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The Appalachian Research community will be hosting the following event. Please spread the word.

Puentes: Cultivating Andean-Appalachian Dialogue & Solidarity

Jack Herranen & special guests

Date: Monday, October 25, 2010

There are three parts to the event at the University of Kentucky. Feel free to attend all or one 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.

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