{"id":8677,"date":"2025-02-21T07:40:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T15:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/2025\/02\/21\/we-begin-the-2025-cohort-of-connectandonos-mas\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T07:49:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T15:49:01","slug":"we-begin-the-2025-cohort-of-connectandonos-mas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/en\/2025\/02\/21\/we-begin-the-2025-cohort-of-connectandonos-mas\/","title":{"rendered":"We begin the 2025 Cohort of Connect\u00e1ndonos M\u00c1S"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"\">Today (02\/21\/25) we start the third cohort of our Youth program Conect\u00e1ndonos M\u00c1S with our opening party at: Washington Hall, from 6 to 8:30 pm. A total of 29 youths registered to join the program and will gather for this initial celebration with their families and friends. This evening will be full of fun activities, information about the program, and a meal that will allow us to share elements of the culinary traditions of the Afro-diaspora.  <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CM-2025-apertura-ingles-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8617\" style=\"width:400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CM-2025-apertura-ingles-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CM-2025-apertura-ingles-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CM-2025-apertura-ingles-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CM-2025-apertura-ingles-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CM-2025-apertura-ingles-700x700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CM-2025-apertura-ingles-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CM-2025-apertura-ingles.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This year the program will consist of 14 meetings that will end in a final celebration at Washington Hall on June 7, where our youths will share their works with the community. The young people will be able to develop <strong>3 individual and collective artistic projects<\/strong> with artists who promote Afro-diasporic arts and culture. In the first project, we will take root with the help of: <strong>MIlvia Berenice Pacheco Salvatierra, Sabrina Chac\u00f3n-Barajas, Evelyne Laurent Perrault, and Hever Bustos<\/strong>, who was one of the young participants of the 2023 cohort, and is now part of the facilitating team and the organizing committee of the program; in the second project we will work on autobiographic narratives through photography and writing guided by the artists: <strong>Avi\u00f3na Brown and Fernanda Bruno<\/strong>; and for the final project we will learn about the cultural traditions of the Gar\u00edfuna People and the Afro diaspora of Puerto Rico with the guest artists:    <strong> Juanita Crisanto y Otoqui Reyes. <\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This year we will have a special event in which we invite the community to share a session of the program with us. Evelyne Laurent-Perrault will visit us in Seattle and we will have a <strong>community seminar on the Afrodiasporic history of Abya Yala on March 8 at the Union Cultural Center<\/strong>. The open meeting with the community will take place from 10vam to 12vpm. If you want to participate, please contact M\u00c1S by sending an email to<br><a href=\"mailto:movimientoafrolatinoseattle@gmail.com\">movimientoafrolatinoseattle@gmail.com<\/a> o <a href=\"mailto:communications@movimientoafrolatino.org\">communications@movimientoafrolatino.org<\/a>   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/en\/projects\/connecting-intro\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"3604\">More about the youth program<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (02\/21\/25) we start the third cohort of our Youth program Conect\u00e1ndonos M\u00c1S with our opening party at: Washington Hall, from 6 to 8:30 pm. A total of 29 youths registered to join the program and will gather for this initial celebration with their families and friends. This evening will be full of fun activities, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[125],"class_list":["post-8677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-connecting-more","tag-aphrodiaspora"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8679,"href":"https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677\/revisions\/8679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}