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Raizado Festival announces August return to celebrate Latino culture

Raizado Festival will return to Aspen this year with more to learn, see and do, organizers announced on Thursday. The second annual Raizado celebration will build on the success of its inaugural event last year, which featured three days of culture and festivities.

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Raizado — A party that honors Roaring Fork Valley’s Latinos and showcases Latino culture

Imagine a glamorous Aspen event that invites the workers behind the best parties — farmworkers who harvest what goes on the plates, cooks, servers, staff assembling tables and tents, those cleaning up post-party trash — to join the feasting and fun.

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‘We are investing here’: Raizado Festival returning to Aspen to celebrate Latinx community

The Raizado Festival will return to Aspen for its second summer and feature guest speakers, outdoor excursions, live music, and films that celebrate the Latine community at various locations around the city.

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Ramírez: Raizado committed to community, excellence

I created Raizado, the Latinx House festival. I was deeply disturbed by the recent headline that announced our festival’s return to Aspen. The newspaper’s decision to refer to people as “the help” was disparaging, racist, and inappropriate.

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The 40 Year Feast – Industry Professionals Reflect on the Food and Wine Classic in Aspen

Each June, the town of Aspen is transformed. The metamorphosis is always riveting, but this year was special. This time around, the Food and Wine Classic in Aspen turned 40. With every passing summer, it adds more layers and more gilded splinterings as it etches its way out through the community and into the culinary […]

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Chisme del Pueblo – 24 de agosto, 2023

The Latinx House tiene orgullo en presentar un día completo de eventos centrados en la comunidad para conmemorar el último día del segundo festival anual Raizado Festival, domingo 27 de agosto.

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Raizado Fest’s second swirl through Aspen starts today

From today through Sunday, the Latinx House will host its second year of the Raizado Festival in Aspen, with expanded programming at multiple venues. And, according to website thelatinxhouse.org, there is a “10-year vision for the festival to create a clear and robust place to celebrate and contemplate Latinx/e politics, arts, and culture.”

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CHISME DEL PUEBLO

The Latinx House tiene orgullo en presentar un día completo de eventos centrados en la comunidad para conmemorar el último día del segundo festival anual Raizado Festival, domingo 27 de agosto.

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Scuttlebutt and Calendar

On Monday, Aug. 21, Governor Jared Polis signed an executive order intended to increase housing in alignment with the state’s climate goals, transportation needs and economic growth.

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Raizado Festival is back in Aspen to celebrate and uplift Latinx people. Plus there’s a free Los Lobos concert

The Raizado Festival, celebrating the Latinx community, is back in Aspen today through Sunday for its second year. “Aspen is considered such an important place for thought leaders and changemakers to convene,” organizer Mónica Ramirez told CPR News last year.

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Join the Fiesta: Raizado Festival Celebrates Latinx Culture in Aspen

A lot of fun things are going down in Aspen, Colorado this weekend as the Raizado Festival is set to celebrate the Latinx community. From today through Sunday, August 27, this highly anticipated event, hosted by a stellar lineup of Latinx luminaries including Francia Raisa, Jesse Garcia, Judy Reyes, Kate Del Castillo, Mauro Castillo, and […]

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Velasco, community members talk Latino issues in Raizado Fest panels

State Rep. Elizabeth Velasco was celebrated as a success story of the mission of the Latinx House’s Raizado Festival in Friday’s panel discussions. Velasco, D-Glenwood Springs, is in her first year of service as the first Mexican-born Latina in the state legislature.

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Raizado hosts fitness, films, awards show Saturday then a big Sunday community party

On Sunday, Latinx House is hosting its second annual Raizado Festival in Aspen’s Rio Grande Park from noon-5 p.m. The whole community is invited to attend. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and Mayor Torre will be there as well as a DJ, a fashion show with “sustainable luxury” designer Cindy Castro and Lilian Lara.

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Photos: Raizado Festival concludes with community party at Aspen’s Rio Grande Park

Latinx House brought its second annual Raizado Festival to a close on Sunday afternoon at Aspen’s Rio Grande Park. The event, meant to be a celebration of the Latinx community, was highlighted by a fashion show, the chance to meet international flag football star Diana Flores, and a concert by Los Lobos.

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Latinas Took Over Aspen with Raizado Fest 2023

White folks don’t own Colorado. The narrative about the state may be rich, ski bunnies in elite enclaves like Aspen or Vail but 22% of Coloradans are Latino and there’s a strong Indigenous tradition there that dates back through the ages.

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Raizado Festival: The Latinx House Plants its Roots in Aspen

In 2022, during the festival’s inauguration, NBC News in Spanish reported that 35% of the greater Roaring Fork Valley in Western Colorado identifies as Latino, and many commute several hours to work each day at Aspen’s resorts.

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“Aristotle and Dante” Director Aitch Alberto on Her Heartfelt Film

“I never want the movie to be niche,” Aitch Alberto tells me at Raizado Fest. Alberto is the writer and director of Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, which screened at the festival and is hitting theaters Friday, September 8.

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Francia Raisa Gets Candid on Growing Up Immigrant, Dating in Her 30s and Life Beyond Selena Gomez Headlines

Actress Francia Raisa has made a name for herself through her memorable, and often hilarious, performances in productions that center on the journeys of young adulthood. Her roles in “Bring It On: All Or Nothing,” “The Secret Life of the American Teenager,” “Grown-Ish,” and “How I Met Your Father” have endeared her to audiences and […]

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16 Latinx People on How They Take Care of Their Mental Health

The Latinx community has never been a monolith, yet many of our cultures share similar customs and beliefs that have carried on throughout generations.

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Inside Raizado, the Star-Studded Latine Festival in Aspen

At high altitudes, 7,908 feet above sea level to be exact, roughly 250 Latines gathered at Aspen Meadows Resort in Aspen, Colorado, in August for the second annual Raizado Festival by The Latinx House.

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