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My Brain Won't Float Away author to appear in
popular morning show Despierta America (Univision)
When: Thursday, January 31st., 2008.
Despierta America from 7 to 10 AM
(UNIVISION) Check local listing for cable or dish channel
Despierta América, one of the most popular Spanish
language morning television programs, will present a
segment about Annette Pérez, author of the bilingual
children's book My Brain Won't Float Away/Mi cerebro
no va a sair flotando (Campanita Books, New York).
The segment will recognize the merits both of the book
and its author, who has suffered from hydrocephalus
since early childhood. In My Brain
Won't Float Away, Annette narrates her true story
of growing up with hydrocephalus with humor, honesty,
and compassion, and proves with her story that even
the simplest act can change one's life forever.
This is the second honor bestowed on Annette and her
book during the month of January. On January 6, Puerto
Rico's First Lady, Luisa Gándara, selected My
Brain Won't Float Away as one of the presents to
give to thousands of children during the traditional
Three Kings Day celebration.
Annette Pérez was born in New York City to a
family of Puerto Rican origin. She was diagnosed with
hydrocephalus as an infant.She is currently pursuing
her Master's Degree in Early Childhood Education and
Special Education and works for the Department of Education
of the City of New York.
The Three Kings Give Away
Campanita Books in Puerto Rico
Thousands of families attended the Fiesta
de Reyes at the Luis Muñoz Rivera Park, in
San Juan, Puerto Rico, to celebrate this traditional
holiday. Agencies and organizations dedicated to education
and family participated in the event. The Three Kings
gave away children's books, traditional toys and young
trees. Activities promoting books and reading took
place under tents throughout the park.
Among the books selected by the First
Lady of Puerto Rico, Luisa Gándara, and the
Puerto Rico Department of Education to give to the
children was our own Mi cerebro no va a salir
flotando/My Brain Won't Float Away, written by
Annette Pérez and illustrated by Yolanda Fundora.
In the first photo, a girl receives My Brain Won't
Float Away as a gift.
The Secretary of Education, Dr. Rafael
Aragunde, enjoys the book My Brain Won't Float
Away, by Annette Pérez.
Hispanic Heritage Month
Celebration 2007
The Spanish Discipline of the Department
of Foreign Languages, ESL, and Humanities at York
College cordially invites you to attend the events
dedicated to the celebration of the Hispanic Heritage.
Monday, November 19th
“What’s happening in 2007 with Latinos
in the Media: Television, Movies, Books, Radio, and
Press.” Presenters include cultural activist
and producer Mario Picayo, Colombian journalist Diana
Vargas, Argentinean journalist Rodolfo Quebleen, and
Albor Ruiz Editor in Chief of El Daily News, Executive
Director of MAS Magazine, as well as Editor at La
Familia de Hoy and Chief Editorial Writer, Columnist,
and News Editor at New York’s El Diario-La Prensa.
6:00PM – 8:30PM Room 2D01
ALBOR RUIZ is a columnist
for the New York Daily News. A former National Association
of Hispanic Journalists' Region II Director and member
of its National Board, he has had a long career as
writer an editor. He was hired at the Daily News as
an Editorial Writer and was the first Latino member
of that paper's Editorial Board. He has also worked
as an Opinion Page Editor for The News. Ruiz, a lecturer
for NYU's Center of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
(CLACS), was the Editor-in-Chief of El Daily News,
the first bilingual newspaper in the country, as well
as Executive Editor of Mas magazine, Editor at La
Familia de Hoy and Chief Editorial Writer, Columnist
and News Editor at New York 's El Diario-La Prensa.
He has also written opinion columns for Newsday and
published extensively in English and Spanish in several
national and international publications. In 2003 he
was inducted into the National Association of Hispanic
Journalists Hall of Fame. Before becoming a journalist
he was a Humanities, Philosophy and Spanish professor
in Miami , Puerto Rico and New York . Born in Cuba
, he has lived in New York City since 1980.
