Community + Art y Culture Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)
November 10, 2009
Actors, film directors and arts supporters gathered at the Indio Performing Arts Center on Monday to announce the lineup of the inaugural Coachella Valley Latino International Film Festival. – Dec. 4-6, will coincide with the 18th Annual Indio International Tamale Festival
October 13, 2009
Lucha Libre SANTO Poster Exhibit AND Teatro Chicano Invade Laredo, Texas!
October 12, 2009
Fifth Ave. alive with pride for Hispanic Day Parade that rolled up Fifth Ave. from 44th to 72nd St. on Sunday in NYC
Beyond the Barrio, With Growing Pains – El Museo del Barrio reopens with a new glass facade, a redesigned courtyard and modernized galleries, including one devoted to its permanent collection in East Harlem, NYC – Rafael Montañez Ortiz
October 5, 2009
Actress Ruby Nelda Perez returns to Jump-Start Theater in November in a new play by Rodrigo Duarte-Clark titled “El Fin del Mundo Motel.” – San Antonio
September 24, 2009
Efrain’s Corner: El Grito de Lares, Puerto Rico
September 22, 2009
Potomac artist group melds art forms to benefit orchestra – Group decorates old violins with traditional Latin American images – Maryland
September 21, 2009
A West Side photo studio has been snapping pictures of Chicago’s Latino community for 40 years. Those pictures tell the story of people and their families as well as their increasing political role in the city’s life. – Miguel Zuno
Quinceanera class readies girls for Catholic coming of age in Kalamazoo, MI
Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, better known as MACLA, launched its 20th anniversary celebration Wednesday with a peek at a provocative installation commissioned just for the occasion.- Salt Lake City
Noted Chicano artist Gabriel S. Gaytán and his son, Gabriel Itzai, will unveil their new mural, “El Corazón de El Paso,” during the Lincoln Park Car Show from noon to 5 p.m. today in the park. – El Paso
September 17, 2009
Latino Arts gears up for its next full season – Milwaukee
Newark Public Library opens homage to Peru this September
Miracle Theatre’s La Luna Nueva event spotlights Latino artists – Portland
September 14, 2009
Inland Empire Latino artists are presenting an exhibition of their work “To Realize the Dream” on display between Sept. 15 and Oct. 15 at the County of San Bernardino Government Center.
September 10, 2009
Celebrate the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month and enjoy the full spectrum of Latino arts at the Latino Arts Festival in Kansas City, Kan.
September 2, 2009
Video – NYC Dominican Day Parade 2009 featuring Charlie Villanueva and La Mega 97.9 DJ Lobo
A celebration of Puerto Rican culture in Central Park – Fiesta Folklorica – NYC
August 29, 2009
Barksdale Theatre is pleased to launch The Hispanic Theatre Project with its 2009-10 season opener . . . Boleros for the Disenchanted – Richmond, VA
August 18, 2009
Latino murals from downtown L.A. building up for sale – from the lobby of downtown’s Victor Clothing building on Broadway
Rogue Community College students have created a mural honoring the contributions of the Rogue Valley’s Latino community – Oregon
August 16, 2009
In Los Angeles, Songs Without Borders – In clubs, bars, swap meets and concert halls, from car radios and ringing cellphones, you will hear corridos, old-time folk ballads in the banda and norteño styles
August 6, 2009
On Sunday, August 2 in celebration of Ecuador’s bicentennial, hundreds of people waved their yellow, blue and red flags along the stretch of Northern Boulevard in Queens
August 3, 2009
About 3,000 years’ worth of Mexican artistry makes up one of the latest Wichita Art Museum exhibits. “Los Artes de Mexico,” or “The Arts of Mexico,” runs until Sept. 6 and features work from artists such as painter and muralist Diego Rivera.
July 31, 2009
Celebrity Tees You Can Bet On – One-of-a-kind t-shirts raise funds for Miami’s Latino community – Palomita Education Fund
June 15, 2009
Thousands crowd NYC streets for Puerto Rican parade
June 8, 2009
Thousands watch Long Island’s Puerto Rican/Hispanic Day parade
June 2, 2009
June is Puerto Rican party time in NYC
May 28, 2009
San Jose’s Chicano theater troupe Teatro Visió marks 25 years of community creativity
March 10, 2009
Arts groups push for Phoenix Latino museum
March 4, 2009
Hispanic biker club now muy grande – Deltona clubhouse of the Latin American Motorcycle Associatio
January 21, 2009
Su Teatro, Denver’s only brown theater company, will be among the 2009 recipients of Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts.
