Verano de colores is back on its fourth edition!

Join us for this outdoor program at Victoria Park (1425 Victoria Drive, Vancouver) on Saturday, July 20th, from 11:00 to 12:30 p.m.

Ana Lorena Pérez, from Ecuador, Maria Helena Morales, from Colombia, and their special guest, Rocío Quevedo, from Mexico, will facilitate a fun family morning in Spanish that will be full of games, crafts, movement, and our funny and witty puppet show. The above will happen with a soundtrack of contemporary children’s music from Latin America.

This program is a space for families interested in preserving their Latin American roots and valuing our culture’s most genuine aspects.

Date: Saturday, July 20
Time: 11:00 – 12:30 pm
Place: Victoria Park (1425 Victoria Dr, Vancouver, BC V5L 4G9)

Register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/verano-de-colores-in-spanish-tickets-933988002257?aff=oddtdtcreator

Please make sure to have a ticket for each one of the kids you are attending with. If a family would attend with 2 children, please make sure to have a ticket for each one. There is no need to register adults or specify the children’s names. We want to make sure each kid has their own ticket to know exactly how many kids will be attending.

¡Verano de colores regresa en su cuarta edición!

Acompáñanos en este programa al aire libre a realizarse el sábado 20 de julio en Victoria Park (1425 Victoria Dr., Vancouver) de 11:00 am – 12:30 pm.

Ana Lorena Pérez (Ecuador) y Maria Helena Morales (Colombia), junto a su invitada especial, Rocío Quevedo (México), facilitarán una divertida mañana familiar llena de juegos, manualidades, movimiento, y la inflatable compañía de graciosos y occurrentes títeres. Todo esto bajo un ambiente de música infantil contemporánea de Latinoamérica.

Este programa es un espacio para las familias interesadas en preservar y valorar lo más genuino de la cultura Latinoaméricana.

Cada niño o niña que quiera asistir deberá tener su propio ticket. Si una familiar piensa asistir con 2 menores, por favor asegurese de tener 2 boletos. No es necesario hacer el registro de los adultos ni especificar el nombre de los niños o niñas, simplemente requerimos que cada menor tenga su propio boleto.

Facilitators:

Ana Lorena Pérez was born in Ecuador and moved to Canada in 2014. She has an academic background in psychology and family therapy. During her university years, she was an independent worker for children’s entertainers, but her professional experience was concentrated in the educational youth counselling field. Since coming to Canada, she has been leading some Spanish-language parent and children programs. In 2020, she started working in different family programs in a non-profit organization both in English and Spanish.

María Helena Morales is from Bogotá, Colombia. It has been her passion to work with children and make them enjoy the wonders of life. Her educational background is in Early Childhood Education, Psychology and Educational Psychology. Her work experience has mainly involved teaching the little ones and working with family programs. One of her primary goals is to ensure that the Latin American roots are kept alive for the children of our community and promote our Latin American culture with other communities.

Special guest: Rocio Quevedo was born in a little desert town in Mexico, where black widows, scorpions, and little lizards were the entertainment in the backyard. Although she has lived in Canada for over a decade, she still misses the desert sun. After getting married and moving from Vancouver to Toronto, Toronto to Calgary, Calgary to Winnipeg, Winnipeg to Vancouver, her mom is right in saying, “Mija, you are at the right place, with the right people.” As a lover of nature and a former ESL teacher with a bachelor of arts in English language teaching, majoring in bilingual education, she is passionate about learning more about culture, languages, and everything that connects us and makes us human, especially dance. This passion has walked her through many different paths in life, including being a dance instructor and performer, cook and server, co-owner of a distribution house, educational assistant, and currently, family programmer and volunteer coordinator in a non-profit organization. She is a mother of a very fun, 6-year-old little scientist, wife of her best friend, and furry mama of a 13-year-old maltipoo named Cheeks.