Mariachi Perla del Medio Oeste at Festival de Otoño
Join Mariachi Perla del Medio Oeste at the 2022 Festival de otoño at Switchyard Park!
Migdalia Cruz - Scenes from the Fornés Playwriting Workshop
Award-winning playwright and librettist Migdalia Cruz will lead a playwriting workshop, following the tradition of environmental pedagogy created by her teacher and mentor María Irene Fornés. The playwriting workshop culminates with dramatic readings of short works created in the workshop that will be directed by guest artist Cándido Tirado.
Migdalia Cruz - Does Size Matter? The Architecture of Theater as Found Object
Award-winning playwright and librettist Migdalia Cruz will lead a workshop focusing on creating new works for the theatre and features a keynote presentation with Migdalia Cruz and one of her collaborators, scenic designer Professor Regina García.
Latin American Music Center Spring Festival
This week, the Latin American Music Center is featuring an incredible Spring Festival with a fascinating collection of musics and ensembles. Click the link for more info about the events. The festival kicks off on Wednesday with a performance by Sergio Ospina's Latin jazz trio at The Blockhouse Bar. Other highlights include an afro-peruvian dance workshop, IU’s mariachi band, Jacobs’ Brazilian, Latin American, and Latin jazz ensembles, and a rather unique event about Colombian bullerengue music.
Pancho Villa From a Safe Distance
Please join us at a performance of Pancho Villa from a Safe Distance on March 31, 2022, 7 pm, at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater in downtown Bloomington. A genre-bending theatrical production and live musical performance, Pancho Villa From a Safe Distance is a bilingual cross-border opera about the life and death of the Mexican Revolutionary icon Pancho Villa. The opera is an insightful examination of the Mexican-American and Latinx impact on the culture and politics of our nation, contributing to the current and timely conversation about borders, migration and national belonging. With musical and visual performances by visionary composer Graham Reynolds, and featuring Beto Martinez, Paul Sanchez, and Liz Cass., the opera has been performed to rave reviews across the United States and Canada. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to see it live. The event is free but ticketed, pick up your tickets today BCT box office. See you there!
JAZZ @ THE BCT – Miguel Zenón Quartet (guest artists)
Multiple Grammy nominee and Guggenheim and MacArthur fellow Miguel Zenón represents a select group of musicians who have masterfully balanced and blended the often contradictory poles of innovation and tradition. Widely considered one of the most groundbreaking and influential saxophonists and composers of his generation, he has developed a unique voice as a conceptualist, concentrating his efforts on perfecting a fine mix of jazz and his many musical influences.
Salón Latino Chamber Music Series: An Evening Celebrating Roque Cordero (1917-2008)
A lecture recital with visiting artists Tuyen Tonnu, piano and Marie Labonville, musicologist. Featuing Paul Borg, piano.
Ana Alonso Minutti: Writing as an Affective Practice: Mario Lavista, a Relational Composer
Ana R. Alonso-Minutti is associate professor of music, a faculty affiliate of the Latin American and Iberian Institute, and a research associate of the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute at the University of New Mexico. She graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in music from the Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico, and earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in musicology from the University of California, Davis. Alonso-Minutti’s scholarship focuses on experimental and avant-garde expressions, music traditions from Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico border, and music history pedagogy. Among her research areas are Latina/Chicana feminist and queer theories, critical race studies, and decolonial methodologies.
Concert Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
The Jacobs Diversity & Equity Committee would like to invite you to a concert celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. King with readings and performances by Jacobs faculty and students.
Featuring a performance from Santa María de Iquique (1969) by Chilean composer Luis Advis.
End of semester concert by the Latin American Ensemble. The concert will feature folkloric and popular dance music from Cuba and other parts of the Caribbean. Dancing encouraged. Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Salón Latino: Mariachi Perla del Medio Oeste
The Latin American Music Center cordially invites you to a performance by the Mariachi Perla del Medio Oeste on Saturday, November 13, 2021 at 8pm in Auer Hall (Jacobs School of Music). This event is part of the Salón Latino Chamber Music Series and is free and open to the public.
