Centro Hispano of Dane County

Press Release

For Immediate Release:

Centro Hispano of Dane County
Presents a
Celebration of the Madison/ Urabumba, Cuzco Sister City Project
April 12, 2005
5:30-8:00 PM
Multi Cultural Center
1862 Beld Street
For more information contact:
Peter Munoz at Centro Hispano 256-3018
pmunoz@centrohispanomadison.org

Centro Hispano is hosting a special program to kick off our Madison/Urabumba Cuzco Sister City Project. We are looking to share with Madison this wonderful opportunity to be involved with one of the most fascinating areas in the world. The first trip to Cuzco is planned for this summer to witness the Inti Raymi or the Festival of the Sun., the largest traditional Indian celebration in the Americas. There we be a will be formal signing of the sister city documents with a small ceremony at the famous Incan ruins of Machu Picchu. This event will be a wonderful opportunity for people of Madison to learn more about the Cuzco area and to join the Madison/Urabumba Cuzco Sister City Project. We are planning many different exchanges including humanitarian aid to those in need, archeological exchanges with the university, agricultural exchanges, healing exchanges, and adventure sports and traditional tourism exchanges. Listed below is the program for the April 12th event:

• Meet ambassador Marco Nunez from Cuzco, a graduated of the University San Antonio Abbot an expert in trekking, expeditions of high mountains, tourism, adventure sports, archaeology, ecology, and the investigation of “The Culture Inka” both conventional and mystical.
• Listen and watch a slide presentation on “Reviving the Meso American Cultures” and the traditions and customs of modern day Shamanism. Why it is important to preserve the legacy of ancient cultures. Drums For Peace will open the Ceremony.
• Sample traditional Peruvian food and experience local Peruvian groups Inti Raymi and Tiahuanacu perform traditional dances from Cuzco.
• Learn about our trip to Peru this summer for the formal ceremony of Sisterhood and for the Inti Raymi, the Festival of the Sun, one of the largest traditional native celebrations in the Americas.
• Join the Madison/ Urabumba, Cuzco Sister City Project and travel to Cuzco this summer.

Travel Dates: June 22-July 2, 2005

Thank you

Victor Villacrez
Madison/Urabumba Cuzco Sister City Project