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Fall
2004
The schedule for LARC Workshops,
Conferences and Film Series is posted below. This semester we will be
on the road a lot. Catch us in Baltimore for the National Council for
the Social Studies or at the Louisiana Council for the Social Studies
for day and half-day workshops. For our local events, we will again offer
the Maya Symposium and Workshop for Teachers in October, as well as at
the Ogden Museum for their Ogden After Hours for Teachers event.
More information on the above events is listed below.
Ogden
After Hours for Teachers "Gaze at the Moon, Stars and Southern Art"
Thursday,
October 28, 2004, 5:30-8:30 PM
The
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
The Latin American Resource Center is partnering with the Ogden Museum
of Southern to offer teachers the chance to explore the world of the stars
and southern art at Ogden After Hours. Teachers will be treated to an
evening music, food and fun, while touring the Ogden gathering sample
lesson plans, making a Dia de los muertos altar and more.
Gallery Activity Sheets and Lesson Plans Relating to Science and Art
Lesson plans for
Keith
Sonnier's Sculptures That Glow: Making Art Out of Neon Light will be available
for teachers as they peruse the gallery. There will also be an activity
sheet on "Revisiting the World's Fair: Art and Science of Yesteryear."
Day
of the Dead Celebration and Art Making Activities
The Latin American
Resource Center will host a work station at the Ogden Annex for Dia
de los muertos. The work station will feature tables were participants
can make calveras, papel picados, small figurines for the altar, gather
lesson plans and recipes, and video a video from a Dia de los muertos
celebration in Oaxaca.
Ahau
ti Diose: Maya Interpretations of Christianity
Through the process of Christianization of the Maya, Christianity itself
underwent many changes. In order for Christian concepts to make sense
to the Maya, these had to be explained and expressed in a different format
than was necessary for a Spanish practitioner. This talk will explore
some of the changes made to Christianity to fit it within the Maya cultural
context. It will explore religion in Yucatan from the pre-colonial to
the modern day. Presented by Amy George Hirons, Ph.D.
Classroom Resource: A Gift for Every Teacher
Every teacher will
receive the
first poster from The Ogden Museum's new series on Modern Art in the South
including a complementary lesson plan.Hand-outs
and other free materials are available as well.
Sky
Viewing on the 5th Floor Terrace
From 8:00-10:00 PM participants will be able use telescopes to gaze at
the stars and moon, something rarely seen in the city of New Orleans.
Ogden Teacher Members Pre-Registration is free. Non-Ogden Members Pre-Registration
$5.00 at the door. Music, Food, Drinks, and Friends! Join in the Celebration!
To register online or look for more details, please visit http://www.ogdenmuseum.org
or email Debbie Randolph at <drandolph@ogdenmuseum.org>
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photos from this event
Third
Annual Maya Symposium and Workshop: Fifteen Centuries of Maya Literature
from the Northern Lowlands
Tulane University
October 29 - October 31, 2004
The Yucatán Peninsula is unique in the Maya world in having a continuous
literary tradition dating from the prehispanic to the contemporary period.
We invite you to join us for an exploration of hieroglyphic, Colonial,
and contemporary texts written by the Yucatéc Maya. This year’s
program features a series of lectures, discussions, and workshops led
by specialists in the fields of epigraphy, linguistics, anthropology,
and Colonial history. For more information, please contact Brian
Knighten.
Registration
for the symposium is $75. For Louisiana and Mississippi educators, scholarships
are available. Please complete the registration
form and fax or mail it in.
Teachers schedule is as follows:
- Friday, October 29,
2004, 1:00 PM: A
Photographic Tour of the Northern Maya Lowlands through the Lens of
the Middle American Research Institute,
by David R. Nixon and David S. Anderson at MARI.
Following this presentation, a short reception and introduction to the
weekend will follow.
- Friday, October 29,
2004, 7:00 PM: The Sky in Mayan Literature,
by Anthony Haven. Dr. Haven’s lecture provides an overview of what
we have learned about Maya astronomy and its relationship to social
and religious practices from a study of the hieroglyphic Maya codices
over the past three decades. We owe much of this knowledge to research
based at Tulane University, especially the work of Dr's. Victoria and
Harvey Bricker, who have developed some novel approaches to reading
the almanacs and tables that compose the Maya codices.
