Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

The CCCNY resumes its celebration of Women’s History Month with an eye-opening presentation on Puerto Rican educator, journalist, and philosopher Eugenio María de Hostos and his daring proclamation for women’s equality in his groundbreaking series of lectures to the members of the Academy of Fine Letters in Santiago de Chile in 1873. Hostos scholar Orlando […]

The CCCNY caps its celebration of Women’s History Month with an illustrated historical journey led by historian Teresa Fernández Soneira, who will explore the contributions of Cuban women from early colonial times to the end of the War of Independence in 1898. Through detailed accounts, enhanced by archival photographs, she will bring to light the […]

Our 2021 cinema festival offers an unvarnished and complex portrait of a country viewed through different prisms. This year’s program includes a series of groundbreaking shorts and documentaries and two feature films, spanning a wide range of themes revealing Cuba inside out: a potential escape to another planet; an exile’s return to reconcile with a […]

In commemoration of September 8, Day of Nuestra Señora de la Caridad del Cobre, patron saint of Cuba, and in light of the escalation of arrests, summary trials and disappeared youth throughout the Island since July 11, including many writers and artists, the CCCNY answers the call of Mons. Octavio Cisneros, who is offering a […]

The CCCNY joins the New York Public Library for a special film screening in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Like pages from a personal diary rescued over the years, Iván Acosta reconstructs with artisan modesty those bitter and confusing hours that he had recorded in video form and then kept in a drawer […]

The Cuban Cultural Center of New York awards poet José Kozer the 2021 La Avellaneda Medal, its highest recognition in literature. Regarded by many as the pre-eminent Cuban poet of his generation, he is certainly the most prolific, having authored over 60 books of poetry. Born in Havana in 1940, to a Polish father and […]

A special history workshop inspired by Werner Herzog‘s outstanding 2018 documentary, Meeting Gorbachev, based on an in-depth interview with Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who helped bring the Cold War to an end. Although not directly about Cuba, the film gives rise to questions regarding Cuba within the context of the monumental changes brought about […]

The Cuban Cultural Center of New York presents Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo as part of our series on Cuban writers born after 1959. The series focuses on the new generation exposed to a radically different social, cultural, political and educational system, as well as different literary influences and traditions than the various generations preceding it. […]

During colonial times, African slaves transported to Cuba brought with them rituals and myths which gradually morphed into a new belief system called Santería. The process began as the different ethnic groups from Africa became exposed to the Spaniards’ Catholic beliefs. Although the practice of Santería was socially ostracized throughout the greater part of the […]

It is estimated that roughly ten percent of the Cuban population today identify themselves as Protestant, Evangelicals, or Christians. This  presentation by theologian Marcos Antonio Ramos will delve into the origins and development of the different protestant denominations Cuba, most notably in the 19th century, their ties to the two wars for independence, the role […]

An illustrated presentation by Ruth Behar on her journeys to the diverse communities of Jewish Cuba, drawing upon her work as a cultural anthropologist, poet, and writer of young people’s fiction. Her presentation will discuss Ashkenazi and Sephardic legacies on the island and in the diaspora, looking at how Jewish Cuban identities have evolved and […]

The Cuban Cultural Center of New York presents its 20th consecutive annual conference, this year titled La Iglesia en Cuba: Legado histórico, cultural y espiritual, delving into the overarching legacy of the Catholic Church in Cuba, from the 16th century to the present, with emphasis on its preponderant role in the educational sphere from colonial […]

A special screening in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of one of the darkest episodes in Cuban history: the unjust execution by the Spanish colonial government of eight Cuban medical students in 1871. Based on true events, Alejandro Gil‘s 2018 film recounts with excruciating detail how a regiment of voluntary soldiers, along with a corrupt […]

In commemoration of Human Rights Day, the CCCNY offers  a special screening of Muriendo a plazos, a full-length 2009 documentary on the life and death of Cuban poet, university leader and dissident Pedro Luis Boitel (1931-1972).  Using the testimonials of friends and inmates who suffered tortures and denigration in the same prison where Boitel spent […]