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Zenen Zeferino in New York May 18 – June 14, 2015

Zenen Zeferino, jaranero and poet has been a pioneering force in

Son Jarocho music for over thirty years. Born in Jáltipan de Morelos,

Veracruz, he was a founding member of the legendary group

Chuchumbé in the 1990’s and later Quemayama, and currently plays

as Zenen Zeferino y el Sonoro Sueño.

Alec Dempster, visual artist and musician, has been involved in Son

Jarocho for twenty years, as musicologist and jaranero, and the

“official” artist of the genre, having created countless album covers,

as well as other series, including his Lotería Jarocha linoleum prints.

Son Jarocho is 250-year-old folk music from Veracruz, Mexico,

deriving its name from the mixed descendants of African, European,

and Indigenous people - inhabitants of the southern part of the state

since Colonial times who came to be known as “Jarochos.” Son

Jarocho reflects the cultural richness of its practitioners, consisting of

a fusion of Spanish (primarily Flamenco), African (and AfroCaribbean),

and Indigenous elements. This tradition was born out of

the Fandango, a community gathering featuring a tarima, a large

wooden platform made for percussive dancing, around which

everyone gathers to dance, play, and sing, often all night long.

Concerts

Thursday, May 28, 10:00pm
Zenen Zeferino y Amigos
Barbés
376 9th St., Brooklyn, NY 11215
$10 cover
*
Sunday, May 31, 7:00pm, 9:00pm
Zenen Zeferino y Amigos
Subrosa
63 Gansevoort St., New York, NY
$15 cover
*
Friday, June 5, 9:00pm
Zenen Zeferino y Amigos
Cantina Royal
58 North 3rd St., Brooklyn, NY
$10 cover
*
Saturday, June 6, 9:00pm
Zenen Zeferino, with Radio Jarocho
Barbés
376 9th St., Brooklyn, NY
$10 cover
*
Sunday, June 14, 7:00pm
Zenen Zeferino y Amigos, with special
guest Alec Dempster
Jalopy
315 Columbia St., Brooklyn, NY
$10 cover

information contact:
morenacruzz@yahoo.com.mx

Workshops

Jarana workshop
with Zenen Zeferino
4 sessions: Mondays - May 18, May 25,
June 1, June 8 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Cost: All four classes: $60
 Single class: $20
Citylore, 56 E. First St., New York, NY
*
Jarana, Zapateado, Verse-making
workshop
Zenen Zeferino and Esther Cruz Maranto
4 sessions: Wednesdays - May 20, May 27,
June 3, June 10
Jarana / Zapateado:
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Cost: All four classes: $60
 Single class: $20
Verse-making:
9:00pm – 10:00pm
Cost: All four classes: $40
 Single class: $15
Sacred Rhythm Music and Cosmic Arts
56 Bogart St, Suite 4N, Brooklyn, NY
*
Jarana & Zapateado workshop
Zenen Zeferino and Esther Cruz Maranto
4 sessions: Tuesdays & Thursdays
May 19, 21, 26, 28; June 2, 4, 9, 11
4:00pm – 6:00pm
Cost: Free
Mi Casa es Puebla
77 3rd St., Passaic, NJ
*
Requinto workshop
with Alec Dempster
2 sessions: Sundays - June 7, 6:30pm –
9:00pm, June 14, 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Cost: Two classes: $30
 Single class: $20
925 Bergen, Studio #306, Brooklyn, NY

