Tuesday, April 2nd, 5pm
Location: Fong Auditorium at Boylston Hall (Harvard Yard)
Free and open to the public
Join us for musical performance and conversation on Indigenous urban movements with Liberato Kani, Quechua hip-hop artist, and Jorge Luis Astovilca, a master of traditional Andean scissor dancing. Both the performance and conversation will offer an opportunity to learn more about the relevance of Indigenous urban music and dancing in the Andes. Quechua is the most spoken Indigenous language family in the Americas, with almost 10 million speakers in South America, and with significant migrant communities in the U.S., Spain and Italy.
Presenters: Liberato Kani (née Ricardo Flores), a Peruvian Quechua rapper and composer. Jorge Luis Astovilca, a master of traditional Andean scissor dancing and supporting dancer for Quechua Hip-Hop artist Liberato Kani.