AN EVENING WITH LÁZARO GONZÁLEZ - JUNE 25 2026
Artículo 20 is excited to invite you to an evening of film and conversation with Cuban filmmaker Lázaro González on Thursday, June 25 at 7:00 PM at Studio Anselm Dastner (618 East 9th Street, New York).
The night kicks off with a screening of Parole and the proof of concept cut of Sexilio (Sexile), followed by a conversation with González and acclaimed scholar Jacqueline Loss – an intimate discussion between one of Cuba’s first openly queer filmmakers and a leading voice in Cuban and Latin American academia. Together they will explore themes of erasure, the Cuban LGBTQ+ experience especially in the context of the Mariel Boatlift, and the rise of a new generation of queer Cuban artists. For questions, please contact Terrence Levens (terrence@articulo20.art). We hope to see you there
For questions, please contact Terrence Levens at [terrence@articulo20.art]. We hope to see you there on Thursday, June 25.
Lázaro González
Lázaro J. González is an award-winning filmmaker, curator, and educator whose work explores queer cinema, nonfiction storytelling, diaspora, post-memory, and Latin American and Caribbean cultural production. A Ph.D. candidate in Film & Media at the University of California, Berkeley, his scholarship and creative practice center on building counterarchives of sexual exile (“sexile”).
His films have screened at major festivals and institutions in Havana, Barcelona, Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Paris. Parole received the Best Short Film award at the Yale Latino and Iberian Film Festival (2025), while Villa Rosa won Best Documentary at the same festival (2018) and the Audience Award at the Barcelona International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (2017).
Committed to championing independent and stateless cinema, González has curated film series for the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) and has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Northwestern, UCLA, the University of Edinburgh, and Concordia University. He is a co-founder of Encuadre, Cuba’s independent audiovisual production network, and an alumnus of the Sundance Institute Documentary Workshop and the International School of Film and Television (EICTV) in Cuba.
Jacqueline Loss
Jacqueline Loss is a scholar of Latin American literature, culture, and visual arts who teaches Latin American and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Connecticut. Her acclaimed books include Dreaming in Russian: The Cuban Soviet Imaginary (2013) and Cosmopolitanisms and Latin America: Against the Destiny of Place (2005), and she has co-edited several influential volumes on Cuban literature and culture.
A prolific translator and critic, Loss has introduced the work of leading Cuban writers to English-language audiences, while her essays have appeared in Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Bomb, Asymptote, and other major publications. She also curated Selected Pages (2022), featuring Cuban artist Gertrudis Rivalta, and is currently completing FINOTYPE, a documentary created with Cuban photographer and filmmaker Juan Carlos Alom.
A NIGHT WITH ACHY OBEJAS - JUNE 18 2026
Articulo 20 is excited to share an inspiring evening of literature, conversation and cultural reflection with acclaimed Cuban-American writer Achy Obejas on Thursday, June 18 at 7:00 PM at Studio Anselm Dastner (618 East 9th Street, New York, NY 10009). Obejas will present selections from her latest collection of poetry before joining renowned Caribbean scholar Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann for a thought-provoking discussion exploring gender, identity and the evolving Cuban experience.
This intimate evening with one of the most influential voices in Cuban-American literature and a leading scholar of Latinx studies promises a compelling dialogue at the intersection of art, history and identity. Please email Terrence Levens (terrence@articulo20.art) should you have any questions about the event. Looking forward to welcoming you all to the gallery again this Thursday!
Achy Obejas
Poet, novelist, journalist translator, and teach Achy Obejas was born in Havana Cuba, before immigrating to the United States alongside her family during the Cuban Revolution when she was six years old. She is the author of several highly acclaimed collections of poetry and novels. Obejas has translated the work of Wendy Guerra, Rita Indiana, Junot Díaz, and Megan Maxwell, among others, and is an accomplished journalist having worked at the Chicago Tribune for more than 10 years. Her articles have also been featured in a variety of publications including Village Voice, Vogue, and the Nation. She is the recipient of a USA Artists fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Cintas fellowship, among other awards.
Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann
Hailing from Miami, Florida and San Antonio, Texas, Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann is a second-generation immigrant of Cuban, Colombian, and Jewish descent. A writer, transdisciplinary scholar, and a translator, Seligmann holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Brown University. In addition to teaching courses in Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latinx Studies at UCONN, Seligmann is an affiliated researcher of the Aimé Césaire research group of the Francophone Manuscripts Team at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. Seligmann’s research and writing has been supported by funding from the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship and Mellon Mays SSRC Graduate Program, the Ford Foundation, the Tinker Foundation, the Goizueta Foundation, and the Citizens and Scholars Institute.