Jazz Poetry Month's final concert this Saturday!

 

Jazz Poetry Month 2018 presents: Jaimeo Brown     Saturday, September 29: International Suite 7 p.m.  City of Asylum @ Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue FREE! Free tickets: International Suite 9/29 Our final Jazz Poetry Month concert brings together game-changing jazz with five world-class poets! Preeminent musical pioneers Jaimeo Brown, Chris Sholar and Jaleel Shaw take African American songs and and weave international musical connections between them. Between sets, these musicians will also collaborate with City of Asylum writer-in-exile Osama Alomar, Lauren Russell, Jenny Johnson, Javier Zamora and Tina Chang for a jazz and poetry interlude.   Don't miss this extraordinary evening of talent in never-before-seen combinations!  Featured Writers: Javier Zamora was born in La Herradura, El Salvador, in 1990. He holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied and taught in June Jordan's Poetry for the People program Zamora earned an MFA from New York University and is currently a 2016–2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He is the recipient of scholarships to the Bread Loaf, Frost Place, Napa Valley, Squaw Valley, and VONA writers' conferences and fellowships from CantoMundo, Colgate University (Olive B. O'Connor), MacDowell Colony, Macondo Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Saltonstall Foundation, and Yaddo. In 2016, Barnes & Noble granted him the Writer for Writers Award for his work with the Undocupoets Campaign. He was also the winner of the Ruth Lilly/Dorothy Sargent Fellowship and is a member of the Our Parents' Bones Campaign, whose goal is to bring justice to the families of the ten thousand disappeared during El Salvador's civil war. Born in Damascus, Syria in 1968 and now living in Chicago, Osama Alomar is one of the most well-respected Arabic poets writing today, and a prominent practitioner of the Arabic al-qisa al-qasira jiddan, the "very short story." He is the author of Fullblood Arabian in English, and three collections of short stories and a volume of poetry in Arabic. Alomar's first full-length collection of stories, The Teeth of the Comb, will be published by New Directions in April 2017. His short stories have been published by Newyorker.com, Noon, Conjunctions.com, The Coffin Factory, Electric Literature, and The Literary Review. He also performs as a musician. Osama Alomar travels with his translator, Christian Collins. Jenny Johnson is the author of In Full Velvet, published by Sarabande Books in 2017.  Her honors include a 2015 Whiting Award and a 2016-17 Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. She has also received awards and scholarships from the Blue Mountain Center, Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yaddo. Her poems have appeared in The New York Times, New England Review, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, and elsewhere. After earning a BA/MT in English Education from the University of Virginia, she taught public school for several years in San Francisco, and she spent ten summers on the staff of the UVA Young Writer's Workshop. She earned an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at West Virginia University, and she is on the faculty of the Rainier Writing Workshop, Pacific Lutheran University's low-residency MFA program. Lauren Russell is the author of What's Hanging on the Hush (Ahsahta Press, 2017). A 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry, she has also received support from Cave Canem, The Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, VIDA / The Home School, the Rose O'Neill Literary House, the Millay Colony, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her chapbook Dream-Clung, Gone came out from Brooklyn Arts Press in 2012, and her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, boundary 2, The Brooklyn Rail, jubilat, and Bettering American Poetry 2015, among others. She is a research assistant professor and is assistant director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics at the University of Pittsburgh. Tina Chang was raised in New York City. She is the first female to be named Poet Laureate of Brooklyn and is the author of the collections of poetry Hybrida (2019), Of Gods & Strangers (2011), and Half-Lit Houses (2004). She is also the co-editor of the W.W. Norton anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (2008). She is the recipient of awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Academy of American Poets, Poets & Writers, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, and the Van Lier Foundation among others. She teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and she is also a member of the international writing faculty at the City University of Hong Kong. "...a unique contemporary jazz venture fueled by palpably passionate commitment to match its creators' imagination and skill."-- The Guardian 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 Our mailing address is: City of Asylum 40 W. North Avenue Pittsburgh, Pa 15212 Add us to your address book

Picnic Latino - Este sábado, septiembre 29 desde el medio día hasta las 7:00 de la noche.

Lugar: Schenley Park (Schenley Oval)
1 Overlook Dr, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
https://goo.gl/maps/9DskpNjMwZJ2

Ven con tu familia y amigos a disfrutar de comida, música, juegos, rifas y más. Como siempre TRAE ALGO PARA COMPARTIR.

https://www.facebook.com/events/463818044133615/

 

TOMORROW---CLAS@Pitt~~Panoramas Round Table Discussion: Argentina in Turmoil: Corruption Scandals, Economic Crisis, and the Return of the IMF (12pm--4217 Posvar Hall)

 

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Panoramas Round Table Discussion:
Argentina in Turmoil: Corruption Scandals, Economic Crisis, and the Return of the IMF
Moderated by Ignacio Mamone, PhD Political Science
         12:00 p.m.
         4217 Posvar Hall

 

Pizza provided!

