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Councilman Canek Aguirre tours the Potomac Yard Metro station under construction

Canek Aguirre, Alexandria’s first Latino City Council member, seeks a third term

Canek Aguirre stands out as the first Latino ever elected to Alexandria City Council. By his own estimate, he is......
Animalia, Julio Cortázar 2

Animalia, cuentos de Julio Cortázar, reseña

Reseña del libro: Animalia, Julio Cortázar...
Front L-R. Fran Tapia and Martín Ruiz. Back L-R. Camila Aldet, Tsaitami Duchicela, Jennifer Preston and Sofía Grosso. (Photo by Stan Weinstein)

El retorno de Evita en GALA

*This story was originally published by the Washington City Paper on May 23, 2024. Read the English version on their website. Música,......
Kenilworth Avenue Freeway in Northeast D.C. (photo by Famartin, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

This week on “The Climate Divide,” how community organizations are becoming climate resilient

As climate change brings more extreme heat and intense storms, some cities around the United States are opening resilience hubs......
Screenshot from the documentary “Las Muertes Más Bellas del Mundo”

Documentary uses art to explore the making of D.C.’s Salvadorian community

Quique Avilés, a Salvadorian American poet and artist, arrived in the U.S. from El Salvador at age 15 and witnessed......
EPA Administrator Michael Regan and Parents Editor-in-Chief Grace Bastidas at the inaugural "Climate Disruption, Air Pollution, and Young People’s Health" summit (photo by Al Drago for Mom's Clean Air Force)

Cómo un grupo de latinas lucha por un aire más limpio

Cómo un grupo de latinas lucha por un aire más limpio...
A pile of tires under a section of Interstate 295 that cuts through Anacostia Park (photo courtesy of GPA Photo Archive / Ward 8 Woods / Facebook)

This week on “The Climate Divide,” we explore the National Park Service’s management of the District’s parks

This week’s episode of “The Climate Divide” features an interview with Rachel Clark, the Policy Director at the George Washington......
SPEL fellows and interns for the 2024 spring semester

SPEL wraps up another semester chronicling Latino culture

This semester in our Storytelling Program for Experiential Learning (SPEL), we interviewed the producers of a new documentary about D.C.’s......
Reflexiones en torno al tiempo 3b

Reflexiones en torno al tiempo III    

Reflexiones en torno al tiempo es una serie fotográfica de imágenes captadas en nuestra ciudad capital por Hola Cultura en...
Brenda Richardson, coordinator for the Anacostia Parks & Community Collaborative (APACC)

This week on “The Climate Divide,” we speak with the coordinator for the Anacostia Parks & Community Collaborative

On this week’s episode of “The Climate Divide,” host Marcelo Jauregui-Volpe speaks to Brenda Richardson, the coordinator for the Anacostia......
“Litany of Saints” by Diana Rojas (Courtesy of Arte Público Press)

Diana Rojas’ first book explores the “migrant existential identity crisis”

When Diana Rojas is asked where she is from, she jokes that she is from Connecticut, New Jersey AND Costa......
Fin de Semana de Embajadas 1

Embajadas y cultura en DC

Fin de Semana de Embajadas...
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Painter Marite Vidales

Costa Rican painter Marite Vidales on her art and inspiration

Marite Vidales is a Costa Rican painter who has exhibited extensively in the United States, Germany, Peru, and Costa Rica......
Book jacket for "Protection from Erasure" by Sami Miranda

Inspired by his students, Sami Miranda became a poet who honors his raíces

In his visual art and poetry, D.C. artist, writer and teacher Samuel ‘Sami’ Miranda shows off his Puerto Rican raíces......
Julio Valdez

Julio Valdez on art’s duty to capture life’s light and dark currents

Julio Valdez’s passion spills through, even on a Zoom call. He has the playful energy of a father coaching Little......
SPEL professional development/storytelling online meeting in summer 2021.

