• Educate the broader Dartmouth community about the histories, cultures, and contributions of Latine and Caribbean communities through engaging and accessible programming.
• Foster connection among Latine and Caribbean students and their peers while creating inclusive spaces that authentically reflect the diversity of our communities.
• Strengthen belonging by creating opportunities for dialogue, collaboration, and cultural exchange across the Dartmouth community.

This year’s Latine & Caribbean Heritage Celebration centers Together We Are More | Unidos Somos Más—a theme grounded in interdependence and hope.

A just and inclusive future can only be built when we work together. At a time when our communities face systemic challenges while continuing to create opportunities for growth and change, our stories, cultures, and shared resilience provide a foundation for moving forward.

Through this year’s celebration, we invite the broader Dartmouth community to speak, listen, and act in ways that honor our differences while building unity. Our future is not something we wait for; it is something we create together.

Throughout the fall, LCHC will bring students, faculty, staff, and community members together through opportunities to celebrate culture, build relationships, learn from one another, and reflect on the many ways our communities are connected.

Friday, September 18 | 2:00–5:00 PM 
1 Clement Road Lawn

Start the 2026 Latine & Caribbean Heritage Celebration in community.

Join us for an afternoon of food, games, music, raffles, and connection. Campus offices, departments, and resources that support, or would like to support, the Latine, Hispanic, and Caribbean communities will be on hand to share information and connect with students. Student organizations will also showcase their work, upcoming activities, and opportunities to get involved.

Whether you are returning to campus or joining the Dartmouth community for the first time, the Kick-Off is an opportunity to reconnect!

We will have various student organizations and departments tabling, as well as local business Atla's Conchas to provide sweet treats for our attendees!

Thursday, September 24 | Departing from Collis at 4:40 PM 
Dartmouth Organic Farm

What does it take to sustain our local food systems?

Roots of Labor connects Dartmouth students with the Upper Valley farmworker community through a guided visit to the Dartmouth Organic Farm and conversation with farmworkers. Participants will hear from members of the community whose work sustains local food systems while reflecting on labor justice, dignity, interdependence, and community resilience.

The guided visit begins at 5:00 PM, with transportation returning to campus at approximately 7:00 PM.

Transportation is limited. RSVP here by September 22.

TEATRO LA PLAZA: HAMLET
Wednesday, September 30 | 7:30 PM 
Moore Theater, The HOP
 

Playful, powerful, and joyful, Teatro La Plaza's Hamlet offers a radical reimagining of Shakespeare's classic play.

Performed in Spanish with English supertitles, the production intertwines versions of Shakespeare's original text with personal anecdotes from the cast, creating a provocative dialogue between the original work and contemporary experience. Through humor, storytelling, and performance, Hamlet brings audiences face-to-face with questions of empathy, exclusion, and the irrepressible human spirit.

10 FREE Tickets are available for Dartmouth students. Register here.
 

Friday, October 9 | 10:00 PM
Collis Common Ground

Join Collis After Dark and OPAL for an evening of Lotería, community, and culture.
Whether Lotería is a familiar part of your cultural experience or you are playing for the first time, this community game night offers an opportunity to connect with others, enjoy a little friendly competition, and celebrate together.
 

Saturday, October 10 | 10:00 PM
One Wheelock

Grab a snack, get creative, and join OPAL and Collis After Dark for a night in community featuring Bring It On: Fight to the Finish.
As part of LCHC's cultural programming and in partnership with Collis After Dark, the evening will include the film, crafts and creative activities, and ethnic snacks. Come spend time with friends, meet new people, and enjoy a relaxed evening together.
 

Thursday, October 15 | 12:00 PM
Collis 212

In partnership with Queer History Celebration and the Native American Program, this Healing Across the Diaspora series, Queer Indigeneity, creates space to explore the experiences and identities of people at the intersections of Latine, Caribbean, Indigenous, and queer communities.
Through conversation and reflection, participants will consider the ways identity, culture, community, and belonging intersect across these experiences. The gathering welcomes community members who hold these identities as well as those who wish to listen, learn, and engage in solidarity.
 

RSVP through Dartmouth Groups. Lunch will be provided.
 

Wednesday, October 21 | 12:00 PM
Collis 212

The Latine and Caribbean and the Women and Gender Student Advising, brings a new Healing Across the Diaspora for the Men’s Mental Health Series (MMHS) for the first MMHS celebration in Dartmouth's history.

This gathering centers men's mental health and creates space to reflect on how we understand, discuss, and support men's well-being in the college community. Through conversation and reflection, participants will explore new ways of thinking about mental health, connection, vulnerability, and support while considering how we can collectively reimagine what it means to care for men's mental health at Dartmouth.

