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Art Reception for Latin American Artists this Sat. April 14th
Jean & Norman Moore’s collection is exhibited for the first time in 40 years
Astounding East Bay Art Exhibit Gathers the Works of Noteworthy
Latin American Master Modern Artists
In the La Peña Cultural Center’s Theater, Lounge & Café.
April 3 through April 30, 2012 • Opening Reception: Sat., April 14. 3:30pm – 5:30pm.
3105 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley. 510-849-2568. lapena.org
The work is diverse in medium, subject and genre. It is colorful, powerful, and relevant to today’s aesthetics and politics. Traveling around the world for business and pleasure, they delighted in meeting and supporting emerging artists during the 1960’s and 1970’s.
The exhibits includes works of artists from eight countries including Nina & Romeo Tabuena and Leticia Tarrago from Mexico; Luis Arias Vera and Jose Milner Cajahuaringa from Peru; from Puerto Rico’s Angel Botello; Brazil’s Aldemir Martins and Juan Manuel Sanchez from Argentina.
“We are very thankful with the Moore family for sharing this precious collection with La Peña’s Latin American community and the general public. This is an incredible opportunity to enjoy a number of Latin American modern artists who marked a new and fresh period in the Latin American art movement of the 60s,” says Laura Ruiz La Peña art curator.
People’s Movement Assembly Launches World Courts of Women on Poverty in the U.S.
Read this article to learn more about an approach that “brings to life the world that we know is possible. ”
“Most World Courts of Women have focused on specific clusters of issues that are especially relevant to their region, but they have shared the common aims of destabilizing dominant narratives and bringing the realities of the everyday violence in people’s lives to the forefront. Speakers bear witness to many injustices, but the Courts are also about empowerment and the validation of women’s diverse experiences and subject positions.”
The Women’s Economic Agenda Project will Coordinate The Western Court (held in Oakland, CA, May 10-13). Check out their website for more information.
“Because poverty is rapidly growing in the U.S., and how to end poverty gets hardly any serious public discussion, the Women’s Economic Agenda Project and its allies are mounting a series of public hearings to shed more light on this shameful, mostly hidden issue.”
Sandra Fluke’s post about the Affordable Care Act!
Check-out the blog post that Sandra Fluke made on the Huffington Post
This is the product of women in action – this is what happens when women stand up for what they and their families need to be healthy and are finally heard by people at the highest ranks of our government.
Interesting TED Talk “The single biggest health threat women face”
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