Immigrant artist Saenz blends heritage with provocative pinata art
Professor Saenz links pinatas to Mexican culture and immigrant identity in a lecture describing art that centers on a slain child image and candy spilling from a side wound. He explains pinatas as rebirth symbols and references migratory food patterns alongside a light take on tradition.
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Saenz
Chaput
Latino environmental film highlights Chavez as ecological leader
The Americas Latino Eco Festival showcases Cesar Chavez as an environmentalist in a documentary premiere titled Cesar Chavez The Legacy of The Latino Environmental Movement. The festival runs Sept 11 to 16 at the Daily Center for the Arts in Boulder with screenings, art, talks, and celebrity appearances including Edward James Olmos, Ed Begley Jr., La Santa Cecilia, and comedian Rick Najera. Andrea Juan from Argentina and Rafael Lopez, a San Diego based artist, contribute works, linking historic Latino labor and climate justice themes.
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Cesar Chavez
California
Trene Vilar
Center For the Arts
Boulder
Edward James Olmos
Ed Begley Jr
Boulderado Hotel
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la Santa Cecilia
Rick Najera
Andrea Juan
Argentina
Antarctica
Rafael Lopez
San Diego
Lopez
Pilot with no limbs becomes corporate flyer at Union firm
Randy Green, born without hands or feet, was hired as a corporate pilot by Stuart B. Millner and Associates of Union, Missouri. He trains in Wichita in a Cessna 421, using prosthetics and rubber bands to control the aircraft, while proving his mastery of sequential tasking and emergency procedures to FAA standards and company instructors.
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Randy Green
Green
Stuart B. Millner
Wichita
Dave Dewhirst
Dewhirst
FAA
Pueblo
Colo
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