Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

A poetry reading by Richard Blanco, National Humanities Medal recipient and Presidential inaugural poet. Blanco will read from his rich and intensely intimate collection of new poems, as well as his picks from previous volumes. The poems in Homeland of My Body range in subject and setting, but are all characterized by the poet’s keen eye and […]

A special screening of Danny González Lucena‘s The Harvard Cubans, a rare documentary that unearths a little known event in U.S. and Cuban history. In 1900, more than half of all Cuban public teachers boarded five American military ships to participate in a summer school organized by Harvard University. For the first time, the oldest […]

The U.S. premiere of Manuel Rodríguez Ramos‘s El rey de las aves, a play with a seemingly simple, yet profound, poetic text. Based on an ancient Mayan legend (rescued by Herminio Almendros in his collection Oros Viejos), the plot revolves around the dilemma of choosing a new king. With the impending resignation of their monarch, […]