Martínez Celaya is a Cuban American working in Miami, Florida. His work is represented and commissioned throughout the world.

Distributed Art Pub

Enrique Martínez Celaya

Enrique Martínez Celaya / Daniel Siedell

Pub: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Date Pub: November 2003

ISBN: 9780970639462

$14.95 USD | Hardcover

So when Glo Rod, founder of A Variety of Pets Media and author of a book on short pet stories, Stories of Multiple Pets, asked me to contribute a short story for her second collection, I hurdled at the opportunity. I am happy to introduce you to my pets in this short story contribution to Stories of Multiple Pets – Austin Texas and delighted to be among other avid animal parents.

Glo Rod

Stories of Multiple Pets – Austin Texas

By Glo Rod & Co-Authors

ISBN: 9781463752576

$10.95 USD | Paperback

Stories of Multiple Pets – Austin Texas

Central to the assessment is a set of leveled booklets that increase in difficulty with each “step.”  Currently, we are developing a Spanish language version of these leveled booklets.  We do not want translations of the English booklets; we are seeking original stories in Spanish that are culturally sensitive to Latino students in grades K-3.  Selected writers will be given a set of specific writing
guidelines for each booklet, however the expected length of each booklet is approximately 1,500 words or less.  Writers will be paid as independent contractors at a base rate of $600 per booklet, negotiable commensurate to writer experience and level of complexity of the story.

Requirements:
*Must have a Bachelor’s degree or higher
*Must have native, or near native ability in Spanish
*Must have previously published work for children in Spanish

Interested candidates should contact Patricia Garcia at patriciag@uchicago.edu
with:

*Cover letter
*Curriculum vitae
*2 brief writing samples in Spanish

More information about the STEP Literacy Assessment program can be found at
http://uchicagoimpact.org/step/

University of Chicago
Urban Education Institute
1313 E. 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

Cine Las Americas announces its Call For Entries for the

15th Annual Cine Las Americas International Film Festival

The call for entries for the 15th Cine Las Americas International Film Festival is currently open.  The festival will take place April 24-29, 2012 in Austin, Texas.

The submission deadline is January 16, 2012.  To read the submission rules and guidelines, as well as to submit online, please visit the links below.

To continue the wealth of programming Cine Las Americas brings to Austin each April, please help by spreading this email amply, and stay connected by becoming a fan of Cine Las Americas on Facebook, follow us on Twitter.com/cinelasamericas and Twitter.com/Jeanatcine.

Also, please note that this call notification is separate from our general Cine Las Americas newsletter, which includes news about the festival as well as information about year round programming. If you would like to sign up for our general newsletter, please click here.

CALL FOR ENTRIES / CONVOCATORIA / CONVOCAÇÃO

Cine Las Americas invites filmmakers, producers and distributors to participate by submitting contemporary films from Latin America (North, Central, South America, and the Caribbean) and the Iberian Peninsula. Films made by or about Latinos in the U.S. or the rest of the world, and films by or about indigenous groups of the Americas are also invited to participate.

The festival grants the following awards:

• Jury Awards in the categories: First or Second Dramatic Feature; Documentary Feature; Dramatic Short; and Documentary Short.
• Audience Awards in the categories: Best Dramatic Feature and Best Documentary Feature.
• Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) Award for Best Made in Texas film.
• Youth Jury Award for Best Emergencia film.

To be eligible for these competitive sections, projects must have been completed after January 1, 2010.

Submissions should be at the Cine Las Americas office by the following dates and times:

• Deadline: January 16, 2012 at 5:00pm (Non-refundable entry fee US$20).
• Late Deadline: January 30, 2012 at 5:00pm (Late entry fee US$40).
• Emergencia Youth Films Deadline: January 30, 2012 at 5:00PM (Youth Films pay no entry fee).

*Students or NALIP members: US$15 regular deadline and US$30 late deadline.

Filmmakers may send all materials to:
Cine Las Americas International Film Festival
Film Selection Committee
81 San Marcos Street
Austin, Texas 78702
Tel: +1.512.535.0765
Email: entries (@) cinelasamericas.org

CONVOCATORIA

Cine Las Americas anuncia la apertura de su convocatoria para el 15º Cine Las Americas International Film Festival, que se llevará a cabo del 24 al 29 de abril de 2012, en Austin, Texas.

