Latinx Heritage Month at COCC features Latin music lecture, Mayan glyph workshop
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Latinx Heritage Month at Central Oregon Community College will feature a glyph-writing workshop (Oct. 22) and a Latin music lecture (Oct. 29) during the month of October, free and open to the public, though space is limited. Visit cocc.edu/multicultural for details.
Latinx Heritage Month is celebrated nationwide from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, but COCC’s events are held solely in October due to the college’s late-September fall term start.
Immerse in the writing system of the Maya civilization and learn how to write your name with Mayan glyphs while listening to ancestral sounds of pre-Hispanic origin in a workshop with Pedro Parra, from 4-6 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 22, at the COCC Redmond campus’s Technology Education Center, 2030 SE College Loop.
Lewis & Clark College’s Freddy Vilches, Ph.D., associate professor of Hispanic studies, will provide a lecture on the history of Latin jazz and other Latin American musical styles in the U.S., from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 29, in Wille Hall on the Bend campus. Participants will be exposed to Afro-Cuban rhythms (son, rumba, chachachá and more) and South American rhythms, such as bossa nova, joropo, milonga, cueca and huayno.
Nearly 15% of COCC’s credit-seeking students for fall term 2024 identify as Latinx.
Contact odi@cocc.edufor more information about COCC’s Latinx Heritage Month. In advance of college events, persons needing accommodation or transportation because of a physical or mobility disability should contact Caitlyn Gardner at 541-383-7237. For accommodation because of other disability, such as hearing impairment, contact disability services at 541-383-7583.
