El Centro de las Américas cordially invites you to the graduation ceremony for the Golden Warriors: Latino Youth Development and Prevention Program on Saturday July 17th, 2010. The ceremony will start at eleven in the morning with celebration immediately following.
Location: El Centro de las Américas Multi-Purpose Room
2032 U Street, Lincoln, Nebraska
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It is here! We rode to Sheldon for the official kick-off.
I’ve created a blog, latinobiketour.blogspot.com, to report all activity on the Tour, so check in frequently both here and there for updates. Two rides a week for the next two months!
Thank you to Lancaster County Health Department, Community Health Endowment, riders, future riders, and all the stops along the way.
Buenos días,
Please check out our newsletter from the link below, especially if you want to brush up on your español.
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El Centro de las Américas to Graduate Largest Class Ever of Spanish-Language GED Students
55 students from 10 communities graduate Saturday — including 30 from El Centro de Las Américas
Fifty-five students from Lincoln, Hastings, Wayne, Wakefield, West Point, Fremont, Schuyler, Crete, Norfolk and Lexington will gather at Nebraska Wesleyan’s O’Donnell Auditorium on Saturday, June 26 at 3 pm to celebrate graduation from the GED (General Education Development) program. The group will include 30 students from the program coordinated by Lincoln’s El Centro de las Américas.
The ceremony will celebrate the dedication of the adult student graduates, some of whom work, have families and children and drive up to three hours to get to the classes. Since the successful GED in Spanish program began, many students have gone on to higher education degrees. El Centro de las Américas will also award three scholarships at the ceremony to its top students to help them further their education.
The O’Donnell Auditorium in the Vance D. Rogers Center for Fine Arts at Nebraska Wesleyan University is located on the north side of Huntington Street between 50th and 51st Street in Lincoln, Nebraska. In attendance will be GED students, family and administration of El Centro de las Américas, and Nebraska Wesleyan University.
For the past seventeen years, Lincoln Public Schools have recognized triumphant students and outstanding collaborating agencies (GED en Español graduates and El Centro de las Américas to name a few) in ceremonies for different minority groups. We are honored to host the Latino ceremony here in the Malone Center gymnasium from 4-6pm this Saturday. Present will be food and drink, faculty and admin, students and parents, and the community at large to celebrate the year’s accomplishments, like high school graduation, graduation with honors, special programs completion (like our family literacy programs), and many others.
En los ultimos diecisiete años, las Escuelas Publicas de Lincoln han reconocido a estudiantes triunfantes y agencias colaboradoras incomparables (graduados del GED en Español y El Centro de las Américas para dar algunos ejemplos) en ceremonias para distintos grupos minorías. Somos agradecidos de presentar la ceremonia latina en el gimnasio del Centro Malone de 4 a 6 de la tarde este sábado. Habrán comida y bebida, facultad y administración, estudiantes y padres, y la comunidad para celebrar los exitos del año, como graduación del high school, mención honorifica, terminación de programas especiales (como nuestra Alfabetización Familiar), y muchos más.
May is usually a loco month, what with the weather finally coming around, subsequent bar-be-cues, May/Armed Forces/Memorial Day(s), my dad’s birthday, Cinco de Mayo, plus everyone all graduating and getting married and stuff.
But this Sunday we will take a collective, historical break to promote the mothers we love. The ancient Romans called it Matronalia, Julia Ward Howe wrote a stirring Proclamation about it in its nascent days, and on Monday at El Centro we are celebrating Mother’s Day with an almuercito followed by regalitos and a rifa. For those of you who don’t sprechen sie español, I’m talking about a small lunch, some presents, and a raffle!
Point is, despite May’s swirl of events, take a minute to give ol’ ma a hug.
El Centro needs you. As the deadline for Toys for Tots approaches, we have more than 500 children signed up to receive presents. The gifts are to arrive on December 17th and we will have until our annual Christmas party on December 22nd from 3:00 to 8:00 p.m. to wrap them. That gives us about three days, not including the weekend. If there is any chance you can help us wrap gifts, please let us know with the form below. We will be wrapping presents from noon until 8:00 p.m. on the 17th and from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. the 18th and 19th. El Centro will provide some refreshments and good music. Muchísimas gracias!
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TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art is an art exhibit featuring work by 48 contemporary artists such as Ana Mendieta, Perry Vasquez and Gustavo Artigas. The exhibit was organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, and it will run from November 1st through January 18 at the Sheldon Museum of Art.
Here is a slideshow of some of the artwork on display. The exhibit looks like a very diverse representation of the contemporary styles used by Latin American artists living in the United States and Latin America. There will be two guest speakers whose artwork will be on display in the exhibit, so check out Sheldon’s website for the schedule.
The Lincoln Journal Star wrote an excellent review of the display here.