Miguel Zenón Esta Plena Septet

Feauturing Hector "Tito" Matos, Juan Gutierrez and Obanilu Allende

Thursday, February 11, 2010 @ 8pm

Reynolds Industries Theater

$28 * $22 * $5 Duke Students

Three top plena musicians led by Hector "Tito" Matos are integrated into Miguel Zenon's jazz quartet.  Puerto Rican saxophonist Zenon, a MacArthur "genius" grant and Guggenheim winner, used some of his grant money to research plena for several years in preparation for this project.  The resulting album, "Esta Plena" generated two Grammy nominations.  I personally have heard the album and find it ancestral and electrifying, a beautiful conversation between plena and jazz.

dukeperformances.duke.edu/series/this-house-on-fire/miguel-zenon

Born and raised in San Juan, sax phenom Zenon has won Guggenheim and MacArthur grants for linking classic jazz with the pulsing syncopations of Afro-Caribbean and Latin American folk — part of his effort to reimagine jazz for the twenty-first century. His barnstorming quartet is joined by three master pleneros, back-country troubadours who sing like history depends on it.

La Sombra y el Espíritu: Womens' Healing Rituals in the Diaspora - The Work of Lucia Mendez and Wendy Phillips 

From February 4-April 30, 2010, the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History will feature the work of Wendy Phillips, an Atlanta-based photographer, and painter Lucia Mendez from the Dominican Republic, in a show entitled La Sombra y el Espíritu: Womens' Healing Rituals in the Diaspora - The Work of Lucia Mendez and Wendy Phillips. 

La Sombra y El Espíritu brings together two innovative artists whose meditations on rites, rituals and women's roles as healers, provide us with a new window on spirituality in the diaspora.  Mendez Poster_Final.pdf (418 kB)

Wendy Phillips has been working with communities in Mexico and other areas in South and Central America for the past 15 years. She is particularly known for her iconic photography from Afro-Mexican communities in La Costa Chica, Oaxaca, and Guerrero. 

Lucia Mendez' work reflects her interest in both our material investment in ritual and worship, as well as the subtlety implicit in our performance of those rituals.  She examines this interplay by exploring the relationships between gesture, the attitude of the body, and women's practices of spiritual conversation. 

This exhibition supports Carolina Performing Arts and its Creative Campus Initiative's yearlong programmatic focus on Diasporas. This project also marks the first collaboration between the Stone Center and Radames Rivera of Galeria Exodo in San Juan, Puerto Rico.  

An opening reception for the exhibition will be held on February 4 at 7 pm at the Stone Center. Both artists will attend to speak about their work. You can see examples of their work at: 

For Lucia Mendez  
http://galeriaexodo.com/lucia_mendez/lucia_mendez.htm  
 
For Wendy Phillips  
http://www.diasporacitizen.com/

Come and celebrate with us the end of 2009 in our Christmas Party and bring an unwrapped gift to a child in need.

Fiesta de Navidad-Carmen's Cuba Cafe II.pdf (915,9 kB)

When: December 5th, 2009

Where: Carmen's Cuban Cafe

Starting at 9:00pm til...

With the great music of Latin Project Band and a Dj.

Tickets in advance $15 Individuals $25 Couples

Tickets are available @ Havana Grill Restaurant in Cary and

Superior Supermarket in Burlington 2139 N Church St Burlington NC  (336) 222-1111

At door tickets will be $20 Individuals $30 Couples

***Members tickets at door $15 Individuals $25 Couples

Share the meaning of the Holidays with others in need and help us to raise money.  In partnership with Wake County Human Services, we will use the proceeds from this event to share presents with children in need while we do "Trullas Navideñas (Christmas Carols)" at Wake County Human Services sites in January 2010.

 Concierto Cristiano - Gratis

Eliezer Hernandez- Sat Nov 14 @ 6:30PM - cuban singer
Covenant Church International- group Amistad Hispana
Strickland Rd, Raleigh 27613
 
See link below about church/concert:
 ccifamily.org/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/applogic+ftcontentserver?GXHC_gx_session_id_FutureTenseContentServer=834c35800e5d56f9&pagename=faithhighway/10000/7000/699CO/floating9#English

Local sponsors are donating their time and resources to sponsor free shred-a-thons in your area.  Identity Theft tips will also be available. Shred-a-thons are a perfect way to destroy old tax records, checks, employment records or credit applications.  You do NOT need to remove staples and paper clips from the documents. It usually takes about 10 minutes to drop off your documents and get them shredded.

