Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

The CCCNY bestows the Amelia Peláez Award 2021, its highest recognition in the visual arts, to artist Luis Cruz Azaceta (Havana, 1942), widely recognized as a central figure in the expressionist movement. After leaving Cuba as a teenager in 1960, Azaceta lived in New York, graduated from The School of Visual Arts and began his long career […]

An exclusive ONE-NIGHT-ONLY streaming of Part I of Voces para un silencio: 1912, Gloria Rolando‘s groundbreaking three-part 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 film relates the origins of the Partido Independiente de Color (PIC), […]

A discussion on the history of racism and ensuing social conflicts in Cuba, beyond the hackneyed rhetoric. The panel will bring together black Cuban intellectuals and artists–Enrique Patterson, Yanelys Nuñez, Ignacio Granados, Berta Mexidor, Yesenia Selier, and Ramón Colás–who will offer new critical views on racism in Cuba. They will be joining the discussion from […]

An in-depth interview with Carlos Estévez, the first artist to be profiled in our Contemporary Artists Series, led by writer and curator Andrea O’Reilly Herrera. Carlos Estevez’s work is animated by a deep interest in questions of human spirituality.His stated goal is to use his work to reveal the invisible realm to the spirit that […]

A conversation between literary critic Isabel Álvarez-Borland and writer and journalist Anjanette Delgado on the literature of uprootedness, as reflected in Delgado’s newly published and highly acclaimed anthology Home In Florida, a collection showcasing some of the most talented contemporary Latinx writers who have called Florida home. Featuring fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by Richard Blanco, […]

Born of Galician parents who emigrated to Cuba, Professor José García-Mazás’ life could fill an action-packed film, including being sent to boarding school in Spain at age 11 and not seeing his parents again until age 27;  barely escaping from Spain with his bride in the middle of the Spanish Civil War; his extraordinary university […]

An in-depth look at the art and career of Conrado W. Massaguer by foremost Massaguer collector Vicki Gold Levi. Massaguer was a dominant force in graphic arts and popular periodicals in Cuba and abroad from the 1910s through the early 1960’s. During his long career, Massaguer created and published a number of magazines, including the […]

Reina María Rodríguez, recipient of the 2022 La Avellaneda Medal, the highest recognition in letters conferred by the Cuban Cultural Center of New York, is one of the most representative poets of contemporary Cuban literature. Although her early poetry shows the influence of colloquialism, she has sought to develop a complex, philosophical voice, creating a space […]

For a detailed PROGRAM of the event, click on this icon: The Cuban Cultural Center of New York presents its 21st consecutive annual conference, this year titled La historia del periodismo en Cuba, delving into the overarching history of journalism on the Island, from the publication of La Gaceta de La Habana in 1782 to […]

  Literature is not style; it is breathing. –Virgilio Piñera On the 110th anniversary year of the birth of the great Cuban writer Virgilio Piñera, this presentation celebrates his work—his poetry in particular—with a view toward the embodiment of Cubanness, the absurd and daily life in Cuban literature of the 20th century. The program will […]

Shot in New York during the height of a pandemic, Gabriel Rodríguez‘s The Sisters Kardos is one of the first narrative films to depict the trauma of Covid-19 and the events of 2020 head-on and make it so central to the story. The plot revolves around the Kardos family as it is thrown into disarray […]