OUR ACTIVITIES JULY 2012

July 24

UNAM CEPE's work supports by Taxco council

The work done by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in this city platera through Foreign Student Learning Center, has the full backing of the City Council, stated so CP Marco Antonio Sierra Martinez, Mayor of Taxco de Alarcón , during a visit to the Ex Hacienda "El Chorrillo" invited by Maestro. Javier Cuétara Priede, Director of CEPE / UNAM to visit the Municipal Archives of Taxco.

When meeting today with the Centre for Foreign Students - the UNAM Campus Taxco (CEPE / UNAM - Taxco), the mayor acknowledged the great work done by the Leading Academic for cataloging, consultation and conservation of this important documentary heritage the town of Taxco. During the tour of the Municipal Archives, Sierra Martinez found the optimal conditions found in this collection, whose size can be considered the most important in the state of Guerrero, and recognize that all this is the result of the remarkable work that UNAM has been doing since the custody of the file was formalized in 2010 through an agreement with the City.

In the premises of the CEPE / UNAM - Taxco, Master. Javier Cuétara knowledge made by Mayor different stages and processes that happened this documentary corpus. Since moving to a place conditioning for safekeeping in the Library "Juan Ruiz de Alarcón" from March last year, until the acquisition of specialized equipment for conservation (sophisticated equipment that measures and controls the temperature and humidity, purifying air, etc..) through the joint work of digitization currently performs with the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and the upcoming release of a CD with documents for the Colonial period.

Throughout the tour, the director of CEPE / UNAM - Taxco also discussed the project of restoration and renovation of "La Casona" by UNAM, the different works that have been carried out for the preservation and safety of Ex Hacienda "El Chorrillo" and the progress of the Botanical Garden and acquisitions "Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón".  

 

At the end of your visit, the CP. Marco Antonio Sierra and Maestro. Javier Cuétara pledged to follow up on interagency support agreements and strengthen partnerships to support the consolidation of the UNAM in Taxco and strengthen the CEPE / UNAM - Taxco as one of the educational and cultural centers of the region's most important in Taxco benefit society.

 July 24

Give the Botanical Garden "Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón" tours for children

 

As part of its outreach and dissemination, the Botanical Garden "Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón", the CEPE / UNAM - Taxco offered two tours children's summer school program that promotes Habitat H. City of Taxco de Alarcón between communities that make up the town.

 

 

During their visit, the children of the colony Rufo Figueroa and community Potrero Mirror visited the exhibition "Florido Laude" with Novo Slavador poems dedicated to different flowers toured the botanical garden and participated in various activities and integration knowledge of plant species.

  

Habitat is a program of the Ministry of Social Development (SEDESOL) that articulates the objectives of social policy with the policy of urban development and land use of the Federal Government, to help reduce urban poverty and improve quality of life residents of the inner cities.

July 20

We present "quantum Concert", new artistic proposal of Jonathan Rojas

With an interesting and innovative artistic proposal entitled "quantum Concert", returned to CEPE / UNAM - Taxco playwright and songwriter Jonathan Rojas. Accompanied by Bardo Nava and Arturo Torres Rojas caught the attention of the public who attended the forum "revolution" in the former hacienda of "El Chorrillo" by just over two hours.

The "quantum Concert" was a session acoustic music with two guitars and three voices, which also integrated reading stories and anecdotes which focused on the concerns of the "to be or not to be" three "characters" in the discovery that are characters. 

 

Jonathan Rojas is a writer, playwright, actor, puppeteer, teacher and songwriter. Born in Mexico City in 1980, she studied Hispanic Language and Literature at the Faculty of Arts of the UNAM. In the company "Caravan Factor" has written and co-directed, so far, "Don Quijotítere of La Mancha", "The Bicentennial", "Here I wait", and "Will the baby Jesus born again", all, works for puppets and actors.

 July 18

Orchids and prehispanic Mexico, Botanical Garden conference "Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón" at the Museum of Religious Art

In the context of scientific work carried out by the UNAM campus in Taxco, the Botanical Garden "Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón" CEPE / UNAM - Taxco, presented at the Museum of Viceregal Art of this city the conference "Orchids in the prehispanic world: uses and representations "by the Joseph Viccon Biol.

The objective of this conference was to disseminate and promote the study of orchids ethnobotanic among the general public.

