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TORCHLIGHT PARADE HISPANIC AMERICAN PARTICIPATION ORGANIZED BY CENTRO CULTURAL HISPANO AMERICANO (CCHA).
TORCHLIGHT PARADE
SATURDAY, JULY 31, 2010 – 7:30 PM
CENTRO CULTURAL HISPANO AMERICANO
& LA ASOCIACIÓN DE CHARROS DEL
ESTADO DE WASHINGTON
ARE THE WINNERS OF THE
KIRO TV EQUESTRIAN AWARD 2009
OF THE SEAFAIR TORCHLIGHT PARADE
CCHA is one of the leading organizations working with the Seafair Activities Board in Seattle to coordinate the Hispanic community for the Seafair Torchlight Parade. For several years, CCHA has coordinated and organized the participation of the 22 Hispanic American countries to show the Seattle community the beauty and richness of our colorful culture with music, dances, folkloric costumes and our flags.
Please join us as an organization or as an individual to this effort to represent Hispanic America, and together organize our participation.
LATINOAMÉRICA UNIDA NEEDS YOU!
We need representatives for each country to carry the flags up-high: Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, España, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Perú, Puerto Rico, República Dominicana, Uruguay y Venezuela.
Please contact Nelida Mendoza at 206-418-6710, 253-210-0134
Please arrive on time!!! Be part of this effort, please!!!!
NEXT MEETING:
Date: Saturday, July 17, 2010
Time: 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
Place: Des Moines Library: 21620 11th Avenue S., Des Moines, 98198 (206-824-6066)
Meeting Room
Library Telephone: 206-824-6066
LAST MEETING:
Date: Saturday, July 24, 2010
Time: 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
Place: Federal Way Library: 34200 1st Way S., Federal Way, 98003
Meeting Room: 1
Library Telephone: 253-838-3668
EACH PARTICIPANT:
A. MUST HAVE A COSTUME
B. IF YOU DONT’ HAVE A FOLKLORIC
COSTUME OF YOUR COUNTRY:
1. Men can wear: black pants, white long sleeve shirt, handkerchiefs with the colors of the flag of the country representing, black comfortable shoes, straw hat (optional).
2. Women can wear: black skirt, white long sleeve blouse, handkerchiefs with the colors of the flag of the country representing, black comfortable shoes (no white sneakers), straw hat (optional)
C. Pay a $5.00 fee registration.
D. Attend last 2 organizational meetings.
Photo credit Buko
CURTIS SALGADO & THE STILETTO'S
July 13 - 14, 2010
SPONSORED BY CENTRO CULTURAL HISPANO AMERICANO
At The Pacific Jazz Institute
at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley
2033 6th Avenue, Seattle, WA, 98121
COST: $24.50
Make a reservation for this show.
Set times Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30pm.
Doors open at 6pm on Tuesday and 5:30pm on Wednesday.
206-441-9729 www.jazzalley.com
The Pacific Jazz Institute at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley presents one of America’s finest blues/soul singers Curtis Salgado touring in support of his latest release Clean Getaway. Band members are Curtis Salgado (vocals and harmonica), Josh Fulero (guitar), Tracy Arrington (bass), Russ Kleiner (drums) and Dave Fleschner (keyboards).
Curtis Salgado has a lot to celebrate. Two years ago he was diagnosed with liver cancer and told he had eight months to live, unless he got a liver transplant which would generate medical bills upwards of half a million dollars. With no health insurance and few funds Salgado needed a little help from his friends. When your friends and admirers include the likes of Steve Miller, Robert Cray, Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal, you’ve got a fighting chance. Numerous benefits were held in multiple cities including a benefit concert featuring Miller, Cray, Taj Mahal, The Phantom Blues Band, Everclear and Little Charlie & The Nightcats. Through the generosity of Curtis’s friends, fellow musicians, the Legendary Blues Cruise and thousands of fans who supported Curtis by attending benefits and auctions or by making private donations, upwards of half a million dollars were raised and Curtis got his transplant, though there were a few twists and turns in the road before that happened. A little less than two years after his initial diagnosis, Curtis was able to record Clean Getaway, an album whose title has an obvious double meaning. With its release on July 8, 2008, Clean Getaway is a triumph in more ways than one; a sublime collaboration with the most respected session players in Los Angeles that goes to the heart of what music and life is all about.
