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Born in Querétaro, Mexico, Rodriguez obtained a bachelor's degree in Music as an opera singer specialist in Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro.
Today she sings throughout America and Europe and resides in Italy where she is part of The Universal Center for the Bel Canto under the direction of the famous Italian sporano Mirella Freni.
Enjoy a taste of Latino culture with food booths representing Mexico, Cuba, Spain and more!
Margarita's Restaurant
Beef & Chicken Fajitas
Rice
Beans
Homemade Chips
Salsa
Guacamole
Flan
Sopapillas
Ramirez Bakery
Mexican Baked Goods
Barbacoa Tacos
Menudo
Taco Fiesta
Chicken & Steak Fajitas
Tamales
Rice
Beans
Quesadillas
Tortas
The Mac Shack
Hot Dogs
Popcorn
Hudsonville Ice Cream
Bottled Water
Ballet Folklorico Sol Azteca
Beef & Chicken Tacos
Pickles
Elotes (corn)
Pop
Water
The Dancing Chickens of Ventura Fabian is the National City 2007 Tulipanes Film Award winner for "Best Short Film."
The Dancing Chickens of Ventura Fabian is a lively, bilingual musical video visit with master woodcarver Ventura Fabian and his family in their small rural village of San Martin Tilcajete, nestled in the hills outside the colonial city of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. Every member of this campesino/artesano family works together to create some of the country’s most colorful and creative folk art — the hand-carved, hand-painted wooden figures that have become one of Mexico’s most popular contemporary crafts.
Cartoneros is the National City 2007 Tulipanes Film Award winner for "Best Educational Film."
Cartoneros follows the paper recycling process in Buenos Aires from the trash pickers who collect paper informally through middlemen in warehouses, to executives in large corporate mills. The process exploded into a multimillion dollar industry after Argentina’s latest economic collapse. The film is both a record of an economic and social crisis and an invitation to audiences to rethink the value of trash.
Just as the rivers of the Andes mountains twist and coil in a curious maze, so does the grave situation of Peruvian women’s health care.
Within the past decade, the Andean women in Peru have faced a massive sterilization campaign, exorbitant fines for homebirths, remnants of a deadly civil war, and the second highest maternal death rate in South America. Yet, as they have for centuries, the Quechua and Aymara people are fighting to preserve their traditions, beliefs and integrity.
The great Mexican muralists Diego Rivera and Jose Orozco created a heroic vision of the lives and aspirations of the Mexican people. Along with striking examples of their work are those of Hispanic artists who carry on their legacy today. Included are examples of Mexican folk art which provided inspiration for many of these artists.
Exhibit Hours:
Friday, August 31, 2-9pm
Saturday, September 1, 9am-3pm
Sunday, September 2, Noon-4pm
The rich history of Mexico is alive in its folk art. Included are works that reflect the blending of Spanish and Indigenous cultures, such retablos, ex-votos and the colorful masks used in traditional dances. Striking bead work and yarn painting by Huichol Indians and contemporary expressions such as Mata Ortiz ceramics and Oaxacan wood carving are also featured.
Exhibit Hours:
Friday, August 31, 2-9pm
Saturday, September 1, 9am-3pm
Sunday, September 2, Noon-4pm
There are thousands of women in New York City taking care of other people’s children. Everyday they arrive at households prepared to pick up where moms leave off. They’re on the playground, at the park, in preschool lobbies with arms outstretched. They work long hours with no benefits to keep kids safe and parents happy. Although these women form the invisible backbone of New York City’s economy, their stories are seldom told.
In October 2003 the Circle Junkeez were formed by inspired youth from Holland. They are a group of b-boys and b-girls, or better known as break dancers. The Circle Junkeez are a talented generation committed to nurturing young lives by providing them with positive and creative opportunities empowering them to enrich their lives and achieve their ambitions.
Since 1997 Martin Perez has presented at different artistic events, becoming well known throughout the midwest for his enthusiasm for the art of folkloric-dance and his constant desire to broaden his knowledge in regards to Mexican folklore.
With the help of his parents and the community he has formed a dance group "Los Gallos De Oro," whose mission is to capture and promote the beauty of Mexican folklore.
