Celebration of Chicana Art

Our first event in the cooler this week was a Celebration of Chicana Art. An Oxy alum who is now a professional artist brought some of her paintings for us to display on the cooler walls. The entertainment began with our very own Folklorico dance group performing some Mexican folk dancing. Other crowd-pleasing performances included spoken word from a woman who was apparently trying to speak to the Latino community and get us to speak about things that are often left unspoken about and a group of Latina women who created a drum circle and played some songs in Nahuatl. Listening to any sort of performance that includes speaking in Nahuatl is usually intriguing to me, since while I do speak Spanish I sometimes wish I could also understand Nahuatl, which is the indigenous language of the Aztecs and therefore the other side of my heritage besides the Spanish side. Anyways, we received some great reactions, so the week seems to be coming along now quite nicely. Hopefully we’ll be able to keep this up for the remainder of the week’s events.