photo by Sarah Hinnant
Flamenco dancers Ely Cardenal and Ernesto Caballero dance. Cardenal founded Flamenco de Perfil and often partners with other flamenco dancers like Caballero.
Several clubs and honor societies also took part in raising awareness for Hispanic Heritage Month, including Spanish Honor Society and student government.
“Heritage months start a conversation. People live in their own cultural bubble and it’s important that they are exposed to different things,” SHS president Ariana Seguinot said.
Throughout Hispanic Heritage Month, which lasts from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, SHS is reading a daily fact about Hispanic history on the announcements, participating in the door decorating contest, and partnering with Culinary and Woof TV to create an infomercial about tortillas and their cultural significance in different countries.
Seguinot, who read the first daily fact on Sept. 15, explained why that day was chosen as the first day of Hispanic Heritage Month; it is the Independence Day for five different Hispanic countries: Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.
On their Sept. 9 meeting, SHS brainstormed which famous Hispanic people should be recognized and student government designed posters to honor famous Hispanic people like Salma Hayek, a Mexican-American actress, Simon Bolivar, a Venezuelan military leader who won the independence of many Hispanic countries, and Domingo Liotta, an Argentine surgeon and pioneer of heart surgery.
Your donation will support the student journalists of Hagerty High School. Your contribution helps us publish six issues of the BluePrint and cover our annual website hosting costs. Thank you so much!
