Attendees were invited to dance on stage during a live music performance at Tu Bazar Latino.
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Organizers of Tu Bazar Latino: Rosa De Nuñez, Grisel Garcia, and Elizabeth Perez. Not pictured: Aracelis Morel.
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Attendees shake maracas on stage at Tu Bazar Latino.
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An attendee orders tacos at Tu Bazar Latino.
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WILKES-BARRE — Music, dancing, and Latino cuisine filled Public Square Saturday as the fourth annual Tu Bazar Latino brought the community together for a day of connection and celebration.
The event aims to promote Latino-owned businesses and artists, event organizer Grisel Garcia said, including those not widely known.
“We support them, just try to help with networking, everything,” Garcia said about the attending entrepreneurs.
“Not only that, we want to unite the community,” organizer Elizabeth Perez said, noting Tu Bazar Latino successfully brought together entire families, both young and old.
Attendees shopped for goods and services, watched and participated in music and dance performances, and enjoyed tacos, pupusas, and more.
Garcia noted that this was the first year Tu Bazar Latino was held on Public Square. Perez thanked Wilkes-Barre City Mayor George C. Brown, as well as Wilkes-Barre City Council Chairperson Jessica McClay, Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti, and event sponsors, for their support.
“We want to try to do this every year,” Perez said.