An illustrated lecture by historian Teresa Fernández Soneira about José Martí‘s seven sisters, traditionally overlooked by biographers of Cuba’s most transcendental figure. Highlighting the humble origins of the Martí family, and their trials and tribulations in Spain, Cuba, and Mexico, Dr. Soneira’s painstaking research follows the lives and marriages of the sisters and unveils new […]
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LAS SIETE HERMANAS DE JOSÉ MARTÍ
Friday, March 24, 2023 at 7 pm
AN IN-DEPTH INTERVIEW WITH PLAYWRIGHT MELINDA LÓPEZ
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 at 7 pm
One of the most accomplished Cuban-American playwrights of her generation, Melinda López is also an actress. She is one of the Mellon Foundation National Playwright Residents (Huntington Theatre Company) and a 2019 Mass Cultural Council Fellow in dramatic writing. The daughter of Cuban exiles who left Cuba and eventually settled in the US in the early […]
SPECIAL ONE-NIGHT-ONLY STREAMING OF ‘MALA,’ A PLAY BY MELINDA LOPEZ
Thursday, March 30, 2023 at 7 pm
To cap Women’s History Month, the CCCNY presents a ONE-NIGHT-ONLY streaming of Mala, Melinda Lopez‘s one-woman tour-de-force about the most common of events—the end of life. While sharing her experience as a daughter caring for her ailing mother, Lopez delivers a a darkly funny tale about what it means to put our loved ones first, […]
LUIS CRUZ AZACETA: PREMIO AMELIA PELÁEZ 2022
Friday, September 23, 2022 at 7 pm
The CCCNY bestows the Amelia Peláez Award 2021, its highest recognition in the visual arts, to artist Luis Cruz Azaceta (Havana, 1942), widely recognized as a central figure in the expressionist movement. After leaving Cuba as a teenager in 1960, Azaceta lived in New York, graduated from The School of Visual Arts and began his long career […]