For more information, visit: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/events/argentina-turmoil

Panoramas: https://www.panoramas.pitt.edu/

 

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

 

 

 

CLAS@Pitt: CLAS Welcome Back Reception (09/27/2018 at 5:00pm--4130 Posvar Hall)

 

September 27, 2018

CLAS Welcome Back Reception
     5:00 p.m.
     4130 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

Meet the Center for Latin American Studies staff, affiliated faculty, interns, students, community and friends.

This is a chance to learn about all that the Center offers, including opportunities available in the upcoming year.

https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/events/clas-welcome-back-reception 

RSVP: clas@pitt.edu

 

 

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

 

 

Artist Lecture: Diego Montoya Oct. 1

https://www.facebook.com/events/2193949610680489/

Diego Montoya is a Peruvian born, Brooklyn based visual artist specializing in costume and installation art. He creates hyper visual pieces that are both opulent and bizarre exploring themes of ritual and subcultural. He has staged installation based work at Leslie-Lohman Museum, Abrons Arts Center, Same Art Museum, 29Rooms LA, and Art Basel Miami. He was the design director for MIXNYC Queer Experimental Film Festival from 2010-2015. His latest work is mostly costume based and includes collaborations with jazz musician Esperanza Spalding and drag performer Sasha Velour.

This lecture takes place in Kresge Theatre in the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University.

 

TODAY---On-the-ground Perspectives of Cuba @ 5 pm--4130 Posvar Hall

 

TODAY!

On-the-ground Perspectives of Cuba

Join our panel of speakers, featuring Pitt students, faculty, and other community members, in a discussion on Cuba!

 

4130 Posvar Hall

University of Pittsburgh

5 p.m.

 

For more information: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/events/ground-perspectives-cuba

 

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

Fw: SALSA Weekly Email

Hola a todos,

This is your weekly email with the most recent updates and opportunities!

TLDR - 

No GBM! Enjoy TOC! Contact BLBA and SHPE for professional/career assistance.

Welcome Party on Saturday, September 29th (date has changed) @ 11pm. The address will be 5114 Beeler Street (B2).

1 - Weekly Schedule

2 - TOC and Professional Opportunities

3 - Google's BOLD Internship Program

4 - Project-LOUGUE Submissions

1 - Weekly Schedule

There will not be a GBM this week to give everyone the opportunity to take full advantage of the TOC!

However, we know you all will be tired from all that networking, so we will be having our Welcome Party on Saturday, September 29th (date has changed) @ 11pm. The address will be 5114 Beeler Street (B2).

2 - TOC and Professional Opportunities

Please download the app by searching "TOC CMU" in the App or Play Store.

Also, please email the Society of Hispanic Profession Engineers (SHPE, cmu.shpe@gmail.com) and/or the Black and Latin Business Association (BLBA, cmublba@gmail.com) for information about professional opportunities for this week.

3 - Google's BOLD Internship Program

Google has begun accepting applications for their BOLD Internship Program. About the program:

The Building Opportunities for Leadership and Development (BOLD) Internship Program is a paid summer internship for rising undergraduate seniors that are interested in business careers in the technology industry and full-time job opportunities at Google. We've designed our program to expose historically underrepresented students in this field to career opportunities in the industry and to prepare all entry-level talent to be ambassadors for diversity, equity, and inclusion in their careers. Students from all schools, and students who identify with a group that is historically underrepresented in the technology industry, including but not limited to Black, Hispanic, Native American, students with disabilities, and veterans, are encouraged to apply.

Application tips: https://www.collegemagazine.com/google-bold-internship/

Application: https://careers.google.com/jobs#t=sq&q=j&li=20&l=false&jlo=en-US&jl=40.4406248%3A-79.9958864%3APittsburgh%2C+PA%2C+USA%3AUS%3AUSA%3A8.02130513636443%3ALOCALITY%3A%3A%3A%3APA%3AAllegheny+County%3APittsburgh%3A%3A%3A%3A%3A%3A%3A%3A&jld=20&j=BOLD&

4 - Project-LOGUE Call for Submissions

Project-LOGUE, an initiative promoting awareness of Pittsburgh's linguistic and cultural diversity, is opening a call for writing and art submissions in languages other than English.

The theme is:

Tell us about the untranslatable in your life! Maybe it's a word, phrase, or proverb that loses meaning in translation. Maybe it's a conversation you can't imagine having in a second language. Maybe it's a feeling or experience that language alone can't express.

Submissions are due: October 15th

Email prjlogue@gmail.com if you have any questions or submissions.

Saludos,

Julián

Secretary

--

Spanish And Latin Student Association
Carnegie Mellon University

salsa.cmu@gmail.com

Kids! Grab your passports and Let's Travel the World to Latin America!

