AMIGO, the 17th feature film from Academy Award-nominated writer-director John Sayles, stars legendary Filipino actor Joel Torre as Rafael, a village mayor caught in the murderous crossfire of the Philippine-American War.
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WPA 2.0 The Brand New Deal Cultural Arts Series Presents "Pasiones: Songs of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939," featuring Jamie O'Reilly & Michael Smith, with Katrina O'Reilly-Greene & Bob Weber. Sunday October 9, 2:00 pm, SPACE 1245 Chicago Ave, Evanston, Il. Tickets: evanstonspace.com. Produced by J. O’Reilly Productions and portoluz.orgInfo 773 989-7825. More information
The first major exhibit featuring the Spanish Civil War work of Catalan photographer Agustí Centelles (1909-1985) is opening at NYU's King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center on October 5th; a symposium on Centelles' work featuring six speakers will be held on at the Center on November 30th. Centelles, whose archive was purchased by...
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The Spanish historian Miguel Caballero Pérez claims to have new evidence pointing to the possible burial site of Federico García Lorca, the poet from Granada who was killed by the Nationalists in August 1937, the Guardian, El País and the Diario de Sevilla report. A much-publicized earlier attempt to locate his...
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The San Sebastián Film Festival has announced this year's line-up, which includes La voz dormida (The Sleeping Voice), an adaptation by Benito Zambrano of the best-selling novel by Dulce Chacón about a group of Republican women in a Francoist prison, and Mexican Suitcase, Trisha Ziff's documentary on the 4,500 recovered Spanish Civil...
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Pianist Dred Scott, well-known to those who have attended ALBA's New York event in past years, stages a one-man labor protest:
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The Library of Congress has announced that Philip Levine is the country's next Poet Laureate. In 2001, Levine delivered ALBA's fourth annual Bill Susman lecture, in which he spoke on "Poetry and the Spanish Civil War" and acknowledged his debt, as poet and citizen, to Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda, Miguel Hernández and...
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The DocuWeeks festival opening today in New York and Los Angeles will feature Trisha Ziff's Mexican Suitcase, the documentary about the recovery of 4,500 negatives from the Spanish Civil War by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and "Chim" (David Seymour). Friends of ALBA are entitled to a special discount for the August 27th screening...
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August 14, 24, 25, 26, 28: New York International Fringe Festival.
The play is a roller coaster journey through Robeson's remarkable and eventful life, and highlights how his radical activism caused him to be disowned and disremembered, even by the leaders and descendants of the civil rights movement.
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Getty Images commemorates the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War with a selection of more than 100 powerful images by photojournalists. See the anthology here.
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Camp Kinderland was first established 102 years ago by Jewish working-class immigrants who wanted to take their children out of the city’s hot summer streets and, through the camp program and its related Yiddish shul, familiarize them with their progressive Jewish traditions and heritage. Through the years, Camp Kinderland has upheld the principles that...
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Lincoln vet Bill Gresham’s Nightmare Alley cemented his fame as a noir novelist. Yet most of his Spanish Civil War poetry was never published—until now. William Lindsay Gresham (1909-1962), the Lincoln Brigade veteran whose bestselling crime novel Nightmare Alley (1946) inspired two films, was never the same after the Spanish Civil War. He rarely...
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“The past isn’t dead,” William Faulker famously wrote; “it isn’t even past.” The quote came to mind me while attending a remarkable gathering last September in the ancient Spanish town of Azuara, a small community of roughly 500 inhabitants, 40 miles south of Zaragoza (Aragón). Azuara was transformed by the Spanish Civil War. Over...
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The first American to die in the Spanish Civil War was a 47-year-old mining engineer from New York who had married a Spaniard, moved to Madrid in 1933, and covered the 1934 revolution for the US media. As soon as he heard about the 1936 coup, he joined the Republican army. Leo Edwin Fleischman...
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The way we think about George Orwell today was profoundly shaped by the Cold War—and by the groundbreaking work of Peter Stansky, who started writing about him shortly after his death. When the Spanish Civil War broke out in the summer of 1936, Peter Stansky was four years old—and although he lived in Brooklyn,...
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From March 1 to August 3, 2025, The Tampa Bay History Center will host an exhibition titled “Invisible Immigrants: Spaniards in the US, 1868-1945.” Co-curated by Luis Argeo and James D. Fernández, this show uses materials—photographs, documents, letters, keepsakes—digitized or on loan from the family archives of the descendants of those immigrants, as well...
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Teesside, an industrial region in Northeast England that in the nineteenth century grew to be a center of shipbuilding and iron and steel production, spawned no fewer than thirty International Brigade volunteers. Of the nine who were born in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees, moreover, six played leading roles in Spain: five rose to the rank of Lieutenant...
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New information about the New Zealand-born Spanish Civil War surgeon Doug Jolly (1904-1983) has emerged following the recent publication of his biography, Frontline Surgeon.
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On September 24, 1945, Dr. Barsky delivered this speech during the Spanish Refugee Appeal rally at Madison Square Garden.
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In 1944, Barsky wrote A Surgeon Goes to War, an 18-chapter memoir of his time in Spain, which was never published but can be consulted at NYU’s Tamiment Library. This is the first chapter.
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ALBA's project to provide a complete list of the more than 2,800 individuals who left from U.S. territory to fight with the Spanish Republic
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