Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

An exclusive ONE-NIGHT-ONLY streaming of Part I of Voces para un silencio: 1912, Gloria Rolando‘s groundbreaking three-part documentary on the events leading up to the 1912 massacre of more than 3,000 black Cubans in Santiago de Cuba, a little known chapter in Cuban history. The film relates the origins of the Partido Independiente de Color (PIC), […]

A discussion on the history of racism and ensuing social conflicts in Cuba, beyond the hackneyed rhetoric. The panel will bring together black Cuban intellectuals and artists–Enrique Patterson, Yanelys Nuñez, Ignacio Granados, Berta Mexidor, Yesenia Selier, and Ramón Colás–who will offer new critical views on racism in Cuba. They will be joining the discussion from […]

An in-depth interview with Carlos Estévez, the first artist to be profiled in our Contemporary Artists Series, led by writer and curator Andrea O’Reilly Herrera. Carlos Estevez’s work is animated by a deep interest in questions of human spirituality.His stated goal is to use his work to reveal the invisible realm to the spirit that […]

A conversation between literary critic Isabel Álvarez-Borland and writer and journalist Anjanette Delgado on the literature of uprootedness, as reflected in Delgado’s newly published and highly acclaimed anthology Home In Florida, a collection showcasing some of the most talented contemporary Latinx writers who have called Florida home. Featuring fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by Richard Blanco, […]

Born of Galician parents who emigrated to Cuba, Professor José García-Mazás’ life could fill an action-packed film, including being sent to boarding school in Spain at age 11 and not seeing his parents again until age 27;  barely escaping from Spain with his bride in the middle of the Spanish Civil War; his extraordinary university […]