Weekly SALSA

Hola amigos!

With Mid-terms around the corner, we all hope you're taking the proper care of yourself and keeping your stress to a minimum! One of the many ways you can do that is by coming to hang out with us this Wednesday at our empanada making GBM or stopping by for our sale this Friday. <3 Know that you can always reach out to any of us if you need any additional help finding resources for managing stress or just studying for exams.

See you soon!

SALSA EVENTS:

Event: Empanada GBM 2

Date & Time: 5:30-7:30pm, 2/26/19

Location: CUC Peter

About: Help us make empanada dough during this conversational GBM! We'll be talking about what is means to be both black and latinx while you learn a new skill. We hope you stop by, even if it's only for a little while; we will fry up an empanada for you as a thanks for helping! 

If you plan on stopping by please take the university's food safety quiz! 

Food Safety Information [.pptx] 

food safety quiz   

Event: Empanada Sale

Date: 10am-4pm, 3/1/19

Location: UC 

About: Come enjoy some tasty empanadas! 

Link to preorder: https://goo.gl/forms/mHaSsJpm4jEabPD42

Link to shifts to help with sale: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CCLkW82fw5c7G-qsno2ht-ofl-DB4_xK6DhPY2rgtvI/edit?usp=sharing

Event: Elections

Date: 5:00-6:00pm, 3/5/19

Location: TBD

About: Join is in electing our new eboard. Fill out this interest form if you plan on running: https://goo.gl/forms/iPL0hKIdz3kxTIpt2

Other Student Org's Events

Event: Home Language; March multilingual exhibit

Date: Exhibit open March 1-29th

Location: Assemble (4824 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh 15224)

About: Home Language features many of the numerous languages and cultures that call Pittsburgh home. Bringing together local artists and writers from different neighborhoods across Pittsburgh, the exhibition highlights the diversity of our city through music, art and writing. See Attached Flyer for more info.

Event: National Dominican Student Conference

Date: March 8-10th, 2019

Location:

About: Please visit dominicanstudentconference.com for Ticket and more information. Email SALSA for original outreach email if interested.

Ciao!!!!
Kate Liston, President

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Spanish And Latin Student Association
Carnegie Mellon University

salsa.cmu@gmail.com

The 'Security Trap' in Latin America

Join Panoramas this Friday for a roundtable discussion: "The 'Security Trap' in Latin America: Using the State to Fight Violence with Violence"

🗓️ Friday, February 22, 2019
🕐 1:00 p.m.
📍 4217 Posvar Hall, University of Pittsburgh

🍕 Pizza and refreshments provided! Free and open to the public.

More information: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/events/list
https://www.panoramas.pitt.edu/

 

Assemble Pittsburgh - HOME LANGUAGE

Home Language at

Assemble this March 1-29.

Home Language features many of the numerous languages and cultures that call Pittsburgh home. Bringing together local artists and writers from different neighborhoods across Pittsburgh, the exhibition highlights the diversity of our city through music, art and writing.   

Entrance is

free to the public!

 

For multi-lingual artist performance/readings, stop by on our opening night as part of the Penn Avenue Arts & Commercial District's First Friday series—Unblurred!

Opening Night:

Friday, March 1 from 6-10pm

4824 Penn Ave Pittsburgh 15224

 

Here's a poster:

 

 

 

 

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[ACT 48 WORKSHOP] "IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES" CONNECT WITH NEA BIG READ and UPCOMING LOCAL PRODUCTION OF THE PLAY

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Prime Stage presents a special 3 hour (Act 48 credited) workshop for teachers of English, Language Arts, Spanish, Drama, and Social Studies on the effective teaching & learning the novel IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES by Julia Alvarez.

 

Presenter: Kenya Dworkin y Méndez Ph.D., professor of Hispanic Studies at Carnegie Mellon

University.

 

Registration by email to studentmat@primestage.com

Payment is due by February 27, 2019

Cost: $150 

 

Participants receive complimentary ticket to the performance.

 

Date: Saturday, March 2, 2019 10:00am – 1:00pm 

 

Location: Carnegie Mellon University Tepper Quad Askwith Kenner Room #1024 

5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 

Parking: East Campus Garage, 5040 Forbes Avenue

 

Weekly SALSA

Hola amigos!

Reminder that we are making empanadas today at 5:30pm! We've booked the room for 5-7:30 though so feel free to come a bit early :)

Come through for a great time!!!

Kate

[ASSEMBLE PITTSBURGH] Home Language - March 1-29 2019

 

A multilingual exhibit curated by Paloma Sierra-Hernandez and Abigail Salmon.

 

Home Language features many of the numerous languages and cultures that call Pittsburgh home. Bringing together local artists and writers from different neighborhoods across Pittsburgh, the exhibition highlights the diversity of our city through music, art and writing.

