Gracias a la Vida: A Biography of Violeta Parra

Join CLAS on this co-sponsored event about Chilean musician and artist Violeta Parra (1917–1967), an inspiration to generations of artists and activists across the globe.

Violeta Parra's music is synonymous with resistance, and it animated both the Chilean folk revival and the protest music movement Nueva Canción (New Song). In this remarkable biography, Ericka Verbat traces Parra's radical life and multifaceted artistic trajectory across Latin America and Europe and on both sides of the Iron Curtain.