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September 2007 Edition

 

Click here to view our 2007 Events Calendar: explore! Multicultural Boston

 

 

 

Boston’s Hispanic American Heritage

Month Events  

September 15-October 15, 2007 

Hispanic American Heritage Month offers visitors opportunity to celebrate

Hispanic American culture & heritage

 

BOSTON- Boston celebrates Hispanic American Heritage Month with the promotion of the Center for Latino Arts in the South End, the 6^th Boston Latino Film Festival & more from September 15-October 15, 2007.

 

These events are constantly updated; please return to this site for more events:

 

·       6^th Boston Latino International Film Festival October 12-21, 2007 Last year’s Boston Latino International Film Festival was a success with 300 submissions, narrowed the selection to 83 finalists. The audience increased by another 14%, and in the first weekend alone, the BLFF had three sold-out screenings!. Film Festival locations include the Harvard University Carpenter Center on Quincy Street, MassArt College on Huntington Avenue & the Center for Latino Arts on West Newton Street in Boston’s South End. Details on schedule, tickets, locations: visit http://www.bliff.org/  

 

·       Boston’s  La Casa de la Cultura/Center for Latino Arts  (CLA) 85 East Newton Street South End La Casa de la Cultura / Center for Latino Arts (CLA) is Boston’s cutting-edge multi-functional community arts center whose mission is to preserve and promote Latino art. Conveying to both Latinos and non-Latinos the vitality of contemporary and traditional Latino cultural expressions, the Center offers performances, exhibits and classes in a variety of art forms, including: Latin jazz, folk dance and music, poetry, theater and the visual arts. The CLA combines the  Jorge Hernandez Cultural Center (converted into a 450-person capacity performance venue from a historic church in 1986) with a new community arts center (historically renovated from the adjacent parish house in 2003) that includes a gallery, dance studio and visual arts studio.Celebrating Boston's growing diversity, the Center for Latino Arts is taking shape as a new landmark in the city that will transcend Villa Victoria and the Latino community and become a fixture engraved into the cultural life of Boston as a whole. La Casa de la Cultura / Center for Latino Arts is a program of Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción (IBA).

 

·       During  Hispanic American Heritage Month 2007 Center for Latino will present El Bembe & Café Teatro:

 

·       After having pioneered the Salsa scene in Boston, El Bembé now offers a unique music and dance experience featuring a “Pan-American Dance Party” in which dancers and music lovers can enjoy a wider variety of styles from different parts of Latin America, in addition to Salsa and Merengue Friday October 12, 2007: Dance Party…Dominican style! 9:00 p.m. Complimentary Dance Lesson, 10:00 p.m. – 1:30 a.m. Dance Party and Live Performance

 

·       CaféTeatro , New England’s only Latino performance series featuring some of the best local, regional, national and international Latino artists, from the traditional to the contemporary including music, dance, theatre and film/video will present NOCHE CUBANA 0n October 25, 2007 8:00 pm. Hosted by Alberto Vasallo Jr. and El Mundo

 

·       Noche Cubana will present traditions and styles, from the age-old religious music and dance of Santería, Abakuá and Palo to the secular Rumba, to the European-influenced Danzón and Cha-Cha-Chá, to the rural Changüí and Son Montuno, to the luscious Boleros from the “Filin” era and more!  Don’t miss this Boston premiere and a unique cultural experience “con sabor a Cuba”!

 

·       At the Museum of Fine Arts : Hamaca Paraguaya by Paz Encina, Sep 6–13. In a hammock in the Paraguayan countryside, a mature couple sits together talking, drinking tetere, and waiting for their beloved son to return from the ruinous Chaco War with Bolivia. Part of the New Crowned Hope series.In concert: Boston Museum Trio with Gonzalo Ruiz: The Baroque Oboe 3:30 pm  Sunday, September 16, 2007 Remis Auditorium The Boston Museum Trio is joined by Gonzalo Ruiz on baroque oboe to perform a program of masterworks by Bach, Telemann, and Buxtehude. Equally accomplished on the modern instrument, he has performed as principal oboist of the Buenos Aires Philharmonic Members, seniors, students $20; nonmembers, general admission $25. I nformation about the film programs at the MFA contact the museum: (tel.) 617-267-9300; http://www.mfa.org

 

·       Hispanic American Heritage Month reception by the Greater Boston chapter of the Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting  September 13, 2007 The Greater Boston chapter of the Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting (ALPFA) in partnership with Bank of America and co-sponsors: Harvard University, John Hancock, Sovereign Bank & East Boston Savings Bank cordially invite you to join us as we celebrate  Hispanic Heritage Month Sept. 13, 2007. Keynote Address by: Frances A. Sevilla-Sacasa President U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management. Bank of America 100 Federal Street - Auditorium . Click to view details: ALPFA Boston

 

·       The Boston Latino Professional Network is celebrating its 20th birthday! The 2007 Golf Tournament is being held on September 24, 2007 at Granite Links Golf Club in Quincy .  For details on the tournament & LPN click to view: http://www.lpn.org

 

·       Latina Girls: "We're Like Sisters—Most Times!" Workshop and Training September 28, 2007 Simmons College, Boston

 

·       From the book Urban Girls Revisited: Building Strengths a workshop on Latina Girls and Academic Achievement. Featuring authors Jill McLean Taylor, Ed.D., Associate Professor of Education and Women's Studies, Simmons College and Carmen N. Veloria, Coordinator, GEAR UP Boston, The English High School. Free for the Simmons Community and Girls Coalition members; $10 non-members (sliding). Register @ 617-536-8543 or info@girlscoalition.org. Sponsored by The Girls Coalition of Greater Boston and Simmons Institute for Leadership & Change Connecting Simmons to the Community and the Community to Simmons

 

·       Boston’s El Mundo Newspaper and Latino Professional Network (LPN) are hosting the Latino Career Expo (LCE) 2007 on September 20, 2007 at the Courtyard Marriott Tremont. Click for details: http://www.latinocareerexpo.com/

 

·       Simmons Celebrates Latino Heritage Month: begins Oct. 1, 2007 Click here for details: Simmons Celebrates Latino Heritage Month

 

Did you know?

 

• September 15 was chosen as the starting point for the Hispanic American Heritage Month  celebration because it is the anniversary of independence of five Latin American countries: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua
• Massachusetts can boast  428, 000 Hispanic American residents
•  There are 15  states in the USA with at least a half million Hispanic residents. They are Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington.

Boston visitor information - from updated weekend event information to special hotel offers  during September Hispanic American Heritage Month visits are available www.BostonUSA.com ; toll free 1-888-SEE-BOSTON; e mail visitus@BostonUSA.com

 

Greater Boston Hispanic American cultural & business links

 

Center for Latino Arts http://www.iba-etc.org/claboston/programs.html 

Boston Latino Film Festival http://www.bliff.org/

Boston Chapter of National Society of Hispanic MBAs http://boston.nshmba.org/

Boston Latino Professional Network http://www.lpn.org

Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting ALPFA Boston