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Celebrate Day of the Dead by enjoying fresh tapas, delicious wine, and crafting a felted sugar skull!Join us as put a twist on the Mexican folk art tradition of Sugar Skull by trying your hands at FELTING and creating your very on 2-D felted sugar skull.Tickets are $25 and include wine, tapas and all art …
Walker’s Point Center for the Arts has the longest standing tradition of celebrating this cultural practice in Milwaukee. This is a year of “Celebración/Celebration” as we commemorate 30 years of centering and uplifting this tradition in our neighborhood and beyond. We celebrate the lives of the dearly departed, their impact and memories through contemporary expressions …
Bring family and friends to the Museum to explore the colors and symbols of Day of the Dead at this annual visitor favorite. Learn about the holiday’s special traditions through a range of hands-on activities, from making paper flowers to adding remembrances of someone special who has passed to the community ofrenda. For more than …
Día de los muertos celebration! ?Sunday, October 23 from 11-6pmJoin our community in celebrating the day of the dead with a procession through the Walker's Point Neighborhood. Support small local Latina businesses, hosted by Mercadera.Live music, food & more!! RSVP to receive a reminder and share it with a friend!!
We invite you to join us for a very special Reception - Day of the Dead Ofrendas, on Friday, October 28th from 5-7pm.This reception is FREE and open to the public!Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a day to celebrate, remember, and prepare special foods in honor of those who have departed. …
Our 11th Annual Latino Family Expo & Festival• Free Indoor Trick-or-Treat• Children's Area• Piñata Party for the kids• Health, Education, & Job Fair• Home Buying Workshop• Immigration Information• Latino Cultural Exhibits• Live Entertainment & moreFor more information callEl Conquistador Newspaper414-383-1000FREE Admission
Learn the origin of Dia de los Muertos, and its meaning. Plus a workshop teaching children, youth and families how to make an altar for the day of the dead.Sponsored By: Chicano Culture Milwaukee & Brown Berets of Wisconsin
Join the Urban Ecology Center, Escuela Verde and Newline Community Cafe for an evening of face painting, food, music and more!Participants will be able to enjoy dancing & drumming, Bailes folcloricos, a flower-making and papel picado craft station, food trucks and more!For any additional questions about this program, please contact Menomonee Valley Branch Manager, Angélica …
Come join us on Thursday November 3rd for a fun and festive movie night honoring Día De Los Muertos!
As part of our Lunch and Learn series, Latino Arts invites you to join the conversation as we discuss Dia de Los Muertos traditions in Mexico and Central America. Our expert panel will explaining elements of syncretism that have contributed to the fusion of cultures throughout the celebration's evolution that has expanded hundreds of years.In-Person …
Join us at Latino Arts, Inc. for a FREE Opening Reception for our upcoming Winter Exhibit!Between Yesterday and Where, The Magic of Macondo is an exploration of the idea that personal identity that can occupy a physical or figurative space informed by cultural heritage and external forces. Artists participating in this exhibition are part of …
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!!Exhibition soon to be shown: Aquí/Allá, a gathering by CK LedesmaOpening Reception is December 16th, 2022 from 6pm-9pm, We invite all in the community and public to come to see this amazing show!!!.Being Boricua is an intersection. It’s a woven identity that connects through time, land, ancestors, culture, and resistance. This exhibition gathers contemporary …
Fridays:January 27February 3, 10, 17, 244:30 PM - 5:30 PMMenomonee Valley Free for everyone. (For teens & adults) Get your body moving while connecting with neighbors, and learn some Aztec dances! All you will need is to wear comfortable clothes and shoes. This dance workshop is for beginners, but all levels are welcome. For any …
Fridays:January 27February 3, 10, 17, 244:30 PM - 5:30 PMMenomonee Valley Free for everyone. (For teens & adults) Get your body moving while connecting with neighbors, and learn some Aztec dances! All you will need is to wear comfortable clothes and shoes. This dance workshop is for beginners, but all levels are welcome. For any …
THIS SATURDAY - COME CELEBRATE! Join us February 4, 2023 from 5:30-8:00PM at the MARN ART + CULTURE HUB for the Opening Reception for “HOOPS” by Nicole Acosta. DJ Quilla will be live the entire event, local poets Melissa Mursch-Rodriguez and Brit Nicole will be live at 6PM and 7PM, and final remarks will be …
Fridays:January 27February 3, 10, 17, 244:30 PM - 5:30 PMMenomonee Valley Free for everyone. (For teens & adults) Get your body moving while connecting with neighbors, and learn some Aztec dances! All you will need is to wear comfortable clothes and shoes. This dance workshop is for beginners, but all levels are welcome. For any …
“Indigeneity and Writing: Rethinking Indigenismo in Early 20th Century Latin America”AGSL (UWM Libraries, 3rd floor)UW-MilwaukeeJorge CoronadoProfessor of Latin American and Andean LiteraturesCo-Director, Andean Cultures & HistoriesNorthwestern University In this talk, Professor Coronado reconsiders the scholarly frameworks within which we locate indigenista literature, arguably the broadest literary movement in the Latin American 20th century. His goal …
Carnival in Rio is all about the Boas Vibrações, which means Good Vibes in Portuguese. Join Latino Arts on Thursday, February 16 to unleash your inner artist and learn more about the cultural history behind the Carnival masks and the colorful Brazilian celebration! This evening of tinto sipping and hands-on painting activity will fill you …
Fridays:January 27February 3, 10, 17, 244:30 PM - 5:30 PMMenomonee Valley Free for everyone. (For teens & adults) Get your body moving while connecting with neighbors, and learn some Aztec dances! All you will need is to wear comfortable clothes and shoes. This dance workshop is for beginners, but all levels are welcome. For any …
"Celebrating diversity and Ancestral memory" First showcase presented by Cultura Viva.Bringing people together to explore culture through sounds, dance and flavours.This Afro Latin and Caribbean Carnaval will raise your body and soul's temperature through traditional and fusioned sounds from Latin America and the Caribbean.FREE ENTRYCultura Viva is a complete FREE dance program for the community. …
Fridays:January 27February 3, 10, 17, 244:30 PM - 5:30 PMMenomonee Valley Free for everyone. (For teens & adults) Get your body moving while connecting with neighbors, and learn some Aztec dances! All you will need is to wear comfortable clothes and shoes. This dance workshop is for beginners, but all levels are welcome. For any …
In Celebration of Black History Month the RHC will be showing the Documentary "Black Latin America- Mexico & Peru: The Grandma In the Closet" 2/28@12:30 Where: UWM Bolton Hall 183
Annual Cinco de Mayo Festival featuring live music, cultural performances, chihuahua beauty contest, pepper eating contest, hot tamale eating contest, dance contest, carnival rides, and mucho mas!What is Cinco de Mayo?Cinco de Mayo is referenced and featured as an increasingly global celebration of Mexican culture, cuisine, and heritage.Cinco de Mayo is not Mexican Independence Day, …
Bembé welcomes you to our biggest production of the year, "Journey the Atlantic/Viajando el Atlántico," a celebration of Afro-Latino musical culture!Follow us on a journey through the African Diaspora with music and dance from West Africa, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Puerto Rico and present day United States and enjoy performances by our Bembé youth, teen and …
Created to pass on Afro-Latino musical traditions directly from cultural elders and masters to Milwaukee cultural arts educators and the greater community through oral and cultural praxis, Learning From the Masters brings master artists-in-residence from the African Diaspora to Milwaukee for 8-10 week residencies.Learn about the traditions of Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba y Plena, Afro-Cuban Rumba …