2024-2025 Full Archive List
Summer 2024
June 6-9, 2024
Xicana[x] Indigenous Values (XIV) Series – Closing Ceremony A Ceremonial and Concilio Convening
Officiated by Dr. Jennie Luna, Ventura, CA
June 14, 2024
CALLI: The Art of Xicanx Peoples Exhibition
Sponsored by OMCA - Oakland Museum of Contemporary Art
CALLI: The Art of Xicanx Peoples is an art exhibit showcasing intergenerational, feminist, queer, and Xicanx-Indigenous artworks that celebrate ancestral forms of liberation, healing, and being at OMCA in Oakland, California. Curated by Gilda Posada, this exhibit features the works of our beloved maestras Celia Herrera Rodríguez, Cherrie Moraga, and our community liaison, John Jairo Valencia, alongside multiple generations of Xicanx artists, including Yolanda López, Yreina D. Cervántez, Felicia “Fe” Montes, Gina Aparicio, Melanie Cervántez, and Jesus Barraza. The exhibit, titled Calli, layers different artistic perspectives, showcasing posters, screen prints, paintings, sculptures, and recorded performances. It inspires reflection and fosters dialogue about a world in which we can all belong. The exhibit closed on January 25, 2025.
July 18-23, 2024
Macondo Writers Workshop: Cherrie Moraga’s Residency
The Macondo Writers Workshop is an association of socially-engaged writers working to advance creativity, foster generosity, and serve the community. Founded in 1995 by poet and writer Sandra Cisneros and named after the town in Gabriel García Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, the workshop gathers writers from all genres who work on geographic, cultural, economic, gender, and spiritual borders. This years Macondo Writers Workshop featured a writing workshop on Creative Nonfiction by Mtra. Moraga at Trinity University on July 18-23, 2024.
August 16 - October 20, 2024
Indigenous Borderlands: Waving Nepantla, Remembering Sacred Relations
Presented by Centro Cultural de la Raza in San Diego
This art exhibit was curated by Dr. Susy Zepeda and Maria Figueroa at Centro Cultural de la Raza in San Diego. In the spirit of the Centro’s 54 years of history and dedication to the continued necessity of remembering relations across lands,Indigenous Borderlands brings together artists’ offerings to create a site of remembering sacred relations, instructions from ancestors, living elders, and tierras sagradas. The curators intentionally invited art in multimedia forms, including sculpture, paintings, photographs, silk screen prints, installations, digital art, videos, and other cultural forms, that speak to the Indigenous borderlands of the Payomkawichum Kumeyaay, on whose lands the Centro Cultural de la Raza stands, as well as other respective Indigenous nations.
Fall 2024
October 15 - November 5, 2024
“Voz, Vela y Voto”: Noches de Palabra, Prayers & Política
Virtual community with Celia Herrera Rodriguez, Jandi Craig, Annie Bachand, Pastor John, Central Valley Youth: Dauton Johnson, Crissy Gallardo, Tsim Nuj
Co-sponsored by Las Maestras Center
We have arrived at another election period where our options are limited to a two-party system that does not reflect the realities and needs of the most vulnerable among us. The gains many of our activist ancestors fought for, from public education and reproductive rights to social security and healthcare, have been attacked and diminished over the last half century. In addition, as we continue to bear witness to the ongoing wars and genocide that are waged in the name of this country, despite the silences from our governmental leadership, we must acknowledge our responsibility to speak out against them. There are so many issues that we need to name and address.
We are reaching out to invite you to join us in lighting a fire on your home altar or community ceremonial space on Tuesday, October 15. We are calling on you, our extended familia, to join us in common thought, intention and prayer as we enter this voting season. We will be gathering virtually every Tuesday through October until November 5 for Noches de Palabra, Prayer and Política. We will present live short solo commentaries, dialogues, ritual moments, and arts offerings by folks from various sectors of our communities across the United States.
October 18, 2024
Papel Picado Workshop with John Jairo Valencia
Presented by Ortega Park
LMC partnered with Ortega Park for a series of art workshops at various community spaces throughout Santa Barbara, culminating in a community Día de Muertos ceremony at Ortega Park on November 1 & 2. Participants shared stories with us and learn about the tradition of altar making, and the significance of papel picado.