Mariachi Perla del Medio Oeste was created in 2018 as a joint initiative between Latin American Music Center at the Jacobs School of Music, the La Casa/Latino Cultural Center and the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology. The group is a volunteer ensemble committed to the cultivation and promotion of Mexican-American, Mexican and Latin American music and culture, both within IU and the larger Southern Indiana region. Its members include IU undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff, as well as members of the larger Bloomington community. Over the years, the mariachi has counted with the participation of musicians originally from the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Hong Kong, Peru, Spain, and Venezuela.
Jazz @ the BCT: Latin Jazz Ensemble
Wayne Wallace, Director; Joe Galvin, Rhythm Section Coach
The Office of Inclusion, Equity, Diversity & Justice at the Jacobs School of Music and the Office of the Diversity & Inclusion Coordinator at the Eskenazi School are proud to present their inaugural Latinx Artist Showcase to celebrate Latinx Heritage Month. We are planning a fun-filled celebration of Latinx culture and heritage through music dance, poetry, and art. IU artists, musicians, poets and dancers interested in participating can sign up using the form here.
Salón latino: Santa María de Iquique
The LAMC invites you to a performance of the profound and celebrated cantata Santa Maria de Iquique, a work acclaimed by historians and musicologists alike as a masterpiece and exemplar of nueva canción, a musical movement whose themes of social justice, human rights, and freedoms still resonate loudly in today’s world. This concert, which will conclude with a performance of two other well-loved nueva canción pieces, is free and open to the public
BLEMF21 | Tembembe Ensamble Continuo - Laberinto en la guitarra
In partnership with the IU Latin American Music Center, BLEMF is excited to present Tembembe Ensamble Continuo as the final concert of BLEMF21. Their program, Laberinto en la guitarra will feature music for guitar from Spain and New Spain, alongside traditional music from Mexico.
Saturday, May 15 | 7:30 PM Conversation, 8 PM ConcertYouTube Premiere (LINK)
7:30pm Conversation with Eloy Cruz (Tembembe Ensamble Continuo) and Javier León (IU Latin American Music Center) | 8pm Concert Premiere - Laberinto en la Guitarra
The second concert of BLEMF's Lilly Library Guatemalan Manuscript Project will be presented by Forgotten Clefs Renaissance Wind Band. Join us for an evening of wind band music recorded at the Monroe County History Center with a pre-concert lecture by Paul Borg (Indiana University).
Friday, May 13 | 8 PMYouTube Premiere (Link Available Soon!)
BLEMF21 | Choral Music from Guatemala
The first of two BLEMF programs featuring music from the IU Lilly Library Guatemalan Manuscripts, curated by Paul Borg. Join us for an evening of choral music directed by Dr. Carolann Buff, featuring a mass ordinary and several motets from the manuscripts.
Thursday, May 13 |8pm YouTube Premiere
Latin American Ensemble - Spring Concert
The IU Latin American Ensemble's La Orquesta Escuela Vieja is thrilled to be back after a brief hiatus to perform our spring concert for you via live stream. Join us virtually for an evening of classic Cuban dance music: Danzon, Charanga, Chachacha, and Salsa. Clear some space in your living room, grab your dancing shoes, and turn up the volume!
Salón Latino Chamber Music Series: Viola Music of Latin America
Music by José Pablo Moncayo, Juan Orrego-Salas, and Astor Piazzolla performed by Edward Gazouleas (viola) and Aram Arakelyan (piano).
A Conversation on Memórias Afro-Atlânticas (Afro-Atlantic Legacies)
Ethnomusicologists and filmmakers Cassio Nobre and Xavier Vatin, along with director Gabriela Barreto, will join IUB faculty members Maria Hamilton Abegunde and Solimar Otero in conversation about this new documentary examining the impact of linguist Lorenzo Dow Turner's work with Candomblé communities in Bahia, Brazil. Those registered for this event will receive a link to screen the film from November 13-21.
