Latinx Heritage Month 2020 Events

During Latinx Heritage Month 2020, the Dept. of Spanish and Portugese & the SLLC are co-sponsoring and hosting a number of events and an exhibition at the Stamp Gallery. Please make a point of announcing these events to your students and add them to your own calendars.

The exhibition titled Connected Diasporas: Central American Visuality in the Age of Social Media is curated by Veronica Melendez and features an array of multi-media pieces. It will be available for viewing f2f at Stamp Gallery and virtually at the Gallery website from Sept. 14-Oct. 17, 2020. Reservation links to online events for the exhibition will be available shortly and will be posted at the Stamp Gallery [1] and SLLC [2] websites. Please also see here [3] for the Stamp Gallery Press Release with exhibition and programming details.

Events include:

Keynote talk by Dr. Kency Conejo, Art Historian and Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico (Sept. 24, 5:00-6:15PM EDT)
3 Artist Panels (Sept. 15, Oct. 1, Oct. 8,5:00-6:15PM or 7:00PM EDT)
Zine making workshop with La Horchata Zine (Oct. 15, 5:00-6:15PM EDT)
Closing dance party with local DJ (Oct. 18, 800-10:00PM EDT)

Please also mark your calendars on Oct. 6, 5:00-6:30PM EDT for a virtual book launch of Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas by Roberto Lovato. Mr. Lovato is co-founder of the Central American Studies Department at CSUN, Presente!, and #DignidadLiteraria. The reservation link to this event, which is co-hosted by SPAP and Teaching for Change, is also forthcoming.

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures [4]

General Audience [5]

Announcements [6]

Global Cultures [7]

Shared News [8]