Other Events

Saturday, May 23, 6:00pm
Fandango
Mano a Mano Mexican Culture Without
Borders
550 W. 155 St., New York, NY
*
Friday, June 5, 9:00pm
Fandango
Cantina Royal
58 North 3rd St., Brooklyn, NY
*
Monday, June 8,, 8:30pm
Fandango
Citylore
56 E. First St., New York, NY
*
Tuesday, June 9,, 8:30pm
Gallery Opening: Alec Dempster
Bullet Space
292 E. 3rd St., New York, NY
*
Wednesday, June 10, 8:30pm
Fandango
Sacred Rhythm Music and Cosmic Arts
56 Bogart St, Suite 4N, Brooklyn, NY
*
Wednesday, June 10, 4:00pm
Fandango
Mi Casa es Puebla
77 3rd St., Passaic, NJ
*
Friday, June 12, 7:00pm
Alec Dempster: Book presentation,
exhibition – Loteria jarocha
St. Peter’s Church
619 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
*
Saturday, June 13, 11:00am – 4:00pm
Storytelling workshop with Zenen
Zeferino, discussion, and concert with
Radio Jarocho
La Casa Azul Bookstore
143 E 103 St., New York, NY
Image by Alec Dempster

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Protest against anti-abortion law

MY BODY - MY CHOICE. Protest against Spain's planned anti-abortion law.

Posted Sat, 02/08/2014 - 1:11pm by isatxu

Date: 

Saturday, February 15, 2014 - 3:00pm

Location: 

150 East 58th St

Contact: 

isabelcadenascanon@gmail.com

We will gather outside the Spanish consulate to say NO to the Gallardón bill with which 97 % of women are denied the right to decide to terminate a pregnancy and will be forced to do so "illegally."

Those who have the means will go abroad and the rest will jeopardize their health and lives by resorting to clandestine abortions.

Join the MAREA VIOLETA and bring a hanger with your prochoice message!

Link: 

https://www.facebook.com/events/1380133388897911/1380167795561137/?notif_t=like

• Subject: 
  • International, 
  • Women
• Tags: 
  • spain, 
  • abortion access

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The Accursed Circumstance”: Virgilio Piñera Centennial Conference

Imagen perteneciente a 'Aire frío' (Photo credit: Casa de América)

• "The Accursed Circumstance”: Virgilio Piñera Centennial Conference is a two-day conference in tribute to Virgilio Piñera in the centennial of his birth. November 8: Stony Brook University, LI November 9: Manhattan 387 Park Avenue South (entrance at 101 East 27th Street) Invited Speakers: Abilio Estévez / Antonio José Ponte Thomas Anderson Rafael Rojas Arcadio Díaz Quiñones Gerard Aching Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia José Quiroga Jorge Brioso Ana María Dopico Licia Fiol-Matta Enrique del Risco Noel Luna Aurea María Sotomayor Javier Guerrero Mariana Amato Modesto Milanés Virgilio Piñera is, without a doubt, one of the most representative, prolific, and influential of Cuban writers. He was born in Cárdenas, Cuba, in 1912 and died in Havana, Cuba in 1979. Piñera was a poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, and journal editor. He is Cuba’s most important playwright and one of Latin America’s top playwrights of the twentieth century. Among his best-known works, Piñera is the author of arguably Cuba's most memorable poem, “La isla en peso” [The island and its weight, 1943]; a stunning novel, La carne de René [René’s Flesh, trans. Marc Schafer, orig. 1952]; and modernist short stories collected in Cuentos fríos [Cold Tales, trans. Marc Schafer, orig. 1956]. His dazzling theater output consists of more than twenty plays, all revolving around the theater of the absurd and on a par with European greats such as Samuel Beckett or Eugene Ionesco: Electra Garrigó, Aire frío, Dos viejos pánicos, Una caja de zapatos vacía, and many others. After the Cuban Revolution’s 1959 triumph, Piñera, like many other writers, joined the ranks of writer-workers that Cuban leaders spoke of creating. In 1968, he won Cuba’s top literary prize, the Premio Casa Las Américas, for his play Dos viejos pánicos. Yet, having fallen out of grace with the Cuban Revolution for his dissent and homosexuality, he spent his last years in oblivion. By 1971, Piñera became a completely marginal figure up to his death, despite his considerable literary stature. Piñera was a master of the art of the absurd and of Artaud’s theater of cruelty. His poetry presented an up to then unknown exploration of the unconscious and its formal possibilities, an angle he also pursued in his fiction. He was, paradoxically, a simultaneously central and marginal figure in Cuban literature and art, and his work has only recently begun to receive the attention it so markedly deserves because of its high quality, its literary impact on multiple writers of his and subsequent generations, and the silencing to which he was subjected at various points in his career. Several events honoring his life and work have taken place in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Miami through 2012, a long overdue recognition of Virgilio Piñera's achievements and signal importance in Cuban, Latin American, and world literature. Aside from his importance in Cuban letters, Piñera is essential in filling the lacunae in the global genealogy of gender and queer studies, and a cornerstone of performance art and epistemologies of the body as such. The discussion of his oeuvre will be of interest to scholars working at the crossroads of poetics, gender, performance, and politics. Our invited speakers will directly address aspects of Piñera’s work and address the state of the field in Caribbean studies. http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/hispanic/events/Virgilio%20Pi%EF%BF%BDera%20Centennial%20Conference%20Poster.jpg