La fecha límite para inscripciones es el 16 de enero del 2012. Para ver el formulario de inscripción por favor visite www.cinelasamericas.org/convocatoria.

Para continuar la riqueza de programación que ofrece Cine Las Americas cada abril, por favor, ayúdanos a divulgar esta información ampliamente, y sigue en contacto por hacerte fan de Cine Las Americas en Facebook y seguirnos en Twitter.com/cinelasamericas y Twitter.com/Jeanatcine.

También, este anuncio se dirige a una base de contactos de cineastas para difundir la convocatoria. Si quieres también recibir noticias generales de Cine Las Americas, favor de inscribirse aquí.

Cine Las Americas invita a cineastas independientes, casas productoras y distribuidoras, a participar en el 15º Cine Las Americas International Film Festival. El festival muestra cine y video contemporáneos de América Latina (Norte, Centro, Sud América, el Caribe) y la Península Ibérica, e incluye también proyectos hechos por, o acerca de, Latinos radicados en los Estados Unidos y el resto del mundo, así como grupos indígenas de las Americas.

Cine Las Americas otorga los siguientes reconocimientos:

• Premios del Jurado en las categorías: Mejor primer o segundo largometraje de ficción; Mejor largometraje documental; Mejor cortometraje de ficción; Mejor cortometraje documental.
• Premios de la Audiencia en las categorías: Mejor Largometraje de Ficción y Mejor Largometraje Documental.
• Premio Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) para mejor película en la sección Hecho en Tejas.
• Premio del Jurado Juvenil a Mejor película de la sección “Emergencia”.

Para ser elegibles los trabajos tienen que haber sido terminados después del 1º de enero del 2010.

Los trabajos deberán estar en la oficina de Cine Las Americas en las siguientes fechas y horas:

• Fecha límite de inscripción: 16 de enero del 2012 a las 5:00 de la tarde (cuota no reembolsable de $20EUA).
• Fecha de inscripción tardía: 30 de enero del 2012 a las 5:00 de la tarde (cuota no reembolsable de $40EUA).
• Fecha límite por Emergencia: 30 de enero del 2012 a las 5:00 de la tarde (no paga cuota).

*Estudiantes o miembros de NALIP: US$15 fecha límite de inscripción y US$30 fecha de inscripción tardía.

Envía todos los materiales a:
Cine Las Americas International Film Festival
Film Selection Committee
81 San Marcos Street
Austin, Texas 78702
Tel: +1.512.535.0765
Email: entries (@) cinelasamericas.org

CONVOCAÇÃO

Cine Las Americas anúncia a abertura de sua convocação para o 15º Cine Las Americas International Film Festival, que se realizará desde o 24 até o 29 de abril de 2012 em Austin, Texas.

O prazo final de inscrição é 16 de janeiro de 2012.  Para obter o formulário de inscrição, veja http://www.cinelasamericas.org/convocacao.

Para continuar a riqueza de programmação que oferece Cine Las Americas cada abril, por favor ajude a divulgar esta informação ampliamente, y mantenha-se em contato por se fazer fan de Cine Las Americas em Facebook y nos seguir em Twitter/cinelasamericas y Twitter.com/Jeanatcine.

Também, este anúncio está dirigido a uma base de contatos de cineastas para difundir a convocação. Se você também quiser receber notícias gerais de Cine Las Americas, por favor cadrastre-se aqui.

Cine Las Americas convida cineastas, produtores e distribuidores para participar no  15º Cine Las Americas International Film Festival. O festival exibe filmes contemporâneos da América Latina (Norte, Central, Sul, e o Caribe) e a Península Ibérica. Filmes feitos por ou sobre Latinos localizados nos Estados Unidos ou o resto do mundo, e filmes feitos por ou sobre grupos indígenas das Américas também estão convidados a participar.

O festival oferece os seguintes prêmios:

• Prêmios do Júri nas categorias: Primeiro ou Segundo Longa-metragem de Ficção; Longa-metragem Documentário; Curta-metragem de Ficção; e Curta-metragem Documentário.
• Prêmios da Audiência nas categorias: Melhor Longa-metragem de Ficção e Melhor Longa-metragem Documentário.
• Prêmio do Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) para Melhor Filme Feito em Texas.
• Prêmio do Júri Juvenil para o Melhor Filme da seção Emergencia.

