Annual Burrito Bash! 

Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 6-9 p.m.

at the Pittsboro General Store Café

in Partnership with Chatham County Together!  

~ Fabulous Free Salsa Lessons

~ Live Latin Music by Saludos Compay

~ Live & Silent Auction

of Wonderful Local Arts & Crafts! 

TICKET INFO:

$12 in advance and $15 at the door

Includes a delicious burrito plate and fixings.

 QUESTIONS:

Call us at (919) 742-1448 or marcia@evhnc.org

 Come have a blast! 

Click here for pictures from last year  

Please support the 17^th Annual Chatham County Studio Tour on December 5-6 and 12-13, 2009. The tour now involves almost 60 artists from all over the county.

Click on their logo for more info:

Thank you to our Burrito Bash donors!

Please visit their websites:

Chatham Arts

Luke Barrow

Beverly Botsford

Kim Calhoun

Mia Caraganis

Beggars & Choosers

French Connections

Michael Cotter

Paul Cuadros

Erick Davis

Reptire Designs

Roger Dinger

Vance Dunn

Tommy Edwards

Norma Hawthorne

Mark Hewitt

Joey Howell

Phyllis Hunt

Jim Kirkman

Molly Matlock

Ruth Morgans

Jeffrey Meanza

Tamera Mulanix

Deborah Pearson-Moyers

Frances O’Halloran

Roger Person

Gary Phillips

Ivan Remnitz

Siglinda Scarpa

Rebecca Smith

Rita Spina

Diane Swan

Daryl Farrington Walker

Edwin White

Melinda Wiggins

Paul Wingler

Poster design by Lynne Smyers

THE HISPANIC LIAISON – FIESTA LATINA 2009

For general information click on link below:

About Fiesta Latina

Shakori Hills – Site of Fiesta Latina

Photos of Fiesta Latina 2007 – LINK TO ANOTHER PHOTO GALLERY

Galumpha returns as a “Presenter” Sponsor and Centerpiece of Fiesta Latina 2009! Please visit their website to find out more about these amazing world-class performers, who combine “stunning acrobatics, striking visual effects, physical comedy and inventive choreography” for audiences around the world.

If you’re interested in sponsorships please review the following document, and call Marcia or Pam at 919-742-1448 for more information:

Sponsor Benefits and Pledge Sheet

If you are an artist or work at a nonprofit please open the respective document below, and call Sandra at 919-742-1448 for more information:

Registration Form – Nonprofit

Registration Form – For Profit Arts & Crafts

We need volunteers to help as parking attendants as well in the kids’ activity area and other festival areas. If you would like to volunteer for part of all of the event, call or email Sandra at 919-742-1448 or sandra at evhnc.org. Spanish is not a requirement but if you want to practice your language skills, you’ll have plenty of opportunities!

Don’t miss the wonderful music at Fiesta Latina:

• Ballet Folklórico Guadalupano
• Firehouse Rythm Kings
• Saludos Company
• Bravo Norteño

….. a Movement Tent with the following activities: Ms. Suz the Storyweaver; Bilingual Storytelling and Music with Alex Weiss, Hula Hooping Workshop with Jacquie; Acrobatics Workshop with GALUMPHA, Presentation from Rora the Clown; and Magetzi Folk Dancers!

….. and lots of children’s activities, including: Art; Sculpture; Paper Flowers; Face Painting; Jewelry Making; Portraits; Fire Truck; Musical Instruments; Sheriff’s Department ID’s for Kids; Ponies; Bouncer; Hula Hoops; Ubi the Clown; Rora the Clown; Balloon Animals…. And more!

Last but not least…buy $5 tickets to win a 1994 Ford Station Wagon and other great prizes! Drawing at Fiesta, you don’t have to be present to win the car.  Tel: 919-742-1448

Fiesta Latina attracts between 2,500 and 5,000 people, don’t delay your sponsorship or registration any longer!

Thanks to our Sponsors!!

