Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

Our 2021 cinema festival offers an unvarnished and complex portrait of a country viewed through different prisms. This year’s program includes a series of groundbreaking shorts and documentaries and two feature films, spanning a wide range of themes revealing Cuba inside out: a potential escape to another planet; an exile’s return to reconcile with a […]

In commemoration of September 8, Day of Nuestra Señora de la Caridad del Cobre, patron saint of Cuba, and in light of the escalation of arrests, summary trials and disappeared youth throughout the Island since July 11, including many writers and artists, the CCCNY answers the call of Mons. Octavio Cisneros, who is offering a […]

The CCCNY joins the New York Public Library for a special film screening in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Like pages from a personal diary rescued over the years, Iván Acosta reconstructs with artisan modesty those bitter and confusing hours that he had recorded in video form and then kept in a drawer […]

The Cuban Cultural Center of New York awards poet José Kozer the 2021 La Avellaneda Medal, its highest recognition in literature. Regarded by many as the pre-eminent Cuban poet of his generation, he is certainly the most prolific, having authored over 60 books of poetry. Born in Havana in 1940, to a Polish father and […]

A special history workshop inspired by Werner Herzog‘s outstanding 2018 documentary, Meeting Gorbachev, based on an in-depth interview with Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who helped bring the Cold War to an end. Although not directly about Cuba, the film gives rise to questions regarding Cuba within the context of the monumental changes brought about […]

The Cuban Cultural Center of New York presents Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo as part of our series on Cuban writers born after 1959. The series focuses on the new generation exposed to a radically different social, cultural, political and educational system, as well as different literary influences and traditions than the various generations preceding it. […]