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jueves, 28 de octubre de 2010
Fw: Global Beats has Gypsy, Cuban and Salsa events!
NEXT WEEK!!! A Talk by María Velez de Berliner, PhD
The Center for Latin American Studies
presents
Implications of the Election of
Juan Manuel Santos for Colombia,
the Andean Region, and South America
a public lecture by
María Velez de Berliner, PhD
(President, Latin Intelligence Corporation)
Date: Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Time: 12:00 (noon) – 1:30 p.m.
Location: 4130 W. W. Posvar Hall, Univ. of Pittsburgh
For further information please contact clas@pitt.edu
Pizza and refreshments will be served
Maria Velez de Berliner is President of Latin Intelligence Corporation, a US-owned OSINT consulting firm that delivers actionable and verifiable intelligence analyses and assessments of security risks in the political, economic, social, cultural, and security and military environments that affect U.S. business performance and U.S. government policy outcomes in Latin America, and in relation to the expansion activities of China, India, Russia, and the Middle East, particularly Iran, into Latin America. Born in Colombia she became a USA citizen in 1977.
She is an expert on transnational terrorist, criminal, drug trafficking, and human trafficking organizations and on internally displaced persons in Latin America, with special emphasis on Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, and Venezuela. Her analyses appear in The Harvard Business Review Brasil; The Harvard Business Review América Latina; The Latin America Advisor; and Transnational Organized Crime (London). She was the featured analyst on India in Latin America on Bloomberg Reporte Financiero. She is quoted in publications around the globe and lectures in the US and internationally. In 2002, the Governor of Pennsylvania named her one of Pennsylvania's Best 50 Women in Business.
lunes, 25 de octubre de 2010
FW: Star of the Buena Vista Social Club at the Byham - Nov. 7
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The legendary female star of “The Buena Vista Social Club,” Omara Portuondo has had an extraordinary singing career that spans six decades.
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domingo, 24 de octubre de 2010
HavanYork: TUESDAY: talk discussion // WEDNESDAY: screening
Amigos del Cine Latinoamericano extends a very cordial invitation to these two unique events:
Tuesday, October 26
HavanYork: talk discussion with director
"The making of the film HavanYork: African diaspora, colonialism and the birth of the hip-hop movement in New York and Havana in a comparative perspective," a public talk by Luciano Larobina (Film Director of HavanYork)
Extra-bonus: Soandry the East of Havana's film star will participate in the discussion
Date and Time: Tuesday October 26, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Room 4130 Posvar Hall, University of Pittsburgh, Oakland Campus
Free & Open to the Public ** Pizza & drinks provided**
"Havanyork"(Dir. Luciano Larobina. Mexico, 2009) is an imaginary–borderless space where a dialogue connects two worlds which explores the evolution of two parallel realities in a common artistic movement: hip hop. Luciano Larobina's documentary achievement resides in the comparative perspective he makes from New York to Havana. One of the most interesting contributions of the film resides in the interviews collected from 70's and 80's founders of the New York hip hop movement like The Fantastic Aleems, DJ Tony Tone from the "Wild Style" movement, The Last Poets, Dani Hoch, Afrika Bamabata, and others, as well as the reflection Cuban hip hop musicians make on their own work particularly on the concept of revolution.
Wednesday October 27
HavanYork: Screening INTRODUCTION BY DIRECTOR lUCIANO LAROBINA followed by Q&A
Date and Time: Wednesday October 27, 2010 Reception at 6:00 / Film at 6.30 p.m.
Location: Frick Arts Auditorium, University of Pittsburgh, Oakland Campus
Free & Open to the Public ** Appetizers & drinks provided**
Synopsis:
The rebellious and contestatory discourse of the musicians portrayed in HavanaYork invites us to reflect on counterculture and the parallel realities that arise in every government system. The dreams, the family, the barrio, the city, life, war, and politics are some of the themes that permeate their music and nourish the film's message. The camera portrays, with a participatory vision, the reflections that the musicians of both cities have expressed in relation to their roots, the evolution of the drum, and to the soul of Hip Hop. More info: www.havanyork.com
About the Director:
Luciano Larobina (1972) was born in Patagonia, Argentina but lives in Mexico DF. He studied film direction at the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba and has recently received numerous recognitions for his film HavanYork.
