Want to learn Spanish?
Join a Spanish class at the Institute of Hispanic Culture of Houston
Our Spanish Beginning Conversation Class provides students with basic language patterns and practical vocabulary, as well as the essential conversational skills used in everyday life. Topics include family, numbers, weather, getting around, and traveling.The program highlights interesting aspects of the Spanish culture.
It is highly recommended for students without previous experience in the Spanish language. It is particularly for those who wish to acquire limited conversational skills for travel or the workplace, or who wish to start their study of Spanish.
This course is not open to students whose first language is Spanish.
Instructor: Maria M. Lopez, Professor at HCC and Rice University
A minimum of eight students is required to open a class.
WHEN: Every Saturday @9 am
FEE: for 8 classes, session 2 hours weekly $280.-
Classes begin on Saturday, April 13.
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Country: Spain 1999
Plots keywords: Drama | Epic Biography | History | 18th – 19th Centuries | Art
Language: Español – English subtitles
Director and Writer: Carlos Saura
Production Co: Coproducción España-Italia; Lolafilms / Italian International Film
Runtime: 104 min.
Cast: Francisco Rabal, José Coronado, Maribel Verdú, Eulalia Ramón, Dafne Fernández, Mario de Candia, Azucena De La Fuente, Franco di Francescantonio, Borja Elgea, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Josep Maria Pou, Saturnino García, Carlos Hipólito, Manuel de Blas, Pedro Azorín, Joaquín Climent, Cristina Espinosa.
Awards:
1999: 5 Premios Goya: incluyendo Mejor actor (Francisco Rabal). 10 nominaciones
1999: Festival de Montreal: Mejor contribución artística
2000: Premios del Cine Europeo: Mejor fotografía
2001: Satellite Awards: Nominada a Mejor película extranjera
Goya en Burdeos
A los 82 años, exiliado en Burdeos con Leocadia Zorrilla de Weiss, la última de sus amantes, el pintor Francisco de Goya reconstruye para su hija Rosario los acontecimientos que marcaron su vida. Una vida en la que se suceden convulsiones políticas, pasiones emponzoñadas y el éxtasis de la fama.
Goya in Bordeaux
Francisco Goya (1746-1828), deaf and ill, lives the last years of his life in voluntary exile in Bordeaux, a Liberal protesting the oppressive rule of Ferdinand VII. He’s living with his much younger wife Leocadia and their daughter Rosario. He continues to paint at night, and in flashbacks stirred by conversations with his daughter, by awful headaches, and by the befuddlement of age, he relives key times in his life, particularly his relationship with the Duchess of Alba, his discovery of how he wanted to paint (insight provided by Velázquez’s work), and his lifelong celebration of the imagination. Throughout, his reveries become tableaux of his paintings.
TEATRX is bringing back La Vida Es Cortos / Life Is Shorts Festival for the second year! The festival will once again bring Latinx stories to the stage and screen in new and exciting ways. This year’s lineup includes a 14-minute musical, 21 Chump Street: The Musical, by Hamilton star Lin Manuel Miranda, and a short film by native Houstonian Vannessa Vasquez of Hulu’s East Los High. Along with 21 Chump Street: The Musical, TEATRX will produce two plays chosen after a nationwide call for short plays. On behalf of TEATRX, Laura Moreno will direct, The Party Favor, by Julián Mesri. The second play, A Volunteer by Marian Licha will be directed and acted by members of Teatro Indigo. This year’s festival will also feature the Spanish language play, El Espejo by Emilio Carballido directed by RS Producciones, and a dance theatre piece written and choreographed by Adam Castaneda of Pilot Dance Project.
Because of the high volume of fantastic film submissions, TEATRX will show 13 short films ranging from two to fifteen minutes. Films will be split between four performances Thursday – Saturday. Each night the audience will vote on their favorite film. The top films will be featured at the final performance on Sunday, November 24.
La Vida Es Cortos/Life Is Shorts Festival is funded in part by grants from the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance.
