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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]

Source URL: http://sllc.umd.edu/news/latinx-heritage-month-2020-events

Links:
[1] http://stamp.umd.edu/gallery
[2] http://sllc.umd.edu/
[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ky4rSBMc_qFPcnOQshRYZvPhmJqSJ1lS7RkDq81Emn0/edit?usp=sharing
[4] http://sllc.umd.edu/department/school-languages-literatures-and-cultures
[5] http://sllc.umd.edu/audience/general-audience
[6] http://sllc.umd.edu/news-category/announcements
[7] http://sllc.umd.edu/research/global-cultures
[8] http://sllc.umd.edu/news-view/shared-news