Events: Family Day for El Paso: The Other Side of the Mexican Revolution

Museums & Cultural Affairs Department

MEDIA ADVISORY

For Immediate Release:

Contact: Juli Lozano, Public Affairs @ 541-4915 or 474-4773


The El Paso Museum of History Presents

Family Day for El Paso: The Other Side of the Mexican Revolution

Saturday, November 20, 2010

2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

FREE

Come celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the start of the Mexican Revolution by attending this special family event. Elias Bonilla and Barbie Valdiviez-Schydlower with Ballet Folklorico Aires Internationales will have your feet tapping to “Polka on the Patio.” See the film “Mexican Revolution Sites in El Paso, Volume I” with Jackson Polk, Leon Metz, and Fred Morales. Hands-on activities will include making your own special revolution button, playing Mexican board games, printing your own newspaper, creating a zoetrope and more. Keith Wilden of Paso del Norte Pistoleros will portray a soldier of the punitive expedition while other re-enactors in period costume will mingle with the crowd. Special tours of the exhibit “El Paso: The Other Side of the Mexican Revolution” will be given by the students and professors who helped to create it.

For information, call Sue Taylor at 915-351-3588 or email at taylorsl@elpasotexas.gov.



Image courtesy of the El Paso Museum of History

The El Paso Museum of History exists for the educational benefit of the community and visitors. It promotes the understanding and significance of the rich multicultural and multinational history of the border region known as the Pass of the North.

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11.9.10: Today's Show

Today on The Lisa D Show at noon we'll start the show with an interview with David Mills. He'll be on the air promoting a very exciting new play Soldadera, a staged reading of the one-act play “Soldadera” by Josefina Niggli is about women in the Mexican Revolution. There will be a reception immediately after the play with light refreshments. This November 13, at 7:30 PM at the Plaza Theatre. Admission: $25.00 general admission - performed in the Philanthropy Theatre. Contact Phone Number: 915-474-4275. Click here to buy your tickets.

Then we'll talk about Social Media Etiquette and how to unfriend people with class, like your best friend's ex-boyfriend or enemies. And we'll talk about this hysterical PSA by Jimmel Kimmel on National UnFriend Day Announcement (Nov. 17)Featuring William Shatner.



Next we'll talk about Adopting a Fort Bliss Soldier for Thanksgiving. We'll talk with Fort Bliss Spokesman Myles Caggins, III, about the new and innovate way Fort Bliss is handling the Adopt a Soldier program this year.

Lastly we'll talk to our friends from the Loretto Academy Little Theatre, Theatre Arts Department about this weekend's performance of “OUR TOWN”. Buy tickets at the door or call (915) 566-8400 for more information. Show times Nov. 11 & 12 at 7 p.m., Nov. 13 at 2 and 7 p.m.

Tune into the show at KHRO 1150 AM or stream the show at www.talkradio1150.com. Also, feel free to call the show at 915.880.4376 or send an email to thelisadshow@gmail.com.