"The Merry Everything" celebration

When: Saturday, December 12th, 11 a.m.

Cost: $5-$8.

Where: Cedar Cultural Center, 416 Cedar Av. S., Mpls.

Contact: 612-338-2674.

From the Star tribune (Melissa Walker): ""The Merry Everything" celebration encompases all holiday traditions with a family air guitar jam and rock concert. The interactive show encourages the audience to dance to music played by Will Hale and the Tadpole band. Also performances by competitors of the official US Air Guitar Championships. All guests will receive a gift to celebrate Hale's 20th anniversary performing for kids."

Date: 12/14/2009

Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Location: 308 Elmer L. Andersen Library

Cost: Free

Professor Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz's talk will concentrate on the 1970s and 1980s, when, under the Communist regime’s so-called ‘normalization’, outstanding Czech and Slovak writers were ostracized and their works barred from being published or performed.

Contact:

• Name: IHRC
• E-mail: ihrc@umn.edu
• Phone: 612-625-4800

Parking:

www.ihrc.umn.edu

Date: 12/11/2009

Time: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Location: 614 Social Sciences

Cost: Free and open to the public

This Colloquium Series and International Conference will explore the role that the recent exhumations of mass graves from the Spanish Civil War and subsequent dictatorship have had in the emergence of the movement for the “recovery of historical memory” in Spain.

Contact:

• Name: Ofelia Ferran
• E-mail: ferra007@umn.edu

More information: http://igs.cla.umn.edu/research/spain.html