Q-uba: Authors Cuban-American Authors and Scholars

Saturday, February 14, 2009 - Monday, February 16, 2009 Stonewall Library & Archives 1300 East Sunrise Blvd Fort Laudedale, FL (954)763-8565 Free Admission www.stonewall-library.org Saturday, February 14, 7:00 PM Film, Strawberry and Chocolate The first Cuban film to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Picture, Strawberry and Chocolate details the charming but troubled relationship between two men, one a flamboyant scholar, and the other a pro-revolutionary youngster. Johnny Diaz Sunday, February 15, 2:00 PM Novelist Johnny Diaz Johnny Diaz is a Boston Globe features writer and teaches journalism at Emerson College. He was formerly a reporter for The Miami Herald and is the acclaimed author of the extremely popular Boston Boys Club (2007)Miami Manhunt (2008) and the forthcoming Beantown Cubans, slated for release in mid-2009. Mr. Diaz is also a contributing author to Chicken Soup for the Latin Soul book. I was Cuba Monday, February 16, 7:00 PM Photo Historian, Ramiro Fernandez Ramiro Fernández was born in Havana, but left Cuba in 1960, settling first in Palm Beach County and then in New York, where he was a photography editor at Time Inc. for 25 years. As a witness to the revolution in his youth, Fernández's consuming passion has been to build a photography collection that can serve as a testament to the Cuba he remembers. Selections from Mr. Fernandez’s remarkable collection appear in I Was Cuba: Treasures from the Ramiro Fernández Collection Richard Blanco Monday, February 16, 7:00 PM Poet Richard Blanco Richard Blanco’s family emigrated from Cuba to Spain two months before his birth and very soon after relocated to Miami. His acclaimed first book of poetry, City of a Hundred Fires, won the Agnes Starrett Poetry Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press (1998). Blanco has traveled extensively and lived in Guatemala, Brazil, and Connecticut. He has taught at Georgetown and American University. His second book, Directions to the Beach of the Dead continues to explore themes of home, place, and identity. His poems have appeared in major literary journals and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 2000, Great American Prose Poems, The Breadloaf Anthology of New American Poets, and he has been featured on National Public Radio.