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CULTURAL EVENTS & SPECIAL SESSIONS

All Week Art and Poetry Exhibit, Library Gallery “Faces of the Border” by Ms. Rivca Schneider (Artist) & Dr. Steven Schneider (Poet)
Monday, April 11, 2005 3 p.m., Library 310 Film: “Cuba: Island of Music” 6:30 p.m., UTPA Quad Concert:
UTPA Salsa Band
Director: Dr. Pedro Martinez,
UTPA 8:00 p.m., Student Union Theater
Movie: “Motorcycle Diaries” Co-sponsored by the
University Program Board
Tuesday, April 12, 2005 9:10 a.m., SBS 207 ”The Matamoros ‘Drug Cult’ Murders” Guest Speaker: Mr. Victor Gomez, MA Student, Dept. of History Moderator: Dr. Servano Hinojosa, UTPA 3 p.m., Library 310 Film: “Señorita Extraviada” 4:30 p.m., Jeffers Theater, CAS 106 ”UTPA and the future of Valley Media” Guest Speaker: Dr. Gregory Selber, UTPA 5 p.m., CAS 181 ”Spanish & English Proficiency” Guest Speaker: Dr. Mathew Meyers, UTPA Moderator: Dr. Ralph Carlson, UTPA 6:10 p.m., CAS 180 ”Las Mujeres de Juárez y el Activismo Político” Presentation in Spanish Guest Speaker: Dr. Guadalupe Cortina, UTPA 7:30 p.m., University Center Ballroom Salsa Dance Performance Sabor Vallero Dance Group
Wednesday, April 13, 2005 10:45 a.m., CAS 258 ”Latin American Women Writers and Political Activism” Moderator: Dr. Dora Ramirez-Dhoore, UTPA Guest Speaker: Dr. Marjorie Agosin, Writer & Poet from Chile 3 p.m., Library 310 Film: “Camila”
Thursday, April 14, 2005 3 p.m., Library 310 “In the Time of Butterflies”
Friday, April 15, 2005 12 p.m., Library Lobby ”Latin American Food Tasting” 3 p.m., Library 310 Film: “I, the Worst of All”