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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Hello everybody, and welcome tothe inner harbor cast.
My name is skip clark and I'mthe host, and I'm joined by
Fannie Villareal.
Villareal, villareal, did I saythat right?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Perfect, you did it great.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Who is, by the way, the executive director of the
CNY Latino and the force behindan upcoming event, the Syracuse
Latino Festival.
It's happening Saturday, getsunderway at noon.
From what I understand, it goeswell into the nighttime until
about 10 o'clock.
But not only that, but I wantto talk a little bit about the
culture, the community and whatmakes this year's festival so
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very special.
So welcome, Fanny, it's so goodto see you.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Oh great, it's good to see you.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
You know, just the energy when you walk through
that front door to do aninterview is like you make my
day well, I'm glad I did it andit's only tuesday.
I love it while we're recordingthis on tuesday.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, but yes so I'm not executive director of the
cny latino okay I am theexecutive director of the y wca
oh well, it printed out wrongbecause I went.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Went to AI.
We'll do it over again.
Okay, the YWCA, correct.
Okay, coming to you in three,two, one.
Hi there, everybody, andwelcome to the Inner Harbor cast
.
My name is Skip Clark and I'myour host, and today I'm joined
by Fannie Villareal, theexecutive director of the YWCA
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here in Syracuse.
Director of the YWCA here inSyracuse.
Yeah, and the force behind theupcoming Syracuse Latino
Festival, which is happeningSaturday, by the way, gets
underway at noon, runs until 10o'clock that night.
Pretty excited, and, by the way, it's right over there in
Clinton Square.
We'll be talking not only aboutthat, but the culture, the
community and what makes thisyear's festival so very special.
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So we're going to dive right in, Fanny, welcome, it's so good
to see you.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Oh, great to see you, Skip.
This is awesome.
Thank you so much for theopportunity.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Absolutely, you know.
I mean, my day was like, okay,what are we going to do today?
And then Fanny walks through mydoor and it's like the energy
level just went up.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
It's like it's so much fun.
Yes, because we're going tohave fun, along with information
.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Tell me a little bit about yourself, phil, and your
journey with CNY Latino.
Of course you've been with that.
Now you're the executivedirector at the YWCA, but tell
me about yourself, tell us, Sure.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
So I'm Fanny.
I am Fanny Villarreal, you lovethat part?
Now roll my tongue.
I love it, and originally fromPeru and I choose to have
Syracuse as my home.
Now, I've been here almost myentire life and I'm very proud
of my city.
I'm very proud of the peoplethat live in this wonderful city
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of Syracuse and Onondaga County.
And how I started, I guesscontributed to the community was
well, number one, the radiothat is here also.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Because you are on the air.
Yes, one of our sister stations.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yes, and the sister station.
We are on the air.
So that's one thing.
Oh, another one is that I'vebeen executive director for
different not-for-profits aroundand I always find ways to
educate the community about thecontributions that Latinos have
provided to the city, to thecounty.
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And I'm very proud of that, ofthe Latino Festival, because
that helped our Latino youth to.
You know, set a dream and getsome scholarships and go for it,
whether it's going to theuniversity, a trade school,
whatever it is.
You know, not everybody is bornto be a student in a university
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, so we have to support ouryoungest dreams.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
That's awesome.
So, and that's pretty muchwhat's behind the festival
that's coming up this weekend.
How did that first come to life?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Oh, my goodness, the festival was back in 1992, 93,
and it was like a teeny, tinysmall group of people having
like hot dogs and hamburgers inSeymour School.
That's how it started.
Yes, and hot dogs, and a coupleof friends from actually,
rochester, Victor Antonetti andhis band a small band came and
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been always by our side when wedid have no money to pay for,
for nobody to come and present.
And now that we're growing, wecontinue with that tradition
because you have to be loyal tothe people that help you in the
very beginning.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I love that.
What makes this festival thisyear Clinton Square, saturday at
noon, beginning at noon.
What makes it unique comparedto the previous years?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
at noon.
What makes it unique comparedto the previous years?
Well, because we have such abeautiful ethnic food that we're
going to bring.
Before it was food fromDominican Republic and Puerto
Rico and Puerto Rico andDominican Republic and Dominican
Republic, puerto Rico.
That was the whole food that wehave.
Now we have not only DominicanRepublic and Puerto Rican, but
we have a combination of Mexican, a Colombian food yeah, that is
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a new one Colombian- Colombianyes, we have a Colombian food
truck in our city now, so weinvite them.
Nice yeah.
If you didn't never try foodfrom Colombia, oh my God.
This is awesome.
It's a taste of what Colombiahas to offer.
Now we have the Peruvianrestaurant.
That is an Inca Peruvianrestaurant, so now people get
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more to it Peruvian food, butnow it's a taste of Colombia.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Oh my gosh, I love this.
You know what you're sayingabout the food.
I think we've talked about thisbefore.
I've been here, obviously, allmy life, and we're big baseball
fans and we used to house someof the syracuse players that
were down for the majors, and weall know that a lot of those
players are colombian,venezuelan and, I guess, latino.
Yes, and they would uh, theirwives would take over my kitchen
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and I'm gonna tell you whetherit was soup or that.
What the plantains?
oh my god just, it's like almostalmost every homestand at least
one night they would, theywould be in charge of dinner and
they would make something new,something we hadn't had before.
So it's like the culture cominginto my home oh, that's
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beautiful and I'm just gonnatell you there was nothing like
it.
There's nothing like it.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
There's nothing like it.
Sancocho from DominicanRepublic.
Yeah, oh my God, that is thesoup that probably you're
talking about.
That is delicious.
With all the potatoes and allthe veggies and all kinds of
meats, it's just like, oh my God, delicious.
Oh, now I'm hungry, I know.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
And a funny story.
And Now I'm hungry, I know.
And a funny story.
We're going to get back talkingabout the festival and talk
more about the Latino community.
