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Axios
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Festival Colombiano returns to Charlotte this summer
Festival Colombiano Multicultural will take place in Uptown on July 19, 2025. Why it matters: This is the third consecutive year for the family-friendly event that celebrates Colombian heritage and other Hispanic cultures. Context: Last year, approximately 8,000-10,000 people attended the festival, which has been held in Concord in recent years. With the help of Charlotte City Council Member Marjorie Molina, festival organizers brought the event to center city, they tell Axios. Flashback: In 2023, then-Colombian Ambassador Luis Gilberto Murillo attended the festival. There, organizers handed him a petition with several thousand signatures to bring a Colombian consulate to the city, a measure that was approved last year. What to expect: Live music, performances, an artisans market and plenty of food, of course. Between the lines: The Festival Colombiano has historically been a celebration of Colombian culture, but it has evolved to be more inclusive of different cultures. Charlotte nonprofit La Casa de la Cultura, for example, will bring a multicultural market to the festival. If you go: Doors open at 12pm at 301 East 7th St., in Charlotte's First Ward Park.
Yahoo
16-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Local woman works to honor, celebrate Afro-Latina roots
There are about six million Afro-Latino adults in the United States. And this Charlotte woman has set out to educate and celebrate her Afro-Latina culture through her non-profit La Casa de la Cultura. Milagros Ugueto de Sanchez arrived in the United States about a decade ago. And she said she did not originally feel accepted as a black woman. 'At the beginning, I didn't understand why my brothers and sisters, who are African American did not think I was black,' she said. READ: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Remembrance Project shines light on painful history So she set out to educate others on diversity in Latin America. She started her non-profit, La Casa de la Cultura, to honor her culture and traditions. 'It all started here, when I was planning my lessons and I didn't have the resources to show my students firsthand, what it was like to dance certain rhythms, in Venezuela, or wear certain masks,' de Sanchez said. 'I wanted to tell them that culture is what defines a part of who we are.' Now, she has been singing, dancing and teaching others for nearly a decade. READ: Celebrating the legacy, contributions of the Montford Point Marines 'Being an Afro-Latina is talking about my grandma - talking about my people in the countryside playing the drums - on June 24th celebrating St. John the Baptist, and if you go back you can see that celebration took place only once a year because that was the only day the owners of my ancestors allowed them to dance,' de Sanchez said. The hard work and dedication is making a difference, de Sanchez said, especially in young people. 'Motivating them to be the voice of those who can't express and keep themselves - learning - not just for a career - but to live in a global environment that requires people to be prepared, and when they open their mouth, they know what they are saying,' she said. WATCH: Celebrating the legacy, contributions of the Montford Point Marines
