Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

  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 […]