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For Immediate Release
Contact:
Lee Ortega, Director of Marketing and Public Relations
Phone: 305.673.7530 x 9-2001
Fax: 305.674.5475
E-mail: lortega@bassmuseum.org

Miami Beach - (Monday July 2, 2007) – Approximately one thousand people attended the ¡Azúcar! FAMILY FESTIVAL on Saturday June 30, 2007 from 12:00 - 4:00PM. Free admission included a fun-filled day of educational and unique art projects including wig making, jewelry and costume design, and creating percussion instruments. Kids enjoyed conga dancing and drumming workshops where they could use their own hand-made instruments. Dancer Elena Garcia and musician Jimmy Daniel conducted sessions in which the participants learned the basics of the conga dance.

Other activities included an exciting scavenger hunt with prizes for all of the children, and creating digi-scan portraits, where kids created their own unique highly stylized photographs using a digital scanner. By incorporating the costumes, wigs, instruments and jewelry that they designed in the other workshops, the kids created unique souvenirs to take home. In addition, there were three exciting performances by the dazzling dance duo Lourdes Peters and Jose Pizarro of ONYX. Live music was played by the band ORIENTE all afternoon in Collins Park. A selection of tasty food and ice cold beverages were offered to the special guests throughout the day.

This program was made possible by the generous support of the Smithsonian Latino Center.

¡Azúcar! The Life and Music of Celia Cruz has been organized by the National Museum of American History and has been made possible by National Sponsor Morgan Stanley with additional support from the Smithsonian Latino Center.

Local support provided by Telemundo 51, NBC6 and MICCOSUKEE RESORT & GAMING.

Photo Gallery of the Family Day Festival

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Children enjoying the exhibition and learning about the life and music of Celia Cruz
Bass interns signed up guests for the Celia Cruz scavenger hunt.
Creating digi-scan portraits in the Taplin Gallery	Creating wigs in the Lydia and Burton Harrison Cafe	Creating percussion instruments
Children created costumes for Celia Cruz paper dolls
Drumming class	Conga dance class
Matteo Mladenovic with his hand-made percussion instrument	Parents enjoyed free massages throughout the day	Food and refreshments were offered to the guests in Collins Park
	Collins Park
	Bass Museum Staff	Diane Camber, Director Emeritus and Pilar O'Leary, Executive Director of Smithsonian Latino Center
Mary Heaton and her daughter Phaedra Mladenovic	Live music was provided by the band ORIENTE in Collins Park	The ONYX dance duo performed for the Family Festival guests throughout the afternoon
Pilar O'Leary, Joanne Flores of Smithsonian Latino Center and Lee Ortega	At the end of the program guests joined ONYX and danced in Collins Park	Festival guest cooling off

Bass Museum of Art
2121 Park Avenue (in Collins Park), Miami Beach, Florida 33139 T: 305.673.7530
F: 305.674.5475 www.bassmuseum.org

General Admission
$12 adults, $10 seniors $6. students. Free, members & children under 6. Group discounts available.

Museum Hours and Docent Tours
Tuesday-Saturday 10 am-5 pm, Sunday 11 am-5 pm, closed Mondays and holidays. Docent tours every Saturday (except holidays), 2 pm and by appointment. Call 305.673,7530 x1005 to make reservations. Docent tours free with museum admission.

Bass Museum Shop
An eclectic selection of art, architecture and photography books; folk art from around the world; one-of-a-kind decorative and gift items; jewelry by local and international artisans; postcards; and educational toys.

Parking
Metered parking lot on site. Additional metered parking is available on perimeter streets.