According to the Mexican Association of Orchid, AC orchids are probably the largest plant family, with more than 25 000 species identified so far by scientists. The differences between them are so great that hardly seem "close relatives".

The same source indicates that Mexico is a country of enormous wealth, both natural and cultural, to be among the top seven countries for its variety of living things. It has a thousand 400 species of orchids, growing in almost all types of vegetation. However, most are below 2000 meters above sea level in the mountains of central and south, in a variety of tropical and temperate forests. Of these 400 thousand species of Mexico, about 300 are endemic, that is not found anywhere else in the world. This makes Mexican orchids in a living heritage of great importance and we, the people of the country in its first guardians, directly responsible for their survival or disappearance. Unfortunately, every year hundreds of thousands of cut plants sold in the streets, which is contributing to their extinction.

July 17

Sign Shakespeare film series about the Ex Hacienda "El Chorrillo" 

To continue offering movies entertaining, intelligent and of the highest quality in our traditional film club on Tuesday, CEPE / UNAM - Taxco began the series entitled "Shakespeare". The films will be shown every Tuesday from 17 July to 14 August in the auditorium "Independence" of the former hacienda of "El Chorrillo" at 16:00 hrs.

 

The cycle began with the 2011 film titled "Anonymous, was Shakespeare a fraud?" Directed by Roland Emmerich, who mixes the intrigue, politics and drama to try to destroy the myth of one of the greatest writers universal. Then will screen "Hamlet" by Kenneth Branagh, a 1996 film described by critics as an impressive version of a timeless classic. Already on Tuesday, July 31 will present "Dream of a Summer Night", another classic directed by Michael Hoffman and the excellent performances by Kevin Kline and Michelle Pfeiffer.

On Tuesday August 7 continue with "Julius Caesar", by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Film 1953 with Marlon Brando and James Mason, where the director proposes a political lesson on authoritarian regimes. The cycle ends with "Romeo and Juliet" directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. This modern version of one of the classic texts of Shakespeare was filmed in three cities in Mexico.

July 14

Organize ferns observation tour the Botanical Garden "Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón"

As part of an extensive program of activities for knowledge and environmental protection, the Botanical Garden "Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón" of CEPE / UNAM - Taxco organized the first tour of observation to the Gorge "La Mulata", located in the municipality Taxco de Alarcón ", in order to recognize the biodiversity of ferns that exist in the area and promote behaviors of respect for nature. 

On this visit, led by the head of the Botanical Garden of the CEPE / UNAM - Taxco, biologist José Viccon, there were several plants of pine forests and flowers of different colors between the paths of rocks and lush vegetation where diversity of ferns stood as Selaginella, Pteridium, Adiatum, Pleopeltis, Polypodium, and Thelypteris Diplazium , interest and other plants such as orchids, cacti and Lilies.

Attendees, most of them members of the Friends of the Botanical Garden "Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón" fulfilled in order to observe and learn about this ancient plant group. The Botanical Garden "Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón" promote this type of field activities each month to see different areas of interest in the region. 

From 8 to 13 July

It takes place on 15 Competition and International Guitar Festival of Taxco in Ex Hacienda "El Chorrillo"

Like every year, the facilities of CEPE / UNAM - Taxco in Ex Hacienda "El Chorrillo" welcomed musicians from different countries in the framework of the fifteenth edition of the Competition and International Guitar Festival of Taxco, which this time gave tribute to Daniel Caro, master guitar maker, originally from Paracho, Michoacán. 

In the forum "Revolution" of the former hacienda of "El Chorrillo" took place the traditional contests soloists and ensembles where participants performed pieces from Renaissance to Baroque music or compositions of the XXI century. The winner of the solo category was the young guitarist Oman Lara Kaminsky, a native of Mexico City, while in the category of assemblies Cuecacalli the trio was successful.

Throughout the week, the audience at the 15 Competition and International Guitar Festival of Taxco could enjoy many activities free of charge as concerts, conferences and lectures. 

July 11

Digitized more than half of the Municipal Archives of Taxco

More than half of the documents comprising the Municipal Archives of Taxco, under the aegis of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) through the Center for Foreign Students - Campus Taxco (CEPE / UNAM - Taxco), and are digitized, which represents a breakthrough for cataloging, consultation and conservation of this important documentary heritage.

According to data generated from the scan job evaluation by staff of Guerrero INAH, currently have about 500,000 digitized images, which are little more than half of this collection of documents that, for its size, arguably the most important state of Guerrero.

