Quarantine Cinco de Mayo: A Fiesta to Remember

WHAT IS CINCO DE MAYO? 🇲🇽

This celebration commemorates Mexico's 1862 victory over France at the Battle of Puebla during the Franco-Mexican War. It’s a relatively minor holiday in Mexico but in the United States, Cinco de Mayo has become a celebration of Mexican culture. Now, with the facts out of the way, let’s get this party started.

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☆⌒★⌒☆⌒★⌒☆ STORYTIME ☆⌒★⌒☆⌒★⌒☆

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Cinco De Mayo With Angela Cervantes

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with a program by Mexican-American writer, Angela Cervantes, author of Coco and many other books for young readers. Angela will share the story of how she became a writer and will follow her talk with a Q&A session to allow young readers and aspiring writers the opportunity to ask questions!

Open to 3rd-7th graders. To participate via Zoom, register in advance. You’ll be sent a link for the event and a password.

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☆⌒★⌒☆⌒★⌒☆ EVENT ☆⌒★⌒☆⌒★⌒☆

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Cinco De Mayo Virtual Festival

USA Multicultural and Angel Aguilar Presents our very first Cinco De Mayo Virtual Festival. Since you can't join us in person, we are coming to you LIVE with artists, dancers, musicians, magicians, from around the world! Join us and share the love!!!!! Prizes! If you would live to participate, PM now! Andale!!!

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☆⌒★⌒☆⌒★⌒☆ FOOD ☆⌒★⌒☆⌒★⌒☆

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Cinco de Mayo falls on a Tuesday this year. That coordinates perfectly with our love of ‘Taco Tuesday.’ Time for families to gather around the dinner table to indulge in some mouthwatering tacos. 😋 But there are other traditional foods that are easy to prepare in addition to your shelter-in-place celebration! Here are some tasty ideas on my menu this year you should try.

Make Tortillas

Delicious Guacamole

Elote Mexican Street Corn

Pozole Verde

The Perfect Margarita

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☆⌒★⌒☆⌒★⌒☆ DECOR ☆⌒★⌒☆⌒★⌒☆

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¡Ole! Here’s some fun Cinco de Mayo ideas for the perfect finishing touches to your Mexican fiesta!

Banner Decoration

Tissue Paper Flowers

Piñata

Maracas

Add some music and flowers … now it’s time to Zoom your friends and family to toast the first (and hopefully last) Quarantine Cinco de Mayo.