Episode 43: Exploring Mexico City 1968's Cultural Legacy

 

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This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Mexico City 1968 Olympics, and on today's show we start exploring its Cultural Olympiad celebrations. Gustavo Morales-Cirión of the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington D.C. walks contributor Ben Jackson through its exhibit "Constructing Mexico68," which looks at the venues and sculptures (and Raquel Welch videos) of these Games.

The exhibit is open until August 15, so if you're in the DC area, check it out (note: it's a pretty small exhibit). The institute is located at:

2829 16th St NW Washington, DC 20009

It's open Monday-Friday, 10am-6pm. If the door is locked, ring the buzzer.

If you want to know more about Ruta de la Amistad, the organization Gustavo mentioned, check out their website, Mexico68.org.

Gustavo also talked about the "Judas statues," these papier-mache cartonería sculptures that Pedro Linares made for outside the venue. They are pretty amazing -- check out some of them here, and see the last remaining one here.

Team Olympic Fever member Lauren Gibbs will be speaking at TedX Pasadena! Find out more information here.

We also talked about the U.S. House Judiciary Committee hearings on an anti-doping bill. Here's a list of representatives on the committee who you can contact to let them know your thoughts.

Next week is our Book Club episode, where Book Club Claire will be back to discuss our first selection, The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown. Drop us an email, tweet or Facebook page post to let us know what you thought of it!

Also, we're going to do some on location episodes on rowing and judo, so if you have questions about those sports, we want to hear them!

 

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