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children handed him aniPhone, “it was like Greekto me.” But Max taught himhow to find his way through emailand how to connect on FaceTime.
With Max’s help, Elena Rosner learnedto give orders to Siri, Mike Smith familiarizedhimself with Waze and Honey Rosen begansearching for information about movies, res-
W hen Sarah Wishnia received aniPad from her daughter, she“didn’t even know how toopen the thing.” Max Rosen-
blum showed her how to socialize on Face-book and how to shop on Amazon with hernew device.
When Sam Nevel’s children and grand-
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Max Rosenblumteaches Sarah Wishnia
how to use her iPadduring a one-on-one techtutorial at The Palace, aluxury senior communityin Coral Gables.
Who says you can’tteach an old dognew
tricks?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Teen offers one-on-one techtutorials for residents at The Palace atCoral Gables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Residents at the senior community havelearned to use FaceTime, Skype, Facebook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The 16-year-old has recruited other students andlaunched a website about his project.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
BY ANA [email protected]
TECHNOLOGY
But in Rosa Naday Gar-mendia’s new installation“Rituals of Commemora-tion,” built to resemble onesuch donor wall, the print-ed names include TrayvonMartin, Michael Brown,Freddie Gray and Sandra
Donor-recognition wallsemblazoned with thenames of patrons are fam-iliar to every art museum.
Bland, listed on red andbrown brick pavestonesabove the year they died.
Calling the brick wall a“tool for mourning” in anartist statement on herwebsite, Garmendia saysthe installation questionsthe “role of the police, actsof racism, poverty” in acountry that fails “to seethe value of African-Amer-ican life.”
Garmendia’s wall andother artworks about rac-
A photograph from Marietti Pathy Allen’s ‘Trans Cuba,’ part of the new ‘Intersectionality’group exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami.
Artists confront‘Intersectionality’.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
New exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art inNorth Miami tackles issues of bigotry, homophobia andsexism.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Opening follows horrific massacre at Orlando club Pulse .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
BY PHILLIP VALYSSun-Sentinel
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
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ry from pre-revolutionaryto present-day Cuba. It’s astory of love between LuisVargas, a writer from theisland, and Isabel Muñoz, afamous dancer.
Vargas, who grew up inthe idyllic town of Hersheywhere his father worked forthe giant chocolate maker,is involved in all kinds ofsituations while trying toraise his family in a con-temporary Havana wherewhat is most in abundanceis scarcity.
Sin Alas, the latest pro-duction by American filmdirector Ben Chace, willopen at O Cinema MiamiBeach on June 24.
The film takes the vieweron a journey through histo-
The entire cast of thefilm is made up of Cubanartists living on the island,among them Mario Limon-ta and Veronica Lynn,along with younger up-and-
coming artists like Yulisliei-vis Rodriguez and LieterLedezma.
Limonta, an award-win-ning actor, said he wasattracted to the project
because of the story lineand the fact that the direc-tor was American. The filmalso provided, “an excellentopportunity at a time ofrapprochement between
the two countries,” Limon-ta said in a recent inter-view.
For Chace, the film is anattempt to capture themulticultural nature of theCuban nation.
Sin Alas (Without Wings)is inspired by The Zahir, ashort story by Argentinewriter and poet Jorge LuisBorges.
With music by AruanOrtiz, an Afro-Cuban pian-ist based in New York, thefilm recreates differentrepresentative places of theCuban capital, includingthe Museum of the Revolu-tion (former PresidentialPalace), theaters and Hava-na churches and the townof Hershey, built in the ’30sby the Hershey Company.
The film will be availableon Amazon and iTunes.
A scene from‘Sin Alas.’Film takes a long
view of Cuba. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
‘Sin Alas’ opens Friday atO Cinema Miami Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
BY MARIO J. PENTÓ[email protected]
FILM
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taurants and books on hersmartphone.
Max is 16, a rising juniorat University School inDavie. His students areresidents of The Palace atCoral Gables,octogenarians fascinatedby technology and eager tolearn about this brave newfrontier.
“Max,” says Wishnia,“has opened a whole newworld to me.”
She can now receivetexts and photos from hergrandchildren scatteredaround the country, order aride on Lyft, purchasewalking shoes on Amazonand, as of just recently,synchronize her phonewith her iPad.