The event is open to community members who identify as men, as well as those who wish to learn, listen, and engage in solidarity.

RSVP through Dartmouth Groups. Lunch will be provided.

Thursday, October 22 
Cooking Class: 5:30 PM | Community Dinner: 7:00 PM
Occom Commons
 

Food carries culture, memory, and connection across generations. Join us for an evening that brings these traditions together through cooking and community.

In partnership with MexSA and CAUSA, we will prepare dishes inspired by different Latin American and Caribbean cultures. The cooking class will bring participants together to learn, prepare, and share food before transitioning into a community dinner.

The cooking class has 30 spots available and requires registration. Following the cooking class, the community dinner will be open to all members of campus on a first-come, first-served basis.

Come share a meal, learn from one another, and reflect on the connections that bring our communities together.

Cooking Class RSVP

Tuesday, November 3 | 6:00 PM
Shabazz Mural Room

In partnership with the Tucker Center and Aquinas House, LCHC will close the 2026 celebration with an interfaith dinner reflecting on Día de Muertos.

The evening will explore the cultural significance of remembrance, community grieving, and honoring those who came before us. Through shared food, reflection, and interfaith dialogue, participants will consider the many ways communities remember, grieve, celebrate, and carry traditions forward. Rooted in remembrance and connection, the dinner invites us to consider how different traditions can create opportunities for understanding and solidarity across communities.
 

Chair: Andrea Mercado-Cruz ‘28
Leonela Espinoza Campomanes ‘27
Edgar Santana Guerrero ‘27
Gaelle Valmir ‘28
 

Office of Institutional Diversity & Equity, Office of Pluralism and Leadership, Aquinas House at Dartmouth, Central Americans United Student Association (CAUSA), Collis After Dark, Collis Center for Student Involvement, Color Stack, Dartmouth Minority Pre-Law Association, Dartmouth NEXT, Department of African, and African American Studies, DICE - Geisel School of Medicine, Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies, Men of Color Alliance, Mexican Student Association (MexSA), Native American Program, North Park House, Office of Sustainability, Outdoor Programs Office, Peruvian Student, Association, Sigma Lambda Beta International Fraternity, Inc., Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority, Inc. Undergraduate Women of Color Collective, Spanish and Portuguese Department, Special Programs & Events Committee (SPEC), The HOP, The William Jewett Tucker Center
 

Versa-Style Street Dance Co
Tuesday, September 22-24
The HOP, Multiple locations
Feel the pulse of LA with 20 years of high-octane hip hop and street dance in one explosive night.
The electrifying troupe grooves through a medley of their most popular works, showcasing the wild range and empowering culture of street dance. Like the cultural tapestry that is Los Angeles itself, their choreography interweaves diverse forms and influences, from popping and whacking to breaking to Afro-Latin styles. Dance is life, and Versa-Style gives us a joyful blast of movement born from communities that have shaped American popular culture today.
And to keep the party kicking, join us after the show for a dance party in the Top of the Hop. No experience needed … energy required!

DALA: Brown Bag Lunch Career Series
Friday, October 1 | 12:00 pm
Online
In partnership with the Dartmouth Association of Latino Alumni (DALA, join Maria Higuerey O’Hollearn (DR ‘01), founder of IvyLatina, for an Advanced LinkedIn optimization workshop!
Pre-work is required to join.

¡Bienvenidos al Mercadito!
Thursday, October 8 | 5 - 7 pm
Kellogg Mezzanine
Join us for an unforgettable evening that celebrates the rich and diverse culinary heritage of Latine, Hispanic, and Caribbean cultures. The Mercadito transforms the Kellogg Mezzanine into a vibrant event of flavors, colors, and rhythms that will transport your senses across Latin America, the Caribbean, and beyond! Bring your friends for an evening filled with culinary delights, cultural celebration, and joyous community spirit!

El Norte
Friday, October 9 | 7 pm
Loew Auditorium

Gregory Nava's dramatic 1983 masterpiece weaves in elements of Aztec and Mayan mythology with a quest for the American dream.
After their family is killed in a union-busting government massacre, indigenous Mayan siblings Enrique and Rosa decide to flee Guatemala and embark on a perilous journey to America— "El Norte"—in search of a better life. Facing danger and persecution on every step of the way, their love and resolve eventually bring them to shimmery Los Angeles, which soon proves to be gilded rather than gold.
A tour de force of independent filmmaking, Pava expertly weaves Aztec and Mayan mythology with the modern American Dream, blending magical realism with poignant social commentary as he captures the realities of the modern immigrant experience.