miércoles, 28 de febrero de 2018

French-Hispanic-German-Korean couple Sébastien Ramirez and Honji

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

French-Hispanic-German-Korean couple Sébastien Ramirez and Honji Wang are renowned for their emotional and powerful blend of hip hop dance and contemporary movement. Their work derives from their blended identities, deepening their quest of finding new choreographic languages. More details.

 

ISU Lingo Table Spring 2018

 

 

On Tuesday, March 6th 6-8 pm, ISU will be hosting our 5th semesterly LingoTable event. Students of all levels are welcome to stop in for however long they like to engage in conversations in any language of their choice. 

 

This year we will be offering: Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Mandarin, among others. The event will take place in the University Center Rangos Ballroom.

 

It is our hope that students and professors will attend in groups in order to make it a better experience.

 

If you have the time, please feel free to join us! We would be more than happy to have expert speakers help us engage in conversations as well as sharing some knowledge with administration and faculty on campus.

 

 

domingo, 25 de febrero de 2018

DACA: Pursuing the American Dream

DACA: Pursuing the American Dream
Lunch Discussion with Casa San José

EVENT THIS MONDAY 2/26!

Curious about the DACA policy and how recent changes have affected fellow immigrant college students? Join us for a thoughtful discussion with Casa San José, a community resource center that advocates for Latinos through the immigration and integration process. Lunch will be provided by PACE.

Date: February 26, 2018
Time: 12:30-2:00 PM
Location: Wright, Cohon Center

Please register on the Bridge!
Contact Katherine with any questions!

viernes, 23 de febrero de 2018

Oscar Peñas: Jazz Appreciation Month

April 10 | Cabaret at Theater Square


Trained as a classical guitarist in Spain before studying jazz in the US, Peñas’ fluid combination of jazz traditions with Spanish folk influences and Brazilian grooves is distinct and widely appealing. The Barcelona native is joined by his New York-based rhythm section of eight years.


Enter promo code JONES to purchase tickets before 
they go on sale to the public Friday, March 2 at 9 am.









jueves, 22 de febrero de 2018

CLAS@Pitt--

 

Upcoming events:

 

http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/events/list

 

 

Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS)

University Center for International Studies (UCIS)

University of Pittsburgh

4200 Wesley W. Posvar Hal

Pittsburgh, PA  15260

Office: 412-648-7392

Fax: 412-648-2199

 

clas@pitt.edu  

www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas

 

miércoles, 21 de febrero de 2018

PEDRITO MARTINEZ will be performing at this year’s Pittsburgh InternatIonal Jazz Festival!

PEDRITO MARTINEZ will be performing at this year's Pittsburgh InternatIonal Jazz Festival! June 15-17, 2018! •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

Pedro Pablo "Pedrito" Martinez was born in Havana, Cuba, Sept 12, 1973. Having settled in New York City in the fall of 1998, by 2000, he had been awarded the Thelonius Monk Award for Afro-Latin Hand Percussion and was featured in the documentary film, Calle 54.

Pedrito has recorded or performed with Wynton Marsalis, Paul Simon, Paquito D'Rivera, Bruce Springsteen, and Sting and has contributed, as a percussionist and vocalist, to over 50 albums. Mr. Martinez was also a founding member of the highly successful, Afro-Cuban/Afro-Beat band, Yerba Buena, with which he recorded two albums and toured the world.

Pedrito's career as a leader began in 2005 with the formation in NYC of The Pedrito Martinez Group. The group's Grammy-nominated first album was released October, 2013 and was chosen among NPR's Favorite Albums of 2013 and The Boston Globe Critics Top Ten Albums of 2013.

Habana Dreams, PMG's second album, was released in June 2016. Guests include, Ruben Blades, Isaac Delgado, Wynton Marsalis, Descemer Bueno, Roman Diaz, Angelique Kidjo, and Telmary Diaz. Accolades for Habana Dreams include #1 Latin Jazz Album in NPR's Jazz Critics Top Jazz Albums for 2016 and being named among Boston Globe World Music Albums for 2016.

The shape of water

Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water at McConomy this weekend!

 

Freshman Loteria Night!

***For freshmen only!!!!

 

Hey SALSA Fam!

 

Jackie and I (Kate) are hosting our Loteria this coming Friday from 5-6pm in PH A19A. Come through because we've got good company, homemade rice and beans, and pizza! The whole point of this loteria is to get to know our freshmen members better so the winner of the loteria will be treated to a dinner at a local Hispanic restaurant by us (SALSA Freshmen reps).

