RINCON LATINO : "LA PALABRA DEL DíA"

milonga

"Es sabido que la música popular rioplatense suele expresar quejas, lamentos, sufrimientos, penas de amor y de nostalgia. Tal vez esto pueda explicar el nombre de la milonga, uno de los ritmos típicos platenses, que fue tomado de milonga, palabra que en la lengua africana quimbundo, traída a América por los esclavos, significaba ‘queja’, ‘lamento’, ‘calumnia’ o ‘demanda’. Se cree que tanto la milonga como el tango se derivan, en última instancia, de ritmos africanos que llegaron al continente con los esclavos."

Catch the Reading Bug ... and Dance

Tomorrow, Katherine Ambuhl and Ikhlas Haleem, instructors from Spotlight Dance and Fitness, will be on hand at Central Library to coach adult readers in a free East Coast Swing dance workshop!

This is the kick-off program for Central's Adult Summer Reading Program. Two addional dance programs, teaching the Fox Trot and Cha Cha, will be held on June 22 and June 29, respectively.

So ... this is a actually an advert for the new-this-year adult participation in the traditional Summer Reading Program, which starts today. The theme - "Catch the Reading Bug." To jazz up your reading experience, go to the library's home page and click the "summer reading" image in the left sidebar. A quick online registration, and you're good to go! Cross off the activities on your reading bingo card, and when you've got 5 in a row, you will receive a free library tote bag (one per participant), and an entry for the end-of-summer drawing for a $50 Target gift certificate.

May I have this dance?

Carmen Miranda Film Festival

Born in Portugal and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha reigned as Hollywood's "Brazilian Bombshell" and number one box office attraction during the 1940s. The "Lady in the Tutti-Fruitti Hat" actually started as a hat maker and eventually brought Brazilian music and dance to the world with her extravagant musical performances alongside Alice Faye, Xavier Cugat, Cesar Romero, Groucho Marx, and Elizabeth Taylor. Join us to explore the cultural impact and film legacy of this often imitated, but never surpassed star. The program will be presented by Fred Dobb, Ph.D. director, Federico Films; and faculty member at San Francisco State University.

The program will be on August 22, from 6:00 to 7:30 in the Central Library's Sacramento Room at 828 "I" Street, Sacramento, CA 95814. To reserve a seat, please telephone (916) 264-2920 or visit http://www.saclibrary.org/.