Events

REGISTER HERE Unidos En Diálogo Series Thursday, October 29, 2020 Session 1: En Diálogo with Cheech Marin and Einar & Jamex De La Torre Featuring Cheech Marin, Einar De La Torre and Jamex De La Torre Moderated by Eduardo Diaz, Director, Smithsonian Latino Center   En Diálogo Series In lieu of our gala planned for fall 2020, we are launching a series of diálagos with exceptional Chicano artists across the rich variety of art forms they represent. These events will…

Lalo Alcaraz Author, Artist, Cartoonist, Pocho Lalo Alcaraz is an award-winning visual/media artist and television/film writer. A Los Angeles resident, he has been chronicling the ascendancy of Latinos in the U.S. for over a quarter-century. The busy Chicano artist is the creator of the syndicated daily comic strip La Cucaracha seen in the L.A. Times and other newspapers nationwide. Alcaraz is founder and Jefe-in-Chief of POCHO, which started out as a Xeroxed zine in the last century and now ranks…

We are pleased to announce Cheech Marin and Carlos Santana in conversation for our next En Diálogo Zoom on Thursday, December 17, 2020, 6 p.m.–8 p.m. Tickets are $25. All funds raised will benefit The Cheech. REGISTER HERE   About Carlos Santana Delivered with a level of passion and soul equal to the legendary sonic charge of his guitar, the sound of Carlos Santana is one of the world’s best-known musical signatures. For more than four decades-from Santana’s earliest days…

We are pleased to announce Emilio Riviera (Moderator), Mister Cartoon & Estevan Oriol in conversation for our next En Diálogo Zoom on Thursday, January 21, 2021, 6 p.m.–8 p.m. Tickets are $25. REGISTER HERE   About Emilio Rivera Emilio Rivera is a prime example of how turning one’s life around can make dreams a reality. Growing up in a rough and impoverished neighborhood, Rivera turned to wild and reckless behavior during his teen and young adult years. However, he found…