Latinx Heritage Events

Latinx Heritage Month Events

Welcome to the celebration of Latinx Heritage Month celebrating heritage September 15-October 15!

For your research and information the LMC library has pulled together a resource guide with highlights of LMC books,Videos, and other materials about LatinX/ChicanX culture & history

Heritage Months Events

 

  • Event Details
    LATINX Resources
    September 15-October 15
    Library Resource Guide: LatinX-ChicanX Studies Research                                                                		 This resource guide pulls together highlights of LMC books,Videos, and Other materials to support your learning of LatinX/ChicanX culture & history.
    CCC HSI Social Justice Symposium featuring Dr. Gina Garcia
    Date:     Thursday, September 16, 2021
    Time: 3:00 PM
    RSVP LINK    		 Please join your colleagues across the district as we kick off Latinx Heritage Month  for the Transforming Hispanic Serving Institutions Symposium event via zoom. Dr. Garcia is fierce advocate for racial equity and is a powerful speaker. We are honored to have her share her research and frameworks that have sparked a national dialogue on decolonizing and transforming our Hispanic Serving Institutions.
    MESA Speaker Event: Trinidad Arceo
    Date: Friday, September 17, 2021
    Time: 1:00 PM-2:00 PM
    RSVP LINK    		 Join us to hear the life and career path of Trinidad Arceo is a Scientific Researcher at Genentech, where he is a participant in the Development Sciences Rotation Program. He graduated from Los Medanos College in may of 2017 and transferred to UC Berkeley in the fall of 2017. During that summer he participated in an internship program called PUMAS at the Gladstone Institutes where he student strokes using rodent models. At UC Berkeley he studied this visual system of Mantis Shrimp using Lego's. Trinidad is a proud student parent of two children, Trinidad III and Amelia
    Maravilla Monday with LatinX Business Owners & Creators. 
    Date: September 27, 2021
    Time: 7:00 PM
    Hosted on IG Live  @eres.una.maravilla     		Meet Sarahi Espinoza Salamanca, Founder & CEO of DREAMers Roadmap
    October Events
    Student Life: Loteria in the Lounge
    Date:     Thursday, October 7, 2021
    Time:  11:30- 12:30 PM
    Location: Student Lounge, Student Union 1st Floor                  		 Come and play for a chance to win fabulous prizes.
    Transfer Motivational Conference
    Date:     Friday, October 15, 2021
    Time: 9:00-1:00 PM
    Location: Online for Puentistas Only

    		 This is exclusively for Puente Students only as part of their requirement for being in the Puente Project. There will be a guest speaker, a live band (Las Cafeteras), and virtual campus tours with CSU/UC advisors
    El Dia de los Muertos
    Date:     Saturday, October 30, 2021
    Time:     4:00-9:00 PM
    Location:     Oakley (TBD)     		There is an alter-making event in Oakley that we will partake in, as well as keep this as an open invitation to all of LMC.
    November Events
    Noche de la Familia
    Date:     Thursday, November 18, 2021
    Time:     7:00 PM
    Location:     Online for Puentistas Only     		Puente Program will host an event for Puentistas and their families  to include games, breakout rooms, and more!