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Screening of Extraterrestres (2017, Puerto Rico/Venezuela); Q&A to follow

Cornerstone Arts Center 825 N. Cascade Ave., Colorado Springs, CO, United States

About the film: Teresa is a vegetarian and a successful astrophysicist who lives with her girlfriend, Daniela, in the Canary Islands. After years of self-exile, Teresa returns to Puerto Rico to invite the family to her wedding. But the Díaz family, who lives in a rural town, are a conservative and well-to-do family who control […]

Poetry Reading and Workshop with Rajiv Mohabir

About Rajiv Mohabir: ​​Rajiv holds a BA from the University of Florida in religious studies, an MSEd in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from Long Island University, Brooklyn, and an MFA in poetry and literary translation from Queens College, CUNY where he was Editor in Chief of Ozone Park Literary Journal. While in […]

Screening of Todos se van (2015, Cuba/Colombia)

Cornerstone Arts Center 825 N. Cascade Ave., Colorado Springs, CO, United States

About the film: Everybody Leaves is based on the award-winning novel by Wendy Guerra and is a celebration of freedom and a confrontation of the authoritarian Cuban regime of the 1980s, which led to one of the country’s worst economic crises. Eight-year-old Nieve is the object of her parents’ custody battle. Her mother, Eva, is an artist […]