LASA-LATIN AMERICAN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

Dear LASA members,

 We cannot finish the semester without a last event!! This time we will show the movie ‘The  Motrocycle Diaries’ on Friday 30th may, the last day of classes, at 5.30 pm at Graham Cornish A room 2nd floor Union House. It’s a great oportunity for you to learn a bit more about latin american history and culture, practice spanish and see some of the beautiful landscapes that Latin America offers. Snacks and drinks will be offered.

 We are also delighted to inform you that we will be holding a Latin American Film Festival at Melbourne Uni next semester and of course our well-known Welcome Party – ‘Fiesta Latina’, this time at Brasilian style.

 Thank you very much for your participation in the great events and activities this semester, and we are sure next one will be even better.

 See you on Friday!

LASA Committee

Some information about the movie:

Directed by    Walter Salles

Written by      Screenplay: Jose Rivera

                        Story: Che Guevara, Alberto Granado

Running time 126 min

Country          Argentina , Chile , Peru , France , Germany , UK , US

Language       Spanish and Quechua            

“The Motorcycle Diaries” is a biographical film about the journey and written memoir of the 23-year-old Ernesto Guevara, who would years later become internationally known as the iconic Marxist revolutionary "Che" Guevara. The film recounts the 1952 journey, initially by motorcycle, across South America by Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado. As the adventure centered on youthful hedonism unfolds, Guevara discovers himself transformed by his observations of the life of the impoverished indigenous peasantry. The road presents Ernesto Guevara and Alberto Granado a genuine picture of the Latin American identity. Through the characters they encounter on the road, Guevara and Granado learn the injustices the impoverished face and are exposed to people they would have never encountered in their hometown. The trip serves to expose a Latin American identity as well as explore the identity of one of its most memorable revolutionaries. Guevara is played by Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal, and Granado by the Argentine actor Rodrigo de la Serna who is a second cousin to Che Guevara on his maternal side.

The screenplay is based primarily on Guevara's travelogue The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto "Che" Guevara, with additional context supplied by Back on the Road: A Journey Through Latin America by Alberto Granado.

• SPANISH CLASSES:
  
  The Spanish Student Pack has been planned so as to intensively teach Spanish to our enrolled students.
  
  Classes will run from Week 4 and it will have a time period of 8 classes, to Week 11 of university timetable.
  
  There are two types of classes: Beginners and Advanced. $60 and $40 AUD respectively  for the whole SEMESTER!
  The Beginners class is for people who has very little or no knowledge about the Spanish language.
  The Advanced class is for people with sufficient knowledge and ability to communicate effectively with native speakers, classes are like conversational periods.
  
  Both classes has duration of 1:30 hour each. Classes will take place on Friday from 4.00 pm in Union House (room number to confirm)
  
  After completing the course, students will be expected to have greatly improved their listening, reading and writing skills.

Enroll at Union House - outside the apple store from tuesday 31st march to friday april 4th 12:30 to 2:30 pm