 

Stop by on opening night for artist performances/readings, as part of the Penn Avenue Arts & Commercial District's First Friday series—Unblurred!

FOR MORE INFO:

http://assemblepgh.org/event/unblurred-project-logue/2019-03-01/

Haciendo Enlaces: Gracias y Phonetics Research Request

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The students in Phonetics & Phonology II are doing a study that compares some aspects of English and Spanish phonetics. If you are between the ages of 18 and 75, and you are a native speaker of English who is either a heritage speaker of Spanish, or you are currently learning Spanish, then you can participate! The study will take no more than an hour, and you will be paid $10 for your participation. Participation is completely voluntary, and you may take part in this study any time between now and Friday, March 1st.

To express interest and schedule a time to participate, please reach out to cmuproductionstudy@gmail.com

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Symposium & Brunch Invitation

Dear students,

 

I want to make sure you are aware of two upcoming events and encourage you to attend:

 

1.       Modern Languages Anniversary Symposium

Friday, February 22 | 10 a.m - 4:15 p.m.

Cohon University Center

 

Please see the full schedule of events and drop by as your schedule permits, even if you can't attend each session. 

 

2.       Informal Brunch

Saturday, February 23 | 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Askwith Kenner Global Languages and Cultures Room (Tepper Quad, Room 1024)

 

You're invited to connect with current students and Modern Languages' alumni during an informal brunch.  Please RSVP here by this Wednesday, February 20^th if you plan to attend.

 

As a reminder, all courses within the Department of Modern Languages have been canceled on Friday, February 22 in the hopes you will be able to participate throughout the day!

 

 

Weekly SALSA

¡Hola amigos!

I hope you've had a restful weekend and started to think about the fantastic empanadas we'll be making this coming Wednesday. Please try to come out for as long as you can! We'd love to see you and to have fun company while making empanadas.

SALSA EVENTS:

Event: Procter & Gamble Info Session hosted by First Together

Date and Time: 4:30-6:00pm, 2/19/20

Location: TBA

About: FirstTogether has invited us to attend their networking and professional development session with the CPDC, grad students, and an Assistant Director from Procter & Gamble. This is a great oppertunity and food will be provided, so come through and help support them! RSVP HERE

Event: Empanada GBM 1

Date & Time: 5:30-7:00pm, 2/20/19 

Location: CUC Peter

About: Help us make empanada dough during this conversational GBM! During the first 1/2 hour of this GBM we will go over what our plans are for this semester to update you guys and 'all-things-eboard' including roles, time commitment, & why you should be a part of ours in anticipation for our March 5th elections. We hope you stop by, even if it's only for a little while; we will fry up an empanada for you as a thanks for helping!

If you plan on stopping by please take the university's food safety quiz! 

Food Safety Information [.pptx] 

food safety quiz   

Event: Empanada GBM 2

Date & Time: 5:30-7:30pm, 2/26/19

Location: CUC Peter

About: Help us make empanada dough during this conversational GBM! We'll be talking about what is means to be both black and latinx while you learn a new skill. We hope you stop by, even if it's only for a little while; we will fry up an empanada for you as a thanks for helping! 

Event: Empanada Sale

Date: 10am-4pm, 3/1/19

Location: UC 

About: Come enjoy some tasty empanadas! 

Link to preorder: https://goo.gl/forms/mHaSsJpm4jEabPD42

Link to shifts to help with sale: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CCLkW82fw5c7G-qsno2ht-ofl-DB4_xK6DhPY2rgtvI/edit?usp=sharing

Event: Elections

Date: 5:00-6:00pm, 3/5/19

Location: TBD

About: Join is in electing our new eboard. Fill out this interest form if you plan on running: https://goo.gl/forms/iPL0hKIdz3kxTIpt2

Other Student Org's Events

Event: Haciendo Enlaces (Making Connections)

Date: Monday, February 18th at 6:00pm

Location: West Wing Rec Lounge

About: Join us for the first session of the semester of Haciendo Enlaces, a Spanish immersion event to get to know other CMU community members through the Spanish language!  We will kick off the semester learning and sharing colloquialisms from different Spanish-speaking countries and cultures through a jeopardy-like game!  Get excited for some competition and fun with old and new connections.  We will have great snacks as always. Fluency in Spanish is not required, we recommend at least intermediate level proficiency in order to listen, communicate, and share.  Please pre-register here so that we can order the appropriate amount of food for attendees.  We look forward to seeing you there!

Event: Kavi Ade (Speaker)

Date: Rangos

Location: February 21st at 7:00pm

About: Ade's poetry centers on their experience as a Black Trans Queer person. Their work centers on topics of race, gender, sexuality, and social justice. They have performed and spoken at several events all over the United States, including True Colors, the largest LGBTQ+ youth conference in the United States. At CMU, Ade's performance will bring to light topics of intersectionality between race, orientation, and gender. If you would like to learn more about Ade's work as a speaker and performer, this is a link to their website.