Para serem considerados, todos os filmes deverão ter sido finalizados depois de 1 de janeiro de 2010.

As inscrições devem estar no escritório do Cine Las Americas nas seguintes datas e horários:

• Prazo final: 16 de janeiro de 2012 às 17h (taxa não-reembolsável de US$20).
• Após prazo final: 30 de janeiro de 2012 às 17h (taxa tardia de US$40).
• Prazo final dos filmes juvenis de Emergencia: 30 de janeiro de 2012 às 17h (inscrição grátis).

*Estudantes ou sócios da NALIP: US$15 antes do prazo final regular e US$30 depois.

Envie todos os materiais para:
Cine Las Americas International Film Festival
Film Selection Committee
81 San Marcos Street
Austin, Texas 78702
Tel: +1.512.535.0765
E-mail: entries (@) cinelasamericas.org

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Cultural? Yes, the focus on the region, a pilgrimage largely taken by Spaniards, Christians, and Europeans, does lend itself to a cultural experience. An experience common to the ‘other’ and rare to many. Perhaps this “other”-thing will compel you to add this film to your list. Take a look. Stay tuned for my film review.

SYNOPSIS

THE WAY was filmed entirely in Spain and France along the actual Camino de Santiago. The Camino de Santiago or the Way of St. James is a spiritual journey that pilgrims of all faiths and backgrounds have traversed for a thousand years.  The pilgrimage originally began at one’s doorstep, though modern trekkers today would find that rather difficult, particularly American pilgrims needing to cross the Atlantic.  While there are a number of established routes leading to Santiago from all directions, the most popular is the Camino Française, which crosses the Pyrenees Mountains along the Spanish-French border starting in St. Jean Pied de Port. 

Martin Sheen plays Tom, an American doctor who comes to St. Jean Pied de Port, France to collect the remains of his adult son, killed in the Pyrenees in a storm while walking The Camino de Santiago, also known as The Way of Saint James. Driven by his profound sadness and desire to understand his son better, Tom decides to embark on the historical pilgrimage, leaving his “California bubble life” behind.

Armed with his son’s backpack and guidebook, Tom navigates the 800 km pilgrimage from the French Pyrenees, to Santiago de Compostela in the north west of Spain, but soon discovers that he will not be alone on this journey.

While walking The Camino, Tom meets other pilgrims from around the world, all broken and looking for greater meaning in their lives: a Dutchman (Yorick van Wageningen) a Canadian (Deborah Kara Unger) and an Irish writer (James Nesbitt) who is suffering from a bout of “writer’s block.”

From the hardship experienced along “The Way” this unlikely quartet of misfits create an everlasting bond and Tom begins to learn what it means to be a citizen of the world again, and discovers the difference between “The life we live and the life we choose”. THE WAY was filmed entirely in Spain and France along the actual Camino de Santiago.

About Karen Zacarías (from the Department of Performing Arts at Georgetown University)

Karen Zacarías’ plays have been produced throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and the Caribbean. Recent productions include The Book Club Play and How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents at Roundhouse Theatre and Legacy of Light at Arena Stage. Her play The Sins of Sor Juana was the winner of the Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play at the 2000 Helen Hayes Awards, and the 1998 National Hispanic Playwrights’ Project at South Coast Repertory (Costa Mesa, Calif.). She is also winner of the 1998 D.C. Mayor’s Award for Outstanding Emerging Artist and a finalist at the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights’ Conference and the Jane Chambers National Women’s Playwrights’ Competition.

Among her other produced plays are The Bare-chested Man, Blue Buick in My Driveway and A Rope Through the Fixture. Her plays for young people include the long-running hit The Magical Piñata, Choosing Nine, The 13th Summer of William and Pilar and a new adaptation of Ferdinand the Bull. She has had commissions from Woolly Mammoth Theatre, South Coast Repertory and Imagination Stage. Zacarias is the founder of Young Playwrights’ Theater, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering literacy, dialogue and conflict resolution through playwriting in inner-city schools. She earned a master’s in playwriting from Boston University studying with Nobel laureates Derek Walcott and Elie Wiesel. Born in Mexico, she currently lives with her husband, Rett, in Washington, D.C., and Oaxaca, Mexico.

