Experience an immersive evening celebrating Cuban-American artist and storyteller Edel Rodriguez, where graphic art, live performance and film come together. The program centers on "Worm", Rodriguez’s first graphic novel and a personal political memoir. Actors will bring the book to life with live readings and staged performance. The evening also features a screening of the […]

When Fidel Castro opened the Mariel harbor to let Cubans sail for America, Edel Rodriguez and his family took their chance. From the town of El Gabriel to the Mariel port to a rickety shrimping boat bound for Florida, they joined the 1980 boatlift, becoming “worms,” as Castro called the departing Cubans. Years later, Rodriguez […]