This event will explore the concept of democracy, which these days is being used to justify the bombing and dehumanisation of millions in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East (in many ways replacing the 'scientific racism' of old). Speakers will also discuss the nature and history of liberal democracy (the current accepted version of 'democracy') and contrast it with popular/direct democracy as it is being built in countries such as Cuba, Venezuela and Bolivia. Speakers include Jody McIntyre and Dan Glazebrook.

"Velada musical venezolana," a gala evening of music will feature a performance by noted Venezuelan Harpist Leonard Jacome and clarinetist Cheche Requena, accompanied by Chebeto Requena ( cuatro and voice ) they will show several styles of Venezuelan music such as: Joropos, danza, merengues and how the fusion is coming thought the new element of jazz and urban sounds.  

Classical music concert featuring Cuban musicians. Raising money for material aid to Cuba. 

This concert celebrates the 53rd anniversary of the Cuban Revolution and all proceeds will be donated towards sports equipment for Cuban youth, in the year of the 2012 London Olympics. The donation will be presented during our solidarity brigade to Cuba in February 2012

A spectacular dance show presented by Santhosh Dance Academy and the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
'Mi Alma Latina' brings Venezuelan and Latin American culture to life and pays tribute to the region's rich history of music and dance.

Written, directed and choreographed by Doni Fierro.

With the participation of 5 other professional dancers who have worked the world over, including the West End 

 Tickets: www.santhoshdance.com | www.pahamunehouse.org | www.chamos.org.uk

The film follows the events of the night of February 4, 1992 in Caracas, Venezuela. That night a group of military rebels staged a coup d'etat. Venezuelans found themselves as virtual prisoners. As the coup starts, fighting takes place from within a military base located in the centre of the city's most affluent area, surrounded by luxury high rises and palatial mansions. The area of La Carlota provides a wealth of very interesting, often flamboyant and typical characters of the Latin America upper middle and upper classes. They are among the most affected. Various vignettes in these different characters' homes are developed. These people's reactions, lifestyles, vices, and humanity come out in a very honest fashion under duress. There are often clashes between them and the military invading the area. The media, particularly TV and radio insist everything is under control, but the residents around La Carlota see a very different reality

A piano recital given by Vidas Vaitkevicius (winner of the 2011 Royal College of Music Junior
Department Teresa Carreño Piano Competition) and Elaine Wong (runner up).

Programme to include works by:
Teresa Carreño, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, J.S. Bach, Janáček, Schoenberg & Liszt

The recital, part of the Irish Heritage Young Musician Programme, features a great line up of young
performers and an exciting musical programme, with works by Schumann, Debussy, Francaix,
Prokofiev, Satie, Poulenc and a specially commissioned work, Macalla, by a young Irish Composer
working in London, Solfa Carlisle. There will be a wine reception after the performance, sponsored
by Cormac T. Cawley & Co, Solicitors.

Cultural Event. Introduction about Violeta Parras life. V.Vega, Silvia Balducci will perform Violetas
songs supported by Jorge and Ciro Rodriguez, Alejandro Reyes.

The trio of flute, cello and piano present selected repertoire from the triple album "The Flute Music of Francisco Mignone", which is a result of a research project and includes works containing the aesthetical aspects that characterized this composer's compositional course. Mignone, together with Villa-Lobos and Camargo-Guarnieri, is one of the most representative Brazilian composers of the 20th century.The anthology presented here ranges from music produced in his youth, composed under the pseudonym of Chico Bororó, passing through works with nationalistic intention, through to a synthesis of characteristics stemming from his Italian background, produced in his later days.

LOKANDES is the combination of two words: 'Crazy' and 'Andes' which represents the intention of
their music - crazy music from the Andes -. This project was started in London, during December
2007, by Karlos Saldaña and Alx Alfaro. This project aims to create Alternative music with roots
from traditional Andean music. LOKANDES entered its second phase completing the band line
up with musicians from different parts of the world and joined on stage with some of the best
peruvian musicians based in London to complete a special line up. 

With: SANDRA ANGELERI, Professor at the Central University of Venezuela, author of ‘Women Weaving the Dream of the Revolution in the American Continent’

Hosted by the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and supported by the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign, Women for Venezuela and Academics for Venezuela

For further news about this event please contact: info@venezuelasolidarity.co.uk

Along with the rest of the world, London will be celebrating 101 years of International Women's Day. We will be celebrating in advance this 2nd March 2012. Well known Latin American artists based in London accompanied by some of the most talented European female artists are together paying a homage to women and how their role worldwide has changed throughout history with their own original songs. 