Shadow of the House is an intimate portrait of the Cuban-American photographer Abelardo Morell. Morell’s life is utterly ordinary on the surface but our understanding of Morell deepens as layer after layer of the man and his influences are revealed: his strange and compelling journey fleeing Castro in the early sixties and growing up in NY as a teenager; his life as an American family man; a Cuban refugee, more American than Cuban, but not an American citizen; a photographer who feels safer working at home but whose career increasingly pulls him into the outside world.
Northeastern Brazil is at war during the 1930s and outlaws called “cangaceiros” plunder and kill in the name of justice. Lampião is the most feared of them all. Maria and her parents, living on a farm near in a small village, offer Lampião’s gang shelter. As a result, they are attacked and Maria’s parents are killed. She meets and marries Filipe, but their marriage will be tested when his nephew, Coriolano, develops an attraction to her. The story of Filipe and Coriolano’s love for Maria is full of twists and turns and has an unexpected ending, in which the three of them find happiness, each in their own way.
Son De Mexico, a quartet originally from Mexico includes William Torres of Mexico City, Pedro Salas of Zacatecas and brothers Hector and Jose Estupian of Chihuahua.
Using acoustic instruments and playing the music of great composers, these local talented artists have accomplished to please and entertain the community with a variety of music from romantic songs to music with more “soul.”
Ole! Shouts of affirmation and encouragement resound as the passionate music and dance of Spain, Flamenco, is performed.
Compañeros de Flamenco is a group of dancers and musicians that bring this vibrant culture to life. The colorful costumes, the compelling guitar music, and the intricate footwork tell the story of Spain’s multicultural heritage.
Jeff Dwarshuis is a classical guitarist living in Grand Rapids Michigan. He began teaching himself guitar at a young age and has done formal training with Paul Vondiziano.
He maintains an active performance schedule and an extensive repertoire in Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern music. He has performed throughout Michigan including The Grand Rapids Art Museum’s Winter Concert Series, The Cranbrook Art Museum and The Detroit Institute of Arts.
Jeff’s performance of Spanish classics will be an exciting set of the most prized pieces for the classical guitar.
Just as the rivers of the Andes mountains twist and coil in a curious maze, so does the grave situation of Peruvian women’s health care.
Within the past decade, the Andean women in Peru have faced a massive sterilization campaign, exorbitant fines for homebirths, remnants of a deadly civil war, and the second highest maternal death rate in South America. Yet, as they have for centuries, the Quechua and Aymara people are fighting to preserve their traditions, beliefs and integrity.
The Moses Mares Project is the brainchild of Moses Mares, a Holland native that has traveled the world with Latin Grammy Nominees bands as a pianist and keyboard artist. This self taught virtuoso pianist, guitarist, bass and percussionist is currently the director of the Music Ministry at RidgePoint Community Church.
The Moses Mares Project concentrates on Latin Funk and Latin Jazz. This new impactful sound is sure to touch your dancing soul and get you moving!
The story of a man who is mysteriously chosen to receive a strange box with a glove inside. From that moment on he becomes a part of a plan that may change his life forever.
El Cimarrón is the National City 2007 Tulipanes Film Award winner for "Best of Show."
El Cimarrón, is a love story about a young African couple that takes place during the slavery era at the turn of the nineteenth century. Violently seized from their African homeland, these youngsters arrived in chains in crowded, sweltering cargo holds aboard Spanish vessels destined to a Caribbean island to be sold as slaves. Eventually, they are both acquired by a malevolent Spanish landholder. After several futile attempts to escape, Marcos finally wins his freedom and returns to liberate his beloved Carolina and many other slaves.
Tulipanes kicks off the weekend for everyone with our first-ever outdoor mainstream movie, Happy Feet™. Bring your friends and family, lawnchairs and blankets and relax under the stars!
In the great nation of Emperor Penguins, deep in Antarctica, you’re nobody unless you can sing--which is unfortunate for Mumble, who is the worst singer in the world. He is born dancing to his own tune--tap dancing.
Thousands of people leave their impoverished Central American countries to get into the USA. By crossing the Northern border of Guatemala into Mexico they’re embarking on one of the most dangerous migration routes in the world.
