Hispanic In America Daisy Cedeno

Author Paz Ellis takes readers on a cross-cultural and trans-generational journey through her childhood in New Jersey to adulthood with Plantains and the Seven Plagues, A Memoir: Half-Dominican, Half-Cuban, and Full Life.Paz insightfully describes the complexities and contradictions of growing up in the United States to a Dominican mother and a Cuban father. From her mother’s obsessive cleaning rituals to her father’s remarkable knack for invention, this book beautifully explains what living a hyphenated-life means for so many Hispanics. She writes about what it means to be American, and Cuban, and Dominican, and having to be all of those things and only one of them… all at the same time.Following the passing of her mother, the author finds herself on a search for meaning through not only her past but also her mother’s. This book is about life, loss, memory, culture, and family, the glue that determines who your family actually is- love. Written with a healthy dose of wit and an abundance of sincerity, Plantains and the Seven Plagues is honest, painfully relatable, and deeply heartfelt.

Lucas Sanchez
TIMPANIST - PERCUSSIONIST - EDUCATOR
https://www.palmbeachsymphony.org/

Our guest
Vanessa Hornedo
the founder of
https://www.myhandsinspire.org/

https://www.fliff.com/
Since 1986, the Broward County Film Society has shared the beauty of independent cinema with South Florida through the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. More than 30 years later, The Film Society has leveraged the success of FLIFF to establish itself as one of five Major Cultural Institutions of Broward County. Read more about the history of FLIFF below.

Mr. Guillama is a nationally recognized expert in healthcare management and operations.
He is a prolific inventor with dozens of patents issued and pending from the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Mr. Guillama is the beneficiary of numerous awards of distinction, some of which are from the Lion's Club, Leukemia Society of America, Rotary Paul Harris Fellow, and American Diabetes Association. Mr. Guillama is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Birthing of Giants Entrepreneurial Leadership Program (1997 - 1999).

Mr. Guillama was born in Havana, Cuba and has been a resident of Palm Beach County, Florida for over forty years.

Enrique Chia is a Cuban-American pianist and prolific recording artist whose unique and organic playing style is rooted in the grand pre-revolutionary musical traditions of Cuba, and additionally in the Great American Songbook and sophisticated pop of his adopted homeland.
Enrique Chía – Una Tarde Para Recordar
October 13 @ 3:00 pm EDT
Telephone Number(s):(305) 547-5414 - General
https://www.miamidadecountyauditorium.org/event/enrique-chia-una-tarde-para-recordar/