Los islotes de Pedestal / Pedestal Islands

La serie Español al vuelo está conformada por ocho textosdiseñados para que los estudiantes pongan en práctica los elementos estudiados yaprendidos en un curso formal de la lengua. A través de ellos, se fomenta lainteracción en clase y se pueden realizar actividades de lectura y escritura enun marco cultural amplio. Español al vuelo es también la respuesta a la necesidad deconstrucción de material propio, es decir, de textos que reflejen la lengua yla cultura del ámbito latinoamericano y, más precisamente, del colombiano. Así,el aspecto cultural se convierte en el eje transversal...

Housed in the former 16th-century convent of Santo Domingo church, now the Regional Museum of Oaxaca, Mexico, is an important collection of textiles representing the area’s indigenous cultures. The collection includes a wealth of exquisitely made traditional weavings, many that are now considered rare. The Unbroken Thread: Conserving the Textile Traditions of Oaxaca details a joint project of the Getty Conservation Institute and the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) of Mexico to conserve the collection and to document current use of textile traditions in daily life and...

From the beginning of the sixties, Mary Kelly's works have dealth with the muddle of the language and its cultural and psychological impact. Her narrative installations question the traditional explanations of the daily life. The project The ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi comes up in 1999 after reading a piece of news published in a daily in Los Angeles, a report relating the story of Kastriot, an Albanian boy whose mother left for dead during the war in Kosovo, being rescued alive by the Serbians afterwards to meet his parents later on in good health. Based on these facts, Mary Kelly made this...

El taller es una guía clara y dinámica que facilita los primeros, difíciles y hermosos pasos en el fascinante oficio de escribir.