So am I, by the way.
But I remember coming home fromthe radio stations here one
night.
The team had an off day and Iwent down my street.
There's nothing but cars onboth sides of the street.
I'm going.
What's going on?
Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
my gosh, it's at my house.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
So I pull in my.
The fire pit was roaring andthey had a thing of soup, a big
pot of soup that they werecooking over my fire pit.
There were whole chunks of beef, chicken, corn on the cob.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
And I got everything, anything and everything was in
that soup.
That's what it was, and it wasso good.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
But anyway, that's a story for another time.
My neighbors must have thoughtI was nuts.
It's OK.
So what can we expect?
You mentioned the food.
What about the music?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Oh, music is going to be beautiful.
We're going to have this artistcoming bringing music from
Dominican Republic.
It's Bachata Merengue.
Her name is Mighty Mighty.
It is going to be beautiful.
She's an upcoming young artist.
Young artist and she writes herown music, so it's even better.
The lyrics are like you gottalisten to the lyrics to
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understand.
You know where.
I don't even know where shecomes with these lyrics, because
put you like oh or oh, so it,it's like two different ways.
You're like yeah, and thenwe're coming this.
You know how salsa is big inSyracuse?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Oh huge.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
It's huge.
So we're bringing this upcomingsalsa singer.
His name is Carlos Garcia.
It's going to be amazing.
He has been with all the oldsalsa school kind of you, with
mark, anthony and, uh, titonieves, with all of them.
He'd been singing with all ofthem and he writes music too, so
he'd been able to be with all.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I'm so excited to get to know him so he's been with
mark anthony and mark anthonyand others and he's coming here
for your festival of course he'scoming here yes, I'm so happy
about that, and puerto rico.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
He is an upcoming artist.
Like I said, all TV showseverywhere that you can imagine.
He is there because he's notonly a singer he plays piano, he
writes music, he writes his ownsongs and it's just incredible.
Incredible he's a producer aswell.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Incredible.
Um, I have a list of questionshere, but you're like answering
them as I go along, and I meaneven before I asked the question
.
All right, she just answeredthat.
But you know, we talked aboutthe special guests.
We're pretty excited.
What about cultural showcases?
So I guess, with the dancingand all that you would be
showing off.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yes, so this year we have 12 different countries,
that they're going to havetables and each table is going
to have their own flag for thatparticular country and they're
going to bring artifacts,they're going to read pictures,
they're going to talk to thepeople about their own
particular country as well, asthis year we're going to focus
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on Peru, so we're bringing agroup from Peru to play typical
music from Peru.
I know that you have heardtypical music from the Andes,
which is the flutes and all ofthat, but that's from the Andes,
and Peru is divided in threedifferent parts of the country
the Andes, which is the musicthat we mostly have been hearing
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, but this one is from the coast, the one.
But this one is from the coast,the one that we're bringing is
from the coast.
It's totally different.
In the coast we don't useflutes.
In the coast we use guitarslike the one over there Guitars
the box.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I don't know.
Cajon is called the.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Cajon, which is originally from Peru.
So the Cajon, the guitar andkeyboard.
So it's going to be an amazingand, of course, a wonderful
singer that is coming from Peruas well.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
You know we bring a lot of artists in for other
reasons and they come with aCajon.
You know it's like yeah, sothat's going back to your.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
From my country.
Yeah, that's from Peru.
The cajon is originally fromPeru, so we're going to have
that Wow.
And then, as you get into thefestival, if you want to
participate in the freegiveaways you have to get a
passport.
And once you get a passport,then you're going to have to
visit all the differentcountries.
That's a great idea, yeah, andonce you go to the different
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countries, you're going to havea stamp.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
So if I go to the festival this weekend and you'll
probably see my face there, ofcourse so I pick up a passport
and then I get a stamp or acheck or whatever to indicate
that I was at that particulartable, maybe talking with the
people that are there thatparticular table, maybe talking
with the people that are there.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Right, you want to know countries.
You have to visit 12 countriesin order to participate, and
that's the idea I said themission of education.
We want to be the bridgebetween the community at large
and the Latino community here inSyracuse and Ananda County.
And a way to do that we thoughtoh, free giveawaysaways.
And we're talking about bigfree giveaways I mentioned free
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yeah, and it's gonna be um a 70.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I think it's a 75 inch tv smart tv, yeah nice
whole karaoke system, along withuh uh, chairs and baskets a lot
of of different things, tons ofgiveaways, and that's if you
visit every table, then you'rein the running for all those
great prizes.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Right, right, right.
You have to stop in eachcountry that is going to be
celebrating there.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Now I understand why this festival is so important
for the Latino community, butit's not just for them.
It's for everybody, it's foreverybody and you know Central
New York community, syracuse.
Come on down and see what it'sabout, right.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yes, we have a lot of people that are coming from
Rochester, from Buffalo and inbetween.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yeah, they're all coming.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
So how does this build those bridges between you
know the different cultures andcommunities in the region.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Well, I think if you come and learn about the culture
, then you will understand whysometimes react one way or the
other.
You know, between the, evenbetween the Latino American
cultures, there is a lot ofdifference.
One word could mean one thingfor me and another thing for
somebody else that is fromanother country, even though
it's Spanish, like, for example,the culture.
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Let's say that for me.
I grew up that my parents willsay look straight to my face and
to my eyes, and I know that youare not lying.
Right From another culture itsays don't even look straight to
me, on my eyes, look down thefloor, because that's the way
that you show respect.
So if you don't know thatculture, you could think that
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the people is lying or notsaying the truth.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
So let me get this right.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
So if I look you straight in the eye and I talk
to you, you think I'm lying nono, if you, if you in peru in
peru you have to talk to thepeople and look straight to the
eyes to make sure that you'retelling the truth?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Oh, okay, Because that's the way I would know if
somebody's lying or not is by.
