Arts & Culture
Florida residents celebrate Mexico Independence Day
(Español) No obstante, el tema está muy presente aquí en La Florida. Dieciocho presidentes de universidades del estado convocaron a una rueda de prensa para este lunes, tras firmar una carta instando a los congresistas de La Florida a apoyar la reforma migratoria.
REMEMBERING SINGER RAFAEL MANRÍQUEZ.
This Labor holiday special is a tribute to Rafael Manríquez Silva, one of the leading exponents of Chilean folk music and nueva canción in the United States who recently passed away. Originally from Santiago, this songwriter and music journalist relocated to Berkeley, California in 1977, after the coup d’état that overthrew President Salvador Allende. With […]
LOS TRES REYES.
The last of the great trios of romantic Mexican music is alive and well in Texas. Los Tres Reyes, or the Three Kings, still has two of its original members, who continue to sing in the three-part harmony that mixes voice with guitar and became immensely popular in the late 1940s. Founding twin brothers Gilberto […]
The Children of the Days:” A Talk with Eduardo Galeano about His Most Recent Book
The Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano presented his most recent book, “The Children of the Days” in City Lights, the legendary San Francisco bookstore that was the cradele of the beat movement in the 1950s. Galeano is the author of notable books such as “The Open Veins of Latin America,” “Memory of Fire,” “The Book of Embraces” and many others that rescue the voice of those forgotten by history. Galeano conversed with Chelis Lopez about his new book in a restaurant in the Latino barrio of The Mission. Marco Vinicio González brings us a brief summary of the conversation.
Indigenous People of California and New Zealand Share Dance, Song and Food
Two indigenous cultures separated by an entire ocean met in the San Francisco Bay Area to celebrate and share the spirit of dance and music. When the Altamira Maori Contemporary Dance Company of New Zealand came to visit, Maori dancers from California came together with Ohlone indigenous people, who gave the visitors a welcome to their motherland and shared their songs. Silvia Parra brings us a profile of this celebration in which culture, dance, song, and food were shared. This feature story is part of the Raíces Series: Stories About Grassroots Artists.
Chula Vista, CA Pow Wow gathers hundreds of Native Americans warriors
(Español) El encuentro de dos días de duración sirve para afianzar amistades entre tribus e individuos, y para preservar las culturas de las naciones originarias de Norteamérica.
Native Peoples Share Efforts to Save Language, Culture
The territory of the Native American Ohlone people originally covered the North and Central Coasts of California. Today, the Ohlones have practically been expelled as a people from their own land.
(Español) Concilio de Los Ángeles proclama Mes de la Herencia Oaxaqueña
(Español) Se calcula que hay más de 300 mil oaxaqueños en Estados Unidos, y una gran parte de ellos en California; más de 80 mil viven en Los Ángeles, y emigraron principalmente desde la época de los 70 de uno de los estados más pobres de México, Oaxaca, con mayoría poblacional indígena.
OHLONES AND MAYAS SHARED HOME
When the first Europeans arrived to the continent, the Ohlone people’s territory covered California’s Northern and Central coast. Since then, this territory has become one of the most populous and urbanized in the country, and many of today’s Ohlone live side-to-side with diverse ethnic groups. The San Francisco Bay area is now the home to […]
Raices de Colombia
(Español) Smithsonian platica sobre el festival, unos cafetaleros comparten el proceso de cultivar café colombiano y la tradición de tomar un tinto y un silletero que fabrica sillas y carga flores en su espalda en la ciudad de Medellín cuenta sobre este arte.
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