In a small border town in the farthest South of Mexico migrants try to jump on a freight train that shall carry them to the US-border. But hardly anybody manages to make the 5,000 km trip. Already on the outset of their journey they get mugged by youth gangs and fall prey to corrupt border officials. They fall exhausted from the train or get arrested in large-scale raids by the Mexican migration police and army, who jail them for days and deport them.
The great Mexican muralists Diego Rivera and Jose Orozco created a heroic vision of the lives and aspirations of the Mexican people. Along with striking examples of their work are those of Hispanic artists who carry on their legacy today. Included are examples of Mexican folk art which provided inspiration for many of these artists.
Exhibit Hours:
Friday, August 31, 2-9pm
Saturday, September 1, 9am-3pm
Sunday, September 2, Noon-4pm
The rich history of Mexico is alive in its folk art. Included are works that reflect the blending of Spanish and Indigenous cultures, such retablos, ex-votos and the colorful masks used in traditional dances. Striking bead work and yarn painting by Huichol Indians and contemporary expressions such as Mata Ortiz ceramics and Oaxacan wood carving are also featured.
Exhibit Hours:
Friday, August 31, 2-9pm
Saturday, September 1, 9am-3pm
Sunday, September 2, Noon-4pm
Browse works of art from contemporary to abstract to realist to classical. All artwork, which is available for purchase, showcases a snapshot of Latino culture either through the eye of the artist or as the subject matter.
Our 2007 artists include:
Rolando (Roli) Mancera
Carmen Agra Deedy is an award-winning storyteller and author of numerous bestselling books for children. Born in Havana, Cuba in 1960, she emigrated from her homeland during the Cuban Revolution, a move that profoundly affected her life and her work. Her parents, strong proponents of human rights, decided to leave after four tumultuous years in the midst of a revolutionary environment. They took Carmen and her sister and found sanctuary in the United States under the JFK Cuban Refugee Act of 1963.
The Giant Piñata is the highlight of the Festival for all children who attend. It’s as though they experience Christmas in September. Children stand and watch at just the right time when the traditional shaped piñata with its six-pointed star is broken, then run to be the first to grab colorful balls filled with treats and small gifts.
Children’s Mural with Erick Pichardo
A Tulipanes favorite…artist Erick Pichardo works with children to create a large mural which will be on display for next year’s Festival. Children will have the opportunity to learn some interesting painting techniques that may just bring out the Picaso’s in many of them. Children of all ages are invited to participate.
Enjoy a taste of Latino culture with food booths representing Mexico, Cuba, Spain and more!
Margarita's Restaurant
Beef & Chicken Fajitas
Rice
Beans
Homemade Chips
Salsa
Guacamole
Flan
Sopapillas
Ramirez Bakery
Mexican Baked Goods
Barbacoa Tacos
Menudo
Taco Fiesta
Chicken & Steak Fajitas
Tamales
Rice
Beans
Quesadillas
Tortas
The Mac Shack
Hot Dogs
Popcorn
Hudsonville Ice Cream
Bottled Water
Ballet Folklorico Sol Azteca
Beef & Chicken Tacos
Pickles
Elotes (corn)
Pop
Water
Latino Cuatro & Celestina is a five-piece Tejano band based out of Marshall, Michigan. They also perform Cubias, Huapangos, Corridos and other Mexican rhythms. The band consists of accordion, banjo, saxophone, keyboards and drums.
Vocalist Celestina's sweet voice and smooth moves make Latino Cuatro stand out!
Their music has been influenced by Selena, Jennifer Peña, Elsa Garcia and Alicia Villereal.
A collection of short puppet pieces in a variety show using puppetry as a vehicle for story, comedy and enigma.
Something for everyone in this family show. Sometimes solemn, more often comic, the show affords a brief introduction to a variety of characters, from an old storytelling marionette man to a life-sized puppet with ideas of his own; from a silent masked man with a magical box to a spoiled, silly baby.
Puppet styles and techniques are varied, surprise is a thread woven through this multi-textured original show featuring Michael Montenegro with Jude Mathews.
Ballet Folklórico Sol Azteca De Humberto Hernandez presents and delights its audiences with the richness of traditional and authentic folkloric dance and music from various regions of Mexico.
