Festiba - Thursday, March 27, 2008
GEAR UP UTPA / REGION ONE, CONGRESSMEN VISIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS
| CAS Gallery: "Legends and Folktales" Exhibit open Thursday, Friday, and Saturday | |
| 09:00 - 09:50 a.m. | NUYORiCAN POETS CAFÉ: Tato Laviera Readings and Performance (GEAR UP students only) (Student Union) - Thursday and Friday |
| 09:10 - 10:55 a.m. | Film and Discussion of "Women on the Border, Salt of the Earth" Hernandez, Cortina - CAS 140 |
| 10:00 - 10:50 a.m. | Texas Book Festival Author Readings (GEAR UP studnets) - Viola Canales (Media Theater) and Carmen Tofolla (Ballroom) - Thursday and Friday |
| 10:50 - 11:50 a.m. | Folkloric Dance Master Class - F.Munoz, HPE II.133 A master dance class open to all who are interested. |
| 10:25 - 11:50 a.m. | "Ten Minute Play Festival" - P. Zwerling, FIAC 103C Ten 10 minute plays will be staged live. The plays are written by UTPA students of playwriting (English 4336) and will be acted by UTPA students. There will be plays about love, romance, death, and taxes. |
| 12:00 - 12:45 p.m. | "Mark Twain" (Media Theater) - Thursday and Friday Dr. William F. Strong impersonates Mark Twain, in full costume and makeup. He speaks to the audience as if they are at one of Twain’s lectures, and all the material comes from Twain’s own writings. Dr. Strong is a Professor in the Communication Department at UT Brownsville and was a member of the UTPA Communication Department for a number of years. |
| 12:00 - 01:00 p.m. | Art Department: Drawing Workshop (Clark Gallery) Figure drawing workshop; a drawing workshop using the Wacom drawing screen. Participants would work from a live model, drawing directly onto the computer screen, using this new technology. |
| 12:00 - 01:30 p.m. | SALSA BAND, PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE and Face Painting by S. Hawks, Quad |
| 12:45 - 01:30 p.m. | "Mark Twain" (Media Theater) - Thursday and Friday Dr. William F. Strong impersonates Mark Twain, in full costume and makeup. He speaks to the audience as if they are at one of Twain’s lectures, and all the material comes from Twain’s own writings. Dr. Strong is a Professor in the Communication Department at UT Brownsville and was a member of the UTPA Communication Department for a number of years. |
| 01:00 - 02:00 p.m. | Dulce Maria Gonzalez, Novelist, CAS 107 |
| 01:00 - 02:30 p.m. | Modern Dance Master Class - M. Blomquist, HPE II.133 A master dance class open to all who are interested. |
| 02:00 - 04:50 p.m. | Film Screening "Machuca: A Coming of Age in A Times of a Coup" with Panel Discussion: Jose Hernandez, Stephanie Alvarez, David Carlson, Carla Calarge (Media Theater) A screening followed by a panel discussion of the film. These UTPA professors will provide you with the tools for “reading” the film. Students are encouraged to participate in the dission, ask questions and make comments. |
| 02:30 - 04:00 p.m. | Dance Improvisation Observation - M. Blomquist, HPE II.130 Come observe the Dance Improvisation class. Audience members are encouraged to ask questions. |
| 03:00 - 04:00 p.m. | Beijing Opera, CAS 304 - Lu Zhiying |
| 04:00 - 05:30 p.m. | Flamneco Lecture/Demonstration - F. Darsow, HPE II.133 |
| 04:00 - 06:00 p.m. | An Evening with Lorenzo Pace, Reading and Performing his Book "Jalani and the Lock" (Clark Gallery) |
| 05:00 - 06:00 p.m. | Rondell Davidson Lecture Series - Dr. John Charles Chasteen, Media Theater |
| 06:00 - 09:00 p.m. | "Artists Who Write" (Clark Gallery) - Thursday and Friday A presentation of readings and writings by artists from near and far. All artists are welcome to read their writings. |
| 07:00 p.m. | President's Reception (by invitation) |
