Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

A workshop* on four Cuban writers, today virtually forgotten, whose works reflect the unique experience of transitioning from Spanish colony to U.S. occupation to independence in a ten-year period. With archival photographs and film footage depicting the social and political context of the era. Led by Lourdes Gil, director of the CCCNY Literature Program. Prof. […]

A lifetime career tribute to Cuban economist Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics and Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh, an internationally recognized scholar who is considered the dean of Cuban studies and the utmost authority on social security in Latin America, and whose contributions to the field are unequaled. Mesa-Lago is a […]

The Cuban Cultural Center of New York joins forces with Teatro Columna theater group to present a dramatic reading of legendary playwright Virgilio Piñera‘s seminal play, Electra Garrigó, based on Sophocles‘s tragedy, under the direction of the brilliant young director Leyma López. Originally planned as a full-stage production at The Clemente Cultural Center’s Teatro LaTea, this […]

By popular demand, the CCCNY opens its 2020 Winter Calendar and rings in the New Year with an ALL-OUT PARTY to celebrate with members and friends the traditional Christmas feast of the Epiphany at Manhattan’s legendary Mesón Sevilla, in the heart of the world-renowned Restaurant Row. The feast will include a delicious menu especially prepared by the […]

The NYC launching of The Cuban Comedy, the latest novel by award-winning poet and writer Pablo Medina. Medina’s latest work revolves around a love story set in post-revolutionary Cuba, steeped in political satire, poetry, and the lightest touches of magical realism. The author will be interviewed by the renowned literary critic Isabel Alvarez Borland and […]

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 […]

The NYC launching of Cuba scholar María Werlau’s exhaustive research study on Cuba’s intervention in Venezuela and the role it continues to play today. Its collateral repercussions on U.S. immigration will also be discussed. With an introduction by Prof. José Moya, director of The Forum on Migration at Barnard College. This event is part of […]

                                                  A unique illustrated presentation on the United Nations’ recent issuance of six postage stamps featuring World Heritage sites in Cuba. The stamps and prestige booklets were designed by Cuban-American Sergio […]

The NYC launching of Anna Veltfort’s English edition of her highly acclaimed one-of-a-kind graphic memoir on her years as an adolescent in early revolutionary Cuba. With an exclusive screening of some of the book’s most piercing images, revealing Veltfort’s extraordinary talent as an artist as well. The author will be interviewed by Baruch College professor […]