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Casa Latina Home Expo
Join us at the Casa Latina Home Expo
The first-of-its-kind bilingual home expo taking place this Saturday, November 9th from 10am – 5pm at the historic Altman Building
(135 West 18th Street) in NYC.
This event will provide culturally-relevant home-and-lifestyle information for Latino(a)s to improve their homes and their lives in an engaging and entertaining setting. Top talent/influencers and experts will host home-and-lifestyle clinics in the areas of Home Buying, DIY/How-to, Décor, Parenting, Cooking and Home Health.
Chase will be conducting First Time Home Buying mini-clinics throughout the day to inform the community on available help and grants for potential buyers. Experts will be on hand to answer questions in both English and Spanish to help Latino(a)s understand the process and position them to become homeowners.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has created many unanswered questions on the home health care front. Empire BlueCross BlueShield will host an informational clinic to inform the community about the (ACA) and how-to access affordable coverage and answer any and all questions throughout the event.
Got Milk! will have a nutritionist on hand to inform and answer questions and will GIVE AWAY a year’s worth of free milk for a one lucky family.
In addition to the above mentioned information, bloggers and the communitycan come and meet the TALENT & INFLUENCERS who will be accessible throughout the day:
Minerva Borjas, host of Tubebe, Evette Rios, host of Recipe Rehab on ABC, Kathy Cano-Murillo aka The Crafty Chica, Marlene Pratt, Casa Latina co-founder, television designer Martin Amado, Jeannette Kaplun of Hispana Global, Ana Flores co-founder of Spanglish Bab, Helen Troncoso, former Ms. NY America 2012 and founder of Reinventing You andothers!
ENTERTAINMENT: Latin Trends Magazine will be hosting Salsa classes and a Salsa Competition with the winner featured in the next Latin Trends Magazine!
CELEBRITY CHEFS: Chef Hamlet of V-me TV’s Sazón para el mundo and Chef Ronaldo Linares, an alumni of The Food Network’s show Chopped, will host cooking demonstrations followed by Q&A!
CHILDREN’S ENTERTAINMENT: Our children’s area will have tons of fun entertainment brought to you by La Casa Azul Book Store! Award winning Jose Luis Orozco will join us to sing and tell stories, children’s authors will do readings and Vme Kids is bringing our kid’s favorite characters – Lunar Jim and Tricky The Tiger – to interact with the children!