Alonso Vidal

Nov 27, 2024 | southsideweekly.com | Alonso Vidal

Altepee, a music collective a that hails from Veracruz, Mexico, recently visited Chicago as resident artists at 18th Street Casa de Cultura in Pilsen, where they hosted music lessons for children and adults in Pilsen. The group uses their region’s traditional folk music, son jarocho, to create learning opportunities to share with various communities in their travels. Sael Blanco founded the collective with fellow local musicians in southern Veracruz eighteen years ago.

Nov 2, 2024 | depauliaonline.com | Alonso Vidal

Categories: Crowds of people arrived early in the morning on 35th Street on Oct. 26 to eat tamales, paint their faces as skulls, and receive cempasúchil flowers, or marigolds, as they prepared to cross the bridge that connected them to La Ronda Parakata – a community ceremonial space where Day of the Dead is celebrated.

Nov 2, 2024 | depauliaonline.com | Alonso Vidal

Categories: Multitudes de personas llegaron temprano la mañana del 26 de octubre a la 35st., para comer tamales, pintarse las caras de calaveras y recibir flores de cempasúchil mientras se preparaban para cruzar el puente que los conecta con La Ronda Parakata, un espacio ceremonial comunitario donde se celebra el Día de los Muertos en Chicago.

Oct 25, 2024 | nbcchicago.com | Alonso Vidal

This article was published as part of a Telemundo Chicago-NBC Chicago collaboration with DePaul University to amplify the work of Chicago student journalists. Claudia Galeno-Sánchez, a Mexican immigrant mother, recalls thinking it would be just another night at her home in Pilsen when she suddenly heard her daughter crying in the backyard. The whispers of an approaching storm also took her by surprise.

Sep 23, 2024 | depauliaonline.com | Martha Irvine |Alonso Vidal

Categories: Claudia Galeno-Sánchez se ha propuesto encontrar 100 espacios verdes en Pilsen, La Villita y El Barrio de las Empacadoras. Claudia Galeno-Sánchez, una madre inmigrante mexicana, recuerda haber pensado que sería sólo otra noche en su hogar en Pilsen, cuando de pronto escuchó a su hija llorar en el patio trasero. Los susurros de una tormenta acercándose también la tomaron por sorpresa.