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Date: May 10, 2013
Place: SFU Harbour Centre
UBC Green College

Participants: Onur Bakiner (SFU), Ceren Belge (Concordia University), Virginia Bouvier (USIP), Marc Chernick (Georgetown University), Delis Palacios (Colombia), Pilar Riaño-Alcalá (UBC), and Nicole Watts (San Francisco State University).

Program:

12.00-14.00 at Green College, coach house: Panel on state-civil society relations during conflict and peace (participants will present their research agendas). Lunch will be provided

17.00-19.00 at Harbour Centre Room 7000: Roundtable on the recent peace negotiations in Colombia and Turkey

From the University of Victoria…

Join us on a three-week exploration of the rich cultural heritage and diverse geographical regions that Argentina has to offer. Observe and experience the cultural sophistication of Buenos Aires as well as the topographical beauty of the pampas, the rain forest on the Brazilian border, and the wine producing regions of the Andean Northwest.

This exciting tour will include:

• Pre-travel orientation course in Argentine culture and Spanish language
• Tango lessons at the traditional Café Tortoni
• Performance at the elegant Teatro Colón
• Visit to the famous Plaza de Mayo
• Evita’s tomb in the Recoleta cemetery
• Wineries of Cafayate to sample Argentina’s unique Torrontés grape
• Traditional asado criollo feast at one of the great estates on the pampas
• Guided walk through Iguazú Falls National Park and the rainforest
• Guided bus tour through the scenic villages of the Andean Northwest
• Shopping and exploring Buenos Aires

May 7 to 27, 2013

Academic Resource: Christine Forster, Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies, University of Victoria. For more information, visit www.uvcs.uvic.ca/2012/casale/travel/ or contact Continuing Studies at UVic: 250-472-4747 • jaking@uvic.ca

GALA PIANO CONCERT
Featuring works by Mozart, Beethoven, Soler, Ponce, and Moncayo
May 24, 2013, 7:30-9:30pm (doors open at 7pm)

Roy Barnett Recital Hall
UBC SCHOOL OF MUSIC
6361 Memorial Road
Vancouver, BC

Free Admission (Limited Capacity)
For more information, contact pdelamaza@consulmexvan.com

One of the pre-eminent pianists of our time, Jorge Federico Osorio is internationally acclaimed for his superb musicianship and masterful command of the instrument. He has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including Israel Philharmonic, Moscow State Orchestra, Orchestre Nationale de France, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony. Mr. Osorio’s concert tours have taken him to Europe, Asia, and North, Central and South America, where he has collaborated with such distinguished conductors as Bernard Haitink, Mariss Jansons, Lorin Maazel, Klaus Tennstedt, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, James Conlon, Luis Herrera, Manfred Honeck, Eduardo Mata, Michel Plasson and Carlos Miguel Prieto, among many others.

In July 2011, Mr. Osorio performed all five Beethoven Concerti with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival in back-to-back concerts. Chicagoclassicalreview.com praised his performances as “revelatory on virtually every level.” Recent seasons have included concerts throughout Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Spain, and performances with the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Puerto Rico, New Mexico, Louisiana, Memphis, Huntsville, Akron, Elgin and Florida (West Coast). Of Mr. Osorio’s 2007 New York Lincoln Center recital The New York Times proclaimed, “the sweep and freshness of his readings made his performance impossible to resist.”

A prolific recording artist, Mr. Osorio has recorded a wide variety of repertoire, including a Brahms solo CD that Gramophone hailed as “one of the most distinguished discs of Brahms’ piano music in recent years.” Other recordings by Mr. Osorio include Beethoven’s Five Piano Concerti and Choral Fantasy, Brahms Concerto No. 2, and concerti by Chávez, Mozart, Ponce, Rachmaninov, Rodrigo, Schumann and Tchaikovsky. Piano Español, a collection of works by Albéniz, Falla, Granados and Soler, received glowing reviews internationally and has marked Mr. Osorio as one of the great interpreters of Spanish piano music in the world.

Recipient of several international prizes and awards, including the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Gina Bachauer Award and the Rhode Island International Master Piano Competition, Mr. Osorio is passionately involved in the performance of chamber music. He is also a dedicated teacher and is on the faculty at Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts. Mr. Osorio began his musical studies at the age of five with his mother, Luz María Puente, and later attended the conservatories of Mexico, Paris and Moscow, where he studied with Bernard Flavigny, Monique Haas and Jacob Milstein. Additionally, he worked with Nadia Reisenberg and Wilhelm Kempff.

www.jorgefedericoosorio.com

The Vancouver International Film Festival presents…

‘¡Ay Jalisco, No Te Rajes!’
(“Hey Jalisco, Don’t Back Down!”)
Directed by: Joselito Rodriguez
Cast: Jorge Negrete, Gloria Marin, Carlos Lopez, Evaita Munoz Charchita
(Mexico, 1941, 100 min.)

Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 7pm
Vancity Theatre
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This special event will include live Mariachi performances after the screening.

In rural Mexico, when a young boy’s parents are killed, he is raised by a farm worker and the town’s barman, who instills a desire of vengeance in him, and as an adult he romances a young woman who is going to marry a rich man to save her father from financial ruin. This 1941 Mexican film classic became an enormous hit and features Jorge Negrete as the first cinematic singing Mariachi. This performance made Negrete–”el charro cantor”–an international Latin film star and launched the appearance of singing mariachis in films.

As for the famous title song, Walt Disney borrowed the melody and added new English lyrics for his film The Three Caballeros (1944). The song has also been covered by Placido Domingo, Julio Iglesias and even Senator Ted Kennedy, who apparently serenaded Texan voters with it while campaigning for Barack Obama in 2008.