 FREE EVENT. (We recommend booking or arriving early to avoid disappointment - First come, first served ) No ticket necessary but contributions are welcome and will be used to help fund our CD compilation to be released the night.
Email:info@latinosinlondon.com

Dance for 2 hours & 30 mins. With 7 Dance Instructors

Liz Bayley
Latin Burn ladies style

Felix Salazar
Latin Burn pop music

Fleur Stelle
Belly Dance Cabaret 

Fabrizio Amanajas
Latin Burn Brazilian

Naz Choudhry
Bollywood Bolly Flex

Oleg Storozhuk
Latin Ballroom style

E-mail: fierrobayley@hotmail.com

Tfl: 07903306855

 Tickets will go fast, to avoid disappointment buy your tickets now

Tickets: £15

 Weekly dance class for anybody who wants to join the Bolivar Dance Group. Classes would last 1.30 hours approximately

email: fierrobayley@hotmail.com

Winner of the 2011 Fundación Guerrero International Singing Competition (Madrid) 

With the support of:

Embassy of Peru | London Lyrics arts | Fundacion Jacinto e Inosencio Guerrero | Instituto Cervantes

RSVP by February 29th: 02072358340
cultural_events@peruembassy-uk.com

Luis Quintero is one of the most important Venezuelan classical guitar players with an impressive international professional career. Mr.Quintero's purity of technique, exceptional musicality and great virtuosity have earned him recognition among the most discerning audiences

What would happen if Monteverdi and some Baroque companions had travelled to South America? Or if Tom Jobim had to play his songs on a baroque guitar? The Ensemble Il Festino takes you to on an exciting journey presenting the influences of mixed cultures on the traditional way of performing baroque music. And to make this adventure complete they also bring a fascinating approach on the performance of the modern Latin repertoire. Not to be missed!

Gabriela Di Laccio - Soprano Layil Barr - Viola da Gamba/ Recorder Victor Alarcon - Guitar James Akers - Theorbo/Baroque Guitar Andres Ticino - Percussion 

Tickets:http://www.wegottickets.com/event/153141 

Tickets:http://www.alaf.co.uk/

International vocal group ROMPIENDO FRONTERAS (BREAKING BOUNDARIES) present original interpretations of Latin American songs of protest, revolution and celebration of Mother Nature, as well as new compositions.

Together with special guest poets and musicians.

His Hands Were Gentle - launch event on the publication of a bilingual edition of a selection of the song lyrics by Chilean singer Victor Jara, who was murdered by Pinochet's thugs. The book is published by Smokestack Books.

Join us for an evening of music and poetry - live performances of some of Victor Jara's songs and readings from the book.

http://www.smokestack-books.co.uk/

Weekly dance class forall those interested in joining the Bolivar Dance Group. Classes last approximately 90 minutes 

email:fierrobayley@hotmail.com

A youth-oriented evening of poetry, speeches and food, celebrating ten years since the defeat of the coup in Venezuela. Performers include Jody McIntyre, Shadia Mansour, Samira Musa and Sanasino.

6th & 7th: 7:30pm

8th: 5:00pm

On the tenth anniversary of the coup d'etat against the Bolivarian Government in Venezuela, several speakers will talk about the incidents that took place on 11 April 2002, when a group of businessmen and military officers, backed up by the media and the US Government, tried to replace democracy in Venezuela by a de facto dictatorship headed by Pedro Carmona Estanga, head of the Venezuelan Chamber of Commerce, which only lasted less than 48 hours.

In addition, a short film will be screened: "Conspiración Mortal" [Mortal Conspiracy], which tells the story of April 2002 along with the fate of its actors. The film is in Spanish with English sutbtilles.

Speakers:   

Lee Salter, University of the West of England. 'Venezuela: Democracy, anti-democracy and news media'  

Richard Gott, Author, "Hugo Chavez, and the Bolivarian Revolution"

Samuel Moncada H.E Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

Rod Stoneman, Producer, "The Revolution will not televised"

Gregory Wilpert, is a German-American sociologist, who grew up in Germany and spent most of his adult life in the U.S. and most recently in Venezuela

Synopsis

6 London Latino Film Festival 2012

A documentary offering an alternative point of view on some of the violent events that took place in Venezuela during the coup in 2002. Some local private television are accused of deliberately picking some facts in an attempt to support the ongoing coup ; different videos taken from different angles show how some people were wrongly accused of shooting at unarmed masses of demonstrators. Regardless of political preferences and actual events, it is an interesting documentary on how easily facts can be misrepresented.

Director: Angel Palacios
Country Venezuela
Running time 105min
Tickets £5.00

For Friday 20th at 6.00 pm. check our time table

On April 11, 2002, a coup in Venezuela, organised by the oligarchy with the backing of US imperialism, removed the democratically
elected government and kidnapped the president Hugo Chavez. In less than 48 hours and despite the media manipulation, the Bolivarian masses had come out on the streets, defeated the coup and reinstated their president.

