PAST EVENTS

 

1997. Participated in the International Book Fair  (Guadalajara- Mexico)

1997-1999. Sponsored and organized several poetry readings at area Bookstores and the Arlington County Central Library

1998. Participated as a member of the international executive committee on the Conference: Hispanic Poetry in the United States at the University of Seville, Spain. Sept.

1998.Organized of the 1st International Conference on :  "Madness, Illness and Bodies: The Hispanic Woman Writer and her Fragmented World" in partnership with George Washington University, the Embassy of Argentina, and the Embassy of Spain.

Writers who joined us with contributions of  their poetry and narrative works were:

Keynote Speaker: Angélica Gorodischer  in:  "Women and Words"   Segment of the Conference in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank : Luz Gutiérrez de Velazco, (Chair, Women’s Program at the Colegio de Mexico) who served as moderator, Angélica Gorodischer (Argentina), Aline Petterson (México), poet Margalit Matitiahu (Israel) who discussed the preservation of the Judeo-Spanish tradition, and Albalucía Angel (Colombia) Bilingual Readings by:                        Alicia Borinsky – Cola Franzen Nela Río – Elizabeth Gambler Miller Carlota Caufield-Angela Mc Ewan Readings from the works of the following poets and narrators: Mercedes Roffé, Nora Strejilevich (Argentina), Lilianet Bintrup (Chile), Concha Alborg (Spain), Gladys Ilarregui (Argentina).

1999-THE MILLENNIUM CIRCLE OF WOMEN POETS  FROM LATIN AMERICA AND SPAIN. Workshop on poetry and community and how to transmit poetic ideas to students at the end of the millennium: photography, digital art, and the poetic word by Nela Río- Elizabeth Gambler Miller. Concha García-Noni Benegas: on the problem of including women in anthologies in modern Spain, the root of prejudices in  poetics and gender in the Iberian world. Readings of: Lila Zemborain, Cristina Iglesias Kinczly (Argentina), Loreina Santos, Marta Magaly Quiñones, Mayrim Cruz Bernal, Egla Blouin (Puerto Rico), Maryela Dreyfuss (Perú), Martha Gil- Montero (Argentina), María Negroni (Argentina). This program was made possible thanks to the generous support of the Embassy of Spain through its cultural attaché, Mr. Juan Romero de Terreros, the Program of Cooperation between Spain and the United States, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, through Kandance Steadman, curator of education.  Home   Español   Events   Archives   Contact Us   FAQ