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One day five women from Quito, friends in their teens, decide to get back together after fourteen years. Helena is waiting for her second child, Marina lives the ups and downs of infidelity, Diana, an early widow, shares her loneliness with her 15 year old daughter and Tamara has not abandoned the random life of nightclubs, men and drugs. The purpose of their get- together is to visit their old classmate, Alejandra, who is consumed by an illness. "Esas No Son Penas" is a portrait of the group, in which each person brings the lights and shadows of her paradoxical middle clas sstatus in a city nestled in the Andes. At that meeting, fortuitous and unusual, these women teter to-and-fro between guilt and hope, loneliness and comradarie - a tapestry of emotions exploding in the middle of the apparent routine of everyday life
Revolutions within a Civil War. Calig, Castellón, Spain. July - September 1936.
Tensions that had built up in an agricultural village over previous decades between extremists on the right and left erupted in the first months of the Spanish Revolution. Could a new society be built during those chaotic times? Dr. Martha Heard who interviewed Anarchist and Republican leaders as well as moderate Catholics in Calig will present different perspectives of this revolutionary period.
Mesoamerican culture experienced a revival as successive migrations created its grandeur at Xochicalco, Cacaxtla, Tula, and the later greatness of Mexico – Tenochtitlan. In all of them magnificent historical and artistic legacy are kept. The Mexica capital city reached such a growth expressed in codex, oral tradition, sculpture and ceramics, but over all in recollections along its great monuments and temples, at the large extent of its dominions, as well as its deep rooted political, religious and social structures.
Directed by Julián Pablo and narrated by Carlos Fuentes.
A portrayal of the singular experience shared by people of her generation -- those living Cuba's utopian dream during the golden era of the revolution. It is also a lament for the end of that dream, which began to fizzle after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The Spanish Model UN Conference began as a final project in one of the advanced courses at Bosque School. Since the beginning, the idea was to create a project that helped stimulate the dissemination of the Spanish language and culture in a relevant, authentic context. In the last two years, this Project has expanded by including the advanced students from Sandia Prep as participants and the Instituto Cervantes and the University of New Mexico Latin American and Iberian Institute as sponsors. One of the purposes of this event is to develop and practice skills for debate, analysis, discussion, conflict resolution and negotiation among its participants, following the model applied by the organization. Similarly, the Model United Nations’ goal is to create an awareness of the vital and humanitarian mission of the United Nations in the world.
Our dream is to expand this conference regionally and state wise in the future. We hope you want to be part of this dream in the following years. Therefore, we want to invite you to attend the conference this year in the hopes that your observations and the use of Spanish in context by the participants motivate you and your students to be part of this project in the future.
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