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What does latinidad mean today, and who has the power to define its future?
Making Latinidad is a space for gathering, celebration, and reflection through art, culture, and collective action. Bringing together projects led and created by Latine people, the festival sparks conversations, ideas, and connections that explore and strengthen our identities.
Across multiple formats, Making Latinidad brings together publishing projects, sound artists, performance collectives, researchers, and cultural thinkers. From print and music to performance and conversation, participants explore identity, challenge the boundaries between fiction and truth, and consider the social transformations shaping our realities.
Making Latinidad is Latines making: creating from our own spaces, with our own tools and ways of life. Through publishing, music, performing arts, and critical thought, the festival affirms that the future of latinidad is something we build together, here and now.
Program:
3:00 – 3:50 PM: Panel I — The Stories We Tell: Storytellers Challenging Stereotypes (Spanish)
- With Jasmine Garsd (immigration journalist at NPR) and Nadia Reiman (editor at This American Life). Moderated by Patricia Sulbarán (reporter and producer at The New York Times).
4:00 – 4:50 PM: Panel II — Beyond Print: New York Publishing Projects (Spanish)
- With Gonzalo Guerrero (Secret Riso Club), Eliana Hernández and Teresita Goyeneche (Como un lugar), Faride Mereb and Oriana Nuzzi (Letra Muerta). Moderated by Lila Miller (Bonita Semana).
5:00–5:50 PM: Panel III — To See and To Be Seen: New Latine Filmmakers (English)
- With Sisa Quispe (Indigenous Latina filmmaker), Kristian Mercado (Puerto Rican director and screenwriter), and Karen Gaytán (documentary filmmaker and producer from the Texas–Mexico border). Moderated by Ecuadorian journalist Gabriela Barzallo.
6:00–8:00 PM · Performing Arts (Theater)
- Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol presents Lázaro, a work exploring the transformation of identity. (Spanish with English subtitles)
8:00 PM · Closing Concert
- Chicana singer Angélica García performs a live set.
Important Note: Activities will take place in the language indicated. Live translation will not be available; subtitles will be provided where noted.
Tickets sponsored by Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal
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