Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

The CCCNY opens its 2019 Winter Calendar and rings in the New Year with an ALL-OUT PARTY to celebrate with members and friends the traditional Christmas feast of the Epiphany at Manhattan’s legendary Mesón Sevilla, in the heart of the world-renowned Restaurant Row. The feast will include a delicious menu especially prepared by the head chef to greet […]

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 as […]

A conversation between scholars Lisandro Pérez and Esther Allen about Pérez’s recent book, Sugar, Cigars & Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York. A hundred years before the Cuban Revolution of 1959, Cubans were settling in New York City in what became the largest community of Latin Americans in the 19th-Century Northeast United States. Pérez traces the formation of […]

The New York City launching of Entre Islas: Poetas cubanas de Nueva York, by literary critics Elena M. Martínez and Francisco Soto. The authors have compiled an ambitious volume of essays, including their own, dedicated to the work of five Cuban poets from New York: Magali Alabau, Alina Galliano, Lourdes Gil, Maya Islas and Iraida Iturralde, […]