The CCCADI (Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute) in “El Barrio” East Harlem, preserves and promotes the culture of the African Diaspora.
CCCADI is a small organization that is very well connected with NYC’s government and leading cultural institutions. It is training the next generation of cultural leaders.
As a Puerto Rican, this is the New York City institution that feels the most like home. It’s the only place we know that teaches Caribbean Lucumí (Yoruba) traditions in an institutional setting. That is the Caribbean women’s knowledge of plants and African Diaspora cultural traditions.
If you want to connect with our ancestors, this is the place, a very special place. And it’s not only for Puerto Ricans. CCCADI represents the entire African Diaspora.
Thank you CCCADI for sponsoring New York Latin Culture Magazine!
Latin Culture at the CCCADI
The CCCADI Hurricane Fiona Puerto Rico Benefit Supports Caribbean Artists & Cultural Workers at City Winery
Thursday, October 6, 2022
CITY WINERY
Chelsea, Manhattan
Rock, Bomba, Plena, Jazz 🇵🇷
The CCCADI’s AfriBembé Festival: Sankofa! Celebrates Our African Roots in El Barrio!
Saturday, August 13, 2022
HARLEM ART PARK
“El Barrio” East Harlem
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The AfriBembé Festival 2021 Celebrates the African Diaspora in El Barrio East Harlem
HARLEM ART PARK
El Barrio, East Harlem
Saturday, August 21, 2021
FREE
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CCCADI Tickets
Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute
120 East 125th St
(between Lexington & Park)
“El Barrio” East Harlem, Manhattan
(212) 307-7420
Subway
(4)(5)(6) to 125th St
Walk 1/2 a block west towards the Park Avenue elevated train.
If you can’t attend an event, the CCCADI preserves many past events as YouTube videos on their web.
Twitter @cccadi
Instagram @cccadi
YouTube @CCCADImedia
Google Arts and Culture artsandculture.google.com
Support the CCCADI
As one of New York City’s leading Afro-Caribbean organizations for over 40 years, the CCCADI deserves your support.
In addition to their own cultural programs, CCCADI leaders helps program events at other New York institutions including the Lincoln Center summer festivals. When we have a Caribbean problem we can’t solve on our own, this is who we turn to. It’s a small organization, but their impact is huge.
In 2008, New York City government chose the CCCADI to develop the old East Harlem firehouse (1889) into a community cultural center.
Even in the Caribbean, our culture is slowly disappearing, but it lives on at the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute in El Barrio East Harlem, New York City. ¡Ashé!
The Neighborhood
“El Barrio” East Harlem is one of Manhattan’s Latin neighborhoods.
CCCADI News
June 2023
Sacred Traditions: AfroLatinx & Africans – A Spiritual Reconnection: La Matria: Returning Home & Reimagining our AfroFutures, is part 4 of a 4-part a pre-travel virtual workshop for a spiritual pilgrimage to Ghana in West Africa in July/August 2023, at the CCCADI, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute in “El Barrio” East Harlem on Thursday, June 8, 2023 at 6:30pm. $60 for the 4 workshop series. cccadi.org spiritualpilgrimage.tours 🇬🇭🇵🇷
April 2023
Sacred Traditions: AfroLatinx & Africans – A Spiritual Reconnection: Embodying AfroLatinidad in the Aftermath of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, is part 3 of a 4-part a pre-travel virtual workshop for a spiritual pilgrimage to Ghana in West Africa in July/August 2023, at the CCCADI, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute in “El Barrio” East Harlem on Thursday, April 6, 2023 at 6:30pm. $60 for the 4 workshop series. cccadi.org spiritualpilgrimage.tours 🇬🇭🇵🇷
February 2023
Sacred Traditions: AfroLatinx & Africans – A Spiritual Reconnection: Shifting AfroIndigenous Cultural Identities During the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, is part 2 of a 4-part a pre-travel virtual workshop for a spiritual pilgrimage to Ghana in West Africa in July/August 2023, at the CCCADI, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute in “El Barrio” East Harlem on Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 6:30pm. $60 for the 4 workshop series. cccadi.org spiritualpilgrimage.tours 🇬🇭🇵🇷
December 2022
Sacred Traditions: AfroLatinx & Africans – A Spiritual Reconnection, Forming AfroIndigenous Identities: Transcontinental Connection Before Columbus, is part 1 of a 4-part pre-travel virtual workshop for a spiritual pilgrimage to Ghana in West Africa in July/August 2023, at the CCCADI, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute in “El Barrio” East Harlem on Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 6:30pm. $60 for the 4 workshop series. cccadi.org spiritualpilgrimage.tours 🇬🇭🇵🇷
Haven’t you always wanted to go to Mother Africa? So much Caribbean, Latin American, and even U.S. American culture originates in Africa.
