College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

September 20, 2005

Performance of Tres Vidas coming to ISU

The lives of three legendary Latin American women will come to life on the stage during a presentation of Tres Vidas (Three Lives) at Iowa State University on Wednesday, Oct. 5.

The performance, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall beginning at 8 p.m. Tres Vidas is sponsored by Iowa State's Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures in conjunction with the Latino Heritage Month Committee.

The evening-length performance by "Core Ensemble" is based on the lives of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, the Salvadoran peasant activist Rufina Amaya, and the Argentinean poet Alfonsina Storni.

"We believe that this performance fits in nicely with the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 – Oct. 15), an annual recognition of Latino culture enthusiastically celebrated by the Latino community at Iowa State and the surrounding community," said Dawn Bratsch-Prince, professor and chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.

Tres Vidas was written by the well-known Chilean author Marjorie Agosin in celebration of the lives and cultural, social, and intellectual contributions of the three Latin American women. Since the mid-1980s Agosin has emerged as one of the leading voices of Latin American feminism in the United States.

She is the author of some twenty books that include poetry, fiction and literary criticism and has won several distinguished prizes including the Letras de Oro Prize for Poetry, the Latino Literature Prize, and the Morgan Institute Prize for Achievement in Human Rights.

A professor of Spanish at Wellesley College, Agosin was recently named a fellow to the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University.

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