Latin American Project
"Faces of Revolution:
The Many Faces of Change"

Lavan's Class

Our class theme is focusing on the people who played a major role during Latin American revolutions entitled "Faces of the Revolution". As a class we felt that it was important to recognize each individual who contributed to these revolutions throughout history and we also thought that the people who have made a difference in the world in the recent past should be recognized. As a class we thought that the Sandinistas and Sub-commadante Marcos would best represent people fighting for freedom and the struggle for land ownership.Diego Riverra and Frida Kahlo would best relate to magical realism because of their meaningful way of artisticly representing all aspects of latin American history. Marcos faught against the government and the struggle to globalize latin America. He spoke out against the government with his ideas and point of views to keep the land distributed between the citizens, including the farmers of Chiapas.With revolution comes great change and many indigenous cultures were affected by revolutions. Since the Spanish invasion many indigenous people lost their lives to disease but also lost their culture to the Catholic missionaries.      

The mural is one of the most important parts of this Latin American project.Without the mural project our class theme and main focus, "Faces of the Revolution", could not be well represented. The mural shows the people who were involved in the Latin American revolutions.

Link to Group's Mural Page

The Video Group is working to create a documentary video project consisting of slide images accompanied by music to set the tone and mood of the movie. The movie is theme oriented to the "Faces of Revolution" topic. The aspects of the movie that relate the project to our classes theme are Zapata, and artists such as Frida Fahlo, and Diego Rivera and there life struggles and the contributions they brought to the Latin American Revolution.

Link to Group's Video Page

Each performance group has their own idea and task to best show "Faces of the Revolution". One group will be reading magical realism poems written by Latin American authors while two other groups will be performing short skits."The true meaning of a Revolution" lead by Mijail Benitez relates to the beginning of the revolutions and the other group "Faces of the Revolution" lead by Claire O'Connell is  focusing on the people involved in the revolutions. Our forth performance group lead by Cory Teshera-Sterne will be presenting a musical piece called "Ya Basta!",a song with Latin American flavor but mixed in with a deeper meaning of revolutions. 

Link to Group's Performances Page