Event to feature arts and crafts, food, performers
If you are looking for something exciting to do this weekend,
you might want to check out the 27th annual California Indian
Market
&
amp; Peace Pow Wow.
The annual event in San Juan Bautista will once again celebrate
world cultures, according to an announcement from the organizer
Laynee Reyna.
Event to feature arts and crafts, food, performers
If you are looking for something exciting to do this weekend, you might want to check out the 27th annual California Indian Market & Peace Pow Wow.
The annual event in San Juan Bautista will once again celebrate world cultures, according to an announcement from the organizer Laynee Reyna.
The group One Earth One People Peace Vision is putting on the event once again. It is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the San Juan Bautista soccer lot at The Alameda.
At the event, there will be fine arts and crafts, dancers, drums, native food, family-oriented activities, sobriety, public education and a benefit with $1 donations.
Additionally, there will be:
Xipe Totec Aztec Dancers will present the Fire Dance and White Eagle Dance celebrating Cinco de Mayo both days at 3 and 5 p.m., according to the group’s website, peacevision.net.
The California Indian Intertribal Dancers will give a memorial honoring of California medicine song woman Bernice Torrez, Kashaya Pomo, daughter of famed Essie Parrish.
San Juan Intertribal Council will drum and chant ancestral honoring songs for heroism of veterans, children, women, men, elders and families who foster peace in their homes and communities.
The group’s mission statement is the following: “A living prayer for global reconciliation, friendship and promoting peace through the living arts.”
Sponsors include Earthbound Farms, Gilroy Children’s Center, Global peace Foundation, and Peace Vision, Inc.
For more information on the event, call Reyna at 623-4771.