The Hispanic Liaison and Central Carolina Community College Present:

(Download Flyer)

Community Dialog Across Borders

Featuring:
Pulitzer Prize winners Hector Tobar, journalist and author of Translation Nation, and documentary photographer Jose Galvez

Community Dialog Across Borders will combine visual and literary arts to generate a dialog about Latino immigration in our community. The moderator will be Dr. María DeGuzmán, Associate Professor of English & Comparative Literature, and Director of Latina/o Studies Minor & Program at UNC Chapel Hill.  Jose Galvez’s pictures will be on display at the event. The artists’ respective books and other select reading materials will be available for purchase and autographs.

The events are free and open to the public.

• Friday, November 9
  6:30 to 9 PM
  At the CCCC Pittsboro campus, Building 2
  764 West St.
  Pittsboro, NC 27312
  www.cccc.edu
• Saturday, November 10
  10 AM to 12:30 PM
  At the Fearrington Barn
  Fearrington Village
  Pittsboro, NC 27312
  www.fearrington.com

With simultaneous interpreting into Spanish (Friday only)

Hector Tobar is a second-generation Guatemalan immigrant born in Los-Angeles. Tobar is an author and journalist whose work examines the evolving and interdependent relationship between Latin America and the United States. He is currently the Mexico City Bureau Chief for the Los Angeles Times. Prior to moving to Mexico City, he served as their Bureau Chief in Buenos Aires, Argentina and before that he served as the National Latino Affairs Correspondent. His non-fiction Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States, is a cross-country journey with stops in many of the new places where Latin American immigrants are settling. His novel The Tattooed Soldier, which was a finalist for the PEN USA West Award for Fiction, is set in the impoverished immigrant neighborhoods of Los Angeles in the weeks before the riots, and in Guatemala during the years of military dictatorship, In 1992, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his work as part of the team covering the L.A. riots for the Los Angeles Times. Tobar has traveled extensively in the U.S. and Latin-America.  (www.hectortobar.com)

Jose Galvez is internationally known for his striking documentary photography of Latino life in the United States. His studies of daily life captured on the street, in backyards, or at the park allow the viewer an intimate look at the truth of emotion and drama in everyday human lives.  Currently based in Durham, Galvez was only 22 when he presented his first professional photo exhibit, which focused on Mexican-American culture. After graduating from the University of Arizona’s School of Journalism, he joined the staff of the Arizona Daily Star. Galvez won the Pulitzer Prize as the lead photographer for a Los Angeles Times series on Chicanos. His photographs were part of the Smithsonian Institute’s “Americanos: Latino Life in the United States”.  He has also published Vatos, a powerful photo essay book. Galvez has won other awards including the Outstanding Community Service Award at the University of Arizona, the Greater Los Angeles Press Club Feature Photography Award, and the Los Angeles Times Award of Excellence. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in the U.S. and abroad.  (www.josegalvez.com) Photograph by Tom Spitz

For more information contact:

The Hispanic Liaison at 919-742-1448, info@evhnc.org

A project of The Hispanic Liaison of Chatham County and Central Carolina Community College. Other event sponsors are Chatham Arts’ Grassroots Grant, Weaver St. Realty, Telemundo 44 WZGS, McIntyre’s Fine Books, the Fearrington Inn and The UNC Latina/o Studies Minor Program.

We all  enjoyed an evening of Friendship, Recognitions, Entertainment and a great Dinner!

Video (link to youtube)

We gathered as part of a national movement for comprehensive immigration reform, as did thousands of our brothers and sisters across this state and nation, demanding fair and just treatment for all immigrants.

We would like to whole-heartedly thank everyone who participated in this great event.

• Our great local and statewide community
• Our speakers, entertainers & volunteers
• Our partner organizations who helped organize this rally:
  1. El Pueblo
  2. Pilgrimage for Peace and Justice
  3. North Carolina Justice Center
  4. Student Action with Farm workers
  5. Carolina Interfaith Task Force for Central America
  6. North Carolina Latino Coalition
  7. Silk Hope Catholic Worker House
  8. The Peace and Justice Coalition
  9. El Vínculo Hispano

Sí se puede!