Mestizos Dance Festival 2024

Mestizos Dance Festival - A Day of Dance, Music & Culture!

Join us for the Mestizos Dance Festival, where we celebrate the fusion of cultures and honor Brazil’s Black Consciousness Day (20th November). The 2025 festival highlights the deep connections between Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Cuban dances, both influenced by West African traditions. It's a day to experience these vibrant rhythms and movements, and to remember that, after all, we are all Mestizos—united by our shared heritage.

Date: 17th November
Time: from 4pm to 10pm
Location: Hope Inn Hotel - 348 Port Rd, Hindmarsh SA 5007

🎉 Full Lineup for Our Day of Celebration! 🎉

Join us for an unforgettable day filled with culture, music, dance, and community! Check out our exciting lineup below:

• 3:50 PM - 4:00 PM: Registration and Welcome

• 4:00 PM - 4:15 PM: Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony with Naomi Hicks & Maureen Humes

• 4:15 PM - 4:25 PM: Mind, Body, and Soul with Talita Fontainha

• 4:25 PM - 4:55 PM: Capoeira with Flavio Perez

• 4:55 PM - 5:25 PM: Cuban Yoruba Dances with Damaris Hechevaria

• 5:25 PM - 5:55 PM: Maculelê - Afro Funk with Talita Fontainha

• 5:55 PM - 6:35 PM: Bantu Roots - Congo Dances with Damaris Hechevaria

• 6:35 PM - 7:00 PM: Afro-Latin Fusion - "Carnaval360" with Talita Fontainha & Damaris Hechevaria

  After-Party

  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM: Live Band Performance by Brazil Nuts

  • 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM: Social Dance with DJ La Luna

🌟 We can’t wait to see you there! Come ready to dance, connect, and celebrate. 🎶💃

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This event is proudly supported by the City of Charles Sturt and presented by TQ Productions, Brazilian Association of South Australia and Latin America Society of South Australia.