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Rancho Days

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Join La Senora for our Mexican Fiesta celebrating the history of Santa Monica Canyon when it was the 1839 Rancho Boca de Santa Monica. Neighboring families have gathered over the years to continue learning about the rich history of their community including the diverse customs, traditions, and skills of the many individuals who came together on the Rancho.

 

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Stories will be told, by Rancho descendants, about their ancestral families, the actual settlers of this Mexican Land. Artisans demonstrating tile-making, leather arts, tortilla-making and the cooking of the bygone Rancho will be accompanied by opportunities for adults and children to join in dancing, tile decorating, pottery making, and Mexican games in the spirit of the end of ‘Roundup’ Fiestas. We even have a famous artist who’s volunteered to help the children create a 15’ mural.

 

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Programs are designed to entertain and educate all ages – though we suspect some do come for the good food alone!

This Fiesta is for all our neighbors and friends! This Year’s Fiesta is being underwritten by one of our most generous Patron Members who wishes the gift to be designated ‘anonymous’. This donor has requested that all usual admission fees covering food and craft supplies be re-directed this year as donations to La Senora. If there are members of your household staff for whom the small admission donation is not being sponsored by you – perhaps they want to invite family members who don’t work for you-- please let us know as we can offer a highly discounted admission under a sponsorship from this donor.

 

La Senora itself has a pattern of outreach to the less privileged of our community; we are happy to introduce our neighbors and friends to families from the Santa Monica “Upward Bound House” who will be joining us for the Fiesta. The Upward Bound program provides transitional housing to homeless families and affordable housing for the very low-income elderly in Santa Monica. In our community’s spirit of generosity, during the Fiesta there will be a place where you could donate items these children could use for school supplies or clothing in good repair outgrown by your family. Books, unopened toiletries, those gifts you’ve been intending to recycle as presents….all will be welcome and gratefully received by these families.

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