Are you looking at me in myeyes.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
But in another countries, for example Dominican
Republic, you don't lookstraight to the eyes because
that's disrespectful.
You look to the side,especially if you are the father
, the teacher.
That shows respect.
If you're a side especially ifyou are the father, the teacher
is that shows respect.
If you're a friend, you talklike that, but you're not a
friend, You're the boss.
You are the boss, or you arethe teacher, or you are the
professor, or you are somebodywith a high standard they have.
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They look to the side becausethey can.
That's how they are showing yourespect.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
And some people might think that they are lying.
That's what they're looking at.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
It's like you can't look at me, then you're not
telling me the truth, but thereality is they are, it's just.
It's the culture.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
It's the culture and they are showing you respect.
That's what I said howimportant it is to come and
learn about all the differentthings.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
See, I learned something right here on this
interview you already with mybest friend, fanny Of course.
Can you, Fanny, can you talkabout some of the community
organizations or maybe even thebusinesses that are involved in
supporting this event?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Oh, my God, you know.
I have to say that there isthis company DOT Been with us
since day one and they are oneof the major sponsors and they
are all coming and having fun.
Enjoying their presence isright there.
They give away products, theytalk to people, they offer jobs.
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It's like a whole party.
They are very, very invested inthe festival.
It's a great thing.
The New York State HealthDepartment is another one that's
been here since the verybeginning, you know, to make
sure that they educate peopleabout having insurance, having a
health insurance, how importantit is.
And then, not only that, butthey talk about the importance
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to have a doctor that you can goand visit once a year, rather
than wait until you feel sickand then you go to the emergency
room, sick and then you go tothe emergency room.
Then we have, of course, thecity of Syracuse, downtown
committee, onondaga County, cnyArts and the local companies.
You know Interior Innovations,jose Perez Law Offices,
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margaritas Restaurants,guadalajara Restaurants
restaurants, guadalajararestaurants.
This is a very unique companythat just started and is run by
a woman, and what they do isthey paint and reconstruct
buildings and offices.
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So yeah, interiors, interiors,innovations as well.
And Micron.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Oh, Micron.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah, they just came in, I think they want to do a
lot in the community.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Because, they need to get on the good side of things,
and not that they aren't, I'mjust saying they need to make
themselves known and besupportive of what we're doing
here, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
So Micron is one of the new ones and of course, we
talk about the players and theMets.
They've been extremelysupportive to us and we have
three Latino nights actually atthe Mets and the last one is
next week.
It's Thursday the 21st.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I'll be there.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Yes, please.
Well, let's invite everybody tocome and have a good time,
because we're going to haveLatino music.
We're going to dance, we'regoing to enjoy ourselves.
Latino music we're going todance, we're going to enjoy
ourselves.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
So remember, 6 pm.
Open doors.
Yep, the gates open.
Yes, be there, fanny will bethere.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Oh yeah, we'll be there welcoming everybody.
What has the community responsebeen like leading up to this?
We not only they click like,but they're sharing, which is
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more important than clicking thelike right.
Sharing, sharing, sharing,sharing.
And I think we're very excitedwith the tons of people that are
coming.
We're excited that you guys arehelping us out with the
promotion as well Love itYesterday I was in Bridge Street
are coming.
We're excited that you guys arehelping us out with the
promotion as well Love itYesterday I was in Bridge Street
.
So you know everybody's comingall together to make sure that
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this celebration is foreverybody.
Like I said in the verybeginning, we are the bridge
between the Latino community andthe community at large, so we
are excited and proud of that.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Now I would assume you have a team behind you
putting all this on.
What are some of the challengesthat you face doing an event
that has grown to be the sizethat it is?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
today.
You know it is funny that youasked me the question in the
very beginning how it started,and I told you the hamburgers
and hot dogs because we didn'thave money and we just want to
have fun to trying to figure itout what to do, how to do it,
how to start it right.
Um, today we have a mightygroup of five, but those mighty
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group of five have their own umgroups that they're working with
.
So per se, it's only fivepeople that are in the core, and
then they have their ownfriends and community members
that are helping them out.
So, um, on Saturday, when we umset it up, we're going to have
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the Rotary Club of course.
Yeah, we're going to have themembers of the Rotary Club
coming and volunteer for thatday setting it up and then
cleaning up after that.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Very nice.
Do you accept volunteers at all?
Oh yeah, somebody says hey, youknow, I watched your podcast.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Oh yeah, or I saw you on Bridge Street.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I'd like to come down and help.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Yes, please, Everybody that is willing and
wanted to help.
You are more than welcome.
We are always looking forvolunteers during the whole
entire year, because we workduring the whole entire year to
make sure that this issuccessful in August.
So all the volunteers arewelcome.
You can call me, you can emailme, whatever is easy.
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You can email me at fvsonvictorI-L-L-A-R-R-E-A-L.
At ymailcom, Just make surethat is-A-L.
At Ymailcom, Just make surethat is Y, as in Yahoo Ymailcom,
because tend to change to G andI don't have a G, it's Y, it's
Y the letter, y Don't go W-H-Y.
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It's the letter Y.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Yeah, I know Not too many people have that, but there
you go, you just gave it up.
You know, I know not too manypeople have that, but there you
go, you just gave it up.
You know, I see your passionand your dedication, but I'm
going to ask you this questionwhat does this festival?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
personally, mean to you.
So to me, this is my first childper se.
So I, when I started this eventand you know we went in
different parts of life with thefestival so it was festival, it
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was no festival.
It was festival, no festival,and for a lot of different
reasons.
And now that I build thisfestival as a not-for-profit, so
nobody have to be a fiscalsponsor, so it's a festival
itself.
To me it's great because, again, I love to educate people about
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all the Latino cultures, notonly me being Peruvian, but from
all sides of the world, right,because the Latino culture, we
are 20 different countries thatare here in Syracuse and so it
is important that we all engage,understand, ask questions and
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have a lot of fun while you aredoing that, because it's a
different way of living.
