Save the date for a virtual artist panel on May 2, 2024, with featured artists and the curator of the exhibition Re-collections. Featuring works by nine artists, the exhibition asks questions about museum collections, cultural extraction, Eurocentric archaeology, biased museology, and anthropology. It is on view from February 9 through May 10, 2024 at 20 Cooper Square, 4th floor.

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IATI Theater presents the LAB Production of ÑACHI, a visceral story of ancestral rites, indigenous folk, and police brutality seen through the eyes of a sheep in Wallmapu, the land of the Mapuche people. Tracked through the passing seasons, the sheep’s wonder at the beauty of nature turns to rage at the violence exerted by the Chilean State. Ultimately, we are left to wonder— Is the sickness of human society beyond cure?

Told by a team of Chilean artists, this story brings us to the southernmost regions of Latin America, where native heritage has outlived the threat of erasure.

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IATI Theater presents the LAB Production of ÑACHI, a visceral story of ancestral rites, indigenous folk, and police brutality seen through the eyes of a sheep in Wallmapu, the land of the Mapuche people. Tracked through the passing seasons, the sheep’s wonder at the beauty of nature turns to rage at the violence exerted by the Chilean State. Ultimately, we are left to wonder— Is the sickness of human society beyond cure?

Told by a team of Chilean artists, this story brings us to the southernmost regions of Latin America, where native heritage has outlived the threat of erasure.

Get tickets here!

IATI Theater presents the LAB Production of ÑACHI, a visceral story of ancestral rites, indigenous folk, and police brutality seen through the eyes of a sheep in Wallmapu, the land of the Mapuche people. Tracked through the passing seasons, the sheep’s wonder at the beauty of nature turns to rage at the violence exerted by the Chilean State. Ultimately, we are left to wonder— Is the sickness of human society beyond cure?

Told by a team of Chilean artists, this story brings us to the southernmost regions of Latin America, where native heritage has outlived the threat of erasure.

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Join the Latinx Politics Working Group for an in-person panel with Latinx politics experts to discuss the importance of the 2024 presidential election for Latinx communities and the role of Latinx voters in the election.

Presenters include Yalidy Matos (Rutgers University), Yamil Velez (Columbia University), and Cristina Beltrán (NYU) organized and moderated by Domingo Morel (NYU Wagner).

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The Ideologies of “Good” Languaging Working Group hosts Dr. María Cristina Cioè-Peña for a talk entitled “TrUDL: A path to anti-racist, anti-ableist inclusion.”

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About Dr. María Cristina Cioè-Peña

María Cioè-Peña (Penn Graduate School of Education) is a bilingual/biliterate education researcher and educator who examines the intersections of disability, language, school–parent partnerships, and education policy. Taking a sociolinguistic approach and stance, she pushes and reimagines the boundaries of inclusive spaces for minoritized children. Stemming from her experiences as a former bilingual special education teacher, Dr. Cioè-Peña’s research focuses on bilingual children with dis/abilities, their families, and their ability to access multilingual and inclusive learning spaces within public schools. Her interests are deeply rooted in political economy, raciolinguistic perspectives and critical dis/ability awareness within schools and families. Learn more about her current research.

About the Working Group

The Ideologies of "Good" Languaging Working Group is organized and led by María Rosa Brea-Spahn (Steinhardt Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders) and Erica Saldívar-Garcia (Steinhardt Department of Teaching and Learning). This interdisciplinary affinity group brings together faculty and doctoral students across the departments of Communicative Sciences and Disorders and Teaching and Learning to co-create spaces of inquiry, collaborative learning, and community centered transformation by interrogating ideological orientations about language, race, and ability that characterize policies, curricular materials, and practices.

Mr. Oscar, Mrs. Osaura, little Oscarito and of course the over curious, super-snooping Ricitos, or Goldilocks, lead audiences on a comical adventure as Goldilocks confronts the three bears and has to learn to take responsibility, say sorry and make friends. Recommended for Pre-K to 5th Grade. Performed in Spanish and English simultaneously.

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Artist in Residence

The Open Call for the 2024-2025 Artist in Residence Competition will open in March 2024. The deadline is Monday, April 15, 2024. Pictured above is our fall 2023 artist-in-residence exhibition Allow Me to Gather Myself featuring works by Mildred Beltré.