December 15, 2008
New Santa Cruz gallery features Latino folk art – Malintzi
December 5, 2008
Latino Arts flourish this weekend with Rodriguez and Conde – Milwaukee
November 21, 2008
El festival Borimix, creado por La Sociedad Educativa para las Artes (SEA) en el 2005, ha crecido en pocos años para presentar ahora un programa en el que además de teatro hay exposiciones de artes visuales, recitales de música, actividades para niños, poesía y una muestra de cine.
November 17, 2008
Mexico’s Mineral de Pozos: A ghost town comes alive as an artist colony The ruins of the former mining town are being reclaimed as new residents and visitors bring the area back to life.
November 3, 2008
The Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts celebrates this year’s Day of the Dead with a show, Muerte sin Fronteras/ Death without Borders – San Francisco
October 27, 2008
Rodeo offers entertainment for local Hispanic community – Alabama
October 23, 2008
The University of Central Florida Art Gallery presented an art collection by Hispanic artists for the first time during Hispanic Heritage Month.
September 17, 2008
Hispanic artists featured in Fort Myers, Florida
September 15, 2008
Art and activism, however, rarely mix well. And Los Illegals, the season opener from Teatro Bravo, is no exception to this rule. – Arizona theater
Latinos are in the spotlight in a national Smithsonian exhibit opening Tuesday at the Michigan State University Museum in East Lansing, Mich. The free exhibit, “Our Journeys/Our Stories, Portraits of Latino Achievement,” runs through Jan. 4 at the museum on West Circle Drive. It is the final stop on the exhibit’s national tour.
Latino Art Exhibition lets Hispanic artists shine – opening Tuesday, Sept. 16, in the Community Gallery at the Knoxville Museum of Art. The exhibit continues through Oct. 16.
September 10, 2008
Hispanic Heritage Month 2008 – Phoenix Events
September 9, 2008
El Paso area encouraged to read book of Mexican short stories during next two months
September 8, 2008
New documentary focuses on historical role of Puerto Ricans in Chicago – Their journey was marked by constant struggle and displacement from gentrifying areas
4 generations of El Teatro Campesino actors -bilingual theater troupe, El Teatro Campesino, in San Juan Bautista, California
September 3, 2008
The Nasher Museum of Art is reaching out to North Carolina’s burgeoning Hispanic population in an unprecedented way, providing information for its exhibition, “El Greco to Velazquez,” in both Spanish and English.
August 28, 2008
The City of Upper Arlington Cultural Arts Division presents Latino Arts/OHIO 2008, a visual, performing and literary arts exhibition on view in the Concourse Gallery August 25 to September 19, 2008.
CHULA VISTA: San Diego Latino Film Festival and Otay Ranch Town Center are showing Spanish-language shorts and feature films this September at the second annual Que Viva! Cine Latino 2008.
August 12, 2008
University of Central Florida Researchers Creating Multimedia History of Puerto Ricans in Central Florida
Philadelphia Travel: Latino Festivals for the Fall
August 7, 2008
AT&T contributes $100,000 to Museo Alameda – San Antonio
Staten Island photographer captures the Mexican experience Exhibit at Wagner College to run through Sept. 7, and to feature work of Irma Bohorquez-Geisler
August 3, 2008
Chicago Latino Music Festival gets ready to cover 6 centuries in city
Museo Alameda Opens Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City Exhibition is Second Phase of Blockbuster Presentation, “Mexico at the Museo” – San Antonio
July 24, 2008
El Pasoan seeks 1,000 people to document border life
July 23, 2008
Thanks to Frida Kahlo, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Finally Draws Latino Crowd
July 21, 2008
Chase Latino Cultural Festival showcases diverse talents – NYC
July 10, 2008
East L.A. art center will need a new home
Play portrays lives of illegal immigrants – Plaza Midwood show aims to offer particular insight into the experience of children. – North Carolina
June 26, 2008
El Pasoans anticipate summer Pachanga Concert series
June 22, 2008
Miami Metaphors: Hispanic artists cast loving, scolding eyes on their adopted home town – art show
June 10, 2008
Industrial Boulevard renaming poll has Dallas officials mired in controversy – Dallas – (to César Chávez Boulevard)
June 9, 2008
Mexican artists enrich, inspire Bay Area
June 5, 2008
Guild of Latino Fine Arts throws a street party to celebrate community. – Kansas City
June 4, 2008
Hispanic Festival Returns for Second Year – Centralia College Hosting Annual Festivities July 26-27
June 3, 2008
Gothamist: Who’s Afraid of the Puerto Rican Day Parade?
