Classes will not be held on Friday, March 23, 2007. Enjoy your day off.
Thanks are due
Many thanks
to Adamson & Associates, Real Estate Appraisers & Consultants,
for their generous donation of four (very much needed) white boards. And thanks to Veronica for arranging
this donation.
If you can support Adamson & Assoc. in some way, please do. If you happen
to know Henry Adamson, president, or anyone else with the firm, please thank
them for supporting La Causerie.
Our very
special Veronica Bergonzoni is experiencing some health issues that will
keep her away from La Causerie (and away from work) for the next month to six
weeks. You can send cards and
perk-her-ups to her home address, listed in your Livret.
On Friday, April 27 La Causerie will hold its Annual Business Meeting, including election of officers for the upcoming year.
We are seeking interested members to assume roles on the board. It is always good to have new energy in our leadership and several current board members have served full terms of office.
If you are willing to serve on the board, please let one of our board members know. You can find the list of current officers later in the newsletter.
The Lyric Opera is presenting
Gioachino Rossini’s opera “The Barber of Seville” through March 18th.
Check their website for details. www.kc-opera.org
All Souls Unitarian Church (north of the Plaza and across
the street from the Kemper Museum) hosts a free documentary film series at 7
p.m. on Tuesday evenings. There is
plenty of free parking in the church parking lot and movies are shown in the
sanctuary. On March 20 there is a
double feature of two short Spanish documentaries:
Fuerza is a documentary about the effects
of immigration on two small cities: Goshen, Indiana, and Apan, Hidalgo, Mexico.
The documentary was produced by Soluz Films, a group of four Goshen College
students who won a student video documentary competition held by the Goshen
College Peace and Justice Journalism Program, funded by Plowshares Peace
Studies Project.Fuerza (Katrina Dyck , David Martinez , Ben Noll, James Weber •
2006 • 30 minutes)
Maquilapolis (City of
Factories) is the inspiring story of women workers in Tijuana who, though
laboring for poverty wages, still stand up to transnational corporations to win
severance pay and to clean up toxic waste sites. The film demonstrates that
global corporations can chase cheap labor around the world but will inevitably
encounter workers' struggle for dignity.
The
filmmakers worked collaboratively with the factory workers, providing cameras
to the women and teaching them how to shoot. For five years the women
documented their daily lives and the events in their communities, often giving
the film the intimate tone of a video diary.
”Vicky
Funari, Sergio De La Torre • 2006 • 68 minutes”
March 16 Classes meet
March 23 Spring break — No classes held
March
30 classes meet Italian Program
Angelo and Loretta Rossi, natives of Lucca, Italy, join us
for a chat about their home town.
Program in Italian.
April
6 Classes meet English program at noon
Professeur Becky Tucker and
several La Causerie members will speak in English about Concordia Language
Villages where they have participated in weeklong immersion programs for
adults. Learn about a learning
opportunity that might be perfect for you.
Check out their website http://clvweb.cord.edu/prweb/ (click on Adult and Family
Programs).
April 13 Classes meet
April 20 Classes meet French program at noon
Professeur Cyprienne Simchowitz will talk about the presidential elections in France. Program in French.
April 27 Annual
meeting at 11 a.m.
Classes meet at 9 and 10
a.m. No classes at 11 or 12.