Actividades para Celebrar el Mes de Herencia Hispana (Hispanic Heritage Month: Sept. 15-Oct. 15)

FILM  -  Papers

Date:  Wed., September 21, FILM:  Papers  - FREE  -  7:00 pm Gallagher Theatre, UA Student Union

Over two million children born outside the U.S., are raised here each year.  For them, it’s illegal to work, drive, or attend most colleges; despite their American upbringing, they are undocumented.  They face the challenges of trying to avoid deportation from the only home they know while still fighting for their rights. Papers is the story of five of these youth.  Among these teenagers is Jorge Gutierrez, who is both undocumented and gay.   

Sponsored by LGBTQ Affairs, Women’s Resource Center, ASUA, Dean of Students, CHSA, and Student Services Fee Grant. 

FILM -- Los que se quedan/Those who remain (Q&A with Director Carlos Hagerman to follow the film!)

Date: Thursday, September 22, 2011 from 6-8pm -- FREE

Where: Harkins Theater Tucson Spectrum (5455 S. Calle Santa Cruz)

Los que se quedan/Those Who Remain (Mexico 2008, 100 mins. in Spanish with English subtitles), winner of multiple awards including Best Documentary at the Los Angeles Film Festival, depicts the other-side of the immigration story – the impact of Mexican migration to the U.S. on the families left behind. 

“This film is an intimate and discerning depiction of the impact of migration on families and villages left behind by loved ones who have traveled North for work. It is a film about those families who have crossed the border to the United States in search of better opportunities.  A films that explores the melancholy, memories and identity of those who remain, who continue to wait, to love, and to dream.  A film about absence, about the families whose lives are defined by the voids emigrations had created. The simple things... the stories of those who remain.”

Part of the Borderland Film Series Sponsored by the: Arizona Humanities Council, Consulado de Mexico en Tucson, UA Hanson Film Institute and the Center for Latin American Studies. The goal of the series is to expose the public to some great films and encourage a dialogue about the issues they explore.  All events will include discussions with filmmakers or experts and are completely free and open to the public. The complete series information can be found online at http://clas.arizona.edu/.

PHOTO EXHIBIT -- Los Que Se Quedan (Those who Remain)

Date:  Wed., September 14 – Sat., October 22

Where: The Union Gallery, UA Student Union

This photo exhibit accompanies the international acclaimed documentary Los Que Se Quedan (2009) by Juan Carlos Rulfo and Carlos Hagerman. The exhibit comprises of photographs taken at the same communities where the documentary was filmed telling the stories of the people who remain deal with the absence of others.