Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

Fernando Trueba‘s beautiful film rendition of the legendary concert that brought two very distinctive performers together on the same stage. On June 22, 2003, in Valldemossa’s Costa Nord cultural center in Mallorca, Bebo Valdés and Diego el Cigala joined forces to create a fusion of flamenco and Cuban music through an exquisite selection of well-known […]

A bilingual seminar on the best exponents of this genre during the last two decades, discussed by leading scholars in the field: Isabel Alvarez-Borland (Cuban-American Literature of Exile: From Person to Persona), Andrea O’Reilly Herrera (ReMembering Cuba: Legacy of a Diaspora), and Eliana Rivero (Let’s Hear Their Voices: Cuban American Writers of the Second Generation, […]

An interdisciplinary panel (journalism, literature, art, and cinema) on the cultural boom spawned by the 1980 Mariel exodus forty years ago, which included many artists and writers of renown. Given its commemorative nature, the works and creative output of the most prominent representatives of the different genres will be highlighted. The panel will include: Mirta […]

The New York City launching of Personalidades en la historia de la medicina cubana: 1760-1959, Federico Justiniani’s groundbreaking work on the history of Cuban medicine from colonial times to 1959, told chronologically through biographical profiles of its most outstanding protagonists. The clear and concise narration gives the reader a panoramic view of the development of […]