Professor Rosaleen Howard is Chair of Hispanic Studies at Newcastle University. She joined the School of Modern Languages at Newcastle from the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University […]
An Evening Celebrating Young Latin People & Wellbeing is in association with Thrive LDN Culture, Teléfono de la Esperanza, Institute of Modern Languages Research (University of London) and the AHRC Open World Research Initiative project: Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community. An evening of food, films, wellbeing and music. Monday 15th October from 7.00pm to 10.00pm. La […]
A series of civic participation and creative leadership workshops for Young Latin American Women and Girls aged 14-21, promoting leadership opportunities and positive appreciations of the participants’ own multilingual identities and capabilities. The workshops will run every Saturday at 11-2pm (lunch provided) from Saturday 4th November, with a final public event on Saturday 15th December. Regular […]
Virginia Casta A premiere of the Colombian romantic comedy film, followed by Cuban and Salsa music. Director: Claudio Cataño (Colombia) | Spanish with English subtitles. Based on a best selling Colombian novel Virginia Casta stars acclaimed actress Cristina Umaña who gives a darkly comic performance as a love damaged heroine. Devastated by her recent break […]
Cartonera is a contemporary publishing phenomenon that lies at the intersection between cultural trend and social movement, artistic intervention and community project. Known in Latin America as editoriales cartoneras, they are often referred to as ‘cardboard publishers’, because one feature that unites the diverse publishing projects is the material from which they make their books: […]
Comunidad Rimanakuy invites you to celebrate Inti Raymi (The Festival of the Sun) in the International Year of Indigenous Languages! Comunidad Rimanakuy is a Quechua-speaking community group that aims to promote, support and protect the Andean cultures and Latin American indigenous languages in London. Funded by OWRI’s Cross Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community project from the […]