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Government shouldn’t force Americans to vaccinate, Rand Paul argues

‘I still don’t favor giving up on liberty for a false sense of security’

by Adan Salazar

Rand Paul blasted government-mandated vaccinations Tuesday, arguing liberty should not be sacrificed for a false sense of security.

Speaking at a Senate Health Committee meeting, Paul defended the rights of Americans to opt out of vaccinations due to the fact there are documented risks associated with some vaccines.

“I’m not a fan of government coercion, yet given the choice I do believe the benefits of most vaccines basically outweigh the risks,” Paul stated, admitting he and his family are regularly vaccinated.

But he went on to point out there are risks when one chooses to vaccinate, and referred to the government’s vaccine injury compensation program as verifiable proof that sometimes vaccines can lead to injuries.

“It is wrong to say that there are no risks to vaccines. Even the government admits that children are sometimes injured by vaccines.”

“Since 1988 over $4 billion has been paid out from the Vaccine injury compensation program. Despite the government admitting to and paying $4 billion for vaccine injuries, no informed consent is used or required when you vaccinate your child. This may be the only medical procedure in today’s medical world where an informed consent is not required.”

Sen. Paul also highlighted the flu vaccine manufacturer guessing game when it comes to predicting the next year’s flu strain, including the fact that they often guess the wrong strain.

“…[T]he current science only allows for only educated guessing when it comes to the flu vaccine. Each year before that year’s strain is known the scientists put their best guess into that year’s vaccine. Some years it’s completely wrong – we vaccinate for the wrong strain of flu vaccine. Yet five states already mandate flu vaccines. Is it really appropriate to mandate a vaccine that more often than not vaccinates for the wrong flu strain?”

Sen. Paul concluded that the debate over compulsory vaccination basically boils down to the personal liberty argument put forth by Founding Father Benjamin Franklin, who once famously stated, “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

“As we contemplate forcing parents to choose this or that vaccine,” Sen Paul said, “I think it’s important to remember that force is not consistent with the American story, nor is force consistent with the liberty our forefathers sought when they came to America.”

“I don’t think you have to have one or the other, though. I’m not here to say don’t vaccinate your kids. If this hearing is for persuasion I’m all for the persuasion. I’ve vaccinated myself and I’ve vaccinated my kids. For myself and my children I believe that the benefits of vaccines greatly outweighing the risks, but I still don’t favor giving up on liberty for a false sense of security.”
Paul’s remarks came at the start of a hearing over growing concerns that people who refuse immunizations are aiding the spread of vaccine-preventable diseases.

Essential nutrients you need to live a longer, healthier life

by Edsel Cook

We all want to live as long and healthy as possible, but our diets are not providing enough of the right nutrients that slow down the aging process. Indeed, the unhealthy foods we eat are making us age faster. So, an American study helpfully identified 41 different “longevity vitamins” that can promote healthy aging.

These nutrients are made up of 14 vitamins and 16 essential minerals. All of them are known to nutritional researchers.

The former group are comprised of vitamins A, C, D, E, K, four B vitamins, and five other vitamins. The mineral group is made up of calcium, chloride, chromium, cobalt, copper, iodine, iron, manganese, magnesium, molybdenum, phosphorus, potassium, selenium, sodium, sulfur, and zinc.
The last 11 nutrients are healthy compounds that do not count as either vitamins or minerals. However, the nine amino acids and the pair of omega-3 fatty acids play big roles in important bodily functions.

University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley) researcher Bruce Ames came up with the term “longevity vitamins” to describe these vital nutrients. He believes they are vital to both long life and good healthy. (Related: Taking vitamin C and quercetin together can suppress inflammation and decrease cellular damage.)

The body prioritizes short-term survival over long-term health

Many years ago, Ames proposed the “triage theory,” an idea where the body normally has a limited amount of nutrients available. The theory suggests that the body prioritizes processes that ensure the survival of the organism for the time being.

These biochemical processes include fight-or-flight reaction and reproduction. They ensure the organism survives long enough to reproduce and spread its genes to a new generation.

