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EL OLIMPO VACÍO

Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 6:30 pm

El Olimpo Vacío is a powerful Argentine political film revolving around the figure of an outsider intellectual, Juan José Sebreli, but manages to transcend it. Sebreli becomes a touchstone to go through Argentina and its dilemmas, and questions almost everything it should be ashamed of. Through national icons like Gardel, Evita, Che, and Maradona, the […]

EL SURGIMIENTO DEL PRIMER PRESIDENTE DE CUBA

Friday, May 20, 2016 @ 6:30 pm

The New York City launching of Margarita García‘s Antes de “Cuba libre,” a groundbreaking historical profile on the life of Tomás Estrada Palma, the first president of the Republic of Cuba, before taking office and facing “an ocean of difficulties” (as George Washington described the task before him days before being sworn in as first […]

BACK TO THE FUTURE: CUBAN SCI-FI NOW

Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 7 pm

Discover the world of Cuban science fiction at a bilingual reading with Anabel Enríquez Piñeiro, Erick J. Mota, and Yoss, whose far-out work is featured in the May issue of Words without Borders edited by Esther Allen and Hillary Gulley. Deji Olukotun (Nigerians in Space) will moderate a discussion about this exciting literary frontier that adds new dimensions […]

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