Thursday, March 30, 2006

Vicente Fox, Stephen Harper y George Bush en Mexico

Puedo Trabajar mientras Estudio en Canada?

Work Opportunities for Foreign Students

You must come to Canada with enough money to live and pay your bills while you are studying, without needing to work. In certain situations, you may be able to work while you are studying. Working will help you earn extra money and gain Canadian work experience.

Do not work without being authorized to do so. If you do, you may be asked to leave Canada. Learn more about work permits.

You will need a Social Insurance Number to work in Canada. Learn more about how to apply for a Social Insurance Number.

You can obtain information on the conditions and eligibility criteria for students who want to work in Canada and who are in the following situations or programs:

Application, guide and forms
You can download the application form and guide for work permits, as well as the other forms that must be submitted with your application, and print them from your computer.

Working on Campus

You may work on campus at the institution where you study without a work permit if:

you are engaged in full-time studies at a Canadian university, a community college, a CEGEP, a publicly funded trade or technical school or a private institution authorized by provincial statute to confer degrees; and
you have a valid study permit.

Working Off Campus

The funding for this program has yet to be approved by Parliament. CIC nevertheless continues to negotiate with the provinces and work on the details and the logistics of this program in view of an efficient implementation as soon as funding is confirmed. Meanwhile, work off campus is only available in those provinces with off campus pilot projects.

The off campus work program will allow foreign students at publicly funded post-secondary educational institutions to work off campus while completing their studies.

Publicly funded post-secondary educational institutions are:

public post-secondary institutions that have signed an off campus work agreement with their provincial government;
or
private post-secondary institutions that operate under the same rules and regulations as public institutions, receive at least 50% of their financing for their overall operations from government grants, and have signed an off campus work agreement with their provincial government (currently, only private CEGEPs in Quebec qualify).

off campus work will be an option for students studying at such institutions in provinces that have signed agreements with CIC. These provinces are as follows:

Manitoba (memorandum of understanding signed on November 23, 2005). Off-campus work is currently available in Manitoba under the provisions of a pilot project since October 31, 2003, which is valid until July 1, 2006 or until implementation of the memorandum of understanding signed on November 23, whichever comes first.
New Brunswick (off-campus has been available under the provisions of a pilot project since March 18, 2004; valid until April 30, 2006)
Nova Scotia (memorandum of understanding signed on October 31, 2005)
Ontario (memorandum of understanding signed on November 28, 2005)
Prince Edward Island (memorandum of understanding signed on November 28, 2005)
Quebec (memorandum of understanding signed on November 21, 2005). Off-campus work has been available in Quebec outside the census metropolitan areas of Montréal and Québec under the provisions of a pilot project since May 21, 2004; valid until May 20, 2006, or until implementation of the memorandum of understanding signed on November 21, whichever comes first.

CIC is negotiating memorandums of agreement with interested pr

ovinces and territories to make the option of off campus work more widely available. These provinces and territories will be added to the list as soon as they have signed a memorandum of understanding with CIC. They will then have to sign agreements with the institutions in the province or territory that are interested in participating.

Check back regularly for updates posted on the CIC Web site.

How will I be able to participate?

To work off campus, you will have to apply for a work permit. Do not begin to work off campus until you have received your work permit. The work permit will allow you to work up to 20 hours a week during regular academic sessions (15 hours a week in Quebec), and up to 40 hours a week during regular breaks (e.g., winter or summer holidays and spring break).

To be eligible for an off campus work permit, you will have to:

have a valid study permit;
be studying in a province or territory that has signed a memorandum of understanding with CIC;
be a full-time student at an eligible post-secondary institution that has signed an agreement with one of those provinces or territories;
have been a full-time student at one of those institutions for at least six of the 12 months preceding your application for a permit;
be in good academic standing;
sign a form authorizing the institution, the province and CIC to share your personal information (in order to confirm that you are continuing to study full-time and that you are in good academic standing);
complete a work permit application provided by your institution; and
include with your work permit application an official receipt to show you have paid the application processing fee of $150.

