{"id":185,"date":"2014-02-19T13:29:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T18:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/?p=185"},"modified":"2014-02-19T13:29:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T18:29:27","slug":"havanas-black-renaissance-intellectuals-and-artists-of-post-revolutionary-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/2014\/02\/19\/havanas-black-renaissance-intellectuals-and-artists-of-post-revolutionary-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Havana\u2019s Black Renaissance: Intellectuals and Artists of Post-Revolutionary Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, February 26<sup>th<\/sup>, \u00a0Prof. Juanamaria Cordones-Cook (University of Missouri) will screen two of her recent documentary films, produced and directed in Cuba, on the topic of <b><i>Havana\u2019s Black Renaissance: Intellectuals and Artists of Post-Revolutionary Cuba<\/i><\/b><i>.\u00a0 <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The main event: <b>4:00pm, VH 1000<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Diago: A Maroon Artist<\/i><\/b> (2013) features the prominent multimedia Afro-Cuban artist, Juan Roberto Diago, who creates works of \u201ccultural resistance\u201d.\u00a0 \u00a0In this film Diago openly treats issues of race and poverty in contemporary Cuba, as well as their representation in his paintings and installations.\u00a0 \u00a0Discussion following screening.<\/p>\n<p>Also showing at 7:00pm, BH 156<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Havana on Display<\/i><\/b><i> (2012) <\/i>examines the creation of art-object books, featuring the poetry of Afro-Cuban poet Nancy Morej\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, February 26th, \u00a0Prof. Juanamaria Cordones-Cook (University of Missouri) will screen two of her recent documentary films, produced and directed in Cuba, on the topic of Havana\u2019s Black Renaissance: Intellectuals and Artists of Post-Revolutionary Cuba.\u00a0 The main event: 4:00pm, VH 1000 Diago: A Maroon Artist (2013) features the prominent multimedia Afro-Cuban artist, Juan Roberto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}