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Chicas Running Group Spring Marathons for 2015!

24 Saturday Jan 2015

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Don’t wait to join the Chicas Running Group! As we prepare for the two marathons this spring (info below) we will be giving opportunity for runners to earn either free admission or fun-run worthy prizes. Your chance to earn begins the first run on Sunday, February the 1st through the end of the month!

Saturday March 7, 2015

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More specific information is TBD. However, this is a 5k race benefiting Camp Kesem, a college student run organization whose mission is to help children through their parent’s cancer. Registration cost details coming soon. The first 10 runners that come to at least four Chicas running group workouts,* we’ll cover your entry fee.

Sunday March 15, 2015

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Blue Diamond Shamrock’n Half-Marathon in Sacramento. We won’t be offering free entry for this race, but we’ll be raffling off a few amazing prizes. You must attend at least four group workouts* to be enter into the raffle.

*You are not required to attend four consecutive runs, only four total. So let’s get going runners! #TeamChicas

Community Running Group Form: http://bit.ly/ChicasRunningGroup

Exhibition Live! Our America

30 Thursday Oct 2014

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Today at the Crocker Art Museum, Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art will perform a LIVE performance by dynamic California-based Mexican folk and contemporary dance company, Calidanza.

Crocker LIVE event

This dynamic program series brings exhibitions to life through wide-ranging performances and interactive opportunities in the galleries. Learn the art of salsa with live music and dance instruction from Yemaya Salsa Dance Studio. Enjoy guided spotlight talks.

Exhibition Live! Program

7:00 PM   Enjoy tours and spotlight talks of Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art and Arte Mexicano: Legacy of the Masters (3rd Floor, Teel Family Pavilion)

7:00 PM   Visit the pop-up art market featuring Florentina Favela, Xico Gonzalez, Olga Cid, and Spanglish (Friedman Court)

7:30PM    Be mesmerized by Calidanza! Dance Company’s sultry Latin dance experience (Friedman Court)

8:00 PM   Feel the beat and spice things up with dancing and live music by the Yemaya Salsa Dance Company (Friedman Court)

~Space is limited and reserving tickets in advance is recommended~

The exhibition will only be open to ticketholders from 5:30 – 8:30 PM

$6 Members
$10 Students/youth
$12 Nonmembers

Don’t miss a truly incredible evening!

Latino & Mexicano Art Exhibits Featured at the Crocker

12 Sunday Oct 2014

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Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art
Sept. 21, 2014 – Jan. 11, 2015
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The exhibition explores the idea that we are “a nation of immigrants” by considering the varied contributions of Latino artists to American art and culture from the mid-20th century to the present. Featuring nearly 100 works across all media by some of the leading contemporary artists working in the United States, the exhibition will examine how their works express an evolving American experience. Latino artists across the United States were galvanized by the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. They created new images of their communities and celebrated hybrid cultural traditions. Approaching their practice with humor, irony, and valor, Latino artists critically probed American history and popular culture, revealing the possibilities and tensions of expansionism, migration, and settlement.

Arte Mexicano: Legacy of the Masters
Oct. 12, 2014 – Feb. 1, 2015
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The exhibition showcases the ideals, individualism, and intertwining artistic lives of modern Mexican artists. Composed of 30 paintings and works on paper by nearly 20 artists, the exhibition highlights their varied responses to the post-revolutionary call for a distinctly Mexican visual art. Arte Mexicano will cover a wide range of artists active throughout the 20th century, and will trace the impact of the Mexican Revolution, as well as the influence of Mexican muralism, pre-Columbian traditions, and European artistic movements. The show hopes to bring a fresh perspective to popular conceptions of Mexican art by showcasing a variety of artists working throughout Mexico and the United States—including Diego Rivera, Gunther Gerzso, Carlos Merida, Remedios Varo, and Alejandro Santiago—and consider their interpretations of Mexican, modern, and personal identities.

For more information:
https://crockerartmuseum.org/exhibitions

El Grito de Dolores: El Día de la Independencia de México in Sacramento 2014

21 Sunday Sep 2014

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El Grito de Dolores celebrated on September 15th and is the event that marked the beginning of Mexico’s fight for independence.

Sacramento celebrates every year with an El Grito celebration at the West Steps of the Capital Building in Downtown Sacramento. Festivities start at 5pm, with El Grito de Dolores reenactment at 8pm.

