The CCCNY opens its Spring Season with Cuba en USA, Emilio Cueto’s latest work on his never-ending quest for Cuban footprints around the globe. Cueto offers an invaluable documentation of the long, broad, and profound presence of the Caribbean island in the United States, through prints, images, and all kinds of objects from his collection […]
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CUBA EN USA
Tuesday, March 26 @ 7 pm
EL ‘IR Y VENIR’ EN ‘LOS DÍAS DE ELLWOOD’
Friday, April 5, 2019 at 6:15 pm
Critically acclaimed Cuban poets Magali Alabau and Manuel Adrián López join forces to engage in a groundbreaking dramatic reading and literary dialogue revolving around their latest works: Alabau’s Ir y venir and López’s Los días de Ellwood. Alabau‘s volume is a compilation of poems spanning thirty years (1986-2016), revealing a daily existential thread of angst […]
LA TIENDA ‘EL ENCANTO’
Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 7 pm
A nostalgic documentary on Havana’s ill-fated department store El Encanto, a renowned emblem of elegance, trend-setting fashions, and exclusive rights in the Americas to certain haute-couture brands, such as Christian Dior. Built in 1888 by Solís, Entiralgo y Cía., it grew to be the largest department store in Cuba, with close to one thousand employees, […]
TALLER I: LYDIA CABRERA, A WOMAN AHEAD OF HER TIME
Saturday, April 27, 2019, at 4 pm
The first of three spring workshops on the legacy and significance of the work of Lydia Cabrera, a pioneer ethnographer of Cuba’s African culture, on the 120th anniversary of her birth. Each workshop will be held in a private home and will be open to members only, with pre-registration required. A reading list will be […]