{"id":5780,"date":"2026-01-08T11:26:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/?page_id=5780"},"modified":"2026-06-19T01:10:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T05:10:46","slug":"news-and-events-noticias-y-eventos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/?page_id=5780","title":{"rendered":"News and Events\/Noticias y eventos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-subtle-background-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center is-style-default has-larger-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2026 Events<\/span><\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-normal-font-size\">\n<li class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1\">June 6, 2026, 8 pm: <a href=\"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/?page_id=7834\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Poetry Reading and Project Presentation<\/strong><\/a> by Damaris Pu\u00f1ales-Alp\u00edzar and Luis Arturo Guichard, at Las Cavas del Champ\u00e1n, Salamanca, Spain. In collaboration with Colectivo Balumba.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2\">May 28, 2026, 6 pm: <a href=\"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/?page_id=7784\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Poes\u00eda itinerante_Spring 2026<\/strong><\/a>: The Root Cafe. Poetry reading and open mic. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3\">May 23, 2026, 7 pm: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/?page_id=7813\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bilingual reading of stories from Ulises Fidalgo&#8217;s short story collection Lo que sue\u00f1an las piedras<\/a><\/strong>, at Hexagon Books, 2184 Lee Rd, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118\/Lectura biling\u00fce del libro de cuentos What Stones Dream, de Ulises Fidalgo, en la librer\u00eda Hexagon, 2184 Lee Rd, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118\/Snacks and wine provided\/Picoteo y vino<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4\">April 21, 2026: <a href=\"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/?page_id=7369\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Taller de escritura creativa\/Creative Writing Workshop with Wendy Guerra at Case Western Reserve University<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5\">April 19, 2026: <a href=\"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/?page_id=7415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Printing Workshop<\/strong><\/a>, in collaboration with Future Ink Graphics.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6\">April 19-2026: <a href=\"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/?page_id=6998\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Taller de escritura creativa\/Creative Writing Workshop with Wendy Guerra at Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7\">April 18, 2026: <a href=\"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/?page_id=7032\"><strong>La costurera de Chanel<\/strong><\/a>, a conversation with author Wendy Guerra at the MLK Library, Cleveland, 3 pm, with Mabel Cuesta and Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00f3n Ruis\u00e1nchez<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8\">April 18, 2026: <a href=\"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/?page_id=7367\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Book signing and conversation with Wendy Guerra, Hexagon Books<\/strong><\/a>, Cleveland Heights, 7 pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-background-background-color has-background has-normal-font-size\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center alignwide has-alegreya-font-family has-larger-font-size has-custom-font wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-family:alegreya\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2025 Events<\/span><\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-background-background-color has-background has-normal-font-size\">\n<li class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/?page_id=6943\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/?page_id=6943\">Nov. 10, 2025: <strong>Poetry<\/strong> reading and presentation of the Trasatl\u00e1ntica Project, with members of the Board of Directors.&nbsp;<em>El \u00faltimo encuentro<\/em> bookstore in Mexico City.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oct. 27, 2025: <strong>Poetry<\/strong> reading and presentation of the Trasatl\u00e1ntica Project. Poetry publishers and editors round panel. 20<sup>th<\/sup>anniversary of the Chilango-Andaluz International Festival in Seville, Spain.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/?page_id=6795\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/?page_id=6795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oct. 23, 2025: <strong>Poetry<\/strong> reading&nbsp;and presentation of the Trasatl\u00e1ntica Project.&nbsp;<em>Las Perras&nbsp;<\/em>Caf\u00e9, Houston, Texas.&nbsp;<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-11\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/?page_id=6769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sept. 30, 2025:&nbsp;<strong>Presentation of the book<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>Otro necio\u2014Memorias subversivas<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;(Quito: Grado Cero Editores, 2025) by Ecuadorian journalist and writer Orlando Perez.&nbsp;Casa de M\u00e9xico in Madrid.&nbsp;Damaris Pu\u00f1ales Alp\u00edzar and Margarita Guerrero Calder\u00f3n, General Director of the Youth Institute of the central government of Spain.&nbsp;In collaboration with Plataforma PLACA and the Consulate of Mexico in Spain.