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      <title><![CDATA[Textile gifts offer]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[During <em>Unravelling Threads</em>, ESCALA is offering a promotion on its textile gifts. These include 20% off our limited artist editions by Jaime Giliand Florencia Guillen and 10% off our beautiful silk ties and scarves by Alex Gama.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Over 17,000 visitors to Southern Press]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Over 17,000 people have visited ESCALA's inaugural exhibition&nbsp;<em>Southern Press: Prints from Brazil, Paraguay and Chile</em>&nbsp;since firstsite opened 25 September 2011.&nbsp;The selection, from the ESCALA Collection, focuses on the works of thirteen printmakers from the 1950s, 60s and 70s.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Southern Press exhibition dates extended]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The dates for ESCALA's first exhibition, <em>Southern Press: Prints from Brazil, Paraguay and Chile</em>, at firstsite in Colchester have been extended until Sunday 12 February 2012.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Santander Universities sponsors ESCALA]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[As well as supporting the development of ESCALA&rsquo;s new website, Santander Universities has offered to sponsor the Collection with another &pound;15,000 over three years from 2011 to 2013. This generous donation will support the Collection&rsquo;s continued investment in a sustainable future as it develops plans to create a permanent home in the Hexagon building at the Colchester Campus. ESCALA hopes to develop the Hexagon for the University&rsquo;s 50th anniversary in 2014.<br />]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[A £2,999 grant to document the Collection]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ESCALA has been awarded a &pound;2,999 grant from the Effective Museums Programme to document artworks in the Collection.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[firstsite opens to the public]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[On Sunday 25 September 2011, firstsite's new building opened to the public. &nbsp;Designed by Uruguayan architect Rafael Vi&ntilde;oly, the gallery features a dedicated exhibition space for ESCALA.&nbsp;The University's space in firstsite will enable us to make works from the Collection far more accessible to the public.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[UECLAA transforms into ESCALA]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[To coincide with its first exhibition at Colchester&rsquo;s firstsite, the University&rsquo;s world-renowned Latin American art collection has announced a change of name.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Carlos Cruz-Diez commission on display in Colchester]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Carlos Cruz-Diez has designed op-art schemes for several pedestrian crossings in Colchester, including one at the University of Essex Colchester Campus.<br />]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Mexican Embassy’s former Cultural Attaché awarded an honorary degree]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ignacio Dur&aacute;n Loera, the <a href="http://portal.sre.gob.mx/reinounidoeng/" target="_blank">Mexican Embassy</a>'s former Cultural Attache' and avid supporter of the University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art (UECLAA) was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Essex.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[New Acquisitions from PINTA 2011]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art (UECLAA) &nbsp;has acquired two new artworks at PINTA, the modern and contemporary Latin American Art show in London. &nbsp;<br /><br />]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[UECLAA at Pinta 2011]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art is delighted to announce that it will be organising the public programme at Pinta London for the second year running.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Long and Kentish appointed architects for the Hexagon]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The transformation of the Hexagon into a museum will return it to public use as an inspiring&nbsp;and stimulating environment in which to enjoy and learn about art from Latin America.&nbsp;Award-winning architects Long and Kentish are recognised for their sensitive conversion of&nbsp;heritage buildings into museums and galleries. Their projects include Pallant House, Chichester (Gulbenkian Museum and Galleries Prize, 2007), the British Library Centre for Conservation, St Pancras and the Jewish Museum, both in London.<br />]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[MLA Accreditation awarded to UECLAA]]></title>
      <link>http://escala.org.uk/news/1199318400/mla-accreditation-awarded-to-escala</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[The University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art (UECLAA) has been awarded full accreditation by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA). This national quality standard confirms that UECLAA has met stringent guidelines on how it is run, how it looks after the collection, and the services it provides to users and visitors.]]></description>
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