Location: Olemeyer Center, 986 Hilby Ave, Seaside, CA 93955, 986 Hilby Ave., Seaside, CA
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Price: $10-$25 sliding scale

Description:
When: Friday, March 15, 2024 from 7PM to 9PM
Where: Oldemeyer Center
986 Hilby Ave, Seaside, CA 93955
Tickets: Sliding scale $10-$25

Palenke Arts is excited to present, in partnership with the Watsonville Film Festival, Cantos de Latinoamérica, an evening of film and music centered around the Latine experience.
The event will begin with the ceremonial red carpet reception, followed by the screening of three documentary shorts about artists and storytellers from México, Ecuador, and Nicaragua, an audience Q&A with director Jon Silver and a short concert by Nicaraguan legendary singer songwriter Carlos Mejía Godoy accompanied by musicians Jorge Nicoya Rivera and Daniel Franco.

ABOUT THE FILMS

LIVING IN EXILE (2023), directed by Jon Silver
(Documentary, 14 minutes)
Forced into exile and now living in California, Carlos Mejía Godoy is a legendary musician and poet of Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution of the 1970s-80s. Mejía Godoy shares his music, poetry and paintings as he reflects on Nicaragua’s historic fight for liberty and the betrayal of the original Sandinista Revolution.

I Am The Queen / Yo Soy La Reyna

Women / MujeresView all films tagged "Women / Mujeres"MexicoView all films tagged "Mexico"Indigenous / IndígenasView all films tagged "Indigenous / Indígenas"Documentary / DocumentalView all films tagged "Documentary / Documental"Short / CortometrajeView all films tagged "Short / Cortometraje"

A journey through the words of the soprano Mixe María Reyna, a journey through a childhood marked by domestic violence, the conservatism of the indigenous communities of southern Mexico, and the desire to go out and discover a world “beyond the mountain”.

Maura

Women / MujeresView all films tagged "Women / Mujeres"Short / CortometrajeView all films tagged "Short / Cortometraje"Documentary / DocumentalView all films tagged "Documentary / Documental"Elderly / La Tercera EdadView all films tagged "Elderly / La Tercera Edad"Indigenous / IndígenasView all films tagged "Indigenous / Indígenas"Family Friendly / Para toda la familiaView all films tagged "Family Friendly / Para toda la familia"EcuadorView all films tagged "Ecuador"

84-year-old Maura is the guardian of a very particular tradition in danger of extinction. She is a singer of amorfinos, verses full of humor that will disappear forever with her departure.