“Raíces de mi Corazon” Gallery 1978 BHM Event

Gallery 1978 Artist in Residence Events
The following events are free and open to the public.
They are offered as part of Gallery 1978’s Artist in Residence program, with featured Black History Month artist Juan Antonio Picasso.
For more information, go to www.1978artscenter.org
Friday, February 12 7 pm
Gallery 1978 will offer a rare screening of “Raíces de mi Corazon” (“Roots of My Heart”), an independent short feature film which deals with the 1912 massacre of thousands of members of the Independents of Color, the first black political party outside Haiti. The party, one of the largest slave revolts in the hemisphere, was founded in 1908 in order to secure a rightful share for AfroCubans in a Cuba which had successfully marginalized them.