10 years later, as part of a series of events to celebrate the people's
victory against the coup, Hands Off Venezuela is hosting the London
premiere of "Cuarto Poder" (the Fourth Power) a new documentary examining the role of media, media monopoly and ownership, media manipulation and
related issues with special reference to the media coverage of events in
Venezuela.  

A Night of Cultural Celebration of 10 Years Since the Defeat of the US-Backed Coup in Venezuela! 

7.00pm until late, Saturday 14 April, Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London, W1T 5DL

Very Special Guests from Venezuela & Latin America plus others to include Linton Kwesi Johnson.

DJs with Latin Sounds, free Salsa Class and live acts from across the region plus much more!

Tickets: Here

London Latino Film Festival 2012

Films from Latinoamerica
Bolivar Hall
18th – 21st April

Festival Programme and Film programme with
synopsis click here

Film list:

• KORPU – NATER
• ASEO GENERAL
• DAWSON: ISLA 10
• POST- MORTEM
• SONS OF CUBA
• ILUMINADOS POR EL FUEGO
• LOCOS DE LA BANDERA
• BANANAS
• INNOCENT VOICES
• LLAGUNO BRIDGE
• QUIEN DIJO MIEDO
• ESCAPE TO SILENCE
• CUANDO LA BRUJULA MARCO EL SUR

All films with English subtitles.
Cost & presentation time inside of the programme

The Venezuelan jazz group, Matiz Ensamble, will perform at Bolivar Hall as part of their 2012 European tour. The seven-strong group hailing from Maracaibo are famous for their spontaneity and improvisation covering a broad range of musical genres including Venezuelan joropo, pajarillos, waltz, gaita de tambora, new age, fulías, parrandas, bossanova, flamenco, jazz, tango and swing.

Multi-award winning virtuoso Mexican guitarist Morgan Szymanski launches his latest recording project: Sketches of Mexico. A unique collaboration combining Mexican music and the work of twenty visual artists from the UK, Mexico, Portugal and China. A visual and auditory journey not to be missed! 

Tickets: Here

Weekly dance class forall those interested in joining the Bolivar Dance Group.
Classes last approximately 90 minutes 

email:fierrobayley@hotmail.com

Weekly Hatha Yoga lesson of 90 min for beginners and intermediates. Anyone can practice yoga, you don't need special equipment, just comfortable clothes and a mat or a towel. Venezuelan Teacher trained in India.

The recent decision of the Argentinean government to renationalise oil company YPF from Spanish multinational REPSOL has created polemic. We are screening the classic Pino Solanas documentary about the looting of Argentina's economy and state-owned companies in the 1990s to offer some background and open a discussion about it.  

It is rare for an artist today to be able to move an audience with such power of expression, musical finesse, and dazzling virtuosity! Such is the phenomenal talent of Italian guitarist Aniello Desiderio, winner of 18 international competitions since the age of 17.

Conductor/composer Lorin Maazel has written of Aniello, "now I know the true sound of the guitar".

Aniello will be playing his first and long awaited London concert at the Bolívar Hall on May 4th. The concert is being presented in partnership with the Transformations Music Series.

Tickets: £15

Advance booking: bookdesiderio@gmail.com
Further information: www.aniellodesiderio.net

Latin Burn mini marathon. 2.30 hours of dance with 8 dance instructors. Doni-Latin Burn; Liz-Latin Burn; Alvaro-Zumba/Latin Burn; Fleur-Belly Dancing; Naz-Bollywood; Oleg-Ballroom; Pere-Latin; Solange-Samba.

Doors will open at 14.00, mini marathon starts at 14.30.

To book tickets or for more information please contact Doni Fierro by phone 07903 306855 or email fierrobayley@hotmail.com

Afro-American Project, is a musical group whose aim is to promote Afro-Venezuelan and Caribbean popular music. The group is made up of professional and amateur musicians, making it a particularly interesting ensemble, and true to its values of popular music expression.  

It is arelatively new project  directed by Venezuelan master percussionist Wilmer Sifontes, one of the most outstanding and sought-after Latin percussionists in the Latin scene today.  

Brazilian cellist Diego Carneiro and Cuban pianist Eralys Fernandez will bring along a programme that includes
music by Beethoven, Vivaldi and Piazzolla. The concert is to raise money for AmazonArt which is a charity that
helps to promote social and cultural projects in the Amazonian region of Brazil. 

Obsessive idealist Sebastián (Gael Garcia Bernal) has sworn to direct a film about one of the world's most iconic figures, Christopher Columbus. He is determined to overturn the myth of the arrival of Western Civilization in the Americas as a force for good. His film will show what Columbus set in motion: the obsession with gold, the taking of slaves, and the terrible violence visited on those Indians who fought back.

 This is a special preview screening before the film goes on general release in cinemas from 18th May.