You know, I know everybody givea hug, I hug everybody, even
the person that I just know, andthat doesn't mean anything you
haven't hugged me, yet, oh, Idid oh, you did.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
No, you did, I was drinking my coffee.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yeah, you were drinking your coffee, see, mr
cafe mr cafe, I love it, I loveit.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Oh my god, I love you but that's what it is energy is
just.
I just love this.
Uh, what would you say tosomeone who's never been to the
Syracuse Latino Festival, andwhy should they come out this
year?
I think you've already answereda lot of that, but again, why
should they be there?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
So come so you can see what we are all about it.
Come and enjoy the music.
Come and enjoy the music, comeand enjoy the food.
Come and look for me and say,hey, I heard you at the radio or
TV or the podcast and I wantedto be part of this, or I wanted
to know, or I wanted to give youan idea, or whatever it is.
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Or just come and say hello, I'mgoing to give you a hug, so be
prepared.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
It's a good hug, believe prepared.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
It's a good hug.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Believe me, it's a good hug.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Where can our listeners and our viewers find
out more information about thisfestival that's coming up on
Saturday?
So they can go to our website,wwwlatinoamericanofestivalcom.
Or you can just go into theFacebook and all the platforms
you know social media is allover.
So, yes, anyway, you just lookLatino Festival Syracuse and all
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the information will come out.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Do you have?
Let's talk a little bit aboutnumbers.
What is the Latino community incentral New York?
Do you have any numbers like?
What is the Latino community incentral New York?
Do you have any numbers Likewhat is the population?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
So, according with the census, okay, uh, 2020, we
are about 15% of the city.
Um, my sense is that there's alot of people that they didn't
um answer the the census, thecensus.
And so I will say probably weremore than that.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Yeah, I would agree with you.
Great people.
I love it, it's so much fun.
It is a lot of fun, you know,with the energy that you have
and those that I know that are.
Latino it's just the energylevel is always so high and
everybody you know they thinkpositive about so many things.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
I mean the negativism doesn't exist in our blood.
We don't have a stress becausethat's not part of the culture.
So it's always the funny thing,it's always having a good time
and I think it is that's part ofit.
There is people that say oh mygod, I can't believe that she's
all the time happy, how come?
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And I said because in myvocabulary or in my brains,
stress or sadness doesn't exist.
That's how I grew up, so that'show I always go, like this, and
so are my kids.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Oh my gosh, I so much love this.
So it's uh, it's happening thisweekend and it's Saturday.
It gets underway at noon atClinton Square.
It's the Syracuse LatinoFestival.
Fanny, thank you so much forbeing here.
Just a lot of great information.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
It's going to be such a funny event.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I'm not even going to try to say your last name.
I'll let you do it.
Villarreal, I'm not even goingto try.
Villarreal, perfect, do you see?
But I I'm not even going to try.
Feel it real perfect, do yousee?
I know, but I can't roll mytongue like that it's just
practice.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Everything can happen .
It's just practice.
You know, one thing that Ilearned is that if you do
everything with love, everythingis going to come out just great
so, oh my gosh, that's a great.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I'd like that if you do everything with love yeah,
yeah, yeah yeah.
And that's what we're doinghere today and this weekend.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
And every day, every day, every day.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Never stop, 24-7, right.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Exactly 24-7, all the time.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Fanny, you're awesome .
Thank you for stopping by.
It's always great to see youwalk through that door.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Thank you Skip.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
It just makes me happy and um it just you know.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I wish you a very successful event and chances are
I'll be walking around as well.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
It's free, by the way .
It's free so you just walk upand take advantage and learn
about the different cultures.
Enjoy the food dance.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Yes, let's dance yeah .
Speaker 1 (26:45):
And if you're at the Mets it's next Thursday.
It's the third Latino night.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Yes, the third and the last one, august 21st.
It's hard to believe, right?
I know?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Now, do you get involved with the fair at all?
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Yes, actually, I'm going to be singing at the fair.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Wow.
Yay where uh, come on let it,let it out at the latino village
on the 30th 8 pm you know, um,I'd like to set up, I want to
set up an interview and comeover and talk to you over there.
So, yeah, we can do that too.
We can take this on the road.
Yeah, um, which I've donebefore I did it.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I did it last year and they I went to bridge street
and they said can, can you sing?
And I go sure what song?
And I start singing.
And they're like really I said,well, you asked me to sing,
right?
I'm like okay.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
So that's part of the song that I'm going to be
singing.
What's your?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
favorite song to sing .
This time I'm going to sing amerengue.
Okay, so I love salsa merenguesong.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
I love it, but what about some of the American
culture songs?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
You know I never tried yet, but that's an idea.
You know I love it.
That's an idea.
Yeah, you should do that.
You should do both.
Yeah, I should do both.
I speak English, so why notsinging in English, right?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
You do, and you do that better than I do it.
Thank you and I got to do thisevery day, Then again it's
practice, practice, practice.
See All right, fanny Villarreal, thank you so much for joining
us today.
It is the Inner HarborConnection.
We'd love to see you out there.
This weekend it's ClintonSquare.
It gets underway at noon.
On Saturday it is the SyracuseLatino festival.
They've got big nameentertainment from their home
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countries.
Yeah, which is cool.
They're coming to town, so Iwant to see y'all there.
Thank you for watching y'all.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Thank you you.
morning, hi everybody hello so let me just I want to
make sure I can hear everythingand check two and one, two.
I'm going to show off my legsof course I can see that I know
exactly you want to show offyour good legs.
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Villa La Real.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Villa Real.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Villa Real.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Exactly Perfect.
Okay, all right.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
All right, and we're going to edit this part off,
don't worry.
Okay, here we go.
God, I love working with you.
We're going to have a ball Ifyou come over here.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Oh, yeah, definitely.