Curatorial Open Call

Pitches for Curatorial Projects are welcomed on a rolling basis. Please email a one page description of your idea, along with your CV to: latinxproject@nyu.edu with the heading: “Curatorial pitch” .

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Panel discussion followed by performance of the Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band.

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Jazz Boricua, quartet from Puerto Rico, on tour in the northeast. NYC stop at the new Bronx Music Hall.

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Join the virtual symposium, “At the Edge of Each Other's Battles”: Puerto Rican, Palestinian, Black & Indigenous Feminist Futures hosted by the Black & Indigenous Feminist Futures Institute, Palestinian Feminist Collective, Diaspora Solidarities Lab, The Latinx Project, and CENTRO, The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College.

This symposium uses the words of poet Audre Lorde to bring together scholars, experts, and community activists to examine the impact of colonization, displacement, and oppression while seeking to foster deeper understanding, empathy, and solidarity on a collective journey towards liberation.

Attendance is free and will include simultaneous translation.

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Join us to celebrate the publication of When Language Broke Open: An Anthology of Queer & Trans Black Writers of Latin American Descent. The volume centers on the writing, visual, and graphic art of 44 contemporary writers across Latin America, the Caribbean, and their diasporas. Joining us are five NYC-based Afro-Latinx contributors: Yamilette Vizcaíno Rivera, Irene Vázquez, Armando Alleyne, Edgie Amisial, and Darrel Alejandro Holnes. They'll be accompanied by editor, Alan Pelaez Lopez, a 2022-2023 Miriam Jiménez Román Fellow.

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This April installment of CCCADI's family art-based education program, Sou Sou! Saturdays celebrates the written and spoken word in the spirit of National Poetry Month with traditional Haitian call-and-response storytelling, Krik-Krak!

This community workshop featuring Ibi Zoboi and Jeff Dess provides a creative space for families and youth to expand their understanding of Haitian oral traditions and its shared lineage with the broader African diaspora throughout the Caribbean.

This Sou Sou event will also feature a poetry-writing workshop led by Stephanie Pacheco of East Harlem Poets Collective, an initiative created by Willie Perdomo, State Poet of NY (2021-2023), in partnership with A New York State of Poetry and the Teachers & Writers Collaborative.

Inspired by the financial resource-sharing traditions known throughout the African Diaspora by such names as "Colecta", "Box Hand", "San", "Partna", or "Sou-Sou", this family-based art and education program reinterprets Sou Sou as an exchange of cultural resources.

There is no cost to attend this event. Space is limited; registration is strongly suggested. Attendees will be able to view the current exhibition, BYENVENI.

April 6, 2024 12 - 6 p.m. CCCADI Firehouse 120 E 125th Street New York, NY 10035

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Join us for our Spring Celebration & Fundraiser to celebrate and advance our work uplifting Latinx art, culture, and creativity on April 3, 2024 at Taj Lounge in Chelsea. Now that we're a provostial center, our next key goal is securing our distinguishing programs to ensure their sustainability into the future.

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Miriam Jiménez Román Fellowship The Miriam Jiménez Román Fellowship supports post-doctoral candidates and junior scholars whose research advances the study of Afro-Latinx communities in the U.S. Applications will open in April 2024.

Public Humanities Fellowship TLP’s Public Humanities Fellowship will offer up to 10 graduate students at NYU and the Inter-University Doctoral Consortium the opportunity to gain career-building experience with local arts and culture organizations. Applications will open in April 2024.

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CCCADI’s March 2024 installment of AFRO WAVES features renowned performing artist Riva Nyri Précil! In celebration of Women’s History Month, Riva is presenting an immersive exposition of curative traditional Haitian folkloric music and dance: A Journey Through the Healing Power of Culture.

Riva’s intimate acoustic virtual concert celebrates Haitian women in music with new sounds that continue to bridge Haitian traditional folklore and contemporary genre-bending musical expression.

AFRO WAVES is CCCADI’s concert series that showcases the Black Cultural Evolution with vanguard artists of the African Diaspora. This upcoming show beckons us to experience the glory and power of the divine feminine. How to Watch: On March 21, 2024 at 7 p.m. (EST) you can view the program on this webpage or join us via our Youtube and Facebook pages.

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Attention screenwriters and playwrights! Are you having trouble managing your script submission process?

This workshop will help you conquer that challenge in 2024.

