Semana Kickoff

As the kickoff for Semana de la Raza we had a radio station come and play music in the quad during lunch. Semana de la Raza literally means “Week of the Race” as in, the week of our people. The week is the MEChA/ALAS’s biggest program of the year, which we spend a great deal of time planning out throughout the year. We hold events every day during the week, usually consisting both of educational events as well as social events. The theme for our week this year is the movements of Latin America. Besides the individual events, we also have a few rooms in the Intercultural Community Center (the ICC) decorated with information regarding some of the different countries and their political and social movements. So for the first day of our week, we loudly took over the quad and passed out our calendars for the week to anyone who would accept one. After all the planning that has gone into the week all year, it is very exciting to see the first of our week’s events begin.