We're going to talk abouteverything and anything
everything on anything andeverybody's like who are those
guys?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
oh my goodness, oh my , they are fun.
Which on country radio?
Uh-huh, okay, all right, herewe go.
Oh my god, oh my god, all right, here we go, coming to you in
three, two, one.
Hello everybody, and welcome tothe inner harbor cast.
My name is skip clark and I'mthe host, and I'm joined by
Fannie Villareal.
Villareal, villareal, did I saythat right?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Perfect, you did it great.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Who is, by the way, the executive director of the
CNY Latino and the force behindan upcoming event, the Syracuse
Latino Festival.
It's happening Saturday, getsunderway at noon.
From what I understand, it goeswell into the nighttime until
about 10 o'clock.
But not only that, but I wantto talk a little bit about the
culture, the community and whatmakes this year's festival so
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very special.
So welcome, Fanny, it's so goodto see you.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Oh great, it's good to see you.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
You know, just the energy when you walk through
that front door to do aninterview is like you make my
day well, I'm glad I did it andit's only tuesday.
I love it while we're recordingthis on tuesday.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, but yes so I'm not executive director of the
cny latino okay I am theexecutive director of the y wca
oh well, it printed out wrongbecause I went.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Went to AI.
We'll do it over again.
Okay, the YWCA, correct.
Okay, coming to you in three,two, one.
Hi there, everybody, andwelcome to the Inner Harbor cast
.
My name is Skip Clark and I'myour host, and today I'm joined
by Fannie Villareal, theexecutive director of the YWCA
(02:22):
here in Syracuse.
Director of the YWCA here inSyracuse.
Yeah, and the force behind theupcoming Syracuse Latino
Festival, which is happeningSaturday, by the way, gets
underway at noon, runs until 10o'clock that night.
Pretty excited, and, by the way, it's right over there in
Clinton Square.
We'll be talking not only aboutthat, but the culture, the
community and what makes thisyear's festival so very special.
(02:44):
So we're going to dive right in, Fanny, welcome, it's so good
to see you.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Oh, great to see you, Skip.
This is awesome.
Thank you so much for theopportunity.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Absolutely, you know.
I mean, my day was like, okay,what are we going to do today?
And then Fanny walks through mydoor and it's like the energy
level just went up.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
It's like it's so much fun.
Yes, because we're going tohave fun, along with information
.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Tell me a little bit about yourself, phil, and your
journey with CNY Latino.
Of course you've been with that.
Now you're the executivedirector at the YWCA, but tell
me about yourself, tell us, Sure.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
So I'm Fanny.
I am Fanny Villarreal, you lovethat part?
Now roll my tongue.
I love it, and originally fromPeru and I choose to have
Syracuse as my home.
Now, I've been here almost myentire life and I'm very proud
of my city.
I'm very proud of the peoplethat live in this wonderful city
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of Syracuse and Onondaga County.
And how I started, I guesscontributed to the community was
well, number one, the radiothat is here also.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Because you are on the air.
Yes, one of our sister stations.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yes, and the sister station.
We are on the air.
So that's one thing.
Oh, another one is that I'vebeen executive director for
different not-for-profits aroundand I always find ways to
educate the community about thecontributions that Latinos have
provided to the city, to thecounty.
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And I'm very proud of that, ofthe Latino Festival, because
that helped our Latino youth to.
You know, set a dream and getsome scholarships and go for it,
whether it's going to theuniversity, a trade school,
whatever it is.
You know, not everybody is bornto be a student in a university
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, so we have to support ouryoungest dreams.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
That's awesome.
So, and that's pretty muchwhat's behind the festival
that's coming up this weekend.
How did that first come to life?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Oh, my goodness, the festival was back in 1992, 93,
and it was like a teeny, tinysmall group of people having
like hot dogs and hamburgers inSeymour School.
That's how it started.
Yes, and hot dogs, and a coupleof friends from actually,
rochester, Victor Antonetti andhis band a small band came and
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been always by our side when wedid have no money to pay for,
for nobody to come and present.
And now that we're growing, wecontinue with that tradition
because you have to be loyal tothe people that help you in the
very beginning.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I love that.
What makes this festival thisyear Clinton Square, saturday at
noon, beginning at noon.
What makes it unique comparedto the previous years?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
at noon.
What makes it unique comparedto the previous years?
Well, because we have such abeautiful ethnic food that we're
going to bring.
Before it was food fromDominican Republic and Puerto
Rico and Puerto Rico andDominican Republic and Dominican
Republic, puerto Rico.
That was the whole food that wehave.
Now we have not only DominicanRepublic and Puerto Rican, but
we have a combination of Mexican, a Colombian food yeah, that is
(06:09):
a new one Colombian- Colombianyes, we have a Colombian food
truck in our city now, so weinvite them.
Nice yeah.
If you didn't never try foodfrom Colombia, oh my God.
This is awesome.
It's a taste of what Colombiahas to offer.
Now we have the Peruvianrestaurant.
That is an Inca Peruvianrestaurant, so now people get
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more to it Peruvian food, butnow it's a taste of Colombia.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Oh my gosh, I love this.
You know what you're sayingabout the food.
I think we've talked about thisbefore.
I've been here, obviously, allmy life, and we're big baseball
fans and we used to house someof the syracuse players that
were down for the majors, and weall know that a lot of those
players are colombian,venezuelan and, I guess, latino.
Yes, and they would uh, theirwives would take over my kitchen
(07:00):
and I'm gonna tell you whetherit was soup or that.
What the plantains?
oh my god just, it's like almostalmost every homestand at least
one night they would, theywould be in charge of dinner and
they would make something new,something we hadn't had before.
So it's like the culture cominginto my home oh, that's
(07:21):
beautiful and I'm just gonnatell you there was nothing like
it.
There's nothing like it.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
There's nothing like it.
Sancocho from DominicanRepublic.
Yeah, oh my God, that is thesoup that probably you're
talking about.