 

Depending on interest and attendance we can plan to host another social. If you want to do anything specific or have ideas for SALSA events let us know this Friday!

 

See y'all then!


Katelyn Liston

BS, Chemical Engineering

Carnegie Mellon, Class of 2021

 


 

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Spanish And Latin Student Association
Carnegie Mellon University

martes, 20 de febrero de 2018

Poetry + Schubert Lieder, March 13

 

"A Stranger I Arrived, A Stranger I Departed":
Winter's Journey in Poetry and Song

Tuesday, March 13th
8 p.m. 


City of Asylum @ Alphabet City
40 W. North Avenue


FREE!

 

With its themes of alienation, exile, obsession, and lost love, Franz Schubert's great 19th-century song cycle Winterreise (Winter's Journey) speaks to our current social and political moment in moving and startling ways.  

Three Pittsburgh poets (Lori Jakiela, Sheila Carter-Jones, and Adriana E. Ramirez) will give readings of new work responding to the first twelve songs of the cycle. This program will also feature live performances of the corresponding songs performed by baritone Daniel Teadt and pianist Benjamin Binder.

 

 

Featured Writers:

Lori Jakiela is the author of four memoirs, including Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe, which received the 2016 William Saroyan Prize for International Writing from Stanford University. Her latest book, Portrait of the Artist as a Bingo Worker, was completed during a City of Asylum residency in Brussels, Belgium — an experience for which she will always be grateful. She is also the author of a full-length poetry collection, Spot the Terrorist, and five poetry chapbooks. She directs the undergraduate writing program at Pitt-Greensburg and teaches community and veterans writing workshops in her hometown, Trafford, PA, where she lives with her husband, the writer Dave Newman, and their children. Her author website is http://lorijakiela.net.

Adriana E. Ramírez is a Mexican-Colombian writer, critic, and performance poet based in Pittsburgh. She won the inaugural PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize in 2015 for her novella-length work of nonfiction, Dead Boys (Little A, 2016), and in 2016 she was named Critic at Large for the Los Angeles Times Book Section. Her essays and poems have also appeared in the Los Angeles Review of BooksGuernica/PEN AmericaLiterary HubConvolutionHEArt, Apogee, and on Nerve.com. Once a nationally ranked slam poet, she cofounded the Pittsburgh Poetry Collective and continues to perform on stages around the country. She and novelist Angie Cruz founded Aster(ix) Journal, a literary journal giving voice to the censored and the marginalized. Her debut full-length work of nonfiction, The Violence, is forthcoming from Scribner.

Sheila L. Carter-Jones taught in the Pittsburgh Public Schools, and in Chatham University's and the University of Pittsburgh's Education Departments. She earned her BA from Carnegie Mellon University and both an M.Ed. and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. She is a fellow of Cave Canem, Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and a Walter Dakins Fellow of the 2015 Sewanee Writer's Conference. Her poetry has been published in Crossing Limits, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Pennsylvania Review, Tri-State Anthology, Riverspeak, Flights: The Literary Journal of Sinclair College, Coal: A Poetry Anthology, City Paper, Cave Canem Anthology, Jewish Currents and Voices from the Attic. She has a chapbook entitled Blackberry Cobbler Song and her manuscript Three Birds Deep was selected by Elizabeth Alexander as the 2012 winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Book Award. Her recent chapbook Crooked Star Dream Book was named runner-up for the 2013 New York Center for Book Arts Chapbook Contest. Currently, Sheila is working on a new manuscript of poems tentatively entitled The Newly Invented Lucky Star Dream Book and a memoir yet to be titled.

 

Featured Musicians:

Benjamin Binder, pianist and musicologist, is Associate Professor of Music at Duquesne University's Mary Pappert School of Music. He holds a master's degree in piano performance from Washington University and a Ph.D. in musicology from Princeton University. His scholarly work on 19th-century German Romantic song has been published in Nineteenth-Century Music ReviewJournal of the American Musicological SocietyCurrent MusicologyMusic Theory Online, and the volume Rethinking Schubert. In 2016, his script for Thomas Hampson's Song: Mirror of the World public radio series was broadcast nationwide on the WFMT Radio Network. Hailed as "a marvelous lieder pianist" (Pittsburgh Tribune Review), Dr. Binder has accompanied vocal and instrumental recitals throughout North America and serves as artistic director of the Pittsburgh Song Collaborative. He has also been a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center and a performing participant in the Cleveland Institute of Music Art Song Festival.

