Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

The New York City launch of Los maricones van al cielo, Armando López Salamó‘s first novel. Witty and irreverent, the plot follows the adventures of a child in search of his identity, facing prejudice and intolerance along the way. The panel presentation, filmed in Miami’s iconic Books & Books bookstore, will include the author, film […]

The CCCNY commemorates the 127th anniversary of the death of José Martí with an illustrated lecture* by Martí scholar Ryan Spangler on the spirituality of Cuba’s towering figure. When José Martí died on the battlefield of Dos Ríos that fateful day in May of 1895, he left a legacy that has inspired and infiltrated almost […]

This reprise presentation resumes our series on foreign writers who have contributed to Cuba’s cultural patrimony inspired by their sojourns on the Island and/or deep friendships forged with key figures of Cuba’s literary and artistic circles. Spanish writer and philosopher María Zambrano, who regarded Cuba as her pre-natal homeland, is a pivotal figure in this […]

By popular demand, the CCCNY brings back The Alonso Brothers, and this time in a totally new immersive experience, Havanesque, placing the audience at the center of the greatest time in the history of Cuban music. Cuban-American pianists Orlay and Orlando Alonso have charmed audiences on stages around the world with their elegant takes on […]

The U.S. pemiere of Saida Santana Mahmut’s play La Indiana, a name that alludes to the cultural legacy emanating from the frequent trips made by so many across the Atlantic, from the Canary Islands to Cuba and back. Starring Ms. Santana herself, the plot revolves around Antonia, the playwright’s great-grandmother, a woman from Canarias who […]

The digital world premiere of the documentary Memorias de Carlos Márquez-Sterling, based on a 1990 eight-hour interview with Carlos Márquez-Sterling filmed by the late Cuban writer Miguel Gónzalez Pando as part of the Cuban Living History Project at Florida International University (FIU). This unique documentary was edited and produced in 1998 by writer and journalist […]

We are delighted to cap our Spring Season with a recital by one of Cuba’s most beloved classical pianists, the internationally acclaimed Juana Zayas, recently hailed in Milan by Italian music critic Cesare Guzzardella as “one of the best living pianists.” INSTITUTO CERVANTES 211 East 49th Street, bet. 2nd & 3rd Aves., NYC FREE ADMISSION […]

Internationally acclaimed pianist and performance researcher Dr. Donna Coleman traces the musical relationships between Johann Sebastian Bach and Fryderyk Chopin and composers living and working principally in Havana, Cuba from c. 1840–1900. As one of the busiest and biggest slave-trading centers in the world in the mid-nineteenth century, Havana’s rich cultural life rivalled that of […]

We open the 2022 Winter Season with our traditional celebration of Three Kings Day, a long held tradition in Cuba, where, despite six decades of Communist culture, is now resurging. As a special treat for children of all ages, we are proud to offer the 1974 Mexican film Los 3 Reyes Magos, directed by Fernando […]

The Cuban Cultural Center of New York bestows its first El Titán award to publisher, editor, and poet Felipe Lázaro, on the 35th anniversary of the founding of Editorial Betania in Madrid, Spain in January of 1987, which served to publish the works of hundreds of exiled Cuban writers and of many others silenced inside […]

Our traditional tribute to José Martí (1853-1895) on his birthday. Founding father of Cuba and leader of its last war of independence, 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 1880’s and early 1890’s he worked […]