Cecilia by Humberto Solas

This 1981 film will be screened Tuesday April 23 at 6:30 pm at Monroe Co. Public Library Auditorium.
Adapted from 1882 novel Cecilia Valdez, and often called Cuba’s national nove,l Cecilia is a melodrama set in 1830′s Cuba, a turbulent era where a turbulent romance ensues.

Cuba:The Accidental Eden

There will be a screening of “Cuba:The Accidental Eden” sponsored by CUBAmistad on Monday Feb 25 at the Monroe co Public Library Auditorium at 7pm.
It is a documentary directed by Doug Schultz.
Synopsis:
For decades, Cuba’s wild landscapes lay untouched while its neighbors destroyed their ecological riches. Tourism is already on the rise and most experts predict tourism will double once the US trade embargo ends. What will happen to Cuba’s stunning biodiversity – an island filled with amphibians, reptiles and the most biologically diverse freshwater fish in the region?

Alternates between scenes of the unique Cuban wildlife and interviews with Cuban conservationists who, with minimal funding, help preserve it.

The Vote is In!

The UN General Assembly, as it has every year for the past several decades, voted overwhelmingly to condemn the U.S. embargo of Cuba. The vote was 188-3.
(US, Israel and Palau)
“The UN vote on the Cuba embargo reminds us yet again that U.S. foreign policy is concocted in a bubble detached from the real world, where most nations recognize that the boycott is designed to pander to the most reactionary Cuban émigrés in Florida.”
Ian Williams, a senior analyst with Foreign Policy in Focus

Next film:
A Night in Havana: Dizzy Gillespie in Cuba.
Nov 26. Monroe County Public Library Auditorium. 7pm

Cuban poster art on exhibit at MathersMuseum

5pm November 14
Posters from the Revolution: The Anthropology of Cuban Graphic Arts. Special lecture with collector of the posters Gerrie Casey
Mathers Museum of World Cultures. www.mathers.indiana.edu/museumex.html

Next film: A Night in Havana: Dizzy Gillespie in Cuba.
Nov 26. Monroe County Public Library Auditorium. 7pm

September 11- Dec 3
Joe Tilson’s pop art including two depictions of Che Guevara
Gallery of the Art of the Western World, Doris Steinmetz Kellett Endowed Gallery of Twentieth-century Art, first floor. Indiana University Art Museum

Women’s Issues in Contemporary Cuba
Norma Guillard & Catherine Murphy on IU campus.
Women’s Issues in Contemporary Cuba: A Discussion with
Catherine Murphy and Norma Guillard
Monday, October 8/1:00pm CLACS: 1125 East Atwater Avenue
Sociologist and documentary filmmaker Catherine Murphy (producer &
director of Maestra, 2011) and psychologist Norma Guillard
(faculty at the University of Havana and advisor to UNDP and UNESCO)
will discuss their combined decades of scholarship and applied work
related to literacy, education, and racial and sexual diversity in
Cuba.

October 26 Friday 9pm
Ritmos Unidos featuring multiple grammy winner Michael Spiro,
and other IU faculty. Dancing is encouraged–it will be hard to resist.
Rachael’s Cafe,
300 E Third St ($6)

October 29 Monday 7pm
Juan de los Muertos at IU Cinema

Learn more about the fall Cuban films at:
www.cinema.iub.edu

September 1-30
Boxcar Books, 408 E. 6th St.
Ned Powell’s cut paper

Maestra October 8. 7pm IU Cinema.
Documentary (33min)
The director Catherine Murphy and Norma Guillard, teacher
during the 60′s literacy campaign as featured in the film,
will both be present.

Fiestas Populares Cubanas Film July 31

There will be a screening of the film Fiestas Populares Cubanas (Popular Cuban Celebrations)                         July 31 at 7pm at the MCPL Auditorium.
Take a brief tour of Cuba from Havana to Santiago by attending some Carnival celebrations as well as  Parranda in Villa Clara, the province where Santa Clara, Bloomington’s sister city is situated.

Free admission 

Motion for Cuban Heroes Filed in Scottish Parliament
Prensa Latina – 9 may

London, May 9 (Prensa Latina) Legislators from the Labor Party filed
today a motion before the Scottish Parliament supporting the five
anti-terrorist Cuban fighters unfairly held in the United States since
1998 for defending their country against terrorist actions.

The text, signed by legislators Elaine Smith and another 11
colleagues, announced the irregularities in the judicial proceedings
followed against Antonio Guerrero, Gerardo Hernandez, Fernando
Gonzalez, Ramon Labanino and Rene Gonzalez, the Scottish Parliament
website informed.

Antonio, Gerardo, Fernando and Ramon are serving harsh sentences for
defending Cuba from actions planed by Miami-based terrorist groups,
which have left nearly 3,000 deaths and more than 2,000 crippled.

Rene Gonzalez is under an additional three-year supervised release in
Miami since October 7 last year after serving 12 years in prison.

The motion also condemns the fifty year US economic, financial and
commercial blockade on Cuba and highlights the universal opposition to
that coercive policy and the direct damages it directly causes to the
Cuban people.

The document also welcomes a graphic exhibit opened May 7-13 at The
Lighthouse gallery, in Glasgow, as part of the world campaign for the
release of The Cuban Five, as these men are internationally known.

The exhibit includes drawings and caricatures made by two of these five
Cuban heroes, as well as works by 26 renowned Cuban artists and another
20 international authors who donated their pieces to call attention
about the case of these men.

According to the British Free the Five Committee, funds collected
through the sale of these works will serve to back other activities in
favour of The Cuban Five.

Previously, those works were exhibited with great success at Gallery 27
of London and at the Anthony Burgess Center in Manchester, England.

Pastor for Peace Caravan stops in Bloomington July 9

Please join us in welcoming the Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba to Bloomington on July 9.
We will gather at 3rd St Park at 7pm for some shared food, messages from the caravanistas and music from some of our own.
88 cities and towns in the U.S. and Canada have signed up to host the 2012 Friendshipment Caravan! Bloomington will be a part of the exciting community of Cuba activists that will host or travel through some of these towns en route to the U.S.-Mexico border and on to Cuba!

Let’s make 2012 the year we end the U.S. blockade of Cuba!

More info at http://ifconews.org