From Pilsen to Calumet, how storytelling preserves Latino history
Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated across the country from Sept. 15 and Oct. 15 this year.
One way to celebrate and commemorate Hispanic Heritage Month is to learn your local history, and there are so many places to do that around the city.
Reset sits down with the people behind exhibitions at the Field Museum to find out more about efforts to teach the history of Latinos in Pilsen.
GUESTS: Liliana Macias, public engagement coordinator of the Chicago Monuments Project: Pilsen Latina Legacies; PhD student of history at UIC
Teresa Magaña, co-founder and executive director of the Pilsen Arts & Community House; project manager of the Pilsen Latina Legacies
Mark Bouman, senior environmental social scientist at the Field Museum’s Keller Science Action Center
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From Pilsen to Calumet, how storytelling preserves Latino history
Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated across the country from Sept. 15 and Oct. 15 this year.
One way to celebrate and commemorate Hispanic Heritage Month is to learn your local history, and there are so many places to do that around the city.
Reset sits down with the people behind exhibitions at the Field Museum to find out more about efforts to teach the history of Latinos in Pilsen.
GUESTS: Liliana Macias, public engagement coordinator of the Chicago Monuments Project: Pilsen Latina Legacies; PhD student of history at UIC
Teresa Magaña, co-founder and executive director of the Pilsen Arts & Community House; project manager of the Pilsen Latina Legacies
Mark Bouman, senior environmental social scientist at the Field Museum’s Keller Science Action Center