La Clave Fest. The Day London Goes Latin.

Free Latino event London! With the Olympic Games in Rio just around the corner, what better way to get into the Latino vibe than with a visit to La Clave Fest @ Crouch End festival on Saturday 18th June. Now in its fifth year, the Crouch End Festival will take place from 10th - 19th June 2016. On Saturday 18th, La Clave Fest, a day dedicated to FREE Latin music, dance, film, art, theatre and sport, will come to the streets and venues of N8, showing Crouch Enders how to lead la vida latina from 10am till late. Launched by the founders of the Latin UK Awards (LUKAS), La Clave Fest is a celebration of the best Latin entertainment as chosen by the British public. MAIN STAGE, OUTSIDE HORNSEY TOWN HALL, 12 noon till 10pm (visit www.crouchendfestival.org/la-clave for times) MUSIC Luigi Texidor (from Puerto Rico) Dorance Lorza and Sexteto Café - Salsa Tribo - Samba Gerardo de Armas & Sus Amigos - Afro-Cuban La Explosión - Flamenco Mike Kalle and La Raza Collective - Latin Hip Hop La Kasha - Electro-acoustic Katy Prado and Los Mamboleros - Latin Rockabilly Purple Dads - Rock DANCE DanceMyWay - Brazilian Dancemyway Samba Kids - Samba Fadi’s Salsa Kids - Salsa Morenada Bloque Kantuta- Bolivian DJs Saúl Maya (Ecuador) Fernando KBSon (Colombia) Deoh (Ecuador) Javier La Rosa (Cuba) Tulimar (Venezuela) FAMILY Morning Zumba with Belkys Ledezma - Fitness Castells – A Catalan Human Tower - Performance Mexican Wrestlers on the Loose – Performance INSIDE HORNSEY TOWN HALL Spinning Crouch End Memories - Art Intervention Crouch End Copa America - Sport/Kids Alex Etchart’s Sex Worker’s Opera (Latin Excerpts) - Theatre Fiona Macintosh presents ‘Rosa of the Wild Grass’ - Literature Fadi’s Salsa Workshop- Dance Workshop Being Latin in London – Talk Camilo Menjura’s Spanish Sing-along - Kids Argentine After the Kirchners - Talk Brazil Inside Out – Talk and book launch Ortega’s Sinking Canal – Talk Brazilian Music and the Politics of Black Identity – Talk The Fight for Indigenous People’s Rights in the Amazon - Talk OTHER N8 VENUES FILM Gabo - The Creation of Gabriel García Márquez FILM + Q&A Gilles Peterson presents Havana Rumba Sessions FILM + Q&A Batalha do Passinho (Passinho Dance Off) MUSIC DOCUMENTARY + Q&A Fellow Travellers SHORT Made in Mexico - MUSIC DOCUMENTARY TALKS Colombia in Focus - Following the screening of ‘Gabo’ How We Achieved Peace in Colombia By Kristian Herbolzeimer, one of the advisors in the Colombian Peace Process 35 Years Accompanying Hope. By Ann Wright who spent a year in Colombia with Peace Brigades ART Silvina Soria - EXHIBITION @ Jealous Gallery Sonia Ciruelo @ EXHIBITION @ Jealous Gallery Alex Vargas @ EXHIBITION @ Jealous Gallery Julio Etchart - PHOTOGRAPHY Alejandro Gortazar - PHOTOGRAPHY Maria Cabrera – CERAMICS @ Floral Hall LITERATURE Leila Segal presents ‘Breathe’ LITERATURE @ Porky’s Alejandro Madrigal presents ‘Días de Rabia’. LITERATURE THEATRE Manuelita –THEATRE @ 8pm, Moors Theatre MUSIC Katy Prado and Los Mamboleros Latin Rockabilly @ The Maynard Ahmed Dickinson – Classical Guitar @ Porky’s Luiz de Almeida Quartet @ Brazilian Jazz @ Coolhurst Tennis Club