Dulce Offer from Reading Group Choices

Planning on being in the Washington, D.C. area next month?  If not, you and your book group may want to make plans, because Arena Stage is presenting The Book Club Play, by resident playwright Karen Zacarías (Legacy of Light) and directed by Molly Smith, from October 7^th to November 6^th in the Kogod Cradle. 

As an added bonus, Reading Group Choices subscribers will receive 20% off their tickets!  And Arena Stage will host your next book club in one of Arena Stage’s spectacular spaces or intimate studies when you reserve group tickets to see the play! Tickets start at $40 – to order yours, please eMail or call (202) 488-4380 and use Offer Code 1703.

Spend time with Ana, a Type A personality living in a letter-perfect world with an adoring husband, perfect job and her greatest passion: Book Club. But when bizarre circumstances put her life under a magnifying glass, things begin to heat up and more truths are told than anyone bargained for. TalkinBroadway.com calls this production about life, love and literature “delightful, fresh comedy!”

 

Sponsored by the Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Join the Austin History Center, Austin Public Library and our five partners, The Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders, the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center, Mexic-Arte Museum, The Nettie Lee Benson Library Collection, University of Texas @ Austin and the Terrazas Branch Library as we feature the contributions, achievements and legacies of 101 local Latinas in a photo exhibit entitled Voces de Latinas: A photo exhibit in five parts. The exhibit offers a mosaic blending of images and biographical narratives of Latinas from the late 1800s to the present who represent all walks of life.

All Latinas portrayed in the exhibit were nominated by the community at large and the images and biographical information were donated to the Austin History Center by friends, family members and other community individuals for use in the exhibit. As with all Austin History Center projects, we hope that this exhibit will encourage preservation and documentation for future generations and of the countless others whose legacies deserve to be noted in the chronicles of Austin history.

Each of the five partners will exhibit 20 of the images and sponsor a program in conjunction with the Voces de Latinas exhibit. The exhibit will open on September 25th and will run through October 23, 2011. An opening reception honoring the Latinas depicted in the exhibit will be held at the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center on Sunday, September 25 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Keynote speaker will be Martha Cotera. Further information regarding the reception and programs may be obtained from the Austin History Center website http://www.cityofaustin.org/library/ahc/mexicanam.htm, or by contacting Gloria Espitia, Austin History Center Neighborhood Liaison to the Mexican American community @ 974-7498. Information may also be found on the websites of our partners. The exhibit was made possible in part with a grant from the Austin Friends of Folk Art.

SAVE THE DATES

Sunday, September 25^th

Exhibit Reception & Program

Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center

2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Keynote Speaker: Martha Cotera

Saturday, October 1st

Voces de Latinas in words & music

Ruiz Branch Library

1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Panelists: Teresa Palomo Acosta; Beatriz de la Garza; Myrna Cabello

Special Guest: Josephine Lopez Rocha

Moderator: Belinda Acosta

Saturday October 8th

Conversaciones del pasado – Reflexiones del presente

Mexic-Arte Museum

2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Panelists: Janie Martinez Inez Ramos Salas, Mrs. Maria Salinas, Mrs. Josefa Vasquez Salinas, and Mrs. Delia Sifuentes

Saturday, October 15^th

Con nuestras manos

Terrazas Branch Library

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Presenters: Connie Arismendi and Laura Garanzuay

Sunday, October 16th

Voces de Latinas: Las artistas entre nosotros – The artists among us

Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, UT

3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Presenters: Nivia Gonzalez, Cat Quintanilla and Liliana Wilson

What’s Your Story? Call for videos
 
The White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders announces the first ever White House Initiative Video Challenge: “What’s Your Story?” Produce a video, up to three minutes long, telling us who you are and how you have impacted those around you. A select number of entries will be posted on the White House website and a group of exceptional AAPI leaders will be invited to share their stories in person at the White House. To learn more about the challenge, watch our call-out video here: http://www.youtube.com/WhiteHouseAAPI. 

To submit your video and learn more about the challenge, go to www.whitehouse.gov/whatsyourstory. The deadline for video submissions is midnight on November 1, 2011.

