Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

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 […]

                        A panel discussion on Martí in the wake of his birthday, led by the distinguished Martí scholar Esther Allen, focusing on the recent publication of Syncing the Americas: José Martí and the Shaping of National Identity. Edited by Ryan Anthony Spangler and Georg […]

                                                  By popular demand, Dr. Federico Justiniani returns this season to share with the non Spanish-speaking audience a reprise of his groundbreaking presentation last year on the history of Cuban medicine […]

In this fascinating documentary  Cuban-American filmmaker Adriana Bosch turns her lens to the legendary Cuban poet José Lezama Lima, one of most influential figures in Latin American literature in the twentieth century. In Bosch’s film, his life story is told through letters written to his sister Eloisa, living in exile, between 1961 and 1976. The […]

A workshop on one of the leading intellectuals of 19th century colonial Cuba, José de la Luz y Caballero (1800-1862), whose teaching influenced many outstanding Cuban thinkers of his time. Among his works are an annotated translation of Volney’s Travels in Egypt and Syria (Paris, 1829); Siegling’s Public Prisons and their Reforms, from the German (1837); and […]

A seminar lecture by María Hernández Ojeda on the ideological evolution and literary output of the Cuban-Canarian poet and novelist Nivaria Tejera (1929-2016), whose poetic oeuvre was distinctively  marked by her struggle against the abuse of power. Her texts reflect the political evolution of a writer who lived under three dictatorships and a fifty-year exile […]

An incisive look at a generation of Cuban writers coming of age during Cuba’s Soviet period, today scattered in different parts of the world. The talk will be given by one of its exponents, Gleyvis Coro Montanet. With an introduction by literary critic Mabel Cuesta, Associate Professor of U.S. Latino and Caribbean History at the […]

A Cuban musical style dating back to the second half of the 1940’s, el filin has wowed fans the world over for its inimitable way of saying or singing a bolero, thoroughly imbued with the artist’s feeling. Deeply influenced by jazz, it has launched the careers of many great artists, including that of Grammy-winner David Oquendo, […]

For this year’s Fall Season opener, we again join forces with Anthology Film Archives to offer a unique view of Cuba’s history and culture from 1961 to the present, this time with a series of highly acclaimed full-length documentaries and shorts by new and established Cuban, American, and European directors—almost half of them women—reflecting a […]