Crosstown Arts
This one-hour cooking demo will be facilitated by a local tamale-making expert (or tamalero/a in Spanish). The tamalero/a will share his/her own family recipe and will walk the attendees through a step-by-step process for making tamales at home.
All proceeds benefit Centro Cultural‘s mission and programming.
Tamale Fest 2015 is the first annual fundraising event for Centro Cultural Latino de Memphis. The festival will have main stage live entertainment, a tamale team cooking contest, a tamale tasting tent, a kids’ activity corner, art vendors, food trucks and a photo booth.
The purpose of the Tamale Fest is to share and celebrate Latino culture, bring people together for a positive cultural experience and to raise money to allow Centro Cultural to expand their programs and administration.
Centro Cultural was founded in 2011 and has been operating as a 100% volunteer-run organization. Accomplishments to date include over 60 cultural workshops taught, 13 showcases celebrated, 6 art exhibits produced, collaboration with Dixon Gallery and Gardens produced the first contemporary Latino Art exhibition in Memphis, current development of a book based on immigrant stories in Binghamton and over 5000 hours of volunteer time given.
