Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

The CCCNY closes its Spring Season with a unique recital by the critically acclaimed guitar duo Bona Fide, formed in Havana in 2011 by classical guitarists Carlos Vázquez and Lázara Luisa Díaz. Their vast repertoire includes their own original music for guitar duo, original arrangements of guitar compositions and other combinations of chamber instruments, encompassing […]

Given the resonance of Three Kings Day in Cuban culture, we respond to popular demand and open our 2024 Winter Season with Catherine Hardwicke’s The Nativity Story (2006), first streamed in the midst of the pandemic three years ago. Praised for its original score by award-winning composer Mychael Danna, The Nativity Story is a relatively […]

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 […]

The Cuban Cultural Center of New York joins forces with Instituto Cervantes to present JOSÉ MARTÍ: PATRIA, AGONÍA Y DEBER (Buenpaso Films, S.L.), the World Premiere of the first full-length documentary from Spain on Cuba’s national hero, an in-depth coverage of his life and legacy through testimonials, interviews with Martí scholars, original texts, and a […]

A seminal presentation by Fr. José Conrado Rodríguez Alegre, providing an in-depth, first-hand analysis of the uncertain future faced by Cuba, its Church and its people. A relevant and historical figure in the Island’s civic awareness movement, Fr. Conrado, as he is affectionately called, was born in San Luis, Oriente on June 4, 1951. After […]

In celebration of Black History Month, the CCCNY presents El enigma Morúa Delgado: vindicación de Cuba, a film short by black Cuban intellectual Ignacio Granados, who injects a fresh anthropological and philosophical analysis of Martín Morúa Delgado, a controversial figure in Cuban history, whom he views as the victim of character assassination by official historians, […]

I became a man when I was nine. My other option was death. I just didn’t know it then, but the truth is that I . . . we . . . had to leave.                                         […]

The CCCNY begins its celebration of Woman’s History Month with our ongoing Contemporary Artists Series, featuring an in-depth interview by art critic and curator Andrea O’Reilly Herrera with María Brito, whose paintings, sculptures, and installations have made her one of the most revered Cuban-American artists of “the Miami Generation.” She is best known for her […]

We cap our celebration of Women’s History Month with an illustrated presentation by historian Teresa Fernández Soneira on the Cuban woman as represented in 19th century photography, bringing to light the visual and literary history of their time through never-before-seen images taken by the first photographers who arrived in Cuba to develop their art. Her […]

A presentation of the latest book by Cuban historian Rafael Rojas, where he brings to light how censorship in the modern era has been a control mechanism to exclude communities of knowledge. The theory and history of censorship purports that the act of censoring is an exercise of power, which imposes a pre-established truth. In […]

An exclusive recital by brilliant young pianist and composer Mariel Mayz, featuring world premiere recordings of solo piano works by iconic Cuban composer Leo Brouwer. To know contemporary classical music is to know Leo Brouwer. An acclaimed composer, conductor, Brouwer has long been celebrated as a modern-day Mozart who has produced an inimitable body of work. […]