For more information:
amigoscinelatinoamericano@gmail.com and http://amigosdelcinelatinoamericano.blogspot.com
Sponsored by University of Pittsburgh's Center for Latin American Studies and The Friends of Latin American Cinema/ Amigos del Cine Latinoamericano Film Series 2010
lunes, 18 de octubre de 2010
Thursday EAST OF HAVANA at the Mattress Factory
Screening of the Film "East of Havana" at the Mattress Factory with director Jauretsi Saizarbitoria
DOORS OPEN AT 6PM, INTRODUCTION BY DIRECTOR, FILM AT 7PM FOLLOWED BY Q&A, CONVERSATION AND DEBATE
FREE
Directors: Emilia Menocal, Jauretsi Saizarbitoria
Written and directed by Jauretsi Saizarbitoria and Emilia Menocal, East of Havana is a close-up look at the lives of three young rappers compelled to address their generation's future from the confines of a Cuban ghetto.
Soandry is one of the film's stars. The film, which focuses on Soandry and two other underground Cuban hip-hop artists, has been deemed "A vital look at Cuba's tenaciously grassroots hip-hop scene" and that "For the youth in the film, music doesn't just have a purpose, it is a purpose, and the artists find in hip-hop a 'mental freedom.' "
Location: Mattress Factory, 500 Sampsonia Way, North Side
Soandry's debut performance in the U.S. on October 23
Soandry will be performing for the first time in the United States at the New Hazlett Theater on Saturday, October 23, 2010. Don't miss this rare opportunity to learn the stories of the struggles and the triumphs of a Cuban rapper.
Known for being a passionate free-thinker who shares the realities of life in Cuba, Soandry, is a leader of the hip-hop scene in Havana. He shares a distinct socially conscious rap ethic that is uncommon in Cuba. His unabashed criticism of the Cuban government is audacious.
Time: 8:00pm
Location: New Hazlett Theater, Allegheny Square East
Mattress Factory Calendar: http://www.mattress.org/index.cfm?event=Events
jueves, 14 de octubre de 2010
Upcoming October Latino Heritage Month Events
Upcoming October Latino Heritage Month Events
Thursday, October 21
Latinos En Pittsburgh
Diversity Dialogue & Reception
5 pm
Mudge House Piano Room
Join the members of the CMU Hispanic Alumni Association, campus organizations and the Pittsburgh community in a conversation about the Latino community in Pittsburgh. This is a great networking opportunity for all students, faculty and staff.
Migration and Interculturality
George Yudice, Thursday, November 4, 2010
4:30pm, Porter Hall 100 (Gregg Hall)
Dr. George Yudice, Professor of Modern Languages, University of Miami, received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1977. He was recently Director of the Title VI Center for Latin American Studies at New York University. His research interests include cultural policy; globalization and transnational processes; the organization of civil society; the role of intellectuals, artists and activists in national and transnational institutions; comparison of diverse national constructions of race and ethnicity; contemporary Central America.
He is the author of Vicente Huidobro y la motivación del lenguaje poético (Buenos Aires, 1977); Cultural Policy, co-authored with Toby Miller (Sage Publications, 2002); The Expediency of Culture (Duke UP, 2004). He has in press Música, tecnología y experiencia (for Editorial Gedisa, 2007), and Cultura y política cultural en América Central: 1990 a 2007 (for Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica). He is also co-editor (with Jean Franco and Juan Flores) of On Edge: The Crisis of Contemporary Latin American Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 1992) and co-editor of the "Cultural Studies of the Americas" book series with the University of Minnesota Press. He has done consultancies for the U.S.-Mexico Fund for Culture; the Mexican President's Council for Culture and Art; the Associação Internacional Arte Sem Fronteiras-São Paulo; UNESCO; the Asociación Cultural InCorpore, Costa Rica; the Costa Rican Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport; the Salvadoran President's Council for Culture and Art; the UNDP, El Salvador; and several other organizations. He has been an editor of the journal Social Text and is currently an advisory editor for Cultural Studies, Found Object, and Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies.
