Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

The Cuban Cultural Center of New York and La MaMa join forces to present the NYC premiere of Victor Varela’s The Abyss of the Birds. The legendary founder of Teatro Obstáculo returns with a new production that oscillates between Cuba and the world, playing to multiple associations based on a dominant idea: Does the concentration camp, […]

  The CCCNY ends its Spring season with the New York City launching of Isabel Parera‘s heartrending account of her mother’s time as a political prisoner in Cuba during the early years of the Revolution, when many became disillusioned with the new order. Based on a manuscript left by her mother, Alicia Rodríguez, the author channels her voice […]

The CCCNY invites one and all to our annual tribute to José Martí (1853-1895) on his birthday. Founding father of Cuba and leader of its last war of independence, José Martí 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 CCCNY opens its winter season with an exhibit of Joseph Milazzo‘s most ambitious project: The Cuba Series. In the winter of 2013 the Brooklyn-born artist embarked on a 6-week exploration of Cuba, the birthplace of his mother and the setting of many tales he heard growing up as a child, thus becoming the first member of […]

An exclusive screening of the controversial award-winning and internationally acclaimed film that Cuba banned. The plot unfolds in 1983 Cuba, where a gay writer who is non-compliant with the government is blacklisted, and a local peasant woman working on a state farm is assigned to watch him. As she keeps a close watch on the man, they […]

A conversation with jazz greats Paquito D’Rivera and Lou Marini on their musical journey and their love affair with the saxophone. Prolific jazz writer and documentarian Arnold Jay Smith will moderate the sax chat. The presentation will be capped by a jam session with both musicians, who will be joined by jazz guitarist Jorge Chicoy. […]

Renowned TV journalist Rafael Pi Román interviews PBS colleague Luis Santeiro on his new book, Dancing With Dictators, a humorous and compassionate account of Santeiro’s family’s journey from pre-Castro Cuba to exile in the turbulent sixties. The great grandson of Cuban president Gerardo Machado (1925-1933), Santeiro searches for an objective viewpoint. PiRomán will discuss with […]

                        A musical tribute to Ignacio Villa Fernández (1911-1971), the legendary Cuban singer-pianist and songwriter, who came to be known to his millions of fans as Bola de Nieve. The inimitable artist’s quasi cult following prevails to this day. His life and art will […]

A presentation by internationally acclaimed composer and conductor Tania León on the origins and development of Cuban music, tracing its Spanish and African roots to the birth of an autochthonous national art, spawning myriad rhythms that have transcended the Island’s geography to bear influence worldwide. The presentation will feature classical pianist Juana Zayas and classical […]