By popular demand, the CCCNY opens its 2020 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 […]
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¡FIESTA DE REYES!
Sunday, January 5, 2020 ~ 1 pm to 4 pm
‘THE CUBAN COMEDY’
Thursday, January 23, 2020 at 7 pm
The NYC launching of The Cuban Comedy, the latest novel by award-winning poet and writer Pablo Medina. Medina’s latest work revolves around a love story set in post-revolutionary Cuba, steeped in political satire, poetry, and the lightest touches of magical realism. The author will be interviewed by the renowned literary critic Isabel Alvarez Borland and […]
OFRECIMIENTO A MARTÍ
Tuesday, January 28, 2020 at 6 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 1890’s and early 1990’s Martí worked as a foreign correspondent in New York City and […]
CUBA’S INTERVENTION IN VENEZUELA
Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 6:30 pm
The NYC launching of Cuba scholar María Werlau’s exhaustive research study on Cuba’s intervention in Venezuela and the role it continues to play today. Its collateral repercussions on U.S. immigration will also be discussed. With an introduction by Prof. José Moya, director of The Forum on Migration at Barnard College. This event is part of […]
CUBA’S WORLD HERITAGE STAMPS
Tuesday, February 18, 2020 at 6:15 pm
A unique illustrated presentation on the United Nations’ recent issuance of six postage stamps featuring World Heritage sites in Cuba. The stamps and prestige booklets were designed by Cuban-American Sergio […]
‘GOODBYE, MY HAVANA’
Monday, February 24, 2020 at 7 pm
The NYC launching of Anna Veltfort’s English edition of her highly acclaimed one-of-a-kind graphic memoir on her years as an adolescent in early revolutionary Cuba. With an exclusive screening of some of the book’s most piercing images, revealing Veltfort’s extraordinary talent as an artist as well. The author will be interviewed by Baruch College professor […]