Join us as we celebrate through the uplifting of all things culture, art, music, literature, cuisine, and so much more. Mark your calendars for upcoming campus and community events. More campus events will be added throughout the month. Check GetInvolved or Wayne Events Calendar for more information.

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Enjoy coloring and coffee with OMSE as you embrace and learn about Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month. 

 

Join the Latinx Faculty and Staff Association for their annual welcome back reception in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. All students, faculty, and staff are welcome to attend.

 

Celebrate four decades of literary brilliance with a special poetry workshop inspired by Sandra Cisneros' iconic novel, The House on Mango Street. Whether you’re a seasoned poet or a beginner, this event offers a welcoming space to express your voice and craft poems that resonate with the spirit of Mango Street. Let’s come together to honor the 40th anniversary of this groundbreaking novel and create poetry that celebrates our own stories and communities.

 

Hispanic and Latinx Heritage is very expansive and OMSE wants to continue to celebrate by hosting a game of capture the flag! Come by and learn about the flags of many different countries in the Latinx diaspora and then break into groups to play capture the flag!

 

                                                                                                                              

In honor of Día de Muertos, the Detroit Institute of Arts, in collaboration with the Mexican Consulate of Detroit, the Southwest Detroit Business Association, and Mexicantown CDC, invites you to explore a community exhibition of ofrenda altars. Celebrated in Mexico and other Latin American countries, the Day of the Dead honors the lives of loved ones who have passed away. Personal items such as favorite foods, drinks, mementos, and photographs are incorporated into elaborate displays alongside traditional elements like pan de muerto (bread of the dead), sugar skulls, candles, flowers, and papel picado (decorative paper cutouts).

 

This year’s theme, “Reclaiming Our Legacy: Our Past, Our Present, Our Future,” celebrates the contributions of both traditional and tech-based Hispanic/Latinx small businesses in Detroit and beyond during Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month.

 

This event offers a great opportunity for local entrepreneurs, founders and angel investors to connect, celebrate and uplift the rich Hispanic/Latinx culture of innovation, community and legacy.

 

 

Join us for a Día de los Muertos celebration as we decorate skulls and learn about the rich cultural significance in honoring loved ones who have passed.

 

 

Check out WSU Libraries Latino/a and Latin American Studies Research Guide and for more information about study, programs, and research in Latino/a and Latin American Studies at Wayne State University, see the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS) website.

 

 

Visit this link for the 2020 Hispanic Heritage Month Calendar (pdf) 

Download our 2020 Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month Zine (pdf)