Reminder: Radio workshop starts Sept. 27

What? Radio workshop for young Spanish speakers, ages 6-12. Organized by Círculo Outreach Program, Department of Modern Languages, Carnegie Mellon University
When? Every Sunday Sept. 27-Dec. 6, 2-4 pm (except Thanksgiving Weekend). Space is limited. Please register by Sept. 21.
Where? Porter Hall A22, Carnegie Mellon University

Why? Children in the Pittsburgh area have little to no exposure to heritage language media content created specifically by and for others like them, resulting in a lack of opportunities required to develop and strengthen their bilingual and bicultural skills, and to create a sense of community which will empower them through the development of healthy social, educational, and psychological individualities. Furthermore, they have even fewer opportunities available to create this type of content. Our project seeks to bridge that gap on two levels: on the one hand, it will give a group of Hispanic heritage children ages 6 to 12 the opportunity to become dexterous in the use of media technology, and to use these skills to create and produce high quality material that is relevant to them and apt for broadcast and publication in radio, digital newspapers, blogs, and video- and audio-podcasts; on the other hand, it will give large numbers of Hispanic, Latin@ and Chican@ children the chance to become the audience for this material, and to communicate and interact with those who created it through phone calls, letters, and responses posted on electronic media. Through these 10-week workshops held at Carnegie Mellon University, mini-traveling workshops held in selected Hispanic nodal points in the city, activities in conjunction with a college-level course on Hispanic radio taught at CMU, and partnerships with existing media broadcasting organizations made in and for the Hispanic community in the Greater Pittsburgh area, we seek to make this project a reality. We look forward to working with you in providing these opportunities for the Spanish-speaking children in our region.
For registration and more info, please contact us:
Tels. 412-268-5149; 412-268-8052.
circulojuvenil@gmail.com
http://circulocmu.blogspot.com/

Detalles sobre los talleres de radio

RADIOCICLÓN: RADIO HECHA POR JÓVENES PARA JÓVENES

El Taller de radio infantil Radiociclón está diseñado para niños y niñas de 6 a 12 años. Son diez sesiones en las que aprenderán la realización radiofónica a través de sesiones teóricas y prácticas. Trabajarán en grupos de 2-3 niñ@s de acuerdo a sus edades y conocimientos bajo la dirección de un/a maestr@ y con la asesoría de asistentes voluntari@s que son estudiantes de la universidad. Trabajarán en todo el proceso de preproducción, producción y realización del material, desde la creación de la idea, hasta la elaboración de un producto radiofónico digital completo que puede incluir entrevistas, información, comentarios, segmentos musicales, contactos con la comunidad y elementos de la tradición hispana. Al finalizar el TALLER, los integrantes se llevarán un disco compacto con los trabajos realizados. Además se abrirá un espacio en Internet que funcionará como Podcast o Radiodifusora, es decir, como espacio de difusión para los trabajos generados en los Talleres. El programa de radio hispana Barrio Latino seleccionará algunos de los trabajos para inclusión en su espacio “El Rincón infantil” que se emite entre 6 y 7 pm los jueves a tavés de WRCT.

Con estos talleres se busca brindar a los niños y niñas jóvenes hispanohablantes la oportunidad de tener acceso a, y adquirir competencia en, manejo de medios y tecnologías de la información y la comunicación, habilidades que pueden ser útiles para la vida personal y profesional. Al mismo tiempo que avanzan en el aprendizaje y la alfabetización tecnológica, creando producción escrita, visual y auditiva mediante el uso de herramientas informáticas, estarán compartiendo y creando lazos con otr@s jóvenes hispanohablantes y con sus familias, y siguiendo los modelos de éxito proporcionados por sus asistentes y maestr@s.

Los talleres tendrán lugar todos los domingos de 2 a 4 pm a partir del 27 de septiembre de 2009 en los salones PH A22 y PH A21 en Carnegie Mellon University. También utilizaremos los equipos y recursos del Laboratorio de Recursos del Departamento de Lenguas Modernas.

Para mayor información e inscripciones:

Tels. 412-268-5149; 412-268-8052.
circulojuvenil@gmail.com
http://circulocmu.blogspot.com/
Organizado por el Círculo Juvenil de Cultura / Organized by Círculo Outreach Program,
Department of Modern Languages, Carnegie Mellon University

Radiociclón: Taller de Radio Joven/ Radio Workshop

El Circulo Juvenil empieza a calentar sus motores. Iniciamos el 27 de septiembre con el Radiociclón, un Taller de Radio Joven, para chicos y chicas hispanohablantes de 6 a 12 años. Todos los domingos, hasta el 6 de diciembre, de 2-4 pm. Con este taller queremos ofrecer la oportunidad de que expresen sus propias ideas y aprendan a organizarlas y prepararlas para hacer programas en la radio o podcasts para la red. Para mayor información e inscripciones: Felipe y Kenya, Teléfonos. 412-268-5149; 412-268-8052, o circulojuvenil_arroba_gmail.com. Les esperamos!

Radio workshop for young Spanish speakers ages 6-12.Sundays, 2-4pm, Beginning on Sept. 27th, and until December 6th. Radiociclón, a radio workshop in which children will have the opportunity of expressing their own ideas and learning how to organize and prepare them for radio or to create podcasts for the web. More information and registration: Felipe or Kenya, Teléfonos. 412-268-5149; 412-268-8052, or circulojuvenil_at_gmail.com. We look forward to seeing you there!

