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- 2009 NC Latin American Film Festival
Christine A. Contreras, 2009/10/19 15:59:53
feature length movies, documentaries, animation, short movies, and video art from the Americas. November 1-22.
From November 1 to 22, Durham, Chapel Hill, Raleigh and Greensboro will enjoy feature length movies, documentaries, animation, short movies, and video art from the Americas. This year the festival presents films from twelve countries (for the first time films from North America, Central and South America and Caribbean) and will enjoy the presence of eleven film makers who will introduce their films and talk about their experiences of working in the region.
The 23rd NC Latin American Film Festival (which started in 1986) is organized by the Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University, a multidisciplinary and open institution that brings attention to the Cultures of these regions. Under the artistic direction of Miguel Rojas-Sotelo (for a second year), the Festival is gaining ground on community exchange and participation throughout the Americas.
All Festival activities are FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Save the dates and be ready to experience a visual and cultural immersion in the stories of the Americas.
For more info: http://latinfilmfestivalnc.com/
Festival trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De_h4_dt9gU - Exploring Conservation in Latin America
Antonio M. Arce, 2009/11/19 15:04:15
Current teaching resources and curriculum for 6-12 science classes. more info - Spring 2010 Course Highlights
Antonio M. Arce, 2009/10/22 17:21:36
more info - Fall 2009 at Duke: Soccer Politics
Christine A. Contreras, 2009/10/12 16:19:26
Laurent Dubois presents a series exploring the power of the global game. All events are free and open to the public. http://soccerpolitics.com/ - Thursday, October 15, 5:00 - 6:30 pm, Reading by Chilean ambassador to the UN, Heraldo Muñoz
Christine A. Contreras, 2009/10/12 16:13:37
Reading from The dictator's Shadow: Life Under Pinochet by Ambassador Heraldo Muñoz, winner of the 2009 WOLA/Duke book Award. Rare Books Room, Perkins Library. http://library.duke.edu/news/main/2009/article90.html - Wednesday, October 14, 12:00 - 1:00 pm DukeEngage Chile: Lessons from Urban Volunteers and Micro-Entrepreneurs
Christine A. Contreras, 2009/10/12 16:21:01
featuring students who participated in the program in Santiago, Chile. Room 240 Franklin Center. - The Sea is History: Moun Kante, Yoleros, Balseros, Boteros
Antonio M. Arce, 2009/05/15 11:09:39
Caribbean artists represent the struggles of boat people trying to reach the United States. Franklin Center 1st Floor Gallery. more info - Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City
Antonio M. Arce, 2009/05/15 11:14:18
Recent work by artists living and working in Mexico City embracing non-traditional forms such as video, photography, intallation art and performance. Nasher Museum Jan.15-July 7,2009. more info - Saturday April 25 7:00 pm Celebration of the music of Brazilian composer and Mellon Visiting Artist in Residence Sergio Roberto de Oliveira
Antonio M. Arce, 2009/05/15 10:39:18
Featuring performances by: Ciompi Quartet, Jane Hawkins, Susan Fancher, Tom Moore
including pieces commissioned by these musicians and composed by Sergio Roberto de Oliveira while in residence at Duke. The concert will be held in the Nelson Music Room in the East Duke Building on Duke's East Campus. Free and open to the public. - Thursday April 16, 2:00-5:30 pm The Sea is History: Moun Kante, Yoleros, Balseros, Boteros
Antonio M. Arce, 2009/05/15 10:39:01
A Symposium on Human Dispersion and the Caribbean Sea featuring presentations by Haitian artist Edouard Duval-Carrie and Duke faculty Srinivas Aravamudan, Laurent Dubois, Michaeline Crichlow, Deborah Jenson, and Holly Ackerman. The event will be held in Room 240 Franklin Center on the Duke campus. See the Web site http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/gallery/upcoming.php for more information about the symposium. - Wednesday April 15, 12:00 pm Miguel Rojas-Sotelo speaking on The Havana Biennale
Antonio M. Arce, 2009/05/15 10:38:51
as part of the Wednesdays at the Center Series at the Franklin Center. Dr. Rojas-Sotelo will present "The Other Network: The Havana Biennale & the Global South (1984-2009) in Room 240 Franklin Center on the Duke campus. Lunch will be provided. Since 1984, the Havana Biennale has been known as "the Tri-continental art event," presenting artists from America (Latin, Latino/a, and Caribbean), Africa, and Asia. The presentation proposes that at the heart of the Biennale has been an alternative cosmopolitan modernism (that we might call "contemporary" or "post-colonial") that was envisaged by a group of local cultural agents, critics, philosophers, art historians, and also supported by a network of peers around the world. Using the Havana Biennale as a case study, this work goes to disentangle and reveal the socio-political and intellectual debates taking place in the conformation of what is called today global art. - Djembe and Afro-Cuban Ensembles
Danielle W. Johns, 2008/11/19 16:17:54
Director: Bradley Simmons, with Monti Ellison. Free Admission. Friday, November 21, 8pm. Baldwin Auditorium.
Bradley Simmons, a native of New York City, began playing Afro-Cuban and African percussion when he was 9 years old. Throughout his teenage years he worked to enhance his knowledge of Haitian, Cuban and African percussion, becoming a sought after Conguero and shekere player for community and religious events. He has done several on and off Broadway plays and performed at nightclubs with artists including Eartha Kitt, and Gregory and Maurice Hines. Simmons has also appeared on Television including the Mike Douglas Show and the Cerebral Palsy Telethon. He directed his own show "Cultural Journey: The Elements of Percussion" in 1990 at the National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta and again in 1996, in Durham, NC. Simmons has taught throughout the United States and is currently a Musical Director at Duke University, teaching West African Music and History, focusing on djembe, songba, djun-djun and kenkeni. Off campus he teaches classes on Afro-Cuban percussion and is the leader of the percussion ensemble, Elements of Percussion that tours both locally and nationally.
