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MCINY's 20th Anniversary Video
2011 marked the 20th Anniversary of the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York. The Institute was founded by Amb. Mireya Teran in 1991 - the Institute's first Executive Director. Thank you all for your support! We look forward to continuing presenting the splendors of Mexican culture for many years to come. 
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Women Travelers in Latin America
May 16, 17, & 18, 2012
This opening night of the women travelers symposium will consist of a panel discussion featuring scholars Claire Emille Martin, Vanesa Miseres, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, and Adela Pineda Franco. Adriana Méndez Rodenas will moderate. The panel will explore the contributions and legacies of four pioneering women travelers who wrote about their experiences in Latin America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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Il Postino
May 17, 19 & 20, 2012
Don’t miss the East Coast Premiere of Mexican composer Daniel Catan’s celebrated opera Il Postino. The opera will be sung in Spanish with English translated projections.

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Mexican film screenings this weekend
May 18 - 20, 2012
Cinema Tropical presents the following Mexican films this weekend: Principio y fin by Arturo Ripstein, as part of MoMA's "Mahfouz at the Movies" program; and La Entrevista / The Interview by Xamuel Bañales, Irma by Charles Fairbanks, and Santiago del otro lado / Santiago from the Other Side by Mauro Mueller, as part of the Queens Museum of Art's Cinemarosa program.

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Calpulli Mexican Dance Company
Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 6:30 PM
Consider yourselves invited to a free, outdoor performance with Calpulli in lower Manhattan. Dancers and musicians will present a festive performance with interactive workshops. Practice your footwork (zapateado), skirtwork (faldeo), and just work it with Calpulli! Free bandanas from recycled fabric courtesy of Materials for the Arts for our audience volunteers who dance La iguana with us.

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150th Anniversary of the Battle of Puebla
Sunday, May 20, 2012 from 3-6 PM
Celebrate with Mano a Mano The 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Puebla.
Free and open to everyone! With special appearances by: Diana Rosano, Huapangos by Jarana Beat, Cielito Lindo Photo Booth, Finalists from the children's drawing contest “Este es Mi Meìxico”. Reception and art works from two Poblano artists.

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Pájaro

Mayo 18, 19 & 20, 2012
Actores mexicanos Cristian David y Fernando Reyes presentan Pájaro, un espectáculo teatral creado a partir del lenguaje Clown que prescinde del texto hablado, para contar una historia por medio de un humor absurdo y aguda en el que se desarrollan temas cotidianos y a veces olvidados sobre lo que representa el vuelo para el hombre.


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Hecho en México: Public Readings
May 20-22, 2012
The Play Company, Idea Lab, and the MCINY present 3 new plays by living Mexican playrights in a 3-day public reading series exploring some of Mexico's brightest theatrical voices. Featuring: "Idiots Contemplating the Snow" by Alejandro Ricaño, "Belize" by David Olguín, and " I hate F**king Mexicans" by Luis Gutierrez Ortiz Monasterio.

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Destination Design: Mexico

April 19-June30, 2012
The year’s Destination Design program, created by the Museum of Modern Art to showcase emerging designers and design themes from around the world, will feature Mexico. A selection of lifestyle products such as tabletop accessories, furniture, desk accessories, stationary, jewelry, toys and more will be available at MoMA Design Store locations and online. (Left: Pirueta Table)


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Sak Tzevul
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Sak Tzevul delivers a new brand of virtuosic, progressive rock guided by the band’s founder, Damian Martinez, whose electrifying lyrics, music and compositions, tackle the contemporary urgency of authentic indigenous voices. Free concert at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center!

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Visa to Paradise
Wednesday, May 30, 2012 @ 7pm
Visa al paraiso (Visa to Paradise, 2010), directed by Lilian Liberman, is a documentary on Gilberto Bosques Saldivar, the Mexican Consul General in France from 1939-1942, who was responsible for saving members of the Jewish community and Spanish Republicans during World War II.

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Fifty Years of Latin American Art

February 28 - May 30, 2012

A selection of art work from the Neuberger Museum of Art will be on display at the 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery to celebrate fifty years of Latin American Arts.  Works from contemporary and modern Mexican artists such as Betsabeé Romero, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, José Luis Cuevas, Nicolás De Jesús, Rufino Tamayo and José Clemente Orozco will be on display.  


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¡De Panzazo!
Monday, June 4, 2012 at 6:30pm
Americas Society cordially invites you to the New York premiere of ¡De Panzazo!, a powerful documentary looking to raise public awareness of the critical situation of Mexico’s education system and calling on all Mexicans to contribute to the improvement of education for all. A discussion and reception will follow the screening.

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Mexican Artists at BOFFO Show House 2012
May 18 - June 5, 2012
Mexican artists Pablo Elizondo, Moza Saracho and Eduardo Garza will present their work at the BOFFO Show House, an exhibition of art, design and installation work in Interior Design presented through four themes: Nature, Play, Work and Future. (Left: Blackhole and Sideral by Pablo Elizondo)

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Eternal Mexico
April 19 - June 9, 2012
Throckmorton Fine Art is pleased to offer an exhibit that both commemorates and compliments the publication of a major work in Latin American photography, Timeless Mexico: The Photographs of Hugo Brehme. This will be the first exhibit of Brehme’s photography in the United States
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No Man Is a Desert Island: Felipe Galindo-Feggo
May 25 – June 30, 2012
Artist Reception and Book Signing: Friday, May 25, 6-9pm

Felipe Galindo presents “No Man Is a Desert Island”, an exhibition of cartoons from the newly released book of the same title. An artist’s reception will be held on Friday May 25th, from 6-9 pm. Books will be available for purchase and signing.

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Hunter MFA Thesis Exhibition
May 16 - June 16, 2012
Hunter College MFA Thesis exhibition for the Spring 2012. Mexican participating artist: Marela Zacarias.

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For Greater Glory
May 2012
In the exhilarating action epic, produced by Mexican Pablo Jose Barroso, an impassioned group of men and women each make the decision to risk it all for family, faith and the very future of their country, as the films adventure unfolds against the long-hidden, true story of the 1920’s Cristero War.

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Roll to Proceed by Christian De Gré
April 6 - October 19, 2012
Fridays at 10:30 PM

Imagine, if you will, a world unencumbered by the stress of decision-making; a world where you never have to wonder if you made the ‘right decision.’ In this existential comedy, two roommates make this a reality by letting the roll of a DIE decide for them.
Directed by Christian De Gré.

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