2015

1852 W. 19th St. Chicago, IL 60608

The Sor Juana festival is dedicated to Mexico’s great Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695), a great poet and philosopher who was known as La Décima Musa, (the Tenth Muse) and is known as the first feminist of the Americas. Through the Sor Juana Festival, the National Museum of Mexican Art presents writers, musicians, dancers and performers from both sides of the border with a special emphasis on women in the arts.

Sor Juana FestivalA Tribute To Mexican Women

Jueves 10 de Septiembre, 2015Recepción 6:00pm / Presentación 7:00 p.m.

Entrada Libre

Museo Nacional de Arte Mexicano1852 W. 19th St. Chicago, IL 60608

THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART, WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL CHICAGO, AND THE

CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS PRESENT

LA SANTA CECILIA

Friday, September 11 at 9:00 p.m.

Mayne Stage, 1328 W. Morse Avenue

Lineup: La Santa Cecilia and Dos Santos

Anti-Beat Orquesta. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.

18+, LIVE ON RADIO M 91.5 FM

Saturday, September 12 at 3:00 p.m.

Lineup: La Santa Cecilia and Red Baraat

Millennium Park, Jay Pritzker Pavilion,

201 E. Randolph St.

ALL AGES.

BOTH SHOWS ARE FREE

ESPAÑOL

Miercoles, 16 de septiembre, 7:00 p.m.

El National Museum of Mexican Art y

Fedenaymo Nayaritas at Midwest presentan: La

Compañia de Teatro de la SPAUAN con su obra:

"LA RISA EXTRAVIADA". Obra de teatro para

toda la familia.

GRATIS en el National Museum of Mexican Art

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LA RISA EXTRAVIADA

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SOR JUANA FESTIVAL

BOOK READING

By award-winning author Victor Villaseñor on

Thursday, September 24 at 6:00 p.m.

Victor Villasenor, author of the award-winning

novel “Rain of Gold”, will be reading from his

book, “Revenge of a Catholic Schoolboy”.

FREE at the National Museum of Mexican Art

Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández will be giving two highlighted performances as part of the Sor Juana Festival at the Auditorium Theatre

Saturday, September 26 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, September 27 at 3:00 p.m.50 E Congress Pkwy, Chicago, IL 60605

The New York Times raves that this must-see performance is "a captivating spectacle ... a brilliant visual and theatrical sense. . ." Experience the profound colorful sights and enchanting sounds of Mexico for one weekend only!

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Workshop: Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández

Saturday, September 26 at 10:00 a.m.

In addition to the above scheduled performances, Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández will present a FREE workshop at the National Museum of Mexican Art. Experience the heart, spirit, and traditions of the Mexican people during this workshop

FREE at the National Museum of Mexican Art

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Ballet Folklórico de México

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SOR JUANA FESTIVAL

POETRY READING

ESPAÑOL

Jueves, 8 de octubre, 1:00 p.m.

Presentacion de Poesia por Olivia Maciel Edelman

en el National Museum of Mexican Art.

Poeta, ensayista, editora y profesora, Maciel es autora de Filigrana encendida; Luna de cal;

Sombra en plata; Más salado que dulce; Surreal-ismo en la poesía de Xavier Villaurrutia, y Octa-vio Paz, y Luis Cernuda. Maciel ha sido incluída

en la bibliografía de King´s College en la sección de mejor poesía de México en traducción del S.

XX:

Olivia Maciel recibió el Primer Premio por Poesía en Español otorgado por Northeastern Illinois

University (2014), y el Premio José Martí, otorga-do por la Universidad de Houston, y el Cuerpo

Consular de la ciudad de Houston por ensayo en honor a Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1993).

Sobre Maciel, Elena Poniatowska (Premio Cervantes 2013), ha dicho: “La poesía de Olivia

Maciel es precisa y profunda, un motivo de eroticismo iluminado por los mismos rayos de

sol en cada verso”.

GRATIS en el National Museum of Mexican Art

Tuesday, October 27 at 6:00 p.m.

World Premiere Book Presentation

Scholar Victor Espinosa will be presenting his book on Martín Ramírez (1895-1963), one of the twentieth century’s most famous self-taught artists. Born in Mexico, Ramírez was diagnosed as schizophrenic and confined to California psychiatric hospitals for more than 30 years. During that time he produced more than 450 dynamic drawings and collages imbued with hypnotic power. Utilizing repeating lines and motifs, Ramírez visually transcended his own experience to create a remarkably visualized world, free of the concepts of time, constraints and borders.

Today Ramírez’s work has become recognized as outsider art. His work has been exhibiting in numer-ous solo exhibitions throughout the country, and his fame and notoriety continues to grow. Most recent-ly, in March of 2015, Ramírez’s work was selected to appear on a U.S. postage stamp.

Presented by the National Museum of Mexican Art and Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art.

FREE at the National Museum of Mexican Art

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BOOK PRESENTATION

Sor Juana Honorees Reception/Presentation Honoring Local Women: Wednesday, October 28 at 6:00 p.m. at the National Museum of Mexican Art.

Elba Aranda - Suh - Social Services and Education

Teresa Cordova - University Programs

Maria Gaspar - Arts and Art Activism

Clara Lopez - Social Services

Esther Quintero Guzman - University Programs Elvia Y. Torres - Community Engagement and Mexico Advocate

FREE

Sor Juana Festival

viernes, 30 de octubre, 7:00 p.m.

