Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

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 […]

An exclusive screening of the film Dance of My Heart, featuring the life and career of world famous dancer, ballet master, and choreographer Alberto Alonso, from his beginnings at Havana’s Pro Arte Ballet School until his death at the age of 90 in 2008 in Florida, where he had lived since receiving political asylum in […]

On the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ Abbey Road, the last album in which all four Beatles participated, Cuban maestro and composer Armando Tranquilino returns to the CCCNY to take us behind the scenes of the carefully crafted recordings and ambitious musical arrangements, bringing to life a magical period in the history of popular music. […]

As a nod to Havana’s 500th anniversary, leading art historian José Ramón Alonso Lorea takes us on an illustrated voyage to the 1940s, when Cuba’s modern art movement was consolidated. The work of these artists was widely promoted by arts patron María Luisa Gómez Mena, founder of Galería del Prado, a pivotal figure in garnering […]

An exclusive screening of Néstor Almendros’s and Orlando Jiménez Leal’s Improper Conduct (1984), a groundbreaking and critically acclaimed documentary on the Cuban government’s persecution of political dissidents, poets, homosexuals, and those simply labeled by the authorities as “antisocial” elements, many of whom were imprisoned, tortured, or sent to forced labor camps. Released 35 years ago, the […]