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Memories of a visit to the Sisters Mirabal museum – Happy International Women’s Day!

Today, Friday the 8th of March 2013, International Women’s Day is celebrated across the world with tha aim of remembering the great “battles” fought by many strong women who through different periods of time in our global history, defended their position, value and made themselves (and women in general) respected in society.

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Book Club Meeting: “In the time of butterflies” at Shine, Thursday January 24th

Yanet Castillo, coordinator of education at the Altos de Chavón Regional Museum of Archeology invites you to the first Book Club meeting – to discuss the book “In the time of butterflies”, a historical novel by Julia Alvarez, relating an account of the Mirabal sisters during the time of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic.  […]

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