Let's Celebrate Our 2nd Hispano-American Month at CSS!

 

 
OCTOBER 2011
 
CULTURAL NIGHT for FAMILIES: Thursday 27th
 
5:30 to 6:30 PM (West gym): BUFFET of food from different Hispanic countries (hosted by parents).
7:00 to 8:30 PM (auditorium): PERFORMANCES by renowned artists from across the city: Caribbean songs,
with 809 Ladies Band; flamenco, with Ballet Hispánico; an extract of a play, with Repertorio Español; Chilean
folkloric dances, with Expresiones de Chile; and meringue-salsa-bachata, with Vittico Pacheco and the Magia
dancers.
 
LECTURES by GUEST SPEAKERS for STUDENTS
 
MONDAY, October 17th 8th grade
Guest speaker: DRA. MAJA HORN, Professor Spanish & Latin American Culture, Barnard College. Topic: Recent
Dominican visual art and literature. Read a student review of Dr. Horn's lecture HERE!
WEDNESDAY, October 19th 10th grade
Guest speaker: DR. CARLOS ALONSO, Dean of the graduate school of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University. Topic:
Columbia University: history, development, present, future.
MONDAY, October 24th 9th grade
Guest speaker: DRA. WADDA RÍOS-FONT, Co-Chair Dept. of Spanish and Latin American Cultures, Columbia University.
Topic: Development of a conscience of nationality in Puerto Rico (during the Spanish Empire)
WEDNESDAY, October 26th 6th grade
Guest speaker: DRA. PATRICIA VELASCO, Professor  and Program Coordinator of Bilingual Education, Queens College
Topic: The importance of being bilingual.
FRIDAY, October 28th 7th grade
Guest speaker: DRA. RAMONA HERNÁNDEZ, Director of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, City College. Topic:
From One Island to Another across Countries: The Forgotten Immigration of Dominicans, 1892-