Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

For this year’s Fall Season opener, we again join forces with Anthology Film Archives to offer a unique view of Cuba’s history and culture from 1961 to the present, this time with a series of highly acclaimed full-length documentaries and shorts by new and established Cuban, American, and European directors—almost half of them women—reflecting a […]

An illustrated presentation of Anthony DePalma’s heartbreaking and sensitive exposé on the lives of ordinary citizens in present-day Cuba, focusing on five residents of the township of Guanabacoa, across Havana harbor. With the participation of the journalist’s wife, Miriam Rodríguez, a native of Guanabacoa, who accompanied the author during his research trips to Cuba. The […]

                                                  A panoramic musical presentation delving into the intense relationship that developed between the music from Cuba and Spain since the very beginning of the colonial era.  Throughout the so called […]

A unique virtual tour with Cuban scholar Lisandro Pérez through Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, highlighting the lives of the many notable 19th century Cubans buried there. These prominent personalities belong to the migration wave that arrived in New York in the aftermath of the outbreak, in 1868, of the first Cuban war of independence from Spain. […]

An illustrated presentation on the work of one of the most emblematic artists of Cuba’s counterculture, Juan Gualberto Ibáñez Gómez (Havana, 1933-2010), an artist, graphic designer, poet and writer, whose work constitutes one of the most adventurous and cutting-edge artistic incursions from the 1960s to the early 2000s on the island. He entered the art […]

A celebration of the 90th anniversary of Federico García Lorca‘s visit to Cuba, where he remained for over three months. The experience had a deep impact on him, as is evidenced in his poems, correspondence and testimonials: “Havana is fundamentally Spanish, but it reflects what is most characteristic and profound of our civilization. Naturally, I […]

As a complementary event to Pío Serrano‘s presentation of Lorca in Cuba, the CCCNY presents Asesinato en Granada, the critically acclaimed documentary on the life and death of Federico García Lorca, filmed in 1976 by Cuban director Humberto López y Guerra, 40 years after the murder of the renowned Spanish poet and playwright in 1936. […]

Author Néstor Carbonell‘s latest book, Why Cuba Matters, provides historical overview of Cuba’s post-revolutionary role in the world stage and the importance of  its present relationship with China, Russia, and Venezuela, asserting that the regime continues to pose a serious threat to the United States. The author has relied on declassified government documents and trustworthy […]

For a detailed PROGRAM of each day, click here: The Cuban Cultural Center of New York presents its 19th annual conference, this year titled España en Cuba: Un ir y venir, celebrating the deep cultural ties between Cuba and Spain, from the arrival of Columbus on the Island in 1492 until the present, with special […]

                Yuniel Jiménez (left) and Yeray Rodríguez Two of the most thrilling musical entertainers from Cuba and the Canary Islands join forces in an evening of punto cubano and son. Punto guajiro or punto cubano – or simply punto – is a sung genre of Cuban music, a poetic […]

A reading of Tras los rostros, the book of poems by Orlando Rossardi inspired by artist Juan Abreu’s groundbreaking portraits of Cuban political prisoners, first exhibited in 2017 at the European Parliament in Brussels in commemoration of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights Day. With an introduction by human rights activist María Werlau. This […]