban poet Laura Domingo Agüero, who interweaves metaphors of her life, from her first breath as a conscious being, and throughout her childhood and young adulthood, in an attempt to find the hidden niche of the soul and the senses, all […]

A unique presentation in celebration of José Martí‘s birthday, with the objective of generating interest in his writings among  English-speaking readers. Anne Fountain, a distinguished Martí scholar, will assess the caliber, or lack thereof, of different English translations of  Martí’s oeuvre. While excellent translations of his work are available, not all translators have conveyed Martí’s […]

Our annual tribute to José Martí on his birthday. Founding father of Cuba and leader of its last war of independence, José Martí (1853-1895) 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 Martí worked as a foreign correspondent in New York City and […]

A special screening of Lazaro and the Shark: Cuba Under the Surface, a stunning documentary that brings us behind-the-scenes of the infamous Conga Competitions in Carnival of Santiago de Cuba – the poorest Carnival in the world. Lázaro, the leader of the Conga de Los Hoyos, is determined to win the coveted award bestowed to […]

By popular demand, the CCCNY brings back Olga Cerpa, this time to regal New York City audiences with compositions from her latest CD, Palosanto, a unique repertoire featuring guitar songs of the world! With her exquisite vocal talent and charismatic stage presence, Olga Cerpa has become one of the most emblematic singers of the Canary […]

Also published in English as The Night Travelers, this sweeping new novel by Armando Lucas Correa (the best-selling author of The German Girl) follows four generations of women as they experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall.  This special […]