Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at the University of Arkansas
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The University of Arkansas and the Hispanic Heritage Month Committee announce the 2007 Hispanic Heritage Month schedule of events on the university campus. Combining academic lectures, distinguished speakers and cultural events, Hispanic Heritage Month is an exciting opportunity to create greater awareness of the heritage and contemporary achievement of Hispanic and Latino cultures.
This year’s celebration is titled “Hispanic Americans: Our Rich Culture Contributing to America’s Future.” The celebration is a wonderful opportunity for students, faculty, staff and community members to be exposed to an array of Latino cultures that make up the Hispanic-Latino umbrella.
Hispanic Heritage Month begins Saturday, Sept. 15, the anniversary of independence for five Latin American countries - Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, which declared independence from Spain in 1821. Mexico had earlier declared its independence on Sept. 16, 1810, and Chile on Sept. 18, 1810.
Today, more than 40 million people of Hispanic and Latino ancestry reside in the United States, making them the largest ethnic minority in the country and the fifth-largest population among the 19 Spanish-speaking countries of the world. According to the 2000 census, 67 percent of the Hispanic and Latino population of the United States trace their origins to Mexico, 14 percent to Central and South America, 9 percent to Puerto Rico, 4 percent to Cuba, and 7 percent to other Hispanic origins.
Friday Night Live “Latin Soul” will kick off the celebration at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21, in the Arkansas Union. Friday Night Live is an initiative by the Division of Student Affairs to create fun and entertaining late night programs for UA students. FNL provides a setting in which students, faculty, staff and community members can be "edutained" in a stress-free environment. Each FNL provides a variety of activities, games, contests and memorabilia.
The following is a schedule of events for the Hispanic Heritage Month celebration:
Friday,
Sept. 14
Paintings Display by Juan Torres-Zavala
11
a.m. — Multicultural Center
Sponsored
by the HHM Committee and the Multicultural Center
Monday, Sept. 17
Free Citizenship Legal Clinic
6 — 8
p.m.
Jones
Center for Families (Springdale) Room 226
For:
Legal Permanent Residents with questions about citizenship application
Sponsored
by the HWOA
Wednesday,
Sept. 19
Free Citizenship Legal Clinic
10
a.m. — noon
Fayetteville
Public Library
For:
Legal Permanent Residents with questions about citizenship application
Sponsored
by the HWOA
Making
Payments to Non-Residents ... the Who, What, When and How
1 —
2:30 p.m.
Arkansas
Union 507-508
Sponsored
by HHM Committee and U of A Human Resources.
Free Citizenship Legal Clinic
6 — 8
p.m.
NWACC Shwemaker Technology Center
For:
Legal Permanent Residents with questions about citizenship application
Sponsored
by the HWOA
Thursday, Sept. 20
Panel
Discussion: Media Coverage of the 1957 Little Rock Central High Desegregation
Crisis
12:30 - 1:50 p.m.
Kimpel Hall 102
Sponsored
by the Department of Journalism
Department
of Journalism will present a panel discussion on "Media and Memory: News
Coverage of the 1957 Little Rock Central High Desegregation Crisis." Panel
members will include Professors Hoyt Purvis, who has written extensively on
television and newspapers reports of the events, and Gerald Jordan, who is an
expert on African American newspapers in the United States.
Latin
American Studies and Foreign Language Film Series
El Laberinto del Fauno/Pan’s
Labyrinth
5 — 7 p.m.
310
Kimpel Hall
Sponsored
by Latin American Studies and HHM Committee
Friday, Sept. 21
Friday
Night Live — Latin Soul
8
p.m. — 1 a.m.
Arkansas
Union
Sponsored
by FNL and HHM Committee
Monday, Sept. 24
Plaza de las Americas
Free
food, music, and information about Latin America!
11
a.m. to 3 p.m.
