What is Caribe Pop? Come see it. Come hear it. Come meet two artists who are changing the language of art in the Caribbean.

Image from the film Candela.

Discussion facilitator Mary Leonard, two of Caribe Pop founders Rey Andujar and Andrés Farías Cintrón, and Nicolás Gerardi, writer and critic who wrote the first version of the Caribe Pop manifesto.

Join University of Puerto Rico Film Professor Mary Leonard for a panel discussion with three of the Caribe Pop art movement movers and shakers: writer and founder Rey Andujar and filmmaker and founder Andrés Farías Cintrón from the Dominican Republic and writer and critic Nicolás Gerardi from Venezuela. We will discuss the Caribe Pop movement and Candela, the film Andrés made based on Rey’s novel of the same name. 

The film Candela will be shown on Thursday, October 27 at 7 pm at the Garfield Theater at 719 Race St. in Cincinnati. It is part of Jurakán, a film series on hurricanes, which is part of the Fotofocus Biennial program.