Conversely, the body skimps on supplying processes that are involved in maintaining its health over long periods of time. For example, DNA contains the blueprints for the body’s many parts and functions. But the healing process for this genetic data doesn’t get the levels of energy and raw materials it needs to work properly.

If DNA repair and similar processes for maintaining the organism’s long-term health are deprived of nutrients for long periods of time, the body’s ability to recover from illnesses and injuries will diminish. This makes the organism much more vulnerable to chronic diseases that could lead to its early demise.

Longevity vitamins are vital to supporting these long-term survival processes. Ames therefore recommends increasing the intake of these nutrients as much as possible, if you want to live long enough to see your grandchildren instead of just your children.

Natural foods are often better sources of “longevity vitamins” than supplement pills
Furthermore, Ames endorses obtaining longevity vitamins from food rather than taking vitamin supplements. He suggests eating various foods that contain plenty of these important vitamins, essential minerals, and nutrients.

Most of these recommended foodstuffs are derived from plants. Fruits, legumes, sea veggies, vegetables, and whole grains are considered to be naturally therapeutic when consumed as food.

What you eat affects how you think: The connection between your gut and your brain

by Ellaine Castillo

People often underestimate the effects that their diet has on the brain. However, there is a growing body of evidence that highlights the clear connection between the gut and the brain. This is often dubbed as the gut-brain axis.

Recent studies on this matter focused on the effects of a high-salt diet on brain health. For a long time, people have associated excessive amounts of salt with high blood pressure. This consequently increases the risk of various health problems, including heart disease and stroke. However, some data have shown that high salt intake can be linked to stroke, regardless of whether the person has high blood pressure or a high risk of heart disease. This observation suggests that there is a missing link between salt intake and brain health.

The gut-brain axis has become the center of many studies over the years. Researchers have found that the disruption of the gut-brain axis increases the risk of diseases like Parkinson’s and irritable bowel syndrome. There are also studies highlighting the effects of high salt intake on the gut and consequently, the brain. These showed that too much salt results in immune changes in the gut that make the brain more vulnerable to attacks by the body’s own immune system. Based on this, it is possible to say that the gut communicates with the brain through immune signaling.

A study published in Nature showed another connection between the gut and brain that’s mediated by the immune system. According to their findings, immune signals sent by the gut can damage blood vessels in the brain. This leads to deteriorated brain health and cognitive impairment.

The researchers arrived at these findings through in vivo studies in mice. After following a high-salt diet, the mice experienced immune responses in their gut, which triggered a cascade of chemical responses that reached the blood vessels in their brain. These effects interfered with blood flow to the parts of the brain involved with learning and memory, namely the cortex and hippocampus. As a result, the mice performed poorly in tests of cognitive performance. Fortunately, the study also shows that lowering salt intake can improve the detrimental effects of a high salt diet.

Overall, the results of these studies show that although the gut appears to be isolated from the brain, it can have significant effects on the latter. Furthermore, these findings support the idea that what you eat affects how you think.

How to keep the gut-brain axis healthy

Eating the wrong foods can cause significant damage to the brain. However, the right ones can keep the gut-brain axis healthy. Some examples of foods and nutrients that are beneficial for the gut-brain axis include the following:

– Omega-3 fatty acids — Previous studies have shown that omega-3 helps improve the gut microbiota. Increase your intake of this fatty acid by eating more nuts, seeds, and cold-water fatty fish, including salmon, mackerel, and tuna. You can also take fish oil supplements to get your daily dose of omega-3.

– Fermented foods — Fermented foods like yogurt, kefir, and sauerkraut contain live microbes that are beneficial for gut health.

– Fiber — For the beneficial bacteria in fermented foods to survive, you also have to increase your intake of prebiotic fibers. These can come from whole grains, nuts, seeds, fruits, and vegetables. By increasing your intake of prebiotics, you can also reduce the levels of stress hormones in your body.

– Polyphenols — Eating polyphenol-rich foods like cocoa, green tea, and olive oil can support the growth of good bacteria in the gut. It has also been shown to improve cognition.

