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Wednesday, December 16 at 7:00 P.M.
Santa Anna Theater
The San Miguel Big Read, sponsored by the San Miguel Writer’s Conference is delighted to present Julie Taymor’s film, FRIDA.
FRIDA vividly depicts the intense revolutionary spirit present in Mexico and provides a riveting historical context to the artists and intellectuals that have come to symbolize the intellectual dialogue of that period – Frida Kahlo, Leon Trotsky, and Diego Rivera.
“The first language of the film is visual”, commented Selma Hayek (Frida) on the movie, and FRIDA is truly visually captivating. This stunning film portrays and illuminates Ms. Kingsolver’s excellent descriptions of Mexico.
We see the Kahlo-Rivera houses connected by a bridge, the islands and ferries in Mexico City, Frida’s gorgeous flowered table decorations, her startlingly exotic and beautiful clothing, the love and agony of the Frida-Diego relationship, and the passionate intensity of Trotsky’s revolutionary fervor, as well as his human need to feel love.
FRIDA will bring to visual life what Ms. Kingsolver has achieved in her masterful literary work and add immensely to the richness of our experience of The Lacuna.
HISTORICAL CURRENTS OF THE REVOLUTION IN SAN MIGUEL
By Arturo Morales Tirado
January 8, 2010 From 3-5 P.M.
Theatro Santa Anna
The Mexican Communist Party was, for a time, headed by Diego Rivera. It was a pro-Stalinist party and it was responsible for the first assault in Mexico on Trotsky’s life. Why?
What were the cultural, political, economic, and social currents in Mexico at the time of The Lacuna, the newly published book by author Barbara Kingsolver? How was that experienced in San Miguel? What was the effect of this conflict here in San Miguel?
Arturo Morales Tirado is a local analyst and weekly lecturer at the Biblioteca on a wide range of issues relating to San Miguel. He will give a talk and present slides from this period to help us understand the magnitude of the Revolution and how it was manifested in San Miguel
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