COVER STORY
A “renewed” Renaissance comes to Fordham
Story and photos by Debralee Santos
Date: 08/24/2011
“¿Que lluvia?” asked Boricua artist Flaco Navaja, as he stood on the main stage, at the 16th Annual Fordham Renaissance Festival this past Sunday, August 21st. A defiant cheer was the response from an appreciative crowd that basked in the first rays of sunlight after a drenching downpour moments before.
But the rain didn’t stop a single salsero or salsera from moving along to the driving music coming from the main stage at the Sixteenth Annual Renaissance Festival, whose presence this year on Fordham Road was marked by a reinvigorated collection of organizers and sponsors, including the Hispanic Federation, the Bronx Council for Economic Development, which is part of the Acacia Network (formerly known as Basics/Promesa Systems, Inc.), and its most loyal supporter, Assemblyman Jose E. Rivera.
Attendees were treated to a series of health screenings, courtesy of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health’s annual ¡Vive tu vida! Get Up! Get Moving! Campaign, as well as useful information on diabetes management, healthful nutrition, organ donation, and, of course, an on-stage dance contest.
For Bronx Free Press reader Martha Lameda, who’d read about the health-oriented fair in a recent edition of the BFP and planned her weekend around it, this was a perfect way to spend the day.
“This has been the most fun,” she laughed. “I haven’t had a chance to sit down yet!”
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