www.hispanicliaison.org - Community Dialog Across Borders

Featuring:

Pulitzer Prize winners Hector Tobar, journalist and author of Translation Nation, and documentary photographer Jose Galvez

Community Dialog Across Borders will combine visual and literary arts to generate a dialog about Latino immigration in our community. The moderator will be Dr. María DeGuzmán, Associate Professor of English & Comparative Literature, and Director of Latina/o Studies Minor & Program at UNC Chapel Hill. Jose Galvez’s pictures will be on display at the event. The artists’ respective books and other select reading materials will be available for purchase and autographs.

The events are free and open to the public.

Friday, November 9

6:30 to 9 PM

At the CCCC Pittsboro campus, Building 2

764 West St.

Pittsboro, NC 27312

www.cccc.edu

Saturday, November 10

10 AM to 12:30 PM

At the Fearrington Barn

Fearrington Village

Pittsboro, NC 27312

www.fearrington.com

With simultaneous interpreting into Spanish (Friday only)

Hector Tobar

Hector Tobar is a second-generation Guatemalan immigrant born in Los-Angeles. Tobar is an author and journalist whose work examines the evolving and interdependent relationship between Latin America and the United States. He is currently the Mexico City Bureau Chief for the Los Angeles Times. Prior to moving to Mexico City, he served as their Bureau Chief in Buenos Aires, Argentina and before that he served as the National Latino Affairs Correspondent. His non-fiction Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States, is a cross-country journey with stops in many of the new places where Latin American immigrants are settling. His novel The Tattooed Soldier, which was a finalist for the PEN USA West Award for Fiction, is set in the impoverished immigrant neighborhoods of Los Angeles in the weeks before the riots, and in Guatemala during the years of military dictatorship, In 1992, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his work as part of the team covering the L.A. riots for the Los Angeles Times. Tobar has traveled extensively in the U.S. and Latin-America. (www.hectortobar.com)

Jose Galvez

Veteran, El Paso, 2001
by Jose Galvez

Jose Galvez is internationally known for his striking documentary photography of Latino life in the United States. His studies of daily life captured on the street, in backyards, or at the park allow the viewer an intimate look at the truth of emotion and drama in everyday human lives. Currently based in Durham, Galvez was only 22 when he presented his first professional photo exhibit, which focused on Mexican-American culture. After graduating from the University of Arizona’s School of Journalism, he joined the staff of the Arizona Daily Star. Galvez won the Pulitzer Prize as the lead photographer for a Los Angeles Times series on Chicanos. His photographs were part of the Smithsonian Institute’s “Americanos: Latino Life in the United States”. He has also published Vatos, a powerful photo essay book. Galvez has won other awards including the Outstanding Community Service Award at the University of Arizona, the Greater Los Angeles Press Club Feature Photography Award, and the Los Angeles Times Award of Excellence. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in the U.S. and abroad. (www.josegalvez.com) Photograph by Tom Spitz

For more information contact:

The Hispanic Liaison at 919-742-1448, info@evhnc.org

A project of The Hispanic Liaison of Chatham County and Central Carolina Community College. Other event sponsors are Chatham Arts’ Grassroots Grant, Weaver St. Realty, Telemundo 44 WZGS, McIntyre’s Fine Books, the Fearrington Inn and The UNC Latina/o Studies Minor Program.