You will not be able to apply for an off campus work permit if you are:

participating in a Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship Program funded by Foreign Affairs Canada;
participating in a Government of Canada Awards Program funded by Foreign Affairs Canada;
receiving funding from the Canadian International Development Agency; or
attending an eligible post-secondary institution in order to complete an English-as-a-second-language or French-as-a-second-language program.

For more information about the program and the application process, contact your institution’s international student advisor.

Remember, a work permit authorizing you to work off campus does not guarantee that you will find a job. It is your responsibility to find a job.

Even if you work off campus, your studies must remain your primary purpose for being in Canada.

Co-op and Internship Programs

For some academic programs, work experience is part of the curriculum. Foreign students who wish to participate in a co-op or internship program must apply for a work permit (there is no fee for this application).

To be eligible for a work permit, the following conditions must be met:

you must have a valid study permit (unless you are a minor high-school student who does not require a study permit);
your intended employment must be an essential part of your course of study in Canada;
your employment must be certified as part of the academic program by a responsible academic official of the institution; and
your co-op or internship employment cannot form more than 50 percent of the total program of study.

Post-Graduation Work Permits

The post-graduation work program is designed to provide graduating students with Canadian work experience in their field of study. Since May 16, 2005, this program has allowed certain students to work for up to two years after their graduation. Previously, students were only allowed to work for one year.

Length of study matters. The work permit cannot be valid longer than the length of time the student studied. For example, students graduating from a four-year degree program might be eligible for a one-year work permit or, if they meet the criteria, a two-year work permit. Students graduating from an eight-month certificate program would only be eligible for a work permit of eight months.

How do I participate?

To obtain a work permit that is valid for one year or less after graduation, you must meet the following requirements:

you must have graduated from a program at a Canadian university, a community college, a CEGEP, a publicly funded trade or technical school or a Canadian private institution authorized by provincial statute to confer degrees;
you must have studied full-time for at least eight months;
you must have completed and passed the course of study or program and received a degree, diploma or certificate;
you must have applied for a work permit within 90 days of receiving written confirmation (transcript, official letter from the institution, etc.) from your institution indicating that you have met the requirements of your program;
you must have a job offer from an employer for a job that is related to your field of studies; and
you must have a valid study permit when you apply for the work permit.

You cannot have previously been issued a work permit for post-graduation work following any other course of study.

In order to apply for a work permit of up to two years after your graduation, you must meet all of the criteria above. You must also have

successfully completed a program of at least two years of full-time studies;
received written confirmation (transcript, letter, etc.) from the educational institution indicating that you have met the requirements of the program of study;
studied at and graduated from an institution located outside of the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal (CMM), the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) or the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD);
found employment outside of the CMM, GTA or GVRD.

Note: If you complete your studies at a campus located inside the CMM, the GTA or the GVRD, but at an institution whose headquarters for that campus are located outside those areas, you cannot obtain a two-year work permit under this program.

Note: If you graduate from an institution located inside one of those areas, you are not eligible for a second year of work, even if the employment is located outside of those areas.

If you currently hold a one-year post-graduation work permit and you meet the eligibility criteria for a two-year permit, you can apply for a one-year extension of your work permit.

To obtain a work permit after graduation that is valid for two years, you cannot be

participating in a Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship Program funded by Foreign Affairs Canada;
participating in a Government of Canada Awards Program funded by Foreign Affairs Canada; or
receiving funding from the Canadian International Development Agency.

Send your work permit application to the Case Processing Centre in Vegreville, Alberta. Be sure to include a written confirmation (transcript, letter, etc.) from your institution indicating that you have met the requirements of your program, a job offer from an employer for a job that is related to your field of studies, and an official receipt which shows you have paid the appropriate processing fee.

Note: If you have a valid off campus work permit (these are usually issued for a period slightly longer than the period of study), you will be able to start the job for which you have received an offer while awaiting the work permit you applied for under the Post-Graduation Employment Program.

When you apply for a work permit under the post-graduation work program, you do not have to get a labour market opinion from Service Canada. If you want to extend your work permit beyond the one- or two-year limit, then you will have to obtain a Service Canada opinion.

Work Permits for Students at Private Institutions

Students and graduates of private institutions* may apply for a work permit to work in Canada. The following conditions apply:

You must have a job offer that has been confirmed by Service Canada; and
You must have a valid study permit in order to apply for a work permit from within Canada.

