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!

Ver la noticia relacionada/ Read related news

Beechview Public Library

[English text below] Gracias a todos los que asistieron a nuestra presentación el sábado 6 de junio en la biblioteca pública de Beechview. Fue una buena oportunidad no sólo de empezar ponernos en contacto con algunas familias hispanas de esta comunidad, mostrándoles un poco el trabajo que hicieron los niños en el taller pasado, sino además de conocer esta biblioteca y su colección de materiales en español. Esperamos que en el futuro podamos seguir colaborando con la biblioteca y con otros lugares en Beechview para hacer eventos y mini-talleres directamente en su comunidad.

Gracias además a Tina y a Rosi por toda su ayuda, y a CGF por su pesencia en representación de los niños del taller y por las fotografías que tomó.

Thanks to all who attended our presentation on Saturday, June 6th at the Carnegie Public Library in Beechview. It was a great opportunity for us not only to get in contact with some of the Hispanic/Latin@ families in this community, and to show some of the work the children made during the past workshop, but also to get to know the branch library and its collection of materials in Spanish. We hope to keep collaborating in the future with the library and others n Beechview and perhaps get to do some events and mini-workshops right in this community.
Special thanks to Tina and Rosi for all their help, and to CGF for being there in representation of the children and for taking the pictures used in this entry.

Al servicio de la comunidad
Fue un placer verlos y ver la gran cantidad de organizaciones trabajando con la comunidad latina/hispana en Pittsburgh. Presentamos ejemplos de los trabajos que los niños han hecho (la obra de teatro y la última película) y dimos un poco de información sobre el próximo taller que empezará en septiembre (por más información contactar a Felipe Gómez fgomez@andrew.cmu.edu o a Kenya Dworkin kdworkin@andrew.cmu.edu).

Fue un placer poder compartir nuestra mesa con el Granda Arts Education Project que realiza un trabajo de educación a través con arte en Nicaragua
http://granada-arts-education.blogspot.com/

Esperamos que haya más oportunidades para establecer contactos
y proyectos colectivos con otros grupos.

Evaluaciones y próximos eventos

(English text below)

Muchas gracias a todos por su asistencia y contribucion para el evento del sAbado anterior en la biblioteca pUblica de Oakland. Tuvimos algunos inconvenientes con la tecnologia que afortunadamente pudimos resolver con ayuda del personal de la biblioteca.AsI, logramoas mostrar a los que asistieron el valioso trabajo realizado por los chicos con ayuda de sus maestr@s este semestre. Las familias que asistieron recibieron una copia en DVD del cortometraje, ademAs de una evaluaciOn individualizada del progreso de cada chico y una evaluaciOn general del taller que les rogamos diligenciar y enviar tan pronto como les sea posible (las familias que no pudieron asistir estarAn recibiendo estos materiales por correo). Para mayor facilidad de los que prefieren enviar la evaluaciOn del taller de manera electrOnica, la hemos enviado tambiEn de manera adjunta en un correo electrOnico. Favor diligenciarla y enviarla a machugar@andrew.cmu.edu.

Estaremos presentando nuevamente el cortometraje el evento "Al servicio de la comunidad" el 31 de mayo y en la biblioteca pUblica de Beechview el 6 de junio a las 11am. Como siempre, nos encantaría que pudieran acompañarnos con sus hijos, amigos y conocidos para que otros puedan conocer a los directores, actores y creadores de esta obra.

Gracias a todos por su apoyo al bilinguismo y la creatividad de est@s niN@s.

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Many thanks to all who attended and joined us at the event last Saturday at the Oakland Public Library. Despite some technical difficulties, we were able to show the audience the great work accomplished this term by your sons and daughters with the guidance of their teachers. Those who attended received a copy of the DVD, an individual evaluation of progress for their kid(s), and a general evaluation form for the workshop, which we ask you to please fill out and submit as soon as possible (materials are being sent via snail mail to those who were not able to be there). We have also attached the workshop evaluation to an email for those who would rather send it electronically to machugar@andrew.cmu.edu.

We will be screening the film once again at the "Al servicio de la comunidad" event on May 31st and at the Beechview public library on June 6th, 11am. As always, we would love to have you attend these venues with your kids, friends, and acquaintances so that others may have the chance to meet the creators, directors, and actors/actresses of the film.


Thank you all for your support of the bilingual skills and creativity of these amazing kids.

El lobo, el elefante y el rey

Durante la última sesión del taller de primavera, los chicos mostraron a sus padres y familiares la primera versiOn editada del cortometraje que han realizado: "El lobo, el elefante y el rey". Gracias a todos los que pudieron asistir para acompañarnos en felicitar a los chicos por el gran trabajo que completaron y a sus maestr@s y asistentes por el apoyo brindado.
Una versión editada del corto con banda sonora y subtítulos se ha estado y se estará presentando en diferentes lugares de la ciudad durante las próximas semanas. Estuvimos en el Latino Arts Festival el 2 de mayo y estaremos en la biblioteca pública de Oakland este próximo 16 de mayo a las 11:30. Más información sobre las próximas presentaciones en la imagen. Nos encantaría que pudieran acompañarnos con sus hijos, amigos y conocidos para que otros de los asistentes puedan conocer a los directores, actores y creadores de esta obra.
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During the last session of our Spring workshop, the kids invited their parents and relatives to see the first cut of their short film: "The Wolf, the Elephant, and the King". Thanks to all who attended and joined us in congratulating the kids for their wonderful work, as well as thanking their teachers and assistants.
A new edited version of the film, featuring music and English subtitles, has been and will continue being screened in the next weeks. We were present at the Latino Arts Festival on May 2 and will be screening the film at the Oakland Public Library at 11:30 am on May 16. More information on upcoming events is found in the poster. We'd love to have you attend these venues with your kids, friends, and acquaintances so that others may have the chance to meet the true creators, directors, and actors/actresses of the film.

CELEBREMOS EL 5 DE MAYO :-)

The Latin American Cultural Union LACU
Invites you and your family to  two great Latino events in Pittsburgh to be held
at the “ Society for Contemporary Craft” place in the Strip District, 2100
Smallman St, Pittsburgh, PA.
Latino Fest
Celebracion familiar para la comunidad with artist demonstrations, hands-on art
making and Latin music by Carla Leininger of Global Beats.  Celebrate the richness
of Latino Culture.
Saturday, May 2nd from 10am to 5pm.
P.S.  After the Latino Fest you can continue the celebration by joining El Coro
Latinoamericano in their Spring Concert at the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium 7:30pm
(free to students and children, otherwise donations are appreciated) .   Their
presentation is named Latin American Spring and features music by Argentinean
composer Ariel Ramirez, which uses Andean themes.   Coro will be playing with
musical guest Musuhallpa on the Andean instruments.


“5 de Mayo Mexican Party”

As usual we will have great  dance demonstrations and  our first ever
Mariachi  contest, (bring your Mexican karaoke CD and sing  along with us)
raffles, piñata and very good dinner by Mexico City restaurants.
Two great music bands are coming to bring the best of their repertory; the folkloric
band Musuhalpa & the Latin Jazz of Puro Queso.

The entrance is free and we’ll open at 5 pm, dinner/buffet will be ready at 5:30
(only $8 dollars  per  person). Don’t forget that after this event we continue
the dance with the authentic Cuban Salsa band Guaracha performing from 10 pm to 1
am,
at the Altar Bar in the strip district too
(just minutes away from the Contemporary Craft). 

Save the date and see you all there.

VIVA MEXICO

LACU
Committee
2007-2009