Art & Literature

Will you let a sultry mermaid, a vigilant soldier or a wide-eyed frog give you advice in life? You will, if you listen to what Mario Bosquez has to say. New York City’s first, full-time Chicano television anchor says a simple, yet colorful game of Mexican Bingo can point your way to success.

The University of Miami’s Cuban Heritage Collection has received the Fulgencio Batista Zaldivar Collection, consisting of thousands of documents – correspondence, memorabilia, photographs, and books – owned by the former Cuban President. This invaluable part of Cuban history was donated by Batista Zaldivar’s widow Martha Batista and his children. The Cuban Heritage Collection, at the Roberto C. Goizueta Pavilion in the University’s Otto G. Richter Library, is the largest repository of Cuban historical, literary and cultural materials outside the island.

A thorough and exciting account of the events leading to the daring, massive exodus of more than 125,000 people from Cuba’s Mariel harbor in 1980, by Mirta Ojito.

Merrill Lynch arteamericas, the art fair devoted exclusively to art from Latin America, returns to Miami for its third year, from April 7 through April 11, 2005, at the Coconut Grove Convention Center, Miami, Fla.

Renowned landscape photographer and environmentalist Clyde Butcher will unveil photographs taken during three expeditions to the mountains of Cuba. The photographs will be shown at his Venice gallery from March 12 through April 30.

Rick Najera’s award winning comedy LatinoLogues will kick off its national tour Saturday, January 22, 2005 at 8:00 p.m. for one performance only at San Diego’s Spreckels Theatre.

Condorito, the star of the world’s most widely syndicated Hispanic comic strip, is about to become the top Hispanic star in the U.S., if his backers at World Editors, Inc. have anything to say about it.

Three Kings Day is celebrated on January 6th, twelve days after Christmas. It is often viewed as the last day of the Christmas season (the end of the 12 days of Christmas).

The fascinating life of 94-year-old pioneering New Mexico “Gran Dama” Concha Ortiz y Pino de Kleven has now been chronicled in a new, authorized biography by Kathryn M. Cordova titled, ¡Concha! Concha Ortiz y Pino: Matriarch of a 300-Year-Old New Mexico Legacy (La Herencia Gran Via 2004).

Taller Puertorriqueño, a Puerto Rican arts center in Philadelphia, will commemorate its 30th anniversary with a new exhibit called Isla del Burén: The Taíno and their Predecessors in Puerto Rico. This is the first art exhibition of the Puerto Rican Taíno (The Taíno were the dominant culture in the Caribbean in pre-Columbian times) to be shown in North America.

Dance Cuba: Dreams of Flight is an epic that sweeps across modern US-Cuban history as it intertwines riveting personal stories that are as steeped in romance, tragedy and drama as the great ballets.

On Friday, Sept. 17, 2004 at 7:30 p.m. MECA will present Colombian poet Carlos Hugo Gamboa M. The evening will also include a classical guitar performance by Rodrigo Gamboa, Carlos Hugo’s son.

Mercury Mambo announced that the agency has been selected to promote the revival of Zoot Suit as the theatrical production celebrates its 25th anniversary with a national tour stop in Austin. The show will be held at the Paramount Theatre in downtown Austin from September 14-19, 2004.

Teatro Visión, a San José-based Chicano theater company, announced it will celebrate its 20th anniversary this 2004-2005 season with two audience favorites — the heartwarming comedy, Real Women Have Curves, and the hard-hitting contemporary drama, Santos & Santos.