* Private institutions that do not operate under the same regulations and evaluations as public institutions or that receive at least 50 percent of their financing for their overall operations from government grants.

Work Permit for Your Spouse or Common-Law Partner

Your spouse or common-law partner may apply for a work permit if:

you are a full-time student at a university, a community college, a CEGEP, a publicly funded trade or technical school or a private institution authorized by provincial statute to confer degrees; and
you have a valid study permit.

Posted by
Francisco Ucan-Marin, Presidente FEMEX

Federacion de Estudiantes Mexicanos en Canada
Asociacion Cultural Mexicano-Canadiense Ottawa-Gatineau
P.O. Box 207, Station B
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6C4
femexcanada@hotmail.com

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

FEMEX invita a que asistan a El Dorado

Estimados amigos/as: El viernes 31 de marzo El Dorado, presenta al poeta chileno residente en Toronto Claudio Durán. Actualmente, es Professor Emeritus y Senior Scholar en York University, Toronto, Canadá, en donde ha enseñado Filosofía y Ciencia Social desde 1974. Sus publicaciones poéticas incluyen cuatro libros: Homenaje, libro-arte preparado en 100 ejemplares, con ilustraciones, por la pintora chilena Tatiana Alamos (1980, Santiago, Chile). Más Tarde que los Clientes Habituales/ After the Usual Clients Have Gone Home, edición bilingue con traducciones de Rafael Barreto-Rivera (Underwhich editions, Toronto, Canada, 1982). Después del Silencio/ After Silence, edición conjunta y bilingue con Jonás, traducciones de Margarita Feliciano (Edición de Alta Marea, El Tabo, Chile, 1986). Y el libro-poema Santiago, edición de 100 ejemplares preparada por la pintora chilena María Luz Viaux (Santiago, Chile, 1988). Una edición bilingue de este último libro ha sido preparada por Francisca Durán, con traducciones de ella misma.

Sus poemas han aparecido en varias antologías, de las cuales se mencionan aquí: Literatura Chilena en Canadá/ Chilean Literature in Canada, edición preparada por Naín Nómez (Ediciones Cordillera, Ottawa, Canada, 1982). Poesía Chilena Contemporánea, edición preparada por Miguel Arteche, Juan Antonio Massone y Roque Esteban Scarpa (Editorial Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile, 1984). Compañeros: An Anthology of Writings About Latin America, edición de Hugh Hazelton y Gary Geddes (Cormorant Books, Montreal, Canada, 1990). Boreal: Antología de Poesía Latinoamericana en Canadá, editada por Luciano Díaz y Jorge Etcheverry (Split Quotation and Verbum Veritas, Ottawa, Canada, 2002). Alter Vox, revista editada por Luciano Díaz y Jorge Etcheverry, ha publicado los trabajos leídos en Boreal I: Primer encuentro de literatura chilena en Canadá ( Ottawa, Canada, 2002). Un próximo ejemplar de Alter Vox publicará los trabajos del encuentro Boreal III (noviembre, 2005).

Dear Friends: On Friday March 31, El Dorado presents Chilean poet Claudio Duran, currently living in Toronto. He is Professor Emeritus y Senior Scholar at York University, Toronto, Canada, where he has taught Philosophy and Social Sciences since. His publications include: Homenaje, illustrated book prepared in 100 copies by Chilean Painter Tatiana Alamos (1980, Santiago, Chile). Más Tarde que los Clientes Habituales/ After the Usual Clients Have Gone Home, bilingual edition translated by Rafael Barreto-Rivera (Underwhich editions, Toronto, Canada, 1982). Después del Silencio/ After Silence, joint bi-lingual edition with Chilean Poet Jonás, translated by Margarita Feliciano (Edición de Alta Marea, El Tabo, Chile, 1986). And a book length poem Santiago, 100 copies edition prepared by Chilean painter María Luz Viaux (Santiago, Chile, 1988). Francisca Durán has prepared a bilingual edition of this book, with her own translation.

