CCCNY is proud to co-sponsor LPEN’s CU CINE FILM FESTIVAL, a one-day screening of films on the most pertinent topics on Latin America and the Latinx experience, featuring two riveting full-length films: Kim Hopkins‘s heartrending documentary on Cuba, Voices of the Sea (BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND this season), and Ciro Guerra‘s mesmerizing masterpiece, The Embrace […]
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LPEN’S CU CINE FILM FESTIVAL
Saturday, March 2, 2019 ~ 2:30 pm to 9 pm
CAMBIO CONSTITUCIONAL EN CUBA
Monday, March 4, 2019 at 7 pm
A presentation by the distinguished Cuban historian Rafael Rojas, at the New York City launching of his latest book, El cambio constitucional en Cuba, a compilation of essays about Constitutional changes on the Island from a multidisciplinary perspective. Alongside texts by other authors, the volume offers a tour of Cuban Constitutional history, from the founding text of Hispanic […]
FROM AMSTERDAM TO SANTIAGO DE CUBA: A MUSICAL JOURNEY
Monday, March 11, 2019 at 7:30 pm
A unique concert highlighting the music of internationally recognized Cuban composer Keyla Orozco, in celebration of Women’s History Month. Orozco’s works, imbued with a deep sense of empathy, embrace the complexity of being an immigrant, transcending geographic, political, and artistic boundaries, and exploring cultural crosscurrents to express our common humanity. Featuring complementary works by Ernesto Lecuona […]
MYTHOLOGIES OF RETURN: REVISITING ANA MENDIETA’S RUPESTRIAN SCULPTURES
Monday, March 18, 2019 at 7 pm
A convergence between the literary and the visual, artist Aurora De Armendi and scholar Adriana Méndez Rodenas have produced a limited-edition artist’s book honoring Ana Mendieta’s Rupestrian Sculptures, a series of low-relief sculptures created in 1981 at the Escaleras de Jaruco, a national park outside Havana. The low-relief sculptures, directly carved on the limestone walls of a cave, were meant […]