Margaret Randall, March 3-5, 2011
Well
known to many Minnesotans, Margaret Randall is a poet, writer,
photographer, and social activist. For many years she lived in Mexico,
where she co-founded and co-edited El Corno Emplumado / The Plumed Horn, a bilingual literary journal, and in Cuba and Nicaragua, where she raised four children, wrote, conducted
and published extensive interviews with Cuban and Nicaraguan women,
worked in writing workshops, and edited collections of Cuban and
Nicaraguan poetry.
 Upon her return to the U.S. in 1984, the government ordered her deported because of opinions expressed in some of her books. After an almost 5-year battle, her citizenship was reinstated. Her more than 80 published books include: Cuban Women Now; Sandino's Daughters; Sandino's Daughters Revisited; Christians in the Nicaraguan Revolution; Risking a Somersault in the Air; and her latest, As If The Empty Chair/Como Si La Silla Vacilla: poems for the disappeared. The Minnesota Cuba Committee, along with other local sponsors, is pleased to host her next trip to the Twin Cities, a brief three days, but well filled with events. All are free and open to the public except as noted.
Thursday,
March 3, 7:00 pm, Art Lecture Hall, St. John's University,
Collegeville. Lecture: Latin American Women's Voices, Women's Lives:
Cuba and Nicaragua.
Friday, March 4, 2:00 pm, Room 2-213, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. Lecture: Latin American Women's Voices, Women's Lives: Cuba and Nicaragua. Cosponsored
by Institute for Advanced Studies, Interdisciplinary Center for the
Study of Global Change and Department
of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies.
Friday, March 4, Birchbark Books, 2115 W. 21st St., Minneapolis: 7:00 pm, poetry reading, cosponsored by The Loft Literary Center. Please come early! 6:00-7:00 pm, social hour, food and drink at adjoining Kenwood Cafe.
Saturday, March 5, 35th floor party room, Marquette Place,
1314 Marquette Avenue, Minneapolis: 7:00 pm, social hour; 8:00 pm,
Margaret with her son, Gregory Randall, reading from and discussing
their books, To Change The World: My Years in Cuba and To Have Been There Then (Memories of Cuba, 1969-1983). Party to follow, with food, music, dancing ($10 donation requested).
 "From my Altitude" painting exhibition
November 4-30, 2010  In November 2011, the Minnesota Cuba Committee and Obsidian Arts hosted a showing of the prison paintings of Antonio Guerrero, one of the Cuban Five. Antonio taught himself to paint while in prison. The exhibition, including an opening reception on November 5, as well as a gallery talk and "A Conversation onthe Politics of Freedom in Cuba and the U.S." took place at Homewood Studios in north Minneapolis. The exhibit was noted in several local publications: NorthNews, Northside Arts Collective, Twin Cities Daily Planet. |
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