Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

The Cuban Cultural Center of New York and La MaMa join forces to present the NYC premiere of Victor Varela’s The Abyss of the Birds. The legendary founder of Teatro Obstáculo returns with a new production that oscillates between Cuba and the world, playing to multiple associations based on a dominant idea: Does the concentration camp, […]

  The CCCNY ends its Spring season with the New York City launching of Isabel Parera‘s heartrending account of her mother’s time as a political prisoner in Cuba during the early years of the Revolution, when many became disillusioned with the new order. Based on a manuscript left by her mother, Alicia Rodríguez, the author channels her voice […]

The CCCNY invites one and all to our annual tribute to José Martí (1853-1895) on his birthday. Founding father of Cuba and leader of its last war of independence, José Martí 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 CCCNY opens its winter season with an exhibit of Joseph Milazzo‘s most ambitious project: The Cuba Series. In the winter of 2013 the Brooklyn-born artist embarked on a 6-week exploration of Cuba, the birthplace of his mother and the setting of many tales he heard growing up as a child, thus becoming the first member of […]