This preview screening is co-hosted by the Bolivia Information Forum and Simons Muirhead & Burton

This year’s CASA Latin American Theatre Festival will be launched at Bolivar Hall on 23 May with
a retrospective of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, one of Mexico’s most revered writers. Our guests will
enjoy Latin American music, food and drink while performers recite the poems of Sor Juana in both
Spanish and English. The main event of the evening will be a staged reading of her play House of
Desires directed by Simon Evans after which there will be a discussion led by Professor Catherine
Boyle.

Catherine Boyle

Catherine Boyle is Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies at King’s College London. She is co-director of the AHRC-funded theatre translation project, Out of the Wings. She has published widely on Latin American theatre and performance.

SIMON EVANS

Simon was previously Resident Assistant Director at the Donmar Warehouse, Staff Director at the National Theatre, Creative Associate at the Bush Theatre and Associate Director at the White Bear Theatre. He is Artistic Director of Black and White Rainbow.

 As Director: includes Madness in Valencia (Trafalgar Studios), Whiff Whaff (Theatre Uncut), Apple Pie, Hours Till Autumn (Riverside Studios), Cyrano de Bergerac, The Misanthrope (White Bear), Us and Them (Bush Theatre/Wrap), Something Perfect, Disappear , Devolution (Theatre503/RRE), Skyscraper (Public, New York), ARDEN 2.0 as part of OVNV’s Arden Project (3LD , US & Warner Brothers Theatre, UK), Firefly Heartbeat (Tristan Bates), Singin’ in the Rain (Cambridge Arts).

As Associate Director: includes The Duchess of Malfi (Old Vic), Finding Neverland (Weinstein Live Entertainment) As Assistant Director: includes Richard II, Inadmissible Evidence, Anna Christie, Luise Miller, Moonlight, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Donmar Warehouse), Men Should Weep (National Theatre), Like a Fishbone (Bush Theatre). As Writer: includes Who is Rachel? (Channel4.com), The Waiting (SkyArts), Bait, Somewhere by the Fire (BWR).

Casafestival.org.uk

Outtothewings

Blackandwhiterainbow

Life Without Money: Building Fair and Sustainable Economies is a newly published Pluto Press book.
Join Derek Wall (Green Party councillor, former Principal Speaker for the Green Party and author of Babylon and Beyond, The Rise of the Green Left) in conversation with visiting editor of Life Without Money, Associate Professor Anitra Nelson (RMIT University, Australia) and contributor Adam Buick (regularly published in the Socialist Standard).

Come and participate in a stimulating discussion on why we, as a society, need to go money-free and how we might do it.

Three of the UK's leading mexican artists joing forces to celebratethe sumptuous classical music, opera and popular songs of Mexico in a programme including works by Manuel M. Ponce, Ricardo Castro and Julio Cesar Oliva.

Patricia Romero - Piano
Jesus Leon - Tenor
Morgan Szymanski - Guitar

 Latin America 2011 brings together political leaders, trade unionists, NGOs, academics and progressive movements from Latin America and the UK to explore recent developments across the region.

Latin America 2011 features films, stalls, music, discussion on:

• Venezuela - Countdown to the 2012 Elections and the Challenges Ahead
• The Miami Five - The Struggle for Freedom
• Education and Liberation in Latin America
• ALBA - A New Model of Development in Latin America ?
• Women and the Struggle for Equality in Latin America
• Domination of the Caribbean - from Slavery to Neo-colonialism
• And much more including sessions on Colombia, Cuba, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Mexico

 Latin America 2011 features guest speakers including:

• Braulio Alvarez, Venezuelan Campesino Leader & MP
• Alberto Juantorena, Former Olympic 400m & 800m gold medal winner
• Frances O'Grady, TUC
• Egle Sanchez, Venezuelan trade union leader
• Families of the Miami 5 from Cuba
• Guissell Morales-Echaverry, Nicaraguan Embassy
• Jeremy Corbyn MP
• Ernesto Laclau, writer
• and many more from across Britain and Latin America!

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Buy Tickets: http://www.latinamericaconference.org.uk/buy-tickets/

Feature film set in La Paz, Bolivia 
78 mins

Dir: Amancay Tapia

This is a rare opportunity to see the cult, low-budget hit that has taken cinemas in Bolivia by storm.

Battlefield is the story of five women trapped in a beauty salon in La Paz during a social uprising of the coca leaf growers of the country. 

Click here to watch the trailer: Trailer "Battlefield"

Spanish click here 

Understanding the legacyof martinique'srevolutionary pan-african scholaron the 50th anniversaryof his death

Speakers: Fanta Kaba - Cameron Duodu
Poetry: Dr. Morgan Dalphinis
Music: Tunde Jegede

Award-winning documentary, by Goran Hugo Olsson, co-produced by Danny Glover, compiled from footage of the US Black Power Movement hidden in Swedish archives for 30 years. It "fills in the background of the Vietnam War, police brutality, and enduring and largely unaddressed racism, to suggest a sense of survivalist urgency-and to hint at why filmmakers took such care to record it."

