Cape Fear
Foreign Language Collaborative
Volume
14, Number 4, March 2002
UNCW, Lakeside Hall 138
January
meeting: Many thanks to: Ana Hernández,
Mario López-Cordero, Denise DiPuccio, Lisa
Byrd, Christi Lea and Melinda Johansson for
their presentations. You can view
photos of January’s meeting at: http://www.uncwil.edu/people/mountt/
CFFLCRecentMeetings.htm
March
23 meeting: Our
program will emphasize two of the C’s (Culture and Comparisons) and relate
specifically to Standards 2.2 and 4.2.
We are pleased to have a special presentation on stamps and stamp
collecting by Steve Young and an international brunch with
dishes provided by CFFLC members.
We still
need volunteers for the International Brunch and Raffle! (Please do not feel obligated to contribute
to both.) For the brunch, we have so
far: Susan Crampton, Alice Rutter, Lizzy Pressley, Mimi Berrospi, Christi
Lea, Josephine Medina, Julie Bordo, Ana Hernández and Mario López-Cordero. Dishes promised include: alfajores, tortilla
española, flan and paella. If you bring
a dish, please bring copies of the recipe to share, also! In the raffle, we can always count on
Theresa Hodum to bring great restaurant and gift certificates! For the rest of us, please bring items for
the raffle, such as baked goods, teaching materials, plants, tapes, CDs, books,
art work, white elephants, etc. A new
addition this year: a give-away and “yard sale” table for hand-me-downs,
used paperbacks and textbooks. All
these items will be for the taking—but small donations are welcome. Do your spring cleaning! Your trash could be someone’s treasure!
High
school scholarship recipients will
be announced and presented.
Intercultural
Festival: Many thanks to all who participated
in the CFFLC display booth: Kim Eadie, Julie Bordo, Agnes Ille, Joann Mount,
Terry Mount, Gladys Wade, Lizzy Pressley and Maite Woodhouse. Special thanks to Julie Bordo for painting the
beautiful Matisse chair! The raffle
raised $80 for scholarships
Tres
Vidas, a
chamber music theater piece, will be performed in Kenan Auditorium (UNCW
campus) on April 14, at 8 pm. Written by Chilean author Marjorie Agosin, the
piece deals with the lives of three Spanish American women: Mexican painter
Frida Kahlo, Argentine poet Alfonsina Storni, and Salvadoran peasant-activist
Rufina Amaya. The musical score includes arrangements of traditional Latin
American folksongs and tangos as well as new compositions. Tres Vidas
is coming to Wilmington thanks to a grant from the N.C. Humanities Council and
contributions from several units on campus.
The piece raises issues including the increasing Hispanic presence in
our community, the status of women in society, the role of art in reflecting
social and political realities, and the ravages of civil war. The audience will
be invited to talk about the piece, before and after, with discussion leaders: Denise
DiPuccio, Joann Mount, Teresita Parra, Sylvia Santaballa, and Peter Thomas. Admission to the performance is free. The text of play is in English but the songs
are in Spanish. For more information, at
the FLL website click here. (Click on U.S. Flag for English text, Mexican
Flag for Spanish text.)
A Spanish
graduate course will be offered at UNCW in Summer 2002 by John
Stevens: Spanish 495/595: Seminar in Spanish Dialectology (Social and
Geographic Varieties of Spanish). This
course will examine the historical, social, and cultural elements represented
in the dialectal diversity of the Spanish language. Special emphasis will be
placed on Spanish in the United States.
Dues:
($10) may be paid at the meeting or sent to Josephine Brent: 1304 Heron
Run Dr., Wilmington, NC 28403. Make
checks payable to Cape Fear Foreign Language Collaborative (CFFLC).