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-12\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/?page_id=5280\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">June 13-15, 2025<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/?page_id=5280\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>First Transatlantic Poetry Festival<\/strong>, Zamora<\/a>, Spain.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-13\">April 18, 2025: <strong>Poetry<\/strong> for Hope, in collaboration with Case Western Reserve University: International Poetry Reading, with poets from Cuba, Mexico, Spain,&nbsp;China, Chile, Taiwan, Ukraine, France, Israel, the United States, and Korea.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-14\">April 11, 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/?page_id=3893\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Poetry:<\/strong> Poes\u00eda por la esperanza<\/a> (online), con:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Coral Bracho<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Luis Antonio de Villena<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Odette Alonso<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ben Clark<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Homenaje a la poeta y activista social Marjorie Agos\u00edn<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bilingual reading with the poets by Michael Gill, Jacqueline Nanfito, and Lauren Lagnemma<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-15\">April 9, 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/?page_id=4095\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Films: <\/strong>Cuban Cinema: Against All Odds<\/a>. 7:00 pm (EST) at the Cinematheque, Cleveland\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-16\">Screening of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/cinematheque.cia.edu\/showtimes\/ya-no-es-antes-4-9-25-700-pm\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/cinematheque.cia.edu\/showtimes\/ya-no-es-antes-4-9-25-700-pm\/\">Ya no es antes<\/a><\/em> -Cuban movie directed by Lester Hamlet, and a discussion with leading actor Luis Alberto Garc\u00eda, and cinema critic Juan Antonio Garc\u00eda Borrero<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-17\">April 1, 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/?page_id=3927\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Theater:<\/strong> La isla de memoria\/The Island by Heart<\/a>. 5:00 pm (EST) at the Eldred Auditorium, Cleveland:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A two-fold event led by novelist, playwright and poet Atilio Caballero. A talk by Atilio Caballero about his literary and play work. A performance directed by Raul Duran, based on Caballero&#8217;s novel La \u00faltima playa\/The Last Beach, with actors Adnaloy Perez and Fernando Ramos. Scenography by Camillo Villalvilla<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<!-- PMB print buttons is only displayed on a single post\/page URLs-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026 Events: 2025 Events:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33188029,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_wpcom_ai_launchpad_about_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_gallery_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_contact_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_events_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_video_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_portfolio_piece":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5780","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2V8if-1ve","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7032,"url":"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/?page_id=7032","url_meta":{"origin":5780,"position":0},"title":"La costurera de Chanel","author":"Soviet Cuba: Identities in Transition","date":"February 21, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Cuban author Wendy Guerra will present her last novel, La costurera de Chanel\/Chanel's Seamstress, on Saturday, April 18, 2026, in two different events and venues, organized in collaboration: -The Baker Nord Institute for the Humanities, CWRU -Cuyahoga Public Libraries System -Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, CWRU -Alianza Latina\/Latin Alliance,\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trasatlantica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_9626.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trasatlantica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_9626.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trasatlantica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_9626.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trasatlantica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_9626.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trasatlantica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_9626.jpg?resize=1050%2C600 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trasatlantica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_9626.jpg?resize=1400%2C800 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7834,"url":"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/?page_id=7834","url_meta":{"origin":5780,"position":1},"title":"Lectura Po\u00e9tica, Salamanca","author":"Soviet Cuba: Identities in Transition","date":"June 19, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"On June 6, 2026, the poetic group Colectivo Balumba invited Trasatl\u00e1ntica president and vice-president, Damaris Pu\u00f1ales-Alp\u00edzar and Luis Arturo Guichard to present the transatlantic poetry project to poets and local community in Salamanca, Spain. 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