Includes appearances and commentary by: Harry Belafonte, Stokely Carmichael, Eldridge Cleaver, Kathleen Cleaver, Angela Davis, Robin Kelley, Dr. Martin Luther King, Talib Kweli, Huey P. Newton, Abiodun Oyewole, Sonia Sanchez, Bobby Seale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFWHNpfjByQ&feature=player_embedded

Featuring pianists from Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela.
Patricia Romero (Mexico)

Vision First Latin American Piano Festival is a great way to appreciate music from different countries, but it is also a way of uniting the countries of Latin America in culture.

There will be an introductory lecture at 6.30 pm prior to all concerts.

For more information and detailed programmes please go to www.juanmariasolare.com/latin-american-piano-festival.html

Featuring pianists from Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela.
Eralys Fernandez (Cuba) 8.30 pm - Carla Ruaro (Brazil)

Vision First Latin American Piano Festival is a great way to appreciate music from different countries, but it is also a way of uniting the countries of Latin America in culture.

There will be an introductory lecture at 6.30 pm prior to all concerts.

For more information and detailed programmes please go to www.juanmariasolare.com/latin-american-piano-festival.html

Featuring pianists from Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela.
Ana Laura Manero (Venezuela) 8.30 pm - Juan Maria Solare (Argentina)

Vision First Latin American Piano Festival is a great way to appreciate music from different countries, but it is also a way of uniting the countries of Latin America in culture.

There will be an introductory lecture at 6.30 pm prior to all concerts.

For more information and detailed programmes please go to www.juanmariasolare.com/latin-american-piano-festival.html

Multi-national vocal group 'Rompiendo Fronteras'/'Breaking Boundaries' marks two years of making music together with original interpretations of protest songs ranging from classics by Victor Jara and Andean celebrations of Mother Earth to new compositions.

The four-strong group - from Chile, Bolivia, Colombia and England - will be joined on stage by several special guests: Poets Consuelo Rivera and Alfredo Cordal

Musicians Claudia Figueroa and Forbes Henderson, formerly of the group 'Incantation' Bolivian flute and pan pipes virtuosos Phaxsi Coca and Vicky Cespedes

Cast: Victor Chambi, Judith Figueroa, Emilio Galli

This first 35mm film in the Quechua language, beautifully restored, recently, by ZDF in Germany, presents a hallucinogenic mix of love story and animistic Peruvian mythology.

15 year old Kukuli lives a simple life high in the Andean mountains of Paucartambo ( a small village in Cusco, Peru). She sets off on a trip to participate in the local annual fiesta. On the way she meets Alako and they fall in love. The young couple encounter a witch, who predicts their premature death. During the fiesta Alako is killed by Ukuku, a legendary figure, half man, half bear, who also abducts Kukuli. In death, the lovers are transformed into llamas: one white and one black; and they fall in love... again...

Dir. Sergio Giral, USA, 2010, 105min, colour

Cast: Elvira Valdes, Michelle Fragoso, Ivonne Lopez Arenal, Yesleer de la Cruz, Isabel Moreno, Lili Renteria

In Florida, two Ana's live in parallel realities, (or perhaps one Ana's reality is the other's illusion). The first Ana has to rise early to get to her soul-destroying, low-paid job where she will be working all day. The other Ana is moneyed and able to lead an easy life focussed on self-expression through social status. Fantasy, reality, success, and deception blend in a brilliant comic drama that bends racial and social boundaries and where nothing is as it seems. What constitutes healthy aspiration for a people used to deprivation and toil? Is it worth sacrificing the comradeship and community feeling that derives from shared hardship, just to accrue personal wealth? These are some of the deeper questions posed in the course of a deceptively simple story.

Violinist, composer, arranger, producer, educator Omar Puente is a classical violinist with a heart that beats with a Cuban rhythm, a soul that is African, and a home in West Yorkshire. His career has been as varied as his life. He began learning violin at five, and at the age of 13, he travelled alone to Havana to take up a music scholarship. The next few years were spent studying classical violin and learning all he could about Cuban music and jazz.

After graduating, Omar played in Cuban bands such as Orquesta Enrique Jorrin (with Ruben Gonzalez), and Rubalcaba's Charanga Tipica de Concierto (with renowned Cuban bassist, Cachao). He studied classical music as a member of the National Symphony Orchestra while learning jazz from musicians like Chucho Valdes. Since coming to England Omar has taught Cuban music and jazz violin at Leeds College of Music and Trinity College of Music.

