Winnet Courtyard

Rain Location:
The Great Hall, S2-19

Join the CCP family as we hold our annual Student Involvement Day. Visit with campus departments, clubs, and area organizations as they share the various ways in which students can become involved across campus and throughout the city. Free food, music, giveaways, and more!

Visit our “Story Table” near the Student Life Center information table and share your story of perseverance. What successes have you had in your life? How have you overcome the obstacles in the way of achieving your goals? We want to hear about them. Students will have the opportunity to have their picture taken and selected inspirational stories will appear on the Student Life Center website!

• Coloquio Hispanohablante - Alfabeto

Come to the cafeteria for a light-hearted and fun lesson on the Spanish alphabet. By the end of the lesson you’ll know the Spanish alphabet, be spelling words in Spanish and understanding words you hear spelled as well. Bring your lunch and your friends.

Light refreshments will be served.

Bonnell Small Auditorium

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• Art Exhibit & Closing Reception:
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage: The Goodlands Project

The Goodlands Photography Project at Centro Nueva Creación offers its students an opportunity to function as an essential key in transforming the neighborhood, which is too often referred to as the “Badlands.”

Centro Nueva Creación is reclaiming and renaming the surrounding locale, forcing the “Goodlands” into reality. By putting a camera in the hands of our youth, we encourage and guide the students to focus on the positive aspects of their lives. The image-making process becomes an outlet for exposing countless hidden truths, and our hope is that these images will offer a new perspective on the West Kensington and Fairhill neighborhoods of North Philadelphia.

North Philadelphia has been stigmatized by the media for years as the “Badlands;” a region ridden by drugs, crime, and poverty. The Goodlands Community Arts Program works against these negative perceptions by engaging the youth of the West Kensington and Fairhill neighborhoods in photography classes. It is these young people that provide endless images of hope and life through their photographic lens. At times, their photos capture the harsh realities of life in this neighborhood, but most striking is the strength of the people living here and the rich Latino culture that survives. Over the past 5 years, hundreds of youth in the Goodlands Community Arts Program have taken photographs that have been shared with thousands throughout Philadelphia in annual and traveling exhibitions.

Courtesy of http://www.goodlands.org/images/future/girls.htm.

Come enjoy works of art by The Goodlands and meet some of the young photographers.

Come to the cafeteria for a light-hearted, fun lesson on Spanish numbers. By the end of the lesson, you’ll be counting like a pro; forwards, backwards, by twos, threes, and much more! We’ll teach you the months of the year, also, so you can recite the date in Spanish. Bring your lunch and your friends!

Light refreshments will be served.

Bonnell Small Auditorium

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Community College of Philadelphia held its sixth Study Tour to Mérida in the Yucatán during spring break 2007. The workshop and visit included 15 students, who studied the rich and diverse cultural heritage of the Yucatán—the classical Maya, the colonial Spanish, and the modern Mexican. You won’t want to miss this exciting lecture and picture presentation. Find out how you can join the 2008 tour!

Facilitated by Christopher DiCapua, Chair, Foreign Languages Department, Mildred Savard, Visiting Lecturer of History, and Matthew R. Shupp, Assistant Director of Student Life – Student Programming.

• Film Encore: Spanglish (2004), 131 min.

A beautiful native Mexican woman becomes the housekeeper for the affluent, yet troubled, Clasky family. The result is a wittily perceptive collision of cultures and values, and a refreshingly honest look at such life-altering commitments as marriage, parenting, and devotion to family.

Light refreshments will be served.

• Coloquio Hispanohablante – Los Números

Come to the cafeteria for a light-hearted and fun lesson on Spanish numbers. By the end of the lesson you’ll be counting like a pro; forwards, backwards, by twos, threes, and much more! We’ll teach you the months of the year, also, so you can recite the date in Spanish. Bring your lunch and your friends!

Light refreshments will be served.

Magdalena is 14 and anxiously awaiting her 15th birthday where she'll celebrate her quinceañera. Her world starts to crumble when she discovers her pregnancy after not being able to fit in her gown for her quinceañera. Soon, she's kicked out of her home, abandoned by her family, and abandoned by her baby's father. Magdalena is then taken in by her great-granduncle, Tomas and her gay, often-in-trouble cousin, Carlos. There she finds a new family and life.

• Film Encore: Quinceañera (2006), 90 min.

• Film: Finding Nemo (2003), 100 min.
*Spanish with English Subtitles

A tale which follows the comedic and eventful journeys of two fish, the fretful Marlin and his young son Nemo, who are separated from each another in the Great Barrier Reef when Nemo is unexpectedly taken from his home, and thrust into a fish tank in a dentist's office overlooking Sydney Harbor. Buoyed by the companionship of a friendly but forgetful fish named Dory, the overly cautious Marlin embarks on a dangerous trek and finds himself the unlikely hero of an epic journey to rescue his son. Meanwhile the young Nemo hatches a few daring plans of his own to return home safely.

*Spanish with English Subtitles.

*Light refreshments will be served

Sponsored by:
The Student Life Center, the Division of Liberal Studies, the Department of Foreign Languages, and LASO