On Monday, September 15th, KEXP kicked off Aqui y Ahora 2025 - Together: Here & Now, a month dedicated to amplifying the contributions, resilience, and music of Latinx, Hispanic, and Latino-identified communities worldwide. Exclusive performances, stories, podcasts, and tons of great music throughout the month.
See the list of special guests below, and use the streaming archive players below to revisit the day of programming.
During Latinx Heritage Month, we opened a free community calendar where people from Seattle, the Bay Area, and across the country shared their events, organizations, and artists to highlight during the 2025 edition of Aquí y Ahora. Below, you’ll find access to the full list submitted for this year’s edition.
| WHO | WHAT THEY DO |
|---|---|
| Alcon Media LLC (El Centro de la Dignidad) | A Hispanic community-based radio company focused on providing educational and cultural content that supports the fight for a dignified life. They broadcast through FM radio stations, digital media, and print, building empowerment in rural areas of Washington and Oregon through collaborations with local organizations and independent media. |
| Alimentando Al Pueblo | Our vision is to have joyful communities. Our mission is to cultivate healing through comunidad, comida, and celebración. Alimentando al Pueblo is a Burien based nonprofit founded in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic as a Community and Cultural building organization. Our programs are rooted in a power sharing model with a goal to develop leadership within our Community. We serve the Latine and Pueblos Originarios populations of South King County, WA. Together, we source and distribute cultural foods, organize celebrations that promote social connections and healing, and center Latinx art and traditions in every aspect of our work to cultivate joy, pride, and cultural preservation. |
| Aqui Mercado | Aqui Mercado puts on events throught the year bringing many latino DJs, artists, and business owners to show, sell and put on a mercadito in the greater Seattle Area. |
| Casa Latina | An organization that help in the latino community they focus on helping those who may not be employed, directing them into a path where they can get better education, and help community organization |
| Chicanos Seattle | Organization that put information on events that are happening and also put out news on what is happening in the community |
| Colectivosea | They connect people ideas and experience to unite those in the community, sharing the stories of others |
| Corporate Pero Latinos: Seattle Chapter | We are an organization focused on creating impactful experiences for our members and our Latinx community by connecting individuals who identify as such. Corporate Pero Latinos offers an intersection of cultures, industries, and interests where one can join as their authentic self and connect with people who share similar cultural and professional backgrounds. Our philanthropy focuses on giving back to underrepresented and underserved communities through our Sin Paredes Scholarship Fund and local chapter initiatives. |
| Latino Community Fund | "They invest in Latino communities to cultivate new leaders, and support non profit orgs and improve the quality of life |
| Northwest Immigrants Rights Project | Non profit that defends and helps with immigrants rights in Washington state. They give out resources to organizations and to those who need it. |
| Seattle CISPES | Seattle CISPES is a grassroots organization working for social justice and human rights in El Salvador & the US. |
| Seattle Latinas Run Club | Group of latinas gather and just run, they have different runs that they do to raise money and awareness for important causes around the world. |
| Super Familia | Its a community organization that brings awareness to different events happening in seattle and they put their own events to raise money for community members that need it |
| Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network | A non profit organization that puts out info and helps empower immigrant and refugees power in the Seattle area |
| WHO | BIO |
|---|---|
| Aurelio Valdez | Aurelio Valdez is a Mexican-American Hip Hop artist, film photographer, and educator based in Seattle. His work, shaped by personal experience, cultural heritage, and a background in the social sciences, uses art as a tool for resilience, storytelling, and social change. Through music and photography, he challenges societal narratives and amplifies the beauty and strength of often unseen communities. |
| Giuliana | Giuliana was born in 1993 in San Diego, California, and raised in Tijuana, Mexico. At 13, she began to pursue music, driven by the desire to express her unique perspective of living and growing up on both sides of the border. Her hit “Los dos queremos,” which was broadcast on major radio stations throughout the region. Giuliana has toured and performed in both the US and Mexico, opening for notable Latin icons such as Gloria Trevi, Pablo Alborán, and Vanessa Zamora. In recent years, she has released songs that embody her spirit of activism, supporting LGBTQ and Latino Community in both sides of California. |
| MrC | Seattle multidisciplinary and mixed media artist. Focus on screen print, printmaking and watercolor. Creates imagery of tech and city blueprints. More info:misterseart.com |
| Claudia Villalobos | A Latina and women-owned mobile art business bringing creativity through workshops, events, and team-building experiences. Mission: make art accessible and spark connection, inspiration, and healing. |
| Nepantla Cultural Arts | Chicano art gallery and gift shop and cultural space, they make a lot of their own art work and have art galleries openings throughout the months of September and october |
| WHO | WHAT THEY DO |
|---|---|
| The Station Coffee Shop | Black and Latino owned coffee shop Beacon Hill and Columbia City |
| Pan de la Selva | 600 4th Ave & Cherry 9am-3pm Small bath panaderia made with local and traditional ingredients, they just opened their pop up stand |
| Bakescapade | They don't have your average concha, all of their conchas have a unique twist. They have different pop up events in the Seattle area. |
| WHEN | WHAT |
|---|---|
| Every 4th Saturday of the month | Puro Latin Vinyl Otherworld Wine Exploring the tropical rhythms of salsa, funk, and cumbia over glasses of natural wine. Every 4th Saturday of the month with Piojin and special guests. |
| 10/30/25 | LAHORKA Great American Music Hall, San Francisco Oakland/Puerto Rico-born experimental project blending punk, EBM, 90s acid, and synths. Created by Miguel Hernández Domenech and Pedro Rolón Machado |
| 10/31/25 |
Noche De Muertos featuring Gio Chamba, Terror/Cactus, DJ David Bonobo with local Latinx vendors selling food, clothing, & art This is being produced by Going Left Productions with support from my production business - Mutha Tung. Going Left has been supporting Terror/Cactus for the past few years. Mutha Tung focuses on supporting Latin, Indigenous, and African music and cultural events as a means to promote cultural diversity and understanding, and to present the cultural beauty found in underrepresented communities. |
| 11/11/25 |
Welcome to Paradise: ¡Viva Puerto Rico Libre! by Jo Cosme On Thursday, November 6, 2025 (6–8 PM), the Office of Arts and Culture opens Welcome to Paradise: ¡Viva Puerto Rico Libre!, a major project by Boricua artist Jo Cosme. Featuring Cosme’s expansion of her solo show and over 30 artists directly from Borikén/Puerto Rico, the show dismantles the postcard fantasy of the archipelago and confronts its ongoing colonial realities. The opening reception includes a live Bomba performance by Otoqui Reyes at 7 PM and interactive activations throughout the night by artist Shey Rivera. This exhibition will also feature multiple events: documentaries, group art tours, and lectures running until January 10th, 2026. |
