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Bienvenidos!
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It’s summer and a wonderful time to have some fun with family and friends.
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What’s Happening
in Olvera Street
July 2005
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Olvera Street had been busy creating cultural events highlighting music, art, film, and festivities for the entire family to enjoy! Please visit our Olvera Street Event Calendar. Come and join us! We look forward to seeing you!
- The Jalisco Festival
- United Methodist Church 106th Anniversary
- Summer Film Series
- Bienvenidos Children's Center Health Fair
- Border Video Art Festival
- Wells Fargo Summer Music Festival
- Chinese American Museum Exhibition: "Impressions"
To find out more about the events, click here!
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Classic Mexican
Film Series
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The Mexican Cultural Institute presents the MCI Summer Film Series at El Pueblo Historical Monument with screenings on Friday evenings at 7:45 p.m. through August 19. The outdoor screenings of ten new films, from well-known Mexican directors, are subtitled and sponsored by the Mexican Consulate. For more information please call (213) 628-1274. Admission is free.
To find out more about the events, click here!
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What’s New at
Olvera-Street.com
“Abuelita’s Kitchen”
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We are excited to feature a new section dedicated to cooking flavorful Mexican cuisine. It is dedicated to my wonderful grandmother Belen Tapia who shared so much love with her family and friends with all her delicious Mexican cuisine.
This month we are featuring three simple favorite comfort foods: Guacamole Dip, Hot Corn Tortilla Chips and my mother’s delicious Grilled Flank Steak Burritos.
To visit Abuelita’s Kitchen, click here!
If you have any favorite recipes you would like to share, please submit them at recipes@Olvera-Street.com E-mail us your favorite family recipe with a paragraph sharing a story about it and a picture of you or your family. If you are selected, we will feature it online. It is one way to share your family history with us too!
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Visit us!
“See L.A.!”
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Now that summer is at our doorsteps, we are excited to feature a new section dedicated to traveling in the Los Angeles area just in time for summer vacation! We have a list of historic sites, museums, theaters, tourist attractions and much more.
There are vibrant energies of bargain shopping at the “Jewelry District” between Broadway and Hill and 5th through 8th Streets, “Fashion District” on Los Angeles Street crossing 4th – 12th Streets, the “Artist’s District” with experimental galleries and studios east of Alameda Avenue and much more!
This month we have added Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and the nearby vicinities.
Welcome to Los Angeles!
To view our list, click “See L.A.!”
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Olvera Street
“Call for Entries!”
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El Pueblo Historical Monument (Olvera Street) is seeking volunteer performers including musicians, singers and dancers. Volunteers can accept unsolicited tips during performances and also sell CDs. All music styles will be considered.
For more information please call (213) 485-8376.
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What’s New!
Our Community
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Olvera-Street.com is a proud sponsor of our community and the arts. We have developed a new page, “Events Around Town,” highlighting events in our community. Please visit it to learn more about the arts, fundraisers, wine tasting, business mixers, children festivities, screenings, and much more! If you know of an event, please visit Olvera-Street.com to submit it.
Bookmark Olvera-Street.com and visit us often to find out about our history, community, world events, and much more. We hope you will visit us often in July and throughout 2005.
Please e-mail this page to anyone
you think may be interested.
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News About Our World
Ricky Martin Foundation
American Red Cross
International Response
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The City of Los Angeles is made up of many races and religions, cultures and languages. Differences must not alienate or frighten us, not when we can embrace and celebrate them. At Olvera-Street.com we are more interested in our common threads than in common threats. We support efforts to improve the lives of people not only in Los Angeles, but throughout the world’s village.
In July we are focusing on the continuing efforts to assist the victims of the Asian tsunami orphans.
Singer Ricky Martin, a Puerto-Rico American, took a sabbatical from his "Livin' la Vida Loca" pop music career two years ago to drag that spotlight that was following him onto the shores of Thailand, where tens of thousands of homeless orphans fight a daily battle for survival. Visit www.peopleforchildren.org or click here to learn more about the Ricky Martin Foundation and his charity efforts.
To view the PSA’s visit http://www.peopleforchildren.org/index2.php
Other organizations that are working to help the victims:
Oprah's Angel Network funds programs that help people rebuild and strengthen their lives. The Angel Network does not take funds designated for a specific project. Oprah's Angel Network has projects throughout the world focusing on education, women and children. Donations will be used in keeping with the Angel Network's mission where needed most. Visit https://www.oprah.com
Mercy Corps is helping with the immediate needs of the people. Their Cash for Work program pays many of the locals to clean up the area, giving them money to take care of their families.
Visit www.mercycorps.org.
Free the Children's Adopt a Village program plans to rebuild schools and send school supplies, and to build health clinics and help provide clean water that is much needed to the people of Arugam Bay and Pottuvil. Visit www.freethechildren.com.
Habitat for Humanity plans to build transitional houses with verandas and sanitary facilities. Visit www.habitat.org.
As this issue of the Olvera-Street.com goes to press, news of the tragic terrorist bombings in London is filling the airwaves. As the victims are still being attended to, the British Red Cross is yet to issue an appeal for funds.
However, the American Red Cross reports that you can make a financial gift to the American Red Cross International Response Fund, which provides immediate and long-term support through supplies, technical assistance, and other support to those in need. Call 1-800-HELP NOW or 1-800-257-7575 (Spanish).
The British Red Cross may be contacted directly at: http://www.redcross.org.uk . The American Red Cross’s web site is at www.redcross.org.
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News About Our World
Update
Iraq War
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 As of early July, according to CNN, “There have been 1,928 coalition troop deaths, 1,741 Americans, 89 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, one Dane, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Hungarian, 25 Italians, one Kazakh, one Latvian, 17 Poles, one Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians in the war in Iraq as of June 28, 2005. The list below is the names of the soldiers, Marines, airmen, sailors and Coast Guardsmen whose families have been notified of their deaths by each country's government. At least 13,190 U.S. troops have been wounded in action, according to the Pentagon. The Pentagon does not report the number of non-hostile wounded.”
That is 676 more deaths since we at Olvera Street for Dia De Los Muertos created the altar on October 28, 2004, and is not counting the estimated 100,000-200,000 Iraqi deaths including women and children.
The "Altar of the Iraq War" was created to honor and respect the memories and lives of all those who have died. To learn more about the altar, click here!
* (The "Altar of the Iraq War" was created by six artists and does not necessarily reflect the thoughts of the Olvera Street merchants or El Pueblo Historic Monument.)
 The American Friends Service Committee’s widely acclaimed traveling exhibition, “Eyes Wide Open,” visited Los Angeles in mid-March. The outdoor art exhibit graphically showed the human cost of the Iraq War to the United States in the form of empty boots.
To learn more about both exhibitions, click here!
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What’s New Next Month!
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We are currently developing much more for our visitors; we will also have an “Employment Opportunity” page and a children’s section coming soon.
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Quotes
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“A man who views the world
the same at 50 as he did at 20
has wasted 30 years of his life.”
`Muhammed Ali
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May all your wishes and dreams come true.
We hope you will have a wonderful time this summer dear ones!
John Trausch, Editor & Ginette Rondeau, Director
For comments or suggests about www.Olvera-Street.com
please contact our Webmaster@ProjectWWW.com
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