The seniors who gatherfor the monthly one-on-one sessions at The Palacelibrary echo Wishnia’senthusiasm — and appre-ciation — for a teenagerwho has become like anadopted grandson to them.Max’s weekend visits at thesenior community aremore than a social event.They’re a lifeline.
“Hardly a week goes bythat I don’t have a comput-er question,” Rosner said.“By the time he comes, Ihave a list this long to askhim.”
Max began offering histech tutorials for seniors atThe Palace and at ThePalms in Weston morethan a year ago, after hehelped his grandmother,Nancy Okun of New Jer-sey, with her iPhone, iPadand Apple watch. Hetaught her how to text anduse Facebook and Fac-eTime. He also download-ed a Scrabble app for her toplay.
“She loved it,” he said,not without a trace ofpride.
That experience inspiredhim and his parents, Adamand Heather. They reachedout to a connection at The
Palace at Coral Gables andlaunched a website,techmaxed.com. He alsorecruited other teens toteach the one-on-one les-sons in Weston and CoralGables, including studentsfrom Belen Jesuit Prep.
These young tech prosgo to the retirement com-munities at least once amonth, and the sign-upsheets for the one-on-onetutorials fill up fast.Though a class might ap-pear to be more expedient,Max found out that groupsessions simply didn’twork.
“People are at differentlevels, and it was hard toteach that way,” he said.“It’s much better to givethem individual help.”
All his students, regard-less of age or skill, aremotivated by the power oftechnology to connect.They want to stay in touch— and see — children andgreat-grandchildren wholive elsewhere. They comewith their notepads, lap-tops and smartphones inhopes of learning how totext, Skype, FaceTime,Facebook and email.
“Most people come morethan once,” he added. “Ihave my regulars.”
The hardest part of hisjob is when he’s unable tohelp a student — not be-cause they can’t learn orbecause he doesn’t havethe tech know-how butbecause the request is . . .well, a bit unusual. Oneprospective student wantedhelp investigating a stock-broker.
“I could show her how todo a search, but I couldn’tdo it for her,” he ex-plained.
The best part of givingup a weekend day? Watch-ing the pleasure someonegets when he or she sees afaraway relative on thescreen. “One womanhadn’t seen her sister in
years and she learned toSkype,” he recalled.“That was pretty nice.”
Max’s patience is leg-endary in the senior com-munity. “First he showedme how to get my emailon the phone,” Rosen, 88,said, “and then he wroteup a short step-by-steptutorial for me so I couldremember.”
Nevel, 85, observed: “Ithink there are very few15-year-olds who wouldhave the patience toteach us.”
Max admits that teach-ing older adults the in-tricacies of somethingthat comes naturally tohim has made him amore conscientious andpatient person, but hefigures he’s also paying itforward.
“Maybe when I’m 87and there’s new tech-nology,” he said, “some-body will teach me, too.”
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Max Rosenblum, 16, teaches Julius Wishnia how to use Google Chrome during a tutorial at The Palace in Coral Gables.PHOTOS BY MATIAS J. OCNER [email protected]
At left, MaxRosenblumteaches HoneyRosen tips andtricks for heriPhone,including how tosearch forinformationabout movies,restaurants andbooks. Below, healso helps ElenaRosner and MikeSmith learn howto better usetheirsmartphones.
Orlando shootings, youhave a clear example ofhow societies intersect,”Waufle says of last week-end’s mass shooting at thegay nightclub Pulse. “Youhave religion, political
inHavana: sitting on leathercouches, strolling theneighborhood. In one im-age, a barber is busy clip-ping a trans man’s high-topfade indoors, posters of
Conrad’s novel Heart ofDarkness. The piece callsto mind old-world coloni-alism and immigration,which is echoed in AnjaMarais’ installation TheCrossing, where nine pairsof adult and children’sdress shoes filled with dirtsit next to an out-of-focusphotograph of a muddycornfield.
Although Marais emi-grated from South Africaduring apartheid, theshoes evoke the currentSyrian refugee crisis,Haden says.
“When migrants arebeing forced out of theircountry to escape oppres-sion, they have to packyour belongings hastily.You leave with the shoeson your feet,” Hadensays. “It’s a dehumaniz-ing process, these jour-neys from one world toanother.”
“Intersectionality” isopen through Aug. 14 atthe Museum of Contempo-rary Art, North Miami,770 NE 125th St. A recep-tion will take place 7-9p.m. June 23. The show willclose Aug. 14. Admissioncosts $3-$5. Call 305-893-6211 or go toMocaNomi.org.