The Cuban Cultural Center of New York joins forces with Teatro Columna theater group to present a dramatic reading of legendary playwright Virgilio Piñera‘s seminal play, Electra Garrigó, based on Sophocles‘s tragedy, under the direction of the brilliant young director Leyma López. Originally planned as a full-stage production at The Clemente Cultural Center’s Teatro LaTea, this […]
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VIRGILIO PIÑERA’S “ELECTRA GARRIGÓ”
June 26 to 28, 2020: Friday and Saturday at 8 pm and Sunday at 3 pm
¡FIESTA DE REYES!
Sunday, January 5, 2020 ~ 1 pm to 4 pm
By popular demand, the CCCNY opens its 2020 Winter Calendar and rings in the New Year with an ALL-OUT PARTY to celebrate with members and friends the traditional Christmas feast of the Epiphany at Manhattan’s legendary Mesón Sevilla, in the heart of the world-renowned Restaurant Row. The feast will include a delicious menu especially prepared by the […]
‘THE CUBAN COMEDY’
Thursday, January 23, 2020 at 7 pm
The NYC launching of The Cuban Comedy, the latest novel by award-winning poet and writer Pablo Medina. Medina’s latest work revolves around a love story set in post-revolutionary Cuba, steeped in political satire, poetry, and the lightest touches of magical realism. The author will be interviewed by the renowned literary critic Isabel Alvarez Borland and […]
OFRECIMIENTO A MARTÍ
Tuesday, January 28, 2020 at 6 pm
Our annual tribute to José Martí on his birthday. Founding father of Cuba and leader of its last war of independence, José Martí (1853-1895) is also a towering figure in Cuban and Latin American literature. In his short life, he excelled as a poet, essayist, journalist, and revolutionary. Throughout the 1890’s and early 1990’s Martí worked as a foreign correspondent in New York City and […]