Mario Ernesto Sanchez, founder and producing artistic director of Teatro Avante and the International Hispanic Theatre Festival of Miami, received the 2014 Legacy Award in Los Angeles, Sunday. The honor recognizes “outstanding individuals whose lifelong commitment to Latino Theater in the United States and Latin America will have a lasting impact on the field,” said […]
Article · November 11, 2014 by Fernando González
Photo: Hattie Mae Williams dancers in “Miami Sites Project” at Miami Marine Stadium. For dancer and choreographer Hattie Mae Williams, the question is not whether all the world’s a stage but why shouldn’t it be? She has taken her self-described guerrilla approach to dance performances to supermarkets and churches, subway platforms and cemeteries. “Culture Concrete,” […]
Article · November 7, 2014 by Fernando González
Demian Bellumio, chief operating officer for Senzari, a Big Data content recommendation company based in Miami, seems in motion even while calmly answering questions seated at a desk in the company’s conference room. It’s late summer and part of this, no doubt, is because today he’s waiting for a call from a potential sponsor for […]
Article · October 17, 2014 by Fernando González
EXILE books at Locust Projects. Photo by Nabil Moo. The EXILE Books display cases have a minimalist, clean design. They are both an installation and a tool, elegant, but also sturdy and purposeful. They also have wheels. EXILE Books is an itinerant artists’ bookstore, and for the next year, it will move around various locations […]
Article · October 16, 2014 by Fernando González
Above: Teo Castellanos won a 2013 Knight Arts Challenge grant for “Third Trinity,” a one-man play he wrote that debuts Oct. 10 and is directed by MacArthur Fellow Tarrell McCraney. The two sat down earlier this year to talk about working together and the process of adapting the work for the stage. Actor, writer and […]
Article · October 8, 2014 by Fernando González
When art and technology meet, the collision is bound to create sparks of inspiration. That’s what happened during the Art Hackathon, which took place Sept. 20-21 in Miami. The hackathon was a collaboration of The LAB Miami and The YoungArts Foundation with the support of the Knight Arts Challenge, which The LAB won in 2012. […]
Article · September 24, 2014 by Fernando González
Photo: Cuban entrepreneur Yamina Vicente, Decorazón (2013 photo). Credit: Center for Democracy in the Americas (CDA) on Flickr. If a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, perhaps a significant economic and social opening might gain footing in Cuba with the success of Sandra Aldama’s soap micro-business, or Marianela Pérez’s Pizzeria Nella. […]
Article · August 11, 2014 by Fernando González
Foto: Empresaria Yamina Vicente, Decorazón (2013). Credito: Center for Democracy in the Americas (CDA) en Flickr. Si un camino de mil millas comienza con un paso, quizás una apertura económica y social en Cuba se puede afianzar con el éxito de la micro-empresa de jabones de Sandra Aldama o la Pizzera Nella de Marianela Pérez. […]
Article · August 11, 2014 by Fernando González
Above: IAVA-organized ‘Storm the Hill’ day in Washington, D.C. Credit: IAVA on Flickr. The numbers in the scandal over the delays in health care and other benefits incurred by the Department of Veterans Affairs were shocking. As of June 2013, returning veterans trying to get help for medical issues such as post-traumatic stress disorder, had […]
Article · July 16, 2014 by Fernando González
Music producer Jermaine Dupri spoke at Tech Cocktail in Miami. Photos by Ezequiel Williams. The book launch of “Startup Mixology: Tech Cocktail’s Guide to Building, Growing and Celebrating Startup Success,” by Frank Gruber, the founder and CEO of Tech Cocktail, brought together entrepreneurs, on stage and in the audience, and featured sound advice, a llama and […]
Article · July 11, 2014 by Fernando González
Photo credit: Two Parrot Productions. From a distance, the choice of rapper Armando Christian Pérez, aka Pitbull, to make the closing keynote remarks of the first eMerge Americas Techweek, a six-day-long tech expo which started with a series of events on Thursday and culminated with keynotes, panels and other sessions at the Miami Beach Convention Center […]
Article · May 7, 2014 by Fernando González