Connections
Lounge
Sponsored
by the UA Hispanic Heritage Month Committee
Engineering EXPO
Noon
- 4 p.m.
Bell
Engineering
Sponsored
by the UA Career Center
Wednesday, Sept. 26
“The
Saving Grace of Stories” - An Evening with Sandra Benítez
7
p.m.
Arkansas Union Theater
Sponsored by Latin American Studies and the UA Hispanic
Heritage Month Committee
Friday, Sept. 21
Friday
Night Live — Hogs United
8
p.m. — 1 a.m.
Arkansas
Union
Sponsored
by FNL, ISS and International Student Organization
Wednesday,
Oct. 3
Wind Symphony Concert
7:30
p.m.
Walton
Arts Center
Sponsored
by the Music Department
Admission will
be $10 for the general public, $5 for senior citizens and $1 for students.
Tickets will be available at the door prior to the event.
Thursday,
Oct. 4
Hispanic
Heritage Month Brown-Bag Lecture Series
“Sports
in Spain and Spain in Sports”
12:30
— 1:30 p.m.
Multicultural
Center
Sponsored by Latin American Studies and the UA Hispanic
Heritage Month Committee
Friday,
Oct. 5
Guest Artist Concert
Ken
Eshelman Tuba Concert, with In-Ja Eshelman, piano, and UA Faculty Jazz Combo
7:30 p.m.
Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Center
Sponsored
by the Music Department
Admission
is free.
Saturday,
Oct. 6
Hispanic Women’s Organization of Arkansas Conference
“Citizenship: Reaching the American Dream”
9 a.m. — 3:30 p.m.
Northwest Arkansas Convention Center
Sponsored by Hispanic Women’s Organization of Arkansas
Wednesday, Oct. 10
Sabor Latino
A
Celebration of the Latino Community
2 — 5
p.m.
Multicultural
Center
Sponsored
by Latinos Unidos
Thursday, Oct. 11
Hispanic
Heritage Month Brown-Bag Lecture Series
“The
Life of Language in the Theater of Luis Valdéz”
12:30
— 1:30 p.m.
Multicultural
Center
Sponsored
by Latin American Studies and the UA Hispanic Heritage Month Committee
Annual Student Health and Safety Fair
10 a.m. — 3 p.m.
ARKU Ballroom
Sponsored
by the Pat Walker Health Center
Friday,
Oct. 12
Dia de la Raza Movie Night
6
p.m.
Giffel’s
Auditorium — Old Main
Sponsored
by the UA Hispanic Heritage Month Committee
Monday, Oct. 15
"Resonance: Echoes Along
a Personal Journey"
Michel
Rojkind, Rojkind Arquitectos, Mexico City
5:30
— 7 p.m.
Ken
Shollmier Lecture Hall
Sponsored
by the Department of Architecture
Architecture
abhors a vacuum. It never happens in isolation. Designs have always flown: fist
from paused listening; and second, from an intense dialogue. A conversation
that includes clients, users, the landscape, history and our values and hopes
projected into an ever-present future.
Faculty Recital
Benjamin Pierce, Tuba &
Euphonium and Lyndon Meyer, Piano Recital.
7:30 p.m.
Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall
The program will feature a variety of original works for the tuba
and euphonium. Several transcriptions
will also be featured, including Benjamin Pierce's own arrangement of several
of Pablo de Sarasate's Spanish Dances, originally for violin and piano. Pierce has become known as a prominent low
brass solist, and has recently released two solo CDs, Wheels of Life and
Cheers. The concert will also feature
music department senior Lyndon Meyer, piano.
Thursday,
Oct. 18
Latin American Studies and Foreign Languages Film Series
El Lobo/The Wolf
5
p.m.
310
Kimpel Hall
Sponsored
by Latin American Studies and HHM Committee
Contacts
Scott Flanagin, coordinator
of communications and outreach
Division of Student Affairs
(479) 575-67875, sflanagi@uark.edu
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