You May Fall but NEVER FAIL | #LatinoPittsburgh Digital Speaker Series

 

 

LIVE @ 12 pm Wednesday June 30rd on Facebook Join us on June 30th for a discussion with the Michael Rodriguez, Enterprise Account Executive with Comcast. We are going to be discussing a collaborative effort to ensure that small Latinx businesses have free and open access to financial grants, technology, consulting, marketing services, creative production and technology makeovers. This program aims to create sustainable impact and give meaningful support to the small businesses who are shaping our communities. The conversation will take place LIVE on our Facebook Page at 12pm on June 30, 2021. It will be followed by a Q&A Session. The video may be viewed following the event.   Recently, small businesses have been dealing with the ongoing impact of the pandemic, social unrest, and environmental events. Small businesses owned by people of color have been some of the hardest hit. According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, between February and April 2020, the number of active Latinx-owned businesses declined by 32%, Black-owned businesses declined by 41% and Asian-owned businesses dropped by 25%, versus just 21% for the general population. Comcast RISE was created to invest in the success of these critical businesses by providing valuable and practical support. Michael Rodriguez is a Comcast Business Enterprise Account Executive whose focus is to build relationships within the community and introduce growing businesses to Comcast. Michael believes that relationships last longer than products and that failure is an opportunity to learn something new about yourself to share what you have learned with others. Michael is a Marine Veteran who moved from Texas to Pennsylvania though Comcast's Hiring Veterans program in 2019. As previous member of the Hispanic Chamber in Austin, TX and with a BA that focuses on Entrepreneurship, he believes in Comcast RISE program and its goal to support 13,000 Black, Indigenous and People of Color-owned small businesses by 2022.

 

#LatinoPittsburgh Digital Speaker Series is an initiative of the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. It's goals are to share relevant information, inspire growth and foster opportunity. Speakers include community leaders and member as well as other individuals who have a positive impact not only on the Hispanic community, but Pittsburgh as a region. To learn more visit our website. Interested in Speaking? Contact MelanieMarie@pmahcc.org

 

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[CMU] MHCI at SCS Students Looking for Contacts in Puerto Rico to Interview

 

FOR PEOPLE IN PUERTO RICO INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING IN A RESEARCH STUDY FROM CARNEGIE MELLON

We're a team of graduate students from Carnegie Mellon University working with the Clemente Museum in Pittsburgh to inspire the next generation of baseball and Roberto Clemente fans to continue his legacy, and we need your help!

We are in the process of planning a trip to Puerto Rico from 7/14/21 to 7/18/21 and will be conducting in-person interviews with 18 to 30-year-olds during this time.

Each interview will last up to an hour and you will be asked to go through a browser experience about Roberto Clemente's life and simply tell us your thoughts about it! At the successful completion of each interview, the participant will receive $25 in the form of an Amazon or Starbucks gift card.

So, feel free to fill out or share this link with anyone else who might be interested!

https://forms.gle/kRdQiJZvnqpewJ3M7

Please feel free to reach out to us at
team21clemente@gmail.com if you have any questions.

 

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Iván E. Cao-Berg

Research Software Specialist

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Mellon College of Science

Carnegie Mellon University

 

Pronouns: He/Him

 

[Point Park University's Pittsburgh Playhouse] Community Auditions

 

Cucarachita Martina’s Musical Adventure at the Tribeca Film Festival

 

Saludos!

 

The Center for Puerto Rican Studies (Centro) at Hunter College is proud to announce that its animated short, "Cucarachita Martina's Musical Adventure," will be screened at the 2021 Tribeca Festival. It is an out-of-competition short selection made in collaboration with the National Puerto Rican Day Parade. The short will be shown on Sunday, June 13 at 4:00 PM in Soundview Park and on Monday, June 14, 2021 at 6:00 PM, on the Streaming Tribeca at Home website. View trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBKRnrINKRc

 

As a reminder, the video and educational material for the video are available on our web page as part of the Cultural Ambassadors Junior Resources. 

Here is the link to register for the Puerto Rican Heritage Cultural Ambassadors Program

https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/education/cultural-ambassadors-junior-resources

 

Thank you for helping us to share and celebrate Puerto Rican culture and to keep alive the legacy of our querida Pura Belpré.

 

Puerto Rican Heritage Cultural Ambassadors Team

Raquel Ortiz, Curriculum Developer

Elizabeth Taveras, Curriculum Writer

Melinda Gonzalez, Coordinator

Rosa Cruz, Outreach and Partnership Manager

Apply for the D. E. Shaw group's summer fellowships

 

rising sophomores!! This is a great fellowship opportunity for y'all from D. E. Shaw group. Read the full email below to get more details and don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions :) 

 

The deadline to apply is June 30 

 

Amelia Lopez

President

 

Hi Officers of the the Spanish And Latin Student Association,

 

We've been in touch with your group before about opportunities at the D. E. Shaw group, and I wanted to let you know we're accepting applications for our two summer 2021 fellowships for rising sophomores. Applications are open until Wednesday, June 30, and students can learn more on our fellowship program website. We'd encourage you to forward this email to members of the Spanish And Latin Student Association, along with anyone else who may be interested.