MARIO PICAYO is a cultural activist,
audiovisual artist and producer. He has worked for
the Smithsonian Institution, the Dominican Republic
's Institute of Folklore and other cultural institutions
in the United States and the Caribbean . As a photographer,
Mario Picayo’ solo exhibitions have been presented
in New York, Spain, Paraguay, Dominican Republic,
Argentina, Cuba, and the Virgin Islands. In the past
he has worked as editor for Sesame Workshop ( Sesame
Street ). He currently divides his time between duties
as Editor in Chief of Editorial Campana, an independent
publishing house, as Producer of Gente y cultura,
the award winning public television program, and as
Executive Director of LART (Latino Artist Round Table),
a not-for-profit organization founded in 1999. The
New York State Assembly made public recognition to
his artistic career and his work as defender and promoter
of Latino culture in 2004.
DIANA VARGAS (Colombia-US) Trabajó durante
7 años en la dirección general del espacio
documental Rostros y Rastros, programa semanal de
televisión ganador de varios premios internacionales.
Actualmente reside en Nueva York en donde organiza
y promueve eventos culturales. Es consultora de medios
y jefe de prensa para organizaciones culturales y
artísticas en Estados Unidos; especializándose
en el área de cine, literatura y música.
En el área de programación de cine coordina,
desde hace 4 años, la sección latinoamericana
del Havana Film Festival in New York y es, además,
directora y fundadora del Festival de Cortos Latinoamericanos
Corto Circuito que realiza en asocio con el Centro
King Juan Carlos I de New York University. En el 2004
fue programadora del programa de cine del tercer congreso
de LART Ficciones y realidades. Como periodista escribe
para varias publicaciones entre ellas Hoy, periódico
del consorcio Tribune y La Opinión de Los Angeles.
RODOLFO C. QUEBLEEN (Rosario, Argentina,
1938) escribe teatro, cuento y poesía (Premio
C.E.P.I., Nueva York). Fue corresponsal de Televisa
en Nueva York y trabajó en El Diario-La Prensa,
que dirigió en 1990. Actualmente trabaja para
Daily News y dirige el semanario en español
Hora Hispana.
Thursday, November 29th
“Books Presentation: Historias de mujeres
grandes y chiquitas (Sonia Rivera-Valdés),
Para que no se me olvide (Paquita Suárez-Coalla),
Fragmentos de la memoria. Recuerdos de una experiencia
carcelaria (1975-1980) (Margarita Drago).”
(Spanish)
5:00 – 7:00PM
Room 4M06
Wednesday, December 5th
Books Presentation: My Brain Won’t
Flow Away and Caribbean Journey from A to
Y (Published by Campanita Books). With the participation
of Annette Pérez (YC Graduate) and Mario Picayo,
cultural activist, audiovisual artist and producer.
For more information, contact Dr. Margarita Drago
(coordinator) at 718-262-2430
Musica, arte y literatura
en Terraza Café
El miércoles 21 de noviembre, comenzando a
las 6:30 p.m. Margarita Drago (Argentina) presentará
su libro: Fragmentos de la memoria: recuerdos
de una experiencia carcelaria (1975-1980)
PRESENTATIONS OF
MEMORY TRACKS: FRAGMENTS
OF MEMORY
BY AUTHOR MARGARITA DRAGO
At Librería Caliope
Margarita Drago presents Memory Tracks:
Fragments from Prison (1975-1980)
on July 12 at 8:00 p.m. at Librería
Calíope, located at 183 Dyckman Street. Tel.:
(212) 567-3511.
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Fragmentos
de la Memoria:
Recuerdos
de una experiencia carcelaria.
Margarita
Drago will read part of her book
about her experience as a Political
prisoner in Rosario, Argentina
from 1975 to 1980.
Wednesday
June 20th at 7pm
Teatro
IATI's Studio
59-61
east 4th 4th floor
New
York, NY 10003
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Memory
Tracks: Fragments from Prison
(1975-1980) by Margarita
Drago recounts the memories of
an Argentine political prisoner
from 1975 to 1980. A teacher,
under house arrest and accused
of political crimes, is transferred
to the Women´s Prison of Rosario.
Terrorized, she will become witness
and victim of multiple interrogations,
tortures and rapes. But there
in the basement, where she lives
along with other companions, she
will begin a press using cigarette
packages, and neither strength
nor hope will abandon her. Intimate
parts of the body will become
secure, secret hiding places to
keep study materials and prison
information. Day after day she
will feel the terror and cold
of machine guns. She will hear
the noise of the soldiers' boots
and the bark of police dogs a
few centimeters away.
