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Tejiendo Historias | Storytelling Sin Fronteras

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Tejiendo Historias is dedicated to celebrating the craft of storytelling and the vibrant Latinx experience. It provides a platform for bilingual Latinx individuals to share their stories in both English and Spanish, weaving together the threads of personal and cultural narratives.

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Summer Camp

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Our Teatro Camp, a partnership with Trinity Repertory Company, is called YASI-lito. It is an all-immersive experience, designed to introduce teens to the world of bilingual performing arts. Young people will prepare a short, Spanish/English bilingual performance to share with families at the end of the week.


Registration is now open.

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Part-Time Gallery Programs Facilitator (bilingual)

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RILA is looking for an outgoing, engaged individual to work as part time Gallery Programs Facilitator at La Galería del Pueblo in Central Falls.

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Our Statement on Banned Books

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RILA's Board of Directors, Staff, the Latino Books Award Committee issue the following statement regarding attempts to remove materials from schools and libraries that focus on LGBTQIA+ issues and books written by Latino authors or that document the Latino experience or the experiences of other communities of color:

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Telling Our Stories

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Why is it important for Latinx people of color to produce and share stories that are not often found in our schools, museums or other public places.

A conversation facilitated by Marta V. Martínez

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Latino Theater in Rhode Island | ¿Qué Onda?

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The relationship between tradition and innovation is not always easy, but it’s in the spirited dialogue between those two values that we continually learn how to reach more people and how to engage audiences more deeply. Trinity Repertory Theater’s bilingual production of Romeo and Juliet in partnership with Rhode Island Latino Arts fits squarely in the heart of that conversation between loyalty and innovation.

The truth is that this project has generated both excitement and concern among Latinos in Rhode Island. I am not surprised, and in fact, I’m excited.
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