November 2022
Sou Sou! Saturdays “Harvesting Unity” is a family art education program with storytelling, instrument making, drum and dance at the CCCADI Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute in El Barrio East Harlem on Saturday, November 5, 2022 from 1-4pm. Free. cccadi.org 🇵🇷
The Sou Sou tradition is a Caribbean and West African community savings club. CCCADI Sou Sou! Saturdays are about investing in our most precious asset ~ our children.
October 2022
¡Fuerza Positiva!, the CCCADI Hurricane Fiona Puerto Rico Benefit for artists and cultural workers in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, features great Rock, Bomba, Plena, and Jazz at City Winery in Chelsea, Manhattan on Thursday, October 6, 2022 at 8pm. (6pm doors). From $25. citywinery.com 🇵🇷
September 2022
Race, Myth, Art and Justice is a community photo exhibition at the CCCADI and on Google Arts & Culture that makes you think about all of the above. Curated by Grace Anezia-Ali and C. Daniel Dawson, many of the artists’ statements are profound. It’s a beautiful vision of the diversity of us. artsandculture.google.com 🇬🇾🇯🇲🇳🇱🇰🇳🇬🇧🇺🇸
August 2022
The CCCADI’s 4th AfriBembé Festival: Sankofa! is at Harlem Art Park and on East 120th St in “El Barrio” East Harlem on Saturday, August 13, 2022 from 11:30am – 7pm. Free. 🌍🇧🇷🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇪🇨🇬🇳🇭🇹🇵🇷
March 2022
Enjoy an Afrifemme family afternoon of art therapy, fashion design, and Bomba Puertorriqueña by Bombazo Dance Co, for the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) at The Shabazz Center in Washington Heights, on Sat, Mar 12 from 1-5pm. Free with registration. 🇵🇷 cccadi.org
February 2022
Pedrito Martinez plays Cuban Rumba and Timba live at Harlem Stage (with the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute) in Manhattanville, Harlem on Fri-Sat, Feb 11-12 at 7:30pm. From $25. 🇨🇺
January 2022
Activists Ash-Lee Henderson and Julien Terrel discuss how Rev. Dr. King’s vision was inspired by decolonization struggles in Mother Africa, the Caribbean and South America, at the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute in Harlem, on Thu, Jan 13 at 7pm. cccadi.org
Lucumí Babalawos (priests) discuss what the Cuban Letter of the Year foretells about 2022 on Thu, Jan 6 at 6:30pm. FREE. cccadi.org 🇨🇺
June 2021
Elegance Bratton discusses his documentary film “Pier Kids” (2019) with Major Nesby on cccadi.org Tuesday, June 15, 2021 at 6pm ET. 🏳️🌈 FREE
This is real New York. Back in the day, coming out often meant getting thrown out of your family home. Homeless LGBTQ+ kids found a place to live in the abandoned West Side piers. That’s why the West Village and Chelsea became LGBTQ+ neighborhoods. The movie premiered at the DOC NYC film festival.
In the spirit of Juneteenth, Aja Monet rhymes over musical undertones by Cvgebird on cccadi.org on June 19, 2021 at 7pm ET. FREE
CCCADI closes its digital exhibition “On Protest and Mourning” in discussion with photographer Nadia Alexis (What Endures), curator Zainab Floyd, and exhibition curator Grace Aneiza Ali at cccadi.org on June 24, 2021 at 6pm ET. FREE
See you at the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI). ¡WEPA!