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Cuban Culture Links

The Cuban Cultural Center of New York is a not-for-profit organization devoted to the preservation, advancement and dissemination of Cuban and Cuban-American culture. It was founded in March, 1997 by a group of Cuban exiles to celebrate their rich heritage, but to support and inspire new developments in the arts.

Thanks to the selfless dedication and generosity of its founders and board members during the last eight years, the CCC has been successful in offering a varied program of activities which has educated and entertained New York City audiences in various facets of Cuban culture.

The Cuban Cultural Center of New York is especially committed to:

  • Disseminate through concerts, exhibits, seminars, publications and other media the most genuine and diverse Cuban cultural legacy in music, art, literature, dance, film, theater, architecture, history, folklore, and other cultural expressions.
  • Stimulate artistic and intellectual creativity through cultural programs, prizes and scholarships.
  • Encourage and sponsor studies and research on varied facets of Cuban culture.
  • Compile an inventory of significant Cuban works in music, the visual arts, literature and other cultural expressions.

If you would like to receive more information, please e-mail us at SonSublime@SonSublime.com or visit the Cuban Cultural Center's website at www.cubanculturalcenter.org

Recommended Links:

 Cuban Artists Fund
The Cuban Artists Fund CAF was established in 1998 to foster the vitality and spirit of Cuban artists in Cuba and throughout the Diaspora community, to raise global awareness and understanding of Cuban cultural achievements, to build an international network of support and partnerships for the Cuban arts community, and to play a leadership role in promoting better understanding among American, Cuban, and Cuban Diaspora artists, art professionals, academics, and communities.

 SalsaCrazy.Com
The Premiere Guide to Salsa Dancing for The San Francisco Bay Area and Beyond. Salsa Dance for the Salsa Dancers!

 SalsaRoots.Com
The Heart and Soul of Salsa History

Highly recommended books:

  • Cuba and Its Music, From the First Drums to the Mambo, by Ned Sublette
  • Diccionario de la Musica Cubana, Biografico Y Tecnico by Helio Orovio
  • Waiting for Snow in Havana, Confessions of a Cuban Boy, by Carlos Eire
  • Exiled Memories, A Cuban Childhood, by Pablo Medina
  • The Return of Felix Nogara, by Pablo Medina (a novel)
  • Havana History and Architecture of a Romantic City. by Maria Luisa Lobo (an illustrated history of the city since its founding. (with an introduction by Hugh Thomas)
  • Gender and nationalism in Colonial Cuba: The travels of Santa Cruz y Montalvo, Condesa de Merlin (1789-1852). by Andrea Mendez Rodenas (a historical and sociological analysis of the writer and the times)
  • Cuban-American Literature of Exile, by Isabel Alvarez Borland (literary criticism on the works of outstanding contemporary writers, including Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Gustavo Perez Firmat, Reynaldo Arenas, Cristina Garcia and others)
  • The Broken Island, by Iraida Iturralde. This wonderful book is highly recommended. (poems, translated by Pablo Medina, with illustrations by Cuban-American artist Gladys Triana)
  • Memories of a Cuban Kitchen, by Mary Urrutia Randelman and Joan Schwartz.
  • Los Gusanos by John Sayles
  • Operation Pedro Pan by Yvonne M. Conde
  • Mambo Kings Sing Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
  • The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien by Oscar Hijuelos
  • A Simple Havana Melody, (from when the world was good) by Oscar Hijuelos
  • Next Year in Cuba, A Cubano's Coming-of-Age in America, by Gustavo Perez Firmat
  • Dreaming in Cuban, by Cristina Garcia
  • In Cuba I was a German Shepherd, by Ana Menendez
  • Cubans, Voices of Change, by Lynn Geldof

Recommended Publications:

Latin Beat Magazine
Kudos to Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Rudolph Mangual and Co-Publisher and Art Director Yvette Mangual for this well written magazine about the Latin music scene.
To subscribe call (310) 516-6767.

DATELINE: CUBA.USA-PUNTOdeENCUENTRO Celebrating Cuban culture and a little bit of everything. Publisher and Creative Director, Marilyn Perez. Write them at info@datelinecubausa.com.

Bochinchat
This magazine writes abot our music culture and our roots. A must read.

Highly Recommended Restaurants:

In New York City, visit Victor's Cafe located on West 52nd Street, between Broadway and 8th Avenue. And please mention us.

Highly recommended places to enjoy live performances of the best in Cuban Music:
 La Belle Epoque
 La Maganette
 Club Barcelona, Hartford, CT
 West Gate Lounge, Nyack, NY

Highly Recommended Radio Programs
SonSublime would like to thank the following radio programs for their continued support of Cuban American artists and their music.

Vicki Sola of WFDU-89.1 FM. Tune into her show, "Que Viva la Musica" Saturdays from 12-4pm. SonSublime congratulates Vicki Sola for her well deserved award from the International Latin Music Hall of Fame presented to her on April 4, 2001.

Also be sure to tune into WBAI-99.5 FM. Sundays from 2-6pm.

When on the West Coast, don't miss Chata Gutierrez on KPOO-89.5 FM in San Francisco. Saturdays from 12-4pm. SonSublime also congratulates Chata for her well deserved award from the International Latin Music Hall of Fame.