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2024 new year

2024

¡Feliz año nuevo! 2024. Happy new year! 2024...
Norma Sorto and Marcelo Jauregui-Volpe mc'ing during our fall 2023 fundraiser

Hola Cultura wraps up a successful 2023!

Since Hola Cultura began as an arts project in 2011, it’s been a surprising and beautiful journey with important milestones.......
Our Best Read Stories of 2023

Our best read stories of 2023

As we approach the end of 2023, Hola Cultura is looking back at our most viewed stories this year...
Flor de fin de año

Fiestas de fin de año y buenos deseos

Fiestas de fin de año y buenos deseos...
Ivy City Roundhouse / Northeast Railroad Corridor, Amtrak Route between Union Station & DC/MD State Line, Washington, D.C. (1977)

This week on “The Climate Divide,” how one D.C. neighborhood is striving towards environmental justice

The season finale of “The Climate Divide” reports on the controversy surrounding a chemical plant in Ivy City that’s been......
University professor Jorge Santos, a scholar of the Marvel character Miles Morales, during an interview last month via Zoom with copy editing intern Ian Henry

End of the SPEL 2023 fall semester

What do our SPEL interns and fellows think about their time at Hola Cultura this fall? Nearly all (88.9%) say......
Simetría Citadina IV

Simetría Citadina | City Symmetry  IV

Simetría Citadina es una serie fotográfica...
A gas burner that turned is on

This week on “The Climate Divide,” the state of climate action in D.C.

This week’s episode of “The Climate Divide” delves into what the D.C. government is doing to protect residents from climate......
Dutidú co-founders Marie Claire Vasquez Durán & María Victoria Abreu Lugar - Artistas in the Capital

In this month’s episode of “Artistas in the Capital,” representation: one puzzle piece at a time

How do you pass down culture? Cook food? Make crafts? Read stories? Two Washington area Latina moms found a fun......
gala film festival 2023

Concluye ciclo de filmes en GALA

“Víctimas del pecado”. Gala film festival 2023...
Drain pipe in Anacostia Park (Photo by Isabella Béjar Tjalve)

This week on “The Climate Divide,” we discuss Kingman Park’s history of contamination and the local activism that led to constructing D.C.’s Northeast Boundary Tunnel

On this week’s episode of “The Climate Divide,” host Marcelo Jauregui-Volpe speaks with Kingman Park activist Frazer Walton Jr. and......
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El poema y la pasión: Corta

Corta, poema de Natalia Chamorro...
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The Whisper of Silence movie's main character

Top picks for the Latin American Film Festival

Every fall the Latin American Film Festival at the AFI Silver cinema in Silver Spring casts the limelight on celluloid......
Left: red and blue sombreros. Right: Aztec mural

“Mexican Philly”

En un viaje en auto a la ciudad de Philadelphia disfrutamos de una pequeña inmersión cultural y gastronómica en el...
Snapshot of COVID-19 cell

What you should know about COVID-19 variants: An interview with Johns Hopkins epidemiologist William Checkley

As countries race to vaccinate their populations, variants of the COVID-19 virus have popped up around the world. The virus......
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“We Were Always Here: A Mexican American’s Odyssey,” by Ricardo Chavira: A Review and Interview with the Author

On a six-week boyhood trip deep into Mexico, Ricardo Chavira was at first hesitant. He was unaware of Mexico, of......
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How to Stay Healthy During the Months of Extreme Heat

The summer months can be a fun time of year with kids out of school and the pools and beaches......
Person spray-painting red car with white paint

ARTidotes: How one artist used art to get through COVID-19

*Part of our series interviewing artists about how they have adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic The world of fine art......
American Orphan book cover

Book Review: “American Orphan”

Fast paced and filled with irony and dark humor, “American Orphan” tells the story of Orlando Lucero, nicknamed ghost boy...
Lilo Gonzalez album cover

Music in COVID Times: An interview with Lilo González

“Music has been a survival thing for me since I was little,” says local musician Lilo González, who purchased his......
Male and female dancing in front of crowd

“In the Heights” low on Afro-latinx representation

The new movie, In the Heights, takes place in New York City’s Washington Heights, where nearly seven in every ten......
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Art in Covid Times: An interview with Stephanie Eche

From her apartment across the street from DC’s Malcolm X Park, Stephanie Eche first got the idea of connecting businesses......
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New interview series: How Latinx artists adapted to survive the pandemic

One of the biggest casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to be artists and other members of the creative......
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Tribute-Tributo

Hay un dicho  en español que dice: honor a quien honor merece. Desconocemos el origen del dicho, pero en Hola......

El año de la peste

En estos momentos difíciles -se ponen de moda-, por decirlo de alguna forma, filmes y libros de pandemias, plagas y......

Aprovechando el confinamiento

Confinamiento durante el covid...

Palabras Acciones

Un abrazo virtual a tod@s y esperamos que sigan en sus hogares respetando las reglas sanitarias. Con mucho afecto y......

PANDEMIC | PANDEMIA

(Spanish version below) A poem by Jorge Argueta, a Salvadoran living in San Francisco, whose poem “Meditating” (translated into English......

Personajes en novela

“Iré viendo menos cada vez, y aunque no pierda la vista me volveré más ciega cada día porque no tendré......

La Pluma (Poem)

Para iniciar una semana con buen ánimo en estos tiempos difíciles, aquí un poema de Alexandra Lytton Regalado quien se......

Hola estimados distanciados

Aquí una selección de filmes para el encierro. En esta ocasión hemos escogido road movies, género de filmes cuyo argumento......

Abrazo virtual y caluroso saludo

Comunidad nuestra, amigos, les enviamos un abrazo virtual y un caluroso saludo, desde lejos claro, por aquello de los gérmenes.......

Protestadoras del mundo

Ayer fue el día internacional de la mujer y hubo cientos de marchas alrededor del orbe; algunas contundentes, todas masivas.......

Día de la Marimba

En un despliegue de folclor, y ante un público que atiborró el auditorio Elmer & Mary Louise Rasmuson del Museo......

Lázaro Batista: pintor

Personajes y memorias del Barrio. Cubano de nacimiento, aunque por muchas otras cosas washingtonense de puro corazón, Lázaro Batista es un......