An Habla Workshop led by Lilián Rivera Juárez.
It's a good opportunity to practice your Spanish.

Lilián Rivera Juárez will lead an engraving workshop at Habla, where participants will learn how to use the monotype to create unique one-of-a-kind prints. Participants will create a “Pandora’s Box” reusing documents and sentimentally valuable objects from their own history. Basic knowledge about engraving will be given during the workshop and will design a variety of prints they will store in their own personalized boxes.

Date: Mondays and Wednesdays from May 2^nd to June 13^th
Time: 9:30 am – 11:00 am
Cost:  2 payments of $700.00 MX  (basic material included)
Location: Habla

Lilián Rivera Juárez was born in Mexico City and she lives in Merida Yucatan since September 2011. Graduated from the National School of painting, sculpture and engraving “La Esmeralda”; Lilián has participated in several workshops in Mexico with the professor Francisco Castro Leñero in 2007 and abroad at the Internationale Sommeracademie für Bildende Kunst in Salzburg. She has receieved several awards including the Silver Award of Qingdao International Print Bienal in China, in 2000. She has exhibited her work in Mexico, Austria, Spain, and in China. She was selected for the Third Beijing Internationale Art Biennale in 2008. Last December she participated at FAVY 2011, “Feria de Artes Visuales de Yucatán.

For further information please contact us at the email contact@habla.org or phone (999) 948-18-72.

This summer (2012), from July 9 to August 3, Habla will offer a four-week international bilingual program for local and international students ages 8-12. The summer course will be taught in both English and Spanish by an array of educators and teaching artists from the United States and Mexico. This extraordinary team of teachers will offer the students a multi-disciplinary exploration of the theme of "The Lost Map" through the visual arts, music, dance, theater, and creative writing. Students will read a variety of books in Spanish and English and will create public performances and exhibits each week of the program.

Classes will be held every day, Monday through Friday, from 9:00am-1:00pm. Each week of classes will culminate in a public performance or exhibit created by the students.

Space is limited. Habla will enroll a maximum of 20 students in the program.

For pricing and more information contact us at contact@habla.org.

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Teachers will include:

Karla Hernando Flores is a visual artist and educator originally from Mexico city who specializes in the Reggio Emilia approach to art education. She graduated from the Universidad de las Americas-Puebla with a degree in visual arts and she holds a Masters in information design from the same university.

Charlie Barbera is a Chicago-based percussionist specializing in Afro-Caribbean musical traditions. He is dedicated to preserving folkloric music of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Colombia through his performances with Africaribe, EE, and Crystal Gravy.

Laura Riebock is a Chicago-based dancer specializing in the teaching of various Latin dance forms including salsa, merengue, bachata and she is an accomplished belly dance instructor as well.