 

Cuentos: Tales from the Latino World   Saturday, October 13 3 p.m. - 4 p.m.  40 W. North Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15212 FREE!   Click here for free tickets!   Let's Travel the World storytelling resumes on October 13th with an afternoon of family-friendly songs and storytelling by David Gonzalez.  David is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Sustained Excellence from the International Performing Arts for Youth and a cultural ambassador for the U.S. State Department. He was also commissioned by Kennedy Center to create new work. For his visit to City of Asylum @ Alphabet City, David will be presenting Cuentos: Tales from the Latino World—a great introduction to the world of Latino literature and culture. Cuentos paints a vivid picture of the people and rich cultures of the Spanish-speaking world—with colorful tales from the Caribbean, South America, and the Bronx. From the antics of the Puerto Rican anti-hero "Juan Bobo" to a suite of Afro-Cuban stories, these tales are filled with memorable characters, fantastic plots and positive messages for children. Spanish language words are used throughout the stories and songs so that children can repeat and retain their sound and meaning. Children who received a passport booklet at a previous Let's Travel The World! program can bring these back to receive another collectible sticker!  But it's never too late to collect stickers, so if this will be your first time at Let's Travel The World, be sure to ask for a passport and your first sticker.  Each sticker in your passport earns discounts in City of Asylum Bookstore.   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     Copyright © 2018 City of Asylum, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: City of Asylum 40 W. North Avenue Pittsburgh, Pa 15212

Come experience Colombia!

Come experience Colombia with Palenque! (Pa-len-ke) at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater on Friday, October 26, 2018 at 8pm.

Palenque celebrates Colombia’s rich history in music, dance and poetry. The concert will pay tribute to this culture’s compelling African Ancestry merging traditional and contemporary artistic expressions. Rhythm, song, movement and the spoken word will transport the audience to a typical scene in a Colombian village.

Artistic director:
Melissa Teodoro

With the participation of:
SRU Afro-Colombian Dance Ensemble
Grupo Bésame

https://www.facebook.com/events/291220878138888/

 

 

Cuba Panel _ On the ground perspectives of Cuba Sept. 24

A panel discussion about Cuba perspectives from invited speakers.
Four speakers will present their experiences and academic perspectives about Cuba. Q & A will be follow.
Free and Open to the Public!

 

https://www.facebook.com/events/1868895276521151/

SALSA Weekly

Hola a todos,

 

 

TLDR: General Body Meeting (GBM) 6:30 - 7:30 (the time has been updated) in PH A18B. There will be FREE FOOD!

 

 

 

1 - Weekly Schedule

2 - The Grand Plan Scholarship

3 - Volunteering in Honduras

4 - 2nd Annual 4.12 Run/Walk for Casa San Jose

5 - Latinx Research Study

 

 

 

1 - Weekly Schedule

We will be having our General Body Meeting (GBM) this week from 6:30 - 7:30 (the time has been updated) in PH A18B. This will be our first chance to discuss the upcoming semester and the club in general. So if you want to provide input, it is VERY important that you attend. Also, there will be FREE FOOD! 

 

 

 

2 - The Grand Plan Scholarship

This scholarship is provided by Kaplan Test Prep and Fresh Prints with the intention of funding post-graduate endeavors. The scholarship deadline is September 30th, so sign up as soon as possible.

The application takes 5 minutes and has 1 short essay and it's for $5,000!!!

Link: https://apply.freshprints.com/scholarship6/?source=oldclub

 

 

 

3 - Volunteering in Honduras

The Bilingual Education for Central America is currently looking for volunteer teachers for late-start teachers. The late-start program begins in January of 2019 and runs through June of 2019. This program is ideal for December graduates who are looking to expand their wealth of knowledge and give back to the world.

Room & board provided - Food & incidentals stipend - No Spanish or Teaching certificate required

Link to Info Video: https://vimeo.com/203055986/a34192e19c

More information provided in attachments.

 

 

 

4 - 2nd Annual 4.12 Run/Walk for Casa San Jose
412 Resistance is hosting the 2nd Annual 4.12K run/walk with all proceeds going to Casa San Jose. Casa San Jose is a community resource center that advocates for and empowers Latinos by promoting integration and self-sufficiency. You can learn more about Casa San Jose's history and services at https://casasanjose.org.
The race is Sunday, October 7 at 9 am. Race registration for participants 13 and older is $27.50. The first 100 participants to register will also receive a tote bag!

Link: https://runsignup.com/Race/PA/Pittsburgh/412KforCasaSanJose

 

 

 

5 - Latinx Research Study Participation Request

This online survey is being conducted by PhD. Student Erika Hanley of Auburn University. It should take approximately 25-30 minutes, and examines experiences with politics and stress of Latinx individuals in the United States.

By participating in this study, individuals will have the opportunity to be entered to win one of 3 $20 Amazon gift cards.

Link: https://auburn.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9G2r6SK39mR78uF

 

 

 

Saludos,

Julián

Secretary

--

Spanish And Latin Student Association
Carnegie Mellon University

salsa.cmu@gmail.com