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The CCCNY presents its 2025 Winter Calendar of Events

CARNEGIE HALL’S ‘NUESTROS SONIDOS’ FESTIVAL

From Saturday, March 22 to Thursday, May 29, 2025

This year the Cuban Cultural Center of New York joins Carnegie Hall’s Nuestros sonidos (Our Sounds) festival, celebrating the heritage and influence of Latin culture in the US, including vital contributions from the Caribbean. Through a diverse musical palette that includes classical, pop, salsa, and reggaeton, New York City audiences can dive into the melodies and […]

IVÁN ACOSTA’S “FUACATAPAM”

Friday, February 21, 2025 at 6:30 pm

The New York City launch of Fuacatapam, Iván Acosta‘s latest book, a masterful blend of storytelling, magical realism, and biting political satire. The story follows La India Agripina and her companion Don Liborio—symbolizing the Cuban spirit—on a surreal journey through post-revolutionary Cuba. They encounter iconic historical figures like José Martí, Antonio Maceo, and Félix Varela, […]

EN LA VÍSPERA DE LOS TRES REYES MAGOS

Sunday, January 5, 2025 at 5 pm

Given the resonance of Three Kings Day in Cuban culture, we respond to popular demand and open our 2025 Winter Season with Catherine Hardwicke’s The Nativity Story (2006), first streamed in the midst of the pandemic four years ago. Praised for its original score by award-winning composer Mychael Danna, The Nativity Story is a relatively […]

GENIO Y FIGURA DE FEDERICO JUSTINIANI

Wednesday, January 15, 2025 at 9 pm

A unique evening, in partnership with Pinceladas de Artes con Alejandra Cossio del Pino, an online program which provides a platform to promote and support high caliber multicultural Hispanic artistic and intellectual talents to disseminate our cultural heritage and generate a greater understanding of our roots. This presentation will feature an interview with Federico Justiniani, […]

OFRECIMIENTO A MARTÍ EN SU NATALICIO

Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 1 pm

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 1880’s and early 1890’s Martí worked […]

EL DIARIO DE CAMPAÑA DE MARTÍ

Thursday, January 30, 2025 at 7 pm

A presentation by Martí scholar Emilio J. Sánchez on José Martí‘s war diaries, published posthumously as Diario de campaña. Martí’s first entries were written on April 9, 1895, two days before disembarking in Cuba to take part in what would be the Island’s last War of Independence. The last entry is dated May 17, two […]