One of the most accomplished Cuban-American playwrights of her generation, Melinda López is also an actress. She is one of the Mellon Foundation National Playwright Residents (Huntington Theatre Company) and a 2019 Mass Cultural Council Fellow in dramatic writing. The daughter of Cuban exiles who left Cuba and eventually settled in the US in the early […]
Current Events
AN IN-DEPTH INTERVIEW WITH PLAYWRIGHT MELINDA LÓPEZ
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 at 7 pm
SPECIAL ONE-NIGHT-ONLY STREAMING OF ‘MALA,’ A PLAY BY MELINDA LOPEZ
Thursday, March 30, 2023 at 7 pm
To cap Women’s History Month, the CCCNY presents a ONE-NIGHT-ONLY streaming of Mala, Melinda Lopez‘s one-woman tour-de-force about the most common of events—the end of life. While sharing her experience as a daughter caring for her ailing mother, Lopez delivers a a darkly funny tale about what it means to put our loved ones first, […]
LUIS CRUZ AZACETA: PREMIO AMELIA PELÁEZ 2022
Friday, September 23, 2022 at 7 pm
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 […]
CINE FOCUS: 1912 ~ BREAKING THE SILENCE / VOCES PARA UN SILENCIO
Wednesday, September 28, 2022 at 7 pm
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), […]