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SF Good Eats: Latino Hispanic Heritage Month Edition

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Oaxacan tamales, mole, chocolate, tlayudas, and tortas in San Francisco.

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SF Good Eats: Latino Hispanic Heritage Month Edition

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Mexican Oaxacan Cuisine | Agave Uptown Restaurant | Oakland

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"The Best Mexican Restaurant in Uptown Oakland" The standard for authentic Oaxacan cuisine for dine in, pickup and delivery.

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El Nuevo Frutilandia | Cuban & Puerto Rican Food | San Francisco, CA

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El Nuevo Frutilandia is a small family run resturant serving Cuban & Puerto Rican cuisine for over 50 years. Let us take you on a tropical, comfort food tour of our home cooked Mofongo, Lechon (slow roast pork), Ropa Vieja, tostones, maduros and more

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Fiesta Patrias Concert at San Francisco Symphony | 2022-23 Season

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Celebrate Fiesta Patrias with the San Francisco Symphony. A Special Event at Davies Symphony Hall. Official Box Office. Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 7:30PM.

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VIVA Latinx Heritage Celebration 2022 | San Francisco Public Library

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For Immediate Release: August 18, 2022 Media Contact: Jaime Wong 415-557-4295| Jaime.Wong@sfpl.org Images here Head Back to the Future with Artist Fernando Martí

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When I am working in Latin America, I keep my eyes open for authentic games I can use in my classroom. A group of students in Nicaragua recently introduced me to a Spanish question game called El Repollo.

Be sure to check our complete collection of traditional Spanish games for kids. You'll find our favorite games for language learners, with everything from playground games to board games.

Repollo is cabbage, and to play the game you make a paper ball, a cabbage, with questions on each of the "leaves." If you use the Spanish word col for cabbage, you can change the name of this Spanish question game to La Col.

I love the game El Repollo because it can be adapted to any topic or level. With preschoolers, you can use pictures instead of writing questions. With older students, you can make questions relate to a story or any content they are learning. This game is active, hands-on and fun. It's a perfect combination of play and content.

If you are looking for more authentic games, Basta is another game I play with my students. Try these printable versions of Basta for Spanish learners. You can find a set of traditional games that require less language here, and 12 traditional games with more Spanish language content here.

How to Play the Spanish Question Game

To play this Spanish question game, students pass el repollo around a circle, similar to Hot Potato. First, you make el repollo from pieces of paper with a question on each one. See the specific instructions below.

Then, tap on a desk as students pass the ball around the circle. Tap with a pencil or coin to make a sharper, louder sound. When you stop tapping, the student holding the ball peels the outer "leaf" off the cabbage and answers the question on that piece of paper.

Next, start tapping again. Again, the ball moves around the circle until you stop. Play continues this way until you reach the last question at the center of the cabbage. Tap louder and faster to encourage students to pass the ball faster. Of course, you can use music too, pausing it for students to answer.

Making El Repollo

Making the cabbage students pass around the circle is easy. Tear off a small piece of paper, a quarter or half sheet, and write a question on it. Use this as the question as the center of the cabbage. Remember, this will be the last question students answer. So, if the order of the questions matters, you may want to write all the questions on the "leaves" and then assemble the ball.

Crush the paper with the first question into a small ball. Next, put a piece of paper with another question around that ball and press it together. Keep adding "leaves" with questions, molding and shaping el repollo as you go. Use larger pieces of paper as the ball gets bigger.

The questions in this repollo were based on the story El río dormido.

Types of Questions for El Repollo

You can use any type of questions on the leaves of the cabbage. For example,

Use information questions related to a topic or a story.

Students can define a vocabulary word, or give an antonym or synonym.

Ask students to act out answers by writing "Imita..." and mentioning something from a story or a vocabulary word.

Write digits on the leaves for practice saying numbers.

Use clock faces to practice saying time.

Write personal questions for students to answer about their families, experiences and preferences.

Practice reading, letter sounds and pronunciation by having students read a word and identify how many syllables it has. Use familiar vocabulary for this kind of question.

Tell a short, easy story, sentence by sentence.

To practice verb conjugation, write sentences leaving the verb in the infinitive. Students conjugate the verb. Relate the sentences to tell a short story.

