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Newark Museum October 2024
Newark Museum October 2024 Literary Event

Newark Museum October Events 2024

Newark Museum October Events, featuring the best of contemporary literature and the arts.

Join us for “Daughters of Latin America: A Night of Literary Legacy Across Space and Time”

The Newark Museum of Art

October 3, 2024

6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

The Newark Museum of Art

49 Washington St, Newark, NJ 07102

Join Sandra Guzman, editor of the award-winning landmark

anthology, Daughters of Latin America, for a divine literary

evening of readings, conversations, and culture.

Featuring an art walk and reading by Latine authors:

HOST SANDRA GUZMÁN is an award-winning pioneering storyteller, culture writer, literary editor, and documentary filmmaker whose work reclaims and centers narratives of people and communities outside the margins. Her work explores identity, land, memory, race, sexuality, spirituality, culture, and gender.

A multimedia storyteller, she writes, edits, translates, and produces work that illuminates and educates. Her documentary films have aired on PBS, Netflix, HBO, HULU and Prime. Her stories have appeared on NBC News, Gannett | USA Today, shondaland among others. Her opinion pieces on NBC Think, CNN, and Latino Rebels. She was a producer of The Pieces I Am, a critically acclaimed film about the art and life of her literary mentor Toni Morrison. She is the author of the non-fiction feminist book, The New Latina’s Bible and editor of LATINA and Heart & Soul magazines. Her essays have appeared in Audubonmagazine and the anthologies, So We Can Know edited by Aracelis Girmay and Some of My Best Friends edited by Emily Bernard. She won an Emmy Award for a special program unpacking the U.S. embargo against Cuba while she worked as a producer at Telemundo. She is an Afro-Indigenous daughter of the Caribbean born in the archipelago of Borikén.