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Ecos Latinos Series and New Orleans Hispanic Heritage Foundation presents Hispanic Heritage Celebration

September 15, 2023 7:00 PM

Join this event hosted at NOMA for performances by Louisiana musicians in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month!

International Dance Festival

September 07, 2023 7:30 PM

ORGANIZED by Leslie Scott, Associate Professor of Dance, Newcomb Department of Theatre and Dance

CIMAFUNK: Roundtable Discussion with Grammy-Nominated Afro-Cuban Rock Star

April 25, 2023 3:30 PM

Join us for a visit and roundtable discussion with Grammy-nominated Afro-Cuban Rockstar Cimafunk. His latest album, El Alimento, was nominated at the 2023 GRAMMY Awards for Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album.

New Orleans Poetry Festival

April 13, 2023 7:00 PM

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is partnering with the New Orleans Poetry Festival to sponsor an evening of Brazilian poetry at the Stone Auditorium in the Woldenberg Art Center on April 14, 2023. They have invited five Brazilian poets, two based in Rio de Janeiro, and three in the United States, to participate in the festival.

"O Navio Negreiro"(The Slave Ship): A Public, Trilingual Poetry Reading

March 21, 2023 3:00 PM

Brazil had the longest-lasting slave economy in the Americas, importing an estimated 10x as many enslaved Africans as the U.S. In a belated recognition of Black History Month, we will acknowledge the monumental importance of these four million enslaved people with a trilingual reading of Castro Alves' poem, "O Navio Negreiro" / "The Slave Ship".

We are searching for Spanish, Portuguese, and English readers! You can sign up here.

A Bridge in the Air Made by the Smoke of Burning Feathers: A Talk by Ariel Bustamante, Chilean Sound Artist

March 16, 2023 5:00 PM

This talk centers on two collective sound art practices of which Ariel Bustamante is a part of in Karukinka (Tierra del Fuego, Chile) and the Collasuyo, the shared desert of Bolivia and Chile. Over years of collaboration with members of the Uru-Chipayan nation in the Collasuyo and members of the Selk'nam nation from the far southern lands of South America, they have developed a creative practice around different spiritual technologies to affiliate with the non-human, including wind-people and peatlands.