{"id":4296,"date":"2011-04-29T14:01:57","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T21:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amigos805.com\/?p=4296"},"modified":"2011-04-29T14:15:06","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T21:15:06","slug":"javier-gomez-to-be-honored-april-30-at-csun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/javier-gomez-to-be-honored-april-30-at-csun\/","title":{"rendered":"Javier Gomez, Avie Guerra to be honored April 30 at CSUN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4297\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4297\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4297\" src=\"http:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Photo-Javier-Gomez-e1304110445994.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"301\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Javier Gomez, founder of the Inlakech Cultural Arts Center in Oxnard<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Javier Gomez of the Inlakech Cultural Arts Center in Oxnard and late community advocate Avie Guerra will be recognized at the 17<sup>th<\/sup> annual &#8220;La Raza Alumni Association Scholarship Recognition Dinner,&#8221; starting at 6 p.m. with a reception on Saturday, April 30 at CSU Northridge at the University Student Union Grand Salon, Xavier \u201cBig X\u201d Montes reported this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis coming Saturday I\u2019ve been asked to say a few words and present Javier Gomez, a long-time friend, with an award\u201d at the dinner, Montes said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was deeply honored when the association asked me to do this. I&#8217;ve known Javier for about 36 years and along with him have promoted Chicano\/Mexicano Culture with a focus on the arts (music, teatro, dance, and even comedy), Montes said. \u201cAbout a year ago\u00a0Javier\u00a0asked me to teach harp to a few of his Mariachi Inlakech students and so now we have a side group called \u2018Angels on Harps\u2019 which consist of about 7 harps (lady\u00a0Angels), a few guitars and a guitarron. It\u2019s a blast making music with them not to mention how &#8220;pretty&#8221; they look when they&#8217;re all dressed up and ready to perform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year, the association will celebrate \u201cSocial Justice, Cultura y Baile.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4299\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4299\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4299\" src=\"http:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/02-03-11-guerra1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"259\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4299\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The late community advocate Avie Guerra, will be remembered at &quot;La Raza Alumni Association Scholarship Recognition Dinner.&quot; <\/p><\/div>\n<p>David Rodriquez will serve as moderator for the event which includes the Ballet Folkl\u00f3rico Aztl\u00e1n de CSUN slideshow; a welcome by Gabriel Gutierrez; dinner entertainment by \u201cTrio Chepicarr\u00ed;\u201d remembering Avie Guerra, Roberto Sifuentes and Dr. Karin Duran \u2013 Mary Pardo, David Rodriguez and Jennie Qui\u00f1\u00f3nez-Skinner; a performance by Ballet Folkl\u00f3rico Aztl\u00e1n de CSUN; acknowledgement of honorees including Gomez, Lizbeth Mateo and Ballet Folkl\u00f3rico Aztl\u00e1n de CSUN, with Montez performing with \u2018Angels on Harps;\u2019 and recognition of the scholarship awardees for the\u00a0\u00a0Rudy Acu\u00f1a Scholarship, the Frank Del Olmo Scholarship and the Chicana\/o Studies Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call Cindy Padilla at 818.677.7642 or send an email to <a href=\"mailto:cindy.padilla.52@csun.edu\">cindy.padilla.52@csun.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p>Xavier &#8220;Big X&#8221; Montes will also be performing from 11:30 to 12:10 p.m. Sunday May 1 at the Autry National Center&#8217;s Earth Day celebration, 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles next to the Los Angeles Zoo. <a href=\"http:\/\/theautry.org\/whats-here\/music-and-entertainment\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4302\" style=\"width: 335px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4302\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4302\" src=\"http:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_3191_2-e1304111035657.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"531\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">De Colores Arts Festival founder Xavier &quot;Big X&quot; Montes will be performing at &quot;La Raza Alumni Association Scholarship Recognition Dinner&quot; with the Inlakech Cultural Arts group &quot;Angels on Harps.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Javier Gomez of the Inlakech Cultural Arts Center in Oxnard and late community advocate Avie Guerra will be recognized at the 17th annual &#8220;La Raza Alumni Association Scholarship Recognition Dinner,&#8221; starting at 6 p.m. with a reception on Saturday, April&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/javier-gomez-to-be-honored-april-30-at-csun\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,9,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural","category-education","category-entertainment","category-events","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4296"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4301,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296\/revisions\/4301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}