Bored tonight? Stop by the Grant Recital Hall at 1 Young Orchard Avenue at 7 PM for La Nueva Cancion Chilena. Protest music with a catchy beat? If you're feeling brave, you can come back tomorrow for the lecture, but I say "lecture-schmeture" bring on the dancing.

Here's the details:

"The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies is a U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center sponsoring interdisciplinary research and teaching on Latin America and the Caribbean. It is celebrating its 35th year as an academic concentration and its 25th year as a formal academic program at Brown.

Upcoming events:

La Nueva Canción chilena

On September 11, 2008 the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, in conjunction with the Department of Music and the Creative Arts Council, presents "La Nueva Canción chilena," a musical performance that seeks to reproduce a protest song movement that arose in the 1960s in Chile. Drawing on representations of protest worldwide and offering a uniquely Chilean flair, celebrated singers such as Violeta Parra sought to lament and fight against the status quo of misery and poverty through the medium of folk music. The "La Nueva Canción chilena" concert will feature Lucia Diaz-Starr, world-renowned professor of opera; the Alturas Duo; and arrangements by Benjamin Starr.

Thursday, September 11th, 7-9 P.M.
Grant Recital Hall, 1 Young Orchard Avenue

Chile, 35 Years: The Pinochet Dictatorship and its Aftermath
"La Nueva Canción chilena" will be followed and complemented by a lectureship entitled, “Chile, 35 Years: The Pinochet Dictatorship and its Aftermath," to take place on September 12, 2008, commemorating the approach of the sixtieth anniversary of the Untied Nations’ “Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” Sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Herbert H. Goldberger Lectureship Fund, this series will bring together leading scholars of Chilean history, politics, and economy to Brown University for a sequence of lectures on the Pinochet dictatorship installed in Chile in 1974, and its aftermath.

Friday, September 12th, 9 AM. - 5 P.M.

Joukowsky Forum, The Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street "