Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

A conversation between scholars Lisandro Pérez and Esther Allen about Pérez’s recent book, Sugar, Cigars & Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York. A hundred years before the Cuban Revolution of 1959, Cubans were settling in New York City in what became the largest community of Latin Americans in the 19th-Century Northeast United States. Pérez traces the formation of […]

The New York City launching of Entre Islas: Poetas cubanas de Nueva York, by literary critics Elena M. Martínez and Francisco Soto. The authors have compiled an ambitious volume of essays, including their own, dedicated to the work of five Cuban poets from New York: Magali Alabau, Alina Galliano, Lourdes Gil, Maya Islas and Iraida Iturralde, […]

                        A unique presentation on Mexico’s cine de rumberas, a cinematic tour de force that turned the rumba, the popular Cuban dance, into veritable melodrama, and launched the careers of statuesque bombshells Ninón Sevilla, María Antonieta Pons, and Amalia Aguilar, Cuban dancers whom the press referred to as “The […]

An exclusive one-night-only screening of Jorge Dalton’s En un rincón del alma, an exceptional documentary that registers the moving testimonial of the Cuban novelist, journalist and screenwriter Eliseo Alberto, who died on July 31, 2011 in Mexico City, where he had lived since 1990. The film traces the Cuban Revolution since its inception through the memory of […]