First Friday: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage!

Join us for a celebration of Hispanic Heritage including ice cream, dance, music, and more!

It's First Friday! Please join us in celebration of Hispanic heritage! Our schedule:

6:15 - 6:30 p.m. The reveal of our new Bookmobile design! Earlier this year, our community voted for their favorite design- join us to be among the first to see the winner!

6:30 - 7 p.m. Danzantes Unidos MITOTILIZTLI. Enjoy a variety of Native American Dances performed by dancers from various Indigenous nations such the Totonacs, Aztecs, Purepexas, and Huicholes from Mexico as well as Apache and Pueblo Nations from the United States of America. 

6 - 8 p.m.

• Oaxacan Woman Cultural Heritage photography exhibit by photographer Vicente Morales. This exhibit will be on display from September 15 through October 15 in celebration of Hispanic Heritage month.
• Scoops of artisan ice cream from La Garrafa! Choose from a delicious variety of flavors, including dairy and non-dairy options. *Available while supplies last. 
• Register to vote with the League of Women Voters
• Free flu vaccinations for adults sponsored by Ascension Mercy
• A cuff bracelet craft
• Music by DJ Omarin

No registration or RSVP is required. Enjoy!

More about DANZANTES UNIDOS MITOTILIZTLI (DANCERS UNITED MITOTILIZTLI):

We are a traditional Azteca-Chichimeca Danza Group, formed by individuals from different Native American cultural traditions and united in 'danza'.

Mitotiliztli in Nahuatl (Aztec language) means danza! It means movement and sound. It is the fiesta, the ritual, the celebration focusing in developing spiritual self-awareness. It is the joy of expressing your spirituality through Danza. In Pre-Hispanic times in Mesoamerica, there was a vast array of celebrations and Mitotiliztli was an essential part of it.

The focus of our group is two-fold. On one hand, it is the presentation to the public of our rich cultural heritage through the performance of “Danzas Aztecas” and the display of our traditional customs and rhythms. The Second is the discovery, study and revival of the ancient wisdom and traditions that have been forcibly suppressed by the dominant cultures and therefore forgotten by the subjugated Indigenous groups.

Our ancestral American Indian heritage and wisdom teach how-to live-in harmony with Nature, our Peers, Ourselves and the Cosmos. We, as pilgrims in the “Red Road” have made it our mission to investigate and Rediscover the ancient ways and grow with our roots deep in the past in order to live firmly in our present, and hence flourish into a better future for ourselves and humanity as a whole.

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