- Saturday, October 30,
2004, 9:00 - 5:00 PM:
Attendance at the symposium will be optional. Registered teachers will
be allowed to attend the lectures if they chose. Of particular interest
to teachers will be Markus Webber's An Introduction to the Glyphic
Inscriptions of Northern Yucatán and Gabrielle Vail's Ritual
and Prophecy in the Maya Codices.
- Sunday, October 31,
2004, 9:00 - 3:00 PM:
Teachers will attend one workshop of their choice on Sunday morning.
Please visit the workshop
page for more information about the morning's offerings. For second
half of the day, all teachers will participate in the workshop What's
Your Sign?: Maya Interpretations of the Zodiac. This hands-on workshop
will explore the
book of Chilam Balam Kaua allowing teachers to read their birthdate
chart from this Maya book. Lunch
will be provided on this day.
Louisiana
Council for the Social Studies
November 12-13, 2004
Lafayette, Louisiana
LARC will offer a three-hour workshop at the 38th Annual Louisiana Council
for the Social Studies on November 12, 2004. This workshop will introduce
teachers to the many resources available through National Resources Centers,
as well as on the web. This session will also: discuss implications of
Free Trade; provide examples of how to use case studies to enrich concepts
such as globalization, human rights, and environmental justice; make with
a strong connection between content standards and diversified content;
and offer “best strategies” to introduce Latin America content into the
curriculum. Visit the LCSS website at http://www.geauxto.com/socialstudies/index.htm
National
Meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies
November 19-21, 2004
Baltimore, Maryland
Sponsored by the NCSS Conference Program Planning Committee, the 84th
NCSS Annual Conference is themed "Democracy and Diversity: Social
Studies in Action." This Annual Conference will include hundreds
of exhibit booths, 300 professional development sessions, dozens of clinics
and tours, and two Pulitzer Prize Winners. The intent of this three-day
event is to explore the meaning of democratic foundations and the diversity
that has always characterized the global community. The NCSS has unabashedly
labeled this year's Conference the "ultimate experience for the social
studies educator." The Latin American Resource Center and The Teresa
Lonazo Long Institute for Latin American Studies at the University of
Texas-Austin will co-offer a day long pre-conference clinic titled "Including
Latin America in the K12 Curriculum". This workshop will take place
on Thursday, November 18, 2004. Registration information for NCSS is available
at http://www.ncss.org
SPRING 2005
This semester, the Latin American Resource
Center partners will take a closer look at New Orleans connections to
Latin America and the Caribbean. We will offer teachers the opportunity
to learn about cultures that are often not studied when discussing the
Latin America and the African Diaspora.
In March LARC and CubaNola partner on the
three-part lecture series designed to introduce teachers to the connection
of Cuba and New Orleans. This lecture series will feature scholars and
musicians who spent the better part of their lives engaged in the exchange
of jazz, and the subsequent formation of Latin jazz, between New Orleans
and Cuba. Presenters will include Bill Summers, Ned Sublette, Tomás
Montoya, Arturo Farrill, and Micheal Skinkus. Please read below for more
information.
Also in March, Xavier University and the
Stone Center for Latin American Studies, will co-present a workshop on
the Garífuna of Central America and New Orleans. This
workshop will not only introduce teachers to the Garífuna people,
but also on how to do ethnographies in the classroom. Presenters will
show exerts from interviews with local Garífuna, give
examples of the unique Garífuna musical tradition, and
end the event with a Garífuna dance performance. As always, curriculum
materials will be provided.
This summer, Tulane, the University of
Florida, Florida International University and the University of Texas
at Austin, will offer it's second in a three part series dedicated to
performance in Latin America. This year's event will be held at Tulane
and will focus on Afro-Peruvian culture and the integration of performance
into the classroom.
Learning
from Everyday People: Teaching Your Students to do Cultural Research with
the Garífuna of Central America and New Orleans
Thursday, March 10, 2005, 4:00 - 8:00 PM
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100A Jones Hall, Tulane University
The Garífuna culture was born in 1635 when Africans headed for
slavery in the New World escaped from a Spanish shipwreck and began to
mix with the Carib-Arawak inhabitants of the island of Saint Vincent.