That is delicious.
With all the potatoes and allthe veggies and all kinds of
meats, it's just like, oh my God, delicious.
Oh, now I'm hungry, I know.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
And a funny story.
And Now I'm hungry, I know.
And a funny story.
We're going to get back talkingabout the festival and talk
more about the Latino community.
So am I, by the way.
But I remember coming home fromthe radio stations here one
night.
The team had an off day and Iwent down my street.
There's nothing but cars onboth sides of the street.
I'm going.
What's going on?
Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
my gosh, it's at my house.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
So I pull in my.
The fire pit was roaring andthey had a thing of soup, a big
pot of soup that they werecooking over my fire pit.
There were whole chunks of beef, chicken, corn on the cob.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
And I got everything, anything and everything was in
that soup.
That's what it was, and it wasso good.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
But anyway, that's a story for another time.
My neighbors must have thoughtI was nuts.
It's OK.
So what can we expect?
You mentioned the food.
What about the music?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Oh, music is going to be beautiful.
We're going to have this artistcoming bringing music from
Dominican Republic.
It's Bachata Merengue.
Her name is Mighty Mighty.
It is going to be beautiful.
She's an upcoming young artist.
Young artist and she writes herown music, so it's even better.
The lyrics are like you gottalisten to the lyrics to
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understand.
You know where.
I don't even know where shecomes with these lyrics, because
put you like oh or oh, so it,it's like two different ways.
You're like yeah, and thenwe're coming this.
You know how salsa is big inSyracuse?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Oh huge.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
It's huge.
So we're bringing this upcomingsalsa singer.
His name is Carlos Garcia.
It's going to be amazing.
He has been with all the oldsalsa school kind of you, with
mark, anthony and, uh, titonieves, with all of them.
He'd been singing with all ofthem and he writes music too, so
he'd been able to be with all.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I'm so excited to get to know him so he's been with
mark anthony and mark anthonyand others and he's coming here
for your festival of course he'scoming here yes, I'm so happy
about that, and puerto rico.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
He is an upcoming artist.
Like I said, all TV showseverywhere that you can imagine.
He is there because he's notonly a singer he plays piano, he
writes music, he writes his ownsongs and it's just incredible.
Incredible he's a producer aswell.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Incredible.
Um, I have a list of questionshere, but you're like answering
them as I go along, and I meaneven before I asked the question
.
All right, she just answeredthat.
But you know, we talked aboutthe special guests.
We're pretty excited.
What about cultural showcases?
So I guess, with the dancingand all that you would be
showing off.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yes, so this year we have 12 different countries,
that they're going to havetables and each table is going
to have their own flag for thatparticular country and they're
going to bring artifacts,they're going to read pictures,
they're going to talk to thepeople about their own
particular country as well, asthis year we're going to focus
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on Peru, so we're bringing agroup from Peru to play typical
music from Peru.
I know that you have heardtypical music from the Andes,
which is the flutes and all ofthat, but that's from the Andes,
and Peru is divided in threedifferent parts of the country
the Andes, which is the musicthat we mostly have been hearing
(11:03):
, but this one is from the coast, the one.
But this one is from the coast,the one that we're bringing is
from the coast.
It's totally different.
In the coast we don't useflutes.
In the coast we use guitarslike the one over there Guitars
the box.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I don't know.
Cajon is called the.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Cajon, which is originally from Peru.
So the Cajon, the guitar andkeyboard.
So it's going to be an amazingand, of course, a wonderful
singer that is coming from Peruas well.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
You know we bring a lot of artists in for other
reasons and they come with aCajon.
You know it's like yeah, sothat's going back to your.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
From my country.
Yeah, that's from Peru.
The cajon is originally fromPeru, so we're going to have
that Wow.
And then, as you get into thefestival, if you want to
participate in the freegiveaways you have to get a
passport.
And once you get a passport,then you're going to have to
visit all the differentcountries.
That's a great idea, yeah, andonce you go to the different
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countries, you're going to havea stamp.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
So if I go to the festival this weekend and you'll
probably see my face there, ofcourse so I pick up a passport
and then I get a stamp or acheck or whatever to indicate
that I was at that particulartable, maybe talking with the
people that are there thatparticular table, maybe talking
with the people that are there.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Right, you want to know countries.
You have to visit 12 countriesin order to participate, and
that's the idea I said themission of education.
We want to be the bridgebetween the community at large
and the Latino community here inSyracuse and Ananda County.
And a way to do that we thoughtoh, free giveawaysaways.
And we're talking about bigfree giveaways I mentioned free
(12:47):
yeah, and it's gonna be um a 70.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I think it's a 75 inch tv smart tv, yeah nice
whole karaoke system, along withuh uh, chairs and baskets a lot
of of different things, tons ofgiveaways, and that's if you
visit every table, then you'rein the running for all those
great prizes.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Right, right, right.
You have to stop in eachcountry that is going to be
celebrating there.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Now I understand why this festival is so important
for the Latino community, butit's not just for them.
It's for everybody, it's foreverybody and you know Central
New York community, syracuse.
Come on down and see what it'sabout, right.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yes, we have a lot of people that are coming from
Rochester, from Buffalo and inbetween.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yeah, they're all coming.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
So how does this build those bridges between you
know the different cultures andcommunities in the region.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Well, I think if you come and learn about the culture
, then you will understand whysometimes react one way or the
other.
You know, between the, evenbetween the Latino American
cultures, there is a lot ofdifference.
One word could mean one thingfor me and another thing for
somebody else that is fromanother country, even though
it's Spanish, like, for example,the culture.
(14:06):
Let's say that for me.
I grew up that my parents willsay look straight to my face and
to my eyes, and I know that youare not lying.
Right From another culture itsays don't even look straight to
me, on my eyes, look down thefloor, because that's the way
that you show respect.
