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History:
After realizing that their
Culture was not represented amongst the multicultural
festivals in the Southern California area, a group of
Panamanians created Ballet Folklórico Viva Panama in April
1991, and in the year 2006 is celebrating its 15th
Anniversary. Later in April 1999, The Panamanian
Cultural Arts Center is created as a response to the need of
exposure of Panamanian Culture.
Viva Panama Organization (VPO)
is the merge of these two first entities, as a way to fulfill
the need of the Southern California community with a more
comprehensive expression of the Culture of Panama. This
event took place on August 2002, and formally inaugurated on
Sept. 14, 2002, in Los Angeles, California with the visit of
Miss Universe 2002, Justine Pasek.
Goal:
“The main goal of VPO is
preserving, presenting and promoting the different
manifestations of the Culture of Panama, through its music,
dances, traditions, literature, paintings, arts & crafts,
cuisine, etc, striving to provide the multicultural
population of California with a high quality sample of the
spirit and flavor of Panama, and helping out the socioeconomic
development of its native Panama”.
Our mission is accomplished by
the following:
Organizing and coordinating
displays and exhibitions, cultural and educational programs
with museums, schools, universities, and other cultural
centers.
Associating with local, national
and international organizations/corporations with the same
scope of work, by creating and co-adjuvating programs to
achieve these goals.
Creating a very active
administrative team composed of dedicated people who love our
country and willing to work shoulder to shoulder, investing
time, energy, ideas and more important, love, friendship and
respect as we develop our projects, on behalf of the image and
socioeconomic status of Panama from the outside.
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