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LORCA IN NEW YORK: A CELEBRATION
April 5 to July 20

Crazy Legs: "Back Then, Nobody Called it Hip Hop"

Richard Colón, a.k.a. Crazy Legs, talks with Wilson Davalos about the origins and global spread of hip-hop. Take a listen at Mediocrity Kills.

Rock Steady Crew

Baseball Stories: The Short Flight of El Pájaro

On May 16, 1913, Cuban Alfredo A. Cabrera, nicknamed El Pájaro (The Bird), played his one and only Major League Baseball game. This is his amazing story. Read more at BuzzFeed.

Literary Symposium

LATIN AMERICAN ICONIC & EMERGING WRITERS

 MAY 15 - 17, 7 PM

In Celebration of Review 86

Valeria Luiselli (Courtesy of Alvaro Enrigue)

May 15: Conversation between Roberto Ampuero (Chile) and Marcio Veloz Maggiolo (Dominican Republic), moderated by Carmen Boullosa (Mexico; guest creative editor,Review 86)

May 16: Panel with Alvaro Enrigue (Mexico), Valeria Luiselli (Mexico), and Edmundo Paz Soldán (Bolivia). They will discuss currents in Latin American literature and read selections of their work featured in Review 86. The event will be moderated by Elvira “Elvis” Liceaga (Mexico). 

May 17: Launch of Review 86. Comments by Daniel Shapiro (editor), and Carmen Boullosa (guest editor). Readings by Gioconda Belli (Nicaragua) and Luis Rafael Sánchez (Puerto Rico)

   In Spanish and English; simultaneous interpretation available.

 Admission: FREE for AS Members; $10.00 per program for non-members. Discounted Admission: $25.00 for three evenings.
Learn about the first and third evenings of the symposium.

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May 16 - 18: Latino Video Art Festival of New York

Juan Rodriguez Way: City Honors Early Dominican Settler

A stretch of Broadway in Washington Heights will be renamed after Juan Rodriguez, allegedly the first Dominican, first free black, and first Hispanic merchant who settled in what is today New York. Read more at the New York Times,  El Diario and The Uptowner (Dec 2012)

Jan (Juan) Rodriguez set foot in Manhattan before many others: Archives of the City of Amsterdam (Reproduction by CUNY Dominican Studies Institute)

The Future of Affirmative Action

The Supreme Court is expected to rule soon in a case involving the University of Texas on the use of race and ethnicity in college and university admissions nationwide. Read more at the New York Times,  ProPublica, The Grio, The Daily Beast and The Economist. 

 

Spanish-language New-New York Writers

MAY 13, 7P.M.  Farewell Reading / Lectura de despedida - 2013 Graduating Class, MFA Creative Writing in Spanish (BLOW UP IMAGE) 

With Gloria Esquivel, Ana A. Galindo, Alexis Iparraguirre, Ana Margarita López, Raul Martínez, Nuria Mendoza, Claudia Mora, Osdany Morales, Lissi Sánchez, Marta del Pozo, Keila Vall De la Ville. In Spanish. Co-sponsored by the King Juan Carlos Center. Reception to follow. At 53 Washington Square South - FREE - Picture ID Required at Door

The Second Coming of the Boom

Spanish novelist Javier Calvo and American translator Mara Faye Lethem (who also happen to be married to each other) discuss similarities and differences between the present wave of English translations of Latin American writers and what happened in the golden 60s. Read more at The Buenos Aires Review.

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