His poems have appeared in various anthologies mentioned here: Literatura Chilena en Canadá/ Chilean Literature in Canada, edited by Naín Nómez (Ediciones Cordillera, Ottawa, Canada, 1982). Poesía Chilena Contemporánea, edited by Miguel Arteche, Juan Antonio Massone and Roque Esteban Scarpa (Editorial Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile, 1984). Compañeros: An Anthology of Writings About Latin America, edited by Hugh Hazelton and Gary Geddes (Cormorant Books, Montreal, Canada, 1990). Boreal: Antología de Poesía Latinoamericana en Canadá, edited by Luciano Díaz and Jorge Etcheverry (Split Quotation and Verbum Veritas, Ottawa, Canada, 2002). Alter Vox, Literary magazine edited by Luciano Díaz and Jorge Etcheverry. He has published works read at Boreal I: Primer encuentro de literatura chilena en Canadá ( Ottawa, Canada, 2002). An upcoming issue of Alter Vox will publish works from Boreal III (November, 2005).

Atentamente
La Directiva
Federacion de Estudiantes Mexicanos en Canada

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

2006 Marston LaFrance Research Fellowship Lecture

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

5:30 p.m.

301 Paterson Hall
Carleton University

Zuzana Pick, professor, Film Studies, School for Studies in Art and Culture will present the 2006 Marston LaFrance Research Fellowship Lecture entitled Lights, Camera, Action! Vision, Spectacle and the Mexican Revolution.

Monday, March 27, 2006

Ontario Graduate Scholarships in Science and Technology 2006-2007

In 1998-99 the Ministry of Education and Training instituted the Ontario Graduate Scholarships in Science and Technology (OGSST) which, unlike the Ontario Graduate Scholarships, are adjudicated within the university. The Ministry of Education matches scholarship funds from the private sector 2:1. The private sector may include businesses, foundations and organizations that are not government funded in any way, either wholly or with matching/leveraged funds.

The scholarships are awarded in the all areas of science and engineering, and those areas of psychology, geography and cognitive science that are NSERC eligible. Please see the list of eligible research area below.

Candidates are nominated by the supervisor of Graduate Studies in their home departments. There is no application process.

Deadline for Nominations

The nominations, including all supporting documentation, must be received in the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research no later than Monday, April 24, 2006.

Citizenship

Candidates must be Canadian citizens, Landed Immigrants, or permanent residents enrolled full-time in approved research master's or doctoral programs in one of the above-noted science/ technology/ engineering fields. The scholarship may be awarded to a student who has been formally admitted, but not yet enrolled, but recipients must be registered full-time in order to receive the scholarship.

Overall Academic Excellence

One of the key criteria is overall academic excellence. The GPA calculation is based on the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) model and is very specific.

The University is responsible for assessing the overall academic performance of the applicant and determining that --- taking into account both course work and research work --- the applicant meets the minimum A - (minus) requirement.

Calculating the Grade Point Average (GPA)

Applicants entering first or second year must have an average of at least A- (or the equivalent) on the last 20 one-term/semester courses (or the equivalent) completed. Applicants entering third year or beyond of graduate studies, must have an average of at least A- (or the equivalent) on all graduate courses completed. The University must assess overall academic performance and determine the applicant meets the A- requirements by taking into account both course work and research work.

Additional Criteria

Preference will be given to students either currently in the first year or entering into the first year of graduate studies.

In addition to the requirement of overall academic excellence, recipients will also exhibit research ability or potential; excellent communication skills; and interpersonal and leadership abilities. These qualities must be addressed in the letters of support from the student's thesis supervisor.

Value of Scholarship

The total scholarship value is a maximum of $15,000 per year, or $5,000 per term. Awards are funded by government matching at a 2:1 ratio money contributed by the private sector (businesses, organizations, foundations). The value of the individual scholarship is actually determined by the amount of the private contribution (e.g., a private contribution of $3,000 will generate a three-term OGSST of $9,000).

Scholarship Restrictions

Recipients may hold other awards of up to maximum of $10,000 per year but are restricted from holding an OGS, NSERC, SSHRC, or CIHR concurrently. The student may also hold a teaching assistantship and a research assistantship. The total amount of scholarship from other sources must not exceed a maximum of $10,000.