RALEIGH – SHRED-A-THON (Wake County)

Saturday, November 14th

10am – 12pm

Oak Park Shopping Center

6001 Glenwood Ave., Raleigh

Local Sponsors: City of Raleigh, Proshred, Connell Realty, Attorney General Roy Cooper’s Office

Please pass along this information to co-workers, neighbors and friends.  It is a free service offered to help prevent identity theft.  Thank you.

This message brought to you on behalf of North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper.

Los Pleneros de la 21

“…Listeners left their seats to dance in the aisles.”

When:        Friday October 16, 2009 at 7 p.m.; doors open at 6 p.m.

 Where:      Memorial Hall (Cameron Ave, UNC at Chapel Hill)

 Pricing:      Free and open to the public; ticket required for admission.

 Tickets:      Available in Havana Grill in Cary - Caribbean Café in Raleigh or Superior Supermarket in Burlington starting Friday October 2, 2009

There is a four ticket per person limit; call Ursula Littlejohn at (919) 962-9001 for group tickets of 25 or more

About Los Pleneros de la 21

Los Pleneros de la 21 (LP21) are considered New York’s preeminent Afro-Puerto Rican bomba and plena musicians. Bomba and plena are traditional Afro-Puerto Rican musical genres respectively dating back to the early 17^th and 20^th centuries. The group consists of an intergenerational mix of Puerto Rican folk masters, professional musicians and young practitioners from both the island and New York, all united to preserve and honor their heritage. Since 1983, LP21 have performed for audiences all over the world and released several recordings. The group’s performances often combine bomba and plena with jazz, salsa, rock and rap to create excitement and energy throughout the audience. LP21’s album, “Para Todos Ustedes,” was nominated for a 48^th Annual Grammy Award (2006) for Best Traditional World Music Album.

Directions & Parking

Visit the Carolina Performing Arts Web site for directions to Memorial Hall.

On campus parking may be available in the following:

Swain Parking Lot (Cameron Ave) – Free after 5 p.m.

Cobb Deck (Country Club Dr., behind the Center for Dramatic Arts) – Free after 5:30 p.m.

Morehead Planetarium Lot (Franklin St.) - $1.25/hour

In-town parking may also be available. The cost for these lots varies by location:

Rosemary Street Deck – 150 E. Rosemary St.

Municipal Lot 2 – 100 E. Rosemary St.

Note: There will be a Carolina basketball event on this night. Please allow yourself time to find a space at one of the parking lots mentioned above as your first choice may not be available.

Sponsors
This project is made possible in part by Office of the Executive Director for the Arts, Department of Music, Institute of Latin American Studies, Latina/o Studies, Performance Studies, The National Endowment for the Arts in support of the Puerto Rican Music Project of Los Pleneros de la 21 and the United Puerto Rican Assoc. of NC.

Hispanic Heritage Day at Fort Bragg...this coming Friday the 2nd of October

Este viernes 2 de OCtubre. Comienza a las 11:00 AM

For more info click here.

PUERTO RICO ISLANDERS vs RAILHAWKS

The Carolina RailHawks take on the Puerto Rico Islanders on Saturday, September 12^th at 7p.m. at WakeMed Soccer Park. Saturday’s match will be “Presented by Food Lion” and by showing your MVP Card at the LGFCU Box Office, you can purchase tickets for as low as $5.  To receive the same discount online type in the code “MVP” via the link below for Saturday’s match.  FREE blood pressure screenings will be available and healthy living guides with valuable coupons courtesy of Food Lion. 

CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS *

*The Assoc. is NOT related to the Company in charge of ticket sales for this event.  This is a community service announcement.

*2ND CARIBBEAN SOFTBALL CUP "ISLA DEL ENCANTO PUERTO RICO"

Saturday September 12, 2009 starting at 9:00am in the Park facilities located at 2500 South Tricenter Blvd. Durham NC.

There will be teams representing Puerto Rico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Charlotte NC and Winston Salem NC.

* This is a community service announcement.