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On April 21, Chilean poet Raúl Zurita, accompanied by his translator Anna Deeny Morales, traveled to Berkeley where he gave a public reading from his forthcoming book “Sky Below” (a bilingual edition).

On April 22, he met with graduate students of Latin American poetry in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and talked about the great Latin American traditions that have guided his work.

Hosted by the Portuguese Studies Program and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese

The PFA is screening a number of films by the extraordinary Brazilian filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho. This is a unique opportunity.  Don't miss it!

Wednesday 3/2: Mighty Spirit (7pm)
Thursday 3/10: Scavengers and Metal Workers (6:30pm)
Wednesday 4/6: Master Building (7pm)
Thursday 4/14:  The End and the Beginning (7pm)
Friday 5/15: Last Conversations (8pm)

March 11 - August 2016 in the Bernice Layne Brown Gallery, Doe Library. This exhibit, NL || LE, presents a collection of digital works of literature—in Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan as well as English—side by side with experimental print materials from the past century. Meant to be read in computers and other digital devices, the electronic stories and poems reveal new ideas about literary and media developments and encourage visitors to interact with the machines. Exhibit cases and tables were designed by students in a Berkeley Center for New Media seminar.