"We have a vision and a plan to enrich the communities through the Hispanic culture in Washington State and the Northwest."

CONGRATULATIONS

TO MICHELLE MARIE FONT

OUR LATIN QUEEN

MISS WASHINGTON 2008!!!!!

BEST OF LUCK

THE LATIN COMMUNITY OF

WASHINGTON STATE

HOPES YOU BECOME MISS USA 2008!!!!!

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EDDIE PALMIERI LATIN JAZZ BAND

March 25-30, 2008
$24.50 - $26.50

Make a reservation for this show.

2033 6th Avenue, Seattle WA 98121
Phone 206.441.9729 | fax 206.443.8247

The Pacific Jazz Institute at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley presents for six nights, Grammy-winning Latin jazz pianist Eddie Palmieri. Band members are Eddie Palmieri (piano), Conrad Herwig (trombone), Michael Rodriguez (trumpet), Vincent “Little Johnny” Rivero (congas) Orlando Vega (bongo), Yosvany Terry (alto saxophone), Jose Claussell (Timbles), and Luques Curtis (bass). Set times Tuesday and Wednesday are at 7:30PM, Thursday through Saturday at 7:30PM and 9:30PM and Sunday at 7:30PM. Doors open at 6PM Tuesday and 5:30PM Wednesday – Sunday.

The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences awarded Eddie Palmieri’s latest release, Simpatico, the 2007 Grammy in the “Best Latin Jazz Album” category. Simpatico is a collaboration with trumpet master Brian Lynch. This is Eddie Palmieri’s 9th Grammy in a career that spans over 50 years and was awarded on February 11, 2007 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. In addition, The Jazz Journalists Association awarded the 2007 Jazz Award for “Latin Jazz Album of Year” to Simpatico.
 

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PERÚ NEGRO

Semana del Perú in Seattle

29 de marzo al 6 de abril de 2008

With the presentation of Peru Negro, the arrival of the ship "Mollendo"to Seattle Port Pier 66. Inauguration of the street "Republic of Peru Blvd" with a Civic-Military parade of folkloric costumes and flags of Peru.

For more details please enter the Consulate of Peru website: http://www.consuladoperuseattle.com/centenario.html

Consulate of Peru (206)714-9037

Tickets for reception: call (425) 275-9595

 

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Forever Tango

The Seattle Theater Group and CCHA are giving away a ticket plus a guest to the first two e-mails received by answering this question: How many years Forever Tango has been performing? Reply to CCHA at art@centroculturalha.org

The Moore Theater
Friday-Sunday, April 11-13,2008
Fri @ 8:00p.m., Sat @ 2:00 p.m. & 8:00 p.m.
Sun @ 2:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.

1932 Second Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101
206.467.5510  |  fax 206.682.4837

$20.00 to $45.00 Not including fees
PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE
Groups of ten or more, please call 1.888.214.6856

Forever Tango, Luis Bravo's internationally acclaimed dance spectacular, traces the history of tango through music, dance and dramatic vignettes. Featuring an all-Argentine cast of 14 dancers and a 12-piece orchestra, Forever Tango brings an absolutely unique excitement and passion to the stage offering audiences an unspoken insight into this mysterious and passionate art form. Sensuous and sophisticated, the tango inhabits a world where everything can be said with the flick of a leg, the tug of a hand, the tap of a foot and the arch of an eyebrow.

Forever Tango had a smash yearlong run on Broadway in 1997-1998 (garnering multiple Tony® and Drama Desk® Award nominations). The show has played on five continents and has recently enjoyed engagements in Japan, Italy, Mexico and Miami. Since its first performance in 1994, the show has been seen by more than five million people around the world.

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American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music

October 13, 2007 - September 7, 2008 at Experience Music Project Museum

American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music is the first interpretive museum exhibition to tell the story of the profound influence and impact of Latinos in American popular music. Rich with artifacts, instrument interactives, listening kiosks, and films, American Sabor opens at EMP|SFM October 13, 2007.

The 5,000-square-foot exhibition focuses on five major centers of Latino popular music production in the post-World War II United States—New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, San Antonio and San Francisco—which represent the diversity of Latino music. Each city section draws visitors into the broader histories and cultures that shaped these musicians’ contributions through artifacts, hands-on instrument interactives designed to teach key concepts, highly produced listening kiosks that allow critical listening and learning, three films created for the exhibit and interpretive text presented in English and Spanish.

Latino contributions to popular music in the United States have too often been relegated to the margins and footnotes of a narrative dominated by the interaction of African and European Americans—an overly black and white view of our musical history. American Sabor (sabor is the Spanish word for taste or flavor, commonly used to describe good music) is a museum exhibit that turns that phrase and that perspective on its head, documenting the roles of post-World War II U.S. Latino musicians as interpreters and disseminators of Latin American genres, but also highlighting their roles as innovators within genres of music that we understand to be indigenous to the United States, such as jazz, R&B, rock ‘n’ roll and hip-hop.
 

Co-sponsored by Centro Cultural Hispano Americano

For teacher and student components, click here >>

Main image: Los Lobos business card, (1998), detail  

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CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION
"QUIMBAYA AWARDS" TRIBUTE TO HISPANIC AMERICAN ARTISTS AND ART EDUCATORS
This award was established by Centro Cultural Hispano Americano in 2005 to recognize and honor Hispanic Americans who have contributed significantly to the understanding of the Hispanic American culture through the arts and education, and their achievements in the Northwest. Read more...

To find out about other events go to Cultural Calendar

Centro Cultural Hispano Americano is now accepting donations to fund the Enrique Henao Art Scholarship Fund for low income Hispanic American student who want to pursue a higher education in the arts.

CCHA is looking for the following volunteers positions: Grant Writer Director, Marketing Director, Fundraising Director, and a Secretary. For more information, please call 206.418.6710 / 253.210.0134