Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Time: 6:30 – 8:00 pm
Location: Conference Room (Britannia Community Services Centre) 1661 Napier St, Vancouver, BC V5L 4X4

VLACC is pleased to present a special edition of our Latin American Short Stories Reading Group in celebration of Women’s Month!

Join us for a thought-provoking conversation on the female universe, facilitated by María Teresa Venditti, as we explore the stories:

📖 “The Stolen Party” by Liliana Heker
📖 “The House Made of Sugar” by Silvina Ocampo

The stories are in English and Spanish translations and the discussion will be led in English. No background in or experience with Latin American literature or culture is needed. Everyone’s welcome!

Please click on the following link to access the stories:

Spanish: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Ldu8Q_IdMcqJ3B941dnBnLpznyYnVVZv?usp=sharing

English: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1M3wO_h7RYGisVB2-Bn6VRitml6hc6F26?usp=sharing

This is a FREE event, but registration is required.

About the facilitator

María Teresa Venditti began her teaching career in 1987 in Tucumán, Argentina. Before teaching at various institutions across Argentina, the UK, and Spain. From 2009 to 2012, she was a professor of Lengua II at the University of El Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she taught in the Philosophy and Literature Department at the School of Modern Languages. She also taught Modern Languages at the St. Martin in the Fields High School in Buenos Aires, Argentina, during this period.

María Teresa holds a bachelor’s degree in English Philology from the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain, where she specializes in English literature. She also has several language teaching and translation qualifications, including LCCI Cert TEB, CTEFLA, and CEELT. Additionally, María Teresa is an English/Spanish technical, scientific, and literary translator and interpreter.

Thanks to the Britannia Community Services Centre for supporting this program