BEYOND BORDERS KICKOFF TOUR CONCERT
Alondra de la Parra, Conductor
Thursday October 30, 2008 @ 7pm

Skirball Center for the Performing Arts 566 LaGuardia Place New York City Experience Beyond Borders, as POA kicks off its 2nd international tour led by Alondra de la Parra, in a vibrant concert featuring the world premiere of Ometeotl, written by 20 year-old Mexican composer José Alberto Sanchez-Ortiz, winner of the 2008 Young Composers Competition, The program also includes Mexican works Sinfonía India by Carlos Chávez and Metro Chabacano by Javier Álvarez.

The program concludes with one of the most beloved masterpieces, Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9, “From The New World” inspired by the composer’s coming to America. Join us for Beyond Borders, POA’s International tour kick-off!

INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE MEXICAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK

Latin America Now Group Show 2008
On display through October 30

Artists:
Fabio Mesa, Clara Morena, Jorge Moedano, Lorena Rodriguez
Carlos Cardenas, Gina Daboud, Cesar Galindo & Enrique Gallart

Gallery of Morris County Library
30 East Hanover Avenue
Whippany, NJ 07981

For further information contact Nina Torres at 973-270-7774 or nina@laartconsulting.com

Celebration, Photographs by Graciela Iturbide
September 18 - November 1, 2008

Throckmorton Fine Art is pleased to present an exhibit of the iconic images of Graciela Iturbide, who has won the 2008 Hasselblad Award in Photography. This award, granted by the Hasselblad Foundation in Göteborg, Sweden, is widely held to be the most prestigious award in photography. As a tribute to Iturbide’s recent award from the Hasselblad Foundation, Throckmorton Fine Art shares images from throughout Iturbide’s productive and accomplished 30-plus years as a photographer. The strength of the images suggests why Graciela Iturbide has been called one of Mexico’s greatest living artists.

Throckmorton Fine Art
145 East 57th Street
New York, NY 10022
www.throckmorton-nyc.com

Heresies by Pedro Meyer

Mexican photographer Pedro Meyer’s Heresies — opening simultaneously in 60 museums worldwide — is a four-decade retrospective by one of the world’s most innovative image-makers. After an early start as a documentary photographer, Meyer began using digital technology in the early 1990’s to combine photographic elements from disparate times and places, thus arriving at a different or higher truth. Meyer’s contention that all photographs — digitally manipulated or not — are equally true and fictional has been labeled heretical among traditional documentary photographers, hence the title Heresies. At El Museo, images on view include musings on Latin American religious imagery, the lives of immigrants, and the 1968 Mexican student uprising, among other themes.

Admission: Free. El Museo’s galleries are currently closed. Due to the renovation underway, this exhibition will be presented in El Museo's third-floor Education Gallery. Heresies by Pedro Meyer is open only on Saturdays and can be seen by guided tour only, beginning October 11 through December 20, 2008. Tours in English start at 2:00 pm. Tours in Spanish start at 3:00 pm. Please meet museum educators five minutes before the tour at El Museo’s temporary entrance on the corner of 5th Avenue and 104th Street. Groups of 10 or more must make an advance reservation for a private tour by emailing tours@elmuseo.org

El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street
New York, NY 10029
www.elmuseo.org

"Flor y Canto," a musical celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month.
Friday, October 24, 2008 at 8 p.m.

Featuring Anna Bartos, Soprano, Virginia Luque, Classical & Flamenco Guitar, and Lauren Ausubel and Amy Ziegelbaum, Flute (guest artists).
The program includes Salvador Moreno's "Aztec Songs," sung in Nahuatl, Andean, Sephardic and Spanish Baroque songs, as well as works by Falla, Gerhard, Piazzolla and Luque.

St. Michael's Theater at St. Michael's Church
225 West 99th Street, bet. Broadway & Amsterdam
2nd Floor
Reception Following
Gen. Admission: $15; Students/Seniors: $10
*Subscription for three concerts: $40.
Future concerts on February 14 and April 24, 2009. Reservations Requested
For reservations and information, please call: (212) 594-5113, or email: anna.bartos@gmail.com. Please tell us your phone number and email address. Website: www.ensemblealma.com

About the MCINY
The Mexican Cultural Institute, founded in 1991, is a 501 c 3 and Tax exempt organization committed to generating awareness of the richness, dynamism and cultural diversity of Mexico as a democratic, plural and creative nation, fostering a better understanding of our country, and promote cultural expressions and industries in art, education, science, technology and research of Mexico in New York.

Through strategic partnerships with local individuals and organizations, the Institute has presented over 550 Mexican cultural programs including visual arts, culinary arts, performing arts, literature programs and film and video in addition to academic and family-oriented activities.

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