May 5^th - Marathon de la Batalla de Puebla

Marathons are traditional in México. Asociación Tepeyac has organized marathons where we have had up to 2,000 runners. The Marathon de la Batalla de Puebla (The Marathon of the Battle of Puebla)invites professional and non-professional athletes to participate in this race. For this event, we expect at least 2,000 people including 5,000 attendees.

The objective of this event is to motivate our Hispanic youth and helo build a stronger will, body and spirit through discipline; which it will contribute to their personal growth in life. Our youth will learn that to compete in life, like in a marathon, it is necesary to prepare oneself to meet a goal.
 

April 22^th/May 6^th/June 3^th/June 10^th - 5^th Festival Of Mexican Artistic Expression

The Festival of Mexican Artistic Expression is an open artisitic forum to the community and to the City of New York. The goal of this festival is to promote and transmit our indentity and culture to our youth and share our traditions with the City of New York as a form of incorporated them into the life and culture of this city.

The categories on which participants compete are: Traditional Dance and Music, Theater, and Visual Arts.

The 5^th Festival of Mexican Artistic Expression takes place in the boroughs of Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx and Staten Island to bring together sponsor, public and participants. We expect an attendance of at least 3,000 people in each event.
 

July 22^th - Festival of Mexican Culture

To share the richness of our Mexican Culture and traditions, Asociación Tepeyac through the participation of its professional folkloric ballets presents dances to the general public of New York City the Festival of Mexican Culture. This event takes place in Manhattan and counts on an attendance of 3,000 people.

Through your sponsorship, you will be able to reach a multiethnic audience, as our event is open to the public of NMew York City.
 

Agust 18^th, 19^th - Feria del Sol

La Feria del Sol is an amazing Mexican Fiesta that emulates celebrations in Mexican villages during traditional holidays; this fiesta features many apsects of Mexican culture and includes a large assortments of delicious Mexican cuisine, musical groups, dancers, vendors, of arts and craft, and so much more. We expect an attendance of 15,000 people.

This event take a place in a park in New York City on August 18-19, 2001. There is a special area reserved for presentation of traditional Mexican flok dancing and music. The festival also includes children's activities and contests.
 

September 16^th - Mexican Independence Parade

The Mexican Independence Parade in New York City is a great celebration that brings together many colorful floats, musical and artistic groups, dancers representing different regions of Mexico, and community leaders. As sponsor you will have the opportunity to promoted your business to thousands of people and through a variety o media outlets. This magnificent event is promoted throughout the Tri-state area which includes Spanish and English radio, TV and newspapers. The parade counts on an attendance of 10,000 people.
 

December 11^th - Mañanitas a la Virgen de Guadalupe

The Mexican community, as well a other Latino groups, has strong religious values. Mexico has been identified by the pope as "Un Pueblo de Fe, Mexico Siempre Fiel" (a Community of Faith, Mexico always faithfull). In fact, faith is a very powerful incluence for the Mexican people as a result of the syncretization and a strong identification of its cultural heritage: Spanish Catholicism and ingigenous roots. The Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe is the most important religious and national holiday for Mexicans either in the homeland or in the United States.

Gathering in Saint Patrick's Cathedral, the celebration starts on December 11^th, with the Mañanitas a la Virgen de Guadalupe where different Mexican Mariachi Bands perform their songs to honor ourLady of Guadalupe from 8:00 to 12:00 p.m. This event has an attendance of around 10,000 people throughout the night.
 

December 12^th - Celebrations for the Virgen de Guadalupe

In New York City, the Day of our Lady of Guadalupe has a profound meaning in the lives of the Mexican American community. Aside from the importance of this day as a religious feast, this holy day has been proclaimed as the Day of the Mexican Worker recognizing the contribution of Mexican inmigrants to the economy of this city.

Tradition says that in 1535 the dark-skinned Virgin made herself known to an Indian; she came to protect, defend and reconciliate the new-born mestizo race. The Indigenous people indentified her as the goddess Tonantzin, and she became the patron saint of all Mexico and Latin America. She is now referred as Queen of Mexico and Empress of America. From that date on, the people of Mexico and Latin American celebrate her feast day with religious fervor; Mexican living all over the world pray, feast and commemorate her apparition.
 

December 12^th - La Antorcha Guadalupana

On December 12^th, a ceremony to honor Our Lady of Guadalupe is held in Saint Patrick's Cathedral at 9:00 am. After the mass, following our ancestors' traditions, the Marathon of the Antorcha Guadalupana starts. The bishop blesses the torches that runners carry to their communities in the five different boroughs of the city, as an act faith and hope. About 5,000 people attend this event including 3,000 runners.

The Antorcha Guadalupana is a cultural envent that motivates our Hispanic youth to participates in activities that help them to build stronger moral values and preserve their identity.