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Program on Latin America and the Caribbean (PLACA) ¡Bienvenidos! ¡Bem vindos! Welcome!

Professor McCormick introducing Professor Phil Williams happening now! https://t.co/yJGTHZQmhk
25/04/2017

Professor McCormick introducing Professor Phil Williams happening now! https://t.co/yJGTHZQmhk

Get the whole picture - and other photos from PLACA Maxwell

Professor Williams will be joining us next week for an important discussion. Don't miss it! https://t.co/gCnOeYL18u
20/04/2017

Professor Williams will be joining us next week for an important discussion. Don't miss it! https://t.co/gCnOeYL18u

Get the whole picture - and other photos from PLACA Maxwell

A wonderful discussion today at . Thanks to for your time. https://t.co/23x9wS12ft
07/04/2017

A wonderful discussion today at . Thanks to for your time. https://t.co/23x9wS12ft

Get the whole picture - and other photos from PLACA Maxwell

07/04/2017

Legal financing of political parties is a big problem in the region & needs to be addressed

07/04/2017

Democracy is based on trust and when it's broken, it needs to be fixed - at

07/04/2017

Democracy is not a system without imperfection, needs to be constantly improved. - at

07/04/2017

On Cuba and Venezuela: "Building democracy in the whole region is positive for Latin America."

27/11/2012
Our foresight is 20/20. Do you see what we see?

We have just launched our Holiday Fundraising Campaign! Please take a look and share with friends! Thank you!

When we first visited Coco Solo, I was in awe of Pastor Brown's vision. How could someone have such hope while facing so much adversity?Over the past years, we have learned that a clear vision is the most important thing one needs while working towards a goal. Today our vision is materializing: we h...

08/11/2012

I am writing on behalfof Cambio Creativo, a grassroots platform for education based out of Coco Solo (Colon, Panama). As part of our effort to increase literacy among the youth of Coco Solo, we have sponsored several workshops in photography, music, dance, and video to create tools for learning in more creative and engaging ways. Involving the youth in the process of creation is at the heart of our mission, and the results of these projects are truly inspiring.

The youth of Coco Solo, ages 4-15. We are selling the prints individually or as a series in order to support future programming for Cambio Creativo. If you are interested in purchasing the photographs please get in touch with us, or pass this email along to those who might be interested.

We truly appreciate your collaboration and look forward to hearing from you soon.

02/04/2012

This Wednesday...PLACA presents: Problems and Solutions of Starting an NGO. Come and share!

02/04/2012
26/03/2012

Hi PLACA-

Due to unforeseen events in the organizers' schedules the Cinelatte movie "Death of a Bureaucrat" is cancelled for tonight but will be rescheduled as soon as possible.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause and we are looking forward to seeing you at the next Cinelatte event!

19/03/2012

CineLatte Presents "Lions Den": Today at 7pm
Join us for food and drinks and a great film! Link 105

18/02/2012

Come Join us for CineLatte this Monday the 20th at 7pm

We are showing XXY, Directed by Lucía Puenzo

For just about everybody, adolescence means having to confront a number of choices and life decisions, but rarely any as monumental as the one facing 15-year-old Alex, who was born an intersex child. As Alex begins to explore her sexuality, her mother invites friends from Buenos Aires to come for a visit at their house on the gorgeous Uruguayan shore, along with their 16-year-old son, Alvaro (Martin Piroyanski). Alex is immediately attracted to the young man, which adds yet another level of complexity to her personal search for identity and forces both families to face their worst fears.

15/02/2012

Spanish Table this Friday at 12:30 (Eggers 341)
Portuguese Table this Friday at 1:30 (Eggers 352)
Hope to see you all there!

13/02/2012

Hi Plaquistas! See you all at our first Cinelatte of the year, tonight at 7pm. Link 105. We will be playing Curundu, a doc from Panama!

12/02/2012

Cinelatte presents:

Curundú
Directed by Ana Endara Misiov (2007)

Kenneth lives in Curundu, one of Panama City’s more dangerous districts. He is the neighborhood's photographer and documents the everyday life of the area he loves. He is a local celebrity and by his side the viewer is presented with new spaces and special human beings placed in difficult circumstances. Kenneth is the administrator of Curundu’s collective memory, in a place from where people constantly disappear, shot when gangs fight each other or arrested by the violent police in their raids. A powerful documentary about a people left to themselves, seen through the eyes of someone who really has a personal experience of Panama’s systemic violence.