 

The fellowships are unique education programs that give participating students insight into our firm and industry. During these three-day virtual programs, fellows will participate in a content-driven curriculum of interactive seminars led by notable speakers and the firm's own analysts. They'll also spend time with senior leaders of the firm, discuss career paths in finance with recent hires and long-tenured employees, and develop relationships with students from schools around the country. We provide a $1,500 stipend.

 

Thank you in advance for sharing this opportunity with your members! You can reach out to me directly with any questions. Please also let me know if there's a better point of contact for communications with the Spanish And Latin Student Association going forward.

 

Best,

Jayshlyn Acevedo

Recruiting | The D. E. Shaw Group

 

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Spanish And Latin Student Association
Carnegie Mellon University

salsa.cmu@gmail.com

Tango Negro: New Films from Harris @ Home

 

FYI,

 

Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival Films

Available to stream June 4 - June 13

Enjoy three incredible films for free, courtesy of the 2021 Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival! Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, Tango Negro, The African Roots of Tango, and Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts are all available to view for the ten days of the Festival.

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Celebrating 2021 PRIDE MONTH and the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival

We are excited to announce our newest lineup of films from Harris @ Home for the month of June!     As part of the 2021 DOLLAR BANK THREE RIVERS ARTS FESTIVAL, we are happy to provide free access to three amazing art house films that you can enjoy from home.   Join us in celebrating 2021 PRIDE MONTH with two of our selected films, THE FIGHT and TANGERINE.   Thank you for your support of local theater! The following films run through June 14 as part of the 2021 DOLLAR BANK THREE RIVERS ARTS FESTIVAL: GRACE JONES - BLOODLIGHT AND BAMI                   This electrifying journey through the public and private worlds of pop culture mega-icon Grace Jones contrasts musical sequences with intimate personal footage, all the while brimming with Jones's bold aesthetic. A larger-than-life entertainer, an androgynous glam-pop diva, an unpredictable media presence –Grace Jones is all these things and more. Sophie Fiennes's documentary goes beyond the traditional music biography, offering a portrait as stylish and unconventional as its subject.     Receive one ticket valid for a seven-day pass.  Simply register, or login if you have an existing account, via the link below, click on the Redeem Pass button and enter promo code HTGH21 to process your order. BILL TRAYLOR: CHASING GHOSTS               This illuminating documentary explores the life of a unique American artist, a man with a remarkable and unlikely biography. Bill Traylor was born into slavery in1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama. After the Civil War, Traylor continued to farm the land as a sharecropper until the late 1920s. Aging and alone, he moved to Montgomery and worked odd jobs in the thriving segregated black neighborhood. A decade later, in his late 80s, Traylor became homeless and started to draw and paint, both memories from plantation days and scenes of a radically changing urban culture.   Receive one ticket valid for a five-day pass.  Enter promo code HTBT21 in the link below to process your order. TANGO NEGRO, THE AFRICAN ROOTS OF TANGO   Tango Negro, The African Roots of Tango by Angolan filmmaker Dom Pedro explores the expression of Tango's Africanness and the contribution of African cultures in the creation of the tango. Tango was a reflection of the social life of the slaves that were taken to South America - including Argentina and Uruguay - mostly from central Africa, particularly from the former Kongo Kingdom. Director Dom Pedro reveals the depth of the footprints of the African music on the tango, through this rich movie combining musical performances and interviews from many tango fans and historians in Latin America and Europe, including the renowned Argentinean pianist Juan Carlos Caceres.   Click on the link below and enter the password artmattan to process your order. The following Harris @ Home films are available to purchase through June 30: A reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality. We wander, dreamlike, gently guided by our Scheherazade-esque narrator.  Inconsequential moments take on the same significance as historical events: a couple floats over a war-torn Cologne; on the way to a birthday party, a father stops to tie his daughter's shoelaces in the pouring rain; teenage girls dance outside a cafe; a defeated army marches to a prisoner-of-war camp.  Simultaneously an ode and a lament, ABOUT ENDLESSNESS presents a kaleidoscope of all that is eternally human, an infinite story of the vulnerability of existence. Only days after the 2017 inauguration of Donald Trump, furious Americans gathered at airports across the country in protest of the Muslim ban. But it was the efforts of the American Civil Liberties Union, waging the fight in federal court, that turned the tide, staying the executive order on grounds of unconstitutionality. The ACLU has never granted access to its offices, even as its battles—on the fronts of abortion rights, immigration rights, LGBT right sand voting rights—have become more timely and momentous than ever.  An antidote to endless news cycles filled with tweet tantrums, THE FIGHT inspires with the story of front-line warriors in the battle for the American soul. It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the sex worker and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles. TrustArts.org | Events | Connect | Support This message sent by Pittsburgh Cultural Trust 803 Liberty Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15222 United States Unsubscribe | Update Preferences