Daniel Teadt has garnered international acclaim for his work on the opera and recital stage. A distinguished baryton-Martin, Mr Teadt has appeared in major opera houses and concert halls in the US, Europe and South America as well as engagements with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, LA Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony in addition to his performance on a Grammy Award-winning recording with the London Symphony Orchestra. A passionate advocate for art songs and new music his recital collaborations include appearances with the Festival d'Aix-en-provençe, Ravinia Festival, San Francisco Opera Schwabacher Debut series, Music In A Great Space Recital Series, Pittsburgh Song Collaborative, Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago, New York Festival of Song and Lyric Fest. He has recorded with EMI Classics and Naxos. Mr Teadt is a Professor Of Music at Carnegie Mellon University where he teaches Voice and English Literature and Repertoire.

 

All floors of Alphabet City are wheelchair accessible and there is a reserved parking spot.  Thanks to the generous support of RAD, we also have hearing assistive systems available for all programs, by advance request.

 

 

At City of Asylum, we want our events to be welcoming and accessible to all people. 
 If you have questions or are in need of accommodations, please contact us.  

 

Plus... a Special Offer from Pittsburgh Opera!

 

 

Pittsburgh Opera is happy to offer supporters of City of Asylum 20% off tickets to Ashes & Snow—a dramatic re-interpretation of Franz Schubert's famous Winterreise song cycle. (ONLY THREE PERFORMANCES LEFT!)

If you visit pittsburghopera.org/cityofasylum then the promo code POCOA will be pre-applied with the discount. If you have any questions, please contact groups@pittsburghopera.org.

Ashes & Snow, a Pittsburgh Opera world premiere, is a journey to a Dante-esque underworld directed by the award-winning Jonathan Moore and is based on Wilhelm Müller's 24 poem cycle used as the text for Franz Schubert's famous Winterreise ("Winter Journey"). Set in the present day, and unfolding in a run-down motel room in the desert of the American West, Ashes & Snow tells an anguished story of lost love through a single dramatic monologue, sung here by Pittsburgh Opera Resident Artist tenor Eric Ferring. The protagonist must confront his demons and face up to everything he has done and all he has lost in his life.  

Sung in English with supertitles projected above the stage so you'll understand every world! (This production contains brief nudity.) 

 

Visit AlphabetCity.org for our full line-up of FREE events! 






 

lunes, 19 de febrero de 2018

SALSA TUESDAYS

In celebration of the tenth year of presenting Salsa Friday dances, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and Salsa Pittsburgh are excited to offer SALSA TUESDAYS featuring FREE Salsa dance lessons during February and March at the Cabaret at Theater Square to anyone interested in learning the basics and beyond! RSVP on our website.

DACA: Pursuing the American Dream

DACA: Pursuing the American Dream
Lunch Discussion with Casa San José

Curious about the DACA policy and how recent changes have affected fellow immigrant college students? Join us for a thoughtful discussion with Casa San José, a community resource center that advocates for Latinos through the immigration and integration process. Lunch will be provided by PACE.

Date: February 26, 2018
Time: 12:30-2:00 PM
Location: Wright, Cohon Center

Please register on the Bridge!
Contact Katherine with any questions!
 

 

Zumbaton for Puerto Rico!

domingo, 18 de febrero de 2018

More Announcements! :)


Hola a todos,

Happy Sunday! No doubt you're all very busy, but I really hope you remember to take at least 15 or 20 minutes for yourself. We all need some time to unwind for a moment. In the meantime, we have a lot of exciting news this week!

Latino(a)/x House: If you haven't heard about the house yet be sure to check the groupme and the last email that was sent out earlier today by our President Gabriela. All the details should be there, but if you have any questions please ask!

Loteria Night (Freshman Only Event): Our freshman representatives (Kate and Jackie) have organized a loteria night for our SALSA freshman. There will be food! Please fill out this when2meet poll here so they can figure out when is the best time to host the event.

Afro-Beat Puerto Rico: Drumming, Dancing, & Call and Response: A workshop presented by Calle Bomba and sponsored by the CMU Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion. Participants will be introduced to basic Bomba drum rhythms and musical patterns, basic Bomba steps, already existing and new, basic, 4/4, Bomba lyric patterns in Spanish and English. Lower level, CUC. Food and drinks will be provided and bring drums if you have them!! Be sure to check out the FB event here.

