Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

An intimate conversation between literary critic Isabel Álvarez-Borland and poet and writer Pablo Medina on the intellectual legacy of their late friend–Lourdes Gil, widely regarded among the best Cuban poets of her generation. They will share personal memories, and highlight her concerns regarding her role as a writer in the U.S., the spiritual and emotional […]

In commemoration of Human Rights Day, the CCCNY caps its Fall Calendar Season with Janisset Rivero‘s Cartas a Pedro, a critically acclaimed novel inspired by the life of Pedro Luis Boitel (1931-1972), a Cuban poet and dissident who opposed the governments of both Fulgencio Batista and Fidel Castro, and who died from a hunger strike […]

The Cuban Cultural Center of New York celebrates its sixth consecutive Summer Film Festival with a series of highly acclaimed feature films and documentaries by Cuban and American filmmakers, each portraying human struggle and survival through a distinctive prism—political, social, philosophical, religious, or artistic—yet all permeated by the indelible weight of an Island (Insula). Each […]