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Cuesta Book of the Year 2010
Schedule of Events
San Luis Obispo Campus
This year's selection for Cuesta Book of
the year is Enrique's Journey. In this astonishing true story,
award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable
odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to
reach his mother in the United States. The book introduces themes of
immigration and life altering journeys. Copies of the book are available
for purchase at the Cuesta College Bookstores and for check-out at the
Cuesta College Libraries and at local public libraries.
March
Immigrant Experience
Displays
Display panels featuring Cuesta College ESL student compositions and
creative writings related to their personal immigration experiences.
March 22-April 16, Cuesta College Cultural Diversity Center, SLO campus
April
Art Exhibit:
Hispanics on the Central Coast Photo Essay
April 12-May 6, Cuesta College Library, SLO
Art Exhibit:
With Our Own Eyes/Con Nuestros Propidos Ojos
April 12-15, M-noon-4, T-W 9-4, Th. 9-7:00, Cuesta College Art Gallery
Teens and young adults with indigenous roots use cameras to illuminate
their lives in Paso Robles and Mexico. Curated by Pedro Arroyo and
Catherine Trujillo
Dance Performance
and Lecture
April 14, noon-1pm, Cuesta Collage Performing Arts Center Courtyard
Paso Robles Curpite dancers originally from San Juan Nuevo Mexico
perform in a dancing tradition that predates the arrival of Europeans to
Mexico with an introduction by Pedro Arroyo.
Sonia Nazario
Lecture and Reception
April 15, 5-7pm, Cuesta College Performing Arts Center
Author of Enrique’s Journey will lecture about California and San
Luis Obispo immigrant experience as well as read from and show the award
winning photographs from her book. Followed by q&a, reception and book
sale.
Film:
Mojados: Through the Night (63 min., 2004)
April 13, noon-1:15, Cuesta College Library, SLO campus room 3219
This award winning documentary filmed over the course of ten days that
follows four men into the desperate world of illegal immigration.
Film and
Discussion: Wetback (97 min., 2005)
April 16, 7-10 pm , Cuesta College SLO campus, room 7120
This intriguing documentary by director Arturo Perez Torres follows a
group of immigrants traveling from Nicaragua to the United States as
they navigate real-life nightmares with uncanny calm, grace, even humor.
Film: The
Invisible Mexicans of Deer Canyon (73 min., 2006)
April 20, noon-1:15, College Library, SLO campus room 3219
An in depth look at what life is like for millions of undocumented
immigrants living in the shadows of American society. The film portrays
intimate details of several individual day laborers who live in
sub-human conditions amongst multi-million dollar homes. Cuesta
Book talk:
Join Cuesta Librarian Denise Fourie in a book talk about Enrique’s
Journey
April 22th, noon-1, Cuesta College Library, SLO campus room
3219
Panel Discussion:
Immigrant Journeys
April 23rd, noon- 1:30pm, Cuesta College Experimental Theater
Cuesta community members discuss their immigrant journeys.
Film and
Discussion: In America (105 min. 2002)
April 22, 7-10pm , Cuesta College Library, SLO campus room 7120
An aspiring Irish actor and his family
illegally immigrate in the United States with the dreams of the father
breaking into the New York City theatrical scene.
Lecture:
Cuesta College Instructor and author of White Tortilla, Dave Diaz in a
discussion about his immigrant experience.
April 28th, noon -1pm, Cuesta College Library, SLO campus
room 3219
Film:
Sentenced Home (73 min., 2006)
Putting a human face on controversial immigration policy, this film
follows three young Cambodian Americans through the deportation process.
Raised in inner city Seattle, they pay an unbearable price for mistakes
they made as teenagers.
April 29, noon-1:15, Cuesta College Library, SLO campus room 3219
Poetry in Translation
Cuesta
students read original and translated poetry on various themes including
immigration and life journeys.
April 28th, 7:30-8:45 p.m. Arroyo Grande High School Board Room
April 29th, 7:30-8:45 p.m. North County Campus, Room N5001
Film and
Discussion: Under the Same Moon (109 min., 2007)
The parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario
who in the hopes of providing a better life for her son, works illegally
in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico.
Unexpected circumstances drive both Rosario and Carlitos to embark on
their own journeys in a desperate attempt to reunite.
April 30, 5-7pm , Cuesta College SLO campus, room 7120
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