Encuentro Latino: A Dartmouth Summer Arts Festival
In the first of a series celebrating global cultures, the 2005 festival will focus on Latino/a culture(s). Please contact lhc@dartmouth.edu for further details.
| July 2005 |
Ernesto Cuevas - Artist and Dartmouth Alum working with Dartmouth students to create a mural celebrating Latino culture. On display at Collis Commonground until the end of July 2005. |
| July 16 2005 |
| Amigos de la Plena - Cultural Puerto Rican Music - Saturday July 16 9:30 Collis Commonground. Interactive workshops on Bomba and Plena Saturday July 16 Collis Porch from 2:00 pm. Free and open to the public. |
| July 19 2005 |
Bill Santiago - Standup Comedian - Tuesday July 19, 9:00 pm, Warner Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center. Free and open to the public. Santiago has toured his show "Spanglish 101" in many club venues, and has performed to public acclaim in Comedy Central’s "Premium Blend," on TV ("a big hit seen by everyone but my mother"). "Santiago proves that political satire is alive in America," notes a San Francisco Chronicle theater critic. |
| July 20 2005 |
Burden Of Dreams - a Les Blank Movie. Wednesday, July 20, 7 – 9 pm Loew Auditorium. Les Blank is an internationally-acclaimed documentary filmmaker
based in Oakland, CA. Burden Of Dreams (1983)
follows German director Werner Herzog into the Amazon as he
struggles to shoot his feature film Fitzcarraldo (1982). Burden
Of Dreams is widely
considered to be the best documentary ever made of a motion
picture director at work. Blank will be in Hanover Mon.-Fri.,
July 18-22 and will attend the screening of Burden of
Dreams on Wed., July 20, 7-9pm, Loew
Auditorium. Open to the public $8.00 Dartmouth ID $5.00 Tickets
can be purchased ahead at the Hopkins Center Box Office or
at the Loew on the day of screening an hour before the show. Co-sponsored
by the Dartmouth Film Society. |
| July 21 2005 |
Black Beans - Latino Musical Group. Thursday, July 21, Collis Common Ground, 9:00 pm till late. Eat and dance to the beat of Latino music all night long. Free and open to the public. |
| July 22-23 2005 |
Nuestras Voces performance by Dartmouth Student Acting Group. Coser y cantar by Dolores Prida, is a bilingual, one-act play about a young, Cuban-American woman's internal struggle with her identity as a Latina and with her life in New York City. Two performances Friday, July 22, and Saturday July 23 at 8:00 pm, Warner Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center. Free and open to the public. |
| July 25-30, 2005 |
| Fulana - A Latina Video and Performance Collective Presentation of work and student interviews: Monday July, 25, 8:30 pm, Carson L01. Related link: Fulana homepage |
| July 26 2005 |
Visualizing Cuba – Presentation on the Social and Political landscape of Cuba by Virginia Beahan (based on her photographic exhibition in the Berry Library on Cuba), Tuesday, July 26, 4:30 pm, Carson L01. Reception to follow in Baker Library Treasure Room. Free and open to the public. |
| July 27 2005 |
Los Bros Hernandez -A Presentation by Latino Graphic Novelists - Wednesday, July 27, 4:30 pm, Carson L02. Reception and-book signing to follow. Free and open to the public. Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez's Love & Rockets is the alternative comics success story of the 80s and 90s. |
| July 28 2005 |
| The Other Side of the Street - A Brazilian movie homage to Rear Window. 7:00 pm, Loew Auditorium. Tickets $7.00 Dartmouth ID $5.00. http://hop.dartmouth.edu/movies/index.html. |
| July 28 2005 |
Montana Verde – Presentation by Charles Rountree on his photographic exhibition the indigenous Lenca community of Montaña Verde, Honduras. Collis Dining Room, 8:00 pm. |
| July 29, 2005 |
Yo Soy Latina - Warner Bentley Theater,
Hopkins Center, 8:00pm. Free and Open to the public. |
| July 29, 2005 |
DJ Sin Fronteras - Luis Meléndez and Rosa Oviedo – Cutter Shabazz, Friday July 29, 2005, 10:30pm till late. Free and open to the public. Luis Meléndez has hosted a Latin music radio program, Tertulia, for over ten years in Western Massachusetts on Sunday evenings on WFCR (88.5 FM). Luis will be joined by DJ Sin Fronteras for "Una noche de Baile" (muy caliente!) |
| July 30 2005 |
Yerba Buena - Saturday, July 30, 3:00 pm, BEMA. $20 Public, Dartmouth Students $5. Rain Venue Spaulding.
An explosive fusion of funk, hip-hop, boogaloo, Afrobeat and Nuyorcuban soul, this New York band is "the most smoking Afro-Latin groove joint since the 1970s" (Timeout New York). With sizzling global rhythms, Spanglish rap, Yoruba chants and searing horns, Yerba Buena has amassed a huge cult following through live shows called "a guaranteed blast" (L.A. Times) (The BEMA is an outdoor performance space on the Dartmouth campus, off Observatory Road. See http://www.hop.dartmouth.edu for site map and parking suggestions. Rain location: Spaulding Auditorium). Related link: Hopkins Center information of Yerba Buena |
| Exhibitions: July – August 2005 |
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