Winter 2025
January 30, 2025
Variedades de español en contacto lenguas indígenas mexicanas: entre prejuicios, ideologías y una supuesta «norma culta» / “Variations of the Spanish language in contact with Mexican indigenous languages: between prejudices, ideologies and a supposed “educated norm” by Dra. Itzel Vargas Garcia
Co-sponsored by Las Maestras Center
Curated by Socorro Gutierrez Magallanes for Language, Images, Storytelling, and Ecosystems for Resistance / Lengua, Imagen, Cuentos de la Tierra y Ecosistemas para Resistir Charlas Series
February 20-21, 2025
The Xicanx Public Voice: Ire’ne Lara Silva
Public reading, Writing Workshop and live-streamed conversation with Amanda
In conversation with Lit-Crit Amanda Ellis, and Moraga as part of the Xicanx Public Voice
February 20, 2025
Public Reading
February 21, 2025
The Stories Our Bodies Tell Writing Workshop
February 21, 2025
The Xicanx Public Voice Livestream Conversation ft. ire’ne lara silva with
Cherríe Moraga and Amanda Ellis
March 4, 2025
Digging in the Image: Women, Guerrilleras and the Technology of Memory during the Mexican Revolution by Mtro. Canek Huerta-Martinez
Co-sponsored by Las Maestras Center
In this presentation, el maestro Canek discussed his work as an archeologist, anthropologist and photographer. We will critically examine historical images and through them we will observe different clues, threads and traces -indicios- about a cultural, social and resistance fabric. And on the methodological level, on investigative practices developed through collaborative-collective research as well as the course of action and steps to work and unearth the archives/photographs, in the sense of manual work as a technology for Memory.
Canek Huerta-Martinez holds an MA in Anthropology from UNAM and specializes in excavating archives and images as a praxis of Visual Archeology. He is currently working on a transnational archival research project of images from the Mexican Revolution identifying infrastructures of resistance.
Curated by Socorro Gutierrez Magallanes for Language, Images, Storytelling, and Ecosystems for Resistance / Lengua, Imagen, Cuentos de la Tierra y Ecosistemas para Resistir Charlas Series
Spring 2025
May 8, 2025
Cuentos de la Tierra / Tales of the Land and the Universidad Comunitaria Mexcala
by Dra. Rocio Moreno
Co-sponsored by Las Maestras Center
In Tales of the Land the Coca people´s millenary stories are narrated. The stories are the result of community asset mapping projects and oral history projects thar record the memory of Mexcala, Jalisco, Mexico. The Community Oral Stories Workshops of Mexcala began in 2007 by a community assembly demand of the comuneros. In this moment, as an indigenous and original peoples, the community confronted the negligence of the State. In response, the State ignored invasions, attempts of plunder and privatization of the communal lands by real state barons. It was a complicated moment for the community. In light of this conditions, the community sought to gain strength by way of recording their own History of communal lands and territory. Since then, they have carried out community oral history projects, community dialogues and gatherings. It has been 17 years of community work and participatory action research. All documented in the book Tales of the Land. Now they are launching the Mexcala Community University and the need for generative trans territorial spaces has arisen. They are now in this process.
Dr. Moreno is a Historian and Human Rights and Communal Land Defender. She holds a doctorate in Social Sciences from the University of Guadalajara and is the representative from Mezcala for the Congreso Nacional Indígena (CNI-CIG). In April 2022, she sought refuge in northern California following retaliation for her work securing Coca land rights in Lake Chapala, Mexico.
Curated by Socorro Gutierrez Magallanes for Language, Images, Storytelling, and Ecosystems for Resistance / Lengua, Imagen, Cuentos de la Tierra y Ecosistemas para Resistir Charlas Series
May 15, 2025
Community Brigade for the Monitoring and Conservation of the Axolotl: A Struggle of Women, Men and Children for the Defense of Territory and Ecosystems by Dra. Cora Jimenez Narcisa
Co-sponsored by Las Maestras Center
In this talk, Dr. Jimenez Narcisa will share the project of a community school that formed an ecological brigade to care for the water, the axolotl and the land of their town. They will also talk about the importance and relevance of the public university in participating in these efforts. They will talk about the role of the public university in coming up with solutions to the social problems and demands.
Dr. Jimenez Narcisa holds a doctorate in Pedagogy from UNAM. She is a professor of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. She is a community organizer and participates in social movements in defense of water, territory and nature. She engages in feminist participatory research, socio-educational and territorialized practices, learning progressions and pedagogies of care.
Curated by Socorro Gutierrez Magallanes for Language, Images, Storytelling, and Ecosystems for Resistance / Lengua, Imagen, Cuentos de la Tierra y Ecosistemas para Resistir Charlas Series
April 21 - September 25, 2025
Obra Pequeña / Small Work Exhibition Curated by Dr. Theresa Avíla
Presented by CSU Channel Islands Art Program
Co-sponsored by Las Maestras Center and California State University Channel Islands