Mexican Fine Arts Museum Fieldtrip, Chicago                    download flyer Exhibit: The African Presence in Mexico                         
8:00am - 4:30 pm                                                         
                                                                             
Meet at 8am in the UWM Union Concourse
2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee

8:15am - Bus leaves UWM
2:30pm - Bus leaves Chicago

FREE transorpotation, FREE admission, FREE tour for 40 participants

please bring $10 for lunch at Taqueria Los Comales, Chicago

The Mexican Fine Arts Museum is showcasing The African Presence in Mexico, the most comprehensive project ever organized about African contributions to Mexican culture over the past nearly 500 years.

RSVP required by April 21st.  Contact Carmen Cepeda at (414) 229-6931

For more information, check out the Mexican Fine Arts Muesum website at: www.mfacmchicago.org

Movie:  Zoot Suit                                                              download flyer
7pm - 9pm
Business Building S151
3202 N. Maryland Ave., Milwaukee

A kind of musical accompanying the story of the early 1940's and the effect that the "zoot suit" (a man's suit of long jacket and pegged pants, always worn with a long keychain that looped almost to the ankle.... the rebellious fashion of young men) had on the morals and attitudes of the people of that era. Part fact and part fiction, Zoot Suit is the film version of Luis Valdez's critically acclaimed play, based on the actual Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the zoot suit riots of 1940s Los Angeles . Henry Reyna (Daniel Valdez) is the leader of a group of Mexican-Americans being sent to San Quentin without substantial evidence for the death of a man at Sleepy Lagoon. As part of the defense committee, Alice Bloomfield (Tyne Daly) and George Shearer (Charles Aidman) fight the blatant miscarriage of justice for the freedom of Henry and his friends. Edward James Olmos stars as the mythical "El Pachuco" in a blend of action, music, and excitement.

FREE ADMISSION & FREE SNACKS    

For more information, call (414) 229-6156

The Latino Vote in November Elections                            download flyer
12pm - 1:30pm, reception to follow
Hefter Conference Center
3271 N. Lake Drive, Milwaukee

A panel of current local elected Latino officials will discuss the Latino vote in the midterm elections in November 2006. 

Panelists include:
                Pedro Colon, Wisconsin State Representative
                Jennifer Morales, Milwaukee Public Schools Board Member
                Juan Perez, Mayor of Sheboygan
                Robert Puente, Milwaukee City Alderman
                Peggy West, Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors

Stay for the reception after the panel discussion to talk one-on-one with each of these local elected Latino officials.

For more information, call (414) 229-6156
Sponsored by the Roberto Hernandez Center

FIEBRE LATINA - QUALIFYING ROUND                    download
LATIN DANCE COMPETITION                           registration materials
7pm - 10pm
Sandburg Halls, Channel, 2nd floor
3400 N. Maryland Ave., Milwaukee

If you know how to dance Salsa, Merengue, Reggaeton, Cumbia, Bachata & Quebradita, and are a UWM student, Faculty, Staff or a community member, you can register to compete and show us what you've got in this exciting dance competition!

Couples must register to compete in Bolton Hall 272 before April 21st!

Movie: The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez                              download flyer
3:30pm - 5:30pm
Walker's Point Center for the Arts
911 W. National Ave., Milwaukee

The retelling of an incident in Gonzales, Texas in 1901 revolving around a stolen horse, is taken identity and a killing. An unusual story of the all too usual exploitation of the powerless in Texas History. The entire cause of the problem evolves from the use of a deputy to translate. His command of Spanish is inadequate and he mistranslates what a witness tells the sheriff as to whether the real perpetrator of the crime is riding a mare (yegua) or a male horse (caballo). This error results in destroying a family and the death of an innocent man.

FREE ADMISSION & FREE SNACKS

For more information, call (414) 229-6156
Sponsored by the Roberto Hernandez Center

Movie: La Ciudad                                                              download flyer
7pm- 9pm
Bolton Hall 150
2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee

THE CITY (LA CIUDAD) tells stories of loss, love, frustration, and hope as four people recently arrived in a large city struggle to build their lives, their communities and their dreams. Filmmaker David Riker's sensitive portrayals urge us to take a closer look at today's immigrants, who are not so different from many of our ancestors when they first arrived from a foreign land.

FREE ADMISSION & FREE SNACKS

For more information, call (414) 229-6156
Sponsored by the Roberto Hernandez Center

The GI Forum, Youth Culture,                                      
and Political Mobilization in the 1950s  with Marc Rodriguez                     
12pm - 1pm
UWM Union E240
2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee

5pm - reception
5:30pm - 6:30pm - talk
La Causa School Gym
1643 S. 2nd Street, Milwaukee

Professor Rodriguez' lecture examines the grass-roots politics in the 1950s of the GI Forum and Youth Culture among Mexican-Americans in Crystal City, Texas with an eye to understanding the nature of citizenship in the Cold War era, the nature of patriotism, and the differences within organizations such as the GI forum at the local as opposed to the national level. Rodriguez compares this adult activism with that of Mexican-American teenagers coming of age at the dawn of the Rock-and-Roll era and a mass consumer culture which they tied to their own understandings of Cold War American democracy and politics in a way that lay the foundation for the Chicano Movement of the 1960s.        
            

Movie: Taking Back the Schools                                  download flyer
7pm - 8pm
Bolton Hall 150
2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.

It covers the Los Angeles high school blow outs of 1968 thoroughly and with passion. You can witness young people their own age forcefully agitating for change. It is also striking because the catalysts for the walk outs—high drop out rate, crumbling schools, lack of Mexican American teachers—still resonate today. They actually go back and forth between a photo or video of a participant from the 1960s to that same person being interviewed today, and it is insightful to see how that individual changed in the intervening thirty years.

FREE ADMISSION & FREE SNACKS    

For more information, call (414) 229-6156
Sponsored by the Roberto Hernandez Center

Latina/os Surviving and Thriving in Higher Education:
¡Querer es Poder!         with Alberta Gloria                     
12pm - 1pm
UWM Union E240
2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee

Dr. Alberta Gloria, Professor in the Department of Counseling and Psychology at UW-Madison & Adjunct faculty with the Chican@ / Latin@ Studies Program will address the experiences of Latina/o students pursuing higher education.

For more information, call (414) 229-6156

CINCO DE MAYO DANCE                                    download flyer
& FIEBRE LATINA DANCE COMPETITION                                                   
7pm - 11:30pm
UWM Union Ballroom
2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee

Join us in celebrating Cinco de Mayo and watch the remaining 5 couples from Monday night's qualifying round compete in the final round of the FIEBRE LATINA dance competition! 

Afterwards, dance to LIVE MUSIC by LOS MALCRIADOS DE LA SIERRA, Milwaukee's hottest Duranguence band!  Cash bar and light snacks will be provided.  Come join the fun!

Co-sponsored by the Roberto Hernandez Center, Multicultural Affairs, and the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies (CLACS).

For more information, call (414) 229-6156