This concert is part of the 2011 Cultura y Cubania festival of Cuban culture

Entry £10 in advance (via Ticketweb) / £12 on the door

www.culturaycubania.com

Anglo-Brazilian Society is please to invite you to a charity concert by Brazilian pianist Clélia Iruzun, violinists Nadia Myerscough and Maria Clara Martins will be performing works by Manuel de Falla, Béla Bartók, Arvo Pärt, Marlos Nobre, Shostakovich and Lecuona.

Clélia Iruzun and Nadia Myerscough have kindly waived their fees in aid of 'Centro Social da Torre', which is one of the charities the Society supports.

''The Spanish-American Workshop of Memory Women Writers' has organised a poetry evening to celebrate their first anniversary. The protagonists of the event will be the seven members of the workshop: María Eugenia Bravo (Chile), Consuelo Rivera Fuentes (Chile), Sara Cornejo (Chile), Sofía Buchuck (Peru), Isabel Ros-López (Spain), María Alba Marijo (Spain) and Mabel Encinas (Mexico).

Althought the women are from different countries they are united by their love of poetry, and their passion and celebration of life. They formed the group hoping to expand, develop personal techniques and reflect on literary feedback - including exploring new and diverse writing techniques and looking into other peoples' works, including those of immigrants.

Their meetings usually combine poetry reading, singing and guitar playing creating an atmosphere that stimulates both individual and group creativity.

http://memoriademujereshispanoamericanas.blogspot.com/

Which way forward to Venezuela?

Drawing his experience of Bolivarian Venezuela, Michael Albert will reflect on the movements attempting to build a participatoryform of socialism.

www.handsoffvenezuela.org

In September 2011, the Palestinian Authority is urging the United Nations to recognise Palestine as a state by accepting Palestine as a full member of the UN. Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation of Palestine is intensifying and the question of Palestine is still unresolved. The blockade of Gaza continues, more settlements are being built in the West Bank and East Jerusalem; the Israeli army raids and demolishes Palestinian houses and makes political arrests, racism is on the increase against Palestinian citizens in Israel and many millions of Palestinians are still refugees.

The decades long Palestinian struggle for liberation challenges not only Israeli occupation and racism but also imperialist ambitions for the Middle East. Imperialism has been further threatened by recent uprisings in the region by people demanding social and economic justice. The meeting will address the current situation in Palestine, with its internal political and class divisions, within the context of continued Israel occupation, imperialist intervention and resistance.

Speakers:

Adam Hanieh: Development Studies Department, School of Oriental and African Studies

Jody McIntyre: Journalist and Political Activist

Trevor Rayne: Editorial board - Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!

Carlos Bonell
Classical Guitar

Martin Taylor
Jazz Guitar

Freddie Mercury, Jazz standards

Lennon/Mc Cartney, Villa lobos and more...

To mark the 400th anniversary of Spain's greatest-ever composer, Tomás Luis de Victoria (1584-1611), ILAMS joins forces with the Instituto Cervantes London to bring together the UK's foremost Victoria experts in an afternoon of talks, concluding with a round-table discussion and a short musical performance. Programme includes:

1. Noel O'Regan (University of Newcastle): A Tale of Two Cities: Victoria between Rome and Madrid

Tomás Luis de Victoria's productive life was divided fairly equally between Rome and Madrid. In Rome he was a Spaniard, a member of what was in many ways a colonial elite. In Madrid he may well have been seen as a Roman, at least in musical terms. Victoria played a crucial role as transmitter of music and musical style between the two cities. This paper will look at aspects of that transmission, particularly from a Roman perspective.

2. Owen Rees (University of Oxford): The Six-voice 'Requiem' and its Context

This paper reviews the circumstances of the composition and first performances of Victoria's six-voice Requiem, following the death of the Empress Maria in 1603. It then considers intriguing aspects of the 1605 published edition of the work, and finally it sets the music into the context of Requiem settings from the Iberian world in this period.

3. Round-table discussion

With special guest Carlos Fernández Aransay, the UK's foremost Hispanic vocal music conductor and Director of the UK's only specialist choir in Iberican repertoire, the acclaimed Coro Cervantes

ILAMS

Spanish Guitar Music, Multimedia show and recital by:

Claire Sanikone & Rafael Andia

Booking: Eric Cathan emial: eric@innersound.org | Tickets £20

a venezuelan play by:

J.M Briceño Guerrero & Cesar Rengifo

Donation Tickets £10 & £5

 http://loveandterror.moonfruit.com

'Searing intensity...  A performance full of panache...  Captivating.' The Strad 
'This young virtuoso is that rare thing among guitarists: a fine chamber player' Gramophone Magazine

The London Classical Guitar Festival is back!  Festival favourite, Morgan Szymanski, kicks off this year's proceedings with a new duo collaboration with acclaimed Park Lane violinist Harriet MacKenzie.  A dazzling programme not to be missed!

