A sea of red, green, blue, and every other color of the rainbow decorated the standard red brick and concrete of City Hall Plaza last Sunday as community members gathered to celebrate the festival of Fiesta en la Plaza.
Attendees’ eyes and ears feasted as the plaza brimmed with vibrant costumes, dynamic performances, and upbeat music. The dancing atmosphere infected the whole crowd as individuals’ bodies were soon swaying and snapping their fingers to the beat of the music. Others stood nearby taking bites from tacos and other cultural dishes they had gotten from food trucks that bordered the sides of the plaza.
Celebrating Latinx Heritage month, the festival has become a local tradition, organized by Ágora Cultural Architects, a woman-owned cultural business created to empower the voice of Latinos all over the United States. Now in its third year, the event was originally started by Ágora co-founder Elsa Mosquera, whose objective was to showcase underrepresented Latino artists, and expand the one dimensional view of Latinx culture that is present in most media…