June 2, 2008
Espejos: Reflecting the Latino community – Minneapolis – St. Paul
May 28, 2008
The galleries of the venerable Museo del Barrio have officially closed to make way for the last stage of a $28 million renovation that will give a needed face-lift to the city’s only Latin-focused museum. – NYC
May 27, 2008
South L.A. backyards are becoming barnyards – Once predominantly African American, the area has seen an influx of Latino immigrants, along with their roosters, chickens and other barnyard beasts not typically part of the urban scene.
April 30, 2008
Latino artist pushes benefits of higher education – Washington
April 28, 2008
A rediscovering of East L.A.’s core – Latino artists help revamp a place where the community (and freeways) intersects.
Lost Art Of The OC and The Lemon Street Murals – Fullerton, California
April 25, 2008
Puerto Rican Cultural Pageant, teaching and developing – Buffalo
February 28, 2008
Longer fest shows depth of Mexican arts, culture – Nuestras Raices Literary Arts Festival in Tucson
February 6, 2008
U art professor (Kim Martinez), students to paint a mural downtown – Salt Lake City, Utah
February 5, 2008
Annual Maya Fiesta in Jupiter celebrates Guatemalan heritage – Florida
January 31, 2008
State Symphony of Mexico to play Asheville concert – North Carolina
January 7, 2008
Hispanic community marks Three King’s Day – Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Hispanic Coalition keeping alive celebration of Three Kings Day – Columbus, Ohio
January 3, 2008
Tamara Alvarado resigns from MACLA
3 Kings Day Celebrations Come to Las Vegas Valley
January 2, 2008
A closer look at Waukesha’s Latino history – Wisconsin
December 10, 2007
Houston dancers celebrate Lady of Guadalupe – Annual event draws 3,000 Catholics to celebrate the upcoming feast day – Houston
December 9, 2007
Latino theater a first for Soledad – Salinas, CA
‘Pastorela’ is devilish good fun – Dan Guerrero, son of Lalo, to play Lucifer in popular show – Tucson
November 27, 2007
Teatro del Pueblo: Facing Latino community issues through theater – Minneapolis – St. Paul
October 29, 2007
Day of the Dead draws thousands to Fruitvale – Oakland
October 24, 2007
Tempe honors Cesar Chavez with art exhibit
September 30, 2007
Carlos de León Campos’ Art Graces Hispanic Heritage Poster – Carlos de León Campos in Tampa
September 12, 2007
National speaker (Alma Martinez) coming to Arapahoe Community College – September 26 – Colorado
September 11, 2007
The City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department invites the public to the grand opening of the Mexican American Cultural Center, 600 River St., at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, 2007.
September 10, 2007
CU Planetarium’s Astronomy Day To Feature Show In Spanish – Saturday, Sept. 15 – Boulder, Colorado
Hispanic poet to visit Omaha Sept. 19 – Francisco Alarcon
August 21, 2007
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts turns 30 – San Francisco
May 16, 2007
Latino history in Holyoke featured- Massachusetts
May 14, 2007
Seven Year Boycott of San Diego’s Centro Cultural de la Raza Ends – San Diego
April 18, 2007
San Jose Art Plaza Needs Quick Cash
March 21, 2007
Mexican-American Cultural Center to open by summer – Austin
January 23, 2007
Symphony grant enables Latino project – Indianapolis