As a teenager, Monti Ellison trained as a dancer and then an actor through HARYOU-ACT (also known as Harlem Youth Opportunities Limited). He credits Bradley Simmons as serving as being an encouraging influence as he was first emerging as a young performer. During a fifteen year tenure with
The Alvin Ailey School , Ellison served as head musician. His reputation at the Ailey School won the attention of musical greats such as Harry Belafonte, for whom Ellison performed as a featured soloist, and Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul (headed by Steven Van Zandt, guitarist with Bruce Springsteen), with whom Ellison toured internationally for several years. Currently, Ellison teaches several dance and drumming classes for Loyola Marymount University, CSU-Long Beach, Orange County College and St Josephs Ballet. He continues performing professionally with groups like Rhapsody in Taps , an organization founded by his wife to honor the tradition of tap dance.
more info - Entre los Muertos/Among Death
Danielle W. Johns, 2008/11/19 15:07:03
Final film of the 22nd annual Latin American Film Festival. Friday, November 21, 7pm. UNC-Chapel Hill - Nelson Mandela Audiorium, Fedex Global Education Center.
Cuba/El Salvador, 2004. Director: Jorge Dalton.
Introduced by the director.
This film chronicles the cultural approaches to the familiar presence of death in El Salvador, presenting it not merely as a celebration, but also as an aspect of Salvadoran life that even advances the country's economy.
57 min. Spanish with English subtitles.
Reception to follow.
more info - Video Art from Latin America
Danielle W. Johns, 2008/11/19 15:06:50
Viewing of select documentaries. Thursday, November 20, 7pm. Richard White Auditorium. Part of the 22nd annual Latin American Film Festival.
"Bocas de Ceniza" - Columbia. Director: Juan M Echavarria.
"Street is a Mutha" - Canada & Street is a Mutha 2 - Colombia. Coordinators/Producers: Jorge Lozano and Guillermina Buzio.
"Cuando Yo Sonaba un Mundo al Reves/When I Dreamed a World Up Side Down" - Cuba/El Salvador. Director: Jorge Dalton.
"Terminal" - Chile/USA. Director: Andres Tapia-Urzua.
"Water/Sea of Words/February" - Palestine, Colombia, Canada. Director: Julieta Maria.
more info - April 24, 2008 - "Tertulias" Series Continues
Patricia N. Escamilla, 2008/04/15 11:00:13
Thurs., April 24, 4:30 - 6:00 pm Room 028 Franklin Center, with Dr. Dennis Clements. The "tertulias" provide a forum for Duke faculty and students to discuss their work related to Latin America and the Caribbean in an informal setting. This week's speakers are Dr. Dennis Clements (Duke Children's Primary Care and Duke Global Health Institute) and students in the "Exploring Medicine in Foreign Cultures" class. Refreshments will be served. After 4:00 pm parking is available free of charge behind the Marshall Pickens Health Clinic at the corner of Erwin Road and Trent Drive, across the street from the Franklin Center. Please Contact: Natalie Hartman njh@duke.edu for more information. - April 21, 2008 - Paul Farmer to Give Global Health Lecture
Patricia N. Escamilla, 2008/04/15 11:06:08
Monday, April 21, 6:30-8:00pm Page Auditorium Farmer is the founding director of Partners in Health (PIH), a Boston-based charitable organization dedicated to providing direct health care services and undertakes research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty. PIH, whose work began in Haiti, has expanded its reach to include Lesotho, Malawi, Peru, Russia, Rwanda, and the USA, with support to projects in Mexico and Guatemala. Please Contact: Rosa Solorzano (919) 684-9334 rosa.solorzano@duke.edu for more information. - April 18, 2008 - Workshop on Agenda Setting in Latin America: Executive-Legislative Relations in Comparative Perspective
Patricia N. Escamilla, 2008/04/03 09:52:09
April 18th,9:00am-1:00pm Room 130-132 John Hope Franklin Center. Organized by Mellon Visiting Professor Patricio Valdivieso. This workshop for scholars and graduate students is intended to develop a collective research agenda about executive-legislative politics in Latin America. It will include guest speakers:Eduardo Aleman (Dept. of Political Science, University of Houston), Scott Morgenstern (Dept. of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh), and Peter Siavelis (Dept. of Political Science, Wake Forest University). Contact Patricio Valdivieso pv15@duke.edu for more information. - April 17, 2008 - "Tertulias" Series Continues
Patricia N. Escamilla, 2008/04/03 09:42:42
April 17th 4:30-6:00pm Room 028 John Hope Franklin Center with speaker Enver Casimir. "Tertulias" provide a forum for Duke faculty and students to discuss their work related to Latin America and the Caribbean in an informal setting. The topic for this meeting is "Kid chocolate, the Golden Age of Boxing and the Origins of the close link between Sports and Cuban Nationalism." - Legal Risks & Business Opportunities in Latin America
Antonio M. Arce, 2008/04/08 13:33:35
April 4th, 2008 symposium organized by the Latin American Business and Law Association! more info - Festival on the Hill: Latin American and Latino Music in NC and the U.S.
Antonio M. Arce, 2008/03/27 16:11:06
March 27-30: UNC-CH Music Department hosts a festival celebrating the contributions of Latin American music and culture to the United States. more info - "The Stench of Success: Anchovies, protein politics, and the making of a fishmeal empire in Peru and Chile, 1950-2000"
Antonio M. Arce, 2008/03/28 10:08:00
Tertulia Thurs. March 27, 4:30-6:00pm Room 028 Franklin Center. Kristin Wintersteen (PhD candidate, Duke History) more info
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