A seminar lecture by María Hernández Ojeda on the ideological evolution and literary output of the Cuban-Canarian poet and novelist Nivaria Tejera (1929-2016), whose poetic oeuvre was distinctively marked by her struggle against the abuse of power. Her texts reflect the political evolution of a writer who lived under three dictatorships and a fifty-year exile […]
Current Events
EL PENSAMIENTO POLÍTICO DE NIVARIA TEJERA
Friday, March 12, 2021 at 7 pm
LOS HIJOS REBELDES DE LA POSREVOLUCIÓN
Thursday, March 25, 2021 at 3 pm
An incisive look at a generation of Cuban writers coming of age during Cuba’s Soviet period, today scattered in different parts of the world. The talk will be given by one of its exponents, Gleyvis Coro Montanet. With an introduction by literary critic Mabel Cuesta, Associate Professor of U.S. Latino and Caribbean History at the […]
NOCHE DE FILIN, CON DAVID OQUENDO
Sunday, March 28, 2021 at 6 pm
A Cuban musical style dating back to the second half of the 1940’s, el filin has wowed fans the world over for its inimitable way of saying or singing a bolero, thoroughly imbued with the artist’s feeling. Deeply influenced by jazz, it has launched the careers of many great artists, including that of Grammy-winner David Oquendo, […]
‘THE CUBAN NEXUS’ FILM SERIES
Thursday, August 20 through Sunday, August 30, 2020
For this year’s Fall Season opener, we again join forces with Anthology Film Archives to offer a unique view of Cuba’s history and culture from 1961 to the present, this time with a series of highly acclaimed full-length documentaries and shorts by new and established Cuban, American, and European directors—almost half of them women—reflecting a […]