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Presentación de "Distintos modos de evitar a un poeta"

 

McNally Jackson Books

Viernes 14 de Setiembre, 7pm

Distintos modos de evitar a un poeta: poesía cubana del siglo XXI

Antología de Poesía Cubana del Siglo XXI: Distintos modos de evitar a un poeta, (El Quirófano Ediciones, Ecuador). Presentación a cargo de Lizabel Mónica 

 

52 Prince Street
New York, NY 10012 (map)

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Consultas legales gratis para artistas e inmigrantes (Proyecto artístico: Movimiento Internacional de Inmigrantes)

CONSULTAS LEGALES GRATIS PARA ARTISTAS E INMIGRANTES

LUNES 9 DE ABRIL, 2012 de 6 PM a 9 PM
MOVIMIENTO INMIGRANTE INTERNACIONAL 108-59 Roosevelt Avenue Corona, NY
Instrucciones para llegar 

El Movimiento Inmigrante Internacional llevará a cabo consultas gratuitas sobre inmigración patrocinada por el City Bar Justice Center el día Lunes 9 de Abril. Hable en privado con un abogado de inmigración sobre sus inquietudes legales incluyendo temas tales como visas para artistas, inmigración cubana y reunificaciones familiares. Habrá abogados disponibles en Ingles, Español y Mandarín. Este taller proporciona la oportunidad para que los miembros de la comunidad busquen ayuda legal sin costo alguno. Los abogados no tomarán casos particulares.

RESERVE UNA CITA HOY (718) 424 6502
  El 31 Marzo es el último día para registrarse.

**Los participantes deben llegar 30 minutos antes de su consulta**

Immigrant Movement International is an artwork and a social movement. Artist Tania Bruguera moved to Corona, Queens in January 2011 to learn about conditions facing immigrants and their political representation. The ultimate goal is to build a coalition of people and organizations that redefines how immigrants and immigration are treated worldwide!

Presented by the Queens Museum of Art.

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Legal clinic for artists & inmigrants (Artwork: Immigrant Movement International )

FREE LEGAL CONSULTATIONS FOR ARTISTS AND IMMIGRANTS

MONDAY APRIL 9, 2012 from 6 PM - 9 PM
IMMIGRANT MOVEMENT INTERNATIONAL 108-59 Roosevelt Avenue Corona, NY
Click here for directions

Immigrant Movement International will be hosting a free immigration clinic sponsored by the City Bar Justice Center on Monday April 9, 2012.  Speak privately about your legal concerns with an immigration attorney including issues surrounding artists visas, Cuban immigration and family reunification.  Lawyers will be available in English, Spanish and Mandarin.  This workshops is an opportunity for community members to seek objective legal advice at no cost.  Attorneys will not be taking on cases.

RESERVE YOUR APPOINTMENT TODAY (718) 424 6502
March 31 is the last day to register!

**Participants must arrive 30 minutes prior to appointment**

Immigrant Movement International is an artwork and a social movement. Artist Tania Bruguera moved to Corona, Queens in January 2011 to learn about conditions facing immigrants and their political representation. The ultimate goal is to build a coalition of people and organizations that redefines how immigrants and immigration are treated worldwide!

Presented by the Queens Museum of Art.

