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Town Paper Picker Press |
Boston China Town Neighborhood
Center - BCNC
885 Washington
Street, Boston, MA, 02111
Spacial Arts:
Tuesday, May 5th
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The Cultural
Agents Initiative
and
The Boston China Town
Neighborhood Center
Proudly
Present:
Paper Picker Press
Workshop
for
Artists and Educators
For
more information Contact:
Marcela
Mahecha,
mahecha@fas.harvard.edu |
Art Forum Speaker Series:
Betsabe Romero
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Wednesday, April 29th
6:00-8:00pm
Center for Government and
International Studies, South, S-050 Concourse
Level, 1730 Cambridge Street,
Cambridge
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Distinguished
by her poignant sculptures and site specific
installations in which low brow vernacular
Mexican themes are appropriated and transformed
into high brow conceptual interventions, Mexican
artist Betsabe Romero will engage in a dialogue
with Julian Zugazagoitia, Director of El Museo
del Barrio in New York City, and curator of
Lagimas Negras, her mid career retrospective,
organized last year at the Museo Amparo in
Puebla, Mexico. Departing from her
meditation on the creative process she engaged
at the Museo Amparo, in which she produced a set
of new pieces for her show based on the museum's
premier prehispanic collection, the conversation
will center on the uses of history as a
privileged subject in the production of
contemporary art within Mexico, and the way in
which, by refreshing the experience of history,
art has become an important, recognized trigger
in the production of new interpretations of the
past. In collaboration with the Amparo
Museum, México. Respondants: Julian
Zugazagoitia, Museo del Barrio and New York
City For more information go to:
http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/programs/art_forum Contact:
Marcela Ramos,
mvramos@fas.harvard.edu |
"Novia Que Te Vea/ Like a
Bride": A film by Guita
Schyfter
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Thursday 03/30/09
CGIS South, S-010, Tsai Auditorium, 1730
Cambridge St. Cambridge
06:30 -
08:00pm
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Film
screening and conversation with
Filmmaker:
Guita
Schyfter
and
Screenwriter:
Hugo
Hiriart
Guita Schyfter's small, sensitive film
breaks no striking new ground in telling the
stories of Oshinica Mataraso, the daughter of
Sephardic Jews who arrived from Turkey in 1927,
and her friend Rifke Groman, whose family
survived the Holocaust. Oshinica, played by
Claudette Maille, chafes against a
tradition-bound family that has reared her to
become a bride, and the sooner the better. But
while her mother encourages her to learn sewing,
Oshi develops a yearning to study art. Rifke
(Maya Mishalska), is a born rebel, active in the
Zionist socialist youth movement and attracted
to Saavedra (Ernesto Laguardia), a handsome
young Gentile with Communist sympathies.
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The Church of What's
Happening Now, New Art, New Artists: Phil
Collins in conversation with Lucien
Castaing-Taylor and Helen Molesworth.
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Thursday April 20th
6:00-7:00pm
Harvard Hall
202
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Presented
by the Humanities Center at Harvard and The
Harvard Art Museum.
Seating is limited;
open to the public.
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Shelley Neill with Laszlo
Gardony, Yoron Israel, Ron Mahdi
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Friday, May 1st,
7:30-9:30pm
Cambridge Multicultural Arts
Center, 41 Second Street, Cambridge,
MA
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After a three-year hiatus, Shelley Neill
resumes her musical collaboration with pianist
Laszlo Gardony, drummer Yoron Israel and bassist
Ron Mahdi. Her last musical venture, a blues
trilogy, explored the links between blues and
vocal jazz.
Described by Dave Brubeck as
"having an original blues singer's sound" her
new project, Irish Eyes Gypsy Soul, has her
remaining true to her blues and jazz roots, and
immersing herself in new and equally soulful
musical ideas."She's got a well of talent and
puts on a great show. She doesn't improvise as
much as she interprets, which suits her
distinctive voice." - The Boston
Globe
For more
information:
http://www.cmacusa.org/HTML/performingarts.htm
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April 29-30,
2009
Harvard Faculty
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