01 Aug Latinx Heritage Month Celebration • September 27th 2026
MTP Community, are you ready for a Latinx Heritage Month Celebration?!
Latinx Heritage Month is from September 15th – October 15th, honoring the histories, traditions, art, food and cultural contributions of Latinx People in the United States.
This year we’re celebrating with our creative community partners on Sunday, September 27th!
Celebration Schedule
11-11:30AM – Intermission Sound Bath
11:30-12PM – Salsa Lessons & Performance w/ Solina Entertainment
12-1:45PM – La Compañía – Salsa Band to Dance to!
2-2:45PM – El Martillo Press Poetry
2:45-3:15PM – Nancy Sanchez
3:30-4:45PM – Los Mocochetes
Los Poetas de El Martillo Press
El Martillo Press publishes writers whose pens strike the page with clear intent; words with purpose to pry apart assumed norms and to hammer away at injustice.
El Martillo Press proactively publishes writers looking to pound the pavement to promote their work and the work of their fellow press mates. El Martillo is the builder of bridges and the destroyer of walls.
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- Lorna Dee Cervantes
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- Jose “Jozer” Guerrero
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- Sonia Gutiérrez
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- Briana Muñoz
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- Roberto Leni
Born in San Francisco, raised in San José, Barrio Horseshoe, Lorna Dee Cervantes was a self-taught activist by 15, taught herself how to run her own printing press and was Founding Editor/Publisher of MANGO Publications at 20, and author of the American Book Award winning EMPLUMADA at 24.
Jozer Guerrero is a poet/ musician based out of Denver, CO. Jozer’s work has been featured on HBO, MTV, Univision, TED Talks, PBS and American Theater Magazine.
Sonia Gutiérrez is the author of Spider Woman / La Mujer Araña and the recipient of the Tomás Rivera Book Award 2021 and the International Latino Book Awards 2022 for her novel, Dreaming with Mariposas.
Briana Muñoz is a poet from Southern California. She is the author of Loose Lips (Prickly Pear Publishing, 2019), Everything is Returned to the Soil (FlowerSong Press, 2021) and Matriarchy: Sacred Poems (El Martillo Press 2025).
Roberto Leni was born in the Chilean port of Valparaíso. His family was exiled to the U.S in 1976 as a result of Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile.