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    • 6–8 p.m.

    Location
    680 Park Avenue
    New York
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    A naked woman with short curly hair stands within what looks like a boxy dress made of matting frames on a runway in front of an audience.

    Eduardo Costa (with John Perreault and Hannah Weiner), Fashion Show Poetry Event. Center for Inter-American Relations, New York, January 14, 1969. Peter Moore Photography Archive.

    Americas Society 60th Anniversary Party

    We're going to party like it's 1965.

    6–8 p.m.

    Location
    680 Park Avenue
    New York
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    Overview

    All Americas Society members are invited to join us on October 30 as we celebrate six decades of being your home for the culture and current affairs of Latin America and the Caribbean in New York. The event will feature live psychedelic Latin American surf rock by La Banda Chuska, a performance by New York-based Chilean artist Sylvia Palacios Whitman, and a conversation on the history of Americas Society with Peter Johnson, plus appetizers and drinks.

    This event is open to all members of Americas Society. Not a member? Join today and get your ticket!

    Current members can email Holly at membership@as-coa.org to RSVP and get your tickets.

    Member tickets start at $30. Members at the Friends & Family level and up may bring up to two guests. Tickets for Contributing members and up are complimentary.

    Speakers

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    La Banda Chuska

    La Banda Chuska merges the sounds of retro Peruvian cumbia and psychedelic chicha with 1960s Latin American and Middle Eastern surf rock. Born from the experimentalism and chaos of New York City, La Banda Chuska amplifies their diverse cultural backgrounds of Peru, Argentina...

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    Sylvia Palacios Whitman

    Sylvia Palacios Whitman (b. Osorno, Chile, 1941) is a visual and performance artist who has been experimenting with movement and contemporary dance since moving to New York in the early 1960s. She became an integral figure of the experimental downtown arts scene in 1970s New York, having collaborated with many U.S. and international artists.

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    Peter J. Johnson

    Peter J. Johnson served as a political, economic, and philanthropic advisor to brothers John D. Rockefeller III, Laurance Rockefeller, and Americas Society/Council of the Americas founder David Rockefeller for over four decades. Johnson is a co-author of The Rockefeller Century...

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