After a series of conflicts with the British they were exiled and landed
on the shores of present day Honduras in 1797. The Garífuna language
is primarily of Carib and Arawak origin, and they have distinct cultural
practices. Today the Garífuna primarily live along the Caribbean
coast of Central America, with the majority (an estimated 200,000) living
in Honduras. It is believed that the fourth largest stateside contingent
of this Afro Carib group reside in New Orleans.
The goal of this symposium on the Garífuna
is twofold. One objective is to provide information on a fascinating culture
which has a strong presence in our local community, as well as a unique
place in the world at large. The second intent is to offer some insight
into the study of groups of human beings, including some basic resources
and curricula for teachers. Though the Garífuna are the focus and
case study for this symposium, the insights and resources presented will
be useful for a variety of investigations individuals or teachers and
students may want to undertake.
Topics and Presenters:
“The Garífuna of Honduras”
Marco Bicchieri, doctoral candidate in Latin American Studies (History
and Anthropology), Tulane University, Peace Corps volunteer and teacher
in Honduras, high school teacher for seventeen years
“Learning from Everyday People: My
Experience Working With Garifuna People and Bringing Ethnographic Research
into the Classroom”
Donna Bonner, Ph.D., Assistant Director of African Diaspora Studies
and Visiting Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies,
Tulane University, Anthropologist with 10 years experience working with
and learning from the Garifuna people of Belize
“Cultural Pride: The Experience of
First and Second Generation Garinagu in New Orleans”
Carmen Villegas Rogers, Associate Professor of Spanish and French, Xavier
University, researcher in a project at Xavier, “The Garífuna
of New Orleans: A Vibrant Culture Speaks,” that has been interviewing
local Garífuna and presenting research results for the last two
years
“Personal Accounts”
A panel of Garífuna community
members from New Orleans will tell their stories and answer questions
from participants.
Materials:
Participants will receive a list of basic
resources related to the Garífuna and ethnographic research, as
well as a curriculum for ethnographic work which tough best suited to
secondary students, can be modified for elementary students also.
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photos from this event
Cuba Connections
March 2005
Ashé Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley, New Orleans,
LA
Cuba Connections is a series of public lectures, teacher workshops and
concerts about Cuban music and its connections to New Orleans. Cuba and
New Orleans are two undeniable focal points in the history of Latin Jazz.
Five Cuban music experts will speak about different aspects of Cuban music
and how it relates to New Orleans. Every event will end with a 30-minute
teacher session on integration strategies and lesson plan development.
A handout of benchmarks and GLEs covered during each session will be made
available. This event is co-presented with CubaNOLA. For a further description
of the lectures, please visit the LARC website.
The schedule and speakers are as follows:
Wednesday,
March 16, 6:00 - 8:30 PM
Bill Summers - "Afro-Cuban Yoruba
Sacred Music and Dance"
Grammy award nominated percussionist of Los Hombres Caliente.
Mr. Summers is a New Orleans resident and has traveled extensively to
Cuba over the last 30 years to study Afro-Cuban drumming. He will talk
about Afro-Cuban sacred music and dance.
Ned Sublette - "Other Afro-Cuban Religions"
Author of Cuba and It’s Music: From the first drums to the mambo,
an in-depth history of Cuban music, and a professional musician. Mr.
Sublette was born in Louisiana and he’s currently a Rockefeller Fellow
at Tulane. He will present on the European and African roots of Cuban
music as well as Cuban influences on American popular music.
Wednesday,
March 30, 6:00 - 8:30 PM
Arturo O'Farrill - "Jazz and
Latin jazz"
The director for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Afro-Cuban Latin Jazz Orchestra,
the son of Chico O’Farrill (the father of Afro-Cuban jazz in New York
City during the 1950’s and 60’s), and an accomplished jazz musician
in his own right. Mr. O’Farrill will be traveling to New Orleans from
New York City, and he will look at the complex relationship between
jazz and Latin jazz.
