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Hispanic Heritage Month | September 2024

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BENISE: FIESTA!
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 11:30 PM

Celebrate world music and dance at its best with this fiery mix of Cuban salsa, Spanish flamenco, Brazilian samba, African drumming and more. Benise brings fierce intensity to new interpretations of favorite rock anthems and traditional classics, performing at the Old Mission in Santa Barbara, California.

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WTVP SpotsShakira: Live from Paris | Preview
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From beginning to end, it is Shakira at her best.

SHAKIRA: LIVE FROM PARIS
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 11 PM

A concert special from the multiple Grammy, Latin Grammy and American Music Award winner’s successful Sale El Sol (The Sun Comes Out) tour, launched to promote her eighth and ninth studio albums (She Wolf and Sale El Sol). The tour set includes her biggest hits from Whenever, Wherever to Inevitable to Hips Don't Lie.

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Thu, 09/05/2024 @ 11:00 PM

BIRTHRIGHT
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 6 PM

Birthright follows Cuban American electro-funk musicians, Cristy ‘Cuci’ Garcia and Tony ‘Smurphio’ Laurencio on their first trip to Cuba. In desperate straits, sixty years prior, their parents had left the island as political exiles. In 2016, the dynamic Miami-based duo, known as Afrobeta, were invited ‘back’ to perform in Havana.

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Watch BIRTHRIGHT with PBS Passport (an added member benefit).

American MastersJosé Clemente Orozco: Man of Fire
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Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco led a life filled with drama, adversity & triumph.

AMERICAN MASTERS
JOSE CLEMENTE OROZCO: MAN OF FIRE
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 9 PM

The life of Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco, a life fi lled with drama, adversity and triumph, is one of the great stories of the modern era. Despite poverty, childhood rheumatic fever that damaged his heart and an explosion in his youth that cost him his left hand, Orozco persisted in his wish to become an artist.

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AMERICAN MASTERS 
JULIA ALVAREZ: A LIFE REIMAGINED
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 8 PM

This is the profile an author called a writer of gigantic storytelling talent, and exquisitely composed prose. She is one of the most critically and commercially successful Latina writers of her generation along with Mexican American Sandra Cisneros and Chilean Novelist Isabel Allende.

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American MastersJulia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined
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Explore the story of writer Julia Alvarez, who blazed a trail for a generation of Latino authors.

SINGING OUR WAY TO FREEDOM
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 6 PM

Explore the life and music of Ramon "Chunky" Sanchez, from his humble beginnings as a farmworker in Blythe, California to the dramatic moment when he received one of our nation's highest musical honors at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

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VOCES AMERICAN HISTORIA:
THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF LATINOS EPISODE 1:
ECHOES OF EMPIRES
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 8 PM

Actor and playwright John Leguizamo’s work preparing for his 2018 Broadway show, Latin History for Morons, produced an obsession with reading and researching the history of the Americas. His frustration over the whitewashing of American history, coupled with his nature as a curious student of the world, resulted in American Historia. This is the first episode of a three-part series.

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Co-Creator and actor John Leguizamo on set of AMERICAN HISTORIA.
Co-Creator and actor John Leguizamo on set of AMERICAN HISTORIA.
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37TH ANNUAL HISPANIC HERITAGE AWARDS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 9 PM

The Hispanic Heritage Awards will be held at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Opera House. Honorees this year include Carmelo Anthony, Rea Ann Silva, Carolina Herrera and Roberto Clemente. The HHAs were established by The White House in 1988 to commemorate the creation of Hispanic Heritage Month in America.

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THE LAST MAMBO
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 6 PM

The Last Mambo explores the San Francisco Bay Area’s (SFBA) Latin music scene. In the 1930’s musicians of color played in racially segregated areas. The 1950’s Mambo craze and integration expanded their world. Since 2000, gentrification has closed many clubs. But musicians are transforming the future through education and community outreach.

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