2:00 pm - 8:00 pm Folil Trafün (Joining Roots) Festival – Connecting Through Indigenous Films from Latin America September 28, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 8:00 pm Folil Trafün (Joining Roots) Festival – Connecting Through Indigenous Films from Latin America Folil trafün (Joining roots) is a showcase of Indigenous and Afro-diaspora films from Latin America (with English subtitles), followed by dialogues to deepen understanding of the films and their relationship with local realities. We will also provide culturally relevant food, from the ʷməθkʷəy̓əm Nation to share. The showcase will launch with two-hybrid (online and in-person) […]
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Beyond Dance: A Movement Workshop with Carla Alcántara October 2, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Beyond Dance: A Movement Workshop with Carla Alcántara This warm and energetic workshop is designed to offer self-reflection, discovery, and an inspiring human connection experience. We will warm up our bodies from the inside out with exciting Latin music and play with movement dynamics that will create a safe and welcoming environment for everyone to enjoy and dance. This workshop will honour our […]
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Boiling bodies: street carnival dances from the northeast of Brazil October 4, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Boiling bodies: street carnival dances from the northeast of Brazil Join Brazilian dance artist Luciana Freire D’Anunciação for an intro class into a few Brazilian dances from the northeast region: frevo, côco, and ciranda. With a somatic approach, we will play with various steps, improvisation scores and short choreographies for a taste of street carnival parties outside of Rio’s circuit. This is an all-levels workshop. […]
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Sensorial Visualities: embodying together and alone with Guadalupe Martinez October 5, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Sensorial Visualities: embodying together and alone with Guadalupe Martinez Guadalupe Martinez’s workshop will share tools from her newest work Sensorial Visualities: embodying together, and alone; a process of learning and making art that stems in sensorial awareness and inquiry. In part, Sensorial Visualities emerges as a desire to articulate the sensorial lived experience made palpable through movement, collaboration, and through writing. The workshop will […]
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm The Settlers (Los Colonos): Film Screening October 8, 2023 @ 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm The Settlers (Los Colonos): Film Screening On the year we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Chilean military coup, we joined VIFF to bring you a recent Chilean movie, The Settlers (los Colonos). In 1893, Segundo, a Chilean mestizo; MacLennan, an English army captain; and Bill, an American mercenary, embark on an expedition on horseback to delimit and reclaim the lands […]
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Chile, Obstinate Memory screening and Q&A October 11, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Chile, Obstinate Memory screening and Q&A To mark the sombre 50th anniversary of Salvador Allende’s overthrow, join us at a screening of Chile, Obstinate Memory by Patricio Guzmán, truly a living legend of documentary cinema. One of the best docs ever produced by the NFB, Chile, Obstinate Memory revisits the country’s coup d’état through Guzmán’s eyes, as the director returns to […]
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Mural Walking Tour – Latin American Edition October 12, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Mural Walking Tour – Latin American Edition A special mural tour created by the Vancouver Mural Festival. Please join VMF's Co-founder Adrian Sinclair for an in-person mural tour in the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood, which now features over 100 murals. The tour starts with a free cup of coffee, and the route is specially designed to highlight murals by artists of Latin American […]
7:30 pm - 9:45 pm Remembering the Future: Chile 1973 – 2023 An Evening of Music, Poetry, and Art October 15, 2023 @ 7:30 pm - 9:45 pm Remembering the Future: Chile 1973 – 2023 An Evening of Music, Poetry, and Art Latin Expressions’ spotlight event this year will be a live concert, Remembering the Future: An Evening of Music, Poetry, and Art, featuring local group Sumalao. A 50th-anniversary commemoration of the 1973 Chilean military coup, the concert brings 17 talented performers to the Orpheum stage, celebrating the arrival and impact of Chileans in Canada. This powerful […]
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Noche de Teatro, a Carmen Aguirre New Play Sneak Peek October 19, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Noche de Teatro, a Carmen Aguirre New Play Sneak Peek Join Electric Company Theatre Core Artist, award-winning theatre maker and best-selling author, Carmen Aguirre, for an exclusive glimpse into her new play, Fire Never Dies: The Tina Modotti Project in advance of its premiere at the 2024 Chutzpah! Festival in November 2024. Carmen will read excerpts from her script, followed by Q&A moderated by the […]
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Latin Expressions in Three Conversations October 20, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Latin Expressions in Three Conversations Celebrating international authors and discovering writers from different cultures is one of the many highlights of the Festival, and this year, we delve into works from Latin American writers. Each offers fascinating, heady insight into the lives of women. Carmen Boullosa is one of Mexico's leading novelists, poets, and playwrights. The Book of Eve tells […]
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Latin American Short Stories Reading Group with Venezuelan writer Helen Cova October 21, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Latin American Short Stories Reading Group with Venezuelan writer Helen Cova We’re pleased to present a SPECIAL EDITION of our Latin American Short Stories Reading Group. This event is open to anyone interested in short stories written by Latin American authors. Join us on Saturday, October 21, at 4:00 pm at the SFU (Vancouver Campus) - Belzberg Library for a conversation on the stories "Splinter," "Astronaut," […]
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm “Día de Muertos” | Interdisciplinary Embodiment Workshop October 28, 2023 @ 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm “Día de Muertos” | Interdisciplinary Embodiment Workshop FREE Event for people 16+ Join us for "Día de Muertos" | Interdisciplinary Embodiment Workshop, a unique celebration of Mexican culture and a heartfelt tribute to our departed loved ones. Guided by the talented facilitators Carla Alcántara and Marco Esccer, this event invites you to engage in the art of crafting as we create an […]
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Open Doors to Art: Exhibition Visit with Francisco Berlanga November 4, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Open Doors to Art: Exhibition Visit with Francisco Berlanga Join us on Saturday, November 4, at Grunt Gallery for a guided exhibition visit of Enticed and Entangled en algo Antiguo by Francisco Berlanga. The artist will give us a walkthrough of his solo exhibition. This visit is part of our ongoing series “Open Doors to Art” in partnership with Curated Tastes. Due to the recent COVID-19 spread, we encourage […]
September 28, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 8:00 pm Folil Trafün (Joining Roots) Festival – Connecting Through Indigenous Films from Latin America
October 4, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Boiling bodies: street carnival dances from the northeast of Brazil
October 5, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Sensorial Visualities: embodying together and alone with Guadalupe Martinez
October 15, 2023 @ 7:30 pm - 9:45 pm Remembering the Future: Chile 1973 – 2023 An Evening of Music, Poetry, and Art
October 21, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Latin American Short Stories Reading Group with Venezuelan writer Helen Cova
