Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

The U.S. pemiere of Saida Santana Mahmut’s play La Indiana, a name that alludes to the cultural legacy emanating from the frequent trips made by so many across the Atlantic, from the Canary Islands to Cuba and back. Starring Ms. Santana herself, the plot revolves around Antonia, the playwright’s great-grandmother, a woman from Canarias who […]

The digital world premiere of the documentary Memorias de Carlos Márquez-Sterling, based on a 1990 eight-hour interview with Carlos Márquez-Sterling filmed by the late Cuban writer Miguel Gónzalez Pando as part of the Cuban Living History Project at Florida International University (FIU). This unique documentary was edited and produced in 1998 by writer and journalist […]

We are delighted to cap our Spring Season with a recital by one of Cuba’s most beloved classical pianists, the internationally acclaimed Juana Zayas, recently hailed in Milan by Italian music critic Cesare Guzzardella as “one of the best living pianists.” INSTITUTO CERVANTES 211 East 49th Street, bet. 2nd & 3rd Aves., NYC FREE ADMISSION […]

Internationally acclaimed pianist and performance researcher Dr. Donna Coleman traces the musical relationships between Johann Sebastian Bach and Fryderyk Chopin and composers living and working principally in Havana, Cuba from c. 1840–1900. As one of the busiest and biggest slave-trading centers in the world in the mid-nineteenth century, Havana’s rich cultural life rivalled that of […]