Disturbing study reveals connection between brain damage and hepatitis B vaccine

by Vicki Batts

The hepatitis B vaccine is routinely administered to newborns, often just a few short hours after birth. It’s a highly controversial practice; for many parents, the idea of vaccinating a delicate, newborn baby has been a hard pill to swallow. Now, new research confirms there is a link between the hepatitis B vaccine and brain damage.

While vaccine propagandists continue to claim that vaccines are “100 percent safe,” the science clearly shows otherwise. There is a mountain of evidence which demonstrates vaccines can, and do, cause harm to their recipients — and it is growing taller by the day.

The pharmaceutical industry and their puppets attack anyone who refuses to abide by their pro-vaccine narrative.Whether it’s the slandering of scientists who publish dissenting vaccine safety research or social media sites blocking anti-vaccine content, it’s clear that the “powers that be” want to stop vaccine skepticism from spreading. People who think for themselves and don’t do as they’re told are dangerous, after all.

Research links vaccine to brain damage

A team of scientists from the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Sun Yat-sen University in China have confirmed a link between the hepatitis B vaccine (HBV) and brain damage in animal models. Published in 2018 by the journal Cytokine, the researchers say their findings show HBV may have “adverse implications for brain development and cognition” in human infants.

The team reports that their past research has confirmed that neonatal HBV administration causes inflammation in the hippocampus region of the brain in mice, along with behavioral impairments.
According to the scientists, HBV induced an anti-inflammatory cytokine response which lasted four-to-five weeks. A specific cytokine, IL-4, was identified as the primary cytokine induced by the vaccine. The researchers then compared the effects of an IL-4 injection to HBV administration in mice — and concluded that the impairments produced by IL-4 were similar to that of HBV. The researchers write:
“In brief, these experiments showed that IL-4 mediates the delayed neurobehavioral impairments induced by neonatal hepatitis B vaccination, which involves the permeability of neonatal blood–brain barrier and the down-regulation of IL-4 receptor. This finding suggests that clinical events concerning neonatal IL-4 over-exposure, including neonatal hepatitis B vaccination and allergic asthma in human infants, may have adverse implications for brain development and cognition.”
Essentially, what this means is that HBV causes inflammation in the brain that is damaging to normal development and cognitive function. The team has identified overexposure to IL-4 as a cause of this damage.

And we are injecting defenseless babies with this toxic shot within just the first few days of life.
The vaccine sham
Vaccine propaganda is everywhere; whether its the flu shot, the MMR or the HPV vaccine, there’s no shortage of corrupt media pundits or physicians out there campaigning for Big Pharma.

In 2016, the value of the vaccine market was estimated to be around $24 billion. But by 2020, that market is expected to reach a staggering $61 billion. Is it really any surprise that the people who stand to profit most from vaccines insist that they are not only safe, but that they are mandatory?
The CDC pushes vaccine schedules as part of their “mission to promote health and prevent disease,” but what they aren’t telling the public is that even as a federal agency, they accept millions of dollars from Big Pharma every year.

Despite the disclaimers, the CDC does accept money from big business — through an organization known as The CDC Foundation. The foundation raised $42 million during 2016, collecting their dues from Merck, Pfizer and other massive companies that surely have an interest in keeping the CDC in their back pocket.

At every turn, it is clear that vaccine pushing has nothing to do with public health, and everything to do with corporate interests. See more coverage of the corrupt vaccine industry at Vaccines.news.
Sources for this article include:
NaturalHealth365.com
VaccineSafetyCommission.org
GlobalResearch.ca

New cultural center for site of Mexico City army barracks

‘The biggest and most important artistic and cultural space in the world’

by the El Reportero’s news services

A new cultural center touted as the biggest in the world will be established on a military site in Mexico City, President López Obrador announced on Tuesday.

The president said that renowned artist Gabriel Orozco will direct the project in conjunction with the Secretariat of Culture and the Mexico City government.

The center will be built on an 800-hectare former military base that will become the fourth section of the Chapultepec Park.

