Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

  An exhibit and book launch featuring the unveiling of Moonbeams, large scale oil paintings, as well as a select group of moving pictures by Ofill Echevarría, a Cuban-American painter and multimedia artist who captures realistic images from urban life “that explore the world beneath and beyond the surface in a dynamic dialogue with the soul.” Jorge Moya, [...]

  Un conversatorio con Laura Ymayo Tartakoff a partir de su nuevo libro, Inventario y otros poemas.  La autora se inscribe en la promoción de cubanos que muy jóvenes marcharon al exilio, y ha desarrollado su personal expresión poética en ese universo. Siente cierta nostalgia de paisajes y vínculos perdidos y sabe insertar en su creación [...]

                    Adelaide Mestre’s TOP DRAWER: Stories of dysfunction and redemption, is a poignant musical memoir that recounts a life of privilege and secrets, an autobiographical journey from the Upper East Side of Manhattan to the old city streets of Havana, Cuba. It was first presented at the [...]

Gladys Bensimon‘s award-winning documentary opens our Cuban Cinema Cycle this fall season. It is a story about human resilience, community, and brotherhood. Narrated by Andy García, the film follows a group of former Cuban political prisoners through their memory of imprisonment and their half-century fight against the aging Castro regime.  Having developed a strong community for themselves that [...]

The CCCNY pays tribute to the legendary Carlos Gardel, the most prominent figure in the history of tango, a genre that since the onset of the 20th century has captivated audiences worldwide, and was embraced, interpreted and recorded by Cuban artists since the early 1930’s. This veritable musical tour-de-force, directed and arranged by Maestro Pablo [...]

The CCCNY revisits the work of Severo Sarduy and pays due hommage to his legacy on the 20th anniversary year of his death. One of Cuba’s most brilliant and versatile writers, Sarduy excelled as a novelist, essayist and poet, and his groundbreaking oeuvre is enjoying reawakened interest worldwide. The commemorative tribute will begin with a unique [...]

It is not possible to recount the history of Cuban culture in the first half of the 20th century without mentioning the seminal role played by the Pro-Arte Musical Society. Founded in 1918 by a group of women, it flourished under the exceptional leadership of its presidents, most notably, María Teresa García Montes de Giberga (pictured [...]

        René Portocarrero, “La cena” (1942)        The first conference ever held on the history and development of Cuban cuisine—from its origins to the present. At the state-of-the-arts facilities of The International Culinary Center in Manhattan, the event will not only cover the evolution and the different influences that have shaped the Cuban gastronomical landscape—through both formal [...]

In the fall of 1968, a man and a boy each take a separate flight to Madrid, Spain. The boy is an exile from Cuba; the man is a wealthy uncle from Newark sent to meet and care for the boy. A few days later, the man is found dead in a luxury hotel room [...]

The second installment in our 2012-2013 Cuban Cinema Cycle is Alejandro Brugués’s Juan of the Dead, a 2011 quasi-horror film that has garnered multiple awards and critical acclaim worldwide, most recently, Spain’s Goya Award for Best Iberoamerican Film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3cqbEsnlns&feature=share Writer and director Brugués deviates from the genre’s norm to create a satirical zombie-comedy and, in [...]