About us
LATINOLIFE 'IN THE PARK' is the uk's largest free Latin festival. We specialise in showcasing the best UK-born,bred and based Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese (Latin) talent, as well as exciting international artists.
In the 6 weeks leading up to the day of the festival, we take artists and exceptional people into schools to inspire young people with their stories and to impart their knowledge, skills and passion about their culture and heritage. This culminates in a day of fantastic music and dance in one of London's most stunning locations.
WHY WE Do IT
Every year we invite musicians, bands, dancers and artists to participate in The LUKAS Awards, where the public and expert judges vote for their favourite latin artists of the year. This is how we discover wonderful new artists every year. The original idea of LATINOLIFE'S FESTIVAL was to take the Amazing talent that we discover each year to the wider public.
OUR MISSION
a Latin festival run by Latinos, showcasing Latin culture in all its breadth and depth; the variety, the diversity, the fusion of genres and ethnicities. OUr audience can expect a classically trained Tango orchestra followed By urban latin sounds of equally high quality.
THIS IS OUR PLEDGE:
WE DO: Showcase authentic, diverse, quality expressions of Latin music and dance.
WE DON’T: present clichéd, low-quality, diluted forms of Latin artistic genres (as you might see on strictly )
LA CLAVE DO: Use a criteria based on our experience and understanding of our cultures to judge their quality: OUR public and our expert judges select the artists
WE DON'T: Allow pundits who don’t understand our culture, to tell us what is cool and what isn’t cool.
WE DO: present these genres to the public within their cultural contexts, allowing their glory and quality to shine
WE DON'T: place our genres out of context, or lump them with other so-called ‘World’ music, divorced from their roots, diluting their meaning and value.
Supporting young hoMegrown talent
wE support UK-residing,born and/or bred Latin artists and provide a platform for the homegrown creativity bursting out of Britain’s UK-Latin 2nd and 3rd generations. each year we've been selecting five uk urban latin acts to perform in the 'urban latin showcase' SO POPULAR HAS THIS been that we are now dedicating a stage to urban latin music. Check out candela stage in our line up!
WHO WE ARE
we are Latinolife - the UK’s leading Latin media and events. For 20 years, we have been producing unique and wide-reaching latin events and media.
We publish Latinolife magazine, online (www.latinolife.co.uk) and in print (www.issuu.com/latinolife) and send a weekly newsletter to 62k subscribers. sign up here if you'd like to receive it.
We also produce the Urban Latin music magazine www.reggaeton.co.uk and podcasts and films.
TRANSPORT
TUBE
Finsbury Park station (victoria piccadilly)
manor house station (piccadilly)
Train
Finsbury Park station
(thames link &great northern)
buses 4 - 19 - 29 - 106 - 153 - 210 - 236 - 253 - 254 - 259 - N19 - N29 - N253 - N279 -W3 - W7 29 - 141 - 279 - 341
GET IN TOUCH
Let us kow if you want to participate or have any doubts about any of the events taking place by emailing amaranta@latinolife.co.uk