Reported by Hispanically Speaking News
Gertrud Goldschmidt
Americas Society is proud to partner with Carnegie Hall’s Voices from Latin America, a citywide festival taking place on November 8 to December 11, 2012.
The fall festival will celebrate the diverse range of Latin American cultures, inviting audiences to explore a vibrant repertoire of music, visual arts, dance, film, literature, and photography events.
With a musical focus on Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, and Venezuela, Voices from Latin America programming was developed under the guidance of Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov; Venezuelan conductor of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra Gustavo Dudamel; Afro-Cuban jazz pianist and composer Chucho Valdés; and Brazilian singer, songwriter, and guitarist Gilberto Gil. The festival will feature more than 70 performances and programs at Carnegie Hall and partnering cultural institutions.
As a Voices from Latin America partner, Americas Society presents a rich and multifaceted series of Latin American music, literature, visual arts, and policy programs.
Event highlights include jazz, classical, and contemporary music and musicians from Colombia and Mexico; an interdisciplinary literary symposium with poets, writers, and environmentalists examining aesthetic, social, and political issues in eco-literature across Latin America; and a visual arts exhibition, Gego: Origin and Encounter, Mastering the Space that features works by German-born Venezuelan artist Gertrud Goldschmidt.
Actress Nadine Velázquez Shines in Flight
Actress Nadine Velázquez fulfilled one of her professional dreams in Flight starring Denzel Washington, which premieres Friday.
In this story of a heroic pilot with a devastating secret, Velázquez plays the DocFestflight attendant whose duty is to help the passengers during a terrible air accident.
“I always wanted to scream and cry and plead for my life in a movie, and this is my chance!” Velázquez, born in Chicago of Puerto Rican parents, told Efe.
The actress became known for the television series My Name Is Earl and now has recurrent roles in two others: “The League” and Heart of Dixie.
She discovered her love for acting as a little girl and began her career in a television commercial.
From there her career took off and among her most recent credits are “War” with Jason Statham, and the film made for television “Husband for Hire.”
In Flight, Nadine is the faithful lover of Washington’s character. But this role is not as innocuous as it might appear at first sight. Her character is guilty of covering up a very dangerous secret.
“The series ‘My Name Is Earl’ made me known, but I think this movie will change the way the industry sees me,” said the artist, who hopes to use this opportunity to help Latinos struggling to find their place in the Hollywood limelight.
