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Sat Jun 20 - 6:00pm-8:00pm The Mexican Cultural Institute presents Cuenta con México with Janet Children will have the opportunity to listen to the popular Mexican storyteller, Janet Pankowsky and later have the opportunity to build a Quetzalcoatl (cornhusk puppets) with Jaznum Fragoso. RSVP quickly for this amazing event - this is a rare opportunity to have this group in town. Because this is a newly added event, please RSVP at artomatic_kids@hotmail.com. Also, to learn more about other activities by the Mexican Cultural Institute, visit http://portal.sre.gob.mx/imw/ ----------------------- Cuenta con México Introduction Cultures of all times and places have shared the pleasure of telling stories; it must be because stories make distances shorter, they help diverse peoples of the Earth realize they have so much in common, and they invite us to find ourselves in the discovery of others. Cuenta con México is a bridge made out of words and culture to make distant neighbors less distant; it is a different way of looking at the Mexican landscape where small things like the monarch butterflies, the whiteness of the moon, and a golden corn seed become more visible. This story is about showing through poetry, painting, colors, words and traditional dishes that which we Mexicans are: a more profound and diverse nation from what can be perceived at first sight. Biographical Sketch of Storyteller
As an actress, she studied with notorious professors like: Julio Castillo, José Luis Ibáñez, Héctor Azar, among others. She found in the storytelling tradition a magnificent way to blend together her biggest passions: literature and drama. Her storytelling career started in 2000 in a workshop given by the Cátedra Iberoamericana Itinerante de Narración Oral Escénica, an Ibero-American movement of importance. She then continued her learning with an experienced storyteller, Moisés Mendelewics. She has appeared on several stages that range from halls at The Palace of Fine Arts to book fairs, libraries, museums, schools, hospitals and even public parks and cafés. She has attended several international festivals like: Vivan los hombres, ellas cuentan in Cali, Colombia; Habla-Palabra, Fiesta de la palabra and Santa Catarina Festival in Mexico, City. She is currently part of the storytellers’ staff of Alas y raíces a los niños from CONACULTA (National Council for Culture and Arts) a governmental program attending to children needs in Mexico. Biographical Sketch of Artist Jaznum Fragoso was born in Mexico City, September 21, 1978. Has a College Degree in Plastic Arts from the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado “La Esmeralda” (National Arts School of Painting, Sculpture, Engraving “La Esmeralda”). 2003-2008. He completed a specialization in Ceramics on the same school of La Esmeralda. 2008 In 2008 he started working as a workshop teacher for CONACULTA, in the Department for Cultural Development for Children “Alas y Raices de La Casa de Estudio Diego Rivera”. At present he works for CONACULTA, in the Palacio de Bellas Artes, as an arts workshop teacher, imparting several activities in the areas of engraving, painting, and corporal expression. He initiated his learning and training in the field of scupture with the Masters Lucia Figueroa and Edgar Guzman. Painting and Drawing studies from the Taller de Artes y Oficios de Tepoztlan, AC. 1994. Later on he was hired as multidisciplinary workshop teacher in the same Taller de Artes y Oficios de Tepoztlan. He created a programme to assist the artistic areas in the public elementary school of Santo Domingo Ocotitlan, a village near Tepoztlan, Morelos. He created and coordinated a group of volunteers in a joint venture with Outreach International and the Taller de Artes y Oficios de Tepoztlan. This group supported extracurricular artistic activities, like dance, music and plastic arts, in several public elementary schools in that region. He imparted art workshops in rural areas and participated in the Inter-School Ceramics Workshop of the Arts and Science Fair, of the Benito Juarez elementary school. 2002. He has a degree in Audiovisual Realization from the Centro de Artes Audiovisuales de Guadalajara. 2002. |
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Pankowsky and Jaznum Fragoso. 
Janet Pankowsky majored in English Literature at the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) in 1997. Since then she devoted most of her time to the teaching of English literature to high school students in various private schools. In 1998 she obtained a Diploma for Overseas Teachers of English granted by the University of Cambridge and completed her studies with some courses in Applied Linguistics. 
