Organized by the outreach team of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, this community event is particularly aimed at families as it features crafts, face painting, lunch and the screening of the film Coco (2017). Following a procession from the Gateway to the Ohio State campus, the celebration will continue with a dance performance, lecture-demonstration, pop-up exhibit and altar reception at Sullivant Hall.
Contact: Paloma Martinez-Cruz, Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
12:00-2:00pm Free Screening of Coco (Gateway Film Center)
2:00-2:30pm: Procession to Sullivant Hall with Laura Rodriguez
2:30-3:00pm: How Movement Moves: Dancing Across Borders, from West Africa to the Americas (plaza in front of Sullivant)
3:00-5:00pm: Reception with altars & exhibit “Latinx Comics Past, Present and Future” curated by Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros (Sullivant Hall)
The “Latinx Comics Past, Present and Future" pop-up exhibit at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (BICLM) will feature Latinx comics in The Ohio State University Libraries' collections, including original broadsides by José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) from the Latin American Broadside and Pamphlet Collection. The exhibit will also feature examples of global comic activism around immigration, migration, and immobility. The pop-up exhibit is curated by University Library's Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros (Latin American Studies Librarian), Stephanie Porrata (Mary P. Key Resident Librarian in Area Studies), and Susan Liberator (Public Services Coordinator for BILCM).