Nevertheless, I’ve begun the cultural explorations. As a culturist a have put out the feelers (read here my clan) for all things cultural and have been pleasantly surprised by the numerous cultural options the Bay Area has to offer. Who’d a thunk?!?!? Why of course Northern California is everything but culturally homogenous!

Our first experience was last Friday. My clan has been trained, by no other than the expert herself, to zero in on all things cultural. So as I grumbled in our room’s kitchenette, eating junk food, fuming with angst, and obviously clogging up my cultural radar, I get a Skype invitation to go listen to some music later that evening. I quickly visited the link and read that Target Summer Pops and the Symphony Silicon Valley, along with support from Applied Materials, Diane & Lee Brandenburg, KCBS, and the City of San Jose, were presenting Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca with special guests, San Jose Taiko. How could I turn this down? A free cultural experience is not to be missed!

The clan arrived, having navigated through various cities, towns, avenues, and only cutting off one other motorist in a carefully executed left turn from the far right, to San Jose State University. Thanking the powers that be for giving those scientists and engineers the explorative mind to invent GPS, I maneuvered the Dulcemobile into a compact-car size garage, helping myself to two compact-car size spaces. What is a mother of a Texican-size clan to do?

But I digress, Ricardo Lemvo, Makina Loca, and San Jose Taiko played a fun and hip-shaking beat, quickly having the audience on its feet. My clan rumba-ed its way to the front to get a better look. To our surprise no one was dancing on the dance stage, set up, clearly, for the audience dancers. Two members of my clan, being new to the area, slowly and nonchalantly moseyed their way closer and closer to the stage, while the others kept an eye on security, staying back as lookouts. We didn’t want to be thrown out of our first NorCali cultural experience simply for being foreigners and not yet knowing its concert culture. Turned out, it was an excellent mosey as it attracted those other concert goers, dancing on the side and back aisles, onto the stage, giving thanks to the two that had started it all. Pretty soon our fear was not security or being thrown out, it was the weight limit of the makeshift stage!

Great music, talented musicians, fun dance moves, AMAZING cultural experience!

About Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca

Ricardo Lemvo has established himself as a pioneer with his innovative music. Lemvo’s blend of Afro-Cuban rhythms with pan-African styles (soukous, Angolan samba and kizomba) has been described by the Los Angeles Times as “seamless and infectious.” Lemvo is truly multicultural and equally at home singing in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Lingala, and Kikongo.

Since forming his Los Angeles-based band Makina Loca in 1990, Lemvo has refined his craft and vision, raising his joyous voice with strength, singing songs that celebrate life, and most importantly, inspiring his audiences to let loose and dance away their worries.

About San Jose Taiko

San Jose Taiko has been mesmerizing audiences with the powerful, spellbinding, and propulsive sounds of the taiko. Inspired by traditional Japanese drumming, its performers express the beauty and harmony of the human spirit through the voice of the taiko as they strive to create new dimensions in Asian American movement and music.

San Jose Taiko has broadened this historical art form into a style that joins the traditional rhythms of Japanese drumming with other world rhythms, including African, Balinese, Brazilian, Latin, and jazz, bridging many styles, while still resonating with the Asian soul in America.

Mopiato Music

Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca

Isabela

Record Label: Mopiato Music

Release Date: March 2007

$13.98 USD

From Olivier Assayas, director of IRMA VEP and SUMMER HOURS, comes an explosive new work of astonishing scope; an epic portrayal of the notorious revolutionary and terrorist, CARLOS (Édgar Ramirez).

The story of Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the 1975 OPEC meeting.

CARLOS is an exciting, sexy, globe-spanning ride through the life of one of the most enigmatic, violent and fascinating personas of the 20th century. Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, for two decades, was one of the most wanted terrorists on the planet. Between 1974 and 1994, he lived several lives under various pseudonyms, weaving his way through the complexities of international politics of the period. Known to the world as Carlos the Jackal, his resume of violent revolutionary acts led to notoriety of the most extreme kind.

Arcade Publishing

 Jackal: The Complete Story of the Legendary Terrorist, Carlos the Jackal

Pub: Arcade Publishing

ISBN: 9781611450262 

$14.95 | Paperback

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