Lake View School Plans Massive Cultural Festival to Benefit Students

In honor of celebrating diversity, Lake View’s Inter-American Magnet School is hosting their annual benefit and fundraiser, Fiesta Cultural, this Saturday from 4 to 8:30 p.m.

Located at 851 W. Waveland Ave., the school’s event will feature food and entertainment from Spain, Latin America, China, and Russia in support of Inter-American’s “Curriculum of the Americas.”

Fiesta Cultural celebrates Latin America's rich and diverse cultural heritage with live music and dance performances, savory food fair, children’s art displays, artisan bazaar and children's art activities. While celebrating the cultural and artistic diversity, the school says it plans to fundraise for Inter-American Magnet School.

Performances will include live professional entertainment from groups like La Bompleneras, Los Jarochicanos and the Latin Street Semi-Pro Team. Inter-American students will also perform Latin American folkloric dance and Aztec dance.

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And with food representing more than 10 different countries including Cuba, Portugal and Australia, organizers are hoping to show the neighborhood cultural variety from the music to the cuisine.

The event is bilingual, family-friendly and open to the public. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 children. Family tickets for two adults and their children will be available for $25. In addition, the school has arranged for free parking at the Addison/Halsted public lot and at the Lakeview Lutheran Church lot at 835 W. Addison St.

Inter-American is a Chicago Public School serving almost 700 ethnically and economically diverse, preschool through 8th grade students from all over Chicago. Inter-American is the oldest "dual language" program in the Midwest, teaching Spanish and English speaking children to read, write and speak fluently in both languages.

The event is run by FELE (Familias en la escuela), the school's parent volunteer organization and 501(c)3 nonprofit. All proceeds benefit Inter-American Magnet School, commemorating over 30 years of multilingual, multicultural public education. For more information, visit www.iamschicago.com

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