Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

Our 2023 summer film festival delves into the Cuban immigration experience, offering a multi-focus exposé of the different waves of Cubans leaving the Island in the last six decades: from the children’s exodus in the early sixties, to the Mariel boat crisis of 1980, to their present-day plight as undocumented immigrants. The series will profile […]

World renowned curator Gerardo Mosquera joins forces with art critic Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig to discuss her groundbreaking book Essays on 20th Century Latin American Art. The book provides a broad synthesis of the subject through short chapters illustrated with reproductions of iconic works by artists who have made significant contributions to art and society. The publication […]

A presentation on the 1918 Spanish flu by Dr. Federico Justiniani. The conference will describe the origin of the 1918 influenza pandemic at the end of World War I, with special attention on its effects in Cuba, including mortality rates and the measures taken by the so-called hygienists to prevent the dissemination of the disease, […]

The New York City book launch of Cuando salí de Cuba: Los niños de Madrid, by Remberto and María Luisa Pérez, detailing a virtually unrecorded event in the early years of the Cuban Revolution. Although much has been written of the Pedro Pan children’s exodus (1961-1962), when more than 14,000 minors left for the United […]