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Afro-Latinx Festival
2/24/2019
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Afro-Latinx Festival
Sunday, February 24, 2019
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Free Admission / $10 Parking
Come celebrate the cultural diversity of the Americas and the African influence in Latin America at MOLAA’s Afro-Latinx Festival! Whether you enjoy dancing to salsa music, like munching on Peruvian anticuchos, or meeting your friends at a Capoeira studio for a roda, you’re experiencing a mixture of customs from African and Mestizo peoples in the Americas. MOLAA’s Afro-Latinx Festival highlights the African legacy in Latin America through art workshops, face painting and live performances.
11am – 5pm at Viva Event Center:
- Craft vendors
- Art Workshops
- Free Face Painting
- DJ Eusebio Akasa
- Community Organizations
12:30pm (Screening Room):
Cuentos y Cantos, story time with the Long Beach Public Library
Sculpture Garden Performances:
12:30 – 1:15pm Lidereibugu Garifuna Ensemble
2 – 3pm ABADA Capoeira
3:30 – 4:30pm Quitapenas
Food trucks offer refreshments for purchase. Parking is $10.