it's HERE! ECCSF 2011!

HEY MEChA!

It's finally here! After 1 year of planning, it's time for ECCSF at Yale!

Here is a less edited and not francisco-beautified version of the schedule of events for this weekend, beginning tomorrow:

Youth Inherit el Movimiento: Youth Leadership Through Art and Community Organizing

Feb. 4^th - 6^th, 2011

Friday, February 4th

6 pm – 11pm Registration in Dwight Hall

Old Campus

8 pm – 10 pm ECCSF Meet and Greet

La Casa Cultural (301 Crown St)

10 pm – 1 am ECCSF Mixer

Pierson Lower Court (261 Park St)

Saturday, February 5th

9:30 am – 11:00 am Early Morning Registration

WLH 113

9:30 am – 10:00 am Breakfast

WLH 112

10:15 am – 10:30 am Introduction: ECCSF Co-Chairs

Sudler Hall

10:30 am – 11:15 am Maceo Montoya “To the Artist, From his Son” Chicano muralist, activist, and instructor of Taller Arte del Nuevo Amanecer

Sudler Hall

11:15 am – 12:00 pm Community Organizing: Activist Panel

Lorella Praeli- CT Students for a DREAM, NYSYLC, Megan Fountain- Local New Haven Community Organizer

Sudler Hall

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Community Organizing: Breakout Workshops

· “DREAMS Deferred” Workshop – NYSYLC

WLH 116

· “Building your own Movement” – Diana Enriquez, Max Budovitch, Natalia Thompson, Katie Harrison

WLH 113

· “Unidad Latina en Acción” – Megan Fountain, John Lugo

WLH 114

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Lunch

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm ECCSF Representative Meeting

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm Arts: Youth Groups Panel

Youth Arts Curators at Zumix, Youth Rights Media, Art for Change

LC 102

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Arts: Breakout Workshops

· Tripod: Musical Performance LC 102

· Art for Change: “Combining Art with Social Justice” Workshop WLH 120

· Youth Rights Media: “Lost in Transition” Documentary Screening WLH 119

4:00 pm – 4:45 pm Juan Enríquez “How to make Hispanics more Powerful” Chairman and CEO of Biotechonomy LLC, fellow at Harvard’s Center for International Affairs

Sudler Hall

4:45 pm – 5:00 pm Closing Remarks: ECCSF Co-Chairs

Sudler Hall

5:00 pm – 7:45 pm Break Time

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Closing Dinner

Keynote Speaker: Tom Saenz, President and General Counsel of Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF)

African-American Cultural Center (211 Park St)

10:00 pm – 1:00 am ECCSF Mixer

36 Lynwood

10:00 pm – 1:00 am Movie screening

La Casa Cultural (301 Crown St)

Sunday, February 6^th

9:00 am – 11:00 am Breakfast and departure

La Casa Cultural (301 Crown St)

Come! Join us!

Love, MEChA