“It’s going to be the biggest and most important artistic and cultural space in the world,” López Obrador said, adding that Orozco will not charge anything for his services.

A luxury real estate development had been planned for part of the site but López Obrador said last month that idea had been scrapped.

The president said today that the government already has the resources required to build the cultural center although he didn’t specify how much it would cost.

“Not a lot of funds will be needed because the creative side [of the project] is going to be provided voluntarily,” López Obrador said.

“We’ll seek not to waste resources, it’s not [a project of] buildings that will turn into white elephants,” he added.

López Obrador said that a detailed plan of the project, including its cost and how long it will take to complete, will be presented in two or three months.

Orozco, who said in 2015 that Mexico needed a contemporary art museum of the stature of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Paris’ Centre Pompidou or London’s Tate Museum, described the opportunity to coordinate the cultural center as an “honor.”

The federal government has made a point of returning space formally occupied by the government to the people of Mexico.

The president’s former official residence, Los Pinos, has already been turned into a cultural center, and metal barricades that prevented citizens from getting close to the National Palace were removed shortly after López Obrador took office on December 1.

Protesters with a range of grievances have since established makeshift camps cheek by jowl with the facade of the National Palace, located in Mexico City’s downtown opposite the zócalo, or central square.

Source: El Financiero (sp), Milenio (sp).

Cecilia Suárez and Santiago Segura will be the hosts of the PLATINO Awards
We now have the names of the hosts of the 6thAnnual Platino Awards for Ibero-American Cinema. Cecilia Suárez and Santiago Segura will be the Masters of Ceremonies of this year’s edition of the highly prestigious awards.

The Mexican actress and the Spanish actor and director will be the hosts of the ceremony, which will be held on May 12 in the Grand Tlachco de Xcaret Theatre, in Riviera Maya, Mexico. The award show will be broadcast across Latin American on TNT via pay per view and on the main national television channels in open mode.

In this spectacular venue in the Mexican Riviera, Cecilia Suárez and Santiago Segura will present a gala that year after year is making an impact internationally and is now a benchmark in the Ibero-American audiovisual industry. They will host what promises to be an exciting night.
As well as presenting the event, Mexican actress Cecilia Suárez will also be among the four nominees for her role in The House of Flowers.

Nestor Torres can seen playing at Yoshi’s

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

Standing on the shoulders of flute giants from worlds as diverse as Rampal & Galway in Classical Music; Richard Egues’ Cuban Charanga style; rocker Ian Anderson’s Jethro Tull; Herbie Mann and – most influential of all – Hubert Laws as pioneers of Jazz Flute, Latin Grammy Award winning Nestor Torres’ rhythmic and mellifluous flute sound remains apart in a class all by itself.

His 14 recordings as a soloist; 4 Latin Grammy nominations, one Grammy nomination and one Latin Grammy Award; collaborations with diverse artists such as Gloria Estefan, Kenny Loggins, Dave Mathews, Herbie Hancock, Tito Puente, Michael Camilo, Paquito D’ Rivera and Arturo Sandoval; as well as performances with the Cleveland, Singapore, and New World Symphony Orchestras among many others, are testament to the remarkable journey of an Artist who continues to grow and enrich the lives of those who experience his talents.

At Oakland’s Yoshi’s on Tue April 9. Doors open at 7:30 p.m./Show: 8 p.m.

National Poetry Month
World renowned poets grace the Library’s stages

April is National Poetry Month and the San Francisco Public Library has scheduled abundant programs to entice the entire community. From readings by world renowned poets to films about national poets laureate, from poems in your pocket to blackout poetry crafts, the Library has something for everyone in honor of National Poetry Month.

The celebration kicks-off on April 2 with a Poetry in Song Concert. Singers perform art-song arrangements of poetry by Victor Hugo, John Masefield, Friedrich Rückert, Albert Samain, Paul-Armand Silvestre, Théophile de Viau and others, with live piano accompaniment by Britton Day.

On April 9, San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck hosts an event celebrating Maya Angelou with local poets reading their own work, as well as Angelou’s own poems.