Register for Conch Shell Productions, Inc upcoming writers workshop Submission Planning & Management for the Writer led by award winning playwright, Gretchen Suárez-Peña.

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Carla Acevedo Yakes, and CENTRO Directora, Dr. Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez, for a cafecito as they journey through entre horizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico. Together, they’ll explore the intersection of art and activism, and unpack the myriad ways in which creative expression can shape narratives, challenge norms, and build bridges between communities.

entre horizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico examines the artistic genealogies and social justice movements that connect Puerto Rico with Chicago. Featuring works by an intergenerational group of artists with ties to Chicago, the exhibition presents Puerto Rican painters who use printmaking techniques and approaches alongside artists who address social and political issues through their work.

entre horizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico is curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates, Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator, with Iris Colburn, Curatorial Associate. It is on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago through May 5th, 2024.

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Rancho Tales is a delightful retelling of some family favorites stories incorporating music, puppetry, movement, and visuals. It’s a perfect show for the little ones from newborn to five years old, however it also is fun for adults, as they also sing and clap along to songs both in Spanish and English, adding a cultural treat for all.

Characters “Pepa” and “Pepe” guide everyone through three bilingual classic barn stories: The Ugly Duckling, Three Billy Goats Gruff, and The Red Hen, accompanied by popular Latin American barn songs.

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In honor of Garifuna Heritage Month (March 11-April 12), join us for an afternoon with Garifuna Scholar and Miriam Jiménez Román Fellow Dr. Daisy E. Guzman Nunez, Luz F. Soliz Ramos and Catherine Ochun. Together, through performance, conversation, and food, they recreate the Garifuna interior as an intergenerational, matrilineal space that calls to the ancestors.

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

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The Latinx Project at NYU and Cinema Tropical are partnering to present an exclusive one-day film series celebrating the work of US Latinx filmmakers. The Latinx Film Showcase will screen three recent films, all of which were nominated at the 14th edition of the Cinema Tropical Awards. The event will also include talkback sessions with some of the featured directors. The film selection includes You Were My First Boyfriend by acclaimed director Cecilia Aldarondo (Landfall); El Equipo, the latest documentary by two-time Emmy-nominated director Bernardo Ruiz; and Aristotle Torres’ powerful debut feature Story Ave, winner of the Cinema Tropical Award for Best US Latinx Film of the Year, starring the exceptional Puerto Rican actor Luis Guzmán.

Additional sponsorship for this event is provided by the Center for Research & Study at the Tisch School of the Arts.

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How can the work writers do contribute to building sustainable and inclusive futures for our communities? How can the work of leading community organizations contribute to creative work? And how can the arts serve as a tool of empowerment, liberation, and solidarity? Literary organizations like Cave Canem, CantoMundo, Kundiman, Indigenous Nations Poets, Fire & Ink, Mizna, and Radius of Arab American Writers, were convened with the goal of creating spaces for marginalized writers to develop their craft and find community and connection with one another. On the occasion of Kundiman’s 20th anniversary, join us for this reading and conversation hosted by Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, featuring George Abraham (executive editor of Mizna and Kundiman Fellow), Samiya Bashir (founding organizer of Fire & Ink and Cave Canem Fellow), Kim Blaeser (founding executive director of Indigenous Nations Poets), Cathy Linh Che (executive director of Kundiman), Deborah Paredez (co-founder of CantoMundo), and Glenn Shaheen (president and executive director of the Radius of Arab American Writers) as they read from their work and discuss what it means to lead, create, and write, centering the idea “not one without the other.”

This program is co-presented by Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and Kundiman. Additional sponsorship is provided by The Latinx Project. Curated by Cathy Linh Che.

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Hosted by the NYU Latinx Alumni Network, join this panel conversation on Afro-Latinindad and an exclusive sizzle reel preview screening of I’m Not My Hair, a documentary by Cynthia Bastidas chronicling the natural hair journey of an Afro-Latina woman, Cristina Garcia de Leon, and the various ways anti-Blackness manifests itself in the everyday life of Afro-descendant women.

The short screening and discussion will be the starting point for a panel discussion with Afro-Latina women professionals, scholars and artists. They will be discussing their work and personal experiences with the topic and their own relationship with their identities. The event will conclude with a reception. This event is co-sponsored by The Latinx Project.

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A bilingual how about the great Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, which combines storytelling, music, visual arts, puppets and audience participation.

