Join the CCE and the Sonoma County Registrar of Voters for a facilitated panel discussion of Latinx elected officials on their experiences running for office and the impacts of the Latinx vote on local and state elections. For questions or accommodations, please contact cce@sonoma.edu.
You're invited to the carne asada, the SSU Carne Asada! Join us for free food, meet Latinx organizations on campus and check out some great lowriders from Sonoma County Lowriders. For questions or accommodations, please contact delgadobi@sonoma.edu.
Join The HUB for a special art event dedicated to the life and art of the iconic Mexican painter, Frida Kahlo. Snacks, refreshments and painting material will be provided. For questions or accommodations, please email delgadobi@sonoma.edu
Join us in Seawolf Plaza for a Folklorico performance and tutorial in honor of Latinx Heritage Month! FREE Conchas will be available to attendees. For any questions or accommodations, please contact atkinsm@sonoma.edu
Join us to kick-off Hispanic Heritage Month with La Bienvenida (The Welcome). There will be food and community to kick off the start of Hispanic Heritage Month and RAZA Week. For questions or accommodations, please contact delgadobi@sonoma.edu
Come to The HUB and have coffee while learning how to crochet with one of our intern Ash materials will be provided.
Latinx Heritage Month event:
Bomba is an integral and vibrant part of Puerto Rican culture and heritage, and is the most vital genre of Afro-Puerto Rican music and dance. It is one of the oldest and most resonant forms in the Caribbean region. Bomba originated in the sugar cane plantations of Puerto Rico over 300 years ago. In Puerto Rico, Bomba has been practiced and passed on from generation to generation as a critical form of collective expression, cultural affirmation, and artistic pleasure, for well over three centuries. This workshop will expand on the participatory element of the performance. Participants will learn basic steps and movement of one of the styles and rhythms of Bomba. They will learn about the various elements of Bomba percussion and practice playing some of the key instruments. Participants will also learn songs exemplary of the historical roots of Bomba. Join us in The HUB Cultural Center for this immersive cultural experience with Aguacero.
The Botanical Bus is a bilingual mobile herb clinic that empowers holistic health by-and-for Latinx and Indigenous people. We are Promotora Community Health Advocates (CHAs) and integrative health practitioners coming together to provide upstream, culturally centered integrative health services to our Latinx and Indigenous communities in Sonoma and Napa Counties.
Join us for an Indigenous Herbalism Workshop that will focus on herbal medicine and healing with the seasons facilitated by María “LuLu” de Lourdes Péres Centurión. Lu Lu was born in Uruapan del Progreso Michoacan, Mexico. She is proud of her Purhepechas and Veracruzanas roots with Oaxacan embers. Maria is a promotora de salud (community health worker), birth doula and massage therapist. She has studied and practiced herbal medicine for over 20-years. Her practice includes specialization in indigestion; nervous tension; infant cranial therapy; womb and postpartum care.
For more info, please email Shelly Gomez, gomezs@sonoma.edu.
Come to The HUB and have coffee while learning how to crochet with one of our intern Ash materials will be provided.
Erik Castro is an award-winning photojournalist based in Santa Rosa, California; his print media clients include the San Francisco Chronicle, the Press Democrat, Sonoma Magazine, and the Seattle Weekly. Castro has a long-standing interest in photography's power to humanize and bring visibility to complex social issues. His Harvester series focuses on the workers of Sonoma County's vineyards: each image is a portrait of a grape harvest worker who has agreed to be photographed out in the field, in the moments after they complete a day's shift. Meet The HUB staff in front of the Student Center at 11:45am so we can walk to the art gallery and enjoy this exhibit in comunidad. Please email thehub@sonoma.edu for more information, questions or accommodations. You can visit the University Art Gallery to learn more about the art featured in the exhibit.
Come to The HUB and have coffee while learning how to crochet with one of our intern Ash materials will be provided.
Latinx Heritage Month is an opportunity to honor our history, celebrate the rich diversity of our Latinx identity and be in comunidad. Come eat, celebrate, and connect with your peers, mentors, and colleagues and meet new people in The HUB. All are welcome! Email Shelly gomez, gomezs@sonoma.edu for more information.
Alianza for Equity invites you to join us as we take a moment to celebrate the closing of 2021’s Latinx Heritage Month. The closing ceremony is a time to acknowledge the collective pride, accomplishments, and strong resilience of Latinxs across the SSU community and beyond. We are honored to be joined by keynote speaker, Rohnert Park City Councilmember Willy Linares. All Latinx faculty, staff, students, alumni, community members, and their allies are welcome to attend. Please email fonseca@sonoma.edu for more information, questions, or requests.
Facilitated by: Alianza for Equity
The HUB & CAPS and Zoom and Zoom
Being Latinx provides a supportive space to help reduce mental health stigmas and promote wellness in the Latinx community. This space offers students an opportunity to explore cultural barriers to mental health, cultivate networks of mutual support, promote self-care and enhance our interconnectedness within our beautifully diverse community. Contact Shelly, gomezs@sonona.edu for more information.