Ballet Folklórico Sol Azteca’s mission is to conserve and promote pride throughout the community of the richness in the art of Mexican folkloric dance and music through corporal expression and emotion and in doing so, promoting self-discipline; respect; self-esteem, physical fitness and pride.
Carmen Agra Deedy is an award-winning storyteller and author of numerous bestselling books for children. Born in Havana, Cuba in 1960, she emigrated from her homeland during the Cuban Revolution, a move that profoundly affected her life and her work. Her parents, strong proponents of human rights, decided to leave after four tumultuous years in the midst of a revolutionary environment. They took Carmen and her sister and found sanctuary in the United States under the JFK Cuban Refugee Act of 1963.
The Paso Fino's journey to the Americas began more than 500 years ago with the importation of Andalusians, Spanish Barbs from North Africa, and smooth-gaited Spanish Jennets (now extinct as a breed) to the "New World" by Spanish Conquistadors. Bred for their stamina, smooth gait and beauty, "Los Caballos de Paso Fino” – the horses with the fine walk – served as the foundation stock for remount stations of the Conquistadors. Centuries of selective breeding by those who colonized the Caribbean and Latin America produced variations of the "Caballo de Criollo," among them the Paso Fino that flourished initially in Colombia, and later, in other Latin American countries.
A visual poem in a striking puppet theatre piece using masks and puppet techniques that envision the emotional trauma and destructive nature of the land mine.
Faceless and voiceless individuals present a sequence of events obliquely depicting the devastation results of anti-personal devices, or cluster bombs. In describing the piece one should imagine you dream that you lose an arm and it is replaced with a prosthetic. Your dream would very likely replace it with a strange and useless machine at the end of a tube.
So what is sublimely beautiful, the human hand, is replaced with a nonsensical machine, very crude and pathetic by comparison. The utter foolishness that the human hand can be taken for granted is brought into focus.
Viaje a Marte is the National City 2007 Tulipanes Film Award winner for "Best Animation Film."
Journey to Mars (Viaje a Marte) is an animated stop motion short film.
This independent production, which was made in Argentina, is the result of two years hard work. Since then, it has won 40 awards in different festivals around the world, competing in many cases against real action productions.
The short tells the story of Antonio, a boy from the 60s, who is a great fan of science fiction tv serials and space trips. In view of the child’s passion, his grandfather decides to take him to Mars in his tow truck.
Everyone Their Grain of Sand is the National City 2007 Tulipanes Film Award winner for "Best Documentary Film"
This award-winning documentary reveals the struggles of the citizens of Maclovio Rojas in Tijuana, Mexico as they battle the state government’s attempts to evict them from their homes to make way for multi-national corporations seeking cheap land and labor.
All For One Dance Group's mission statement is to promote physical fitness in youth through dance and exercise and to celebrate all cultures through diversity of music.
All For One Dance Group was founded by Dominique Vargas at the age of 12 in March 2005. Her vision was to share her dance technique and knowledge to youth free of charge. That year the program became available to the youth in Holland and surroundings townships. Anyone that wanted to exercise by the way of dancing was and is welcome to this great program.
Carmen Agra Deedy is an award-winning storyteller and author of numerous bestselling books for children. Born in Havana, Cuba in 1960, she emigrated from her homeland during the Cuban Revolution, a move that profoundly affected her life and her work. Her parents, strong proponents of human rights, decided to leave after four tumultuous years in the midst of a revolutionary environment. They took Carmen and her sister and found sanctuary in the United States under the JFK Cuban Refugee Act of 1963.
Just like dancing with the stars!
At the age of 4, Matthew Quintero began studying the Japanese style of Shorin Ryu. He now holds a black belt in that style and is recognized by the US Karate-DO-KAI. His training includes 8 years of intense instruction, under Grand Master and three time World Champion Bong Jornales, in the Filipino Martial Art style of Arnis Sikaran.
At the age of 13 Matthew is a four time National Champion. He also made the US Team. He is now training for the 2008 Championship competition in the Philippines. In the past year Matthew was seed for the Irish Cup in Dublin, Ireland. He was invited to study with Grand Master Wubin who trained Jet Lee, Jackie Chan and Russell Wong in Beijing, China, where is training center is located.
