MIAMI, FL — January 30, 2025 — (NOTICIAS NEWSWIRE) — The College of Miami Libraries Cuban Heritage Assortment is internet hosting a Q&A and pop-up picture show for the e-book launch of “Surreal Cuba” with photographer, writer, and famous media entrepreneur Manny Ruiz on February 19 (RSVP here). The occasion will happen on the Roberto C. Goizueta Pavilion of Otto G. Richter Library 1300 Memorial Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146.
Ruiz’s groundbreaking picture e-book, which options interactive QR codes that hyperlink to the riveting backstories behind the photographs, captures the haunting essence of life throughout Revolutionary Cuba’s “Particular Interval” (1993–1994). Ruiz was simply 23 years previous when he launched into the award-winning documentary pictures venture, which is partially archived within the collections of the College of Miami Libraries, and which final 12 months impressed the globally acclaimed Bistec podcast sequence.
In the course of the Q & A mixer, Ruiz will share the fascinating tales behind a few of his most iconic images, replicate on the inventive course of that spanned a long time, and focus on the legacy “Surreal Cuba” holds for the island and the diaspora.
Go to the Cuban Heritage Assortment on Feb. 19 for the chance to fulfill the artist, discover his evocative pictures, and have interaction in a dialog about artwork, historical past, and exile. Gentle refreshments shall be served.
Occasion highlights:
- Pictures show: View choices from “Surreal Cuba”
- Guide launch: Discover the interactive publication firsthand
- Q & A with Manny Ruiz: Acquire insights into the images, tales, and inspiration behind the venture
- Networking mixer: Join with fellow artwork and historical past lovers
About Manny Ruiz
Manny Ruiz is the co-founder of the leisure and media tech firm Brilla Media Ventures, and the Chief Content material Officer and Govt Producer of the model’s two flagships, Minivela and Nuestro Tales.
Throughout his greater than 30 years within the U.S. Hispanic media, advertising and marketing, filmmaking, and journalism industries, Ruiz has cultivated a status for storytelling and media improvements which have resulted within the sale of his two earlier media ventures, Hispanicize and Hispanic PR Wire.
Throughout his profession, Ruiz has been awarded the keys to the Metropolis of Miami and has received each main award within the public relations business, together with the PRWeek Marketing campaign of the 12 months (“fact”), the Silver Anvil, and the Hispanic Public Relations Affiliation Skilled of the 12 months Award. In 1992, throughout his profession as a print reporter, Ruiz was a co-recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Neighborhood Journalism.
Born in Miami of Cuban descent, Ruiz has a Bachelor of Arts diploma in historical past from Florida Worldwide College.
Concerning the Cuban Heritage Assortment
The Cuban Heritage Assortment on the College of Miami Libraries is dwelling to the most important repository of supplies on Cuba outdoors of the island and essentially the most complete assortment of assets about Cuban exile historical past and the worldwide Cuban diaspora expertise.
As a premier analysis vacation spot, the gathering hosts researchers, college students, and guests from all over the world who can discover and uncover a large and ever-expanding vary of data. These supplies embrace revealed works resembling uncommon and modern books, journals, artists books, and newspapers, in addition to archival supplies together with private papers, organizational data, correspondence, manuscripts, images, maps, works on paper, audiovisual content material, ephemera, and rising born-digital and digitized collections. The gathering organizes a calendar of occasions and programming and curates exhibitions that showcase the richness of the repository. The span of the College of Miami Libraries’ Cuban Heritage Assortment reinforces the College’s hemispheric mission and dedication to a unbroken relationship with its neighbors.
