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Ras Cuba to Screen at Vassar
A rare glimpse at Cuba's Rastafarian community will be offered at Vassar College on Thursday, March 1st at 7pm when Poder Latina/o and the Black Students Union MEChA de Vassar presents Ras Cuba at Sanders Classroom Auditorium, 2nd Floor. Enter at main gate on Raymond Avenue where easy directions are available.
Acclaimed photographer and documentarian Susanne Moss will be present for the screening and Q&A session afterwards. This vigorous 40-minute film, in Spanish with English subtitles, includes interviews of men and women Rastafarians discussing their lives, culture and struggles in Santiago de Cuba.
According to Moss, a former Manhattanite who relocated to Beacon three years ago, Ras Cuba is the result of the Rastas in Cuba asking me to be, in a sense, their contact with the outside world. They want nothing more than to have their presence in Cuba be known and to express their sentiments regarding their culture internationally."
For more information, call the Students' Center at 845- 437-5370.
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