The Sacramento Film Festival (SFF) is set host their Latin infused event on the Delta King in Old Sacramento 7pm this Sunday, April 21st. This cultural favorite of the Sacramento community will feature short films produced by Mexican filmmakers, Fran Guijarro's Mexican Cuisine, El Invento- a Giovanni Granada film, as well as Gloria Moran's, The Unique Ladies, "world's 1st lady low-rider car club!" Professor Dr. Jorge Santana of CSU, Sacramento notes, "This event honors and shines light on the great aspects of the Latino community, a true favorite of mine." Since its establishment in 2007, CineLatino is going on its 5th year to reflect and celebrate Chicano, Latin American, and Spanish cul

If you had wandered on to the new site of La Raza Galería Posada (LRGP) on the morning of its grand opening celebration, you would have seen vendors setting up, an artist in the midst of an installation, and heard a sound check in progress. Near the stage was a small group that included a poet, a local café owner and former LRGP board member, and a young student (and occasionally a community reporter). This group was not planning a performance or discussing marketing strategy, they were blowing up balloons to draw traffic to the venue. Executive Director, Marie Acosta, was directing cars, among other things. That is the sort of teamwork that exemplifies the spirit of LRGP. This year mar

The 40-year-old La Raza Galería Posada Latino arts and culture center will leave its Midtown location next month, moving to a bigger facility in Miller Park that will allow for larger indoor and outdoor events. “We hope to have our inaugural event in early or mid June, and that will be a concert in Miller Park,” said Marie Acosta, executive director of La Raza Galería Posada. “It will also be an opportunity for us to introduce the public to the site and talk about building a new building or renovating the current building.” The building is an approximately 1,800-square-foot warehouse-style structure on Front street just south of Broadway. It is double the size of the center’s Midtown loc

At La Raza Galería Posada, they’re always thinking about what issues or art that’s important to Latino Americans and interests that the community would like to see, according to curator Ella Diáz. Their exhibit “Miráme,” which opened Friday, did just that. “Miráme”is about self-portraits of cultural representation. When Diáz set out to put together this exhibit, she was initially going to explore aesthetic mixtures as an allegory for racial and cultural mixture. But she said that seemed too serious of a topic — too serious for the lighthearted Diáz who brought in a DJ and a karaoke machine for the opening. Diáz’s inspiration instead shifted toward the great Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, wh