Manuel M. Ponce Estrellita (arr. Szymanski)
Bela Bartók Romanian Folk Dances (1915)
Agustín Barrios Mangoré Una limosna por el amor de Dios
Manuel de Falla Five Spanish Folk Songs | Spanish Dance
Niccolo Paganini Sonata Concertata in A major
Johann Sebastian Bach 'Andante' from Sonata in A minor, BWV1003
Astor Piazzolla Histoire du Tango

www.morganszymanski.co.uk |  www.harrietmackenzie.com 

Further info: www.embavenez-uk.org/pdf/lcgf_2011.pdf

This is an ILAMS event organised in collaboration with the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

With no fewer than 4 guitars, this event is a guitar fest in itself!  Eminent South African guitarist Rob Beer brings some of his Leo Brouwer expertise to this year's festival with original works by Brouwer for guitar quartet, plus some other well-known favourites.

Rob Beer guitar
Gerard Cousins guitar
Adam Kahn guitar
Simon Davies guitar

www.gerardcousins.com
www.simondavies.co.uk
www.adam-khan.co.uk

This is an ILAMS event organised in collaboration with the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

Further info: www.embavenez-uk.org/pdf/lcgf_2011.pdf

Brazilian-born guitarist/singer/percussionist Celso Machado makes a long-awaited return to the UK stage to delight audiences with his mixture of infectious vocals, irresistible rhythm, and inspired lunacy.  Hailed as 'the most important Brazilian guitarist of the new generation,' his performances are unerringly thrilling, beautiful, and awe-inspiring. 'Reminiscent of Bobby McFerrin, the multi-talented Machado finds an orchestra-full of ways to use his voice and makes percussion instruments of his entire body: cheeks, mouth, chest, hands, and legs - not to mention the various parts of the microphone stand'. Simply put, Celso Machado is a force of nature. Don't miss this rare opportunity to hear one of Brazil's undisputed guitar legends.

Celso Machado Depois de Anos | Varal | Corpo | Boliviana | KaTaPa | Lamento Andino | Jogo da Vida | Parazula | Balaio de Gato | Rainforest | Fantasia Brasileira

Dorival Caimmi Lenda do Abaeté (Arranged by Baden Powell)

Gilberto Gil Espresso 2222

Traditional Dança Ayacuchana

This is an ILAMS event organised in collaboration with the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the Embassy of Brazil and KAPA Productions.

Furher info: www.embavenez-uk.org/pdf/lcgf_2011.pdf

The closing 'Gala' is the entire LCGF line-up all rolled into one.  You can catch all of this week's artists at this celebratory event, but beware: always the most popular event in the festival, you will need to arrive VERY early to secure yourself a seat!Morgan Szymanski guitar

Gerard Cousins guitar
Lazhar Cherouana guitar
Celso Machado guitar

PLUS, we see the return of some of the LCGF's favourite artists of recent years in a group performance of Celso Machado's 8-guitar extravaganza Folguedo.

This is an ILAMS event organised in collaboration with the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the Embassy of Brazil, the Seville International Guitar Competition and KAPA Productions

Furher info: www.embavenez-uk.org/pdf/lcgf_2011.pdf 

All procedees will go to charities in Ecuador
Drinks and canapés will be served

Tickets: £20
Contact: Leslie Simpson, Anglo Escuadorian society, 29 Chantry Hurst, Epsom, Surrey KT18 7BW
email: leslieaudrey@clara.co.uk | info@mariacuji.com

The Avenger, a comedy produced by the Villa del Cine, written and directed by Efterpi Charalambidis. By day, Libertador Morales is an honest, law-abiding motorbike taxi-driver in Caracas, who loves quoting Simón Bolívar's famous sayings. He is in love with Daisy, a young receptionist, who is a single mother with a child in delicate health, and he tries to redeem his lovelife. By night, dressed in black, riding a fast motorbike, he becomes The Avenger, stalking a band of thieves in his neighbourhood. Things get complicated when Libertador catches a thief and takes off his mask, getting a big surprise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbPR68vz8pA

Spanish with English Subtitles

BIGMANDRAKE (formerly Sin Sospechas) is one of the pioneer ska bands in Venezuelan. During their 20 years of independent music-making and uninterrupted work, Bigmandrake has recorded three discs and various sets both in Venezuela and abroad. It has also made seven international tours, taking its music to thousands of young people from different nationalities in more than 12 countries.

Ever since Bigmandrake came on to the scene of Venezuelan ska, it has gone through major musical transformations and a few changes of band members, including also a change in the name of the band. 