Family
visits, increasingly more
scarce, are reduced to almost
a memory by the time she was
transferred to the Villa Devoto
Prison. For five years she
sees, behind bars and doors,
her companions being transferred
to hidden jails. She knows
of the manipulations of the
priest who, cloaked in the
sacrament of confession, betrayed
many women who ended up assassinated.
She lives through the tensions
of cohabitation and political
differences impossible to
resolve.
"Homage," "The Mind
Plays Tricks," "Good-bye,"
"The Women´s Prison of Rosario,"
and some wrenching first pages
signed by the author complete
this book of hair-raising
tensions and encounters. Memory
Tracks: Fragments from Prison
(1975-1980) is a piece of
autobiographical writing that
goes further than an act of
restoring the past. Here,
the protagonist proclaims
identity as a gesture that
repeats itself: the subject
generates an answer and responsibility
toward others. Indispensable.
Alicia
Perdomo H., Editorial Campana.
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XIX POETRY SERIES AT BORICUA
COLLEGE CONTINUES ON MARCH 21 "WRITERS AND CULTURAL
PROMOTERS"
Boricua College invites you to the second reading of
the XIX Winter Poetry Series, titled "Writers and
Cultural Promoters", with writers Paola Paula,
Sonia Rivera Valdés, Madeline Millán and
Tanya Torres. This event will take place on Wednesday,
March 21, 2007 at 6:00 PM in the Blue Room at Boricua
College located at 186 N. 6th Street in Brooklyn. This
event, which will take place mostly in Spanish, is free
to the public and includes an open mike session. The
Series will also present literary events on April 24
and May 1, 2007. For more information, please get in
touch with the director of the Poetry Series, Myrna
Nieves, at Boricua College, (718) 782-2200, ext. 249
or write to : mnieves@boricuacollege.edu
This event is made possible thought the generosity of
Boricua College and through public funds from the New
York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Editorial Campana
at the XXVIII The International Book Fair
of the Palacio de Minería, Mexico City
February 22 -March 4, 2007
The XXVIII International Book Fair of the Palacio de
Minería's Cultural Program presents a variety
of panels and presentations of books published thoroughout
the world. As part of the fair's program, on Saturday,
March 3 at 3:00 p.m., Editorial Campana will present
its new titles. Writers Sonia Rivera-Valdés,
Margarita Drago, Paquita Suárez Coalla and Jacqueline
Herranz Brooks will be participating in this and other
panels and presentations. For more information, visit:
http://feria.mineria.unam.mx/
PRESENTATION OF AQUÍ ME TOCÓ
ESCRIBIR
On February 22, 2007, at 8:00 p.m., Paquita Suárez
Coalla will present her book Aquí me tocó
escribir at Calíope Bookstore. Calíope
is located at 183 Dyckman Street. Tel: (212) 567-3511.
CONFERENCE
21st Conference on Spanish in the U.S. &
6th International Conference on Spanish in Contact
with Other Languages
March 15-18, 2007
Location: Arlington, Virginia
Cohosted by University of Maryland & George Mason
University.
For more information about this event, visit: http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/conferences.html
33rd International Book Fair of Buenos Aires:
"Books Without Frontiers"
April 16 to May 7, 2007
La Rural, Buenos Aires
The International Book Fair of Buenos Aires is both
a nationally and internationally acclaimed catalog
for the publishing industry–as well as a cultural
feast. It is the most important book fair in Latin
America, attracting more than one million visitors.
For more information, visit: http://www.el-libro.com.ar/
20th International Book Fair of Bogotá
April 19 to May 1, 2007
Bogotá, Capital Mundial del Libro 2007
is the twentieth version of the International Book Fair
of Bogotá. This year, Chile will be the Guest
Country, and the Colombian writer and Nobel Prize winner
Gabriel García Márquez will be honored.
A varied sample of the book industry, and an important
cultural representation composed of writers and intellectuals
will be presented in order to bring light on the book
publishing industry of Colombia as well as to strengthen
the cultural and commercial ties of this country with
the rest of the world.
For more information, visit: http://www.feriadellibro.com/
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