Resonant Territories: Sounds of Shared Latin America

Resonant Territories: Sounds of Shared Latin America

Friday February 21st, 2025 6:00pm to 8:00pm   Instituto Cervantes, Manchester, 326-330 Deansgate Manchester M3 4FN   The Instituto Cervantes Manchester invites you to a unique evening where you can experience young Latin American indigenous artists who...

Looking Back on an Extraordinary Year at Luma Creations

Looking Back on an Extraordinary Year at Luma Creations

As we begin 2025, the team at Luma Creations—Francisco, Max, Esteban, Saranne, Oscar and Maya—reflects on 2024, a triumphant year brimming with creativity, connection, and cultural celebration. From dynamic projects and transformative programmes to unforgettable...

Spotlight on: Magaly Flores

Spotlight on: Magaly Flores

Born in Coyuca de Catalan, Magaly Flores hails from Mexico, a country rich in dance, music, and food. Inspired by her brothers who dance the traditional Son and ‘Tierra Caliente,’ Magaly studied ballet, folklore, and contemporary dance in Michuacan,...

Latin American Music Workshops

Latin American Music Workshops

Since January, LUMA Creations have been delivering Latin American Music Workshops every Tuesday to young participants from as local as Toxteth, where we are based, to as far as the Wirral. These workshops aim to give participants an insight and deeper understanding of...

Chio Chio: The Storytelling Puppet Show Tour

Chio Chio: The Storytelling Puppet Show Tour

One of the main tenets that runs through all the work of Luma Creations is taking Latin American culture and traditions to those who wouldn’t normally come across it. That is how the Storytelling Puppet Show Tour began, with a simple storyteller format, telling...

A Stitch in Time

A Stitch in Time

Inspired by the arpilleras of Latin America, the project ‘A Stitch in Time’ started earlier this year, to bring communities within the Liverpool City Region together. It encouraged creative storytelling from the perspective of women via the traditional style of...

New Chapter for Luma Creations

New Chapter for Luma Creations

April 2023 is the beginning of a new chapter for LUMA CREATIONS as we become a National Portfolio Organisation for the next three years funded by Arts Council England to deliver an exciting programme of events presenting and promoting International and local Latin...

THE LEGENDARY ILLAPU is coming to LIVERPOOL!

THE LEGENDARY ILLAPU is coming to LIVERPOOL!

Like the earth, Illapu lives, bears fruit, transforms itself and beats underneath the roots of its own history. Today, after harvesting a career of over 50 years, it continues to be one of the most important contemporary Latin American folk bands with Andean roots....