Tulipanes Latino Art & Film Festival

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

This hot event takes place at:

The Holland Armory
16 West Ninth Street
Downtown Holland

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.