When:
Saturday, October 19, 2024
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM CT
Where: 18th St. Casa de Cultura, 2057 W. 18th St., Chicago, IL 60608
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Spanish and Portuguese
(847) 491-8249
Group: Black Studies Department
Category: Academic, Fine Arts, Multicultural & Diversity, Global & Civic Engagement
Join us for a special pre-screening of the documentary Juntando Orillas, followed by an engaging conversation with the director, producers, and protagonists. The film captures the journey of writers participating in FLECHO (Chocó Reading and Writing Festival), a literary event on Colombia’s Pacific coast.
To top it off, the evening will conclude with a powerful slam poetry performance by Slam Diáspora.
This program is co-sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, the Spanish & Portuguese Department, the Latina & Latino Studies Program, the Black Studies Department, the English Department and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities of Northwestern University.
Bilingual event in English and Spanish.