Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

A special screening of the critically acclaimed 2010 animated film by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal. Set in Havana in 1948, Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey – in the tradition of the Cuban […]

As a perfect coda to our three innovative workshops on Cuban ethnologist Lydia Cabrera (1899-1991) during our Spring Season, which explored little known aspects of her life and legacy, the CCCNY wraps up its celebration of the 120th anniversary year of her birth with a fall lecture by foremost Cabrera scholar Mariela Gutiérrez. Regarded by […]

We are delighted to bring back by popular demand one of Cuba’s most beloved classical pianists, the internationally acclaimed Juana Zayas, whose 1983 recording of the Chopin Études has been widely lauded as the greatest of the 20th century. Juana Zayas’ childhood is stuff of legend. Picking out piano pieces by ear as early as […]

The New York City launching of La hija olvidada / The Daughter’s Tale, an unforgettable story of love and redemption by Armando Lucas Correa, the bestselling author of The German Girl / La niña alemana. The novel is riveting from the outset. Elise Duval, eighty years old, receives a phone call from a woman recently […]