Students contribute questions related to the content they are learning.

Adapting the Spanish Question Game for Pre-Readers

You can adapt this Spanish question game for pre-readers by using pictures. To do this, print the paper with clip art or use stickers.

This printable board game to practice greetings also uses images. So does the active game using this free power point for practicing gustar.

Here are a few ideas:

Use pictures of familiar words related to a theme such as animals, shapes or food for students to identify.

Focus on counting and hay by putting several pictures on each leaf. Ask ¿Cuántos hay?

Practice emotions by identifying and acting out the emotion represented by a emoticon. Ask ¿Cómo se siente?

Use colored dot stickers to practice colors and numbers.

Here is a repollo for practicing numbers, animals and the verb form hay. When students peel off the leave they count the animals and say, for example, "Hay cinco caballos."

I'm sure you will think of other ways to incorporate El Repollo into your class. If you are using written questions, this Spanish question game is quick and easy to make. It is low-prep even if you print the leaves with clip art or use stickers. Best of all, it can be adapted to any content. Please let us in the comments know how you use this game in your class or with your family.

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Spanish Question Game: El Repollo - Spanish Playground

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When I am working in Latin America, I keep my eyes open for authentic games I can use in my classroom. A group of students in Nicaragua recently introduced me to a Spanish question game called El Repollo. Be sure to check our complete collection of traditional Spanish games for kids.

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Make a mola: a fantastic example of folk-art from Panamá! Beautiful Panamá: the tropical and mountainous isthmus with coasts on the Caribbean and Pacific that connects the Americas. Off the northern coast of Panamá, there is a string of idyllic islands (an archipelago) called the San Blas Islands. The Kuna Indians were driven out of Panamá by the Spaniards in the 1500's, and took their boats to live on these islands. They continue to live there today, hunting, fishing, and maintaining traditions. One of Panama's best-known handicrafts is the mola, intricate reverse-applique handwork made by the Kuna, and now an important symbol of their culture. The layers of brightly-colored fabric form animals or geometric shapes, and are used to decorate the blouses of Kuna women. In fact, the most outstanding designs take hours of complex sewing to complete and is a source of status, and a display of artistic expression and ethnic identity. In the following intricate craft, your kids can make similar designs out of construction paper.

Before gathering your supplies (construction paper, scissors, glue), show your kids examples of molas from Panamá. I bought this one in Central America; of course it's fantastic if you can show your kids real examples, but thanks to google images, your kids can study molas on-line before they begin their project.

After you've looked at the images, and noticed how the layers and shapes fit together, note the common colors and designs. Have your child draw the outline of their choice of an animal or plant onto a sheet of paper and cut it out.

Next, trace the figure onto another color paper. When they are finished, cut out one of the figures slightly smaller than the first, and glue them together. Then the kids can begin to create layers of shapes to glue onto the figure. My kids started with a small black shape, glued it onto another color, and then cut that out leaving a bit of a border showing. By repeating this step several times with different colors, you get the layered look.

The next step is to glue the figure onto the background, and then decorate the background with additional geometric shapes. The quality of a mola lies in its attention to details, its fine stitching, evenness and width of cutouts- this project took us all morning, but we loved the end results!

To learn more, visit the National Museum of the American Indian's site: The Art of Being Kuna: Layers of Meaning Among the Kuna of Panama.

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Make a mola: a fantastic example of folk-art from Panamá! Beautiful Panamá: the tropical and mountainous isthmus with coasts on the Caribbean and Pacific that connects the Americas. Off the northern coast of Panamá, there is a string of idyllic islands (an archipelago) called the San Blas Islands.

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Spanning fourteen city blocks, the section of 24th Street bounded by Valencia Street to the west and Potrero Avenue to the east has served as the center of Latino activism, arts, commerce, and culture in San Francisco since the 1940s. The activities and events that took place along lower 24th Street, or Calle 24, from that era to the present have created waves of social change that continue to reverberate throughout the country and the world, establishing Calle 24 as the heart of the Mission District and the hub of Latino cultural expression in San Francisco. With several churches, botánicas, and cultural events like Día de los Muertos festival taking place annually along 24 th Street, the corridor is also the spiritual home of the city's Latino community.

