City of Rochester
News Release
(Thursday, August 11, 2022) – The City’s first-ever Dominican Day celebration will take place from
noon to 5 p.m., Sunday, August 14 at the International Plaza, 828 N. Clinton
Ave. The celebration will feature Dominican food, musical performances by Banda
Light, the Dinzey Trio, Don Chuchi and DJ Frank.
There will be storytelling
and other children activities led by the Rochester Latino Theatre. Attendees
can play dominoes, dance merengue and bachata, and support local vendors during
this free, family-friendly event. Special recognition presentations will be
made to honor Relton Roland and Omar Chevalier (posthumously), and the City
will issue a Mayoral Proclamation honoring Dominican Day.
Día Dominicano at
the International Plaza is sponsored by the Rochester Area Community
Foundation, the N.Y. State Council on the Arts, the City of Rochester,
Ibero-American Development Corporation, IBERO, and Poder 97.1 in collaboration
with the Dominican Socio-Cultural Society, and Hermandad Socio Cultural
Dominicana.
Rochester has
maintained an active sister cities relationship with the city of Puerto Plata
in Dominican Republic since 1997.
The International
Plaza is a vibrant, Latin-themed event space and marketplace. It features
a variety of vendors and vending options, ranging from pop-up tents and carts
to more permanent locations housed in retail kiosks, a performance pavilion,
dedicated restrooms, and a service/storage building.
It provides a
community gathering space to celebrate and build on the tremendous arts and
cultural assets of the surrounding neighborhood and a spot where local
entrepreneurs and/or existing businesses can locate and sell their products and
services in a low risk, low cost, flexible environment that is an incubator for
neighborhood economic development.
For more information
on this event and for vending, volunteer, and sponsorship opportunities, call
(585) 451-5676.
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