Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

Responding to last year’s enthusiastic response, the CCCNY is proud to sponsor, by popular demand, its second domino tournament for its members and friends, including a complementary overview of the history of the game on the Island and the origins of EL DOBLE NUEVE, unique to Cuba. El dominó, considered Cuba’s second national pastime, continues […]

The CCCNY closes its Spring Season with a unique recital by the critically acclaimed guitar duo Bona Fide, formed in Havana in 2011 by classical guitarists Carlos Vázquez and Lázara Luisa Díaz. Their vast repertoire includes their own original music for guitar duo, original arrangements of guitar compositions and other combinations of chamber instruments, encompassing […]

Given the resonance of Three Kings Day in Cuban culture, we respond to popular demand and open our 2024 Winter Season with Catherine Hardwicke’s The Nativity Story (2006), first streamed in the midst of the pandemic three years ago. Praised for its original score by award-winning composer Mychael Danna, The Nativity Story is a relatively […]

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 […]

The Cuban Cultural Center of New York joins forces with Instituto Cervantes to present JOSÉ MARTÍ: PATRIA, AGONÍA Y DEBER (Buenpaso Films, S.L.), the World Premiere of the first full-length documentary from Spain on Cuba’s national hero, an in-depth coverage of his life and legacy through testimonials, interviews with Martí scholars, original texts, and a […]

A seminal presentation by Fr. José Conrado Rodríguez Alegre, providing an in-depth, first-hand analysis of the uncertain future faced by Cuba, its Church and its people. A relevant and historical figure in the Island’s civic awareness movement, Fr. Conrado, as he is affectionately called, was born in San Luis, Oriente on June 4, 1951. After […]

In celebration of Black History Month, the CCCNY presents El enigma Morúa Delgado: vindicación de Cuba, a film short by black Cuban intellectual Ignacio Granados, who injects a fresh anthropological and philosophical analysis of Martín Morúa Delgado, a controversial figure in Cuban history, whom he views as the victim of character assassination by official historians, […]