Celebrate the Cuban Revolution!
At a special screening of the 1969 classic
BURN
Starring Marlon Brando
Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo
Monday,
August 2, 2004 - 7:00PM
(In Commemoration of the July 26, 1953, Attack on the Moncada Barracks)
Following
the film will be a presentation by Eugene Godfried,
community organizer, music producer, and radio and literary journalist
living in Cuba. Mr. Godfried has worked
for over twenty-six years with Caribbean nations to promote ideas and actions regarding popular
culture and Caribbean identity. He is currently Director of the Caribbean
Division of Radio Havana, Cuba and hosts a show, Caribbean Outlook. For
more about Eugene Godfried visit afrocubaweb.com. Also
featuring the pertinent poetry of local artist Abayomi Huria who emphatically shows how “Art saves lives!”
At: Cafe Mawonaj 624 ‘T’ Street, NW, Wash., DC
One block from the Shaw-Howard
Univ. Metro Station on the Green Line.
suggested donation $8.00
BURN (aka “Queimada”)
is being shown at this time of increasing US attacks and threats on Iraq, Haiti, Cuba and
other countries because BURN is one of the few US films
that reveal the drama of how colonialism and imperialism conspire in the
Caribbean and the Americas. For
more information call 301-938-4628 or visit: www.nowaroncuba.org
(Updated 9/2/2004)