So if you don't know thatculture, you could think that
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the people is lying or notsaying the truth.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
So let me get this right.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
So if I look you straight in the eye and I talk
to you, you think I'm lying nono, if you, if you in peru in
peru you have to talk to thepeople and look straight to the
eyes to make sure that you'retelling the truth?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Oh, okay, Because that's the way I would know if
somebody's lying or not is by.
Are you looking at me in myeyes.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
But in another countries, for example Dominican
Republic, you don't lookstraight to the eyes because
that's disrespectful.
You look to the side,especially if you are the father
, the teacher.
That shows respect.
If you're a side especially ifyou are the father, the teacher
is that shows respect.
If you're a friend, you talklike that, but you're not a
friend, You're the boss.
You are the boss, or you arethe teacher, or you are the
professor, or you are somebodywith a high standard they have.
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They look to the side becausethey can.
That's how they are showing yourespect.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
And some people might think that they are lying.
That's what they're looking at.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
It's like you can't look at me, then you're not
telling me the truth, but thereality is they are, it's just.
It's the culture.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
It's the culture and they are showing you respect.
That's what I said howimportant it is to come and
learn about all the differentthings.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
See, I learned something right here on this
interview you already with mybest friend, fanny Of course.
Can you, Fanny, can you talkabout some of the community
organizations or maybe even thebusinesses that are involved in
supporting this event?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Oh, my God, you know.
I have to say that there isthis company DOT Been with us
since day one and they are oneof the major sponsors and they
are all coming and having fun.
Enjoying their presence isright there.
They give away products, theytalk to people, they offer jobs.
(16:11):
It's like a whole party.
They are very, very invested inthe festival.
It's a great thing.
The New York State HealthDepartment is another one that's
been here since the verybeginning, you know, to make
sure that they educate peopleabout having insurance, having a
health insurance, how importantit is.
And then, not only that, butthey talk about the importance
(16:31):
to have a doctor that you can goand visit once a year, rather
than wait until you feel sickand then you go to the emergency
room, sick and then you go tothe emergency room.
Then we have, of course, thecity of Syracuse, downtown
committee, onondaga County, cnyArts and the local companies.
You know Interior Innovations,jose Perez Law Offices,
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margaritas Restaurants,guadalajara Restaurants
restaurants, guadalajararestaurants.
This is a very unique companythat just started and is run by
a woman, and what they do isthey paint and reconstruct
buildings and offices.
(17:16):
So yeah, interiors, interiors,innovations as well.
And Micron.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Oh, Micron.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah, they just came in, I think they want to do a
lot in the community.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Because, they need to get on the good side of things,
and not that they aren't, I'mjust saying they need to make
themselves known and besupportive of what we're doing
here, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
So Micron is one of the new ones and of course, we
talk about the players and theMets.
They've been extremelysupportive to us and we have
three Latino nights actually atthe Mets and the last one is
next week.
It's Thursday the 21st.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I'll be there.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Yes, please.
Well, let's invite everybody tocome and have a good time,
because we're going to haveLatino music.
We're going to dance, we'regoing to enjoy ourselves.
Latino music we're going todance, we're going to enjoy
ourselves.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
So remember, 6 pm.
Open doors.
Yep, the gates open.
Yes, be there, fanny will bethere.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Oh yeah, we'll be there welcoming everybody.
What has the community responsebeen like leading up to this?
We not only they click like,but they're sharing, which is
(18:29):
more important than clicking thelike right.
Sharing, sharing, sharing,sharing.
And I think we're very excitedwith the tons of people that are
coming.
We're excited that you guys arehelping us out with the
promotion as well Love itYesterday I was in Bridge Street
are coming.
We're excited that you guys arehelping us out with the
promotion as well Love itYesterday I was in Bridge Street
.
So you know everybody's comingall together to make sure that
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this celebration is foreverybody.
Like I said in the verybeginning, we are the bridge
between the Latino community andthe community at large, so we
are excited and proud of that.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Now I would assume you have a team behind you
putting all this on.
What are some of the challengesthat you face doing an event
that has grown to be the sizethat it is?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
today.
You know it is funny that youasked me the question in the
very beginning how it started,and I told you the hamburgers
and hot dogs because we didn'thave money and we just want to
have fun to trying to figure itout what to do, how to do it,
how to start it right.
Um, today we have a mightygroup of five, but those mighty
(19:31):
group of five have their own umgroups that they're working with
.
So per se, it's only fivepeople that are in the core, and
then they have their ownfriends and community members
that are helping them out.
So, um, on Saturday, when we umset it up, we're going to have
(19:51):
the Rotary Club of course.
Yeah, we're going to have themembers of the Rotary Club
coming and volunteer for thatday setting it up and then
cleaning up after that.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Very nice.
Do you accept volunteers at all?
Oh yeah, somebody says hey, youknow, I watched your podcast.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Oh yeah, or I saw you on Bridge Street.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I'd like to come down and help.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Yes, please, Everybody that is willing and
wanted to help.
You are more than welcome.
We are always looking forvolunteers during the whole
entire year, because we workduring the whole entire year to
make sure that this issuccessful in August.
So all the volunteers arewelcome.
You can call me, you can emailme, whatever is easy.
(20:32):
You can email me at fvsonvictorI-L-L-A-R-R-E-A-L.
At ymailcom, Just make surethat is-A-L.
At Ymailcom, Just make surethat is Y, as in Yahoo Ymailcom,
because tend to change to G andI don't have a G, it's Y, it's
Y the letter, y Don't go W-H-Y.
(20:55):
It's the letter Y.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Yeah, I know Not too many people have that, but there
you go, you just gave it up.
You know, I know not too manypeople have that, but there you
go, you just gave it up.
You know, I see your passionand your dedication, but I'm
going to ask you this questionwhat does this festival?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
personally, mean to you.
So to me, this is my first childper se.
So I, when I started this eventand you know we went in
different parts of life with thefestival so it was festival, it
(21:34):
was no festival.