On April 11, the Library celebrates National Poetry Month with a screening of short documentary films about two famous Poets Laureate of the United States. Rita Dove: An American Poet is a portrait of the African American poet and essayist who served as the U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995. Billy Collins: On the Road with the Poet Laureate is a humorous, engaging documentary about the man who has been called “the first American poet since Robert Frost to enjoy both critical and popular acclaim.” Collins served as the U.S. Poet Laureate from 2001 to 2003.

Tiburon Film Society will present “The Jazz Ambassadors”

The Jazz Ambassadors tells the little-known story of when America deployed jazz legends like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, and Benny Goodman, along with their mixed-race bands, to fight on the front lines of the Cold War, giving the Civil Rights Movement a voice on the world stage when it most needed one.

Drawing on an incredible performance archive and detailed personal accounts of the tours, as well as cinematic re-constructions of crucial sequences, the 90-minute film immerses viewers in this thrilling journey, accompanied by a truly swinging soundtrack.

Admission is FREE and open to the public. At the Tiburon Library located at 1501 Tiburon Boulevard in Tiburon, on Thursday, April 11, 2019 @ 6:30 p.m.

Greening Economic Summit

This year’s Economic Summit happens with an exciting, fully revamped program.

From our redesigned, interactive Equity Lab to an array of exciting racial justice panels to a fireside chat with an internationally renowned headliner to be announced shortly, you don’t want to miss your chance to attend the Bay Area’s largest racial equity conference. On April 26, 2019, The Greenlining Institute, 360 14th Street, 2nd Floor, Oakland.

Uruguayans to enjoy originals by Pablo Picasso for the first time

by the El Reportero’s news services

Uruguayans since Friday have the possibility to appreciate first hand the creative genius of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso through 45 original works under exhibition in Montevideo up to June 30.

The National Director of Culture, Sergio Mautone, expressed the importance of hosting a very powerful exhibition of original paintings of the great Picasso.

He emphasized that this opportunity has paved the road ‘to implement some actions that are going to help Uruguay to bring from now on important pieces from renowned painters’.

The initiative to have Picasso’s works coming to Montevideo came from the Picassso-Paris National Museum, whose President Laurent Le Bon hosted this exhibition under Emmanuel Guigon’s curatorship, Director of the corresponding Museum in Barcelona and under French Embassy auspices.

Director of the Visual Arts Museum, which will host the exhibition, Enrique Aguerre, explained there will be a free day of the week, and always with that benefit for children under 12 and people with disabilities, while retirees will enjoy a significant discount.

He assured that also the students with teachers, who schedule visits, will have access without cost, and already ‘we have more than 14,000 with reservation’.

Harvard University appoints Chucho Valdés as Resident Teacher

The Office of Arts and the Jazz Band of Harvard University, United States, today named Cuban pianist Chucho Valdés as resident Jazz Master, due to his contribution to the development of said institution.

The appointment is granted to eminent artists linked to the entity with the aim of developing initiatives that provide new opportunities to university students, work directly with the classical repertoire and honor artists who have made a significant contribution to American music.

From April 8 to 12, Valdés – six-time winner of the Grammy Award and three of the Latin Grammy – will exchange with teachers and students as part of a meeting sponsored by the Arts Office and the Harvard Jazz Band, in association with the Program of Studies of Cuba and the Center David Rockefeller of the same house of high studies.

According to an official note on the university’s website, in addition to working and rehearsing, the musician will participate in a concert open to the public that under the title Puente Musical, will bring together several instrumentalists, among which the bassist Yunior Terry.

Valdés is one of the most influential figures of modern jazz, organic and personal style distills elements of the Afro-Cuban, classical, rock music tradition, among several.

The program in which the pianist will participate in Harvard is one of the most prestigious in the United States as it brings together distinguished artists in this art form whether world-renowned masters or emerging artists, honors them and allows connection with new generations.

In past editions have been named Resident Masters Benny Carter, Roy Haynes, Joe Lovano and Cassandra Wilson, who have played with the Harvard jazz bands for almost five decades.