Community leaders have long sought to establish a program to preserve the culture and community of the lower 24 th Street corridor, beginning in the mid-1990s under the leadership of then-Supervisor Jim Gonzalez in response to gentrification of the neighborhood, continuing under Supervisor Susan Leal's tenure through the 24 th Street Revitalization Committee, and also through efforts to establish an Enterprise Zone for the Mission District.

Interest in establishing a cultural district and economic development program for the 24 th Street Corridor has resurfaced in recent years, however, and the local neighbors and merchants association, Calle 24 SF, is working with the San Francisco Latino Historical Society, San Francisco Heritage, the Mayor's Office of Economic and Workforce Development, and Supervisor David Campos' office to create such a district.

Resolution Introduced to Designate Calle 24 as a Latino Cultural District

Calle 24 San Francisco, the San Francisco Latino Historical Society, San Francisco Heritage, and the Offices of Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor David Campos worked together in an effort to designate the Calle 24 ("Veinticuatro") Latino Cultural District. The purpose of the designation is to stabilize the displacement of Latino businesses and residents, preserve Calle 24 as the center of Latino culture and commerce, enhance the unique nature of Calle 24 as a special place for San Francisco's residents and tourists, and ensure that the City of San Francisco and interested stakeholders have an opportunity to work collaboratively on a community planning process, which may result in the Designation of a Special Use District or other amendment to Planning Code.

The proposed Calle 24 Latino Cultural District is the area bound by Mission Street to the west, Potrero Street to the East, 22 nd Street to the North and 25 th Street to the South, including the 24 th Street commercial corridor from Bartlett Street to Potrero Avenue. Supervisor David Campos (D9) has introduced a resolution to designate this section of 24 th Street in the Mission District as the Calle 24 Latino Cultural District in an effort to recognize the significance of this area to the city's history and culture.

On Tuesday, May 20 th , the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously in favor of the proposed resolution. A celebratory press conference to announce the district was held on Friday, May 23 rd at Harrison and 24 th streets.

Calle 24: El Corazon de la Misión / The Heart of the Mission

Calle 24 is the heart of the Mission District and the hub of Latino cultural expression in San Francisco, as the district has served as the center of Latino activism, arts, commerce, and culture in San Francisco since the 1940s. It is representative of significant artistic and social movements that reflect the history of Latinos in San Francisco, the state of California, and the country as a whole. From the establishment of Galeria de la Raza, to serving as ground-zero for the Central American Solidarity Movements of the 1970 and 1980s, the activities and events that took place along Calle 24 during the second half of the 20 th century have created waves of social change that continue to reverberate throughout the country and the world. The Calle 24 Latino Cultural District will help to recognize the contributions that San Francisco's Latino community has made to the arts field, social justice organizing, and community-building.

Click here to read the full resolution. For more information about the history of Calle 24, please click on the button below or view the self-guided bilingual walking tour booklet, " Calle 24: Cuentos del Barrio."

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Calle 24 Latino Cultural District - San Francisco Heritage

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Spanning fourteen city blocks, the section of 24th Street bounded by Valencia Street to the west and Potrero Avenue to the east has served as the center of Latino activism, arts, commerce, and culture in San Francisco since the 1940s.

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Ballet Folklórico México Danza - Jalisco (San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival 2016)

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The Mission District in San Francisco boasts good weather, great food, and more murals than any other neighborhood in the city.

Many of these paintings celebrate the landscapes and cultures of Central America, as well as the violence and civil wars that racked Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala. Those conflicts fueled the migration of thousands of Central Americans to San Francisco over three decades, beginning in the 1980s.

Mauricio Ramírez is an artist, a muralist, and a native San Franciscan who is fascinated by the Mission's murals-and by the progressive coalition of artists and immigrants that coalesced during those decades.

"I saw these murals created mostly by Mexican Americans and Chicano artists, and I wondered what would make them paint in solidarity with Central Americans," explained Ramírez, a third-year doctoral student in Latin American and Latino studies whose dissertation focuses on transnational solidarity in Latinx visual art in the San Francisco Bay Area. "Mexican American and Chicano activists were very welcoming."

Rooted in the Chicano rights movement

Scholars have written about the city's support for Central American refugees, the sanctuary movement, and opposition to U.S. intervention in the region, but little about the art that blossomed during the era.

