Latinx and Proud

También hay un evento en la escuela de arte si alguien quiere apuntarse.

 

City of Asylum

https://www.alphabetcity.org/events/jaquira-diaz-kaveh-akbar/ (Links to an external site.)

Of note - Puerto Rican author Jaquira Diaz will present on her memoir Ordinary Girls. This work includes references to the body, wellness, illness, mental health, addiction - all as avenues through which to understand one's own existence. (See interview below). 

www.npr.org › books › titles › ordinary-girls-a-memoirOrdinary Girls : NPR

 

Two raw and riveting memoirs: Kaveh Akbar & Jaquira Diaz

 

Thursday, February 6 7:00 pm  Kaveh Akbar & Jaquira Diaz  City of Asylum @ Alphabet City  40 W. North Avenue  FREE   Two searing memoirs from Iranian-born poet Kaveh Akbar and Puerto Rican born essayist Jaquira Díaz.  The two artists grapple with issues of home, violence, and climbing your way out of despair. They visit Alphabet City to read from their new work and discuss the incredibly intimate process of putting life's most transitional moments to word.  Pittsburgh based poet Steffan Triplett will moderate the discussion.  Presented in partnership with Chatham University's Creative Writing MFA.    Click Here for Free Tickets!     Click Here For Free Tickets!   Jaquira Díaz's work has been published in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Fader, and T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and included in The Best American Essays 2016. She is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, an Elizabeth George Foundation grant, and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Kenyon Review, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. She splits her time between Montréal and Miami Beach.   Kaveh Akbar is the recipient of the Levis Reading Prize, Pushcart Prize, Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, & Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Kaveh is the founding editor of Divedapper, a home for interviews with major voices in contemporary poetry.  Born in Tehran, Iran, he teaches at Purdue University and in the low-residency MFA programs at Randolph College and Warren Wilson. His poems appear in The New Yorker, Poetry, PBS NewsHour, The New Republic, Best American Poetry, The New York Times, & elsewhere.   At City of Asylum, we want our events to be welcoming and accessible to all people.  All floors of Alphabet City are wheelchair accessible.  Thanks to the generous support of RAD, we also have hearing assistive systems available for all programs.  If you have questions or are in need of accommodations, please contact us.    Click here to contact us about accessibility accommodations   Copyright © 2020 City of Asylum, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you registered to hear more from City of Asylum, either at one of our events or online. Our mailing address is: City of Asylum 40 W. North Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15212

Duquesne University Human Rights Film Series - free and open to the public

 

 

 

Good Afternoon,

 

The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures is pleased to announce In Pursuit of Justice, the 13^th annual Human Rights Film Series, January 29 to February 26, 2020. The films we have chosen address compelling issues that are at the forefront of our national discussion. We urge you to address these issues in your classes and encourage you and your student to attend the series.

 

*FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC*

Locations : College Hall room 104 or 105

     Start time of 7pm.

 

 

 

• Wednesday, January 29: Roll Red Roll: The story of a teenage girl’s assault by members of a high school football team and the repercussions of this event in the community of Steubenville, Ohio.  CH 104, 7pm.

 

Speaker: Lee K. Robbins. Title IX Coordinator, University Compliance, Duquesne University

 

·       Thursday, February 13^th: Parkland Rising: The story of the inspiring students and families who organized the March for Our Lives Movement after the horrific Parkland school shooting on February 14, 2018. CH 105, 7pm

 

Speaker: Detective Joseph Bielevicz, Pittsburgh Bureau of Police

 

·       Monday, February 17^th : The Unafraid: DACA students in Georgia, a state that has banned them from attending its top public universities. CH 104, 7pm

 

Speaker: Liliana E. Castrellón, Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Foundations and Leadership, Duquesne University

 

·       Monday, February 24^th: Invisible Hand: Capitalism vs. the rights of nature. CH 104, 7pm

 

Speakers: Joshua B. Pribanic, American film director, editor, investigative reporter and founder of the investigative news non-profit, Public Herald.

John F. Stolz, Professor, Biological Sciences and Director, Center for Environmental Research and Education, Duquesne University

 

·       Wednesday, February 26^th: The Silence of Others: State-sanctioned amnesia towards the crimes of the Franco regime. CH 104, 7pm.

 

Speaker: Lucìa Osa-Melero, Associate Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Duquesne University

 

 

The films are showing in the McAnulty College of Liberal Arts (College Hall) Room 104 or 105. All films start at 7:00 pm.

 

We hope to see you there.

 

2020 Film Series Committee:

 

Leonardo Bacarreza, Ph. D.

Mark Frisch, Ph. D.       

Edith H. Krause, Ph. D.  

