{"id":4947,"date":"2014-02-11T10:45:52","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T16:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/?p=4947"},"modified":"2014-02-11T10:45:52","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T16:45:52","slug":"free-mu-screening-tonight-at-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/free-mu-screening-tonight-at-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Free MU screening tonight at 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Film Screening &amp; Discussion:\u00a0\u201cDiago:\u00a0A\u00a0Maroon Artist\u201d WITH Filmmaker Juanamaria Cordones-Cook\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Tuesday, February 11, 6:00 p.m., Leadership Auditorium, 2501 MU Student Center (Hitt &amp; Rollins, upstairs)<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiago, a Maroon Artist\u201d\u00a0presents a prominent\u00a0multimedia Afro-Cuban artist,\u00a0Juan Roberto Diago (1972), who creates his work\u00a0employing discarded materials. Diago understands the creative possibilities of recycling and bricolage. He also enriches his images by juxtaposing graffiti with racially contesting intent.\u00a0His\u00a0art\u00a0work results in \u201ccultural resistance\u201d and, because of his rebellious spirit, he labels himself a \u201cmaroon artist.\" In this film, Diago openly discusses issues of race and poverty in contemporary Cuba, as well\u00a0as their representation in his paintings and\u00a0installations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Film Screening &amp; Discussion:\u00a0\u201cDiago:\u00a0A\u00a0Maroon Artist\u201d WITH Filmmaker Juanamaria Cordones-Cook\u00a0 Tuesday, February 11, 6:00 p.m., Leadership Auditorium, 2501 MU Student Center (Hitt &amp; Rollins, upstairs) \u201cDiago, a Maroon Artist\u201d\u00a0presents a prominent\u00a0multimedia Afro-Cuban artist,\u00a0Juan Roberto Diago (1972), who creates his work\u00a0employing discarded materials. Diago understands the creative possibilities of recycling and bricolage. He also enriches his images [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}