Viaje a Marte is the National City 2007 Tulipanes Film Award winner for "Best Animation Film."
Journey to Mars (Viaje a Marte) is an animated stop motion short film.
This independent production, which was made in Argentina, is the result of two years hard work. Since then, it has won 40 awards in different festivals around the world, competing in many cases against real action productions.
The short tells the story of Antonio, a boy from the 60s, who is a great fan of science fiction tv serials and space trips. In view of the child’s passion, his grandfather decides to take him to Mars in his tow truck.
Oswaldo Garces was born in Ambato Ecuador in 1961. He moved to Grand Rapids in the late ‘80s from where he led archeological searches for numerous expeditions. In 1994 he became one of the founders of a Grand Rapids Hispanic newspaper. He continues today to operate a janitorial company founded in 1995. In 2006 Oswaldo formed El Heraldo Enterprises, a company that is developing an Internet media Latino project.
Born to a family of artists and writers he was influenced by numerous mentors and started writing poetry at a young age. He has fond memories of the poems his cousin used to write and after his cousin’s sudden death, Oswaldo continued the legacy on in his memory.
Xavier del Monte is a small-town circus clown whose ambition takes him to the big city. An ad agency selects him as the Hot Dog Clown, the media character of a fast-food campaign that appeals to children and mothers. Success changes his life and he moves into an uptown apartment, buys a new car, enjoys shopping and falls in love. But the ad agency forbids him from exposing his true self to the public. At the top of his success, Xavier feels empty deep inside and does not know why. Now he will have to choose between affluence and happiness.
The At-Neemra Dance Company specializes in ethnic dance styles from around the world, such as Middle Eastern, East Indian, Latin, African and more! The Company was founded in early 2004 by renowned dancer and experienced choreographer Laura Armenta. The At-Neemrah Dancers bring to their audience a realm of sensual feminine expression, with great passion for fine details and class.
Take a Latin musical cruise! "Endowed with Puerto Rican and Dominican blood, the newly resurrected Orquesta Sensacional blends youth and experience to create the ultimate joy that Latin music lovers have come to expect and demand! Nominated 2005 Detroit Music Awards Outstanding World Music Group, the heartbeat of the music is a six piece band that explodes with precision fronted by a duo of Spanish and English singing vocalists.
A journey to the Buenos Aires underground tango culture, where the elusive soul of tango is to be found…
Even after a century of history, after enshrinement as the national music, after rampant commercialization and packaging for export, the tango still speaks to the Argentine soul. Subtango shows how tango music, dance, art and poetry are an essential part of the emotional expression of regular people, featuring the gamblers, ramblers and barroom prophets of the Buenos Aires night, playing weather-beaten accordions and singing old tangos of heartbreak and resentment.
A musical group led by Dennys Burga that specializes in traditional Ecuadorian music played through pan flutes made in the Andes of South America.
El Cimarrón is the National City 2007 Tulipanes Film Award winner for "Best of Show."
El Cimarrón, is a love story about a young African couple that takes place during the slavery era at the turn of the nineteenth century. Violently seized from their African homeland, these youngsters arrived in chains in crowded, sweltering cargo holds aboard Spanish vessels destined to a Caribbean island to be sold as slaves. Eventually, they are both acquired by a malevolent Spanish landholder. After several futile attempts to escape, Marcos finally wins his freedom and returns to liberate his beloved Carolina and many other slaves.
This hot event takes place at: The Holland Armory The vibe is dance, dance and more dance! An evening celebration featuring the sounds of seven-piece salsa band Orquestra Sensacional, the new school in Latin music. A lesson covering the basics of salsa and Latin dance will be offered before the band takes the stage, thanks to local well-known dance instructor Andrea Barry. The salsa lesson will begin at 8pm and live music will start at 9pm. Dancing to Orchestra Sensacional will begin at 9pm will continue until midnight.
16 West Ninth Street
Downtown Holland
Padre Nuestro is the National City 2007 Tulipanes Film Award winner for "Best Feature Film."
Caco is not your average father. Stubborn and irrepressible, he is dying of an incurable and unrevealed disease. Before passing on, however, the old man decides to flee the hospital where he is held against his will to reunite with his daughter, two sons and the wife he abandoned years ago for another woman.