Event: Home Language; March multilingual exhibit Date: Opening on March 1 at 6-10pm; exhibit open March 1-29th

Location: Assemble (4824 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh 15224)

About: Home Language features many of the numerous languages and cultures that call Pittsburgh home. Bringing together local artists and writers from different neighborhoods across Pittsburgh, the exhibition highlights the diversity of our city through music, art and writing. See Attached Flyer for more info.

Event: National Dominican Student Conference

Date: March 8-10th, 2019

Location:

About: Please visit dominicanstudentconference.com for Ticket and more information. Email SALSA for original outreach email if interested.

Ciao!!!!
Kate Liston, President

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Spanish And Latin Student Association
Carnegie Mellon University

salsa.cmu@gmail.com

[SALSA] Empanada Sale

Event: Empanada Sale

Date: 10am-4pm, 3/1/19
Location: UC

About: Come enjoy some tasty empanadas!
Link to preorder: https://goo.gl/forms/mHaSsJpm4jEabPD42

Haciendo Enlaces (Making Connections), Mon 2/18 @ 6pm

This Monday is our spring semester kick-off of Haciendo Enlaces (Making Connections), our Spanish immersion event.  Please share this with your residents, we are excited for the activity planned!

 

Monday, February 18, at 6:00pm in the West Wing Rec Lounge

 

Join us for the first session of the semester of Haciendo Enlaces, a Spanish immersion event to get to know other CMU community members through the Spanish language!  We will kick off the semester learning and sharing colloquialisms from different Spanish-speaking countries and cultures through a jeopardy-like game!  Get excited for some competition and fun with old and new connections.  We will have great snacks as always. Fluency in Spanish is not required, we recommend at least intermediate level proficiency in order to listen, communicate, and share.  Please pre-register here so that we can order the appropriate amount of food for attendees.  We look forward to seeing you there!

 

Gracias y thank you,

Michelle

 

Weekly SALSA

Hola amigos!

 

I hope you've making your way through this cold and gloomy week! I wanted to remind you all how much we appreciate each and every one of you as members and how excited we are to make new friendships and further both with you this semester.

 

T-7 days until our first event of the semester, so we hope to see you there.

 

Event: Procter & Gamble Info Session hosted by First Together

Date and Time: 4:30-6:00pm, 2/19/20

Location: TBA

About: FirstTogether has invited us to attend their networking and professional development session with the CPDC, grad students, and an Assistant Director from Procter & Gamble. This is a great oppertunity and food will be provided, so come through and help support them! RSVP HERE

 

Event: Empanada GBM 1

Date & Time: 5:30-7:00pm, 2/20/19 

Location: CUC Peter

About: Help us make empanada dough during this conversational GBM! During the first 1/2 hour of this GBM we will go over what our plans are for this semester to update you guys and 'all-things-eboard' including roles, time commitment, & why you should be a part of ours in anticipation for our March 5th elections. We hope you stop by, even if it's only for a little while; we will fry up an empanada for you as a thanks for helping!

If you plan on stopping by please take the university's food safety quiz! 

Food Safety Information [.pptx] 

food safety quiz   

 

Event: Empanada GBM 2

Date & Time: 5:30-7:30pm, 2/26/19

Location: CUC Peter

About: Help us make empanada dough during this conversational GBM! We'll be talking about what is means to be both black and latinx while you learn a new skill. We hope you stop by, even if it's only for a little while; we will fry up an empanada for you as a thanks for helping! 

 

Event: Empanada Sale

Date: 10am-4pm, 3/1/19

Location: UC 

About: Come enjoy some tasty empanadas! 

Link to preorder: https://goo.gl/forms/mHaSsJpm4jEabPD42

Link to shifts to help with sale: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CCLkW82fw5c7G-qsno2ht-ofl-DB4_xK6DhPY2rgtvI/edit?usp=sharing

 

Event: Elections

Date: 5:00-6:00pm, 3/5/19

Location: TBD

About: Join is in electing our new eboard. Fill out this interest form if you plan on running: https://goo.gl/forms/iPL0hKIdz3kxTIpt2

 

 

Ciao!!!!
Kate Liston, President

 

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Spanish And Latin Student Association
Carnegie Mellon University

salsa.cmu@gmail.com

Fechas para Haciendo Enlaces

Lunes, 18 de febrero a las 6pm – jeopardy game night

Lunes, 18 de marzo a las 6pm – charades y más

Lunes, 15 de abril a las 6pm – potluck, cocinar, y sobremesa con música

Lunes, 29 de abril a las 6pm – escenario abierto (open mic night)

 

Todas las sesiones se van a realizar en el West Wing Rec Lounge.  Hay espacio en el programa para agregar algunas sesiones más producidas entonces, quedo atenta si tienes estudiantes interesados en presentar o facilitar una conversación.

