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Antelope Valley College will continue to offer remote learning for the Spring 2021 semester. To prepare for the Spring 2021 semester, students should begin to c...heck the class schedule to identify the various class "modes" that will be offered. See the 2021 Spring class schedule here: https://www.avc.edu/information/schedule. There is still time for students to reach out to a counselor to ensure that education plans are current, connect with their student service program for support, and apply for Financial Aid. Learn more at AVC.edu. #AVEducation #LancasterCA #AVC #Spring2021Semester

October 19. Know Your Rights Workshop- 12-1 pm October 19. Brazilian Music Workshop- 4:30- 6 pm (https://www.viverbrasil.com/) October 20. Spoken Word Poetry- 1-2 pm ... October 20. Life Undocumented with Dr.Mario Mendoza -5-6:30 pm (https://www.lifeundocumented.org/founders-story) October 21. Brazilian Bloco Afro Dance Workshop- 12-1:30 pm October 21. Peace and Power: Learn how to overcome stress and connect to your life plan-4:30-6 pm October 22. DACA Updates- 11 am -12pm October 22. Brazilian Dance Workshop- Samba de Roda a traditional Brazilian dance from the region of Recôncavo- 12-1:30 October 22. Undocumented Student Identity: Experiences & Trauma- 5-7 pm October 23. From Undocumented Student to Law School- A discussion with Karla De La Torre- 2-3 pm October 23. Latin Virtual Dance Party- Baila With the Dreamers Center 5-8 pm Brazilian Music and Dance workshops provided by (https://www.viverbrasil.com/) Co-sponsored by AVC Dept. of Performing Arts

Sandra Cisneros is a Latina American novelist who wrote the bestselling novel 'The House on Mango Street.' Who Is Sandra Cisneros? Sandra Cisneros was born on December 20, 1954, in Chicago, Illinois. Her novel The House on Mango Street, about a young Latina woman coming of age in Chicago, has sold more than two million copies. Cisneros has received numerous awards for her work, including the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the Texas Medal of the Arts. She lives in San Ant...onio, Texas. Early Life and Career American writer and poet. Born on December 20, 1954, in Chicago, Illinois. One of seven children and the only daughter, she has written extensively about the Latina experience in the United States. Cisneros is best known for The House on Mango Street (1984), which tells the story of a young Latina woman coming of age in Chicago. The novel has sold more than two million copies. Books and Awards Cisneros has explored many literary forms in her work. She wrote several collections of poetry, including My Wicked, Wicked Ways (1987), which was well received by critics. She created an impressionistic portrait of life on the border between the United States and Mexico through a series of vignettes in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991). READ NEXT SCHOLARS Jaime Escalante (19302010) ATHLETES Oscar De La Hoya (1973) MUSICIANS Gloria Estefan SINGER (1957) Cisneros has received numerous awards for her work, including the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1995 and the Texas Medal of the Arts Award in 2003. She lives in San Antonio, Texas. In September 2016, President Barack Obama presented Cisneros with a National Medal of Arts. At the ceremony, President Obama said Cisneros was being honored "for enriching the American narrative. Through her novels, short stories, and poetry, she explores issues of race, class, and gender through the lives of ordinary people straddling multiple cultures. As an educator, she has deepened our understanding of American identity." https://www.biography.com/writer/sandra-cisneros

Important Spring 2021 Semester Update Antelope Valley College will continue to offer remote learning for the Spring 2021 semester (with the exception of critica...l workforce disciplines). This decision is aligned with guidance from the LA County Department of Public Health and in concert with the vast majority of community colleges throughout California. Students: Prepare today to continue your education this Spring! Students should begin to check the class schedule on Oct. 15 to identify the various class "modes" that will be offered for the Spring 2021 semester. New students should apply by Oct. 29 to receive priority registration. Current students should prepare for the Spring 2021 semester by reaching out to a counselor to ensure that their education plans are current and connecting with their student service program for support. All students should apply for Financial Aid - if you haven’t yet done so, there is still time. As a reminder, there will be no intersession offered this year. Please Contact Us if you have any questions. https://www.avc.edu/node/4130

Pablo Picasso was one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, famous for paintings like ‘Guernica’ and for the art movement known as Cubism. Who Was Pablo Picasso? Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and stage designer considered one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. Picasso is credited, along with Georges Braque, with the creation of Cubism. ... Early Life Pablo Picasso was born in Málaga, Spain, on October 25, 1881. Picasso's mother was Doña Maria Picasso y Lopez. His father was Don José Ruiz Blasco, a painter and art teacher. His gargantuan full name, which honors a variety of relatives and saints, is Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso. A serious and prematurely world-weary child, the young Picasso possessed a pair of piercing, watchful black eyes that seemed to mark him destined for greatness. "When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope,'" he later recalled. "Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." Though he was a relatively poor student, Picasso displayed a prodigious talent for drawing at a very young age. According to legend, his first words were "piz, piz," his childish attempt at saying "lápiz," the Spanish word for pencil. https://www.biography.com/artist/pablo-picasso

