Human Resource Exploitation: A Family Album, 2020. Ramiro García | Elena Brokaw. Installation image by Mikayla Whitmore.

lena Brokaw and UNLV professor Dr. Erika Abad join Cuban writer Jorge Olivera Castillo and human rights defender Nancy Alfaya for an evening of conversation and poetry about the misuse of institutional language, the role of art, the impact of state terrorism, and the importance of being able to use one’s own language and voice. Brokaw is the creator of Human Resource Exploitation: A Family Album, a collaboration between herself and her late father, Ramiro García, an activist who was assassinated by the Guatemalan government in 1980. Castillo is the Black Mountain Institute’s current City of Asylum Fellow.

This event will be conducted mostly in Spanish. It will take place virtually on YouTube and Zoom from 5 – 7 pm on Thursday, October 21.

This event is made possible by the Black Mountain Institute, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Nevada Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by the WESTAF Regional Arts Resilience Fund, a relief grant developed in partnership with The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support arts organizations in the 13-state western region during the COVID-19 pandemic. Further assistance has been provided by the UNLV Jean Nidetch Care Center.