Applicants who have defaulted on a Canada or Ontario Student Loan or a loan made under the Ontario Venture Capital Program, or have failed to make satisfactory repayments on an Ontario Study Grant Overpayment, may be ineligible for an OGSST, unless clearance is received from the Student Support Branch of the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities.

Recipients cannot be enrolled in a qualifying or make-up year or be on a paid educational leave or sabbatical.

Duration of Scholarship

Awards may be for a minimum of two terms, and a maximum of three terms, beginning in September 2005. A student may be eligible the next year, but must be re-nominated.

Private Partner Contribution

One third of the total award must be private, and according to the Ministry, new monies, raised after the date of the original year of the program, MAY 1, 1998.

Please note: The industry/private non-governmental funds used in this matching program are in the form of scholarship, not in the form of a research assistantship. If a student is successful in winning an OGSST, an existing funding offer or package provided by the University may be revised at the discretion of the faculty member providing the scholarship funds, in keeping with departmental and faculty policies. The faculty member providing the scholarship funds from the private source also has the option of maintaining the research assistantship level of funding at the same time, should they decide to do so.

Submission of Nominations

There is no application to fill out on the part of the student. All nominations must be submitted electronically, through the Graduate Studies secure web site, by the Graduate Supervisor or Graduate Administrator in the student's home department. Details of nomination procedures are circulated to the departments in late March.

A nomination is considered complete, and therefore eligible to proceed to the Selection Committee, only if it contains the following:

Statement outlining the student's current program (master's or doctoral), year of the program, confirmation of registration status (full-time) and citizenship (Canadian or permanent resident) as well as a recommendation for the nomination from the departmental Supervisor of Graduate Studies.
Transcripts to support the GPA calculation as stated above.
A letter of support from the student's supervisor
The source, amount and method of payment of the external funds (business, organization, or individual).
A confirmation in writing of previous OGSST awards held by the student (the Ministry restricts the scholarship to these awards to a lifetime maximum of four years)

Continuing Eligibility Requirements

Master's students can receive the scholarship for a maximum of two years and doctoral students for a maximum of four years, subject to a lifetime maximum of four years per student. Master's students are not eligible for an OGSST after two years of study at the master's level, and doctoral students are not eligible for an OGSST after five years of study at the doctoral level.

Note that the OGSST, unlike the OGS, does not have attached to it a lifetime limit of four years of government-funded scholarship support, similar to the OGS, NSERC, CIHR and SSHRC scholarships. Conceivably, a doctoral student could have received a total of four years of support from OGS and/or NSERC and still be eligible for one year of support through the OGSST program.

Recipients are required to maintain excellent academic standing and be making progress at a satisfactory pace through their program in order to be eligible for re-nomination for a second year. Recipients must remain enrolled as a full-time student in an eligible program. Recipients must hold the award for a minimum of two terms. Recipients who have held the OGSST for one term, who then withdraw, transfer to part-time status, or fail to complete the second or third terms, will be required to repay the award.

Eligible Disciplines

The OGSST program supports graduate students enrolled in research masters and doctoral programs in science and technology disciplines. Collaboration, inter-disciplinary study, and innovation are encouraged. The following are the eligible disciplines:

Applied Sciences:: Aerospace (may include Aeronautical Engineering)
Biomedical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering and Architecture (may include Landscape Architecture)
Computer Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Engineering Science (may include Engineering, Engineering Physics, and Nuclear Engineering)
Mechanical Engineering
Mining, Metallurgy, and Material Science (may include Metallurgical Engineering)
Systems and Industrial Engineering (may include Systems/Design Engineering and Operational Research)
Biological and Life Sciences:: Biochemistry and Biophysics (may include Medical Biophysics)
Environmental Sciences (may include Agriculture, Ecology, Forestry, and Toxicology)
General Biological Sciences (may include Biology, Botany, Entomology, Microbiology, Mycology, Plant and Animal Biology, and Zoology)
Genetics, Cell, and Molecular Biology
General Health Science (may include research-oriented programs in Epidemiology, Human Kinetics, Hygiene, Nutrition, and Rehabilitation disciplines such as Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Audiology, and Speech Pathology)
Human Biology (may include Anatomy, Biomedical Sciences, Food Science, Immunology, Neuroscience, Pathology, Pharmacology, and Physiology)
Medical and Veterinary Sciences (may include research-oriented programs in Dentistry, Medical Sciences, Nursing, Optometry, and Pharmacy)
Physical Sciences:: Chemistry
Computer Science (may include Information/Systems Science)
Earth Sciences (may include Geology and Geophysics)
Mathematics and Statistics
Physics (may include Astronomy, Meteorology, and Space Science)