 

Thank you,

 

 

Billie K Rebholz

Administrative Assistant

Duquesne University- Modern Languages and Literatures

539 College Hall

412-396-6415

Rebholzb@duq.edu

 

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Weekly SALSA 1/27

Hola amigos!

 

We hope you had a great weekend! Just a reminder that our first GBM will be taking place this week. Hope to see you there!

 

If you want to be more involved in SALSA feel free to reach out to us. Elections will be taking place in late March.

 

SALSA Events:

Event: First GBM

Date/Time: 01/29 at 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 pm

Location: CUC Dowd

 

Cheers,

Cecilia M.

Communications Director/Secretary

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Spanish And Latin Student Association
Carnegie Mellon University

salsa.cmu@gmail.com

Estás invitado a la Asamblea General

 

Te invita a participar en la Asamblea General         ASAMBLEA GENERAL       Febrero 7 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm       Colombia en Pittsburgh te invita a participar en la Asamblea General y en las elecciones de la nueva Junta Directiva. Ven y conoce más detalles de nuestra organización.       East Liberty Presbyterian Church en el "Fellowship Room" 116 S. Highland Ave, Pittsburgh PA 15206       Para mas información cep@colombiaenpittsburgh.org   Colombia en Pittsburgh colombiaenpittsburgh.org facebook.com/colombiaenpittsburgh instagram.com/colombiaenpittsburgh     Me gusta    Tweet    Compartir    Reenviar

 

SALSA 01/26

Hello everyone!

 

Update: Today our event will be taking place in the UC in McConomy. Please make sure to stop by!

 

Cheers,

Cecilia M.

Secretary

 

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Spanish And Latin Student Association
Carnegie Mellon University

salsa.cmu@gmail.com

SALSA Weekly Email 01/22

Hello Everyone! 

 

Welcome back to a new semester! We have to upcoming events one for the Celebration of Diversity and our first GBM of the semester. Dates and location are listed below.

 

If you want to be more involved in SALSA feel free to reach out to us. Elections will be taking place in late March.

 

SALSA Events:

Event: Celebration of Diversity

Date/Time: 01/26 at 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 pm

Location: Rangos 2

 

Event: First GBM

Date/Time: 01/29 at 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 pm

Location: CUC Dowd

 

Cheers,

Cecilia M.

Communications Director/Secretary

 

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Spanish And Latin Student Association
Carnegie Mellon University

salsa.cmu@gmail.com

LatinX & Proud! round two: tomorrow with poet Carlos Andrés Gómez

Latinx & Proud! Reading Series  with Carlos Andrés Gómez   Tuesday, January 21 7 p.m.  City of Asylum @ Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue FREE!     Click here for free tickets!   Carlos Andrés Gómez is widely known for his viral poems, "Where are you really from?" and "What Latino Looks Like," which have garnered millions of views online. Carlos' poetry is not only captivating, but also acts as a lightning rod for change—in the individual but also in the world, particularly in the narrow societal norms that constrain men, hurt women, and limit us all.  Carlos' voice is full of power and has the ability to make audiences laugh, cry, and especially hope. We're deeply honored to host Carlos as he performs on the Alphabet City stage for the first time.  Carlos will be joined by powerhouse poets Diannely Antigua, Juno Nascimento, & Rosa Iris Diendomi.      Carlos Andrés Gómez is a Colombian American poet from New York City & the author of Hijito (ee-HEE-toe), winner of the Broken River Prize & the memoir Man Up: Reimagining Modern Manhood.  A star of HBO's Def Poetry Jam & TV One's Verses & Flow. Gómez has also partnered with John Legend on Senior Orientation, a program to counteract bullying & champion inclusive masculinity among high school students. Carlos has been featured on NPR, TEDx, NBC News, The New York Times, People en Español, Forbes, and BuzzFeed just to name a few.    Click here for free tickets!   "The Latinx & Proud! Reading Series is a statement that we are here and our stories will be heard. Through this series we aim to highlight the many and diverse voices contained within the word "Latinx," and continue to defy any limiting definitions of what that identity can be." —Malcolm Friend, Author of Our Bruises Kept Singing Purple (Inlandia Books, 2018) and Latinx & Proud! advisory board member   The mission of the Latinx & Proud! Reading Series is to incite conversation, empower, & amplify the Latinx community in Pittsburgh, PA & beyond. Latinx & Proud! advisory board:  Adriana E. Ramírez, Eloisa Amezcua, Malcolm Friend & Karla Lamb   At City of Asylum, we want our events to be welcoming and accessible to all people.  All floors of Alphabet City are wheelchair accessible.  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 © 2020 City of Asylum, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you registered to hear more from City of Asylum, either at one of our events or online. Our mailing address is: City of Asylum 40 W. North Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15212