El Pueblo

La fiesta del puelbo 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, performaces and food 2) share resources and information that are relevant to the community and 3) recriut new supporters and activate and develop the leadership of existing supporters of El plueblo festval attractions inclued: 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

Adult - civic engagement: in 2017, the leadership and community action committee (clac) (formerly known as the community leadership council) was formed to further El plueblos work by continuing the engagement and growth of adult community leaders, ensuring greater effectiveness and informing our decision making on capaigns, 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 informaion 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 are also able to vreate 13 non-partisan voter guides in spanish (1 statewide and 12 county

Youth - civic engagement: through our 2022 fleeowship program, we were able to mobolize college students to civically engage their peers across the stat. 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 schoolclubs, 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.