# Event Details - **Event Name**: Plática – Sacred Cycle of Corn: Ceremony, Story & Sound | Free with RSVP - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 07 Mar, 2026 at 02:00 pm – Sat, 07 Mar, 2026 at 04:00 pm - **Event Description**: Guests will participate in an afternoon rooted in ceremony, collective memory, and creative expression. The gathering will open with palabra and canto offered by In Lak Ech, grounding the space in gratitude, intention, and shared presence. This will be followed by a 45-minute panel featuring voices engaged in Indigenous foodways, cultural preservation, and embodied knowledge, with each panelist offering reflections on their work and practice. The afternoon will continue through conversation, creating space for connection and reflection. Light Indigenous-inspired bites will be served, inviting guests to experience the living legacy of corn while engaging in community. Felicia 'Fe' Montes Felicia 'Fe' Montes (M.A./M.F.A.) is a Xicana Indigenous artivist living and working in East Los Angeles, California. She is a holistic artivist, femcee, designer, poet, practitioner of the healing arts, and assistant professor of Chicanx/Latinx arts and Social Practice at Cal State Long Beach. She is the co-founder and director of artivist organizations and projects Mujeres de Maíz, In Lak Ech, Botánica del Barrio and El MERCADO. Fe is known throughout the United States as an established cultural worker with over three decades experience in art, community and ancestral traditions. Mujeres de Maíz Founded in 1997, In Lak Ech is an L.A. based Xicana collective composed of multi-media artists, writers, mothers, teachers, and organizers uniting to tell Her-story through poetry, drumming and song. Their name is a Mayan concept meaning “you are my other me/tu eres mi otro yo.” The women of In Lak Ech perform and organize cultural celebrations, participate in conferences, and conduct workshops for diverse communities. They are the founding group of the women of color art and wellness organization Mujeres de Maíz. You can hear their poetry and music on their 2007 album “Mujeres Con Palabra” streaming on all platforms. Shuchipil Shuchipil is a culinary preservationist dedicated to revitalizing ancestral Anahuac foodways and awakening dormant cultural memory within the diaspora. Her work focuses on decolonizing our relationship with food by reclaiming the kitchen as the primary site of ritual and harmony with the land. Through hands-on workshops, Shuchipil facilitates a sacred return to the metate, teaching the technical and spiritual aspects of processing ancestral ingredients. By centering these traditional tools, she helps participants reconnect and reclaim ancestral cosmovision and the profound lineage of the indigenous kitchen. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/los-angeles/plática-sacred-cycle-of-corn-ceremony-story-and-sound-|-free-with-rsvp/200029495754622 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, workshops, health-wellness - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 48 ## Ticket Details ## Event venue details - **city**: Los Angeles - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: 501 N Main St., Los Angeles, CA, United States, California 90012 - **lat**: 34.05645 - **long**: -118.23984 - **full address**: 501 N Main St., Los Angeles, CA, United States, California 90012 ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Plática – Sacred Cycle of Corn: Ceremony, Story & Sound | Free with RSVP - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/eef209a3bb4d245c24d44f480f89ed1f33603aaf6cc33f181b2f1b5df5c0d0dd-rimg-w1200-h781-dc0f1807-gmir?v=1772387393 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Plática – Sacred Cycle of Corn: Ceremony, Story & Sound | Free with RSVP being held? - **A:** Plática – Sacred Cycle of Corn: Ceremony, Story & Sound | Free with RSVP takes place on Sat, 07 Mar, 2026 at 02:00 pm to Sat, 07 Mar, 2026 at 04:00 pm at 501 N Main St., Los Angeles, CA, United States, California 90012. - **Q**: Who is organizing Plática – Sacred Cycle of Corn: Ceremony, Story & Sound | Free with RSVP? - **A:** Plática – Sacred Cycle of Corn: Ceremony, Story & Sound | Free with RSVP is organized by LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes. - **Q**: What has been the experience of attendees at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes's events? - **A:** LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes has 191+ followers on AllEvents, reflecting a trusted and active community of event-goers who follow their events. 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