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First Screening of Film on Cuban Hip Hop

(WORCESTER -- November 23, 2004) The Latino Education Institute:  Home of the Worcester Working Coalition for Latino Students at Worcester State College will be hosting the first screening in Massachusetts of Inventos:  Hip Hop Cubano on Thursday December 2, 2004 at the North/South Auditorium, Student Center, Worcester State College beginning with showtime at 7:00 PM. The documentary is in Spanish with English subtitles.  The event will conclude with a question/answer session hosted by the film's director, Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi.

The film Inventos:  Hip Hop Cubano provides a unique insight into the realities and politics of contemporary Cuba.  Inventos documents the rise of the hip hop movement in Cuba; it takes us back to the roots of hip hop, when the music was more about the message and when social conditions created a social consciousness and desire to effect change. 

Film Director Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi, a graduate of Tish School of the Arts at New York University, premiered the movie in Havana, Cuba and toured successfully in England, Puerto Rico and United States.

For more information contact Kirsh Donis, Higher Education Facilitator, Latino Education Institute at 508-798-6507 or kdonis@worcester.edu

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