<div class="gmail_quote"><font face="georgia, serif"><div style="font-family:arial"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Join us on December 15th for e5's special exhibit opening! </font><span style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large">Original artwork and dancing share the halls<b>, </b>featuring 2 imaginative artists and a Milonga </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; ">(free basic dance lesson provided)</span><span style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large">.</span></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div>WHAT: Oils & Acrylics by Carlos Mora-Ninci, </font><div><font face="georgia, serif"> Graphic Design by Klara L'ashenko, </font></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif"> Free Dance Lessons/Milonga Reception</font><div><font face="georgia, serif">WHEN: Wednesday, December 15th, 2010 8pm to late<br>
</font><div><font face="georgia, serif">WHERE: <b>encuentro 5</b> - </font><span style="font-family:georgia, serif"> <a href="http://www.encuentro5.org" target="_blank">www.encuentro5.org</a></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:georgia, serif"></span><font face="georgia, serif"> 33 Harrison Ave. 5th Floor, </font><span style="font-family:georgia, serif">Boston, MA 02111</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:georgia, serif"> Close to Downtown Crossing, Chinatown, Boylston T stops </span></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia, serif">ADMISSION: Free</span></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"> >> </font><span style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);line-height:19px">Featured Artists:</span><div>
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</font></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);line-height:19px"><font face="georgia, serif"><strong style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Carlos Mora-Ninci (Argentina)</strong> - Evocative oils and acrylics connect the global community with textured struggles of rural Argentina and Cordoba Province. Each brush stroke refracts stories from the mountains and their people. Sinewy, tortured, and even broken landscapes speak to majesty and turmoil (</font></span><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);line-height:19px"><big style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><small style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><a href="http://studiomora.org/ahora/" target="_blank">studiomora.org/ahora/</a>)</small></big>. </span></font></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);line-height:19px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);line-height:19px">Mora-Ninci</span><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);line-height:19px"> has made contributions both as a writer-scholar-activist in the social sciences, producing research and authoring a book on the struggles of Chicano/as and US Latinos for the right to hold a relevant education, as well as in his artistic themes through visual ideas. Carlos is painting and building ecofriendly concepts with new visual messages. </span><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);line-height:19px"><em style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Artist will join event direct from his studio in Cordoba via video conference.</em></span></font></div>
<div><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);line-height:19px"><em style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="georgia, serif"><br>
</font></em></span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);line-height:19px"><em style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="georgia, serif"><strong style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-style:normal">Klara L'ashenko (Ukraine) </strong><span style="font-style:normal">- Captivating and original graphic design that challenges the textures of time and tradition with a refreshingly daring irreverence for realism. Landscapes and moods enter a vortex of creativity in a collection of works inspired from photos taken in India, Greece, and Peru. </span></font></em></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);line-height:19px"><em style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="font-style:normal"><br>
</span></font></em></span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);line-height:19px"><em style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="font-style:normal">L'ashenko was a vocal opponent of </span>both<span style="font-style:normal"> invasions of Afghanistan, from the Soviet Union and the USA, raising my brother and me between the two, and immigrating to the States in 1986.</span></font></em></span><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);line-height:19px"><em style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="font-style:normal"> Recalcitrant and non-conformist, L'ashenko's creativity first erupted as the producer of a</span></font></em></span><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);line-height:19px"><em style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="font-style:normal"> daring and socially progressive theater troop in Lviv, Ukraine. L'ashenko is now secretly a poet and builds her home in the mountainous countryside of Bulgaria. </span></font></em></span><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);line-height:19px"><em style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-style:normal"><font face="georgia, serif"><em style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Artist present.</em></font></span></em></span></div>
<div><font color="#333333" face="georgia, serif"><span style="line-height:19px"><i><br></i></span></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><b>Why Tango at e5?</b> Tango has a fascinating history, born in the working-class neighborhoods of Montevideo and Buenos Aires, with roots in African rhythms and the Cuban habanera. Originally a sensual dance performed by two men, Tango has been developed, in other words domesticated and commercialized, into a Western cliche that has little to do with its raw and powerful nature. However, few human conversations can compare to the subtle and profound listening summoned in the dance, its surrendered flow of resonance, and the bold convergence it displays, placing it into a category of communication all its own. In this world of crisis and injustice, it is effective to organize, to resist, to build alternatives, ... and to dance our anger, our freedom, and our love. Beyond genders and borders, real Tango, like true art, reclaims something inexpressible...</font></div>
<div><span style="font-family:georgia, serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia, serif">Join us for a unique experience.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia, serif"><br>
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