Sacramento State’s Serna Center will host a number of programs highlighting diversity and culture during the spring including the Latin American Film Festival, which continues through Tuesday, March 24.
The festival, co-sponsored with the Honors Program, presents films about Chile, Cuba, and Latin America. Films are reviewed by film critics from The Sacramento Bee for their craftsmanship, quality and significance.
Also in the spring, the center will host Sacramento Bee columnist Marcos Breton who will discuss the area’s present and future in Sacramento Politics: There Will Be Blood, 12:30–2 p.m., Thursday, April 30. Breton will lead a frank and lively discussion on Sacramento’s new mayor, city and state politics, Proposition 8, and predictions for the state and Sacramento’s future.
The Jewish Presence in Latin America will be discussed and a Sabbath dinner held 4:30–6:30 p.m., Friday, May 1.
Stanford University Professor Susan Loeb will be featured at an education seminar (co-sponsored by Sacramento State’s Educational Doctorate program) 4:30-6 p.m., Friday, May 8. The program looks at problems confronting students and educators from pre-school through college in California, how they affect learning and teaching and what must be done to solve the problems.
The Serna Center is located in the University Library. It is named for Sacramento’s late mayor and Government Professor Joe Serna, and his wife, the late University administrator and Ethnic Studies Professor Isabel Hernandez-Serna.
The center serves as a cultural hub for students and is a venue for discussions, forums and events for the campus community. It was created for the study of California’s increasing diversity, with a particular emphasis on Latinos.
