Las canchas de uno de los más importantes clubes de la Florida: The Crandon Golf Park en Key Biscayne, será el escenario perfecto donde golfistas de todas las nacionalidades, resientes en la Florida, se darán cita para participar en el I Torneo de Golf de la Amistad, Miami, que se llevará a cabo el viernes 02 de octubre de 2009 con el auspicio del Venezuelan Business Club.
César Rojas, Presidente de Asociación Venezolano Americana Inc en Miami , señala que esta organización sin fines de lucro es un ápice de la AVAA Caracas ,fundada con la firme convicción de apoyar y fomentar la inversión social en educación en Venezuela, y los fondos que se recaudan allí, van para el Programa de Beca de Mérito.
Explica Rojas que “Beca de Mérito” es un programa de becas modelo en Venezuela fundado hace más de 40 años por AVAA y cuyo objetivo primordial es ayudar a los jóvenes estudiantes venezolanos de alto rendimiento académico, demostrado potencial de liderazgo y recursos económicos insuficientes a cursar exitosamente sus estudios universitarios y alcanzar un dominio del idioma inglés. Está abierto a cualquier carrera a nivel de pregrado en universidades o institutos de educación superior de la región capital. Beca de Mérito busca no sólo proveer ayuda financiera sino también preparar a los estudiantes para adquirir una visión global que les permita asumir sus responsabilidades dentro de la sociedad venezolana con compromiso, respeto y conocimiento multicultural.
El abierto se jugará en los 18 hoyos, bajo la modalidad de Scramble por equipos, con el fin lograr una interrelación completa entre los jugadores que esperan recibir. Scramble es una novedosa y eficaz forma de jugar al golf sin la presión que implica un Torneo medal play. La salida de los foursomes está pautada para las 12:00 M, hora en que los jugadores pondrán a prueba todas sus habilidades y destrezas en este torneo amistoso que lleva intrínseca la hermosa misión de apoyar los sueños educativos de estudiantes venezolanos.
En Venezuela, esta organización sin fines de lucro, desde hace 27 años organiza su tradicional Torneo que este año se jugó de forma simultánea en los conocidos clubes de Caracas: Lagunita Country Club y Valle Arriba Golf Club el pasado 01 y 03 de septiembre albergando este año a más de 375 jugadores.
La AVAA con su I Torneo de Golf de la Amistad, Miami aspira recaudar los fondos suficientes para lograr la incorporación de un alto número de estudiantes beneficiados a su grupo de becarios durante el año 2009.
Saturday night in Alpharetta, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra closed its summer season with fireworks at the end and an intriguing guest on the podium, making his U.S. professional conducting debut.
Ilyich Rivas is 16 years old, born in Venezuela and raised in Ohio and Colorado. He’s been waving a baton in front of orchestras since he was 9.
Although he’s only completed 10th grade — and doesn’t yet have a driver’s license — he’ll begin next month studies at Baltimore’s college-level Peabody Institute of Music and in a training program with the Baltimore Symphony. He’s already got a powerful agent in London. In a field that rewards maturity, wisdom and experience — maestros often hit their strides as senior citizens — Team Rivas plans to launch a substantive career when he turns 18...
There is a clean, modern feel to the work in two new shows at JRB Art at the Elms gallery.
he artists, one born in Venezuela and the other born in Denmark, have lived in Oklahoma for many years.
Figures with featureless faces interact and almost play games with flowers, landscapes and background elements in the colorful acrylic paintings of Thomas Batista, an Oklahoma City artist born in Venezuela...
Venezuelan-born Moisés Kaufman has given us two big works for the stage. Both employ other peoples’ words to depict the victimization of gay, real-life figures. The better-known The Laramie Project (2000), about the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, has appeared often in town and around the world. The earlier Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (1997) is making its area premiere at Cortland Repertory Theatre. It’s part of the company’s plan to rise above fun and games once in a season, like last summer’s much-acclaimed A Few Good Men. Any play that can employ Oscar Wilde’s actual words starts out with an advantage...
..."Christophe was confident and told me to just do whatever I wanted," Dominguez said. "Once we got to the top of the lane and he had a target, I encouraged him, and he responded."
Concluded a reduxing Clement: "There are many good races around, and he could go in any of them. Let's just enjoy today"...
...Eggsotic is the classic American dream success story. Venezuelan-born brothers Leonardo and Luis Espin had plenty of culinary savvy (Leonardo used to work at The Breakers) and marketing chops (Luis was an executive with Coca-Cola in Atlanta). What they didn’t have was their own business. That changed when they opened Eggsotic in 2008. Judging by the waits for a table during peak periods, the restaurant has been going strong ever since...
...For the final Tuesday of the summer Christie brings Gonzalo Grau's Clave Secreta to Boulder.
Christie sees Grau as a musician who can do everything.
"Anything he touches turns to music," he says. "He's one of the most versatile musicians I've ever met."
It was this impression that led Christie to engage Venezuelan-born Grau and his ensemble for a collaboration with the Brooklyn Philharmonic last season.
"We were doing our first 'Nueva Latina' festival," Christie says, "and I asked Gonzalo to come up with a program that blends the Western symphonic tradition with Latin folk music."
So successful was the program that Christie decided to repeat it at the CMF...
...On the telephone, the Venezuelan-born Professor Botte was charming and not without humor about the media deluge that produced a lot of amusing headlines. "They all talked about the ‘pee car,' but I wish we humans produced enough urine to run a whole car. Maybe we could run some minor applications, like the car stereo or something like that." We could run a car on ammonia, but let's leave that to another article...
Sixteen-year-old rising star Ilyich Rivas will lead the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park in his U.S. professional debut on Saturday, August 15, 2009, at 8:00 p.m. Mr. Rivas will lead the orchestra in Verdi's Vespri Overture, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4, and Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, performed by another rising star, 22-year-old violinist, and Sphinx Competition winner, Elena Urioste...
...Siems is part of a vast group of artists who have adopted "folk" or "outsider" or "vernacular" styles. Local examples include folksy surreal portraits and still-lifes painted by Jane Smaldone of Roslindale and Art Nouveau flowers, chandeliers, and constellations drawn by Mary O'Malley of Somerville. Or check out Julia Fernandez-Pol's paintings, which resemble hothouse flowers or tropical fish made of icing atop fabulous birthday cakes, in the group show "Dis-Cordances/Dis-Representations" at G.A.S.P. (362 Boylston St, Brookline) through July 20. The New York-based, Venezuelan-born, Boston University grad gets this look by squeezing out lines of paint with cake decorating tools and scalloping thick dollops with knives...
