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

Chavismo After Chávez

What Venezuelans may remember most about last month’s presidential campaign, says Alma Guillermoprieto, is the moment when incumbent president Nicolás Maduro told that Hugo Chávez had come back to him in the shape of a little bird and, chirping, urged him on to victory. Read more at the New York Review of Books.

E-Books: Traviesa's Second Anthology

In Latin America, the failure of neoliberalism has not only produced a resurgence of populism, but populism’s fascination with charismatic messianic figures has led to a revival of religion. Read more at Traviesa.

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Book Presentation

Una novela de Daniel San Martín
Viernes 24 de mayo - 8 p.m.
  Graduate Center (CUNY) 365 Fifth Ave., piso 5°, sala 5414
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Crazy Legs: "Back Then, Nobody Called it Hip Hop"

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

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)