Various events are planned through October to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at Grand Valley. They include a serenade, lectures and dancing, details are below.
• Kickoff Event: September 13, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Cook Carillon
Tower.
Meet members of the Latino student organizations and enjoy
music and refreshments.
• Life Journeys Reception: September 14, 4-6 p.m., Kirkhof
Center room 1240.
10 members of the campus community are featured
in poster stories. Remarks by President Thomas J. Haas and Dean of
Students Bart Merkle will begin at 4:15 p.m.
• Serenade Under the Moon: September 22, 7-9 p.m., DeVos Center
courtyard.
A Mexican mariachi band will perform; Carlos de la
Barrera, music faculty member, will give a presentation on the history
of mariachi music.
• Hollywood and the Mexican Revolution: September 28, noon-1
p.m., Kirkhof Center room 1240.
This event invites participants
to think critically about how the film industry protrays Mexican
Revolutionary heroes; clips from movies and documentaries will be
shown and discussed.
• Night of Dancing: October 7, 4-5 p.m., Eberhard Center room
215.
Grupo Tarasco, dance company from the Cook Arts Center, will
showcase traditional Mexican dances, participants will have
opportunities to learn dance moves. Carol Sanchez, professor of
management, will give a presentation, "Doing Business in Mexico."
• Professionals of Color Lecture: October 14, 4-5:30 p.m.,
Kirkhof Center room 2263.
Achy Obejas, Cuban-American fiction
writer, journalist and poet will present "Identity and Dislocation."
• Spanish Lecture by Care Santos: October 19, 6-7:15 p.m.,
Mackinac Hall room BL121.
Care Santos will lecture, in Spanish
and translated to English, about the art of reading, especially to
children. Santos is a journalist, Spanish writer and literary critic.
Hispanic Heritage Month events are sponsored by the Office of
Multicultural Affairs and Latin American Studies, Latino Alumni
Association, LGBT Resource Center, Modern Languages and Literatures,
Phi Iota Alpha, Sigma Lambda Upsilon and Women’s Center.
For more information, visit www.gvsu.edu/oma or call x12177.
