COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

RISCA ASSEMBLE A MEETING FOR THE LATINO ORGANIZATIONS AND ARTISTS

Courtesy by RISCA
On April 8, 2014, the Latino arts community of  Rhode Island was called for participating in a community meeting in South Providence organized by Elena Calderon-Patiño., RISCA. Elena talked about RISCA AND NALAC in Providence, NEFA introduced the Creative Ground platform for all artists. Each artists introduced themself and the Co-hosting artists had three minutes to talk about oncoming events of the year 2014. GREAT NETWORK AND GOOD VIBES...

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