Friday, August 5, 2022, 8 pm
La Medea re-imagines Euripides’ tragic myth into a made for camera latin-disco-pop musical film. Often screened with the live score performed by the original live band inside the cinematheque, this unique feature film was directed, performed, shot, and edited in real time, creating a high-stakes vulnerability for cast, crew, and audiences alike. Performers and camera women play the characters, while in-studio audiences act as the Greek chorus and film extras. The pervasive figure of the wild foreign woman who vengefully murders her own children is shattered in this genre-bending multidimensional dismantling of an ongoing toxic myth. Challenging cinematic traditions and portrayals of women on screen and in myth, La Medea dismantles notions of a “dangerous,” “hysterical,” foreign woman. The film reveals an infinite woman that rejects the limited gaze imposed on her for centuries.
Saturday, August 6, 2022, 2 pm
Join us Saturday, August 6th, for an artist talk with the artists in attendance from 2 pm to 3 pm at the Latino Cultural Center.
Dive deep into the spectrum of queerness and learn more about the powerful works in this exhibition. The one and only Classi Nance will facilitate this discussion. The exhibition closes on August 13th.
From Glasstire:
"This exhibition, curated by Angel Faz, seeks to present contemporary art that examines “queerness beyond rainbow capitalism.” In this show, the masculinity that dominates much of queer culture is left out to make room for presentations of femme narratives, or rather, the queer spectrum more broadly."
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August 11, 2022, 6:30 pm
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Join us at the LCC for a night of line dancing. Don't know how to line dance?! Don't worry because we'll have an instructor showing you all the steps you need to know. Bring some snacks and drinks and head over to the Latino Cultural Center for a fun night of dancing. See you here for this FREE night of fun! |
Wednesday, August 17, 2022, 10 am
Hable con Ella (R)
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas. (1h 52m)
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August 25 to October 15, 2022
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 25, 2022, 6 pm
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LATINO ARTS PROJECT presents an immersive art experience at the Latino Cultural Center. This free exhibit brings awareness to the diversity of cultures within our communities and highlights the commonalities we share.
The little known story of Gaspar Yanga will be explored, for the first time, in a separate museum exhibition. Past exhibitions have included Yanga’s story within context of other topics, but this is the first museum exhibition exclusively about Yanga, the first liberator of the Americas.
Yanga and the AfroMexican Experience features an entire gallery devoted to Yanga, exploring this historical story with documents from the Archivo General de la Nacion (National Archives) in Mexico City and Archivo General de Indias (Archive of the Indies) in Seville, Spain.
The second gallery is devoted to exploring the cultural impact of the AfroMexican experience. The exhibition explores in depth the influence in music, dance, food and art in each of the three main areas of Mexico with a direct African impact.
Learn about the African experience in the Mexican state of Veracruz, as the main landing site for many of the enslaved Africans that went directly to Mexico on the Caribbean coast, Costa Chica, the southern Pacific area that crosses the Mexican states of Guerrero and Oaxaca and the Texas bordering state of Coahuila that became a refuge for former slaves from the US.
This exhibition enhances Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DEI) awareness with a STE(A)M-focused educational experience, for students of all ages, with animated and documentary videos and artistic representations with paintings, wood sculptures and textiles.
Join us for this cross-cultural experience!
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Now through August 13, 2022
Curated by Angel Faz
With eight queer femme and non-binary artists working across mediums and cultures, Someone, Like Me gives a view into queerness beyond rainbow capitalism with an alternate view of gender fluidity and queerness being celebrated. Someone, Like Me, aims to present artists exploring life and love beyond the gay male gaze.
Featured artists: Ciara Elle Bryant, Cher Musico, Ofelia Alvarenga, Danielle Ellis. Quel Hynson, Gibson Regester, Krysta Chalkey and Kay Seeding
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Now through August 13, 2022
Curated By Jose Villalobos
This exhibition is a celebration of queer artists and their work. Queer-ltura y Queerpo brings together the works of eight queer artists and groups in which the body is used as a medium and subject to talk about important socio-political issues amongst the Latinx cultural diaspora. “The human body is central to how we understand facets of identity such as gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity. People alter their bodies, hair, and clothing to align with or rebel against social conventions and to express messages to others around them. Many artists explore gender through representations of the body and by using their own bodies in their creative process.” The body of work in this exhibition comes across through a variety of different disciplines such as installation, fashion, drawing, sculpture & photography.
Featured Artists: Austin Alegria, Sam Fresquez, Andie Flores, Carly Garza, Alexander Hernandez, Joy Regalado and Christopher Najera
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