2024-2025 Events
Express Fest
Wednesday, August 21| 3PM-5PM | Cultural Centers Lawn
Express Fest is the LCC's, AAARCC's, and NAECC's annual resource and welcome fair. It bridges students, faculty and staff to the resources available at Purdue University and the Cultural Centers. Departments, academic units and community organizations are invited to participate in the fair. Express Fest occurs on the first Wednesday of the Fall semester. All are welcome!
Registration to table coming soon!
Conexiones
Saturday, August 24| 11 AM- 3 PM | Beck Agricultural Center 4550 US-52, West Lafayette, IN 47906
The Purdue University Latino Cultural Center and the Latinx Student Union invite ALL Purdue University students (grad, undergrad, domestic, international, Latinx, non-Latinx) to participate in in our free student retreat Conexiones.
Purdue University staff and community leaders will lead concurrent workshops on topics related to mental health, student success, financial literacy identity development, and civic engagement. Students will engage in meaningful dialogue while connecting to one another, to the LCC, and to resources on campus and in the community.
Registration coming soon!
One Revelation will Lead to a Revolution
National Hispanic Heritage Month Keynote Speaker Richard Montañez
Monday, September 16th| 5:30PM-6:30PM | Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center, 128 Memorial Mall Dr, West Lafayette, IN 47907
Free and Open to the Public
Richard Montañez led Multicultural Sales & Marketing as Vice President across Pepsi North American divisions, and after 42 years with the company he is now retired (March 1, 2020.) Throughout his career Montañez has held various senior roles through Pepsi and Frito Lay divisions.
Montañez started his PepsiCo career at Frito-Lay in 1976 as a janitor and is recognized as the creator of the Flamin’ Hot line of products, which have become a billion-dollar business and a cultural phenomenon.
Recognized for his visionary leadership, ability to innovate and his commitment to diversity, he has received several notable awards and is often named one of the most influential Latinos in corporate America.
Dia de los Muertos
Friday, November 1| 6PM-8PM | North & South Ballrooms, Purdue Memorial Union, 101 Grant Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907
Each year the Purdue University Latino Cultural Center gathers to call upon our ancestors who have passed, and to celebrate their life and death. In 2008, UNESCO recognized the importance of Día de los muertos by adding the holiday to its list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Day of the Dead originated several thousand years ago with the Aztec, Toltec, and other Nahua people. For these pre-Hispanic cultures, death was a natural phase in life’s long continuum. The dead were still members of the community, kept alive in memory and spirit—and during Día de los Muertos, they temporarily returned to Earth.
The evening will also feature crafts, live performances, and traditional food enjoyed on Dia de los muertos.
Co-sponsored with PSUB
Registration to host an altar coming soon!
Excelencia Graduation Ceremony
Friday, May 16| 11AM-1PM | Beck Agricultural Center, 4550 US-52, West Lafayette, IN 47906
Excelencia celebrates the graduating class of 2024 in a ceremony where all graduating students are welcome. Faculty, staff, and students' loved ones are encouraged to attend as we also recognize the efforts of their family and friends and the impact they've had on their academic career. We integrate students' loved ones into the ceremony which is held in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Graduating students should dress to impress. They are not required to wear regalia but may do so.
2025 Registration coming March 2025.