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miércoles, 12 de junio de 2013

2013 Los Mangos Library SUMMER COURSE "FANTASTIC PEOPLE"


The world is a space where a surprising amount of different, interesting, and talented people live. People who dream, construct and give their time and work to help those who are less fortunate. People who give their knowledge and effort to preserve natural resources or save animals. People who make music, make us smile with a song or an applause. People who live teaching others how to take care and enjoy what the planet gives us. They’re strong, weak, big, small, young and old people. There’s an infinite amount of people, but something that all of them have in common, everyone including you and me, is that they are fantastic people.


This is the premise of the 2013 Los Mangos Library Summer Course.
It’ll be four wonderful weeks where there will be dozens of activities related to the arts, culture, and environmental conservation, as well as recreational novelties that stimulate team-work, patience and the tenacity to achieve their goals and, above all, to learn from others in a festive environment of respect and cooperation.
The course has three specific objectives. 1. Send a positive message to boys and girls. Make them feel like and make them know that they are fantastic people. 2. Make them conscious through super fun activities about other equally fantastic people, in spite of their limitations. 3. Encourage them to create a vision of a fantastic future where they can contribute with their grain of sand to improve our world.
Among other activities, we’ll have singing, music and dance with the teacher Alexa Mozqueda (singer, dancer and actress. Currently Los Mangos Library dance initiation class teacher.) Drawing, painting, engraving, mural, modelling, etc. lead by Claudia Vázquez (self-taught artist and graphic designer. Children’s painting class teacher during recent years) and gardening taught by Camila Aguirre (ecologist and member of the musical duet Frixoleros). There will be a pool and three theme-centered camp nights: Disco night, Talent-show night and Costumes night. This year we’ll also have Gymkana, a rally-type activity that’s really fun. Finally, the participation of civil associations such as Fundación Down, the CANICA program, Impulso de Águila, H. Cuerpo de Bomberos (Firemen) and others stand out.


Los Mangos 2013 Summer Course:
For “Minis” from 3 to 5 years and “big” children from 6 to 12 years.
From July 8 to August 2, 2013.
From Monday to Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m./ Camp nights from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m.
All material, medical insurance and commemorative t-shirt included.
Donation: “Minis” $2,650.- “Big” $2,500.-
Discount for siblings and 2012 price if you pay before June 18 in one exhibition.
OPEN INSCRIPTION. REQUIREMENTS: two credential sized (2.5 x 3 cm) photographs, a copy of a receipt with your current address (phone, water, light, etc.) and a copy of an official ID.  Please have medical information ready.


More information: bibliotecalosmangos@gmail.com 224-9966 / 293-1957

martes, 11 de junio de 2013

COLORS ON CANVAS PV Make way for Summer ART SALE



Friday, June 14, 2013 -  4 - 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, June 15, 2013 - 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Upper section of the Sea Monkey Restaurant- Los Muertos Beach

Each artist will donate a % of sale proceeds to the
Biblioteca Los Mangos (library)

Pick up some wonderful original oil and acrylic art work at a significant reduction in price.  Both days the Sea Monkey will be open for business as usual, with their value for your money menu and cash bar for drinks.  You can take advantage of the opportunity to browse and buy excellent paintings then sit a while to enjoy the flavour of Los Muertos Beach.  We look forward to seeing all of our old, new and future friends there.

Some of the paintings that will be available on the Summer ART SALE:



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martes, 16 de abril de 2013

International Day of the Book.


On April 23, 1995, the UNESCO promulgated, for the first time, this date as the International Day of the Book, and since then, more countries organize activities to promote reading, editing industry and copyright protection.
Los Mangos Library wants to join more than a hundred countries that, each year, celebrate the book as an object, and reading as a key for social development.
This time, Los Mangos Library will do a reading-at-loud exercise in three different locations and schedules, and will invite different members of the community to read, with the intention of just sharing the pleasure of reading and to draw the attention of passers-by, hopefully igniting in them the restlessness to start this activity.

The installation of each location will consist of a sofa or chair, a banner, a microphone and speakers, and if needed, a sun umbrella. The duration in each location will be two hours minimum and three hours maximum.

The places and schedules where each point will be installed are:
  •         Main access of the Palacio Municipal or the kiosk in the Main Plaza. 10-12 hrs.
  •          Lazaro Cardenas Square from 12:30 to 14:30 hrs.
  •          Pitillal Square from 18-20 hrs
  •          Los Mangos Library from 14 to 20 hrs.

viernes, 15 de febrero de 2013

Proyección especial del Documental "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry"

Acompáñenos a una proyección especial del Documental ganador del Festival Sundance "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry" (Ai Weiwei: Sin Pena)
Introducción por el curador y crítico de arte Jeff Kelley, la artista Hung Liu y Cristhian Rios.
Breve sesión de preguntas y respuestas después del filme
Lunes, 18 de Febrero, 6:30PM, Biblioteca Los Mangos ¡ENTRADA GRATIS!


Organizada por Pilar Pérez y Pulpo Rojo.

Película sobre el famoso artista y activista chino Ai Weiwei. En los últimos años, Weiwei ha captado la atención internacional tanto por su ambiciosa obra como por sus provocaciones políticas. El filme analiza la confluencia entre arte y activismo social a través de la vida y la creación de los artistas contemporáneos más importantes de China. http://aiweiweineversorry.com/

Jeff Kelley ha sido un crítico de arte practicando desde 1977. Ha contribuido con artículos y ensayos en publicaciones importantes como: Artforum, Art in America y el diario Los Angeles Times. Profesor de Teoría del Arte y Crítica en la Universidad de California, campus Berkeley de 1993 a 2005. El Sr. Kelley también fue el curador consultor en el Museo de Arte Asiático en San Francisco de 1998 a 2008. Actualmente el Sr. Kelley está escribiendo un ensayo para el catálogo de la instalación del artista Ai Weiwei; dicha instalación será exhibida en el pabellón Alemán durante la Bienal de Venecia de este año.