If there is an area that is not listed here, departments should contact the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research. As a general rule, the following approach is taken: for programs such as Physical Anthropology and Physical Geography, an OGSST can be awarded to top students, provided the university views the program as a science program within the spirit and intent of the OGSST program. One "test" of the program as "science" would be that NSERC provides research grants and scholarships/fellowships in this area, and SSHRC does not.

Note, however, that this affects only the eligibility of students, not the basis on which the awards are allocated across the system. While the university may choose to award a scholarship in, for example, Physical Anthropology, enrollment in this program does not generate scholarships.

As noted above, recipients should be enrolled in "research" programs. There is no definitive definition for this. It is incumbent upon the university to identify the graduate programs that can be viewed as "research" programs. A requirement that there must be a thesis/dissertation component to the program could rule out programs that require extensive research within a course structure. But, the scholarships are not intended for programs that are structured mainly for professionals returning from the workforce to upgrade their credentials over an eight or twelve month period.

Updated March 17, 2006

Thursday, March 23, 2006

FEMEX invita a que apoyen las actividades de los Latinos de Carleton

FEMEX invita a que apoyen las actividades de los Latinos de Carleton

Hola A todos

Aqui estamos mandando el poster the la fiesta para este Jueves y el horario de un festibal de peliculas espanolas que se estaran presentando este fin de semana en Carleton las peliculas son de una clase de film studies 2201 Spanish cinema y son completamente gratis no se que tanto espacio halla pero pueden venir a cualquiera o todas. Estaremos vendiendo boletas para la fiesta todos los dias $4 dollares antes de el evento y 6 en la puerta. Si tienen preguntas hacerca de el festival de peliculas pueden escribir o llamar 286 7982 Edgar

FILM2201 – CONTEMPORARY SPANISH CINEMA

TAKE-HOME EXAM - FILM SCREENINGS

Saturday, March 25, 2006

SP435	SP417	SP400
09:30 The Shanghai Spell	09:30 Soccer Days
11:45 Cows	11:35 Sagitario	11:00 The Girl of Your Dreams
13:25 Family Portrait	13:35 The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone	13:40 The Other Side of the Bed
15:05Soccer Days	15:40The Shanghai Spell	15:40 Secrets of the Heart
17:10 Sagitario	18:00 Cows	17:40 Spirit of the Beehive
19:10 The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone	19:40 Family Portrait

	Sunday, March 26, 2006
SP435	SP417	SP400
9:30 Take My Eyes	9:30 Dark Minstrel	9:30 Ecstasy
11:20 Mondays in the Sun	11:25 The Art of Dying	11:20 Killer Housewives
13:25 Alone	13:10 Lucky Star	13:10 Rojo Sangre
15:10 The Art of Dying	15:00 Mondays in the Sun	15:10 Evening Show
16:55 Lucky Star	17:05 Take My Eyes
18:45 Dark Minstrel	18:55 Alone

THE FILMS

Alone / Solas (Benito Zambrano, 1999) 98’

Art of Dying, The / El arte de morir (Álvaro Fernández Armero, 2000) 99’

Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone, The / La pelota vasca: la piel contra la piedra (Julio Medem, 2003) 117’

Cows / Vacas (Julio Medem, 1991) 92’

Dark Minstrel / Tuno Negro (Pedro L. Barbero & Vicente J. Martín, 2001) 110’

Ecstasy / Éxtasis (Mariano Barroso, 1996) 93’

Evening Show / Función de noche (Josefina Molina, 1981) 85’

Family Portrait / Retrato de familia (Antonio Giménez Rico, 1976) 91’

