CWP Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration - Like Water for Chocolate and Beba

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at CWP! Join CWP at 6pm for a discussion of Laura Esquivel's novel Like Water for Chocolate, followed by a screening of the 2021 film Beba in our Sanctuary space at 7pm, presented in partnership with the New York Film Academy.

Like Water for Chocolate is a 1989 novel by Mexican novelist and screenwriter Laura Esquivel. The novel follows the story of a young woman named Tita, who longs for her beloved, Pedro, but can never have him because of her mother's upholding of the family tradition: the youngest daughter cannot marry, but instead must take care of her mother until she dies. Tita is only able to express herself when she cooks.

First-time feature filmmaker Rebeca "Beba" Huntt undertakes an unflinching exploration of her own identity in the remarkable coming-of-age documentary/cinematic memoir BEBA. Reflecting on her childhood and adolescence in New York City as the daughter of a Dominican father and Venezuelan mother, Huntt investigates the historical, societal, and generational trauma she's inherited and ponders how those ancient wounds have shaped her, while simultaneously considering the universal truths that connect us all as humans. Throughout BEBA, Huntt searches for a way to forge her own creative path amid a landscape of intense racial and political unrest. Poetic, powerful and profound, BEBA is a courageous, deeply human self-portrait of an Afro-Latina artist hungry for knowledge and yearning for connection.

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