Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

Internationally acclaimed pianist and performance researcher Dr. Donna Coleman traces the musical relationships between Johann Sebastian Bach and Fryderyk Chopin and composers living and working principally in Havana, Cuba from c. 1840–1900. As one of the busiest and biggest slave-trading centers in the world in the mid-nineteenth century, Havana’s rich cultural life rivalled that of […]

We open the 2022 Winter Season with our traditional celebration of Three Kings Day, a long held tradition in Cuba, where, despite six decades of Communist culture, is now resurging. As a special treat for children of all ages, we are proud to offer the 1974 Mexican film Los 3 Reyes Magos, directed by Fernando […]

The Cuban Cultural Center of New York bestows its first El Titán award to publisher, editor, and poet Felipe Lázaro, on the 35th anniversary of the founding of Editorial Betania in Madrid, Spain in January of 1987, which served to publish the works of hundreds of exiled Cuban writers and of many others silenced inside […]

Our traditional tribute to José Martí (1853-1895) on his birthday. Founding father of Cuba and leader of its last war of independence, 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 1880’s and early 1890’s he worked […]