Singer Gloria Estefan is often synonymous with Latin music in the United States. Born in Cuba in 1957, Estefan’s family fled to Miami during the Cuban Revolution in 1959. Her father enlisted in the military shortly after they immigrated and took part in the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba, where he was captured by his own cousin and held prisoner for two years. While performing in a church ensemble in 1975, Estefan first met her future husband Emilio Estefan, who had rece...ntly formed a band in Miami. She and her cousin were invited to join his band and renamed it Miami Sound Machine, leading to hits like Conga, Anything for You, Rhythm Is Gonna Get You," and Hot Summer Nights." The band’s name was dropped in 1989, with Estefan embarking on a successful solo career ever since. Estefan married Emilio in 1976 and the couple welcomed two children, Nayib and Emily. Her lengthy career has earned her three Grammy Awards and a Presidential Medal of Freedom under President Obama in 2015, as well as the Kennedy Center Honors in 2017. The musical On Your Feet, telling the story of her and Emilio’s life, premiered on Broadway in 2015. https://www.biography.com/news/notable-hispanic-americans https://www.biography.com/news/notable-hispanic-americans

IT’S TACO TUESDAY! Join us on Zoom Tues 10/13/20 from 11am-1pm to travel through Latin America on a virtual showcase! Enjoy 2 free Tacos from Tacos El Superior (with any $5 purchase and your AVC ID or fall schedule)

Ellen Ochoa made her mark by becoming the first Hispanic American woman to go to space with a nine-day mission in 1993. Ochoa was born in 1958 in Los Angeles, California, years after her paternal grandparents immigrated from Mexico. She first obtained her physics degree from San Diego State University and later her masters and doctorate from Stanford University’s department of electrical engineering by 1985. Through her impressive research work, NASA selected Ochoa in 1991 an...d she became an astronaut in July of that year. Two years later, Ochoa made history on board the Space Shuttle Discovery on a mission to study the Earth’s ozone layer. She later completed three more missions. Ochoa became the first Hispanic American director of the Johnson Space Center in 2013, only the second woman to take the helm. After retiring with 30 years of service, Ochoa continues to advocate for women in STEM. https://www.biography.com/news/notable-hispanic-americans

UCLA presents: Join us, 12noon-1:15pm, Monday, October 12th, for a Reel Talk Film Series screening of Tending The Wild. This screening hosted by the UCLA Beloved Community Initiative in support of Indigenous People’s Day 2020. Welcoming remarks will be provided by UCLA African American Studies & American Indian Studies Profess Kyle T. Mays. To attend, please click here register before the event: http://beloved.link/reeltalkUCLAIndigenous... And to find us on Facebook click here: https://www.facebook.com/events/452542672380983 About the Film Tending The Wild shines a light on the environmental knowledge of indigenous peoples across California by exploring how they have actively shaped and tended the land for millennia, in the process developing a deep understanding of plant and animal life. The film also examines how it is necessary for humans to live in balance with nature and how traditional practices of the Indigenous Peoples of California can inspire a new generation to tend their environment.

Much like Rubio, Ted Cruz has elevated the representation of Hispanic Americans in Congress. Cruz was born Rafael Edward Cruz in Calgary, Canada, in 1970 to an American mother and a Cuban father who had been living in Canada for three years. His father initially left the family and moved to Texas, though his parents reconciled and the family relocated to Houston in 1974. They later divorced in 1997. The future politician graduated valedictorian from his high school and went t...o Princeton, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in public policy in 1992. Cruz went on to Harvard Law School, earning his degree in 1995. Cruz quickly entered politics, joining George W. Bush’s presidential campaign in 1999 where he assisted in building Bush’s legal team during the Florida presidential recounts. After serving as Texas Solicitor General from 2003 to 2008, Cruz stepped away to work in private practice. He returned to public policy when he was elected U.S. Senator of Texas in the 2012 election. Cruz ran for president in 2016, entering the primary race in March 2015, earning 12 states and receiving 7.8 million votes. He suspended his campaign in May 2016, weeks before the Republican National Convention that made Donald Trump's nomination official.

HAPPENING NOW! Welcome to the FYE Mid Semester Check In! We are glad that you are here! We hope that you take full advantage of the resources available to you today. Here is a check list to assist you in that goal https://forms.gle/cyTHbZnnLTZcvCX57 Please complete all the items that apply to you and submit as a record of your attendance. THE RESOURCE FAIR IS OPEN UNTIL 11:30AM COUNSELORS AVAILABLE NOW!

Senator Marco Rubio has made his mark in politics as a leading member of the Republican party. A Miami native, Rubio was born in 1971 to Cuban immigrants who fled the Batista regime in 1956, two years before Fidel Castro took over through the Cuban Revolution. Though Rubio obtained citizenship through his birth, his parents didn’t become naturalized citizens until after his birth in 1975. Rubio went to Tarkio College in Missouri for one year on a football scholarship in 1989 ...before returning to Florida and later transferring to the University of Florida. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in 1993 there and later earned his law degree from the University of Miami in 1996. His career in politics started just three years later when he won a run-off election in the fight for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives. He rose through the ranks and became House Speaker in 2005, the first Cuban American to do so. The politician announced his intention to run for U.S. Senate in 2009 and was elected the next year during the midterm elections. Rubio later entered the Republican presidential primary race in April 2015, becoming one of the first Hispanic Americans to have aspirations of the highest office. Though Rubio ended his campaign in March 2016 after placing second in Florida, the Senator did pick up three primary victories in Minnesota, Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. He pivoted and ran for Senate re-election that year instead, beating out his Democrat opponent Patrick Murphy with 52 percent of the vote.