Hispanic Heritage Month Events:

Oct. 6  Film: “Retorno a Hansala,” (2008) Spanish drama (Return to Hansala). After meeting the sister (Farah Hamed) of a dead man who risked his life to travel from Morocco to the Iberian Peninsula on a rubber raft, a Spanish mortuary owner (José Luis García Pérez) is forced to reassess the nature of his work. While it's undeniably lucrative to help the Spanish government clean up the endless stream of corpses washing ashore, it proves morally problematic once he sees where the bodies are coming from in this moving drama.   Spanish and Arabic with English subtitles.

6:30-8, CWH 141.  Film discussion follows, led by Professor Melissa Wallace, Modern Languages.

Oct. 12  Film: "Casi, Casi" (2006)  Puerto Rican comedy  (“Almost”) about a high school crush and its effects on student government elections.  Spanish with English Subtitles. 6:30-8,

CWH 141.   Film discussion follows, led by Professor  Darlene Lake, Modern Languages.

Performance and Exhibit

Oct. 14             “Portraits of Courage: Latinos Shaping the Nation,” by Will and Company. 7-8 PM Graff Main Hall Auditorium.  Free and open to the public.  This Multi-Media production (including music, video clips, pictures, and sound bytes) covers the lives of 6 Latina/os who have all lead incredibly fascinating, productive, impressive and often heroic lives. Through this event, we see how Latinos have influenced America and every aspect of our lives!  Characters include: Puerto Rican educational pioneer Rafael Cordero (1790-1868), Puerto Rican baseball player and humanitarian Roberto Clemente (1934-1972), Guatemalan-born U.S. Latina labor and social activist Luisa Moreno (1907-1992), Mexican-American Daniel Fernández (1944-1966) was the first Latino to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, Mexican-American Andrea Pérez filed the famous Perez vs. Sharp Supreme Court case that ended legal prohibition in California against interracial marriages, and an anonymous migrant worker and his daughter will describe their experience in the present-day U.S.    Will and Company is a non-profit theatre ensemble based in Los Angeles and was founded in 1988 whose purpose is to bring Shakespeare (and social-impact theatre) to underrepresented minorities.  Seating is limited.