February 13th- 7:00 pm- Link 105

Food will be served!! Please come and join us to see the great documentary!

08/02/2012
Community Folk Art Center

Films at CFAC coming soon...
http://communityfolkartcenter.org/films_festival.htm

Community Folk Art Center's film program is designed to provide additional support to existing programming. Many of our films are related to the exhibitions on view in content or cultural perspective, and we also screen films that are connected to the diverse constituencies we serve.

15/11/2011
COCALERO

CinePizza is becoming DocuPizza this week with COCALERO!

Nov. 17, Link Auditorium, 8pm

Dir: Alejandro Landes

Born out of the U.S. war on drugs, an Aymara Indian named Evo Morales - backed by a troop of coca leaf farners - travels through the Andes and Amazon in jeans and sneakers, leading a historic bid to become Bolivia's first indigenous president. The filmmakers, granted astonishing up close and personal access to Evo, capture the intimate moments of this controversial figure and his triumphant rise to power. A story of geopolitics, people's movements, indigenous culture, and one man's impressive determination, Cocalero is a "luminous portrait of working people in a rare triumph against U.S. imperialism.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ91ku5rJxc

Trailer of documentary COCALERO by Alejandro Landes. 86 min. doc. Inside view of presidential campaing of Evo Morales. Bolivia

28/10/2011

CONTRACORRIENTE (Undertow) directed by Javier Puentes-León was one of the best coming out films we've seen in years, a Brokeback Mountain from Peru's amazing seaside. Don't miss our next film, "Sleep Dealer" by Alex Rivera, screening on Thu Nov. 10 at 8pm.

27/10/2011

Hey PLACA. A reminder we have a CinePizza movie tonight! It is Contracorriente, but the location is different this week. It is in Lyman 132.
See you soon!

25/10/2011

TOMORROW! A PLACA Event! All are welcome!

Speaker: Professor Jorge Duany
Tuesday, October 25, 2:00-4:00 in Hinds 347

Professor Jorge Duany is currently professor and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. He will be speaking about his recently published book, Blurred Borders:
Transnational Migration between the Hispanic Caribbean and the United States (Sept. 2011).

24/10/2011
Contracorriente (Undertow) - Trailer - English Subtitles

This week we are showing "Contracorriente" at CinePizza:
Dir: Javier Fuentes-León

"In a tiny Peruvian seaside village, where traditions run deep, Miguel (Cristian Mercado), a young fisherman, and his beautiful bride, Mariela (Tatiana Astengo), are about to welcome their first child. But Miguel harbors a scandalous secret. He's in love with Santiago (Manolo Cardona), a painter, who is ostracized by the town because he's gay. After a tragic accident occurs, Miguel must choose between sentencing Santiago to eternal torment or doing right by him and, in turn, revealing their relationship to Mariela—and the entire village."

NOTE: Location will be different. This week we are in Lyman 132.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm1-tDY-esU

Trailer with English Subtitles of the film Contracorriente (Undertow), which will compete at Sundance 2010 World Cinema Dramatic Competition. Winner of the S...

20/10/2011

CinePizza is 8pm tonight! Link Auditorium! See you there.

17/10/2011

This week's CinePizza will feature La Cienaga, Directed by Lucrecia Martel

Chekhov in contemporary Argentina. Mecha and Gregorio are at their rundown country place near La Ciénaga with their teen children. It's hot. The adults drink constantly; Mecha cuts herself, engendering a trip to the hospital and a visit from her son José. A cousin, Tali, brings her children. The kids are on their own, sunbathing by the filthy pool, dancing in town, running in the hills with shotguns, driving cars without licenses. One of the teen girls loves Isabel, a family servant constantly accused of stealing. Mother and son, son and sisters, teen and Isabel are in each other's beds and bathrooms with a creepy intimacy. With no adults paying attention, who's at risk?

Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9j1y6suhgY

Join us this Thursday at Link Auditorium at 8pm for this award winning movie and pizza.

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