Missed our Event with Marco Avilés? Here's the Video!

Posted on July 15, 2024

Marco Avilés and Araceli Poma take a selfie with the audience of their Immigrant Heritage Month event.

Last month, WWB Campus and the Brooklyn Public Library had the pleasure of hosting a talk by Quechua-Peruvian author and journalist Marco Avilés, featuring gorgeous music from Latin Grammy nominee Araceli Poma. This event followed a week of author visits and writing workshops in high school classrooms around Brooklyn and Manhattan.

During his public talk commemorating Immigrant Heritage Month, Avilés shared stories of migration and return—both his own experiences of migrating from the Andes to Lima and the United States, as well as the stories of other immigrants he's met throughout his life. He also discussed imagery of roots and uprooting, which frequently appear in fiction and poetry by other Indigenous Andean authors.

You can watch the video below, or on our YouTube channel:

This talk makes an excellent classroom companion to Marco's essay "I Am Not Your Cholo," published on Words Without Borders and featured in a WWB Campus blog post with teaching resources.

Many thanks to Marco and Araceli for sharing their talents with us!

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