A number of campuses of the College of Puerto Rico have come collectively to create the Fiestón de la Lengua 2023 [which may be translated as a “celebration of language,” with a playful twist, since “fiestón” refers to a big party] paying homage this 12 months to the illustrious Puerto Rican playwright and novelist Luis Rafael Sánchez. The festivities started at present, April 24, at 10:00am, with a keynote speech by Dr. Mercedes López-Baralt on the UPRRP Theater, and can proceed by Wednesday, Could 3, 2023. El Nuevo Día stories:
The Division of Hispanic Research of the College of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, with the intention of honoring the distinguished Puerto Rican author Luis Rafael Sánchez, has devoted the 2023 Language Competition [Fiestón de la Lengua] to him. The invitation has been prolonged to different departments and faculties of the Río Piedras campus, in addition to sister campuses to contribute with academic-artistic actions for the good thing about college students, school, non-teaching workers, and most people.
The actions will start on Monday, April 24, and can finish on Wednesday, Could 3, 2023. The departments and faculties of Río Piedras that can take part, along with the host establishment, are the next: the Division of Enterprise Communication, of the Faculty of Administration of Firms; the Division of Spanish, of the Faculty of Normal Research; the Drama Division and the scholars of the “Comedy of Artwork” course; and College Excessive Faculty (UHS) college students.
The venues which have joined the Fiestón are Arecibo, Bayamón, Carolina, Cayey, Humacao, Mayagüez and Ponce; each has reserved a full day or half a day (morning or afternoon) to hold out their actions. It’s an interdisciplinary exercise, wherein the flexibility of the prose poet, the playwright, the narrator and storyteller, and the modern essayist might be applauded.
The opening of the Fiestón will happen on the UPRRP Theater on the morning of Monday, April 24, with a lectio magistralis by Dr. Mercedes López-Baralt, entitled “La poesía encubierta de Luis Rafael Sánchez” [The undercover poetry of Luis Rafael Sánchez], and might be adopted by a musical efficiency by the Conjunto Criollo of the Division of Music. Within the afternoon, there might be lectures on the work of Luis Rafael Sánchez, in Amphitheater 1, of the Faculty of Normal Research. The Arecibo and Bayamón campuses will perform their actions on Tuesday morning and afternoon respectively, and the Cayey Campus will stage the efficiency of the play “Quíntuples” at 6:00pm, on the Ramón Frade León Theater.
For full program, see https://www.elnuevodia.com/entretenimiento/cultura/notas/fiesta-cultural-en-honor-a-luis-rafael-sanchez/
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