Scenes from the 35th Feria del Barrio.
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Check out the photos from the 35th Feria del Barrio:
Taller’s Excecutive Director, Carmen Febo San Miguel, talks about the year’s Feria del Barrio
Tino Serrano Salsa Ensemble will include vocalist Celeste M. Polanco, for the very first time at Feria.
Married 44 years to Linda, with three children Peter, Leslie (Axel), and Jennifer (Filip Olechowski) and two grandchildren (Leslie & Axel Bergeson). He lived in the Philadelphia region all his life. He graduated from the University of PA in 1974 with a BA in Biology. He went back for business courses at Temple University. Since the early 80’s he has been involved in commercial real estate.
His developments include Ardmore Plaza, Overbrook Plaza, Wynnefield Plaza, and Plaza Allegheny. In addition, he developed properties in the suburbs and University City. Presently he has a niche developing inner-city properties in neighborhoods like Fairhill. He’s attracted to underserved communities on gateway transitional neighborhoods, where he believe the transition is on its way up. He gets great pleasure creating something where nothing existed Plaza Allegheny was originally an old RR siding and auto salvage yard. His greatest satisfaction is when people come up to him and thank him for his work.
His involvement in the community has necessitated a collaboration of the needs of the community and a vision of what could be, given the marketing, financial, and practical aspects to take a vacant piece of ground and develop the shopping center that exists today.
When he first started looking at this project, he had many factors to deal with. Just the ground itself and the multiple entities of ownership was daunting. Add to that the unique socio-economic issues of the community. If you only looked at the negative aspects of the community you would simply walk away.
What attracted him to this development was the underlying sense of community. This is a place where families call their home. They buy vacant homes to keep their children, sisters, and brothers near them. He saw a need for a place where the community could meet, shop, do their laundry, find a doctor, etc.
He’s not done yet. He looks forward to completing this project in the coming year and he hopes you will all be pleased when it’s finally completed.
Any table participant can take advantage of renting these tents for $100 for the day. They can contact the vendor and make arrangements directly with him.
For details, please contact ExpoMax at 610-724-5248(mobile) or info@expomax.com
Click on the download button for a PDF of Feria program.
Performing this year in Feria is:
Grupo Los Tecuanes, a Mexican dance group based in the Washington, DC area, will perform two dances. Los Viejitos is a typical Mexican dance showing the playful character of Mexicans as they age and make fun of themselves and yet respect their maturity. The second dance is very typical of Puebla and represents the strong Native American (Mixtec/Aztec) influence on the Mexican culture. The characters are in pursuit of the Jaguar or is the Jaguar in pursuit of the Characters? Seeing the performers wearing impressive handmade masks and costumes, you will experience a very different element of Mexican culture than the folkloric ballet dances one usually sees.
Organizing partners/Organizadores:
Taller Puertorriqueño, Asociacion Puertorriqueños en Marcha, Congreso de Latinos Unidos, HACE y Raíces Culturales Latinoamericanas.
Main Sponsors/Gracias a nuestros auspiciadores:
PNC Arts Alive, and the City of Philadelphia Commerce Department, in addition to Telemundo 62, Xfinity, PECO, Health Partners, Philadelphia Corporation for the aging, Children Crisis Treatment Center, Vámonos Tours, Gateway Health, and Health Partners Plans
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