November 11th of 2016, a year after the iconic ACCESS Bill Launch at UIC brought a large turnout to support the bill. High school students and many other organizations across the city joined together to…
January 1, 1994 – The arrival of the Zapatistas, and the takeover of the municipal hall in San Cristobal de las Casas. On November 10th, the Latino Cultural center hosted a discussion about…
The UIC Centers for Cultural Understanding and Social Change (CCUSC) and the UIC Heritage Gardenhosted the second Tea Talks of the semester, titled Politics of the Heart. The Tea Talks series was developed as a way of exploring…
On Wednesday, October 25, 2016, Aída Hurtado, the nationally renowned author and professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, visited the LCC to discuss her new book, Beyond Machismo. Her book examines young, educated Latino…
The UIC Freshwater Lab hosted indigenous leader Frank Ettawageshik at the LCC on October 18th, 2016, who spoke about water issues facing the midwest Great Lakes region and the world. Mr. Ettawageshik showed the audience this image, to…
Ever wonder how libraries and books can be used as art? Students who attended the Latino Cultural Center’s public program, Visual Poetry: Transforming Literature into Sculpture & Visual Art, were exposed toimages, sculptures, and…
As part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the LCC teamed up with the Women’s Leadership Resource Center (WLRC) and the Campus Advocacy Network (CAN) to present The Hunting Ground as part of the LCC’s Civic Cinema programming series. This documentary is a…
On September 27, 2016, the UIC Latino Cultural Center kicked off the third year of Reimagining Masculinities with a Bow Tie Making Workshop where participants customized handmade bow ties with stained fabric markers. The bow…
James Esparza, LCC Student Educator, leading a tour. Open House 2016 was an all-access pass to University of Illinois at Chicago for prospective students interested in exposing themselves to the UIC experience, and…
In memory of Ayotzinapa (almost two years later), artist and sculptor Alfonso “Piloto” Nieves Ruiz created the following art installation—installed by the north wall of Lecture Center B for the LCC’s 40th anniversary celebration on September 14 & 15,…