by the El Reportero news services
Salvadorian and longtime SF resident author Jorge Argueta will discuss his newest book, Caravan to the North: Misael’s Long Walk as well as his many other bilingual children’s books and short stories that cover themes related to Latino culture and traditions, nature, and the immigrant experience.
This event will take place during Teach Central America Week on Oct. 7, 2019 in Washington, DC.
Argueta is a Salvadoran award-winning poet and author of many highly acclaimed bilingual children’s books and short stories, covering themes related to Latino culture and traditions, nature, and the immigrant experience. He immigrated to the United States in the 1980s during the Salvadoran Civil War.
A native of El Salvador and a Pipil Nahua Indian who immigrated to the United States as a teenager. An award-winning poet, he is also the author of several critically acclaimed bilingual picture books, including A Movie in My Pillow/Una película en mi almohada and Xochitl and the Flowers/Xóchitl, la niña de las flores. “There is a piece of El Salvador in everything I write,” Argueta told an interviewer in Críticas, adding that his works “are not only my own stories but also the story of thousands of Salvadoran children who left their country during the civil war of the 80s.”
José José, the prince of the song dies
José José, whose real name was José Rómulo Sosa Ortiz, gave his soul to the Creator this Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019 in Miami. He was 71 years old.
The prince of the song, who was born in Mexico City on Feb. 17, 1948 in the popular Clavería neighborhood, north of the capital, had long fought against pancreatic cancer.
José José was known for his romantic ballads as El Triste, La Nave del Olvido, El Amar y El Querer and Gavilán or Paloma ”, among other successes.
The Mexican artist published a video two years ago where he told his followers that he was ill.
It was said that José José died in a hospital in Homestead, Florida, where he was being treated for several months due to complications derived from pancreatic cancer.
He is survived by his wife Sara Salazar, with whom he married in 1995, and their six children.
Iñárritu gives master class at UNAM and in live broadcast
Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu held a master class last Wednesday at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). It was a special class for students of the National School of Cinematic Arts (ENAC).
During the master class the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa was awarded to the Oscar-winning film director as Best Director for Birdman.
In recent days, Iñárritu warned that the trends currently imposed by the rapid narrative that is made for streaming projects, such as the series, have influenced the way of making and watching cinema, since its function is to keep the audience constantly captive and entertaining.
Speaking to Variety, González Iñárritu explained that the Seventh Art “needs much more contemplation, a little more patience, it must be a little more mysterious, more impenetrable, more poetic and touching.
“It’s changing so fast that movies now have to please the audience immediately. They have to be global and they have to earn a lot of money, so now they become a ‘Coca-Cola’ commercial that has to please the world,” he said.
