LAM Convocation

1. Event Time and Date: Friday, September 29th from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
2. Event Location/Zoom Information: Daniel Family Commons, Usdan 3rd Floor
3. Event Organizers: The Resource Center, Latin American Student Organization, WesQuisqueya, Latine Affirmation Month Committee
4. Event Description:  All Latine faculty, staff, students and their allies are invited to help us kick off the 2023 Latine Affirmation Month with a communal dinner and conversation about latinidad, being Latine at Wesleyan, and community building.  We will have alumna Charlotte Castillo as our keynote speaker!

Y tu mamá también Film Screening

1. Event Time and Date: Friday, September 29th from 8:00pm - 9:30pm ET
2. Event Location/Zoom Information: Goldsmith Family Cinema at the Jeanine Basinger Center for Film Studies (aka CFS100)
3. Event Organizers: Wesleyan Film Board and the College of Film and the Moving Image (CFILM)
4. Event Description:   (2001, Dir: Alfonso Cuarón) The film tells a coming-of-age story about two teenage boys who take a road trip with a woman in her late twenties. It is set in 1999 against the backdrop of Mexico's political and economic realities, specifically at the end of the uninterrupted seven decades of presidents from the Institutional Revolutionary Party and the rise of the opposition led by Vicente Fox.

La Vaca que cantó una canción hacia el futuro Film Screening

1. Event Time and Date:  Wednesday, October 4th from 8:00pm - 9:30pm ET
2. Event Location/Zoom Information: Goldsmith Family Cinema at the Jeanine Basinger Center for Film Studies (aka CFS100)
3. Event Organizers: Wesleyan Film Board and the College of Film and the Moving Image (CFILM)
4. Event Description:   (2022, Dir: Francisca Alegría)  A long-dead woman comes back to life in a river full of dead fish and transforms the life of her dysfunctional family.

Soy Cuba Film Screening

1. Event Time and Date: Saturday, October 7th from 8:00pm - 9:30pm
2. Event Location/Zoom Information: Goldsmith Family Cinema at the Jeanine Basinger Center for Film Studies (aka CFS100)
3. Event Organizers:  Wesleyan Film Board and the College of Film and the Moving Image (CFILM)
4. Event Description: (1964, Dir: Mikhail Kalatozov)  A study in contrasts set in and around Havana that explores Cuba's 1959 revolution. A young woman's fascination with the excess of an American-owned casino leads to her downfall in the eyes of her street vendor boyfriend. A tenant farmer revolts the only way he knows how, attacking the land he works. University students gain first-hand knowledge of political upheaval. And, in the hills outside the city, the members of a poor peasant family are patriotically swept up into the burgeoning revolt.

La Pecera Film Screening

1. Event Time and Date: Wednesday, October 11th from 8:00pm - 9:30pm 
2. Event Location/Zoom Information: Goldsmith Family Cinema at the Jeanine Basinger Center for Film Studies (aka CFS100) 
3. Event Organizers: Wesleyan Film Board and the College of Film and the Moving Image (CFILM) 
4. Event Description:  (2023, Dir: Glorimar Marrero Sánchez)  After years of remission, Noelia's cancer has returned and is spreading quickly. Exhausted by relentless treatment plans and pills that do more harm than good, she seeks another way out.

El Abrazo de la serpiente Film Screening

1. Event Time and Date: Thursday, October 12th from 8:00pm - 9:30pm
2. Event Location/Zoom Information:  Goldsmith Family Cinema at the Jeanine Basinger Center for Film Studies (aka CFS100)
3. Event Organizers:  Wesleyan Film Board and the College of Film and the Moving Image (CFILM)
4. Event Description:  (2015, Dir: Ciro Guerra)  In the early 1900s, a young shaman in the Colombian Amazon helps a sick German explorer and his local guide search for a rare healing plant.

Latine Formal

1. Event Time and Date: Saturday, October 14th from 8:00 PM - 11:00 PM ET
2. Event Location/Zoom Information: Russell House
3. Event Organizers: Wesquisqueya, Latin American Student Organization, Wes Latin & Ballroom, Caribbean Student Association, African Student Association, the Department of African American Studies and the Center for African American Studies, the Department of Latin American Studies, and The Resource Center
4. Event Description:  Come and celebrate LAM by dancing to some awesome reggaeton music and learning about the importance of Black culture to the artform from keynote speaker Nina Vasquez-Rosa.  There will be a DJ, photobooth, and desserts provided by SweetWorks.

En Construccion

1. Event Time and Date: Tuesday, October 17th from 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM ET
2. Event Location/Zoom Information: Highwaymen Common, Romance Languages Building (300 High Street)
3. Event Organizers: Guillermo Severiche (Romance Languages)
4. Event Description:  En Construccion is a series of literary readings that take place at Centro Cultural Barco de Papel in Jackson Heights, offering a creative and collaborative space for New York-based Latin American Writers.  At Wesleyan, the authors will replicate the dynamics of the NYC series, in which each writer will present some of their unfinished and unpublished work, followed by a reception in which the audience mingles with the authors for an informal conversation.

Expresiones LAM Performance Showcase  

1. Event Time and Date: Friday, October 27th from 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
2. Event Location/Zoom Information: Ring Family Theater, Center for the Arts
3. Event Organizers:  Latin American Student Organization, Wes Latin & Ballroom, Caribbean Student Association, and The Resource Center
4. Event Description:  Join LASO in celebrating the return of the annual LAM performance showcase, Expresiones.  This showcase will highlight the talents of Latine students on campus.

Dia de los Muertos 

1. Event Time and Date:  Thursday, November 2nd from 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM
2. Event Location/Zoom Information: La Casa
3. Event Organizers: Latin American Student Organization, La Casa, and The Resource Center
4. Event Description: Join LASO and La Casa in this annual tradition where we will be creating an altar that honors and celebrates those who have passed away. Bring your own pictures of your muertos or deceased relatives, small mementos, or messages to contribute to our community ofrenda.