El Pueblo

La fiesta del Pueblo is the triangles largest and most diverse festival of latin american culture, featuring live music and dance performances, visual and folk art exhibits, educational booths, and activities for the whole family. La fiesta del Pueblo, held on fayetteville street, south of the state capitol building in downtown raleigh, has three main objectives 1 raise awareness of and celebrate the diversity of latin american culture through high quality artistic displays, performances, and food 2 share resources and information that are relevant to the community and 3 recruit new supporters and activate and develop the leadership of existing supporters of El Pueblo. Festival attractions include live music and dance performances highlighting traditional and popular forms of cultural expression visual art exhibits highlighting local latinx artists folk art exhibits and sales educational booths from dozens of nonprofit and state agencies that provide information and services to latinx residents ninolandia and the youth fair with educational, artistic, and cultural activities

Youth - civic engagement through our 2022 fellowship program, we were able to mobilize college students to civically engage their peers across the state. Our fellows were on the ground registering voters, door knocking, tabling at events, and providing important information on voting. All our youth civic engagement work is nonpartisan. In our efforts to civically engage youth in the midterm election year, we held events at universities and in school clubs, such as nc state, meredith, unc-chapel hill, duke, and saint augustine with great success during the general and primary elections. We made voters feel safe at the polls in chatham, wake, and alamance counties. Our leaders and volunteers helped make safe sites fun and informative by providing snacks for voters, words of encouragement, and non-partisan voter guides.

Adult - civic engagement in 2017, the leadership and community action committee clac formerly known as the community leadership council was formed to further El pueblos work by continuing the engagement and growth of adult community leaders, ensuring greater effectiveness and informing our decision making on campaigns, governance, and operations. Clac members include new and veteran leaders, with varying levels of involvement within El Pueblo and overall social justice work. In 2022, 13 empowered latinx women worked together as part of our clac to distribute information and resources about covid-19 vaccines and testing , and El Pueblo programs in the surrounding community. To help empower voters, we used a variety of tools including our website votemosnc.com which serves as a hub for essential voter information. Through votemos nc we were also able to create 13 non-partisan voter guides in spanish 1 statewide and 12 county