The Arts Office maintains a recording archive of visiting artists in jazz, which is available to students and scholars through the Morse Music and Media Collection, the Lamont Library, as well as a collection of Tom Everett’s jazz manuscripts, at Eda Kuhn Loeb music library.

Iconic Latin alternative bands Aterciopelados & Los Amigos Invisibles announce U.S. tour
Internationally acclaimed bands, Colombian rock Aterciopelados and funk acid-jazz Venezuelan Los Amigos Invisibles, will be joining forces for a 10-city co-headlining tour for the first time together nationwide, kicking off at the Sony Hall in New York City on April 21st.

Three-time Latin Grammy winning and 2x Grammy nominated Aterciopelados, is one of the most important dynamic duos in the Latin American alternative music scene. Their latest album “Claroscura” (2018), praised by international media and awarded as the Best Alternative Album by the Latin Grammy.

Alongside Aterciopelados is Latin Grammy winning and 3x Grammy nominated group Los Amigos Invisibles, known for their blend of Afro-funk, disco, acid jazz and Latin rhythms. The band is one of the most recognized bands from Venezuela and the Latin American music scene, praised for their energetic live shows that have been presented worldwide in more than 60 countries.

Omar Sosa’s Transparent Water at the Freight in SF

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

The genius of Omar Sosa and his amazing trio as part of the RAICES series at the Freight!
Omar blurs the lines between the magical and the musical! He is constantly creating, innovating and evolving.

If you’ve seen him before, you know, if not, do yourself a favor – go watch him!
Hope to see you at the Freight both nights for this unique, inspirational and rare opportunity.
Transparent Water Trio is comprised of Omar Sosa – piano (Cuba) / Seckou Keita – kora, voice (Senegal) / Gustavo Ovalles – percussion (Venezuela).

On Wednesday & Thursday, March 20 & 21. Doors open at 7 p.m. / Show: 8 p.m.
$36 ADV / $40 door (plus fees). At The Freight & Salvage, 2020 Addison St., downtown Berkeley. One block from BART! (510) 644-2020 info@freightandsalvage.org.

Presidio picnic’s eighth season begins

Multi-cultural community celebration unveils new mobile food creators and cultural dance groups at San Francisco’s Presidio National Park

This month, the Presidio of San Francisco, in partnership with Off the Grid, unveils an 8th season of Presidio Picnic with an exciting line up of new and returning mobile food creators and cultural dance performances.

Presidio Picnic takes place every Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., rain or shine, through early October on the Presidio’s beautiful Main Parade Ground, an expansive seven-acre lawn with views of the park, the city skyline, and the San Francisco Bay. In addition to the monthly dance performances, Presidio Picnic will feature the return of other family-friendly elements that visitors love: more than 30 international mobile food creators representing the best of the San Francisco food scene, free bike safety classes for kids offered by the Presidio YMCA, nature-based arts and crafts for kids, lawn games, yoga from LubbDubb, music, and free bike valet by the SF Bicycle Coalition.
Cultural dance performances will be offered the third Sunday of each month and will be announced shortly.

Returning creators include Oakland-based Nashville-style hot chicken purveyors Hot Bird (easily identified at last year’s Presidio Picnic by their sizable queues), masters of Peruvian fusion Lamas Peruvian, and Pacific Island-meets-Philippines dessert favorite Hula’s Sweet Treats.
The season opens on March 31 at 11:30 a.m.

SF art exhibition by Antony Holdsworth and Beryl Landau
Anthony Holdsworth features the start of a new series entitled “Day and Night in the Mission”. Using a LED lamp attached to his easel, he documents locations as they transition into night.
The Mission District opens a window on Latin America while simultaneously enriching the culture of San Francisco. He works on site to channel the unique energy of this community and also to bear witness to the changes that are being forced on it by gentrification.
The exhibition includes works El Farolito by Day and Night, by Anthony Holdsworth, oil/panel, and Rise and Shine, by Beryl Landau.

