Public Meeting : Friday 25 November 5-7pm

Our History is Still Being Written

The Story of Three Chinese-Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution

A part of Chinese emigrant history that is little known is told through interviews with Armando Choy, Gustavo Chui, and Moisés Sío Wong, three Chinese Cubans who became generals in Cuba’s revolution that brought down the Batista dictatorship.

In Our History is Still Being Written: The Story of Three Chinese-Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution, published by Pathfinder Press, the three men discuss their roles in the 1959 Cuban revolution. How they helped lead Cuban volunteers in the fight to defeat South African apartheid’s invasion of Angola, the historic place of Chinese immigration to Cuba, the place of Cuba in world politics today, and much more.

 Venue:

Samuel Alexander Building

(enter by North (old) entrance)

Room A101,

Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL

Friday 25 November 5-7pm

Sponsors:

Centre for Latin American

and Caribbean Studies, University

of Manchester

Cuba Solidarity Campaign, Manchester

African Caribbean Society, University of Manchester

Mexican Society, University of Manchester

Pathfinder Books, Manchester

Speakers:

Dr Raquel Ribeiro

University of Nottingham

Jonathan Silberman

Pathfinder Books and participant in book launches in Cuba for “Our History is Still Being Written”

Dr Aaron Moore

Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Manchester

Chairperson:

Dr Par Kumaraswami

Co-Director, Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

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Showing of excerpts from Loni Ding’s award-winning film “Ancestors in the Americas; Coolies, Settlers and Sailors”

Further details:

pathfinderbooksmcr@gmail.com

Parvathi.kumaraswami@manchester.ac.uk

Members of Chinese New Democracy Alliance at Havana rally,

September 2, 1960. Banner says: “Resident Chinese support the Cuban Revolution and its leader Fidel Castro!”

   Hello every one!!  This time the Manchester Mexican Society in collaboration with Instituo Cervantes Manchester are pleased to invite you to the Day of the Dead Celebration 2011 which will be held at Instituto Cervantes Manchester installations on the 28th of October from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm (FREE ENTRY).

   The Day of the Dead is a traditional celebration carried out in Mexico from 31st October to 2nd November every year. This holiday is performed to remember and honour our relatives and friends who have passed away and consists mainly of building private altars honoring the deceased using sugar/chocolate skulls, traditional bread-of-the-dead (the bread name just refers to the ocassion and it has nothing to do with humans as ingredients!!!!), marigolds, and the favourite foods and beverages of the departed.  If you are interested to learn more about this special Mexican ocassion you can check out the following links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead
http://www.dayofthedead.com/

   Also, after the event, everybody is invited to join us at Copacabana!!  The entry will be free for people presenting the event ticket.

See you there!!!

Manchester Mexican Society

Comitee 2011 – 2012

Come and celebrate with the Manchester Mexican Society one of the most significant celebrations across Mexico,

The Mexican independence day . If you enjoy Latin music and delicious food,

you are welcome to have a taste of Mexico the 15th of September 2011 at Student Union.

Free Entrance,

Mexican food

children free

from 7:30 till 10:30.

Club Academy

Biko’s Building

University of Manchester Student Union

Oxford Road

M13 9PR

See you there!!!

Viva Mexico!!!!

Regards

Manchester Mexican Society
Committee 2010 – 2011

Registration for attendees and presenters for the IX Symposium of Mexican Students is now open.

Please fill in the registration form available at http://www.wix.com/aztlan110/xisymposiumuk and send it to simposiomex.uk@gmail.com by June 13th.

Please note that attendance to the event is free of charge for people who send their registration form by June 13th. Forms received after this day will need to pay a £10 fee (payable the day of the event).

Kind regards,

Organising committee
Mexican Society UK
Mexican Society Essex

We would like to invite MexSoc Manchester members to a special preview screening of ‘Under the Bridge’, a documentary on Mexican-American identity that challenges audiences to think about immigration in a whole new way.  Telling the story of Chicano Park in San Diego, the film reveals a cultural revolution that refuses to go away.

The screening will take place at Manchester’s Cornerhouse as part of its 17^th !VIVA! Spanish & Latin American Film Festival on Thursday, 24 March at 6pm.  There will be a post-screening Q&A session with Chicano artist, Yermo Aranda, and director, Mike Todd.

www.facebook.com/UnderTheBridgeFilm

www.riverhorse.tv

www.vivafilmfestival.org

www.indiegogo.com/Under-The-Bridge-1