Photos from El Grito de Dolores, El Día de la Independencia de México, in Sacramento 2014:

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Chicas Latinas de Sacramento’s #Network4Cause Celebration, Viva Las Chicas!

10 Wednesday Sep 2014

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Dearest Sacramento members, volunteers, friends and supporters… you’re invited to join us for a FREE Chicas Latinas de Sacramento Event & Fundraiser at Mayahuel on Sept. 18th, from 5:30 – 8pm.

#Network4Cause is the traditional business and community networking you’re used to — with a wonderful charity spin! Every month Eric Ratinoff supports and sponsors a different nonprofit at his monthly mixer events. This month, it’s US!

#Network4Cause benefiting Chicas Latinas de Sacramento! #VivaLasChicas916, is free and open to the community. This will be Chicas Latinas’ ONLY community and fundraising event of the year, and will also serve as a closing celebration for our “Starting off on the Right Foot!” Shoe Drive.

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FREE #Network4Cause: ( http://bit.ly/Network4CauseChicas )

1.       Connect with Chicas Latinas and learn about our mission / vision for Sacramento

2.       Access to Local Community Leaders and Advocates

3.       Great Professional & Local Business Networking

4.       Delicious Appetizers served from 5:30-7pm

5.       “Cocktails for a Cause” a percentage of drink purchases benefit Chicas Latinas de Sacramento

6.       Proceeds from the Silent Auction help support Chicas Latinas’ Mission

7.       Be prepared to celebrate after an exciting announcement from Founder, Angela Rosas!

Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/903653189648374/

* LAST CHANCE ~ Please bring your shoe donations! More Info: http://bit.ly/ChicasShoeDrive

July 2014: Get involved with Chicas Latinas de Sacramento

14 Monday Jul 2014

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Chicas Latinas de Sacramento members are keeping busy supporting, planning, and developing programs and events in the Sacramento Community.

Coming up ~~~ Join us! 

Chicas Latinas Running Group is meeting every Wednesday evening (6:30pm) at Curtis Park. And look for a new health blog series coming soon! See you out there on July 16th.

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Support a Chicas Latinas Member at Menagerie Pop up Art Show

Kiki Art Show 7.16.2014 Menagerie

Calidanza Dance Company Fundraiser – Volunteers Needed

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Fiesta en la Calle, ONLY A FEW SATURDAYS LEFT! 

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Sunday, August 3rd at 8:30am, Cesar Chavez Park: Give to the Homeless, Volunteers / Donations Needed

Clean out those closets, especially the closets of the men in your life. There are much more men on the streets in need than women. Shoes are extra special! Also needed, toiletries, socks, coffee, toothpaste, deodorant…

Please bring any donations the morning of (you will see us set up with folding tables and handing out coffee to a line of Sacramento’s homeless).

 

Have questions? Want to get involved? Email us using the form below:

Chicas Latinas de Sacramento: 5 Year Anniversary Speech

03 Tuesday Jun 2014

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What Chicas Latinas de Sacramento’s 5 Year Anniversary means to our members — and our community!

Read below: 

Lessons from a Pro(fessional)

On May 18th, we celebrated the five year anniversary of my nonprofit organization, Chicas Latinas de Sacramento. Today I was inspired to share the speech I gave (also known as “my novel”), as I needed a reminder as to why I do, what I do.

Today, Chicas Latinas is underfunded. In fact, we’re not funded at all. Now that we have over five solid years of service and our 501(c)3 status, I’m ready for this to change.

I believe in what we’re doing. Here’s why: 

Chicas Latinas de Sacramento: 5 Years Later

– Speech by Angela Rosas, Founder & CEO Chicas Latinas de Sacramento

 May 18, 2014, Sacramento – Welcome and thank you for joining us at Chicas Latinas de Sacramento’s 5 year Anniversary Dinner. Five Years ago 15 women met here at Zocalo for happy hour. I had a simple idea to unite Latinas for two reasons; to inspire…

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Upcoming Chicas Latinas de Sacramento Events

27 Wednesday Nov 2013

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Registration Includes:
1. Access to Local Professionals, Leaders, and Advocates
2. Light Appetizers served from 5:30-7pm
3. “Cocktails for a Cause” a percentage of drink purchase will benefit a local charity

  • Chicas Latinas Beginning Running Group, Wednesday, December 4, 2013 at 6:30pm

Dia de los Muertos in Sacramento, Celebrate Tradition with Chicas Latinas

22 Tuesday Oct 2013

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Join Chicas Latinas de Sacramento at Noche de Muertos on Saturday, November 2, 2013 from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM, at Zocalo in Midtown Sacramento for a Dia de los Muertos Fundraiser benefiting Calidanza Dance Company!

