Inaugural festival
Mexico: Beyond Your Expectations from July
17 to July 19
Mexican rock bands
such as Café Tacuba, Luaka
Bop and Los de Abajo
First live outdoor
LuchaLibre
wrestling match in Toronto
Mexican movies and
cuisine highlighted to experience Mexico!
Mexico: Beyond Your Expectations is an inaugural
festival happening July 17 to July 19 at HarbourfrontCenter
in Toronto, celebrating
the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Mexican independence and the 100th
anniversary of the revolution.
Mexico?s heritage and vibrant
culture will be represented by the Grammy award-winning Mexican rock group
Café Tacuba. Furthermore, Luaka
Bop tropipunk, ska group
Los de Abajo and Arts & Crafts? Mexican Indie rock band ChikitaViolenta will show off
the wide range of music coming out of Mexico.
2009 is also the 25th
anniversary of El Santo?s death, one of Mexico?s most famous and iconic luchadores
(Mexican wrestlers), credited with having popularized professional wrestling
in Mexico much like Hulk Hogan did for the USA.
During this festival, Mexican
luchadores
Blue Demon Jr. and Incognito will go head-to head against Canadian luchadoresSuperxtremo, Cody 45, Sombra
and Tigerstar in Toronto?s first live outdoor LuchaLibre
wrestling match.
Afterwards, wrestling
fanatics will have the possibility to meet their favourite masked heroes in
an intimate and interactive Q&A session and even morph into their own luchadores at a
late-night LuchaLibre Dance
Party with Latin-Rock group Dirty Maria.
This festival will
highlight the movies Santo y Blue Demon
vs. Los Monstruos(a luchadores film featuring the
father of Blue Demon Jr. who will be on site over the weekend) as well as a
screening of Santo y Blue Demon in la Atlántida.
Authentic and
Contemporary Mexican cuisine is also highlighted with food demos from
downtown Toronto
restaurants La Tortilleria and Frida
Restaurant and Bar. The World Café will also features Mexican and Latin
American vendors preparing an array of typical Mexican dishes including
fajitas, tacos, soups and more!
The Mexico Tourism
Board is proud to be part of the "World Routes Festival 2009". MTB?s
goal is to extend and open invitation to the various communities in Toronto in order to let
them know about the Mexican culture, tradition and gastronomy.
"Toronto is a cosmopolitan city that
embraces diversity and various cultural experiences, we are proud of being
part of it. Mexico
is glad to have this heritage and wishes to share it with the entire world",
said Alfonso Sumano, regional director for Canada
of the Mexico Tourism Board.
The Mexico
Tourism Board (MTB) brings together the resources of federal and state
governments, municipalities and private companies to promote Mexico's
tourism attractions and destinations nationally and internationally. Created
in 1999, the MTB is Mexico?s
tourism promotion agency, and its participants include members of both the
private and public sectors. The MTB has offices throughout North America,
Europe, Asia and Latin America.
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additional ideas, help with a story or general travel and tourism information
about Mexico,
please contact the MTB?s Canadian Press Room
directly at 1-866-895-5297, by e-mail at canadianpress@visitmexico.com, or
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