Remember the 43 Students
"Remember the 43 Students" commemorates the six people who were killed and the 43 students who were forcibly disappeared in a night of unspeakable political violence in Iguala, Guerrero state, Mexico on September 26, 2014.
September 26, 2024 is the tenth anniversary of the Iguala atrocity. Utah Tech University proudly presents our fourth annual campus engagement to memorialize the 43 lost souls and at least 105,000 more Mexican citizens who have been forcibly disappeared since 2006. ¡Somos Todos Ayotzinapa!
Please visit the "43 Silhouettes" installation in the Holland Centennial Commons (second floor) from Sept. 13 to Oct. 4.
The powerful portraits of the 43 students created by Scottish artist Jan Nimmo are on display in the Eccles Art Building from Sept. 13 to Oct. 4. Jan calls her collection "¿Dónde Están?" Please join us for a short opening ceremony in front of the portraits on Monday, Sept. 16 at noon in Eccles.
St. George Catholic Church honors the 43 with prayers of the faithful on Sunday, September 22 and the Thursday, September 26. 259 W. 200th N St. St. George, Utah.
On Monday, Sept. 16, we screen the film, XLIII: A Contemporary Requiem at 6 PM in the Dunford Auditorium.
The film documents the 2016 creation of the music and dance requiem, which commemorates the 43 and all victims of political violence.
On Tuesday, Sept. 17, musicians Andres Solis and Scot Hanna Weir discuss the 43 atrocity and their creative process in creating the live music and dance performance, XLIII: A Contemporary Requiem at 4 PM in the Zion Room. Their talk is titled, "Ten Years After Ayotzinapa: Despair, Memorials, and Art."
From whom can you demand justice if the same law that kills is the one that picks up the bodies? Where can one press charges if all the authorities are drenched in blood? The same law that takes measurements and conducts the investigation to discover who the killer is, is the one that committed the crime.
--Osiris in Alfredo Molano, Desterrados: Crónicas del desarraigo
Visit the Installation, Virtually
While the "43" installations are best experienced in person in the Holland Centennial Commons 2nd floor and the Eccles Fine Arts Building lobby, the virtual tour below will give you a sense of the story.
To learn more about the history of the physical installation click here.
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