Co-sponsored by the Literary and Cultural Studies Colloquium of the Department of English
Sunday, November 7, 2010 at 7 pm at Byham Theater
Legendary Havana singing sensation Omara Portuondo gained international acclaim as the female star of "The Buena Vista Social Club". She has had an extraordinary career, from her early work as a dancer in the famed Cabaret Tropicana to her lush vocal styling for the Cuarteto d'Aida and Orquesta Aragon. Don't miss this rare opportunity to witness of one of Cuba's greatest musical ambassadors. Visit www.pgharts.org for more information about the event.
Past Events in September/early October
Noche Latina
Saturday, September 25, 2010
9 pm to Midnight
University Center, Wean Commons
Sponsored by CMARC, UC Late Night and Student Affairs
The Humanities Center Lectures, 2010-11:
Identities in Conflict: The Recognition of Migrants
Constructing Latinos as a Threat to the Nation
Leo Chavez, Tuesday, September 28, 2010
4:30pm, Porter Hall 100 (Gregg Hall)
Professor Chavez's research examines various issues related to transnational migration, including immigrant families and households, labor market participation, motivations for migration, the use of medical services, and media constructions of "immigrant" and "nation." His books include Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1992, 1997 2nd edition), which provides an ethnographic account of Mexican and Central American undocumented immigrants in San Diego County, California. Covering Immigration: Popular Images and the Politics of the Nation (University of California Press 2001) examines representations of immigrants in the media and popular discourse in the United States through the lens of magazine covers and their related articles. His newest book is The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens and the Nation (Stanford University Press 2008), which examines issues of anti-Latino discourse, struggles over the meaning of citizenship, and role of media spectacles in society in relation to the politics of reproduction, organ transplants, the Minuteman Project, and immigrant marches and protests. Recent medically related articles include "Beliefs Matter: Cultural Beliefs and the Use of Cervical Cancer Screening Tests;" and "Immigration and Medical Anthropology" (2003). See also, "Culture Change and Cultural Reproduction: Lessons from Research on Transnational Migration" (2006); and "Commentary: The Condition of Illegality" (2007).
Leo Chávez is Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine.
Friday, October 8, 2010
International Festival Event: Keynote Lecture & Lunch
12:30-2:00pm
Enrique Morones - 'Border Angels: Border Realities and Immigration Today'
Rangos Ballroom, University Center
Internationally-acclaimed human rights activist Enrique Morones is President and Founder of Border Angels, an all-volunteer group he established in 1986 that places food, water and other provisions in the desert on the border areas to help save migrant lives. Lunch will be provided to all in attendance at the keynote lecture.
Friday, October 8, 2010
International Festival Event: Culture Fusion: A Multicultural Late Night Event
8:00-10:00pm
Rangos Ballroom, University Center
All are welcome and encouraged to attend an evening showcasing performances, food, dancing and cultural nuances. Global Beats will begin the evening with live music from 8:00–9:00pm, featuring a 4-piece band playing some lounge tunes in Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. The evening will continue with a DJ featuring dance sets from Brazil, India, the Middle East and Latin America. After the performances, the dancers will invite interested guests to the dance floor for a chance to learn, dance and mingle. Carnegie Mellon's own International Student Union (ISU) will add to the evening by showcasing costumes and artifacts from different nations. ISU will also provide dessert drinks from nations around the world along with free desserts.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
8pm – Soldiers & Sailors Auditorium, 4141 Fifth Avenue
John Perkins, NY Times Bestselling Author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Economic Hit Man Details His Experiences Exploiting Latin America & the Middle East
Corporate greed, corruption, and irresponsible policies were the forces that guided the work John Perkins did as an "Economic Hit Man" in the developing world. Perkins visits Pittsburgh for the first time to discuss how he went from the Peace Corps to brokering deals that left the developing world's rich richer, while the poor were further marginalized. His work across Latin America and the Middle East will provide great insight to students—prospective policy makers, industry leaders, and social agents of change—on the very issues that continue to plague our geopolitical climate. Today, Perkins donates all proceeds from his speaking engagements to his nonprofit work which includes environmental sustainability efforts and human rights initiatives in the Amazon rainforest region. Some key topics Perkins will cover include corporate responsibility, ethics in both the public and private sector, and sustainable environmental practices.
