Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

  Literature is not style; it is breathing. –Virgilio Piñera On the 110th anniversary year of the birth of the great Cuban writer Virgilio Piñera, this presentation celebrates his work—his poetry in particular—with a view toward the embodiment of Cubanness, the absurd and daily life in Cuban literature of the 20th century. The program will […]

Shot in New York during the height of a pandemic, Gabriel Rodríguez‘s The Sisters Kardos is one of the first narrative films to depict the trauma of Covid-19 and the events of 2020 head-on and make it so central to the story. The plot revolves around the Kardos family as it is thrown into disarray […]

A special recital in honor of Aurelio de la Vega (1925-2022), who passed away early this year. Considered one of the greatest exponents of contemporary art music. de la Vega wrote numerous works in many forms and media and, from the early 1960s, was an active force on the U.S. musical scene. Many of his […]

The CCCNY opens its Summer Season with an exhibit of photographs by Cuban artist Gustavo Pérez, whose lens reveals an exploration of man’s search for meaning within his immediate environment, seen as a fragment of the universe. Behind each photograph, the artist emerges as an intuitive and passionate thinker, seeming to risk his own life […]