Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

An exclusive online interview with Cuban performance artist and dissident Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, known for his public performances that openly criticize the Cuban government and its policies. A self-taught artist, Alcántara lives in the El Cerro neighborhood of Havana. Since 2018, he has been arrested dozens of times for his performances in violation of […]

Classical pianist Donna Coleman traces the legacy of Manuel Saumell, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, and Ignacio Cervantes in that most American of muscial genres: ragtime. By weaving the myriad cultural cross-currents between Cuba and the U.S. from 1830 to 1920, Coleman highlights Gottchalk’s African musical idioms, Saumell’s habaneras and  Cervantes’s danzas cubanas, and establishes a direct […]

An in-depth look into Manuel Rodríguez Ramos’s retrospective novel about the Cuban exile community in Madrid during the latter years of the Franco dictatorship and during the period of transition to democracy after its demise. Presented by the renowned Madrid-based Cuban intellectual Pío Serrano, who will engage in a conversation with the author. Followed by […]

A special screening of Lilo Vilaplana‘s riveting new release, Plantados. Based on true stories, the film narrates the most horrible tortures the Castro regime imposed on the political prisoners who rejected the reeducation and indoctrination plans offered by the government in exchange for better treatment and shorter sentences. The screening will be followed by a […]