Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

        Who created the Cuban Flag? Luis Pérez Tolón‘s new documentary, EMILIA, is a personal journey and search for ancestral roots to unravel the story of his ancestor, Emilia Teurbe Tolón, who sewed Cuba’s national flag while living in exile in New York in 1850. Emilia was the first woman deported from […]

The second 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 […]

Kaufman Music Center & the Cuban Cultural Center of New York present a two-piano program featuring the Golden Era of Cuban music “It is never about showing off what they can do technically, but rather about bringing the listener into the meaning of the music. They are real virtuosos of their instrument not only because of their rock […]

An illustrated period study by gender historian Raquel Vinat featuring five women from 19th century Havana whose professional accomplishments were a catalyst for fostering change and a feminist consciousness amidst seemingly insurmountable obstacles in the social, economic, family, and personal realms. Their legacy also helped define a national identity under a despotic colonial regime. The […]