Girl of Your Dreams, The / La niña de tus ojos (Fernando Trueba, 1998) 121’

Killer Housewives / Marujas Asesinas (Javier Rebollo, 2001) 111’

Lucky Star / La buena estrella (Ricardo Franco, 1997) 102’

Mondays in the Sun / Los lunes al sol (Fernando León de Aranoa, 2002) 117’

Other Side of the Bed, The / El otro lado de la cama (Emilio Martínez Lázaro, 2002) 104’

Red Blood / Rojo Sangre (Christian Molina, 2004) 90’

Sagitario (Vicente Molina Foix, 2002) 113’

Secrets of the Heart / Secretos del corazón (Montxo Armendariz, 1997) 105’

Shanghai Spell, The / El embrujo de Shanghai (Fernando Trueba, 2001) 129’

Soccer Days / Días de futbol (David Serrano, 2003) 117’

Spirit of the Beehive / El espíritu de la colmena (Victor Erice, 1973) 97’

Take My Eyes / Te doy mis ojos (Iciar Bollain, 2003) 103’

For detailed information about the films, you can consult www.imdb.com

Monday, March 20, 2006

FEDERACION DE ESTUDIANTES MEXICANOS EN CANADA

Sunday, March 12, 2006

Comunicado de FEMEX, actividades MARZO-ABRIL 2006

FEDERACION DE ESTUDIANTES MEXICANOS EN CANADA
Comunicado de FEMEX, actividades MARZO-ABRIL 2006. Eventos Recomendados por FEMEX Sitios web: http://femexcanada.blogspot.com/ email:femexcanada@hotmail.com

1.- Día Internacional de la Poesía (UNESCO) ¡Hola a todos! Ésta es una invitación para quienes quieran acompañarnos a celebrar el Día Internacional de la Poesía el próximo martes 21 de marzo aquí en Ottawa. Estamos organizando una lectura abierta de poesía y prosa a partir de las 18: 30 en Urban Well, 244 Laurier Ave. Est esq. Nelson. Ya están confirmados los siguientes autores:
Maureen Glaude, Juan Mildenberger, Heather Ferguson/Borka Sattler/ Felipe Quetzalcoatl Quintanilla/ Francisco Javier Ucán-Marín/ Paul Fortis/Ivonne Zarza/ Jorge Etchevery/ Luciano Díaz/ Magdalena Ferreiro/ Paolo de Lima/ Ramón Sepúlveda/Laura Avalos/Arturo Lazo/Luis Abanto
Nos gustaría mucho contar con ustedes para una lectura en la lengua de su elección. Por favor, confirmen su participación antes del 15 de marzo a una de las siguientes direcciones electrónicas:
llamaleh@gmail.com. sgt_quetzalcoatl@hotmail.com femexcanada@hotmail.com

2.- ALICIA BORISONIK AND THE ARGENTINEAN PROJECT AND COLORES ANDINOS Saturday April 8th at 7:30 pm. Doors open at 7 pm ARTS COURT THEATRE 2 Daily Ave (corner Nicholas) 564-7240 Parking available at Rideau Centre Join us for a special night of South American Music.Travel through the passion and melancholy of tango music to the upbeat rhythms of Afro- South American music. Have a real experience of all the different folkloric styles of South America! TICKETS:$17 per person: at the door/ $12 in advance (and students) Arts Court Theatre: 2 Daily Ave 564-7240 --Ottawa Folk Centre: 1111 Bank Street (Bank and Sunnyside) --Little Latin America: 764 Somerset Street West 235-4970--Quichua International: 175 Sparks Street Info:For further information phone 777-7041 or 726-2600 ALICIA BORISONIK www.borisonik.ca borisoni@magma.ca
COLORES ANDINOS www.coloresandinos.ca coloresandinos@mac.com