Seeking D.C. students for the summer semester of SPEL!

Leer en español abajo Join us this summer for our next semester of the Storytelling Program for Experiential Learning (SPEL)! Hola......
Cover of the novel Finding La Negrita on open books

“Finding La Negrita,” a new novel inspired by real life history of powerful Afro Latinas

Natasha Gordon-Chipembere, author of the new novel, “Finding La Negrita,” compares her narrative about powerful African women living in colonial......
Scene from Príncipe Y Príncipe

GALA’s gender-challenging fairy tale is as much for parents as it is for children

The new bilingual play at the GALA Hispanic Theatre is based on a fairy tale but of a modern kind.......

Talking “Climate Divides” with Marcelo Jauregui-Volpe

*This story was originally published in our spring newsletter. Sign up here. Hola Cultura sat down with one of the......
Members of SPEL's new copyediting group receive training from Annemarie Cuccia, a reporter at Street Sense Media

Hola Cultura’s SPEL storytelling program begins spring semester

On January 24, the spring semester of our Storytelling Program for Experiential Learning began. For the next three months, a......
The Oracle by Armando Lopez-Bircann

Interview with Armando Lopez-Bircann

D.C.-based artist Armando Lopez-Bircann grew up in the Dominican Republic, without much access to art museums. But thanks to an......
Group photo after a walking tour led by SPEL interns

New year, new opportunities with Hola Cultura!

Are you a college student or young professional interested in building communication and digital skills, while giving back to the......
Picture of a top and the words top stories 2022

Top stories of 2022 in English

We’ve had a busy year! Here are a few of our top English-language stories of 2022. Click on the headlines......
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"Ya me vacune contra el COVID-19"

Lo que necesitas saber antes de recibir tu vacuna contra el COVID-19

Ahora que todos los adultos son eligibles para recibir la vacuna contra el COVID-19 en Washington, D.C., Maryland y Virginia......
Raining streets with people walking on crosswalk

Documentando encrucijadas

“Documentar encrucijadas: el coronavirus en comunidades minoritarias pobres” es el testimonio visual de la actualidad de la que aún no...
Guatemaya paining on sidewalk

Arte de Semana Santa

Dentro de las festividades de Easter en DC dos colectivos de artistas tradicionales elaboraron, a pesar de las restricciones de......
Museum entrance with bright green doors

“Estamos bien” reseña

el show en el Museo del Barrio no trata tanto de responder que bien a lo mal que nos ha...
Bags of assorted spices

Los remedios de la abuelita

Todavía en el mes de las mujeres y aprovechando la exhibición RECLAMATION: Recipes, Remedies, and Rituals en el National Museum......
Plant under sunlight

Desde una huertita en un quinto piso

No soy del campo y nunca sembré una rosa para mi amor platónico de la preparatoria. Citadino de toda la......
Two people weaving fabric outside

WILLAKUYQUNATA AWASPA (tejiendo relatos)

Para unirnos a las celebraciones del día de la mujer en sus diferentes formas que habrá el día de hoy,......
Birds on black fence

El aleteo de un pájaro

En memoria al poeta y editor Lawrence Ferlinghetti, para quien “el nido de un Pájaro era un lugar muy existencial”...
Vinyl with "Alegre" label

Johnny Pacheco- legado musical

La semana pasada falleció Johnny Pacheco, uno de los grandes de la escena musical latina en los Estados Unidos de...
Ancient drawing of El Nahuatl

El Nahuatl – poem

Nahuatl / English / Español En honor a las comunidades originarias de América que han sido las más golpeadas por......
imagen poesia visual

¿La guerrilla cultural? Los 60s, años de ruptura

Durante la década de los sesenta hubo varios grupos artístico-literarios que buscaban una renovación fuerte en Latinoamérica. Habría que considerar......
Screenshot of the open desert

La poética en el cine

film review: todo lo bellos esta muy lejos...