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Class Day Reception
Saturday May 16, 2009
11.00am - 1.00pm
Mason Hall, room 121 (History Dept. Library), Pomona College
FMI: Please contact Anne Tessier (x72348)
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Carlos Espinosa
"The Price of Difference: El precio de ser diferente:
EL HOMOSEXUALISMO EN CUBA"
Wednesday April 22, 2009, 4.15pm
Mason Hall, room 5, Pomona College
FMI: Please contact Nivia Montenegro (x18943)
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Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Spoken Word Brujo
Thursday, April 9, 8.pm
Seaver Theater at Pomona College; 300 E. Bonita Ave,
Claremont, CA 91711
Guillermo
Gómez-Peña is a performance artist/writer and the director
of the art collective La Pocha Nostra. He was born in Mexico
City and came to the US in 1978. Since then he has been
exploring cross-cultural issues with the use of performance,
multilingual poetry, journalism, video, radio, and
installation art. His performance work and 8 books have
contributed to the debates on cultural diversity, identity,
and US-Mexico relations. In his new performance, Gómez-Peña
deals with the end of the Bush era and articulates the
formidable challenges facing Obama. He also denounces the
anti-immigration hysteria and assaults the demonized
construction of the US/Mexican border. To this effect, the
"border artist extraordinaire" uses acid Chicano humor,
hybrid literary genres, multilingualism, and activist theory
as subversive strategies.
Following the performance, there will be a Q & A with
Guillermo Gómez-Peña, and a reception. The event is free and
open to the public.
FMI: Grace Dávila-López (x-18804) or
Anne Tessier (x-72348).
Bill
Santiago
Comedian and author of "Pardon My Spanglish"
Monday, March 2, 2009, 7.00 pm
Dom's Lounge at the Smith Campus Center,
Pomona College
 Bill
Santiago is a standup comedian, author and former
journalist, who has appeared on Comedy Central Presents,
Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Que Locos, American Latino
and Comedy Central's Premium Blend. He is currently on a
National "Pardon My Spanglish" Book Tour (sponsored by
Myspace Latino). What's the book about? Well, todo lo que
you ever wanted to know about Spanglish, pero estabas afraid
to ask! It's divertidísimo, and goes way beyond the funny
into el nitty gritty de cómo el Spanglish actually works.
Event is open to the public.
FMI: Susana Chavez-Silverman
(x-18938) or Anne Tessier (x-72348)
Latin American Studies Fall Reception
Wednesday, November 05, 2008,
4:15 PM to 5:30 PM
Smith Campus Center Courtyard, Pomona College
Annual Latin American Fall reception with food and music.
Open to all members of the Claremont Colleges.
Junot Diaz
2008 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction
November 5, 2008,
4.30 pm
Rose Hills Theater,
Pomona College
 Junot
Díaz is best known for his two major works: the short story
collection "Drown" (1996) and the novel "The Brief Wondrous
Life of Oscar Wao" (2007). Both were published to critical
acclaim and he won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for
the latter. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker
magazine (which listed him as one of the 20 top writers for
the 21st century), as well as Story, The Paris Review, The
Best American Short Stories, and African Voices. Díaz is
active in the Dominican community and teaches creative
writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is
also the fiction editor for the Boston Review. He is a
founding member of the Voices of Writing Workshop, a writing
workshop focused on writers of color.
¿PuedoHablar? May I Speak?
A campus screening of the new documentary film
November 11th, 2008, 7 pm
Oldenborg Film Theater, Pomona College
"Los Pleneros De La 21"
February 21, 2008
Edmunds Ballroom ,
Pomona College
 LOS
PLENEROS DE LA 21 are New York City’s preeminent ambassadors
of Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba & Plena music and dance. This
unique troupe of Puerto Rican master traditional artists and
seasoned New York musicians are leaders in the resurgence of
the Island’s traditional music in NY. For 23 years, ‘Los
Pleneros’ have created an extensive display of performance
and recorded work that captures the swinging groove of Bomba
& Plena with perfectly balanced contemporary jazzy
arrangements for an enjoyable and infectious danceable music
to audiences and fans everywhere from NYC to Australia.
An interactive workshop on Thursday February 21, 2008 from
4-6pm at the Edmunds Ballroom on the Pomona College campus:
the workshop is an interactive presentation and fun-filled
activities that will engage participants in call & response,
rap/hip-hop singing, drumming and dancing. Participation is
a must!
A live concert on Friday February 22, 2008 from 8-10pm at
the Edmunds Ballroom on the Pomona College campus.
For more information, here is a MySpace link for Los
Pleneros where you can hear four of their recent songs:
http://www.myspace.com/losplenerosdela21
You may also see a video of the group on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMTOyfhT-lE
For more information on these events, contact:
Anne Tessier,
ext. 72348.
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