Links
If you want to learn SALSA in preparation of the BIG DANCE or just for the hell of it at any other time, then there are many, many places places to do it:
Tuesday: Salseduce at Bar Beyond
Wednesday: Musica Mundo at Tup Tup Palace
Friday: Salsa-Amor at The Black Swan
Sunday: Salsa Caliente at Chase / Sea
and
Sunday: Salsa @ The Lounge (www.thelatinconnection.co.uk)
Peter Robson (Salsa Simplemente) 0796 954 3437 Email salsasimplemente@hotmail.co.uk
http://manchester.cervantes.es
The Northern arm of the Instituto Cervantes and who have kindly supported the launch night of ¡VAMOS! 2008!
www.luchaloco.com
Photographer Malcolm Venville's vibrant collection of Mexican Wrestlers from whom the face of ¡VAMOS! 2008 ‘Astroboy’ comes from. Gracias!
maddecent.com/favelaonblast
Info on the latest progress on Diplo's upcoming film on the favela funk movement.
loronix.blogspot.com
Fantastic Music blog unearthing and promoting lost Brasilian gems.
www.salsadancingnewcastle.co.uk
North East Salsa Dance night at Tiger Tiger
www.hotelchocolat.co.uk
Purveyors of luxury chocolate
www.lafriqueanewcastle.com
North East African Festival
brnuggets.blogspot.com
More Brasilan gems from this music blog.
www.resonancefm.com
Weekly online London based radio show of Portuguese music.
www.uberdevices.com
Brasilian new media / interactive company.
www.ozomatli.com
Voted best live act in the world by Time Out Magazine - a fantastic fusion of hip hop, latino and eastern flavours.
www.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/staff/profile/i.d.biddle
Home page for Ian Biddle, part of the ¡VAMOS! team.
www.culturalstudies.llc.ed.ac.uk/Staff/nHiggns.html
Home page for Nick Higgins - film maker and contributor to ¡VAMOS! Weekender 2007.
myspace.com/electroflamenko
North East music collective/act.
pixelache.ac/2007/pixelazo/
New technologies festival in Finland taking their work into Colombia...
bogotrax.free.fr/
Annual Colombian festival.
www.milagros.co.uk/index.html
Mexican craft store in London.
www.visitnewcastlegateshead.co.uk
Main website for information of North East activity.
www.name-site.com
Organisers and design team behind ¡VAMOS!
www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/popularmusics
Popular Musics of the Hispanic and Lusophone Worlds Conference at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
http://lanic.utexas.edu
LANIC (Latin American Information Network Center: wide ranging portal for information on topics from the economy to humour, includes links to radio and the press).
www.laritmo.com
Latin American Rhythm Magazine.
www.mundolatino.org
Mundo Latino (Hispanic portal with music, literature and children's sections).
www.elmuseo.org
El Museo del Barrio (New York's leading Latino cultural institution).
http://latino.si.edu
Smithsonian Institution Latino Center.
www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/staff/profile/v.n.m.knights
University of Newcastle staff profile for Vanessa Knights, Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies and ¡VAMOS! co-organiser
www.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/staff/profile/i.d.biddle
University of Newcastle staff profile for Ian Biddle, Head of Music, director of CETL and ¡VAMOS! co-organiser.
www.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/POP/
Popular Music Research Forum at the University of Newcastle (set up by Ian Biddle and Vanessa Knights), includes extensive links to music sites related to Hispanic/Lusophone cultures.
www.mtvla.com
MTV Latino.
www.imdb.com
Internet Movie Database, visited by 38 million movie lovers a month, a wealth of information on film at your fingertips.
www.newcastle.gov.uk/hes.nsf/a/accelplaque?opendocument
Newcastle’s Commemorative Blue Plaque Scheme, find out where they are and who/what they celebrate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eca_de_Queiros
Wikipedia entry on Eça de Queirós, more information on the life and works of one of Portugal’s greatest authors.
www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/staff/profile/ann.davies
Dr Ann Davies staff webpage, more on her research interests and publications.
http://flun.cica.es/mundo_flamenco/ and http://caf.cica.es/flamenco/
Sites run by the Junta de Andalucía. Plenty on Flamenco and some downloadable snippets of old recordings.
www.flamenco-world.com/
Flamenco and flamenco-jazz website (in English or Spanish).
www.andalucia.com/flamenco/home.htm
Flamenco and sevillanas (in English or Spanish).
www.turismo.gov.br
Brasilian Tourism Board.
www.cultura.gov.br
Brasilian Ministry of Culture.
www.museuvirtual.org.br
Virtual Museum of Brasilian Art.
www.guardian.co.uk/worldnewsguide/latinamerica
Guardian unlimited links to news sources from Latin America.
www.lab.org.uk/
Latin American Bureau (an independent research and publishing organisation. It works to broaden public understanding of issues of human rights and social and economic justice in Latin America and the Caribbean).
www.patriagrande.net/
Patria Grande, excellent resources website and portal for Latin America.
www.buenosaliens.com/
Buenos Aliens, Argentinean Electronica site.
www.sonar.es/
Sonar, Spanish multimedia and music site.
www.los40.com/radio/40principales.html
Los 40 principales, Spanish charts (includes audio and video clips).
www.rock.com.ar/
Rock argentino (in Spanish), Argentine rock site including encyclopaedia, search engine, audio clips and tabs.
www.elportaldeltango.com/
El Portal del Tango site including biographies, discographies, cinema , dance, poetry, dictionary and lyrics.
www.btinternet.com/~m.shade/brasil/music.html
The Music of Brazil (Lots of useful links as well as information on Edson Gomes, Olodum, Carlinhos Brown and Gilberto Gil).
www.timba.com/
Timba, the latest salsa trend to emerge from Cuba.
www.planetsalsa.com/
Planet Salsa.
www.salsa-uk.com/
Salsa UK.
www.anapapaya.com/
Latin and Caribbean jazz including reviews, interviews and articles (in Spanish).
www.afromix.org/index.en.jsp
African and Afro-Caribbean culture.
www.latinnews.com/
Latin News, a leading source of economic & political information on Latin America since 1967.
www.latinamericapress.org/
Latinamerica Press.
www.sosig.ac.uk/roads/subject-listing/World-cat/samerelect.html
Elections in South America.
www1.lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/literature/
Resources relating to Latin American literature.
www.sispain.org/
Sí, Spain promotes free exchange of information on Spanish current affairs and its historical, linguistic and cultural development.
www.spanishrefugees-basquechildren.org/
Spanish Republican Exiles to Britain (Basque children).
www.cervantesvirtual.com/index.shtml
Biblioteca virtual Miguel de Cervantes.
elmundolibro.elmundo.es/elmundolibro/
El Mundo Libro (Spanish literature).
www.descarga.com/cgi-bin/db
Descarga (US based Latin CD/music DVD site).
www.ncl.ac.uk/clpic
Centro de Língua Portuguesa/ Instituto Camões, Newcastle University.