“The Community Center is a miracle—a place where everyone can come together and be supported.” - Berta Mendoza, volunteer and program participant
The 2024 Latinx Arts Festival was a beautiful celebration of Latinx culture in collaboration with the West Marin Promotores group and which featured local Latinx vendors sharing food from across Latin America, Aztec dancers, Mariachi singers, traditional dances, traditional Latinx crafts, as well as an incredible art show in our galleries from Ernesto Sanchez, a local West Marin artist. With generous support from beloved community members and cherished donors, the Community Center’s International Day of Peace Festival has celebrated peace and community connection for over 10 years. Through informational booths, interactive art-making experiences, exhibitions, live music, films, and workshops the peace festival has gone from a one-day music festival to a week-long interactive community extravaganza. Peace Fest engages the community in conversations, learning, and creative action all in the name of amplifying peace. This year we celebrated our 4th Annual Climate Fest, organized by our NextGen Greenstitch Climate Action teen interns. The event brought people together around the daunting issue of climate change in a positive, creative, and solution-focused way, featuring a powerful exhibition of portraits and stories from Latinx and Indigenous land stewards as models of sustainability. Climate Fest fostered joyful, cross-generational connections and collaborations that continue to ripple out, strengthening community bonds and inspiring ongoing climate action in West Marin.
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