Heritage & Health Series Program

Latiné Heritage Month 2024

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Cultura y Corazón: Embracing Identity, Building Bridges

Please join us for LHM events throughout October 2024

Wednesday, Oct. 2

LHM Opening Ceremony: Salsa Festival

Noon-1 p.m.
Campus Center Plaza

Join us for the grand opening of the BIPOC Center as we kick off Latiné Heritage Month! Celebrate diversity with salsa dancing lessons, sample a variety of delicious salsas, and vote for your favorite. This is a special moment to honor and uplift our vibrant Latiné culture while embracing the diversity of our entire community. Don’t miss this exciting event full of flavor, rhythm, and unity. Lunch Provided.

Tuesday, Oct. 8

Mexica Healing Circle + Workshop

11a.m.-Noon
Campus Center Plaza

Join us to learn about the history of Mexica healing circles and participate in a short ceremony at the end. Chayo Maciel is an indigenous healer who leads Mexica traditions, rituals, and ceremonies and more recently, with her husband, started the Huitzilin Hummingbird Project that offers individual healing sessions, healing circles, educational workshops, indigenous ceremonies, and indigenous workshops for children.

Email Chayo at huitzilinthehummingbirdproject@gmail.com

Wednesday, Oct. 9

Lecture: Bernardita M. Yunis

11a.m.-Noon
Join via Zoom

Exploring diaspora and belonging, Bernardita's presentation will engage in counterstorying, a PalestinianCRT methodology, to name the stories of Palestinians in diaspora in Latin America. Through this counterstory, Bernardita names the existence of Palestinians in Latin America for over a hundred years, sharing of her efforts to connect with the homeland, maintain their identity, and continue to share it with future generations, despite violent erasure efforts and propaganda campaigns in Palestine and worldwide.

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Bernardita M. Yunis Varas was born in Chile, and grew up in Miami, FL. In 2008, she received a BSC and BLA (2008) in Communication Studies, International Studies, and Religious Studies from the University of Miami, and a MA (2015) from Penn State in Rhetoric.

Bernardita has been teaching since 2010 at various universities including PSU, UDC, DU, CU Boulder, and GWU. She teaches courses on Communication and First-Year Writing. She has worked at Writing Centers as both consultant and faculty mentor, supporting faculty and writing consultants in their work with multilingual writers.

As a Ph.D. Candidate at CU, her work engages on identity, counterstory, PalestinianCRT, and immigrant, Latinx, and Palestinian experiences through doctorate in Rhetoric and Culture concentration, guided by anti-racist values and motivations to dismantle violences enacted by settler colonialism and White supremacy. Currently, she is a lecturer at a local HSI in Colorado.

Fall Club Day with a Latin Flare!

Noon-2 p.m.
Library Quad

Clubs are the heartbeat of campus life at Foothill. Please join us on campus to learn about joining or starting a club, and enjoy music, latin food, fun, while making new friends!

Week of Oct. 14-18, 2024
Undocumented Student Action Week

Join us for on-campus and virtual events during the California Community Colleges Undocumented Student Action Week, Oct. 14-18, Education and Career UndocuDreams Made Possible.

View on-campus & virtual
USAW events

View CCC USAW 2024 website

Wednesday, Oct. 16

Cinco De Mayo Lecture

1 p.m.-2 p.m.
BIPOC Center (Campus Center Lower Level)

Join us for an engaging conversation about Cinco de Mayo! A common misconception is that Cinco de Mayo is Mexican Independence Day—come learn the real history behind this important day. Professor Ulysses Acevedo will provide a historical perspective, while Vice President Laurie Scolari, whose ancestors hail from Puebla, Mexico—the site of the famous battle—will share personal stories that highlight the cultural significance of this pivotal moment in Mexican history. Don’t miss this chance to deepen your understanding of Cinco de Mayo!

Thursday, Oct. 17

Virtual Artist Talk: Gabriela Hasbun

Noon-1 p.m.
Join via ZOOM

The Foothill Photography Department hosts this insightful talk. Gabriela Hasbun is a Salvadoran-American photographer based in San Francisco. Working mainly in editorial photography specializing in portraits, Hasbun finds much of her inspiration by simply paying attention to what surrounds her in “the streets, talking to people, and listening to stories on the radio”. These influences are reflected in the subjects she chooses to focus her series on; from the streets in San Francisco, to the Black rodeo, to an editorial story about fat activists in the Bay Area. Hasbun and her camera have captured a little bit of everything. The result? An impressive CV accompanied by a collection of intriguing photos that bring viewers into worlds otherwise unexplored.

Wednesday, Oct. 23

Documentary Screening and Q&A with Eduardo Chavez

Time: 11a.m.-1p.m.
Room 5015 or Register to Join by Zoom

Join us for a Special Screening and Q&A with Eduardo Chavez, Grandson of César Chávez Co-sponsored by The Art of Community and ASFC, this event celebrates Latine Heritage Month with a screening of Hailing Cesar, a documentary by Eduardo Chavez, grandson of Civil Rights icon César Chávez. The film captures Eduardo’s personal journey as he connects with his grandfather’s legacy and explores critical issues like human rights, immigration, personal identity, and social justice. Following the screening, Eduardo will participate in a live Q&A session, sharing insights about his family’s activism and the continued relevance of César Chávez’s work today.

Wednesday, Oct. 30

Closing LHM Ceremony: Dia De Los Muertos

Noon–1 p.m.
BIPOC Center (Rm 2149, Campus Center Lower Level)

Celebrate with food and music!

Join us for an enlightening conversation on the cultural significance of Día de los Muertos with Laurie Scolari, Jerry Robledo, and Hilda Fernandez. Participants will also have the chance to build their own altars in honor of their loved ones.

Local Community Latiné Events

Stay tuned for more details here.

Questions? Please contact Victoria Strelnikova, Student Activities Coordinator, at strelnikovavictoria@fhda.edu.

LHM Planning Committee Members

Thank you to all our students, faculty and staff who helped plan our LHM events this month.

Jolina Rodriguez, Chair
Judy Walgren
Maritza Jackson Sandoval
Hilda Fernandez
Gerardo (Jerry) Robredo
Alejandro (Alex) Favela
Dr. Laurie Scolari
Ana Cristancho Valdes
Patty Mendoza
Ahtziry Diaz
Maryann Barcenas
Vanessa Santillan-Nieto
Catalina Rodriguez
Victoria Strelnikova, Advisor

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