Event sponsors are: University of Pittsburgh's Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business & College of Business Administration, International Business Center, Center for Latin American Studies, Global Studies, Graduate School of Public & International Affairs, Johnson Institute for Responsible Leadership, David Berg Center for Ethics & Leadership, Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies, Graduate Professional Student Assembly, and Carnegie Mellon University.
FOCUS ON CUBA: ART, FILM, AND MUSIC
Focus on Cuba: Art, Film, and Music
"Queloides: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art—
A Conversation with Cuban Artists"
Date: Thursday, October 14, 2010
Time: 12:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Location: 4130 Wesley W. Posvar Hall, University of Pittsburgh
In this roundtable, several of the artists participating in the art exhibit Queloides: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art (www.queloides-exhibit.com) will discuss their participation in the project and issues of race and culture in contemporary Cuba. The exhibit was hosted at the Centro Wifredo Lam in Havana and opens at the Mattress Factory museum on October 15.
For more information: contact Alejandro de la Fuente (fuente2@pitt.edu).
Sponsored by the Humanities Center and the Center for Latin American Studies
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Screening of the Film "Roble de Olor/Scent of Oak"
(Director: Rigoberto Lopez, 2002)
Date: Thursday, October 14
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Frick Fine Arts Building Auditorium, 650 Schenley Drive, University of Pittsburgh
Amigos del Cine Latinoamericano Fall 2010 Film Series
Cuban Eyes/Cubanize: Fifty Years of Cuban Cinema since the Cuban Revolution
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Some films are adult in nature and may not be appropriate for young audiences.
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Opening Reception for
"Queloides: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art" Exhibit
Date: Friday, October 15, 2010
Time: 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Location: Mattress Factory, 500 Sampsonia Way, North Side
Cost: Anyone with a Pitt ID will be admitted free to the reception
"Queloides: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art" will run from October 16, 2010 until February 27, 2011
Regular museum hours: Tuesday-Saturday: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Sunday: 1:00 - 5:00 p.m., closed Mondays.
Regular museum admission: $10.00 (Adults), $7.00 (Students), $8.00 (Seniors)
Kids under 6 are FREE every day, Members FREE, CMU students get in FREE all year, PITT students get in FREE during Fall/Spring semester.
Visit WWW.MATTRESS.ORG/CUBA for more information and events.
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Screening of the Film "East of Havana"
with director Jauretsi Saizarbitoria
Date: Thursday, October 21
Time: 6:00 p.m.—refreshments; 7:00 p.m.—film screening
Location: Mattress Factory, 500 Sampsonia Way, North Side
The film will be introduced by Jauretsi Saizarbitoria, one of the directors, followed by Q&A, conversation, analysis and debate.
This alternately meditative and emotive documentary uses three Havana rappers as a vehicle in which to explore the struggles and frustrations of young Cubans
surviving amid a crumbling revolution.
Amigos del Cine Latinoamericano Fall 2010 Film Series
Cuban Eyes/Cubanize: Fifty Years of Cuban Cinema since the Cuban Revolution
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Some films are adult in nature and may not be appropriate for young audiences.
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Performance by Cuban Hip-Hop Artist Soandry
Presented by The Mattress Factory
Date: October 23, 2010
Time: 8:00pm
Location: New Hazlett Theater, Allegheny Square East
Cost: $12, MF Members plus one guest Free, Pitt & CMU students with I.D. $9 at the door.