Salón Latino Chamber Music Series: Music by Afro-Latin American Composers
This Salón Latino celebrates the music of Afro-Latin American composers and showcases a sampling of their rarely performed chamber works, including new arrangements. This concert is just one of many events offered to the IU community through the Afrolatin Coalition in the Arts Series, a month-long interdisciplinary initiative coordinated and sponsored by Indiana University’s Latin American Music Center (LAMC), Latino Studies Department (LATS), Graduate Mentoring Center (GMC), and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS). Tonight’s concert turns the focus of this series to the world of art music and offers a diverse sampling of pieces written by four composers who address Afrolatin culture in their works.
Register for the concert here.
Download the program supplement (program notes & performer bios) here.
Director, Joe Galvin
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In 2000, the newly formed music and theater collective Grupo Teatro del Milenio produced a short experimental play Karibú. Written collectively by the founding members of the group, the play critiqued the role that black performers have historically had in Peruvian society, simultaneously beloved and marginalized by the largely non-black audiences that claim their music as an expression of cultural diversity. In celebration of Teatro del Milenio’s 20th anniversary, this presentation will feature a virtual screening of a revival production of Karibú that took place in Atlanta in 2007 and will be accompanied by an introduction and post-screening discussion hosted by Javier León, who has worked with various members of the groups for more than fifteen years.
Beatrice Capote, “Iya la panza, panza, Iya”
Reyita: The Life of a Black Cuban Woman in the Twentieth Century written by Maria de Los Reyes Castillo Bueno, discusses the story of her grandmother, parents and her experience of slavery, prejudice, gender biases colorism and racism during the Cuban Independence War and the abolition of Slavery in 1898.
This presentation will include a reading from the biographical novel “Reyita” followed by a Dance Performance dedicated to the embodiment of Reyita’s story.
Lecture by Judith Rodríguez: “Im/positions: Nominalizing the Black Aesthetic in Puerto Rico”
This paper engages the aesthetic modes of racial discourse in the Hispanophone Caribbean in order to understand the economy of desire which reproduces ethnonational representation in Puerto Rico. In doing so, this paper performs a double move that follows the significance of the aesthetic as an imposition of ethnonationalism on one end, and illuminates its interpellation of desire on the other. As such, this paper creates a push and pull effect that encapsulates a frame of reference for multiple histories and geographies that both reproduce and refuse ethnonationalism in general in Puerto Rico.
Book Presentation: Archives of Conjure by Solimar Otero
In Afrolatinx religious practices such as Cuban Espiritismo, Puerto Rican Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé, the dead tell stories. Communicating with and through mediums’ bodies, they give advice, make requests, and propose future rituals, creating a living archive that is coproduced by the dead. Solimar Otero's Archives of Conjure (Columbia University Press 2020), explores how Afrolatinx spirits guide collaborative spiritual-scholarly activist work through rituals and the creation of material culture. By examining spirit mediumship through a Caribbean cross-cultural poetics, she shows how divinities and ancestors serve as active agents in shaping the experiences of gender, sexuality, and race.
Mexico Meetups: Intangible LatAm Cultural Heritage
Grab a coffee and join us as we meet up with JavierLeón, director of the Latin American Music Center - LAMC at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and Cristina Amescua, researcher from the Center Regional and Multidisciplinary Studies at UNAM. We will be chatting about how intangible cultural heritage initiatives are unfolding in Mexico and compare and contrast it with the work happening in Perú in the same field.-----------Toma un café y únete a nosotros para reunirnos con Javier León, director del Centro de Música Latinoamericana de la Escuela de Música IU Jacobs, y Cristina Amescua, investigadora del Centro de Estudios Regionales y Multidisciplinarios de la UNAM. Charlaremos sobre cómo se están desarrollando las iniciativas de patrimonio cultural inmaterial en México y lo comparamos y contrastamos con el trabajo que se realiza en Perú en el mismo campo.