Beryl Landau calls her work “symbolic landscape”. The acrylic paintings in this show depict geographical locations but evoke inner feelings. Each image draws the viewer into a particular space and mood. Landau’s clear colors range from high contrasts to subtle gradations.
Images of changing San Francisco are prevalent in her recent work. The paintings often convey the juxtaposition of nature and the modern world.

Alley Cat Gallery, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco. Exhibition through March 31

Greening Economic Summit
This year’s Economic Summit happens with an exciting, fully revamped program.
From our redesigned, interactive Equity Lab to an array of exciting racial justice panels to a fireside chat with an internationally renowned headliner to be announced shortly, you don’t want to miss your chance to attend the Bay Area’s largest racial equity conference. On April 26, 2019, The Greenlining Institute, 360 14th Street, 2nd Floor, Oakland,

Filmmaker Del Toro will create International Animation Center Mexico

by the El Reportero’s news services

Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro announced the creation of the International Animation Center in the city of Guadalajara, in order to take advantage of the existing talent in the country.

During a conference at the 34th edition of the Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG), he said on Suday that ‘this is a unique moment, we are breaking the model in animation.’

The film director commented that the goal is to work with series and feature films, with local talent ‘because we are looking for the next generation of filmmakers’.

We will try to convert it, he added, into a model that allows international production to give us a workshop to learn and then work on the projects, but that way there will be a connection between Guadalajara and the world.

Through this project, he considered, it will be possible to find great stories and believe in those stories; for that, the International Animation Center will play an important role.
The Guadalajara International Film Festival, which will conclude on the 15th, is considered the most solid meeting of its kind in Latin America, and its headquarters is the Telmex Auditorium where it paid tribute to the actress Blanca Guerra, who was awarded the Mayahuel de Plata prize and her film Day of the Dead by director Carlos Gutiérrez Medrano was screened.

Guerra remembered his passage through the various performing arts, especially in film alongside directors such as Arturo Ripstein, Carlos Carrera and María Novaro, among others. He also made an urgent call to support the production of Mexican cinema and seek to increase it.

The 34th edition of the Festival will exhibit 295 fiction films and documentaries from around the world. It will have 428 screenings in 30 commercial theaters and 113 films in the official section that will compete for the Mezcal Award for the best Mexican productions, and the Mayahuel Award for Ibero-American fiction and documentary productions.

Argentine documentary wins Grand Prize Santiago Álvarez

Troperos, the first documentary by Argentine Nicolas Detry, won the Santiago Alvarez Grand Prize at the 17th Santiago Álvarez in Memoriam International Festival of Documentary Films that ended Tuesday with the participation of 16 works from 11 countries.

The first three awards went to Strike a Pose, by Ester Gould and Reijer Zwaan from Holland-Belgium; Fanon Yesterday, Today by Hassane Mezine from France-Algeria, and Side B, also opera prima by Ricardo Yebra from Spain, respectively.

The jury, headed by renowned filmmaker Jorge Fuentes, recognized as best opera prima Fire Mouth by Luciano Pérez Fernández from Brazil, and as a project Benny More’s Last Days by Cuban Damian Pérez Téllez while in the direction and photography also awarded Detry.

There were also awarded in screenplay Fanon Yesterday, Today; in soundtrack and editing Strike a Pose, while the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños did it with the documentary series Adolescence, Damocles’ Sword from the Cuban telecentre Tunas Vision.
During the last day of the event, which celebrated the centenary of Santiago Alvarez and 60 years of Cuban cinema in Revolution, it was announced that the coming event will be dedicated to Canada and will commit again for the validity of a cinematographic genre renewed with the times and technologies.

The theoretical seminar of this edition had significant solidarity moments with Venezuela in response to the imperial onslaught and added voices to the need to show with solid arguments, in images and sounds, the resistance of that people in defense of the conquests of the Bolivarian Revolution.

Artificer of the ICAIC News, declared World Memory by UNESCO, Santiago Álvarez left in 1998 when he died a vast trajectory that made him transcend in the Latin American and world cinema with documentaries that renewed the genre and reflected palpitating realities of the world.