The fifth Mariachi Festival Canada is scheduled from May 15th to May 20th 2013 in various cities and locations in Canada, including a Mariachi Gala in Vancouver on Saturday May 18th 2013. The festival features mariachis, dancers and performers from Mexico, USA and Canada.

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A taste of Peru in Vancouver: come and join us on Saturday July 27, 2013!
Bring your family and friends entertainment for the whole family.

Free admission.

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In Santiago de Chile…

La Vicerrectoría Académica de la Universidad ARCIS invita:

Presentación del libro: Postsoberanía: Literatura, política, y trabajo, editado por Ediciones La Cebra. De Oscar Cabezas, Profesor de la Universidad de British Columbia, Canadá.

Jueves 2 de mayo a las 19:30 horas
Ubicación: Librería Editores Asociados, Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral. Metro Universidad Católica.

Comentadores: Rodrigo Karmy, Rodrigo Naranjo, Raúl Rodríguez

Postsoberanía: Literatura, política, y trabajo nos lleva un paso más allá en la búsqueda de lo que Foucault llamó una ontología del presente. En un diálogo implícito con recientes desarrollos que exploran el lugar de la cultura, la post-hegemonía, la razón imperial o, lo que refiriéndose a la hegemonía del capital, Cabezas denomina postsoberanía, el autor demuestra con brillo y contundencia que la ligazón soberana ha sido la fundación última de nuestro presente. Y si bien ese presente hoy se resquebraja bajo nuestros pies, este libro nos recuerda que otras modalidades de existencia estuvieron desde siempre socavando su autoridad. Tres de estas modalidades aparecen ejemplarmente articuladas en su implicación de una historia a la vez universal y latinoamericana bajo los nombres de literatura, política y trabajo.

Horacio Legras

In Buenos Aires…

La Cebra invita a la presentación de Postsoberanía: Literatura, política, y trabajo, de Oscar Arial Cabezas.

Presentarán el libro: María Pía López y Alejandro Kaufman.

Martes 30 de abril a las 19:30 horas.

Museo del libro y de la lengua (Av. de las Heras 2555), Auditorio David Viñas

El mismo martes, a las 11hs, recibimos en Clinamen al filósofo chileno Oscar Ariel Cabezas, autor de Postsoberanía: Literatura, política y trabajo (2013, La Cebra). Vamos a conversar largo y tendido sobre su trabajo, y en particular sobre su interés en la obra de León Rozitchner

fm la tribu, 88.7
www.fmlatribu.com
www.ciudadclinamen.blogspot.com

April 29, 2013

The world’s “Greenest City” is home to some very dirty business. Weren’t invited to the BC Mining Week Opening Gala?? Join us for a “Toxic Tour” of Vancouver’s mining headquarters!!

Featuring performances, testimonies, video footage and action-packed surprises.

5pm START :At the GOLDCORP SFU Center for the Arts (in the Woodwards ‘public’ Atrium)

Final destination: BC Mining Week’s Opening Gala Event at Canada Place. . . and outside: THE OTHER GALA to honour community resistance to unjust mining and expose the violence of Vancouver companies.
Food, Video, Speakers, and more.

* Stand in solidarity with communities affected by Vancouver mining companies throughout Turtle Island and across the globe!
* Visit the corporate headquarters of mining companies and hear from communities resisting mines!
* Reject government-supported corporate violation of peoples’ lands, waters, rights and livelihoods!
* Honour those who have been injured or killed for their opposition to Canadian mining projects!
* Bring your children, parents, grandparents!

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What’s BC Mining Week?

The City of Vancouver plans to become the “greenest city in the world.” It is also home to the world’s largest conglomeration of mining companies. Beginning on April 29th 2013, Vancouver will host BC Mining Week. After an opening gala, where the “Mining Person of the Year Award 2012” will be granted, BC’s mining industry leaders will spend a week wining and dining at receptions, awards ceremonies and charitable events.

On their websites and in press releases, extractive corporations claim to bring economic and social ‘development’ to local and indigenous communities in BC and across the world. But the “greenwashing” can’t hide the increasing reports of conflict, environmental devastation, water toxicity and scarcity, human and indigenous rights violations, and violent repression–even murder–of residents who speak out in opposition to extractive projects.

Ever wondered why so many mining companies set up shop in Vancouver? The Canadian government actively assists extractive corporations with tax-breaks, subsidies, lax stock market regulations, diplomatic support, and immunity from prosecution for environmental destruction and human rights abuses overseas.

The Indian
Rated: G
Recommended ages 7+ (good for ages 6+ if they speak Dutch)

Rio Theatre (1660 East Broadway)
Sunday, April 28, 2013, 2pm

Tickets at riotheatre.ca $8 adults/$5 kids ($9/$6 at the door)
Advance tickets on sale starting April 22-26 at the Queen Victoria Annex Elementary School in the undercover area, before and after school. Bring cash or cheque.
Door prize: a gift certificate for Little Nest

In Dutch with English Subtitles

Koos, a little boy of almost eight, very much wants to look like his impressive, typically Dutch father, which is not an easy thing as Koos has been adopted from Peru and is rather small and of dark complexion. One day he sees a Peruvian boy playing a strange kind of music outside the supermarket and discovers that he, like the boy, is of Indian origin. Determined to embrace his roots, Koos goes on a journey of self-discovery to find out who he really is and where he comes from. This sensitive and insightful film looks at the fears and curiosities some adopted children experience.

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Kids Culture Film Series