Hung Liu (刘虹) es una artista contemporánea Estadounidense nacida en la República Popular de China, que emigro a los Estados Unidos en 1984. Fue estudiante de la Universidad de Profesores en Beijing en 1975 y estudió un postgrado en pintura mural en la Academia Central de Artes Plásticas en Beijing. También es ex alumna de la Universidad de California, Campus San Diego graduada en 1986. En sus pinturas y grabados a menudo hace uso de fotografías históricas Chinas con sujetos anónimos, particularmente aquellas que retratan a mujeres, niños, refugiados y soldados. Una de las primeras artistas Chinas que estudió en Los Estados Unidos, el Trabajo de Liu representa cla constante tensión entre la emigración en inmigración. Liu ha recibido numerosos premios y sus trabajos se encuentran dentro de importantes colecciones, tanto de museos como privadas, en Los Estados Unidos y Asia. Ella es actualmente Profesora de Pintura en la Universidad Mills de California.

Critica:
Para neófitos del arte contemporáneo
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Director:    Alison Klayman País: USA Año: 2012.  Duración: 91 min. Género: Documental
Por David Broc

Firme candidato a erigirse en uno de los mejores documentales del año, “Ai Weiwei: Never sorry”, que se adentra en la vida y obra del artista y activista chino Ai Weiwei, brilla en todos los frentes que se propone. El primero, el formal, está marcado por una acabado estético de gran belleza y clarividencia y por una apuesta narrativa cercana al thriller político que le imprime tensión y ritmo ágil al contenido. El segundo, el temático, no puede funcionar mejor: el documental sirve de ejemplar introducción al legado y personalidad del protagonista. Y el tercero, el conceptual, es quizás más interesante, porque la película va más allá de su condición de radiografía general de Ai Weiwei y profundiza en otros aspectos de considerable relevancia: Twitter como símbolo de herramienta democrática, los canales de comunicación alternativos, la rebeldía como actitud creativa o la libertad de expresión como leitmotiv de una lucha existencial. Y aunque Alison Klayman insiste en mostrarnos la parte más emocional del activista para humanizar deliberadamente su figura, uno de los principales méritos de la directora y del documental es que no cae en la tentación del juicio sumarísimo ni la criminalización fácil y panfletaria del gobierno chino. “Ai Weiwei: Never sorry” no es tanto un ensayo sobre las privaciones, maldades y persecuciones del régimen comunista como un análisis sobre la capacidad del arte para agitar conciencias y enfrentarse a lo establecido.

miércoles, 6 de febrero de 2013

¡A Little help for a Big Project!



DONATIONS

The number of services that the library provides it´s community every year is impressive, around 80 thousand, but what is even more impressive is that this is even possible; Los Mangos Library depends basically on donations from people like you. Now and days the library doesn´t receive benefits, sponsorships or any kind of help to cover its operation, equipment and maintenance expenses. Each peso that is necessary to maintain the Library must be funded and is spent clearly and judgingly.

We need your help. Contribute to the library and feel the pride of giving your community a space where thousands of children, teenagers and adults find answers to broaden their opportunities and enrich their lives through culture.

You can help in hundreds of ways, the most important step is to take action!

Donations in cash or projects you can fund.
  • Join the Friends of the Library: donate from 200 to 1000 pesos monthly during a year. You can do it online or call us and we will go.
  • Fund a scholarship for a boy or girl in our summer camps: 25% of the attendees to summer camp are boys and girls from orphanages, shelters or in a situation of poverty. You may give them a unique experience during 4 weeks. Get to know our summer camps at Los Mangos Library.
  • Adopt one of our main projects:  Invite your family, friends, neighbors, workmates, partners etc.  Choose a project, adopt it and help us maintain our facilities, update our equipment, among others, these today are our main needs:
  1. Automating our catalog search
  2. Mayor fumigation
  3. New computers for the digital module for free service to users
  4. New chairs for our reading room
  5. Lighting and acoustics for the Benefactors Hall
  6. Ceiling repair work in the reading room and lounges
  7. Waterproofing the building
Donations in kind

It is always useful to receive:
  • Stationery Supplies such as white board markers, white bond letter size paper and printer ink.
  • Multifunction printers in good condition and working 100%
  • Desktops in perfect condition and working 100%
  • Projectors, screens, shutters and general audiovisual equipment
  • Lights and fans
  • White Paint
  • Tables and folding chairs

If you have questions or want to know if what you want to donate will be useful, call us, we will answer all your questions. AND THANK YOU!





lunes, 24 de diciembre de 2012

Haz tu donativo a Biblioteca Los Mangos - Make a Donation to Los Mangos Library


¿Sabías que? Biblioteca Los Mangos es una asociación civil que se conserva gracias a las aportaciones que realizan instituciones y personajes del sector privado. Con tu donativo apoyas al mantenimiento y desarrollo de actividades para fomentar la cultura en Puerto Vallarta.


Did you know? Los Mangos Library is a civil association that receives contributions of companies from the private sector for continue giving service. With your donation you can help us to continue preserving the culture in Puerto Vallarta

Click aquí para hacer tu donativo 

Click here to make your donation