Featuring Jack Herranen & Special Guests
Monday, October 25, 2010
There are three parts to the event. Feel free to attend one or all of
the following:
11:30am-- Film Screening: Caminando Nuestros Caminos de Siempre:
Afirmando Nuestros Saberes (Walking Ancient Paths: Affirming Our
Wisdoms) in the Taylor Education Bldg Auditorium
Noon-1pm—Lunchtime Concert & Dialogue in the Taylor Education Bldg Auditorium
6pm—Concernt & Dialogue, Niles Gallery in the John Jacob Niles Center
This event is free and open to the public.
About Jack Herranen:
Jack Herranen lives in Bolivia with his Bolivian wife and family and
they began a group called Puentes--a grassroots organization working
to *bridge* Andean and Appalachian rural communities and issues to
foster inter-American solidarity. They made a documentary about their
community work/indigenous rights activism in Cochabamba called
"Caminando Nuestros Caminos de Siempre: Affirmando Nuestros Saberes."
(AFFIRMING OUR WISDOMS). The screening will be followed by music and a
Q&A on Bolivia, Puentes, indigenous activism in the Andes, mining
industry, agriculture, comsovision, language, agrarian revivals, and
post-coloniality.
The event is sponsored by: Presented by UK's Appalachian Research
Community and co-sponsoredby Latin American Studies, Appalachian
Studies, Education Policy & Evaluation, Geography Via Film,
Appalachian Center, Sustainable Agriculture Program, and Political
Ecology Working Group.