Tomás Montoya - "Street
Parades: Second Lines and Congas"
A resident of Santiago de Cuba, Mr. Montoya will add a distinctly Cuban
perspective to the series by looking at “Conga” street parades in Santiago
de Cuba and Second Lines in New Orleans. Mr. Montoya’s participation
is a unique opportunity since he is one of only a handful of scholars
from Cuba to have received visas to enter the United States in the last
year. He is in New Orleans to do comparative research on Congas and
Second Lines.
Wednesday,
April 6, 6:00 -8:30 PM
Ned Sublette - "African and
European Roots of Cuban Music"
Author of Cuba and It’s Music: From the first drums to the mambo, an
in-depth history of Cuban music, and a professional musician. Mr. Sublette
was born in Louisiana and he’s currently a Rockefeller Fellow at Tulane.
He will present on the European and African roots of Cuban music as
well as Cuban influences on American popular music.
Michael Skinkus - "Transmission of musical traditions in Cuba and
in New Orleans"
A local musician and scholar, Mr. Skinkus performs with many popular
local ensembles and holds a Master’s degree from Tulane Latin American
Studies. He has traveled to Cuba many times to study Cuban percussion
and he will present on the transmission of musical traditions in Cuba
and in New Orleans.
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SUMMER
2005
Summer Institute on Performance
in Latin America
June 16-18, 2005
Tulane University
This workshop will use performance and participant-observation
as a means of fostering multicultural understanding, appreciation and
interpretation in the classroom. Teachers will work with artist and scholars
of understudied and underrepresented traditions in order to learn how
active engagement with live performance can serve as an entry point to
discussions on language, race, and cultural heritage. Our special guest
will be the Afroperuvian music and dance troupe Teatro
del Milenio whose performance we will use as a case study for
modeling these integration strategies.
At the same time, presenters
will work with teacher practitioners on how to develop partnerships with
local musicians and other performing artists so that the performative
richness of one's own community can be brought into the classroom. This
workshop will be beneficial to dance, history, language, music and social
studies teachers as well as teachers in other disciplines who are interested
in incorporating an arts in
education component to their curricula.
Co-sponsored by University of Florida,
Florida International University, and University of Texas at Austin.
You may register for the Summer Institute
on Performance online, by mail or by fax.
Register
for the Summer Performance Institute (online)
Download
a registration form
View and
download postcard announcement
Visit
Teatro del Milenio's website
Presenters will include:
- Teatro del Milenio from Lima,
Peru
- Graciela Barreto, Music Instructor,
International School of Louisiana
- Javier León, Ph.D., Assistant
Professor, Tulane University, Department of Music.
- Ramón Versage, Wooldridge Elementary
School, Austin Independent School District
- Diana F. Green, M.F.A., Arts In Education,
Program Manager, Alabama State Council on the Arts
Session Overview:
Introduction
to Institute, Presenters and Collaborators - Title VI Collaborators
During hour-long welcoming session
participants and organizers will meet and share their experiences as teachers,
artist and arts integrators. Educational outreach coordinators from University
of Florida, Florida International University, University of Texas at Austin,
and Tulane University will briefly discuss their Title VI Centers and
the role each center plays in promoting the study of Latin America at
K12 institutions.
INSIDE PERSCEPTIVES:
Practical Applications of Addressing Culture Through Performance: A Case
Study- Ramón Versage
This presentation will examine how
the exploration of culture through performance has been put into practice
in one classroom based on the author’s experience as a music educator
with an ethnomusicologically informed perspective. Utilizing a vast array
of performance types and styles, both live—including those of guest performers
and of the students themselves—and recorded, the classroom has become
an environment in which to promote cultural understanding and tolerance
and to study musical and extramusical aspects of culture, including musical
practice, performance context, historical perspective, and issues of race,
class, gender and language. The author’s experiences will serve as a basis
to discuss how he has implemented this approach to performance and culture
and to offer suggestions as to how teachers might develop these practices
in their own classrooms.