ESPAÑOL

El BeiSman y el National Musuem of Mexican Art te invitan a la ceremonia de inauguración de la Feria del Libro de Autor@s Latin@s Chicago 2015. Anabel Hernández y Francico González Crussi presentan dos ángulos sobre la muerte en la sociedad contemporánea.

Anabel Hernández es periodista de reportajes de investigación. Es colaboradora de Reforma y Proceso. En 2003 Unicef le dio un reconocimiento por una serie de reportajes sobre la esclavitud sexual infantil en Estados Unidos. Es autora de Los señores del narco (2010), entre otros libros. En Los señores del narco, con más de 100 mil ejemplares vendidos, revela los nexos de la clase política y empresarial mexicana con el narcotráfico. En marzo de 2012, en París, la Asociación Mundial de Periódicos y Editores de Noticias le otorgó el Premio Pluma de Oro de la Libertad.

Título de su ponencia: Crimen e impunidad en el México actual

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FERIA DEL LIBRO

Francisco González Crussí, profesional-mente, tiene una doble vertiente: médica y literar-

ia. Se inició en Canadá como profesor asistente de patología en la Universidad de Queen’s. Fue

profesor en la Universidad Northwestern de Chicago. Escribió más de 200 artículos que

fueron publicados en revistas médicas. Fue autor de dos libros técnicos sobre ciertos tumores

infantiles. En el campo literario, ha publicado 11 libros de ensayos en inglés, incluyendo “The Day of the Dead” (1993) y 7 libros en español incluy-

endo “El Rostro y el Alma” (2014).

Título de su ponencia: La muerte en la literature

GRATIS en el National Museum of Mexican Art

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SOR JUANA FESTIVAL

Book Reading with Patricia Dominguez of her new book

“Tsipeni y Joselito” and Children's Art Workshop

Saturday, October 31 at 1:00 p.m.

BILINGUAL

Please join the National Museum of Mexican Art for a special reading of Patricia Dominguez's new children's book, “Tsipeni y

Joselito”. After the reading, children will make their own alebrije out of recycled

materials to decorate and take home.

“Tsipeni y Joselito” is the story of a little

boy, Joselito, who is being bullied at school. He experiences frightening dreams involving

scary monster-type creatures, known as alebrijes in Mexico. One night, a small

alebrije appears. He is smiling and good natured, and the other alebrijes try to scare him away. He stands up to them and, even-

tually, they leave. Remembering this little alebrije, named Tsipeni, gives Joselito the

strength to stand up to the bully at school.

FREE at the National Museum of Mexican Art

U.S. Premiere Book Presentation: “Lunas de Estambul” By Sophie Goldberg

Tuesday November 10 at 6:30 p.m.

“Lunas de Estambul” is a novel about a young woman (the author’s grandmother) who travels from Istambul to Mexico to marry a man she has NEVER seen. It is an adventure that represents what an immigrant needs to do in order to adopt her new land and how she can never forget in her heart the place where she was born. But it is

something that all immigrants HAVE to suffer.

$10 at the National Museum of Mexican ArtPurchase tickets at www.NationalMuseumofMexicanArt.org

Co-sponsored by

THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART’S SOR JUANA FESTIVAL

BOOK PRESENTATION

Chola Con Cello

Friday, November 13 at 6:30 p.m.

"Maria Elena Gaitán (Chola con Cello) is a musi-cian, linguist, cultural worker, performance artist,

scholar, educator, translator, interpreter, consultant for museums, art galleries, community arts and

philanthropic organizations. She is a citizen of the world rooted in the experience of Mexican and

Chicana cultures who straddles the worlds of performance, community service and activism.

Her cello has graced audiences in venues that range from raunchy bars in San Antonio and

public hospitals in Los Angeles County to stand up comedy venues, like the Belly Room at the Comedy Store. She has performed with many

community artists in addition to members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Within East L.A. musical communities, she was one of the first to nurture dialogues focusing on the influence of the African Diaspora in son jaro-

cho. A Women Who Rock Keynote Performer, her cello playing is always sensitive, imaginative, and

reflective of her studies with masters of the use of sound as a healing force."

- University of Washington Libraries

$30 Dinner & PresentationPurchase tickets at www.NationalMuseumofMexicanArt.org

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SOR JUANA FESTIVAL

SOR JUANA LEGACY AWARD

Saturday, November 14 at noon andSunday, November 15 at 6:00 p.m.

CHICAGO PREMIERE BOOK PRESENTATION - “A HOUSE OF MY OWN: STORIES FROM MY LIFE”

by Award-winning author, Sandra Cisneros

“A HOUSE OF MY OWN: STORIES FROM MY LIFE” - From the beloved author of “The House on Mango Street”, a richly illustrated compilation of true stories and nonfiction pieces that, taken together, form a jigsaw autobiography: an intimate album of a literary legend's life and career.

From the Chicago neighborhoods where she grew up and set her groundbreaking novel “The House on Mango Street”, to her abode in Mexico in a region where “my ancestors lived for centuries”, the places Sandra Cisneros has lived have provided inspiration for her now-classic works of fiction and poetry. But a house of her own, where she could truly take root, has eluded her. With this collection-spanning three decades, and including never-be-fore-published work, Cisneros has come home at last.

$10 at the National Museum of Mexican ArtPurchase tickets at www.NationalMuseumofMexicanArt.org

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BOOK READING

Visit www.NationalMuseumofMexicanArt.org for detailed information about each performance.

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