Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

This reprise presentation resumes our series on foreign writers who have contributed to Cuba’s cultural patrimony inspired by their sojourns on the Island and/or deep friendships forged with key figures of Cuba’s literary and artistic circles. Spanish writer and philosopher María Zambrano, who regarded Cuba as her pre-natal homeland, is a pivotal figure in this […]

By popular demand, the CCCNY brings back The Alonso Brothers, and this time in a totally new immersive experience, Havanesque, placing the audience at the center of the greatest time in the history of Cuban music. Cuban-American pianists Orlay and Orlando Alonso have charmed audiences on stages around the world with their elegant takes on […]

The U.S. pemiere of Saida Santana Mahmut’s play La Indiana, a name that alludes to the cultural legacy emanating from the frequent trips made by so many across the Atlantic, from the Canary Islands to Cuba and back. Starring Ms. Santana herself, the plot revolves around Antonia, the playwright’s great-grandmother, a woman from Canarias who […]

The digital world premiere of the documentary Memorias de Carlos Márquez-Sterling, based on a 1990 eight-hour interview with Carlos Márquez-Sterling filmed by the late Cuban writer Miguel Gónzalez Pando as part of the Cuban Living History Project at Florida International University (FIU). This unique documentary was edited and produced in 1998 by writer and journalist […]

We are delighted to cap our Spring Season with a recital by one of Cuba’s most beloved classical pianists, the internationally acclaimed Juana Zayas, recently hailed in Milan by Italian music critic Cesare Guzzardella as “one of the best living pianists.” INSTITUTO CERVANTES 211 East 49th Street, bet. 2nd & 3rd Aves., NYC FREE ADMISSION […]

Internationally acclaimed pianist and performance researcher Dr. Donna Coleman traces the musical relationships between Johann Sebastian Bach and Fryderyk Chopin and composers living and working principally in Havana, Cuba from c. 1840–1900. As one of the busiest and biggest slave-trading centers in the world in the mid-nineteenth century, Havana’s rich cultural life rivalled that of […]

We open the 2022 Winter Season with our traditional celebration of Three Kings Day, a long held tradition in Cuba, where, despite six decades of Communist culture, is now resurging. As a special treat for children of all ages, we are proud to offer the 1974 Mexican film Los 3 Reyes Magos, directed by Fernando […]

The Cuban Cultural Center of New York bestows its first El Titán award to publisher, editor, and poet Felipe Lázaro, on the 35th anniversary of the founding of Editorial Betania in Madrid, Spain in January of 1987, which served to publish the works of hundreds of exiled Cuban writers and of many others silenced inside […]

Our traditional tribute to José Martí (1853-1895) on his birthday. Founding father of Cuba and leader of its last war of independence, 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 […]

  A special presentation of Anne Fountain‘s dual-language 2005 edition of José Martí’s Versos Sencillos, in the wake of last year’s 130th anniversary of its original publication in New York City in 1891. A distinguished Martí scholar and translator, Fountain’s sensitive translation of Martí’s 1891 collection of poems is widely considered the most faithful English […]

On the eve of Día de los Enamorados the CCCNY celebrates Valentine’s Day with an illustrated presentation by literary scholar Ana María Hernández, inspired by Mario Coyula‘s period novel, Catalina. The book is a song of love by the author to the beautiful and elegant Catalina de Lasa (1875-1930), a woman who came to personify […]

The World Premiere of Ricardo Bacallao‘s film documenting a unique tribute concert celebrating the music of Cuban jazz legend Bebo Valdés. Held on November 9, 2019 in Union City, New Jersey, the concert featured a big band of high-level musicians from the United States, Cuba, and Canada, all brought together by drummer and percussionist Emilio […]

To commemorate the 169th anniversary of the death of Father Félix Varela y Morales (1788-1853), Varela scholar Dagoberto Valdés will cover his Cartas a Elpidio contra la Impiedad, la Superstición y el Fanatismo en sus Relaciones con la Sociedad, of which Volumes I and II were published in New York in 1835 and 1838. This […]

The CCCNY opens its celebration of Women’s History Month with an incursion into the poetry of Cuban poet Isel Rivero through her recently published book Polaris, a retrospective collection of her work spanning 60 years. Curated by Benito del Pliego, the volume brings to light the thematic and stylistic diversity of the author, reflecting Rivero’s […]