From: donq@acs.bu.edu (Jose Otero)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Bolivianos y Puertorros en BOSTON
Date: 10 Oct 92 01:07:16 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Originator: donq@acs.bu.edu




El proximo mes de noviembre (12-14) se llevara a cabo en el
World Trade Center un festival latinoamericano en el cual
se espera halla una representacion de PUERTO RICO y otra de Bolivia. El
problema es que las organizadoras de las secciones de Borinquen
(Sibyl Senters) y Bolivia (Vivian Quiroga) necesitan voluntarios que les ayuden en la
organizacion.

Todos aquellos interesados en ayudar se pueden comunicar
con ellas a los telefonos son: Sibyl Senters 617-424-0771; Vivian Quiroga 617-235-3711  o conmigo (Jose Otero)  al 617-352-9472.


Jose F. Otero
DonQ@acs.bu.edu
Aqui les envio una descripcion de la actividad:

	The festival lasts 4 days, November 12-15. It presents cultures of
all the world that are represented in the Boston area. And just about 
every national group in the world does have some sort of community here.
There will be three types of booths: culture, food, and artesania. The booths
for food and arsesania are businesses. It'll be a good place to eat, and to
get Christmas presents. The culture booths are the key however. There each
group presents what it wants to present about its culture.
	In addition, there will be continuous performances of music and dance,
on two separate stages, I believe. In addition, there will be a special plal
place where demonstrations and workdhops of various kinds can be held.
One that I know of will be a demonstration of tortilla making. Probably
also weaving.
	Some of the music will be dance music, and there'll be dancing.
I don't have a schedule of the music performaces yet but will get it soon.
There are about 20 different Latin groups that are committed to perform.
Some salsa, some mariachi, some andina, some Brazilian.
	Admission is $6 for students. The times to go will be the weekend.
Thursday and Friday during the day are mostly for schoolkids.
	Some of the people organizing the culture booths are worried that 
they won't have enough people to tend it. After all, each booth will need
somebody present, to watch over the booth and to answer questions, for all
the time that the festival is operating. That's about 40 hours total over the
four days. Organizers of the Puerto Rican and Bolivian booths have expressed
this concern and indicated that they would love to find students who might 
like to join with them.
	Not all countries will have all booths. In Latin America, culture
booths are likely to be presented for Mexico, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico,
Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. Possible but not certain participation
is anticipated from Guatemala and Chile. It's unlikely that there will be
culture booths, however, for Cuba, Haiti, Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, Panama,
or the other Central American countries. (Correction: Costa Rica is also a possibility.)
	Likely food booths: DR, Mexico, Colombia, Peru. Likely artesania
 booths:Guatemala (more than one), Mexico, Peru. There will be free shuttle busses from South Station to the W
the World Trade Center, and people can take the T to the South Station.
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