Cecilia Valenzuela This is Me

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1. 1. Well-versed group encourages young Latino poets, performers

   homes.thedailycamera.com/livin - [Cached]

   Published on: 5/15/2001   Last Visited: 6/16/2001

   This program works to integrate the Latino community into the public sphere , said Cecilia Valenzuela , the PAN director who is also working toward her master's degree in bilingual education at the University of Colorado. There is a certain degree of invisibility among this population in Boulder. In our program we have these Latino students who are not traditionally in showcases around Boulder but who are doing the same things and have the same talent. They just need the venues open to them..
   
   In Spanish pan means bread , and according to Valenzuela , like bread , this organization is needed within the community. PAN is a means of feeding one another through self-expression , she said.
   
   Valenzuela and Dana Walker , associate director of PAN , began the organization a year ago because they saw a need for more after-school programs for middle school Latino students.
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   We include hip-hop music , graffiti and other nontraditional art forms because they are important to the students , Valenzuela said. The music the kids are listening to is poetry. It's about social change..
   
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   We like to move around because we feel it generates more of a consciousness when people see students reading poems in Spanish or English and writing their own poetry , Valenzuela said. We want to generate that interest and moving around gets more people involved..
   
   This year , PAN students also worked with CATV , Channel 54 , learning how to use video cameras and editing equipment. Valenzuela and Walker hope to integrate this component into a summer program for the students. We want to take what we are doing now and add a media component so that they can air their poetry and other art forms , Valenzuela said. Valenzuela and Walker would also like to see the students take the cameras into their communities and address some of the issues there.
   
   These kids are living between two worlds.

2. 2. Well-versed group encourages young Latino poets, performers

   www.daily-camera.com/livingart - [Cached]

   Published on: 5/15/2001   Last Visited: 5/24/2001

   This program works to integrate the Latino community into the public sphere , said Cecilia Valenzuela , the PAN director who is also working toward her master's degree in bilingual education at the University of Colorado. There is a certain degree of invisibility among this population in Boulder. In our program we have these Latino students who are not traditionally in showcases around Boulder but who are doing the same things and have the same talent. They just need the venues open to them..
   
   In Spanish pan means bread , and according to Valenzuela , like bread , this organization is needed within the community. PAN is a means of feeding one another through self-expression , she said.
   
   Valenzuela and Dana Walker , associate director of PAN , began the organization a year ago because they saw a need for more after-school programs for middle school Latino students.
   ...
   We include hip-hop music , graffiti and other nontraditional art forms because they are important to the students , Valenzuela said. The music the kids are listening to is poetry. It's about social change..
   
   ...
   We like to move around because we feel it generates more of a consciousness when people see students reading poems in Spanish or English and writing their own poetry , Valenzuela said. We want to generate that interest and moving around gets more people involved..
   
   This year , PAN students also worked with CATV , Channel 54 , learning how to use video cameras and editing equipment. Valenzuela and Walker hope to integrate this component into a summer program for the students. We want to take what we are doing now and add a media component so that they can air their poetry and other art forms , Valenzuela said. Valenzuela and Walker would also like to see the students take the cameras into their communities and address some of the issues there.
   
   These kids are living between two worlds.