14th Annual Vermont Latino Festival - Sponsored by BlueCross BlueShield of Vermont
Sept
10th - Sept 14th, 2008
Website
will be updated as soon as we finalize our activities. Please
continue to check.
Children's component & Humanitarian
Benefit
Weekday activities will include: dance lessons,
Zumba, children's film, Dance and more.
Saturday: MAIN EVENT (click
below )
Sunday: Humanitarian
Latino Event (click
below )
MAIN
EVENT:
Saturday:
September 13th “Fiesta”
BoatHouse
- Burlington, Vermont (directions)
10am to 10:30 pm | FREE |click
below |
Activity of Events:
Latino Food
Interactive Children Activities
Music Concert
Music Workshop
Demos &
Boat Cruise
Dance Demos
Drumming demos
Band lineup:
6pm
Opening Band
Alfonso Lopez y Orquesta La Perfecta
will Headline the night
with lively, percussive brew of authentic dance music from the
Caribbean.
& Late Night Boat Cruise!
click
below | Rain or shine
FESTIVAL PROGRAM
OPENING NIGHT!!!
Wednesday: Sept 10th
Place: Contois Auditorium - City
Hall Building: Church Street, Burlington
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Thursday: Sept. 11th
Place: Contois Auditorium - City Hall Building: Church Street,
Burlington
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TIME: 6:30pm - 7:30PM
Friday: Sept 12
Place: Contois Auditorium - City Hall Building: Church Street,
Burlington
Zumba lesson by Deana
Salsa Lesson by SalsaLina: Victoria Moore
Saturday, Sept. 13th
Fiesta
Place: Burlington BoatHouse- in
downtown Burlington -
A vital part of Latino culture, is the meeting and visiting center
for Latin American villages. Come and enjoy the fiesta experience!
Authentic Latin Event!!! It will include Latin Bands, Children's
Activities, Demos, Latin Food, workshops and much more!
Event starts 10am |Bands @ 6pm | Boat Cruise @ 10:00pm
10: 00 AM Meet at Picnic shelter of Burlington Waterfront Park
for sing-along, making maracas
11:15 AM Children's parade in national dress, shaking
maracas.
12 a 4:30 PM Children's booth: face-painting, craft-making, activity
booklets about Latin America.
1:00 -2:30PM Soccer Demo for children on the waterfront green.
3:00 - 4:30PM Bilingual puppet show by Traveling Storyteller at
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4:30 - 4:45 PM Piñata!
Salsa, Merengue, Bachata, Plena, Bomba,
Cha-Cha, Bolero... Come ready to dance!!!
© tbar 2004
tba
©Orquesta
La Perfecta -2004
Sponsored by New England
Foundation of the Arts
Alfonso Lopez y La Perfecta
description to come
... and keeping the Music HOT!
Hector "El Salsero" Cobeo
Latin Boat Cruise
10:30PM - 12:30am | Board
at 10:00pm
DJ Boat Cruise on the
Spirit of Ethan Allen III
Meet the boat next to the Burlington Community Boathouse.
Join Vermont's finest Latino DJ "El Salsero" Hector Cobeo
aboard the Spirit Of Ethan Allen for two hours of cool breezes and
hot sounds on the beautiful Lake Champlain. This NEW Boat has plenty
of room to dance; rain or shine the Latino Boat Cruise is the always
the popular event of the Festival!
Tickets:
$15.50 (Space limited)
Tickets sold at the Flynn Theater
click
here to purchase tickets online
Call 86-Flynn
for tickets
For General Latino Fest Inquiries...
Call Info:
802.864.0123 TTY: 802.863.0450
Sunday,
Sept. 14th
Humanitarian Latino Benefit
Place: Contois Auditorium
- City Hall Building: Church Street, Burlington
Featuring: Black Beans
Caribbean
Medical Transport is partnering with the Vermont Latino Festival to help
make the Latino Fest more than a great party!
Vermont based humanitarian organizations are working throughout the Caribbean
and Latin America. We want to celebrate the work we are doing to help our
friends and family throughout the region. If you want to join in, please come
on Sunday, at the Contois autitorium, beginning around 5 PM, music from the
Cuban group Black Beans starting around 7, lasting until we are all too tired
to go on! We'll have food, mojitos, a Latin art auction, display tables of
the work that we are doing in the Latino world. Admission is free although
we will twist your arm a little for a $10 donation to help us do our wonderful
work! It is all about giving back!
FESTIVAL LATINO is
full of MANY
things to do...
.
WORKSHOPS!!!
Lessons
MUSIC
Workshop
MEET THE ARTIST - Join LP as they provide us a history of the music.
They will also conduct a close & personal percussion workshop.
Place: Burlington Boathouse
Saturday :
TIME: FREE!
JOIN THE FUN!
Salsa Night
Latin Dance- Join DJ Hector as he introduces
the dancing festivities at the local restaurant Parima. will join
us for the night with FREE give-aways!
FOOD AND VENDORS!!!
Food Service
Authentic Latino Food
EAT at the FESTIVAL!!!
S
ACTIVITIES!!!
Children crafts
Latino Games
percussion demos
THANK YOU TO ALL OUR SPONSORS!
Presented by: The
Vermont Latino Committee
SPONSORS:
CONTRIBUTING SPONSORS:
