Isla to Island with Alexis Castellanos
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5 to 7 p.m., March 5, 2024
K16 Educators! Please join us for next week's World Area Book Club meeting featuring 2023 Américas Award winning author Alexis Castellanos and her graphic novel Isla to Island.
This free event will start with a presentation by Alexis Castellanos and the opportunity for Q and A. Following a short period for discussion, participants will hear from an expert on Cuba to help contextualize the graphic novel. Curriculum resources will be shared.
About Isla to Island:
This stunning wordless graphic novel follows a young girl in the 1960s who immigrates from Cuba to the United States and must redefine what home means to her. Marisol loves her colorful island home. Cuba is vibrant with flowers and food and people…but things are changing. The home Marisol loves is no longer safe—and then it’s no longer her home at all. Her parents are sending her to the United States. Alone. Nothing about Marisol’s new life in cold, gray Brooklyn feels like home—not the language, school, or even her foster parents. But Marisol starts to realize that home isn’t always a place. And finding her way can be as simple as staying true to herself.
When: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 from 5:00-7:00 pm MST
Where: Zoom
The World Area Book Club is organized by the University of Minnesota's Institute for Global Studies. This event is sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona, The Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies at Vanderbilt University, The Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University, The Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Utah, The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies at UC Berkeley, and LLILAS Benson at UT Austin.
We look forward to seeing you there.
If you have any questions, please reach out to Katrina Dillon at kedillon@arizona.edu