"A lot of the Mexican American artists came from the Chicano rights movement of the 1960s, and theywere against the Vietnam War," said Ramírez. "A lot were self-taught. They were politically motivated, and one of their outlets was art.

"For newly arrived Central Americans, seeing images from their homelands provided a warm welcome. "They could feel at home, they could feel safer," he said.

Ramírez earned his B.A. in art from UC Santa Cruz (Oakes, 2012) before getting a M.A. in teaching visual arts from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 2014. He puts his art and teaching talents to work every Friday night, teaching art at juvenile hall in San Mateo and San Francisco.

"It's one way of giving back," said Ramírez, who became immersed in the Mission's mural scene as a high school student. He contributed to murals all over the city as a youth.

With support from the Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development program, Ramírez spent the summer interviewing muralists, conducting library research, and combing archives to recreate the story of the Mission's murals, particularly those adorning the walls and garage doors of Balmy Alley, a one-block street between 24th Street and 25th Street that is home to the most concentrated collection of murals in the city. Balmy Alley's murals appeared in large numbers in response to a 1984 Artist Call to protest U.S. intervention in Central America; a group of 36 artists created 27 murals in Balmy Alley during the summer of 1985, helping to establish the Mission as a "mural environment."

Three murals

The mural "Culture Contains the Seed of Resistance," painted by Miranda Bergman and O'Brien Thiele. (Photo by Mauricio Ramírez.)

One of the alley's murals, "Culture Contains the Seed of Resistance" painted by Miranda Bergman and O'Brien Thiele, speaks to state-sanctioned violence in Central America. The left panel depicts elders holding black-and-white portraits of victims, "the disappeared," while a youth paints "Resiste" on the wall. On the right side of the mural, smiling campesinos and musicians are pictured with an overflowing cornucopia of tropical fruits, a rainbow river flows in the foreground against a backdrop of agricultural fields, mountains, and sky.

The mural "Ceasefire," painted by Juana Alicia.

In a 1990 mural titled "Ceasefire" by Juana Alicia, a youth stands proudly against a backdrop of fields and mountains, while the foreground is dominated by the image of two hands raised in resistance, guns pressing into the palms.

"Missionmakeover," by Tirso Araiza and Lucia Ippolito.

A more recent two-panel mural, titled "Missionmakeover" by Tirso Araiza and Lucia Ippolito, is a study in contrasts: On the left, a police officer is handcuffing a young Latino, with a low-rider, a pitbull, and a bus featured prominently; on the right, a bustling 24th Street streetscape is crowded with pedestrians, cyclists, neighbors, and lavishly painted Victorian homes. In the foreground, a uniformed police officer chats with a blonde-haired woman wearing high heels, Starbucks cups in hand and dogs at their feet.

Gentrification

For Ramírez, the pace of gentrification has added to the urgency of his project.

"Most of the murals were created by Latinos, and Latinos are being displaced," he said. "What's going to happen to these murals down the line? Will they be protected? Conserved? Whitewashed?"

Ramírez is interviewing well-known Bay Area artists, such as Ray Patlan and Patricia Rodriguez, as well as leaders of community organizations such as Precita Eyes Muralists Association, a nonprofit that has helped create more than 400 murals throughout San Francisco and is active in preserving existing artwork.

"When people think about murals, they don't think about high art, but some of these murals are impressive works by really talented artists," said Ramírez.

Ramírez is one of twelve UC Santa Cruz graduate students who received support from the campus's new Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development program. Recipients received $5,000 and were invited to attend two dissertation-proposal workshops with doctoral students and their faculty advisers from four other universities. As the lead administrator for the UCSC program, which is hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research and the Graduate Division, Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies Tyrus Miller attended the June workshop in Pittsburgh.

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Murals tell a story of pan-Latino solidarity in SF's Mission District

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Graduate student Mauricio Ramírez is an artist, a muralist, and a native San Franciscan who is fascinated by the murals in the Mission District of San Francisco-and by the progressive coalition of artists and immigrants that coalesced during the decades they were painted.

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Afro Latin Party Putumayo Presents - Afro-Latin Party

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National Dishes of Latin America; A Latin American Food Fiesta!