Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

On the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ Abbey Road, the last album in which all four Beatles participated, Cuban maestro and composer Armando Tranquilino returns to the CCCNY to take us behind the scenes of the carefully crafted recordings and ambitious musical arrangements, bringing to life a magical period in the history of popular music. […]

As a nod to Havana’s 500th anniversary, leading art historian José Ramón Alonso Lorea takes us on an illustrated voyage to the 1940s, when Cuba’s modern art movement was consolidated. The work of these artists was widely promoted by arts patron María Luisa Gómez Mena, founder of Galería del Prado, a pivotal figure in garnering […]

An exclusive screening of Néstor Almendros’s and Orlando Jiménez Leal’s Improper Conduct (1984), a groundbreaking and critically acclaimed documentary on the Cuban government’s persecution of political dissidents, poets, homosexuals, and those simply labeled by the authorities as “antisocial” elements, many of whom were imprisoned, tortured, or sent to forced labor camps. Released 35 years ago, the […]

A special screening of the critically acclaimed 2010 animated film by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal. Set in Havana in 1948, Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey – in the tradition of the Cuban […]

As a perfect coda to our three innovative workshops on Cuban ethnologist Lydia Cabrera (1899-1991) during our Spring Season, which explored little known aspects of her life and legacy, the CCCNY wraps up its celebration of the 120th anniversary year of her birth with a fall lecture by foremost Cabrera scholar Mariela Gutiérrez. Regarded by […]

We are delighted to bring back by popular demand one of Cuba’s most beloved classical pianists, the internationally acclaimed Juana Zayas, whose 1983 recording of the Chopin Études has been widely lauded as the greatest of the 20th century. Juana Zayas’ childhood is stuff of legend. Picking out piano pieces by ear as early as […]