Brujas Locas
Thank you to everyone who has written me regarding yesterday's book review in the San Antonio Express-News on Naomi Shihab Nye's release of "I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?" In case you missed it, please click here.
Here is some news from the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center:
Esperanza Peace & Justice Center invites you to...Brujas Locas
*Sandra Cisneros* *Maria Varela* *Cecilia Munoz* *Ruth Behar* *Amalia Mesa-Baines*
Friday, October 5th @5pm
at the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center
.....a platica entre las mujeres MacArturas and Esperanza's local San Anto Locas
..........FREE! ... FREE! ... FREE!..........
Esperanza Peace & Justice Center
922 San Pedro Ave
San Antonio TX 78212
(entrance on W Evergreen, 1/2 mile north of downtown)
210.228.0201
..Bruja Loca ...Bruja Loca..
.What does it mean to be a bruja?
.Does society make you loca?
Join us for a discussion addressing these questions, connecting national, international and local perspectives.
Latin@ Genius:
Locos, Dreamers & Visionaries
is a ten-year reunion of the Latin@ recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship, an award given by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, to individuals of "exeptionals merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work." Dubbed "the genius grant" by the press, the Latino recipients have self-organized into a collective called "Los MacArturos," whose purpose is community outreach.
For more info on the MacArturos visit: www.sandracisneros.com
About Las MacArturas!
Sandra Cisneros is the author of several books, including The House on Mango Street, Woman Hollering Creek, Loose Woman and Caramelo. She is also the founder of the Macondo Workshop and the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation.
www.sandracisneros.com
Maria Varela is a community organizer living in Alburquerque, NM. Her work focuses on how rural communities, rural cultures and rural ecosystems survive and flourish. The balance among "cultural experiences, ecology, and economic activities either sustain or starve our communities."
http://www.lajicarita.org/98jan.htm
Cecilia Munoz is vice president of the office of research, advocacy and legislation at the National Council of La Raza. Munoz, 37, is a leader in immigration and civil rights policy and is a major force in such issues as the legalization of undocumented immigrants, family-based immigration rights and access to welfare benefits and education.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0DXK/is_10_17/ai_63817007
Ruth Behar was born in Havana, Cuba and came to live in New York with her family in 1962. She received her B.A. in Letters (1977) from Wesleyan University, and her M.A. (1980) and Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology (1983) from Princeton University. She resides in Ann Arbor and is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. She is also affiliated with University of Michigan programs in Women's Studies, Latina/Latino Studies, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies.She has written about her experience of crossing cultural borders as a poet, essayist, fiction writer, editor, and ethnographer. She is now turning to documentary filmmaking to seek yet another expression of her unique vision of the meaning of home in an age of travel and homesickness. As a Cuban woman of the diaspora, Ruth Behar is committed to seeking reconciliation and a common culture and memory with Cubans on the island. http://www.ruthbehar.com/ruthbio.htm
Amalia Mesa Baines is a San Francisco based artist, scholar and curator. She has been involved in the Chicano art movement since the 1960s and is best known for her installation work featuring altars and ceremonial themes. The driving force of her artistic vision is what she terms the "feminine Rasquachismo or Domesticana . . .that is simultaneously contestatory and passionately affirming of our histories as women and our situation of struggle."
http://www.csupomona.edu/%7Eplin/women2/part3.html
FOR A COMPLETE MACARTUROS EVENT SCHEDULE VISIT:
www.sandracisneros.com
Here is some news from the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center:
Esperanza Peace & Justice Center invites you to...Brujas Locas
*Sandra Cisneros* *Maria Varela* *Cecilia Munoz* *Ruth Behar* *Amalia Mesa-Baines*
Friday, October 5th @5pm
at the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center
.....a platica entre las mujeres MacArturas and Esperanza's local San Anto Locas
..........FREE! ... FREE! ... FREE!..........
Esperanza Peace & Justice Center
922 San Pedro Ave
San Antonio TX 78212
(entrance on W Evergreen, 1/2 mile north of downtown)
210.228.0201
..Bruja Loca ...Bruja Loca..
.What does it mean to be a bruja?
.Does society make you loca?
Join us for a discussion addressing these questions, connecting national, international and local perspectives.
Latin@ Genius:
Locos, Dreamers & Visionaries
is a ten-year reunion of the Latin@ recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship, an award given by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, to individuals of "exeptionals merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work." Dubbed "the genius grant" by the press, the Latino recipients have self-organized into a collective called "Los MacArturos," whose purpose is community outreach.
For more info on the MacArturos visit: www.sandracisneros.com
About Las MacArturas!
Sandra Cisneros is the author of several books, including The House on Mango Street, Woman Hollering Creek, Loose Woman and Caramelo. She is also the founder of the Macondo Workshop and the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation.
www.sandracisneros.com
Maria Varela is a community organizer living in Alburquerque, NM. Her work focuses on how rural communities, rural cultures and rural ecosystems survive and flourish. The balance among "cultural experiences, ecology, and economic activities either sustain or starve our communities."
http://www.lajicarita.org/98jan.htm
Cecilia Munoz is vice president of the office of research, advocacy and legislation at the National Council of La Raza. Munoz, 37, is a leader in immigration and civil rights policy and is a major force in such issues as the legalization of undocumented immigrants, family-based immigration rights and access to welfare benefits and education.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0DXK/is_10_17/ai_63817007
Ruth Behar was born in Havana, Cuba and came to live in New York with her family in 1962. She received her B.A. in Letters (1977) from Wesleyan University, and her M.A. (1980) and Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology (1983) from Princeton University. She resides in Ann Arbor and is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. She is also affiliated with University of Michigan programs in Women's Studies, Latina/Latino Studies, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies.She has written about her experience of crossing cultural borders as a poet, essayist, fiction writer, editor, and ethnographer. She is now turning to documentary filmmaking to seek yet another expression of her unique vision of the meaning of home in an age of travel and homesickness. As a Cuban woman of the diaspora, Ruth Behar is committed to seeking reconciliation and a common culture and memory with Cubans on the island. http://www.ruthbehar.com/ruthbio.htm
Amalia Mesa Baines is a San Francisco based artist, scholar and curator. She has been involved in the Chicano art movement since the 1960s and is best known for her installation work featuring altars and ceremonial themes. The driving force of her artistic vision is what she terms the "feminine Rasquachismo or Domesticana . . .that is simultaneously contestatory and passionately affirming of our histories as women and our situation of struggle."
http://www.csupomona.edu/%7Eplin/women2/part3.html
FOR A COMPLETE MACARTUROS EVENT SCHEDULE VISIT:
www.sandracisneros.com
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