Tickets are only $20… or you can volunteer (with us)! We still need volunteers to assist Calidanza’s fundraiser and our Chicas craft booth. RSVP to volunteer on our site, or email Calidanza: calidanzaco@gmail.com (and tell them Chicas Latinas sent you).

Calidanza Dance Company in collaboration with Zocalos Mexican Restaurant in midtown Sacramento will present Noche de Muertos. This fundraiser event will include music, dance performances, day of the dead fashion show, storytelling, face painting, and a free drink and appetizer courtesy of Zocalos. Come mingle with members of Calidanza Dance Company, Sacramento Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Chicas Latina of Sacramento and many others!

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Also, be sure to swing by, 20th and J in Midtown Sacramento for La Raza Galeria Posada’s El Panteon! Chicas Latinas de Sacramento are sponsoring an altar space for a local family – we’re excited to see their altar. Be sure to come out and support this beautiful cultural (free) Sacramento event.

 2013 DIA DE LOS MUERTOS
(DAY OF THE DEAD)
4TH ANNUAL EL PANTEON DE SACRAMENTO
MIDTOWN SACRAMENTO BETWEEN 20TH AND J STREET OUTSIDE
Event Schedule:
Saturday November 2, 2013 11am through 1am
Sunday, November 3, 2013 8am through 6pm

http://www.lrgp.org/dia-de-los-muertos.html

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The Historic Old Sacramento Foundation partnered with Sol Collective to provide a month of programs and activities in celebration of Dia de los Muertos. Workshops and events are held every Saturday in October from 11:00AM to 2:00PM in the Stanford Gallery at 111 I Street.

Sol Collective Dia de los Muertos  

Coming up from Sol Collective:

October 24th, 7pm — Community Lecture Series
Sacramento History Museum
101 I St. Old Sacramento. CA 95814
“Honoring Our Past” Join community members as they discuss the meaning and history of Dia De Los Muertos.

Nov. 1st, 6pm Dia De Los Muertos Celebration
In front of Sacramento History Museum
101 I St. Old Sacramento. CA 95814

Chicas Latinas de Sacramento’s Viewing Party: LATINAS THINK BIG™

07 Monday Oct 2013

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This Hispanic Heritage Month, let’s celebrate and learn from our Latina sisters!!! Attend….

ELLA LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE’S: LATINAS THINK BIG™ Event in Los Angeles – VIEWING PARTY IN SACRAMENTO!!! 

Celebrating Innovative Latina Thought Leaders

Join the Chicas Latinas de Sacramento at Thinkhouse Collective as we enjoy this great Latina Leadership event on Friday 10/11 at 6:00pm from the comfort of downtown Sacramento.

This will be a low-key Friday evening event. Come after work, wine will be provided, bring a snack to share, business cards, grab a seat and relax in the comfort of Thinkhouse Collective in Sacramento – while viewing and taking part in this fantastic Latina Leadership event!!! (Donation event, please give what you can.)

** Seating is limited at Thinkhouse, REGISTER: https://latinasthinkbigsac.eventbrite.com/

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What we’ll join in for:  

6:40 – 7:00PM    The “Latina Power Shift” Report:

One-on-One Interview with Monica Gil, Senior Vice President at Nielsen, by Dr. Angelica Perez-Litwin, Founder & CEO, ELLA Leadership Institute

7PM – 8:30PM    LATINAS THINK BIG™ Presentations: 

• Rocio Moreno, Celebrated Architectural Designer

• Nora Cadena is a first generation Mexican-American, three-time MIT graduate, engineering leader and community volunteer.

• Pamela Campos, Operations Intelligence Analyst, US Air Force

• Estefania Ortiz, Stanford University Electrical Engineer and Software Engineering College Student

• Veronica Villafañe, Emmy award-winning bilingual multimedia journalist and former President of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ)

** Please arrive early to allow time for introductions/snacking, we’ll join in at 6:30.