The NC Latin American Film Festival celebrates the power and artistry of Latin America’s film and audiovisual production. Its mission is to provide a space in North Carolina for Latin American images, sounds, and stories to reach a wider audience. The 35th season of NCLAFF will be an homage of the best Latin American films produced in the past 35 years. NCLAFF will be a mixed-format, virtual synchronic and a-synchronic film festival. The festival beings with a mini web conference on October 9.
When: October 9 – 18
Where: All Events Online
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Presented by the Consortium in Latin American & Caribbean Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University
On November 16, 2018 from 9:00 -5:00, at Graylyn International Conference Center, students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend this one-day race and immigration conference with presentations by nationally-recognized race scholars, including poster presentations by WFU undergraduate students.
Author Cristina García will discuss her life and work in a visit with students and the general public. In harmony with the community partnerships we have formed with SECCA, she will encourage students to be active citizens, to reflect on questions about borders, to reach out to immigrant communities, and to write about their experiences. Presented by the Department of Italian & Spanish, and the Latin American & Latino Studies Program.
From August 28 – November 4, 2018, the Department of Spanish and Italian and the Latin American & Latino Studies Program will join the ongoing project developed by artists Alejandro Figueredo Díaz-Perara and Cara Megan Lewis (together known as Díaz Lewis) to draw attention to the immigrant crisis. In response, the collaborative, ongoing, performance-based Díaz Lewis installation engages participants to create pillows from clothing donated by undocumented immigrants, former detainees, and their supporters. Each pillow conveys their brutal journeys, translating the human experience in a far more intense, compelling, palpable way than speeches and statistics. From September 19-26, the artists Díaz and Lewis will be in Winston-Salem to work with students collaborating on the workshops at WFU, and mounting the installation at SECCA.
New York City-based Cuban multimedia artist Yali Romagoza will present her performance piece, “Monument to a Great Living Artist” at SECCA. The performance is designed to raise awareness of the plight of women throughout the world. It calls into question the narrowly focused, middle-class, white feminist struggle that often excludes working-class women, immigrants, and women of color to benefit only a few. It is a visual spectacle that will encourage our students and community to react to, and reflect on, essentially contested views. What does it mean to belong to a minority group? How do we combat derogatory stereotypes of women and immigrants? How art and educational institutions historically perceived and treated women, and how have notions of “greatness” influenced how art and other achievements are perceived today? How do social categories and national identity determine how other cultures and societies are perceived? Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Italian and the Latin American & Latino Studies Program.
