Cape Fear Foreign Language Collaborative Newsletter

Volume 14, Number 4, March 2002

January meeting: Many thanks to: Ana Hernández, Mario López-Cordero, Denise DiPuccio, Lisa Byrd, Christi Lea and Melinda Johansson for their presentations. You can view photos of January’s meeting at: http://www.uncwil.edu/people/mountt/ CFFLCRecentMeetings.htm

March 23 meeting: Our program will emphasize two of the C’s (Culture and Comparisons) and relate specifically to Standards 2.2 and 4.2. We are pleased to have a special presentation on stamps and stamp collecting by Steve Young and an international brunch with dishes provided by CFFLC members.

We still need volunteers for the International Brunch and Raffle! (Please do not feel obligated to contribute to both.) For the brunch, we have so far: Susan Crampton, Alice Rutter, Lizzy Pressley, Mimi Berrospi, Christi Lea, Josephine Medina, Julie Bordo, Ana Hernández and Mario López-Cordero. Dishes promised include: alfajores, tortilla española, flan and paella. If you bring a dish, please bring copies of the recipe to share, also! In the raffle, we can always count on Theresa Hodum to bring great restaurant and gift certificates! For the rest of us, please bring items for the raffle, such as baked goods, teaching materials, plants, tapes, CDs, books, art work, white elephants, etc. A new addition this year: a give-away and “yard sale” table for hand-me-downs, used paperbacks and textbooks. All these items will be for the taking—but small donations are welcome. Do your spring cleaning! Your trash could be someone’s treasure!

High school scholarship recipients will be announced and presented.

Announcements

Intercultural Festival: Many thanks to all who participated in the CFFLC display booth: Kim Eadie, Julie Bordo, Agnes Ille, Joann Mount, Terry Mount, Gladys Wade, Lizzy Pressley and Maite Woodhouse. Special thanks to Julie Bordo for painting the beautiful Matisse chair! The raffle raised $80 for scholarships

Tres Vidas, a chamber music theater piece, will be performed in Kenan Auditorium (UNCW campus) on April 14, at 8 pm. Written by Chilean author Marjorie Agosin, the piece deals with the lives of three Spanish American women: Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, Argentine poet Alfonsina Storni, and Salvadoran peasant-activist Rufina Amaya. The musical score includes arrangements of traditional Latin American folksongs and tangos as well as new compositions. Tres Vidas is coming to Wilmington thanks to a grant from the N.C. Humanities Council and contributions from several units on campus. The piece raises issues including the increasing Hispanic presence in our community, the status of women in society, the role of art in reflecting social and political realities, and the ravages of civil war. The audience will be invited to talk about the piece, before and after, with discussion leaders: Denise DiPuccio, Joann Mount, Teresita Parra, Sylvia Santaballa, and Peter Thomas. Admission to the performance is free. The text of play is in English but the songs are in Spanish. For more information, at the FLL website click here. (Click on U.S. Flag for English text, Mexican Flag for Spanish text.)

A Spanish graduate course will be offered at UNCW in Summer 2002 by John Stevens: Spanish 495/595: Seminar in Spanish Dialectology (Social and Geographic Varieties of Spanish). This course will examine the historical, social, and cultural elements represented in the dialectal diversity of the Spanish language. Special emphasis will be placed on Spanish in the United States.

Dues: ($10) may be paid at the meeting or sent to Josephine Brent: 1304 Heron Run Dr., Wilmington, NC 28403. Make checks payable to Cape Fear Foreign Language Collaborative (CFFLC).