During its new phase, the band has taken on new challenges, with more music and more rhythm, thus maintaining their leading position as a genuine ska/punk/rock band both in Venezuela and abroad. Bigmandrake is formed by seasoned musicians with vast experience of the Venezuelan music scene.

 http://www.reverbnation.com/bigmandrake

The Venezuela in which Zamora lived and died was a country decimated by the War of Independence, dismembered into enormous fiefdoms in the hands of the large landowners who emerged from the war with their pockets bulging, betraying, along the way, the people and the leaders who gave their lives to liberate the country from Spanish oppression.

This is the latest film by Román Chalbaud, and it explores the life of Ezequiel Zamora, one of the protagonists of the most violent period in the history of Venezuela.In Zamora the leading roles are played by Alexander Solórzano, Daniela Alvarado, Dilia Waikkarán, Eric Ekvall, Luigi Sciamana, Julio César Mármol, Alberto Galíndez, Antonio Cuevas, Asdrúbal Meléndez, Dimas González, Eduardo Gadea Pérez, Antonio Delli, Anastasia Mazzone and Ramón Hinojosa. The script is by the veteran Venezuelan writer Luis Britto García. The film is a La Fundación Villa del Cine production

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9wBby9FESA

 English Subtitles

• The Reformer
  From the deep underground the huge figure of The Reformer 63 emerges, a deformed being that belongs to an organisation of humanoids that live underground.  The character has been locked away for with Clara, a young victim of his missions.  After emerging into the world, the character drifts around the city centre and is then traced by the head of operations of the underground organisation who is in charge of establishing order on the surface.  The head of operations gives instructions to other reformers to capture 63.  63 is found and taken unconscious to the clinic.  When he wakes up, all his memories have been erased. He is then freed and reprogrammed with a new mission but suddenly, the memory of Clara comes back, whose image haunts him more and more.
  
  English Subtitles
  Length: 12:27 min.
  Category: Animation

• Free
  "Free" is the story of Romero and Junior, two convicted criminals kept in two adjoining cells in a dark prison. When the guard finishes his usual round, the two make a mysterious tool. From two shoe laces they make a long cord and tie a nut on one end.
  
  English Subtitles
  Director: Gustavo Rondón Córdova
  Length: 12 min
  http://vimeo.com/4973998
  
  
• Mayor o Menor
  Miguel and his friends gathered to spend some time together. Everything is going well until they run out of drinks and one of them has to go for some more. In order
  to do that, they resort to the game they used to play to decide their arguments: 
  a playing card over the table, the one who plays must guess if the next card will be  a higher or a lower card. Miguel loses so he has to be the one to leave the game.
  What started as an ordinary night turns into a mixed up story in which a game of
  chance changes the course of their relationship. What would you chose? High or Low?
  
  Director: Hector Palma
  Cast: Marisa Román, Hector Palma, César Manzano, Roque Valero, Andreina Blanco, Jean Paul Leroux, Juan Pablo Raba
  Running time : 30 min
  English Subtitles
  
  
• PB
  Four very different characters meet in an elevator. Three of them, an executive, a designer and a Police officer are warned about a killer "wearing blue".A calm nervousness begins to show as the fourth passenger,a delivery man,listens to loud salsa music through his headphones, completely unaware of the situation.
  
  Director:Pedro Blanco Uribe
  Running time : 6 min
  English Subtitles
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2MWm5Z1jfw
  
  
• Rigor Mortis
  Two funeral home workers try to steal an unusual valuable possession belonging to one of the dead bodies that arrives.  What they don't reveal is that many other people have also have other plans. The genre of comedy chosen by Gladys Ariza in Rigor Mortis is aimed at an audience that enjoys short stories.
  
  Director: Glendys Ariza
  Running time: 12 min
  English Subtitles

Celebrating 20 years as guitarrist and composer

email: info@klh-artists.co.uk
Tel:01689840076

Speakers:

Esther Armenteros - Cuban Ambassador
Representative from the Venezuelan Embassy
Tony Kapcia - Director of the Center for research on Cuba. Nottingham University
Steve Ludlam - Lecturer in Politics, Sheffield University
Helen Yaffe - Rock Around the Blockade

Eralys Fernandez and Clara Rodriguez, Pianists
Susan Wooldrige, BAFTA award winning Actress

Music from Cuba, Argentina and Venezuela

Tickets £10 / concessions £5 payable at the door. Contact Eralys: 07875610412 Clara: 02087891610

OPUS DAI 2:30pm
LA CIUDAD DE LOS FOTOGRAFOS 7:00pm
THE JUDGE AND THE GENERAL 9:00pm

Futher info at Latino Film Festival

DANZAK 2:30pm
CUBA MIA 5:00pm
HABANA EVA 7:00pm
THE COLOUR OF FAME 9:00pm

Futher info at Latino Film Festival