Tag: latinx culture

The Fairplex in Pomona recently hosted an event to honor Mexican Independence Day and Hispanic Heritage Month. The Fiesta Patrias music festival was Sunday.

A group of folklorico dancers from around Southern California perform traditional Mexican folk dances for the crowd at the Pomona Art Walk on Saturday.

As the University of La Verne wraps up its first full year back since the COVID-19 pandemic threw the University, with most of higher education, into the unknown territory of remote learning for more than a year, the traditional undergraduate population of this Hispanic Serving Institution has remained mostly intact.

Linda Yvette Chávez, co-creator and executive producer of the Netflix show "Gentefied," talked about finding one’s place in the world and establishing a safe place to talk about each other’s experience in the world as a guest speaker for the University of La Verne’s Influential Voices series.

Elena Cardeña, senior learning and development specialist and San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, spoke about the origins and meaning of Dia De Los Muertos on Wednesday via Zoom with 18 online participants.

Barbara Carrasco, a Los Angeles-based Chicana artist and activist, spoke about her art with Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta Wednesday at the Virtual Latinx Heritage Month series with 16 participants via Zoom.