MEXICAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE NEW ORLEANS

The Mexican Cultural Institute and the Preservation Hall Foundation present the  Artist-In-Residence  Mexican-American Band LOS CENZONTLES  Los Cenzontles will be artists in residency from December 10 through December 14, 2018.  The California-based band is heavily influenced by Mexican regional folk music.  Their influences include a number of national sub-genres including mariachi, banda, Michoacan, Norteño and rancheras, mixed with hints of rock-and-roll and country music.  The group will be performing at the Mexican Cultural Institute in New Orleans on Wednesday, December 12, 2018 at 6 p.m. and at the Preservation Hall on Thursday, December 13, 2018 beginning at 8 p.m. 

The Mexican Cultural Institute  in collaboration with the New Orleans Hispanic Heritage Foundation  presents the groundbreaking exhibition Hispanic Women Making Art: Creative Empowerment and Identity 6 Female Artists | 3 Countries Curated by Marcela  Correa, MFA Artist participating:  Verónica Bapé, Belinda Flores-Shinshillas, Ana Hernandez,  Josephine Sacabo, Laura Velez and Luba Zygarewicz From September 26 to November 24, 2018

The Mexican Cultural Institute in New Orleans is pleased to announce the opening of the the exhibition  NEW ORLEANS 300 YEARS | 30 ARTISTS  presented and organized by the Second Story Gallery and the New Orleans Healing Center as part of the St. Claude Arts District's second Saturday Art walk   Saturday, September 8th 6:00 to 9:30 pm Second Story Gallery New Orleans Healing Center 2372 St. Claude Ave. New Orleans, LA

The Mexican Cultural Institute and the Consulate of Mexico  in New Orleans are pleased to present a Poetry reading and Gallery talk by acclaimed Cuban-American Poet and Art critic RICARDO PAU-LLOSA in conjunction with the current exhibition  “Reflection and the DiasporicEpic” by artist Piki Mendizabal  on  August 24, 2018 5:30 to 7:30 pm  901 Convention Center Blvd. Suite 118 New Orleans, LA  Entrance to the Institute's gallery is through Higgins Street Pau-Llosa was born into a working-class family in Havana. In 1960 Pau-Llosa fled Cuba with his parents, older sister, and maternal grandmother — all of whom emerge in his autobiographical poems of exile and remembrance. He graduated from Belén Jesuit Preparatory High School in Miami in 1971, and went on to major in English (literature) at various universities, among them Florida International University (BA, 1974), Florida Atlantic University (MA, 1976), and the Universit...

The Consulate of Mexico and the Mexican Cultural Institute in New Orleans are pleased to present the exhibition  Reflection and the Diasporic Epic  by artist Piki Mendizabal. Mexico, Cuba and New Orleans shared a strong cultural bond throughout history. This cultural bond makes New Orleans a warm multicultural and welcoming place for people of Latin-American countries that for many reasons have come to called it home.  Reflection and the Diasporic Epic  by Piki Mendizabal is an exhibition that resonates to the immigration experience in New Orleans. This exhibition  is a visual narrative that echoes to every single immigrant, who has to follow the painful path to leave their homeland to become part of a different one without failing to keep and embrace their own culture in a new place. Piki Mendizabal is an artist born in La Habana, Cuba in 1982. His work focuses on the daily life of the Old Havana. He works in painting, drawing, print...

June 12, 2018 7:00 to 8:30 pm Marigny Opera House 725 St. Ferdinand Street, New Orleans, LA 70117 Octeto Sicarú Guitar Ensemble with Nicholas Ciraldo The decorated Octeto Sicarú makes its Marigny Opera House debut with a program of 20th century through contemporary Mexican guitar music on a set of eight hand-carved guitars that travel with their luthier. The Octet is joined by celebrated American Classical Guitarist Nicholas Ciraldo for Julio César Oliva’s México de mis sueños.  Ciraldo is an Associate Professor of Music at The University of Southern Mississippi, has played in Boston’s Jordan Hall, Berlin’s Berliner Dom, and Curitiba’s Teatro José Maria Santos, and won numerous international guitar competitions. This Mexican guitar ensemble was established in 2010. The Octeto Sicarú has performed in Austria, Brazil, Croatia, Slovakia, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Uruguay, and the United States. In 2013, American guitarist William Kanengiser joined Octeto Sicarú to pe...

The Mexican Cultural Institute in New Orleans, the Isidore Newman School, and the New Orleans Hispanic Heritage Foundation are pleased to present the exhibition IMPRESSIONS by NEW PERSPECTIVES Works by Newman students inspired by Latin-American Art Opening Reception May 17, 2018 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. at the Mexican Cultural Institute in New Orleans 901 Convention Center Blvd., Suite 118 (entrance to the Institute is through Andrew Higgins Street)