The past, present and future of the Hispanic community in this country, from a socio-economic and literary perspective, will be the focus of an upcoming panel discussion presented by Stong College on the State of Inclusiveness: Being Hispanic in Canada.
Right: Margarita Feliciano
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The State of Inclusiveness: Being Hispanic in Canada panel discussion will take place Tuesday, March 10 from 3 to 7pm at Sylvester’s, 201 Stong College, Keele campus. There will also be a launch for two bilingual (Spanish/English) collections of poety, El Portal de la Sirena/The Mermaid’s Gateway and De Viajes y Rodajes/Break-in Voyage, by York Professor Emerita Margarita Feliciano.
The purpose of the panel discussion is to illustrate the challenges and issues faced by this growing community and to provide ideas and suggestions on how to best maximize its presence in Canada.
Duberlis Ramos, executive director of the Hispanic Development Council; Mauricio Ospina, an international marketing consultant for the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development & Trade; and Juan Carranza, founder and principal of Carranza Barristers & Solicitors, Toronto’s largest ethnic law firm, will use official Canadian statistics as well as community reports and their own experiences to illustrate the current position and future of the Hispanic community in Canada.
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Left: Patricia Keeney
Feliciano, a York professor emerita in Glendon’s Department of Hispanic Studies, will read from some of her poetry. There will also be literary contextualized readings of prose works and poetry translations from Spanish to English by Patricia Keeney, a writer and creative writing professor in York’s Department of English; Guillermo Bañuelos, a lawyer by training and an educator by profession, who explores literary creation in Spanish short stories and poetry which he translates into English; and Claudio Kuczer, a short story writer who has received literary prizes from the Hispanic community and Glendon for his work.
Everyone is welcome. Light refreshments will be served.