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Aglutinador Laboratorio anuncia su próxima exhibición

Con esta invitación informal el espacio independiente con más experiencia en La Habana anuncia una propuesta auspiciada por The New School:

Este viernes 16 a las 6:00 pm en "aglutinador country" (territorio para las Artes libres de Dengue):


Leslie Hewitt y William Córdova (USA)
Curaduría: Coco Fusco
Financiado por: The New School University, New York

Sandra Ceballos

Calles 6 y 25 No 602 Vedado. La Habana

TEL. (537) 52913215

www.espacioaglutinador.com

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Odette Casamayor lanza su libro de cuentos "Una casa en los Catskills"

Ahora en NEW YORK! Odette Casamayor  leerá  los cuentos de "Una casa en los Catskills" (Ed. La Secta de los Perros) La presentación corre a cargo del escritor cubano José Manuel Prieto y la académica Jacqueline Loss. Viernes, 20 de enero de 2012 A las 19:00 horas52 Prince St., New York,  NY 10012 Reídas y lloradas lo mismo en La Habana que en Brooklyn o París, historias sin lugar ni nombres; sólo cuerpos haciéndose y deshaciéndose y corriendo como agua.  No tienen donde parar. Y el comienzo fue olvidado. Odette Casamayor,  "Una casa en los Catskills" (Ed. La Secta de los Perros)

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V Bienal Interamericana de Video Arte 2010

V Bienal Interamericana de Video Arte 2010, originalmente cargada por PROYECTO DESLIZ.

Cierre de envíos:
31 julio 2010

Centro Cultural del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID)

1300 New York Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20577
EE.UU.

V Bienal Interamericana de Video Arte 2010
Convocatoria

El Centro Cultural del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo anuncia que
se ha abierto la convocatoria para participar en la V Bienal
Interamericana de Video Arte a celebrarse en diciembre de 2010 en el
Centro Cultural del BID, Washington, D.C.

Los objetivos de la competencia son: 1) Estimular el uso creativo del
video y motivar a los artistas de América latina y el Caribe a
utilizar sus habilidades para formular propuestas imaginativas y
originales con las nuevas tecnologías visuales; y 2) ampliar la
discusión sobre los factores que afectan la realidad social, cultural
y económica de América latina y el Caribe.

Habrá tres premios en efectivo (primer premio US$4,0000; segundo
premio US$3,000; y tercer premio US$2,000); y dos menciones
honoríficas de US$1,000 cada una. Los premios y menciones serán
determinados por un Jurado Internacional.

Fecha límite de entrega de videos:
31 de julio de 2010.

Los videos seleccionados para conformar la Bienal serán anunciados en
octubre de 2010.

La apertura de la Bienal en Washington, D.C. tendrá lugar en
diciembre de 2010.

El Circuito Internacional de Exposición de la Bienal comenzará en
2011.

Vea las >> bases de la competencia en events.iadb.org/calendar/
eventDetail.aspx?lang=en&id=1497&
en inglés, castellano, francés y portugués para información sobre
inscripción, envío de videos, etc.

Sitio web oficial: www.iadb.org/topics/culture/cultural/

Dirección de correo electrónico: idbcc@iadb.org

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Archipiélago de sueños / Archipelago of Dreams

Image via Wikipedia

Enviado por Linda

Hello amigos,
VIDEOS ARE NOW ON THE CUBA PROJECT WEBSITE!! http://www.wfu.edu/cubaproject/

I) Trailer (teaser) for the documentary Archipiélago de sueños / Archipelago of Dreams --Click "PRESS"--Click play
II) New YORK City OPENING: Cuban Artists' Books at the Grolier --Click "EVENTS" --Click Play


SEE ALSO Luna Negra Dance Theatre w/ Turtle Island String Quartet & Paquito D'Rivera at WFU: October 13, 2009 @ 7:30 PM WEBSITE: http://www.wfu.edu/secrest
Secrest Artists Series, TICKETS :Contact: Lillian Shelton: secrest@wfu.edu phone: 336-758-5101 Brendle Recital Hall.

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