Join new faculty at Sonoma State—Theresa Burruel Stone (English), Marie Ramirez Downing (Theatre Arts and Dance), Natalia Villanueva Nieves (CALS), Andy Martinez (Psychology), and Silvia Soto (CALS)—for a cross-discipline exchange about contributions, collaborations and commitments to the learning communities on campus.
Facilitated by: Alianza for Equity
Hear from Sonoma State alumni who are making a difference in their communities and how their time at SSU impacted their journey to a professional career. Please email alumni@sonoma.edu for more information, questions, or requests.
Meet at Library Clocktower entrance
Join the University Library in a guided walking tour of Latinx historical points of interest across the Sonoma State campus. Drawing on Library Special Collections and University Archives, the tour highlights campus landmarks that reveal the vibrant backdrop and contributions of Latinxs here at Sonoma State and throughout history. The tour will take place from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. and will begin at the University Library’s clocktower entrance. Sponsored by: Special Collections and University Archives, University Library
Marketing Image: Archival photo w/ alt text: Aerial image of Sonoma State campus in 1969, Courtesy of University Archives
Join ASP and Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association, activist, and American labor leader, for a virtual Q&A. Dolores Huerta will speak about her experiences and legacy with engaging in campaigns, and influencing legislation that supports equality and defending civil rights. If you have any questions for Dolores Huerta, please send them by September 29th 5:00pm. Contact aspevent4@sonoma.edu for more information or accommodations.
Ballroom A or Zoom
Join ASP and Cristela Alonzo from Cars 3 and Lower classy on Netflix, for a night full of laughs and cupcakes at Ballroom A ! If you have a burning question to ask her this is your chance. Selected students will win an in person Meet and greet with Cristela. Please email aspevent2@sonoma.edu for more information, questions or accommodations. SSU ID and green “all clear” screen will be required for in person attendees.
Warren Theatre/Ives 101
In the Heights centers on a variety of characters living in the neighborhood of Washington Heights, on the northern tip of Manhattan. At the center of the show is Usnavi, a bodega owner who looks after the aging Cuban lady next door, pines for the gorgeous girl working in the neighboring beauty salon and dreams of winning the lottery and escaping to the shores of his native Dominican Republic. Meanwhile, Nina, a childhood friend of Usnavi's, has returned to the neighborhood from her first year at college with surprising news for her parents, who have spent their life savings on building a better life for their daughter. Ultimately, Usnavi and the residents of the close-knit neighborhood get a dose of what it means to be home.
FREE and feel free to bring friends and snacks. For more info: email mo.phillips@sonoma.edu
Lobovision
In the Heights centers on a variety of characters living in the neighborhood of Washington Heights, on the northern tip of Manhattan. At the center of the show is Usnavi, a bodega owner who looks after the aging Cuban lady next door, pines for the gorgeous girl working in the neighboring beauty salon and dreams of winning the lottery and escaping to the shores of his native Dominican Republic. Meanwhile, Nina, a childhood friend of Usnavi's, has returned to the neighborhood from her first year at college with surprising news for her parents, who have spent their life savings on building a better life for their daughter. Ultimately, Usnavi and the residents of the close-knit neighborhood get a dose of what it means to be home.
FREE and feel free to bring friends and snacks. For more info: email mo.phillips@sonoma.edu
For more information, contact mo.phillips@sonoma.edu
Can stream anytime between September 24th & 26th
Go to https://sfi.sonoma.edu for the film link.
In 1990, Raúl Ruiz conducted six days of acting workshops and filming in his native Chile, yielding a small wealth of 16mm footage that was never edited together until Valeria Sarmiento, Ruiz’s wife and chief collaborator, returned to it nearly six years after Ruiz’s death in 2011. The result is a wildly inventive, episodic work of political satire born of Ruiz and Sarmiento’s vision of “Chilean reality” as a grand pastiche of soap-opera tropes—in other words, that the best way to understand the political and economic realities Chileans face is to view their situation through the sublime and ridiculous prism of the telenovela. (2017, 80 min., in Spanish w/ English subtitles)
FREE for Sonoma State University Students (get code from your professor)
$10 for 72-hour rental to the General Public
Released: 2017
Run time: 80 min.
Parking Lot D
Join us as we kick back with some great local food, friends, music and celebrate Latinx Heritage Month! There will be room to sit and eat, enjoy each other’s company and maybe make some new friends! Email mo.phillips@sonoma.edu for more information.
Ballroom B & C and Zoom
Come celebrate Latinx heritage month by playing Loteria. In this traditional game of chance, illustrated cards depicting Mexican history and culture replace bingo balls. Shout “Loteria!” when you find a winning combination. Every Loteria game includes four chances to win. There is $500 in total cash prizes available! As soon as the game concludes, winners receive their prize money directly to their PayPal accounts. Please email aspevent2@sonoma.edu for more information, questions or accommodations.
Join Alianza for Equity to kick off the 2021 Latinx Heritage Month. The opening ceremony represents an opportunity to honor our history, celebrate the rich diversity of our Latinx identity, plan for our future, and be in comunidad. The ceremony will also spotlight Belinda Guadarrama, a prominent, local Latina business leader and CEO of Petaluma's GC Micro. All Latinx faculty, staff, students, alumni, community members, and their allies are welcome to attend. Please email fonseca@sonoma.edu for more information, questions, or requests.
