Saturday,
September 21st, 2024
WELCOME TO
TLALLI FESTIVAL 2024
CELEBRATING INDIGENOUS CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS
Tlalli Festival is a celebration of live Indigenous music, dance, and ancient culinary traditions. It’s dedicated to honouring and celebrating the multi-millenary-old connection among Indigenous Peoples across the Americas: from First Nations in Canada, Inca in Perú, Aztec in México, Guaraní in Brazil, Mapuche in Chile, Taino in the Caribbean Islands…to many more and beyond.
Join us in celebrating the rich cultural heritage of Indigenous Peoples across the Americas. Get your tickets today!
Tlalli Festival is created & curated by Quique Escamilla.
* Kids under age 7y/o: FREE entry.
**Dogs not allowed on site.
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TLALLI means EARTH in the ancient Nahuatl language of the Mexica (meh-shi-ca) People
This celebration is an opportunity to honour and thank the Earth as the main source of sustenance for both ancient civilizations and modern-day cultures around the planet. People of ALL nations, cultures and ethnicities are welcome to join our one-day gathering and ceremony that will offer us the opportunity to ground and reconnect ourselves with our beloved and true homeland, Tlalli.
Each ticket includes 1x appetizer and 1x non-alcoholic beverage upon arrival.
ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY,
ZERO WASTE
TRADITIONAL FOOD BY INDIGENOUS CHEFS
INDIGENOUS MUSIC, TRADITIONAL DANCE & STORY-TELLING
MENU
Admission ticket includes 1 x complimentary appetizer upon arrival
Appetizer
11:00am
TACO CARNITAS MICHOACAN
Purepecha recipe, slow cooked pork
TACO NOPAL EN CHIPOTLE
Vegetarian, Mexicah recipe,
Nopal (cactus) marinated with chipotle and spices
Lunch
2:15pm2
MOLE POBLANO
Mixtec Poblano recipe.
Artisanally, mole sauce with over 20 ingredients, such as roasted and hand-milled cocoa beans, Mexican dried peppers, almonds, sesame seeds, raising, plantain, etc...poured on grass-fed chicken, with rice and tortillas.
Dinner
7:25pm
POZOLE VERDE
Mexicah recipe.
Artisanally nixtamalized corn, slow-cooked with yerba santa herb, and Chile Poblano, with chicken. (vegetarian version available)
Beverages
TASCALATE
Artisanal Zoque drink made of stone ground corn, cocoa, achiote and cinnamon
(Limited servings)
MEZCAL DEL MAGUEY VIDA
Clasico - Single Village, Oaxacan Tradition, artisanally made and distilled
POZOL DE CACAO
Artisanal Mayan drink made of stone ground nixtamalized corn, cocoa and tortilla
(Limited servings)
ORGANIC WINE
Leaning Post
White: 'The Fifty' Chardonnay, VQA Niagara Peninsula 2021.
HORCHATA
Rice based with evaporated & condensed milk and Mexican cinnamon.
BEER
Great Lakes Brewery:
Various types
MEXICAN COFFEE
Oaxacan coffee beans
BEAU'S BREWERY
Lug Tread Lager, Full Time IPA & Fat Tire Classic Ale
RED & WHITE WINE
ARTIST LINEUP 2024
10:30am - Doors
11:00am - Tlahuilli - Mexico (traditional ceremony for the Earth)
11:50am - Anahí Mariluan - Argentina
12:50pm - African Village Experience - Gambia
01:25pm - Quique Escamilla - Mexico
02:15pm - LUNCH TIME - Guest Chefs Presentation - Mexico
02:30pm - DJ Juana Go-gó - Colombia
03:30pm - Siibii - Cree Nation / Canada
04:25pm - Xocô Pernamundo - Brazil
05:00pm - Akawui - Chile/Canada
06:00pm - Springcreek Dancers - First Nations / Canada.
06:30pm - Tio Chorino & Flavia Nascimento - Brasil/Canada
07:25pm - DINNER
07:35pm - Less Toches - Colombia
08:40pm - Kobo Town - Trinidad & Tobago
09:40pm - Close
INTERNATIONAL GUEST CHEFS:
Alfredo Gaspar – Michoacan, Mexico
Miguel Bravo – Puebla, Mexico
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