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Mariachi and New Orleans jazz will be among the sounds featured at the fourth annual Watts Third World Art Festival on Saturday and Oct. 10 at Watts Health Center.
Billed as a way to showcase the diversity of the area, the free event will include the works of 60 local artists, as well as craft booths, rides, puppet shows and food.
“What we’re trying to do is remove the barriers and the negative stigma that has been placed on Watts over the years,” said Harold Hambrick, a spokesman for the Watts Health Foundation Inc., the main sponsor of the festival. “We’re celebrating the mixed heritage and the multicultural history of the Watts community.”
The festival starts at 10 a.m. Saturday with a parade beginning at Will Rogers Memorial Park, at 103rd Street and South Central Avenue, and ending at the health center, at 103rd and South Compton Avenue, where two stages will be set up. Actress Marla Gibbs will serve as grand marshal.
Among those scheduled to perform are the Trinidad Steel Drum Band, Aztec Xipetotec, Sona Sane West African Dance Group, and Sung Soon’ Shin’s Korean Dance Institute.
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Watts Health Center, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, and noon to 6 p.m. Oct. 10, at 10300 S. Compton Ave. Free. Information: (213) 939-0821.
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