3.- TORNEO DE FUTBOL.Tenemos el gusto de transmitir la siguiente invitación: El equipo de fútbol (soccer) Sporting México invita al inicio de prácticas para la temporada de verano, las cuales se llevarán a cabo los miércoles (con excepción del 15 de marzo por el "March break"). Las prácticas empiezan el 8 de marzo, de 20:00 a 22:00 hrs., en la escuela Rockliff Park Public School, en 350 Buenvista Road. Ven y apoya al equipo de tu comunidad. Para esta temporada solo se registrará un equipo, masculino, categoría abierta, sin límite de edad.
Atentamente: acmcog@unameseca.com “Asociación Cultural Mexicano-Canadiense de Ottawa-Gatineau”. Mantente informado de nuestras actividades visitando frecuentemente nuestra dirección: http://www.acmcog.ca

4.-OTTAWA JAZZ FESTIVAL. Concierto de la Diva Descalza CESAREA EVORA www.ottawajazzfestival.com los boletos cuestan $37.50, y $25.00 estudiantes, cupo limitado. El concierto se llevara a cabo en la Iglesia Dominion Chalmers United Church, 355 Cooper Street, el Domingo 9 de Abril de 2006 a las 7:30 de la noche. Cesarea es ganadora del Grammy por sus espectaculares grabaciones. Llega fresquesita desde el festival de Jazz de Barcelona. ¡Vale la pena el Precio! Informes: www.ottawajazzfestival.com

5. FABULOSA PELICULA LATINA EN EL BYTOWN. Del Director Mexicano Guillermo Arriaga (amores perros). Tommy Lee Jones’ thoroughly impressive big-screen directing debut, scripted by Guillermo Arriaga (Amores Perros, 21 Grams), is an elegiac modern Western about the profound, but fleeting, friendship that develops between West Texas rancher Pete Perkins (Jones) and the eponymous, undocumented Mexican ranch hand (Julio Cesar Cedillo) who, soon after the film begins, turns up dead from a mysterious gunshot wound. As the title implies, Melquiades Estrada’s journey to his desired final resting place won’t be a peaceful one, and as he is successively exhumed and re-interred, Three Burials takes on some of the macabre absurdity of Sam Peckinpah’s Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia. The spirit of Peckinpah hangs over the film in other respects, too — in Jones’ and Arriaga’s affection for tequila and loose women and hard-driving men, and most of all in its funerary tone, in the way that by honoring his pledge to escort Mel’s corpse back to Mexico, Pete too seems to be coming home. http://www.sonyclassics.com/threeburials/ telefono: (613) 789-FILM à 325 Rideau St. Ottawa K1N 5Y4 email: cinemail@bytowne.ca
http://www.bytowne.ca/cgi-bin/film-descript.cgi?film_id=THR002

Sinceramente

Francisco.

Francisco Ucan Marin, Presidente
Federacion de Estudiantes Mexicanos en Canada
Asociacion Cultural Mexicano-Canadiense Ottawa-Gatineau
P.O. Box 207, Station B
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6C4
femexcanada@hotmail.com

Friday, March 03, 2006

Celebracion del Dia Mundial de la Poesia

Hola a todos. La última noche de poesía en el Rasputins Folk café estuvo bien buena. Participamos un grupo diverso de poetas, prosistas, músicos. ¡¡¡¡Fue la noche del año!!!!! Para los que no pudieron asistir al evento... les aviso que pronto se podran redimir. Tengo el privilegio de platicarles sobre la próxima noche de poesía que se nos viene ya encima. EL MARTES 21 DE MARZO ES EL DIA MUNDIAL DE LA POESÍA (según UNESCO) Y esta misma noche se llevará a cabo otra noche bohemia; hasta el ahora el lugar sera planeado es el lounge del Agora bookstore ( en Dalhousie frente a la estatua de simón bolivar)Pero esten pendientes de la confirmacion del lugar !!!!!!!! Si si si... ASÍ DE PRONTO amigas-os Hasta ahora tenemos en la lista de poetas a: Magdalena Ferreiro Francisco Ucán-Marín Ivonne Zarza Ramón Sepúlveda Felipe Quetzalcoatl Quintanilla Queridos POETAS, CUENTISTAS, MÚSICOS confirmen lo antes posible su participación para ponernos las pilas con la propaganda. RESPONDAN SI SI SI SI yo quiero.... participar Felipe Quetzalcoatl Quintanilla sgt_quetzalcoatl@hotmail.com www.poesia-sexo-marihuana.com (613)725 7683