An all-day FILM FESTIVAL on the most renowned genres and beloved entertainers in Cuban popular music, including of course, Benny Moré, el Bárbaro del Ritmo (pictured above with his Banda Gigante). This event will be a bookend to our XIV Annual Congress held earlier this month. Details to come. In the meantime… …resístase quien pueda: […]
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CUBAN MUSIC FILM FESTIVAL
Saturday, October 31, 2015 ~ 2 pm to 9 pm
DE RÍO A LA HABANA
Sunday, May 17 & May 24, 2015 @ 8 pm
An exclusive double-bill presentation starring two of the most exciting performers in today’s classical music scene, the Brazilian soprano Angelica de la Riva and the Cuban pianist and conductor Orlando Alonso. Ms. de la Riva, praised for “a dazzling presence, a warm, agile and powerful voice, and the refinement and demeanor of a great singer,” […]
CUBAN CINEMA CYCLE: THREE SHORTS BY ELIECER JIMÉNEZ ALMEIDA
Friday, May 22, 2015 @ 6:15 pm
An exclusive sreening of three shorts by the young filmmaker Eliecer Jiménez Almeida, one of the most promising, daring, and independent voices in Cuban cinema today. Born in Camagüey in 1983, Jiménez Almeida has also excelled as director, screenwriter, and film critic. Among his most notable works to date are the short Para un príncipe enano, […]
THE MEMORY OF SILENCE
Friday, May 8, 2015 @ 6:30 pm
The New York City launching of Uva de Aragón’s The Memory of Silence, a novel that explores the lives of two sisters separated at the outset of the Cuban Revolution. In 1959, at the age of 18, the twins Lauri and Menchu share a common past, but their lives abruptly take on seemingly irreconcilable differences […]