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Please join us on Saturday, April 5, 2008 at Santa Clara University for A Day of Music in Spanish and Mexican California! The day begins with a Free Workshop for 4th Grade Teachers (12:00-2:00): Make California History Come Alive with Music and Dance. The workshop is followed by a Book Symposium (2:30-4:30) on Juan Bautista Sancho: Pioneer Composer of California by William J. Summers and Craig H. Russell. Reception to follow. The day ends with a Concert (7:30) in the Santa Clara Mission Church. From Serra to Sancho: Music and Pageantry in the California Missions will be performed by the Cal Poly Early Music Ensemble under the direction of Thomas Davies.

For more detailed information about A Day of Music in Spanish and Mexican California, please go to http://www.scu.edu/cas/californiastudies/upcomingevents.cfm and click on the links for each event.

Admission to all events is FREE but an RSVP is REQUIRED for planning purposes.

Please RSVP by March 31: calstudies@scu.edu


SCU COMMEMORATION OF CESAR CHAVEZ

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

April 23, Wednesday, Spanish language mass, Concelebrants: Jesuit Fathers Paul Locatelli, Luis Calero and Paul Fitzgerald, Noon, Mission Church

April 24, Thursday, Professor Mario T. Garcia, History Department, UC Santa Barbara, "The Spiritual Journey of Cesar Chavez" 3:30-5:00PM, Adobe Lodge

April 29, Tuesday, Professor Francisco Jimenez, "Remembering Cesar Chavez: Personal Accounts" 3:30-4:30PM Kennedy Commons

April 30, Wednesday, Mariachi Music, Noon, Mission Gardens

May 6, Tuesday, Film, "Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez & the Farmworkers' Struggle" 3:30 -5:30PM Kennedy Commons

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