A talk with artist Lydia Rubio on The Traveling Artist,* her featured artist project at Center for Book Arts, an exhibit featuring artistic documentation of Rubio’s travel narratives across linguistic and geographic landscapes. The works record the artist’s experiences across a variation of calligraphic, drawing and poetic compositions. This exhibition includes multiple series of works, […]
Current Events
LYDIA RUBIO: ‘THE TRAVELING ARTIST’
Thursday, December 5, 2019 at 6:30 pm
BILINGUALISM, DISSOCIATION, AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
Friday, December 6, 2019 at 6:30 pm
Join us for a fascinating lecture by Cuban-American clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst Ernesto Mujica on the impact of bilingualism on memory, affect, and access to dissociated aspects of traumatic experiences. The impact of bilingual psychotherapy on the therapeutic process, including transference and countertransference, will be explored. Followed by a Q&A with the audience. This event is […]
VEREDA TROPICAL ~ THE GOLDEN ERA OF CUBAN MUSIC!
Friday, December 13, 2019 at 8 pm
The concert to top all concerts! This season-closing event is being presented as a coda to our 18th Annual Conference and a grand finale to our year-long celebration of the 500th anniversary of the City of Havana, featuring the Golden Era of Cuban Music! Starring international singing sensation Olga Cerpa and the Banda Sinfónica Municipal de […]
CUBA EN USA
Tuesday, March 26 @ 7 pm
The CCCNY opens its Spring Season with Cuba en USA, Emilio Cueto’s latest work on his never-ending quest for Cuban footprints around the globe. Cueto offers an invaluable documentation of the long, broad, and profound presence of the Caribbean island in the United States, through prints, images, and all kinds of objects from his collection […]
EL ‘IR Y VENIR’ EN ‘LOS DÍAS DE ELLWOOD’
Friday, April 5, 2019 at 6:15 pm
Critically acclaimed Cuban poets Magali Alabau and Manuel Adrián López join forces to engage in a groundbreaking dramatic reading and literary dialogue revolving around their latest works: Alabau’s Ir y venir and López’s Los días de Ellwood. Alabau‘s volume is a compilation of poems spanning thirty years (1986-2016), revealing a daily existential thread of angst […]
LA TIENDA ‘EL ENCANTO’
Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 7 pm
A nostalgic documentary on Havana’s ill-fated department store El Encanto, a renowned emblem of elegance, trend-setting fashions, and exclusive rights in the Americas to certain haute-couture brands, such as Christian Dior. Built in 1888 by Solís, Entiralgo y Cía., it grew to be the largest department store in Cuba, with close to one thousand employees, […]