PONCHO SANCHEZ LATIN JAZZ BAND
July 22 - 25, 2010
SPONSORED BY CENTRO CULTURAL HISPANO AMERICANO
At The Pacific Jazz Institute at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley
2033 6th Avenue, Seattle, WA, 98121
COST: $28.50
Set times Thursday through Saturday at 7:30pm and 10:00pm.
Set time Sunday at 7:30pm. Doors open at 6:00pm Thursday and 5:30pm Friday – Sunday. 206-441-9729 www.jazzalley.com
The Pacific Jazz Institute at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley welcomes the Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band for four nights and seven shows. Band members: Poncho Sanchez (Congas/Vocals), George Ortiz (Timbales), Tony Banda (Bass), Ron Blake (Trumpet), Javier Vergara (Alto and Tenor Saxophone), Francisco Torres (Trombone), Joseph De Leon (Bongo and Percussion) and David Torres (Piano).
If music were about pictures, percussionist Poncho Sanchez’s music would best be described as a kaleidoscope swirl of some of the hottest colors and brightest lights to emerge from either side of the border. At any given show, on any given record, fragments of Latin jazz, swing, bebop, salsa and other infectious grooves collide and churn in a fiery swirl, with results that are no less than dazzling. All of these sounds and more come together in Psychedelic Blues, Sanchez’s twenty-fourth recording on Concord Records (9/09). Live in concert or on recordings, Poncho and band spin vivacious tales that pay homage to the glories of a half-century tradition that was born when Afro-Cuban rhythms merged with bebop. One-on-one, the Chicano conguero is equally expressive, recounting in vivid details the encounters, friendships, and passions that have contributed to his remarkable career as a bandleader and recording artist.
Would you like to sponsor our Organization?
Are you interested in acquiring these paintings from a
Colombian artist?
Please call: 206-418-6710, 253-210-0134
If you are a leader in the community, have skills and talent, and wish to donate your time to promote the mission of CCHA.
Please contact Nelida Mendoza for more information at
206-418-6710, or 253-210-0134
PAST EVENT
Seattle Rainbow Bookfest 2009
Centro Cultural Hispano Americano is a proud sponsor of the seventh annual Seattle Rainbow Bookfest on Saturday, February 28, 2009.
Indu Sundaresan, a Washington State Book Award recipient, is the featured writer of the event. She will be reading from her newly released book of stories, "In the Convent of Little Flowers." There will be writers from different ethnic backgrounds, and among them are four Latina women who will be presenting workshops, panel discussions
and readings from their works: Paola Casla Taylor, interpreter, translator and writer; Diana Leal, journalist; Maria de Lourdes Victoria, writer; and María Nélida Mendoza, journalist, poet and translator.
Diana Leal and Nelida Mendoza will be presenting "Women at War" during the last 50 years in Latin America. They will be talking about the direct and indirect intervention of women in the armed conflict,
specifically in Colombia, Dominican Republic and El Salvador and how
they have been affected by the war, which has also impacted society as
a whole. (1:30 -3:00 p.m.).
3:45 p.m. Nelida Mendoza will read form her poetry.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Place: Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center
Featured Artist
of the Month
Jaime Olaya Colombian Artist 
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Poetry Recital
"Romancero de la Vía Dolorosa" by Fr. Benjamín Sánchez from México
Directed and translated to English by
M. Nélida Mendoza
The profound reflexion of the Passion of Jesus written in poetry will be declaimed by members of the Hispanic Community with a live presentation of each Station of the Cross.
Performance in Spanish. There will be translated booklets in English.
Come and live with us the pain of Jesus.
Tuesday, March 24 at 8:00 p.m. at Saint Thomas
4415 S. 140th Street, Tukwila, WA 98168
Friday, March 27, 2009 at 8:15 p.m. at Saint Philomena
1790 S. 222nd Street, Des Moines, WA 98198
Saturday, March 28, 2009 at 8:15 p.m. at Saint Theresa
3939 SW 331st Street, Federal Way, WA 98023
ARTE PROFUNDO
FLAMENCO
A very special night of Flamenco Music and Dance.
Dancer Esther Marion and Guitarist Rafael Vargas present the powerful and versatile singer JESUS MONTOYA from SEVILLA, and with the talented guest artists: guitarist Mark Ferguson and Dancer Savannah Fuentes.
Friday June 12th @ 8 PM
Columbia City Theater
4916 Rainer Ave. South
Seatle, WA. 98118