From this scan job, carried out with the invaluable support of INAH and its representation in the state of Guerrero, is scheduled to publish a CD with documents relating to the Colonial period. Such material would consist of about four thousand images showing legal and social processes, not only in the city of Taxco de Alarcón and northern Guerrero, but a good part of New Spain.

In a recent meeting between the MSc. Javier Cuétara Priede, Director of CEPE at the headquarters of the UNAM, with Dr. Francisco Barriga Bridge, National Coordinator of the INAH and the historian Maria Teresa Pavia Miller Guerrero INAH Center, evaluated the progress of the process of digitizing the Historical Archive . As a result, he said that this collection contains some official documents that are not found in any other file.

The Municipal Archives of Taxco is protected by UNAM since 1997 in the premises of the CEPE / UNAM - Taxco, located in the former hacienda "El Chorrillo". File Custody was formalized in 2010 through an agreement between the UNAM and the city which sets the conditions of stay of the corpus of documents consisting of a collection of historical writings, linguistic and social dating back to 1666 and cover until the end of twentieth century.

Because of the importance of its contents, from the year 2009 the CEPE / UNAM-Taxco in coordination with the INAH, working in the rescue, preservation and digitization of this heritage.

From 10 to 12 July

Give Dr. Revueltas, one of the largest specialist Juan Ruiz de Alarcón Taxco workshop and conference 

From 10 to 12 July, Dr. Eugenia Revueltas, professor at the Faculty of Arts of the UNAM and one of the largest specialists in Juan Ruiz de Alarcon, conducted a three-day workshop in the ECE / UNAM - Taxco about daily life in the colony, as well as a talk on art and creation aimed primarily at Taxco silversmiths.

This cycle of academic activities are conducted in collaboration with H. Taxco City Council and School Teachers Taxco Silverware.

During the course "History of mentalities: Everyday life in colonial times. With special emphasis on Taxco and Juan Ruiz de Alarcón" is analyzed and described everyday life in New Spain. Attendees gained valuable information about how people lived during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Mexico, with special emphasis on Taxco, what they ate, how they dressed, what they read, what they thought. Also analyzed how this context influenced everyday in works by major artists of the time like Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Carlos Siguenza and Juan Ruiz de Alarcón and how their works reflect the world of New Spain.

Furthermore, the conference "Art and creation", offered by the university academic forum "Revolution" of this school, was directed to silversmiths, artists, artisans and the general public. Those attending this conference reflected on how we distinguish imitation of artistic creation, which elements can take to create works of art from the observation of reality and the lives of other people and how it affects the surrounding reality in obas of current creators. 

4 and 5 July

Jazz in Taxco de Alarcón 

Under the XX Anniversary ECE / UNAM - Taxco and the twentieth anniversary of the Museum of Viceregal Art in Taxco, Wednesday 4 and Thursday 5 July this city was the scene of two great jazz concerts offered by a group of talented musicians originating from both the state of Guerrero and the Federal District. 

Both the Forum "Revolution" of the former hacienda of "El Chorrillo" as in the Museum of Colonial Art from the audience enjoyed this musical genre born in the late nineteenth century in the United States and globally expanded throughout throughout the twentieth century. 

According to the German critic Joachim-Ernst Berendt, Jazz is a musical art form that originated through the confrontation of blacks with European music. The instrumentation, melody and harmony of this genus are derived primarily from the Western musical tradition.The rhythm, phrasing and sound production, and the harmony of blues elements derived from African music and African-American musical concept.

July 3

Talk about the new Immigration Law in CEPE / UNAM - Taxco 

The National Migration Institute, Guerrero delegation, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, through the Center for Foreign Students - Campus Taxco (CEPE / UNAM-Taxco) convened the general public to attend a talk on the new Act Migration, offered by Ms. Diana Astudillo Karina Vazquez, Assistant Director of Immigration Regulation, Regional Delegation in Guerrero's National Migration Institute.

The New Immigration Law's main purpose is to create a framework of guarantees to protect the rights of migrants and facilitate and manage migration flows to and from Mexico. In this context, raises full respect for the rights of Mexicans and foreigners, whatever their origin, nationality, gender, ethnicity, age and immigration status.

According to Population Fund (UNFPA for its acronym in English), Mexico has become the world leader in out-migration, higher than China and India. About 400 thousand Mexicans changing residence legally or illegally each year and its main target is the United States.