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Join us for a conversation between The Latinx Project's Artist-in-Residence Estelle Maisonett and artists Juan Sánchez and Shellyne Rodriguez. This conversation will be moderated by the exhibition’s curator Johanna Fernández. The panel will be followed by a reception.

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BYENVENI is a multimedia exhibition that welcomes contemporary Haitian Diasporic art. This exhibition shines a spotlight on the creative expressions of eleven artists who focus on the theme of lakay (translated as home in Haitian-Kreyòl), and explore Haiti as both a cherished internal sanctuary, preserving cultural traditions and religious practices, as well as an external haven, a space of refuge, familial and communal development, a source of boundless joy, and the cornerstone of sovereignty.

The exhibition will be on display February 15 - November 14, 2024. The artists featured in BYENVENI encompass a spectrum of artistic styles, with works spanning from visual documentary to paintings, photography and conceptual approaches. They delve into the concept of lakay transcending geographical boundaries, examining how they serve as sanctuaries for some, yet not for all. Collectively, this body of work pays tribute to the myriad interpretations of what makes a home, family, kinship, and community in the current context of Haitians worldwide.

The show, organized by CCCADI Curator-At-Large Yvena Despagne, offers an immersive experience, including an intricate and vibrant fabric installation by Steven Baboun, Laurena Finéus and Madjeen Isaac’s elaborate oil paintings, an interactive component from Nic[o] Aziz, Metrès Riva Nyri Précil, Natacha Thys, and Oyasound Project, photography by Daveed Baptiste, along with reflections of sculptures by Tania L. Balan-Gaubert, Fabiola Jean-Louis and Tasha Dougé.

BYENVENI welcomes you to explore the captivating journey of contemporary Haitian art and to celebrate the enduring legacy of Haiti, a beacon of strength, and deep culture. Lakay se Lakay: Home is Home.

There is no cost to attend! Capacity is limited.

RSVP is strongly encouraged, but walk-ups will be accepted if space allows.

Dancer and educator Oxil Febles will lead a bomba dance workshop, FROM THE SOUTH TO THE NORTH: REGIONAL STYLES OF AFRO-PUERTO RICAN DANCE & MUSIC. Learn the rhythms of bomba from the south of the island to Santurce and Loiza.

The Fourth Annual En Foco Media Arts Fund: Work in Progress (WIP) Initiative: $2,000 Support Grant in collaboration with BronxNet is designed to support New York City artists of color who engage with Digital Media technologies within their art-making processes. The award will focus solely on works that need support toward the completion of a current work in progress, which demonstrates the highest quality of work and potential as determined by a panel of peers, and industry professionals. All innovative interpretations of Digital Media will be considered, requiring a critical digital aspect in both the process and product. Proposed projects where the final products are photographic in nature are ineligible for funding.

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Annually, CCCADI hosts a panel of Lucumi priests (oluwos, oba oriates, and oloshas) for an evening of multi-generational dialogue on the cultural, social, and philosophical implications of the long-standing tradition La Letra del Año or Odu of the Year. All are welcome to participate in this virtual discussion, the first installment of our Sacred Traditions series in 2024!

La Letra del Año or Odu of the Year is a forecast offered to the community as a result of the Lucumi divination ceremony held by a council of babalawos in Cuba. Announced on January 1st, this “reading” provides a sacred blueprint and predictions for the year ahead.

In Yorubaland, the ceremony is usually conducted during the Odun Ifa Festival later in the Gregorian Calendar.

CCCADI’s Sacred Traditions: Letra del Año panel discussion centers the collective wisdom of the Lucumi community in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, in response to this annual tradition. This program is not a divination ceremony nor meant to replace the wisdom and guidance of Lucumí elders and practitioners across the globe who also divine on behalf of their countries, regions, and iles (religious houses and temples) and country-specific associations.

Participants will have an opportunity to ask questions and engage in dialogue throughout the program. To receive the link to the virtual program, you must register in advance.

Este programa contará con un intérprete de español.

Guest Speakers:

Oluwo Joseph Caroll-Miranda

Oluwo Raymond Crawford

Oluwo Ramin Khorassani

Oluwo John McCoy

Oba Oriate Frank Bell

Oba Oriate Danny Rodriguez

Moderator: Marinieves Alba, Olo-Obatala

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(Additional information forthcoming)