Performance artist and BAI Professor of the Practice Coco Fusco leads a panel discussion entitled Independent Culture in Cuba Today: A Challenge for the Makers and a Challenge to the State. Joining her to examine Cuban art, culture and politics is journalist and writer Carlos Manuel Álvarez, feature and documentary filmmaker Miguel Coyula Aquino, trans-disciplinary artist and social researcher Henry Eric Hernández, and actor, director and playwright Lynn Cruz.

The panel will take place on Thursday, Oct 17 at 5:30 pm in Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts (154 Angell St., Providence, RI 02906). The event is FREE and open to the public. RSVP at arts.brown.edu; standby admission at the door. Presented by Brown Arts Initiative.