Current Events

GENIO Y FIGURA DE FEDERICO JUSTINIANI

Wednesday, January 15, 2025 at 9 pm

A unique evening, in partnership with Pinceladas de Artes con Alejandra Cossio del Pino, an online program which provides a platform to promote and support high caliber multicultural Hispanic artistic and intellectual talents to disseminate our cultural heritage and generate a greater understanding of our roots. This presentation will feature an interview with Federico Justiniani, […]

EN LA VÍSPERA DE LOS TRES REYES MAGOS

Januray 5 and 6, 2025 at 5 pm Sunday and 7 pm Monday

Given the resonance of Three Kings Day in Cuban culture, we respond to popular demand and open our 2025 Winter Season with Catherine Hardwicke’s The Nativity Story (2006), first streamed in the midst of the pandemic four years ago. Praised for its original score by award-winning composer Mychael Danna, The Nativity Story is a relatively […]

PREMIO FRANZ KAFKA: ‘EL CASTIGO’, DE JORGE LUIS ARCOS

Saturday, September 14, 2024 at 5 pm

Winner of the 2023 Franz Kafka International Literary Award, Jorge Luis Arcos‘s El Castigo has been highly praised for its unique and undefinable structure, encompassing the genres of essay, memoirs, epistolary, and novel all at once. Subtitled ‘Letters Exchanged with Lorenzo García Vega and Other Texts, or How to (Re)Construct (Imagine) a Canon,’ the book […]

THE IRISH CUBAN CONNECTION IN 19TH CENTURY NEW YORK

Monday, September 23, 2024 at 7 pm

An illustrated presentation by John McAuliff on the parallel paths followed by Cuba and Ireland in their struggle to seek independence from their colonial masters in Spain and England. The presentation will reveal the role of Irish Cubans in the American revolution, and will focus on how their aspirations for a free Cuba were manifest […]

‘ONE BRILLIANT FLAME,’ BY JOY CASTRO

Thursday, September 26, 2024, at 7 pm

An in-depth interview with Joy Castro about her critically acclaimed new novel, One Brilliant Flame, inspired by actual events. Set in 1886, the booming cigar industry makes Key West the most prosperous city in Florida. The city also serves as a rebel base for the anti-colonial insurgency in Cuba. Against the backdrop of the Great […]

RICHARD BLANCO’S ‘HOMELAND OF MY BODY’

Tuesday, October 1, 2024 at 6 pm

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 […]

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