LAKEWOOD - This summer, a Colorado tradition will bring people to Lakewood's Heritage Center to celebrate traditional Spanish Colonial and contemporary art, music, food and chiles, chiles, chiles! Chile Harvest Festival will be in full swing August 29 & 30 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Lakewood's Heritage Center, 801 S. Yarrow St. (Wadsworth and Ohio). Tickets are $6 for adults, $3 for children (ages 3-12) and there's plenty of free parking available.
The festival will feature up to 65 artists showcasing both contemporary and traditional art forms along with music, dance and other cultural and art activities for the kids.
Several local restaurants will be on-site, serving authentic Mexican cuisine along with other speciality foods featuring chiles. And of course, there will be nonstop chile roasting, so stock up your freezer with chiles for the winter! Demonstrators will be showcasing the art of making traditional chile ristras, dried chiles strung together to be used in cooking throughout the year or just for decoration.
The Chile Harvest Festival is an outreach effort to educate, enlighten and entertain the community with the many different facets of Chicano and Latino culture. Its goal is to give people a well-rounded cultural experience. Proceeds from the event support HCA and CHAC programs.
For more information, call 303-987-7859 or visit www.Lakewood.org/HCA.
This article was written by Ashley C. Wilson during the 2009 summer internship at KUSA-TV.
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