Fiesta Cultural

***CANCELLED***
Fiesta Cultural at The Bookmine
Friday, September 30, 6-8pm
The Bookmine, 702 E Main St, Cottage Grove
FREE!

For the Cottage Grove ArtWalk, The Bookmine features Latina artist Gloria Campuzano with her art and datebooks from We’Moon (in which Gloria’s work is featured). During the Art Walk, musician Linda Diaz plays music from the Andes on the flute.

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Salsa & Bachata Fridays
Friday, September 30, lesson at 9pm and open dancing at 10pm
Vet’s Club, 1626 Willamette St (upstairs), Eugene
$8
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Join Salseros Productions every Friday for some dancing! They start off with a beginner salsa and bachata lesson from 9-10pm and then dancing starts at 10pm. No previous experience or partner necessary to attend. The first Friday of the month features live music by Orquesta Descarga 54, a 12-piece salsa band.

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demARTS
Saturday, October 8, 2022, 11am-2pm
Siuslaw Public Library, 1460 9th St, Florence
FREE!

Antonio Huerta is a Charro, a practitioner of the Charreria tradition that dates to the 1500s when the Spanish brought horses and cattle to the Americas. The Charreria tradition includes horsemanship, roping, and cattle work. Antonio believes in the value of preserving, practicing, and passing on cultural traditions to younger generations as means to building community for families. Antonio’s demonstration and talk highlight some of the important aspects of the Charreria tradition in communities across Mexico and the United States.

Jessica Zapata, originally from Mexico, is an avid cultural manager and promoter, multidisciplinary teaching artist, mentor of arts and culture programs,  and a Spanish teacher.  She is the Founder and Artistic Director of Eugene Arte Latino (EAL), whose mission is to encourage and promote Latin American culture through bilingual workshops, artistic activities and cultural events, among other events, that contribute to the human and social development of community members. Since 2007, Zapata has helped connect Spanish-speaking artists with events, resources, exhibitions, and has facilitated an extensive link of different cultural manifestations between Mexico and various cities in the United States. Jessica also teaches bilingual art workshops in the community and at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Modern Art’s Art Club for Mothers.

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Reception: Fiesta Cultural Art Exhibition in Florence
Saturday, October 8, 2-4pm
Florence Regional Arts Alliance, 120 Maple St, Florence
Free!

Join the reception to view work by

Rosio Diaz, originally from Puerto Vallarta Mexico, has lived in Eugene for over 20 years. She states, “I love to make art that blends traditional and contemporary styles and images. As an immigrant, art that blends new and old, traditional and modern styles and different cultural influences speaks to me and my experiences growing up in Mexico and living here. For this show, the pieces I have created use the Repujado style common in Mexico. Repujado Art uses sheets of tin or copper where the design is pushed out from behind to make a raised image. The pieces are painted with patina or alcohol ink. I also do art with mixed media and recycled or repurposed items.”

David CP Placencia: “I am a Eugene based artist as well an art instructor and founder of WheelHaus Arts. My father, first of his family born in America, worked at his family’s carpet business. He stressed the importance of hard work and the pursuit of higher education. My mother, who had practiced in Florence, inspired me to be creative and passionate for art, from an early age. I utilize chaos into my artworks to create harmony and this reminds me to find beauty in everyday life that inspires my paintings. I am specifically curious about the visual connections found in nature with the imagery of microscopic subjects as well as the imagery of the northwest. The topics of my work vary but each is a study in how the foreground subject is intertwined with its background or environment. Instruction and mentorship of the next generation of artists has been integral to my art practice. I seek to connect with the community so I can better connect with my own individual practice.”

Diana is a Queer Latinx artist with Zapotec roots. She was born in Santa Cruz, CA, lived in Washington and currently resides in Oregon. They began beading in 2019 and launched their Instagram page in February 2020. Since then, she has felt endless love and support from everyone they’ve encountered. It’s been an amazing experience to be a part of this community and they hope to continue to grow as an artist and person. 

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Windfall Reading Series: Poet María Concepción Sámano Patiño
Tuesday, October 18, 6pm
Watch online live or later at http://bit.ly/WindfallOct2022
FREE!

Join Lane Literary Guild and Eugene Public Library for a livestream of the Windfall Reading Series, a monthly gathering highlighting local and regional writers. This month’s program is part of Lane Arts Council’s Fiesta Cultural.

María Concepción Sámano Patiño will read poems in the original Spanish from her latest collection “Winter in the Window,” joined by Vere McCarty who will present his English translations. The book is illustrated with Sámano’s own land- and town-scape photos.

Intimate, lyrical, existentialist, and rich in imagery, Sámano’s poetry has been widely published and honored with awards from the Instituo de Cultura Oregoniana (Institute of Spanish-Language Culture in Oregon) and the Oregon Poetry Association. Her previous Spanish-language poetry collections are “The Days of Yellow Light,” “Melusina or the Perennial Aroma of Carnations, and The Darkness of Origin,” and “The Body That Takes Me.”

Originally from Jaral del Progreso in rural Guanajuato, Mexico, Sámano Patiño now lives in Salem, where she is active with the Salem Poetry Project, directs the creative writing workshop Migranta for Mexican women, and works professionally as a recovery and mental health mentor and in literacy training. She is an activist with groups including Piñeros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN, Oregon’s Farmworkers Union) and hosts a weekly program on Radio Poder. She describes herself as a “tireless traveler and seeker for meaning in this world and our existence.”

Vere McCarty shares, “My translating work with Concepción is made enjoyable by the quality of her poems. I start with her poesía and her English translation, then look for the expressions and rhythms that best fit her original ideas. We talk each line and stanza back and forth until it sounds accurate and lively.” In addition to his work as a translator, McCarty is a writer and songwriter.

More information: Eugene Public Library, eugene-or.gov/library, 541-682-5450