Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

By popular demand, the CCCNY opens its 2020 Winter Calendar and rings in the New Year with an ALL-OUT PARTY to celebrate with members and friends the traditional Christmas feast of the Epiphany at Manhattan’s legendary Mesón Sevilla, in the heart of the world-renowned Restaurant Row. The feast will include a delicious menu especially prepared by the […]

The NYC launching of The Cuban Comedy, the latest novel by award-winning poet and writer Pablo Medina. Medina’s latest work revolves around a love story set in post-revolutionary Cuba, steeped in political satire, poetry, and the lightest touches of magical realism. The author will be interviewed by the renowned literary critic Isabel Alvarez Borland and […]

Our annual tribute to José Martí on his birthday. Founding father of Cuba and leader of its last war of independence, José Martí (1853-1895) 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 1890’s and early 1990’s Martí worked as a foreign correspondent in New York City and […]

The NYC launching of Cuba scholar María Werlau’s exhaustive research study on Cuba’s intervention in Venezuela and the role it continues to play today. Its collateral repercussions on U.S. immigration will also be discussed. With an introduction by Prof. José Moya, director of The Forum on Migration at Barnard College. This event is part of […]

                                                  A unique illustrated presentation on the United Nations’ recent issuance of six postage stamps featuring World Heritage sites in Cuba. The stamps and prestige booklets were designed by Cuban-American Sergio […]

The NYC launching of Anna Veltfort’s English edition of her highly acclaimed one-of-a-kind graphic memoir on her years as an adolescent in early revolutionary Cuba. With an exclusive screening of some of the book’s most piercing images, revealing Veltfort’s extraordinary talent as an artist as well. The author will be interviewed by Baruch College professor […]

A presentation on the artistic legacy of the legendary and controversial Cuban ballerina Alicia Alonso, including a biographical short by award-winning filmmaker Ric Burns and rare clips from the 1990 unique performance in Palma de Mallorca that brought her together with two other legends of dance and opera, Rudolf Nureyev and Spanish soprano Victoria de […]

A presentation and scholarly discussion on Jaime Einstein’s voluminous novel of persecution and redemption, La isla de Abraham. In the tiny Lithuanian village of Horodiche, overcome by squalor, the Springer family decide to use their meager savings to secure safe passage for their first-born son to the United States and leave behind the repression of […]

A panoramic musical retrospective on the career and legacy of the legendary guitarist, singer, and composer María Teresa Vera. Born in 1895, María Teresa Vera is considered one of the most outstanding representatives of the Cuban trova movement. Led by cultural critic Armando López, the tribute will include archival recordings and never-before-seen film footage, denoting […]

The Cuban Cultural Center of New York continues its week-long celebration of Lorca’s momentous visit to Cuba in 1930 with an all-out promotional support of ID Studio Theater‘s and Teatro Columna‘s production of Yerma, a dramatic reading of one of Lorca’s most iconic plays, under the direction of Leyma López, with special editing by Tané […]

The CCCNY resumes its year-long celebration of the 500th anniversary of the City of Havana and joins forces with Anthology Film Archives to offer a wide-ranging film series inspired by Havana’s history and culture, including Hollywood classics, important Cuban and Cuban-American films, and innovative documentaries by both Cuban and European filmmakers. Since the 1930s, Havana […]