The Mattress Factory is very excited to announce that Cuban hip-hop artist Soandry, formerly of the duo "Hermanos de Causa," will be performing for the first time in the United States at the New Hazlett Theater on Saturday, October 23, 2010. Don't miss this rare opportunity to learn the stories of the struggles and the triumphs of a Cuban rapper. Known for being a passionate free-thinker who shares the realities of life in Cuba, Soandry, is a leader of the hip-hop scene in Havana. He shares a distinct socially conscious rap ethic that is uncommon in Cuba. His unabashed criticism of the Cuban government is audacious.
The Mattress Factory is a museum of contemporary art that exhibits room-sized works called installations. Created on site by artists from across the country and around the world, our unique exhibitions feature a variety of media that engage all of the senses.
Visit WWW.MATTRESS.ORG/CUBA for more information and events.
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Screening of the Film "Havana York"
with director Luciano Larobina
Date: Wednesday, October 27
Time: 6:00 p.m.—reception with refreshments; 6:30 p.m.—film screening
Location: Frick Fine Arts Building Auditorium, 650 Schenley Drive, University of Pittsburgh
The film will be introduced by Luciano Larobina, the director, followed by Q&A, conversation, and discussion.
Amigos del Cine Latinoamericano Fall 2010 Film Series
Cuban Eyes/Cubanize: Fifty Years of Cuban Cinema since the Cuban Revolution
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Some films are adult in nature and may not be appropriate for young audiences.
miércoles, 13 de octubre de 2010
Fall Festival, Drum Talk, Gypsy Spirits Night and more!
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lunes, 11 de octubre de 2010
Thursday: Roble de Olor / Scent of oak
Thursday, October 14
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium : 6:30pm
Roble de Olor / Scent of oak (Dir. Rigoberto López, 2002)
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SCENT OF OAK / ROBLE DE OLOR is inspired by real persons, a mixed couple who in the 1800's in Cuba, set up one of the most important café plantations on the Island - Cornelio Souchay, an idealistic German businessman, portrayed by popular actor Jorge Perugorria, and Ursula Lambert (Lia Chapman), a Creole from the Island of Hispanola, later divided up into Haiti and Dominican Republic, as an independent textile shop merchant.
Their fates cross paths when Souchay spots her around town, finding out where she works and then purchases some cloth in her store. It is clear from first glance, that he is strongly besotted with the pround and elegant Lambert, pursuing her around the colonial city until she succumbs to his genteel courtship and 'old world'charm.
Their fates cross paths when Souchay spots her around town, finding out where she works and then purchases some cloth in her store. It is clear from first glance, that he is strongly besotted with the pround and elegant Lambert, pursuing her around the colonial city until she succumbs to his genteel courtship and 'old world'charm.
The street-wise Ursula coaches him into staking their (promising) luck on the lucrative coffee trade and establishing a plantation named Angerona, after a pantheistic divinity she believes in (although she frequents the Catholic institutions at hand, as well). Their premise is to create a sort of utopia farm where black workers and slaves are treated with respect and encouraged to cultivate themselves by forming an classical orchestra proficient in Hayden, Mozart and the great European composers. In the way it is run, the observance of humane principles by Cornelio Souchay and Ursula who physically pitch in with the work at all stages too, the endeavour blossoms into a successful and happy venture for all, where the blacks are given hope for the future. But envy and greed arouses in power figures of the local council and neighbours due to the unconvential nature of the project and soon runs afoul with local farmers, Spanish bureaucrats and even members of Souchay's own family - an unsufferably snobbish blonde female cousin visiting from Germany, who turns out to be the worst imaginable pest, all betraying his friendship, hospitality and all out for his and Ursula's hide.
After a career of documentary filmmaking, "Scent of an Oak" is Lopez Pego's first feature film - on the line of the historical Cuban blockbuster with a strong political message : intolerance of cultural differences and racism.
This theme of
Amigos del Cine Latinoamericano Fall 2010 Film Series
Cuban Eyes/ Cubanize:
Fifty Years of Cuban Cinema since the Cuban Revolution
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Most films will be presented on Wednesdays or Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. at the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
As usual, we will give a short introduction of the film and after the presentation you are welcome to stay for a discussion.
Some films are adult in nature and may not be appropriate for young audiences.
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