T-Shirt Contest: We are having a T-Shirt contest! We are looking for a new T-shirt and logo and we want your input! If you wish to submit a design there will be a soft deadline the Friday before spring break (March 9th) and a hard deadline the Friday after spring break (March 23). The prize is a $30 amazon gift card and a free T-shirt with your winning design! The design MUST contain the year (2018) and the acronym and name of our organization. Meaning it must have or say both "SALSA" and "Spanish and Latin Student Association" somewhere. Please send in pdfs of your entries to the SALSA email.

Orientation Counselor (OC) Application: We would like to make sure that all of you are aware that the 2018 OC applications are now available. Please apply if you have any interest!  Applications can be found here: https://www.cmu.edu/student-affairs/orientation/oc/index.html .  

A few reminders about the Orientation Counselor role: 

• OCs are assigned to a residence hall floor community and serve as a main point of contact for those incoming first-year students during the week of Orientation. 

• Strong applicants have a genuine desire to serve and help incoming students with their transition to college and exhibit professionalism, a commitment to diversity and inclusion, and community building skills. 

• OCs must be available for all of training and Orientation week from August 12-26, 2018

• Applicants must have completed at least one semester and be returning to CMU for an undergraduate or graduate degree program next fall. 

• OC candidates will participate in a group interview process and be notified if they are selected in April. 


And finally, SCHOLARSHIPS!: Listed below is a list of scholarships. If for some reasons the links don't seem to work or if you have questions, just google them and they should pop up.

Saludos,
Hannah

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Spanish And Latin Student Association
Carnegie Mellon University

Roselawn 15: Latino/a House for 2018-2019

Buenas tardes, 

 

For the 2018-2019 year, there will be a Latino/a house on campus! It is Roselawn 15, the white house at the end of Roselawn Terrace in the Intersection. It is co-ed and the spaces are 4 singles and 1 double. To apply you must be in the CMU housing system, so you cannot currently be living off campus. The deadline is this Tuesday, February 20, the application is only 6-8 minutes long. 

 

This has come to fruition through the work of Shernell and members of the campus community that felt this house would improve CMU. Her hope is that the students selected to live in this house will work to create initiatives that will benefit the Latino/a community and CMU in general. The application is not exclusive to SALSA members, but as SALSA we will support all initiatives and sponsor events. Please share this information with others who may be interested and feel free to email me with questions.  

 

 

 

 

Gabriela Salcedo

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Spanish And Latin Student Association
Carnegie Mellon University

jueves, 15 de febrero de 2018

AFRO-PUERTO RICAN BOMBA WORKSHOP THIS COMING TUESDAY

AFROBEAT PUERTO RICO
CALLE BOMBA WORKSHOP 
AT CMU CENTER FOR DIVERSITY & INCLUSION (lower level Cohon University Center
TUESDAY - FEB. 20TH - 4:30-6:30PM

 

 

miércoles, 14 de febrero de 2018

Martes 20 de febrero a las 4:30: AFRO-BEAT PUERTO RICO BOMBA WORKSHOP

 Martes 20 de febrero a las 4:30.

 

Feb 17: The border is in his blood



Francisco Cantú
 
Saturday, February 17th
3:30 p.m. 


City of Asylum @ Alphabet City
40 W. North Avenue

FREE!
Click here for free tickets!
"A devastating narrative of the very real human effects of depersonalized policy." 
Kirkus Reviews (starred)

 
Pushcart Prize-winning writer Francisco Cantú served as an agent for the United States Border Patrol from 2008 to 2012, working in the deserts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Parts of Francisco’s story were included in Best American Essays and were the focus of an episode of This American Life.

In bestowing a 2017 Whiting Award upon him, the judges called his writing “an urgent moral report [that] shows us just how much there is to learn about this contested land…seldom does a writer of such depth and passion come along to explore the place he calls home.”

Francisco's new memoir The Line Becomes a River interlaces his haunting personal experiences with ruminations on the nature of borderlines, grappling at once with some of the largest political and social questions facing America today and the intimate stories of the hopeful and desperate who set out on a perilous crossing that many will not survive.

Francisco challenges us to hear, absorb, and question the politics, policies, and ingrained ideas of borders that not only derail countless migrants’ lives and tear apart their families but do violence to the humanity of us all.

At this moment of rhetoric and fury around the border, a voice like Francisco’s feels essential and urgent.

Click here for free tickets!
At City of Asylum, we want our events to be welcoming and accessible to all people. 
All floors of Alphabet City are wheelchair accessible and there is a reserved parking spot.  Thanks to the generous support of RAD, we also have hearing assistive systems available for all programs, by advance request.

 If you have questions or are in need of accommodations, please contact us.  
Click here to contact us about accessibility accommodations