 

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Michelle Mirabella

Coordinator of Residential Education | International and Exchange Student Experience

Housefellow | Welch, Henderson, Boss, and McGill Houses

Carnegie Mellon University | Student Life Suite, 1060 Morewood Ave, Pittsburgh, PA

 

Se habla español/Spanish spoken

Pronouns: she/her/hers

 

ACT 48 WORKSHOP FOR TEACHING OF "IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES" CONNECT WITH NEA BIG READ and UPCOMING LOCAL PRODUCTION OF THE PLAY

 

PLEASE SHARE! THANKS!

Prime Stage presents a special 3 hour (Act 48 credited) workshop for teachers of English, Language Arts, Spanish, Drama, and Social Studies on the effective teaching & learning the novel IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES by Julia Alvarez.

Presenter: Kenya Dworkin y Méndez Ph.D., professor of Hispanic Studies at Carnegie Mellon

University.

Registration by email to studentmat@primestage.com

Payment is due by February 27, 2019

Cost: $150 

Participants receive complimentary ticket to the performance.

 

Date: Saturday, March 2, 2019 10:00am – 1:00pm 

Location: Carnegie Mellon University Tepper Quad Askwith Kenner Room #1024 

5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 

Parking: East Campus Garage, 5040 Forbes Avenue

Wayne Brinda, Ed.D. | Producing Artistic Director

412.445.0986 | wbrinda@primestage.com

P.O. Box 99446, Pittsburgh, PA 15233

www.primestage.com

Bridging Literature, Life & Learning!

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Kenya C. Dworkin
Carnegie Mellon University
Department of Modern Languages   
Baker Hall 160
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890

Telephone: (412) 268-8052/-5669
Fax: (412) 268-1328
kdworkin@andrew.cmu.edu

Recovering the U.S. Literary Heritage Project

Board Member

University of Houston, Houston, Tex

https://artepublicopress.com/recovery-project/

Coro Latinoamericano-Pittsburgh
Executive Director
http://www.corolapgh.org
http://www.facebook.com/pages/El-Coro-Latinoamericano-Pittsburgh

Latin American Cultural Union
Co-President
http://www.lacunet.org/
http://www.facebook.com/LatinAmericanCulturalUnion 

Círculo Juvenil de Cultura
Co-Founder and Co-Director
http://circulocmu.blogspot.com/

CubaCívica

Founder and Director

cubacivica@gmail.com 

Barrio Latino (WRCT 88.3 FM)
Community Partner; Former Co-Anchor and News Writer
http://www.wrct.org/
http://www.facebook.com/BarrioLatinoPittsburgh

Join us on February 12th (Tuesday) at 4:30 pm in Danforth Conference Room

Come listen to four CMU alumni speak about the incredible work they do for society and how their CMU experiences influenced it. This is an opportunity to understand what leadership through a social impact lens looks like.    This event is open to all within the CMU community, so please pass its details along to anyone who may be interested! Click here to see other exciting events happening during Carnegie Leadership Week

 

#LASADIALOGUES

Latin American Studies Association

Visit our Facebook page to watch #LASADIALOGUES and join this virtual debate

How did the opposition become energized again in Venezuela: New Strengthens and old weaknesses?
Feb. 13
5:30pm (EST) / 6:30pm (Caracas time)

Javier Corrales
Margarita López Maya
Dave ASmile

 

Free tickets for upcoming performances

Free Tickets for Upcoming Performances     "Casop: A Requiem for Rice"   7 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 13 Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213   All members of the CMU community are encouraged to pick up free tickets in the History Department, 240 Baker Hall. Please request as many tickets as you need.   Four hundred years ago, African captives were first brought to Jamestown, Virginia. In honor of the anniversary, CMU is showcasing this performance by the Colour of Music Festival. Edda L. Fields-Black, associate professor of history, is the project's executive producer and librettist.   More information     "Where Did We Sit on the Bus?"   8 p.m., Friday, Feb. 22 City Theatre 1300 Bingham St., Pittsburgh, PA 15203   Faculty, staff and students from the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences may RSVP for free tickets by emailing Karen Weingartner at kwein@andrew.cmu.edu by Feb. 18.   With pulsing rhythms and original rhymes set to a live, looped soundtrack, Brian Quijada stages a hip-hop autobiography about falling in love with performance, the power of family, and growing up Latinx in a world that categorizes everyone in black and white.   More information

 

Carnegie Mellon Dietrich College of Humanities & Social Sciences | Office of the Dean, Baker Hall, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

 

TOMORROW

 

Ten Evenings

Valeria Luiselli

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