The NYC launching of Cuba scholar María Werlau’s exhaustive research study on Cuba’s intervention in Venezuela and the role it continues to play today. Its collateral repercussions on U.S. immigration will also be discussed. With an introduction by Prof. José Moya, director of The Forum on Migration at Barnard College. This event is part of […]
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CUBA’S INTERVENTION IN VENEZUELA
Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 6:30 pm
CUBA’S WORLD HERITAGE STAMPS
Tuesday, February 18, 2020 at 6:15 pm
A unique illustrated presentation on the United Nations’ recent issuance of six postage stamps featuring World Heritage sites in Cuba. The stamps and prestige booklets were designed by Cuban-American Sergio […]
‘GOODBYE, MY HAVANA’
Monday, February 24, 2020 at 7 pm
The NYC launching of Anna Veltfort’s English edition of her highly acclaimed one-of-a-kind graphic memoir on her years as an adolescent in early revolutionary Cuba. With an exclusive screening of some of the book’s most piercing images, revealing Veltfort’s extraordinary talent as an artist as well. The author will be interviewed by Baruch College professor […]
ALICIA ALONSO: A BALLET LEGACY
Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at 7 pm
A presentation on the artistic legacy of the legendary and controversial Cuban ballerina Alicia Alonso, including a biographical short by award-winning filmmaker Ric Burns and rare clips from the 1990 unique performance in Palma de Mallorca that brought her together with two other legends of dance and opera, Rudolf Nureyev and Spanish soprano Victoria de […]