LASO Events for Spring 2017
by Team LASO on 01/23/17
LASO Events Spring 2017
www.LASOlsc.org
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The Latin American Student Organization (LASO) meets Mondays 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm at LSC-North Harris ACAD 223. We are looking for student leaders to begin chapters at LSC Greenspoint and LSC Victory Center.
Enroll in: Mexican American Literature, Mondays/Wednesdays, 9 am - 10:20 am, with Professor Diaz, El Librotraficante. LSC-NH ACAD 222.
Saturday, Feb. 18: The Houston Hispanic Forum Career and Education Day (CED). George R. Brown Convention Center 9 am – 3pm. Free.
Thursday Feb. 23 – Saturday, Feb. 25, National Association of Chicana & Chicano Studies Tejas Foco Regional Conference, Texas A & M University, College Station.
Thursday, March 2 6:30 pm - 7p,Free
Reading featuring writers from the anthology "Entre Guadalupe y
Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art," with Chicana icons Norma Cantu
and Ines Hernandez at Nuestra Palabra Arts and Books Home of Pancho
Clause 333 S. Jensen (Inside TBH, 3 blocks down from the oringal
Ninfas.)
Wednesday, March 8, 9 am – 10 am Daniel Pena, Writer, Professor University of Houston, LSC-NH ACAD 222
Thursday, March 23,
Noon – 1pm: Lone Star College-North Harris WRC SSB-204
2pm – 3pm Greenspoint
Super Latina Power Hour: Poetry presentation by Leslie Contreras Schwartz author of the poetry collection Fuego.
Wednesday, March 8: 7pm - 9 pm, Free
Release party for h6-the latest issue of Dagoberto Gilb's literary magazine Huizache. Featuring nationally renowned writer Dagoberto Gilb (Before the End, After The Beginning) and Chicana legend poet Lorna Dee Cervantes
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
12:30 PM – 1:30 Victory Center 114
LASO Latino Poetry Jam with LASO
Hosted by writer, activist and professor Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante
El Día de Los Libros!
Hispanic Heritage in Houston
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
LSC-North Harris
LASO Latino Poetry Jam In Honor of
the Bayou City Book Festival:
Libros en Español night.
Hosted by writer, activist and professor Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante
http://www.lonestar.edu/book-festival
Monday, April 10: LASO at the Movies: Showing of “Pride and Prejudice 9 am – 10:20 am, LSC-NH ACAD (TBA)
Pending Guest Speakers:
Michelle Tovar, Latino Outreach for the Houston Holocaust Muse
Michela Selly, Hispanic Archives at the Houston Library
Dr. Elizabeth Farfán-Santos, University of Houston
Author of the book: Black Bodies, Black Rights: The Politics of Quilombolismo in Contemporary Brazil. http://www.uh.edu/class/ccs/people/elizabeth/
Pending event:
Dia de La Familia at St. Leo’s Summer Bazaar
