Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

The CCCNY opens its Winter Season with its traditional celebration of Three Kings Day, this year with the exclusive screening of an in-depth documentary on Los Tres Reyes Magos. Who were the Three Wise Men from the Orient? Is there scientific data to confirm or disavow their existence? And if they existed, who were they […]

  The New York City launching of  Memoria (Editorial Betania, 2022), by the young Cuban poet Laura Domingo Agüero, who interweaves metaphors of her life, from her first breath as a conscious being, and throughout her childhood and young adulthood, in an attempt to find the hidden niche of the soul and the senses, all […]

A unique presentation in celebration of José Martí‘s birthday, with the objective of generating interest in his writings among  English-speaking readers. Anne Fountain, a distinguished Martí scholar, will assess the caliber, or lack thereof, of different English translations of  Martí’s oeuvre. While excellent translations of his work are available, not all translators have conveyed Martí’s […]

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 […]

A special screening of Lazaro and the Shark: Cuba Under the Surface, a stunning documentary that brings us behind-the-scenes of the infamous Conga Competitions in Carnival of Santiago de Cuba – the poorest Carnival in the world. Lázaro, the leader of the Conga de Los Hoyos, is determined to win the coveted award bestowed to […]

By popular demand, the CCCNY brings back Olga Cerpa, this time to regal New York City audiences with compositions from her latest CD, Palosanto, a unique repertoire featuring guitar songs of the world! With her exquisite vocal talent and charismatic stage presence, Olga Cerpa has become one of the most emblematic singers of the Canary […]

Also published in English as The Night Travelers, this sweeping new novel by Armando Lucas Correa (the best-selling author of The German Girl) follows four generations of women as they experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall.  This special […]

In celebration of Black History Month, the CCCNY is presenting an exclusive ONE-TIME-ONLY streaming of ALL THREE PARTS of Voces para un silencio: 1912, Gloria Rolando‘s groundbreaking  documentary on the events leading up to the 1912 massacre of more than 3,000 black Cubans in Santiago de Cuba, a little known chapter in Cuban history. The […]

An illustrated lecture by historian Teresa Fernández Soneira about José Martí‘s seven sisters, traditionally overlooked by biographers of Cuba’s most transcendental figure. Highlighting the humble origins of the Martí family, and their trials and tribulations in Spain, Cuba, and Mexico, Dr. Soneira’s painstaking research follows the lives and marriages of the sisters and unveils new […]

One of the most accomplished Cuban-American playwrights of her generation, Melinda López is also an actress. She is one of the Mellon Foundation National Playwright Residents (Huntington Theatre Company) and a 2019 Mass Cultural Council Fellow in dramatic writing. The daughter of Cuban exiles who left Cuba and eventually settled in the US in the early […]

To cap Women’s History Month, the CCCNY presents a ONE-NIGHT-ONLY streaming of Mala, Melinda Lopez‘s one-woman tour-de-force about the most common of events—the end of life. While sharing her experience as a daughter caring for her ailing mother, Lopez delivers a a darkly funny tale about what it means to put our loved ones first, […]