Farmworker Heroes Appreciation Event
We are excited to announce our special guest who will be making an appearance at the Farmworker Heroes Exhibit at Expo Hall – Dolores Huerta the President and Founder of the Dolores Huerta Foundation
Schedule of Events:
Sunday, June 11th
Time | Performer | Location |
|---|---|---|
11:30am | Opening Ceremony | Expo Hall |
11:30am – 12:15pm | Ballet folclórico Ruth | Community Stage |
12:30 – 1:00pm | Stevie Dale | Community Stage |
1:30pm | Abel Sanchez | Main Stage |
1:30 – 2:30pm | School of Rock | Community Stage |
3:00pm | Film Showing of “A Song for Cesar” | Fiesta Hall – Old Fine Arts Room |
3:00 – 4:00pm | Etaoin Shrdlu | Community Stage |
4:30 – 5:30pm | Cabrillo Elementary Bluegrass Band | Community Stage |
6:00 – 6:30pm | Gabriela Sepulveda | Community Stage |
7:00 – 8:00pm | Nilo Ayele Afro Brazilian Music | Community Stage |
8:30 – 9:30pm | The Flashbacks | Community Stage |
Dolores Huerta
Dolores Huerta is a civil rights activist and community organizer. She has worked for labor rights and social justice for over 50 years. In 1962, she and Cesar Chavez founded the United Farm Workers union. She served as Vice President and played a critical role in many of the union’s accomplishments for four decades. In 2002, she received the Puffin/Nation $100,000 prize for Creative Citizenship which she used to establish the Dolores Huerta Foundation (DHF). DHF is connecting groundbreaking community-based organizing to state and national movements to register and educate voters; advocate for education reform; bring about infrastructure improvements in low-income communities; advocate for greater equality for the LGBT community; and create strong leadership development. She has received numerous awards: among them The Eleanor Roosevelt Humans Rights Award from President Clinton in 1998. In 2012 President Obama bestowed Dolores with The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States.
Farmworker Heroes of the Year
Jose Vadajos (left)
