Casita Cultura Latina presents Community Dialogues: Experiencias Latinas

20 Franklin Street,Worcester MA 01608

29 October, 2022

Description

Special Note Our Casita Cultura Latina Co-Founder Raquel Castro-Corazzini is calling in her village. Raquel has been the visionary for the Community Dialogue: Experiencias Latinas at the BrickBox. We are going to hold powerful conversations with special guests. Our crew and the Castro-Corazzini family would love to see this component of the Día de Los Muertos in the Woo Festival be very well attended. Please join us in seeing Raquel's vision for community conversations come to life. - Session 1: 11:00 AM - 12 PM Cuando Vienes de Otro Lado / When You Come From Somewhere Else: Health Equity for Migrant Youth Presenters: Germán Chiriboga, Arvin Garg MD, Rosalie Torres-Stone, PhD Workshop Description: A conversation around the complex scenario many migrant youth have to face when it comes to experience equity around their health and behavioral wellbeing. What are some of the conditions we can start changing in our systems to start addressing the gaps? Why would all youth benefit when addressing health equity gaps for migrant youth? -- Session 2: 1:00 PM - 2PM Latinidad & Being Bi-Cultural: The Complexity of Feeling Not From Here & Not From There Presenters:To Be Announced Workshop Description: In this interactive workshop, presenters will illuminate how embracing and understanding the complexity of being Latin-American while also embracing the parts of your identity molded by living in the United States can strengthen a sense of self. Through discussion of intersectionality and equity, presenters will unpack how being bicultural doesn’t dilute our cultural roots but instead enriches them. Presenters, a mother and daughter duo, will approach the discussion through the lens of a multigenerational experience. -- Session 3: 3:00 PM - 4PM Growing Up Latine/o/a In The United States: No Longer Conforming And Still Very Latino/a/e Presenters: To Be Announced Workshop Description: More than a quarter of children growing up today in the United States identify as Latino/a/e, a percentage expected to grow in coming decades. Around 95 percent of Latino children were born in the United States, their lives inherently American and Latino/a/e. Growing up Latino/a/e includes elements of life that all Latino/a/es share and others that are distinct. It means swaying to mariachis or jumping to Bad Bunny or doing a two-step to Florida Georgia Line. It means speaking Spanish fluently, partly or not at all. It means watching American sitcoms to drown out abuela’s telenovelas - or watching them with her. Presenters, two young people that either grew up in Worcester or were born in Worcester, will share how they are living their complex Latino/a/e identities while navigating other parts of their identities like gender, race, sexuality and much more.