Performance in Latin America: Retracing African Culture
July 10-12, 2008
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
100 Jones Hall, Tulane University
The Stone Center for Latin American Studies is proud to offer a summer workshop on performance in Latin America which will coincide with Tulane University’s New Orleans Dance Festival. This workshop will explore the African Diaspora in Latin America through performance as a means of cultural understanding and interpretation. Teachers will act as participants and participant-observers as they learn about African culture in Latin America. Presenters will help teachers develop the skills necessary to work with their own local musicians and performers as cultural ambassadors in the classroom. Teachers of Music, dance, Spanish and history will find this workshop particularly beneficial as a way to incorporate the richness of their local community into the classroom. Read about this year’s institute.
Annual Professional Development Competition for Gulf South K-12 teachers
The national Latin American Studies Teacher Training Network is a collaborative effort of six Title VI national resource centers hoping to encourage the study of Latin America through our network of resource centers. The Stone Center for Latin American Studies will support the study of Latin America at any one of our six participating national resource centers. The deadline to apply for this summer institute competition is March 31, 2008. Please click here for more information. Click here for all participating National Resource Centers institute offerings this summer.
Teaching the Maya: An Exploration through Geography
February 15, 2008
Tulane University and the Audubon Zoo
The Stone Center for Latin American Studies’ Latin American Resource Center, Tulane University and Audubon Zoo are holding a series of workshops associated with the Fifth Annual Maya Symposium. Become a “Maya Master Teacher” and receive ongoing training about Mayan culture and society. In addition to bringing a broadened perspective to the classroom, you will serve as a consultant on Mayan curriculum for the Latin American Resource Center and other area educators. No background in subject matter is required. For the registration form and more information please click here.
Exploring Brazil through Performance Art
March 29, 2008
Tulane University and The University of Texas at Austin
Tulane University is proud to host the Brazilian Studies Association IX international conference in New Orleans Louisiana this year. To coincide with this conference, the Latin American Resource Center and UT Austin’s outreach department teamed up to invite a Brazilian cultural group from Salvador da Bahia to the United States in order to conduct a series of workshops on Afro-Brazilian culture, history and arts education in Brazil. For details on this workshop, please download the schedule here.
Curriculum Writing Project
The winning film from this year’s Latin American Environmental Media Festival, “Iaurete/Waterfall of the Jaguars” will now be used in a curriculum writing project. Those selected to participate will earn an honorarium and be supported to create an exemplary curriculum to be used in the K-12 classroom in coordination with the film. The curriculum will be available as one of our online resources accessible to educators nationally. If you are interested in participating on the curriculum writing project, please contact Denise Woltering at crcrts@tulane.edu. You can download the registration form here.
Bringing Day of the Dead into the Classroom: A Celebration of Culture
October 27, 2007 1 pm
Louisiana State Museum’s Cabildo, Jackson Square
The Stone Center for Latin American Studies’ Latin American Resource Center, Tulane University and The Louisiana State Museum collaborate to celebrate Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) or as it is known in New Orleans, "All Souls Day." This celebration and workshop will introduce teachers, families and the public to the history and tradition behind this Mexican holiday. Local artists will explain how to build an altar in the classroom and scholars will trace the importance of this tradition through time and culture. There will be a resource table showcasing teaching resources and arts & crafts activities to help teachers bring Day of the Dead into the classroom as well as presenting families and kids how to make the different crafts popular to this tradition.
