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9/29/03

FILMS, DISCUSSIONS ON CUBAN REVOLUTION SET AT SLU

CANTON – As part of its month-long celebration of Latino/a and Hispanic heritage, 
St. Lawrence University will host a series of films and discussions reflecting 
on the 40 years of the Cuban revolution. The events are open to the public, 
free of charge.
	Scheduled are:

      - Lucía, 1969, Dir. Humberto Solas, Thursday, October 2, 7 p.m., Hepburn 
Auditorium (Room 218); discussion to follow.
      A classic of Cuban cinema which looks at the lives of three Lucías 
during three revolutionary epochs in Cuban history –an upper-class woman in 
the 1890s, a middle- class woman in the 1930s and a working-class woman in 
the 1960s.
      - Memories of Underdevelopment, 1968, Dir. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Tuesday, 
October 7, 7:30 p.m., Hepburn Auditorium (Room 218); discussion to follow.
      A bourgeois property owner decides to stay in Cuba after the revolution 
and must examine his life and values in a new social and political milieu. 
      - Strawberry and Chocolate, 1993, Dir. T. Gutiérrez Alea, Thursday, 
October 9, 7:30 p.m., Hepburn Auditorium (Room 218); discussion to follow.
      David is a naive young university student and a member of the Communist 
Party. His ideas about life and politics begin to change when he meets Diego, 
a gay artist.  
	For more information, contact Caribbean and Latin American Studies 
Program Coordinator Kenneth A. Gould, at 315-229- 5395 or kgould@stlawu.edu.

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