Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

                    Our Fall 2014 events calendar opens with a celebration of the great Cuban writer Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda on the 200th anniversary of her birth. The audience will be privy to a unique lecture and visual presentation entitled  “Picturing Cuba: Romantic Ecology in Gómez de […]

                        “I’m going to marry the first man I find in the street!” yells Luz Marina, the protagonist of Virgilio Piñera‘s masterpiece, Aire Frío. A strong-willed fighter bent on survival in a harsh world of male chauvinism, necessity and political turmoil, she will toil […]

  The Cuban Cultural Center of New York is proud to present the first conference ever held on the history and development of the Cuban choteo—from its origins to the present. The event will include key guest speakers and entertainers, as well as historical footage related to the diverse facets of Cuban humor, both on […]

The Manhattan launching of a critical anthology on the work of Cuban playwright Pedro Monge Rafuls. Edited by the noted literary critics Elena M. Martínez and Francisco Soto, the anthology compiles essays, critical reviews, testimonials, an exclusive interview with the playwright, as well as an extensive and invaluable bibliography on Monge’s work. The volume broaches […]

Juana Zayas, one of the world’s most admirable concert pianists, returns to Carnegie Hall with works by Schumann, Schubert, Chopin and Debussy. Throughout her distinguished career, Ms. Zayas has performed for appreciative audiences and to glowing reviews the world over, eliciting superlative praise from the most demanding classical music critics: Zayas is an extraordinary pianist. […]

An exclusive presentation dedicated to exploring the work of the experimental Cuban filmmaker Nicolás Guillén Landrián (1938-2003), fondly addressed as Nicolasito,* whose work was heavily censored and prevented from being part of the island’s film industry. In 1964, Guillén was given a special award at the Krakow Film Festival for his film En un barrio […]

  Sandro Guerra’s The Fractal Model of Life is an ambitious and unconventional book that looks to the relationship between life and fractals from a completely different perspective. It describes morphology as a mirror effect that takes place between two fundamental parts of the body that seem to follow similar instructions in opposite directions. To illustrate this idea a […]

The New York City book launching of La Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre en el alma del pueblo cubano, the result of thorough, in-depth and decades-long research by Cuban historian Emilio Cueto, who brings to light the pervasive presence of Our Lady of Charity across the centuries and in the work of hundreds of […]

By popular demand, the CCCNY caps its 2014 fall program and rings in the holiday season with another ALL-OUT DANCE PARTY starring Sonidos de Cuba, the hottest Cuban combo on either side of the Hudson! Includes a delicious menu prepared by the chef at the chic Victor’s Café, the indisputable emblem of Cuban cuisine in New York City. […]

An exclusive New York City screening of Eliécer Jiménez Almeida‘s critically acclaimed documentary, Entropía, awarded Grand Prize for Best Documentary at the XI Audiovisual Festival “Por Primera Vez” in Holguín, Cuba in 2013. Composed from a myriad of film and news sources, the film is, at first glance, a conceptually dissonant collage of images and voices, yet these gradually converge into a coherent artistic commentary. […]

                    The New York City debut of Julito León, of the duo El Primario y Julito, one of the youngest and most dynamic exponents of Cuba’s underground hip hop movement, whose performances have been systematically censored by the government for their incisive lyrics, full of social and […]