Tickets still available for Ruben Blades

Tickets are still available to hear Ruben Blades, a Panamanian activist, actor and Grammy award-winning musician, who will speak and perform this weekend at the university.

Two events are planned on Saturday, April 8, in Music Hall, 925 Bascom Mall:

• 2:30 p.m., a lecture, “The Future of the Panama Canal.”
• 4:15 p.m., a musical workshop, “The Music of Ruben Blades.”

Each event is free, but will require separate tickets. Tickets are available at the Wisconsin Union Theater Box Office for students, faculty, staff and Union members. The general public may also attend.

Blades, a three-time Grammy Award winner and former Panamanian presidential candidate, will cap Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Week April 1-8.

A graduate of Harvard University in international law, Blades formed the Mother Earth political party and finished third in the 1994 presidential race.