Meet the Author Event. “Capitalism, God, And A Good Cigar: Cuba Enters The Twent

Who: Lydia Chavez, Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Journalism and Chair of the Executive Committee for the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley; editor of Capitalism, God and a Good Cigar
Mimi Chakarova, Documentary Photographer; Lecturer, Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University's African and African American Studies and Comparative Studies for Race and Ethnicity Julian Foley, Freelance Journalist
Annelise Wunderlich, Documentary Filmmaker
What: Meet the Author Event. “Capitalism, God, And A Good Cigar: Cuba Enters The Twenty-First Century.”
Event: What it is like to have lived for more than a decade suspended between communism and capitalism in Cuba? Following the collapse of Soviet communism, Fidel Castro legalized the dollar, opened the island of Cuba to tourism, and allowed foreign investment. In Capitalism, God, and a Good Cigar, journalists, writers, and documentary filmmakers describe what these changes, implemented since the early 1990s, have meant for ordinary Cubans. The book's contributing writers and photographer will present an intimate account of life in Cuba today.
When: Monday, Sept. 12; check-in: 5:30 PM, program: 6:00 PM
Where: World Affairs Council, 312 Sutter St., 2nd Floor Conference Room, San Francisco
Admission Costs: Members: FREE; Students w/ ID: $5; Non-members: $15; Co-sponsors: $7
Info: (415) 293-4600, http://www.itsyourworld.org