Engage in a week of Spanish and Spanish culture at the College of Southern Idaho's fifth annual Sun Valley Summer Spanish Institute. The institute will start on Monday, June 13, and continue through Friday, June 17. The week-long Spanish education experience gives adults Spanish language skills and broadens their knowledge of Spanish-speaking cultures. The institute will accept attendees through today, June 10. For details, call 788-2033 or visit HYPERLINK "http://www.csi.edu/blaine" www.csi.edu/blaine.
The morning academic classes range from a beginning to advanced levels. The afternoon cultural workshops include art history, music and cooking. The intensive week-long format and diverse activities are designed to challenge motivated learners in a fun and friendly atmosphere.
Beyond academics, the institute will include Art of Remedios Varo, an art history workshop with Courtney Gilbert, who served a Fulbright fellowship in Mexico and is the curator of visual arts at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts. She will teach an introduction class to the surrealist works of Varo, a Spanish-Mexican woman artist of the mid-20th century. Other classes include learning to make paella, a national dish of Spain, with Chef Felix Gonzales of the famed Felix's Restaurant in Ketchum.
Boise State University Spanish Professor María Alicia Garza will teach the form and significance of the corrido, a form of Mexican ballad, and present examples. Pete Webb, who has lived in Chile and led educational trips in Patagonia, will present a class on landscape and interesting cultural composition of the Patagonia region of South America. In addition, the short film "Diez Minutos" from Spain will be screened.
Other classes include learning Mexican games to practice vocabulary, poems of Federico García Lorca and how to navigate when traveling in a Spanish-speaking country.
These classes and much more are part of the week-long institute experience, which will include a performance by the Grammy Award-winning band Grupo Fantasma, a Latin funk orchestra, at Hop Porter Park in Hailey on Thursday, June 16, at 7 p.m. Tickets are available to the public for $15 for Center members and $20 for nonmembers. Tickets for kids under 12 are $5.
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Grupo Fantasma will kick off summer concerts on Thursday, June 16, at Hop Porter Park in Hailey for the Sun Valley Center for the Arts. The band is also part of the “traditional” Fandango concert presented in conjunction with the fifth annual Summer Spanish Institute, which will take place Monday, June 13, through Friday, June 17. Photo by Daniel Perlaky