The Border Collective presents their second Pop Up Exhibit

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

In honor of Women’s History Month, The Border Collective, a group of Mexican female artists and makers will share their beautiful work in San Francisco.

There will be fun sips, snacks, incredible art and a live performance by Latin Pop Duo IndiviDúo, a cross-continental collaboration between San Francisco-born songstress Tiffany Joy and Colombian songsmith Maqui Reyes.

The Border collective was created by two dedicated Latin-American artists as a way to exhibit art the way they know best: through diversity in people, art and community.

A percentage of the proceeds will be donated to a cause that they really care about, La Casa de Las Madres.

On Friday, March 8, 2019. It’s free! At the Consulate General of Mexico in San Francisco, CA, from 5:30-9 p.m.!

Conference examining the of work of Catholic institutions with immigrant communities

CMS and the Diocese of San Jose is hosting a three-day event exploring promising and successful programs and ministries with immigrants in parishes, elementary schools, universities, the workplace, immigrant service networks, charities, community organizing entities, hospitals, and other Catholic institutions.

The event will also examine how US immigration and refugee polices are affecting Catholic institutions and those they serve. It will feature the annual Fr. Lydio Tomasi, c.s. theological lecture on migration. Participants will also visit local migrant programs and ministries in San José on March 11, 2019, at various locations. See here the full agenda: https://cmsny.org/event/2019-ciii/
On March 12 – 13. Santa Clara University School of Law, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara.

SF art exhibition by Antony Holdsworth and Beryl Landau
Anthony Holdsworth features the start of a new series entitled “Day and Night in the Mission”. Using a LED lamp attached to his easel, he documents locations as they transition into night.

The Mission District opens a window on Latin America while simultaneously enriching the culture of San Francisco. He works on site to channel the unique energy of this community and also to bear witness to the changes that are being forced on it by gentrification.

The exhibition includes works El Farolito by Day and Night, by Anthony Holdsworth, oil/panel, and Rise and Shine, by Beryl Landau.

Beryl Landau calls her work “symbolic landscape”. The acrylic paintings in this show depict geographical locations but evoke inner feelings. Each image draws the viewer into a particular space and mood. Landau’s clear colors range from high contrasts to subtle gradations.

Images of changing San Francisco are prevalent in her recent work. The paintings often convey the juxtaposition of nature and the modern world.

Alley Cat Gallery, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco. Exhibition from March 2 to 31

California Hispanic Business Policy Summit
Join the California Hispanic Chambers of Commerce in Sacramento, California for the California Hispanic Business Policy Summit. This annual summit is the premier legislative conference for California’s small businesses and the Hispanic community to learn and engage in the key issues impacting the growth of California’s economy. Meet the policymakers, community leaders, and subject matter experts who are working to provide solutions.

During the Summit, we will use our collective voice to advance legislative issues for the small business community. Participants will take part in issue briefings and engage with members of the legislature and Sacramento insiders, while gaining in – person perspectives in the legislative process. Registrants will have the opportunity to meet with their local elected officials in their state offices, as well as, legislative leaders at the Legislative Reception.

Program at 10:00 a.m. The Citizen Hotel, doors open at 11 a.m. Lunch is served at 12:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Annual Hispanic Small Business Luncheon, at the State Capitol, from 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Legislative Appointments at the State Capitol, participants attend advocacy meetings with Legislators. From 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. – Leland Stanford Mansion
Annual Hispanic Appointees’ Reception
Celebration of California’s Hispanic Appointees
On Wednesday, March 13, at The Citizen Hotel, 926 J St, Sacramento, CA

Greening Economic Summit
This year’s Economic Summit happens with an exciting, fully revamped program.
From our redesigned, interactive Equity Lab to an array of exciting racial justice panels to a fireside chat with an internationally renowned headliner to be announced shortly, you don’t want to miss your chance to attend the Bay Area’s largest racial equity conference. On April 26, 2019, The Greenlining Institute, 360 14th Street, 2nd Floor, Oakland,

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