“La Resistencia” Festival on Sunday
An annual celebration with music, performances, food, and drinks, including a Fandango performance featuring maestros Fernando Guadarrama and Gregorio Quiros from the Tapacamino Colectivo Musiquero (Oaxaca, Mexico)
Everyone is welcome. Bring your instruments.
Sun, Nov 19, starting at 2 pm 6.00-8.00 pm
Bregamos Theater (491 Blatchley Ave, New Haven)
Film screening of “Fandango at the Wall,” a documentary on the annual Fandango Fronterizo Festival, which unites people on both sides of the Tijuana-San Diego border. The festival features “jarocho,” a 300-year-old folk music tradition mixture of indigenous, Spanish, and African traditions originated.
It will be followed by a performance of jarocho, featuring Fernando Guadarrama, Gregorio Quiroz, and Perick. Introduced by CLAIS Postdoctoral Associate Maria Aguilar.
The Latino & Iberian Film Festival at Yale (LIFFY):
https://liffy.yale.edu/liffy-2023#overlay-context=
Join us for a talk with Peruvian writer-director Alonso Llosa about the benefits and challenges of independent filmmaking in Latin America and the role of government funding in producing movies.
Hosted in collaboration with the ¨“Feed Your Belly, Feed Your Head” Program at the Yale Office of New Haven Affairs. RSVP here.
Join the Iberian Soundscapes conference (October 6-7) for “Brazilian Bandolim Virtuoso Tiago Souza Presents: Choro-Samba-Jazz,” on Saturday, October 7 from 6-7:30PM in Luce Hall Auditorium. Featuring Tiago Souza on the bandolim, Rogério Souza on the 7-string guitar, and Stephen Guerra on the 6-string guitar.
Join the Iberian Soundscapes conference (October 6-7) for “An Evening of Indian Ragas and Talas” on Friday, October 6, from 6-7PM in Luce Hall Auditorium. Featuring Stephen Slawek on the sitar, Samir Chatterjee on the tabla, and Deepika Slawek on the tempura.
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Yale Latino Networking Group will host Eva Zapata Signorino. Eva is a member of The Quechua Alliance and hosts the IG Live series Yachay Talks. Eva has Quechua family members from Perú and Bolivia and is part of the Andean diaspora in New York.
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Yale African American Affinity Group and Yale Latino Networking Group will host Nadia Calmet. Nadia is a professional Peruvian dancer, actress, folk choreographer, and specialist in Afro-Peruvian culture. She has more than 25 years of experience participating in cultural exchanges with organizations in more than thirty countries as a cultural representative of Peru. During this diversity conversation, you’ll be able to see, recognize, and celebrate the Afro-Peruvian historical, artistic, and cultural heritage.
Performance and meeting with Stephanie Garcia at the Fair Haven Branch of the New Haven Public Library.
Address: 182 Grand Ave, New Haven, CT 06513
Performance and Q&A