INSIDE
PERSCEPTIVES: Teaching as Art, and Art as Teaching - Graciela
Barreto
To say that art can break cultural barriers can sound redundant,
trite words; in reality, facts can demonstrate that indeed the miracle,
this utopia, of breaking down cultural divisions, is possible. Education
can help obtain them. A teacher, as in my case, centered in the daily
work of teaching art, plants the seeds for creating a better world. Human
beings that will have the capacity to recognize others as sisters an brothers
and will recognize that we must respect the cultural, linguistic and religious
traditions of others. This, then constitutes the true importance of this
marvelous combination of education as art and art as education. A method
to see the product of teaching in a context that makes possible that students
of diverse backgrounds, can integrate themselves, and live in what we
could call a “team”, the marvelous experience of the artistic creation.
Latin
American Music and Performance: Using Latin American Socio-Cultural Content
in an Arts in Education Curriculum - Javier Leon
Latin American music and performance often includes a tale of cultural
and societial content which given the proper background, can translate
into a meaningful and memorable classroom experience for the students.
This workshop session will attempt to instruct participates on how to
properly develop a presentation/unit outline when introducing content
rich performance into the classroom. Participants will begin to work with
thier own performance groups to develop an outline that properly does
justice to the artist performance.
Performance:
Doorway to a Passion for Learning - Diana Green
Arts integration will be defined, explored and developed into
written curriculum by applying opportunities presented through collaborations
with Latin American performing artists and classroom teachers. Through
the use of concept based curriculum design, which gives equal and significant
attention to art and non-art subjects, artists and teachers will form
partnerships that extend possibilities both for learning in the classroom
and for creating performances. Artists and teachers discover greater passion
for their professions. Students, as artists, gain ownership of their education
and acquire a passion for learning.
Presenter Bios:
Natalie
Arsenault is Outreach Coordinator at the Teresa Lozano Long
Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
She holds an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Florida,
where she focused on Brazilian Literature. She has worked extensively
on Latin American content-based activities with educators at all levels,
including pre-service teachers, in-service teachers, and district-level
curriculum coordinators throughout Texas and beyond. Her current projects
include a series of curriculum units co-authored by Hemispheres, the international
area studies outreach consortium at UT.
Graciela
Barreto is the elementary music teacher for the International
School of Louisiana, a Spanish and French immersion school in New Orleans.
Graciela has a masters degree in music teaching from St. Petersburg University
in Russia.
Diana F.
Green received her B.A. and M.F.A. in dance from the University
of California at Irvine. Her training included diverse styles in classical
ballet, modern and jazz with a concentration in choreography and pedagogy.
She is co-chair of the education committee for the Alabama Dance Council
and has served on the Alabama Research for Arts Education Committee for
the Alabama State Board of Education. Diana is currently designing an
arts education initiative for the state of Alabama.
Brian Knighten
the Manager of Educational and Community Programs for the
Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane. Brian is also the World
Music Director for WTUL New Orleans 91.5
FM and can be heard each Wednesday night, from 8-10pm.
Javier
Leon is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology in the Newcomb
Department of Music. His area of focus is Afroperuvian Musicology, though
he currently teaches courses on world music and Latin American music and
identity.
Ramón
Versage an elementary music teacher at Wooldridge Elementary
School in the Austin Independent School District. He has a Bachelor of
Music in music education from State University of New York College at
Potsdam and a Master of Music in ethnomusicology from the University of
Texas at Austin.
Charmille
Walters is the Program Coordinator for the Intercultural
Dance and Music Institute (INDAMI) and is also ateacher with Arts
for Learning/Miami, currently workingwith grades 6-8 during an after school
program.
Teatro
del Milenio - Visit www.delmilenion.com
find out more about this Afro-Peruvian performance troupe from Lima.
Teaching Through Art: Exploring
Latino Culture through Art
July 25–29, 2005
Maryhill Museum,
Goldendale, Washington
Explore the art and history of Latino
culture in this week-long course featuring lectures, study of original
artwork in the galleries, and hands-on sessions. Special emphasis will
be given to the development of teaching strategies that integrate art
into the classroom. Guest speakers and artists will participate throughout
the week. The exhibition: People, Places and Perceptions: A Look at Contemporary
Northwest Latino Art, will be the focal point for activities and discussions.
Credit pending through Graduate School of Education/Continuing Education,
Portland State University. For more information visit <http://www.maryhillmuseum.org/school_new.htm>
or call 509-773-3733.
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