The New York City launch of Los maricones van al cielo, Armando López Salamó‘s first novel. Witty and irreverent, the plot follows the adventures of a child in search of his identity, facing prejudice and intolerance along the way. The panel presentation, filmed in Miami’s iconic Books & Books bookstore, will include the author, film curator Alejandro Ríos, artist Ramón Alejandro, and filmmaker Orlando Jiménez Leal, who will discuss homosexuality in Cuba within the well defined parameters of a society that shuns any type of sexual transgression.
The presentation will be followed by a Q&A with the author, moderated by Manuel Rodríguez Ramos, head of our Literature Program.
This special literary and history event is part of our CreateNYC Language Access Series on Cuban History, Art, Literature, and Theater. It will be held in Spanish.
DUE TO THE COVID PANDEMIC, THIS PROGRAM WILL BE STREAMED THROUGH OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL.
Please click on this link on the scheduled date and time:
https://youtu.be/yauL_0AmLRE
Armando López Salamó is a notable cultural journalist and producer with a long trajectory in the entertainment industry, dating back to his work in Cuban television, where he was writer for several years for the Saturday evening show Juntos a las 9:00 and for the cultural newscast Televista. He was founding editor of the popular journal Opina, and was the creator of Premio Girasol, awarded to the country’s most popular artists. In New York he has produced musical extravaganzas at Avery Fisher Hall, The Town Hall, and The Manhattan Center. His articles, newspaper columns and interviews have appeared in major Hispanic media outlets in the U.S., as well as in Spain and Latin America. He is a frequent lecturer on Cuban popular music in colleges and cultural institutions throughout the United States. Los maricones van al cielo is his first novel.
This event is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature.
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