Quiénes somos/ Who we are

Para quienes apenas empiezan a conocernos, les remitimos a un post anterior, en que se cuentan nuestra historia y objetivos.

For those who are just starting to know us, here's an earlier post with a bit of history.

Los talleres de El Circulo Juvenil inician el 27 de septiembre.

El Circulo's Workshops start Sept. 27th., go through Dec. 6th.
Estaremos ofreciendo mAs informaciOn en las siguientes semanas.
More information coming.

Carnegie Mellon University Dept. of Modern Languages

Carnegie Mellon University Dept. of Modern Languages

The Círculo Juvenil de Cultura is featured on Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Modern Languages web page on outreach: http://ml.hss.cmu.edu/ml/outreach.html

El Círculo Juvenil de Cultura se puede encontrar en la página de servicio a la comunidad del departamento de Lenguas Modernas de Carnegie Mellon: http://ml.hss.cmu.edu/ml/outreach.html

[LACU] Taller de Arte Gratuito para Niños | Free Arts Workshop for Pre-Teens and Teenagers

Subject: [LACU] Taller de Arte Gratuito para Niños | Free Arts Workshop for Pre-Teens and Teenagers

4 y 5 de Agosto
Cultura, Identidad y Lenguaje
Taller Gratis para Niños
Hora: 9:30am a 4:pm (incluye almuerzo)
Lugar: Society for Contemporary Craft, 2100 Smallman St., Pittsburgh, PA 15222

En este taller, estudiantes del grado 7 al 12 aprenderán como crear historias narrativas basadas en un exploración sobre el significado de la identidad personal Aprenderán a usar materiales y procesos diversos. Cupo es limitado. Solo se ofrecerán 10 becas. Para registrar a su niño(a), llame al 412.261-7003 x 25 or escriba a thestudio@contemporarycraft.org <mailto:thestudio@contemporarycraft.org> .

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Culture, Identity and Languagge Free Two-Day Creative Workshop
Tuesday and Wednesday, August 4 & 5, 9:30 am—4pm
Lunch is included!
In this workshop, students from 7th to 12th grade will enhance their understanding of personal identity and their ability to create visual narratives. The program will not only enhance the students’ creative problem solving skills, it will also expose them to different materials and processes. Thanks to a generous donor, we will offer 10 full scholarships for the program plus a bag lunch each day. Spots are first come first serve and registration is required; call 412.261-7003 x 25 or email thestudio@contemporarycraft.org

Foreign language is key to success

In most careers, fluency in another language is highly valued, not only for what such knowledge indicates about the employee but also for business ventures, creating a scenario where expanding into a global market becomes viable. A study published April 2006 in the "Journal of International Business Studies" concludes that introducing employees that speak another language into the workplace actually cuts transaction costs that involve international clients. Previously, if an employee was multilingual, they were utilized merely for the translation of bureaucratic documents (e.g. questionnaires). Language and the associated ethnic conventions were segregated from the skill itself. Language is now an integrated strategy within corporations. Commercial culture has shifted in its perception of multilingual people. Possessing knowledge of multiple languages is associated with many valued qualities, such as versatility, perceptivity and cooperation. In the pre-twenty-first century corporate milieu, multilingualism would brand an individual as an expatriate of another country, the child of an immigrant, or European - no outstanding traits would be attached.

http://media.www.thetriangle.org/media/storage/paper689/news/2009/07/17/EdOp/Foreign.Language.Is.Key.To.Success-3752127.shtml

Modelos hispanos en nuestra comunidad: Achugar

Tenemos el gran honor de compartir con ustedes el reconocimiento y la beca que ha recibido Mariana de la John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Mariana estará en Uruguay durante los próximos meses realizando su investigacion. Felicidades a ella y buena suerte a toda su familia en esta nueva aventura.

We're proud to share with you the award given by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to Mariana. She will be in Uruguay developing her research for the next several months. Congratulations to her and good luck to all her family in this new adventure.

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has named Mariana Achugar as 2009 Guggenheim Fellow. The annual awards support the research of those who "add to the educational, literary, artistic and scientific power of this country."

"Professor Achugar joins a prestigious group of Guggenheim Fellows, and to have her accomplishments and ideas acknowledged this way is a significant honor," said John Lehoczky, dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (H&SS). " The fellowships are designed to support outstandingly talented individuals performing groundbreaking research. Professor Achugar exemplifies this ideal."

Achugar, an associate professor of Spanish and second language acquisition skills in the Modern Languages Department, will use the yearlong fellowship to explore what Uruguayan teenagers know about the military dictatorship and how they learn about it by following nine high school students from different political, social and educational backgrounds.

"My research will connect two strands — what history is and how it is taught in terms of language throughout intergenerational periods," said Achugar. "It's my dream project to further examine the roles language, memory and pop culture play in constructing Uruguay's recent history."




For more: http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2009/July/july9_guggenheimfellows.shtml

Latino Family Center Grand Opening

Gracias al Latino Family Center por su invitacion a que participaramos de la gran inauguracion. Fue un placer estar alli!

Thanks to the Latino Family Center for inviting us to participate in the Grand Opening on July 9th. It was a great pleasure to be there!

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