It was festival, no festival,and for a lot of different
reasons.
And now that I build thisfestival as a not-for-profit, so
nobody have to be a fiscalsponsor, so it's a festival
itself.
To me it's great because, again, I love to educate people about
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all the Latino cultures, notonly me being Peruvian, but from
all sides of the world, right,because the Latino culture, we
are 20 different countries thatare here in Syracuse and so it
is important that we all engage,understand, ask questions and
(22:18):
have a lot of fun while you aredoing that, because it's a
different way of living.
You know, I know everybody givea hug, I hug everybody, even
the person that I just know, andthat doesn't mean anything you
haven't hugged me, yet, oh, Idid oh, you did.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
No, you did, I was drinking my coffee.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yeah, you were drinking your coffee, see, mr
cafe mr cafe, I love it, I loveit.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Oh my god, I love you but that's what it is energy is
just.
I just love this.
Uh, what would you say tosomeone who's never been to the
Syracuse Latino Festival, andwhy should they come out this
year?
I think you've already answereda lot of that, but again, why
should they be there?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
So come so you can see what we are all about it.
Come and enjoy the music.
Come and enjoy the music, comeand enjoy the food.
Come and look for me and say,hey, I heard you at the radio or
TV or the podcast and I wantedto be part of this, or I wanted
to know, or I wanted to give youan idea, or whatever it is.
(23:19):
Or just come and say hello, I'mgoing to give you a hug, so be
prepared.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
It's a good hug, believe prepared.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
It's a good hug.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Believe me, it's a good hug.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Where can our listeners and our viewers find
out more information about thisfestival that's coming up on
Saturday?
So they can go to our website,wwwlatinoamericanofestivalcom.
Or you can just go into theFacebook and all the platforms
you know social media is allover.
So, yes, anyway, you just lookLatino Festival Syracuse and all
(23:55):
the information will come out.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Do you have?
Let's talk a little bit aboutnumbers.
What is the Latino community incentral New York?
Do you have any numbers like?
What is the Latino community incentral New York?
Do you have any numbers Likewhat is the population?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
So, according with the census, okay, uh, 2020, we
are about 15% of the city.
Um, my sense is that there's alot of people that they didn't
um answer the the census, thecensus.
And so I will say probably weremore than that.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Yeah, I would agree with you.
Great people.
I love it, it's so much fun.
It is a lot of fun, you know,with the energy that you have
and those that I know that are.
Latino it's just the energylevel is always so high and
everybody you know they thinkpositive about so many things.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
I mean the negativism doesn't exist in our blood.
We don't have a stress becausethat's not part of the culture.
So it's always the funny thing,it's always having a good time
and I think it is that's part ofit.
There is people that say oh mygod, I can't believe that she's
all the time happy, how come?
(25:04):
And I said because in myvocabulary or in my brains,
stress or sadness doesn't exist.
That's how I grew up, so that'show I always go, like this, and
so are my kids.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Oh my gosh, I so much love this.
So it's uh, it's happening thisweekend and it's Saturday.
It gets underway at noon atClinton Square.
It's the Syracuse LatinoFestival.
Fanny, thank you so much forbeing here.
Just a lot of great information.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
It's going to be such a funny event.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I'm not even going to try to say your last name.
I'll let you do it.
Villarreal, I'm not even goingto try.
Villarreal, perfect, do you see?
But I I'm not even going to try.
Feel it real perfect, do yousee?
I know, but I can't roll mytongue like that it's just
practice.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Everything can happen .
It's just practice.
You know, one thing that Ilearned is that if you do
everything with love, everythingis going to come out just great
so, oh my gosh, that's a great.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I'd like that if you do everything with love yeah,
yeah, yeah yeah.
And that's what we're doinghere today and this weekend.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
And every day, every day, every day.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Never stop, 24-7, right.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Exactly 24-7, all the time.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Fanny, you're awesome .
Thank you for stopping by.
It's always great to see youwalk through that door.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Thank you Skip.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
It just makes me happy and um it just you know.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I wish you a very successful event and chances are
I'll be walking around as well.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
It's free, by the way .
It's free so you just walk upand take advantage and learn
about the different cultures.
Enjoy the food dance.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Yes, let's dance yeah .
Speaker 1 (26:45):
And if you're at the Mets it's next Thursday.
It's the third Latino night.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Yes, the third and the last one, august 21st.
It's hard to believe, right?
I know?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Now, do you get involved with the fair at all?
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Yes, actually, I'm going to be singing at the fair.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Wow.
Yay where uh, come on let it,let it out at the latino village
on the 30th 8 pm you know, um,I'd like to set up, I want to
set up an interview and comeover and talk to you over there.
So, yeah, we can do that too.
We can take this on the road.
Yeah, um, which I've donebefore I did it.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I did it last year and they I went to bridge street
and they said can, can you sing?
And I go sure what song?
And I start singing.
And they're like really I said,well, you asked me to sing,
right?
I'm like okay.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
So that's part of the song that I'm going to be
singing.
What's your?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
favorite song to sing .
This time I'm going to sing amerengue.
Okay, so I love salsa merenguesong.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
I love it, but what about some of the American
culture songs?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
You know I never tried yet, but that's an idea.
You know I love it.
That's an idea.
Yeah, you should do that.
You should do both.
Yeah, I should do both.
I speak English, so why notsinging in English, right?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
You do, and you do that better than I do it.
Thank you and I got to do thisevery day, Then again it's
practice, practice, practice.
See All right, fanny Villarreal, thank you so much for joining
us today.
It is the Inner HarborConnection.
We'd love to see you out there.
This weekend it's ClintonSquare.
It gets underway at noon.
On Saturday it is the SyracuseLatino festival.
They've got big nameentertainment from their home
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countries.
Yeah, which is cool.
They're coming to town, so Iwant to see y'all there.
Thank you for watching y'all.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Thank you you.
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