Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

Kaufman Music Center & the Cuban Cultural Center of New York present a two-piano program featuring the Golden Era of Cuban music “It is never about showing off what they can do technically, but rather about bringing the listener into the meaning of the music. They are real virtuosos of their instrument not only because of their rock […]

An illustrated period study by gender historian Raquel Vinat featuring five women from 19th century Havana whose professional accomplishments were a catalyst for fostering change and a feminist consciousness amidst seemingly insurmountable obstacles in the social, economic, family, and personal realms. Their legacy also helped define a national identity under a despotic colonial regime. The […]

The third of three spring workshops on the legacy and significance of the work of Lydia Cabrera, a pioneer ethnographer of Cuba’s African culture, on the 120th anniversary of her birth. Each workshop will be held in a private home and will be open to members only, with pre-registration required. A reading list will be […]

As part of our year-long celebration of the 500th anniversary of the City of Havana, the CCCNY closes its Spring Season with a solo exhibit by Ernesto Ferrand, one of the most sought-after Cuban artists in photography today. Standing astride two worlds—a vanished past and a dissonant present—Ferrand’s Eppur Si Muove encompasses iconic shots of […]

The CCCNY opens its 2019 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 head chef to greet […]

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 1880’s and early 1890’s Martí worked as […]

A conversation between scholars Lisandro Pérez and Esther Allen about Pérez’s recent book, Sugar, Cigars & Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York. A hundred years before the Cuban Revolution of 1959, Cubans were settling in New York City in what became the largest community of Latin Americans in the 19th-Century Northeast United States. Pérez traces the formation of […]

The New York City launching of Entre Islas: Poetas cubanas de Nueva York, by literary critics Elena M. Martínez and Francisco Soto. The authors have compiled an ambitious volume of essays, including their own, dedicated to the work of five Cuban poets from New York: Magali Alabau, Alina Galliano, Lourdes Gil, Maya Islas and Iraida Iturralde, […]

                        A unique presentation on Mexico’s cine de rumberas, a cinematic tour de force that turned the rumba, the popular Cuban dance, into veritable melodrama, and launched the careers of statuesque bombshells Ninón Sevilla, María Antonieta Pons, and Amalia Aguilar, Cuban dancers whom the press referred to as “The […]