~Photos by Kevin Dickinson

On Saturday, Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, the city’s SomerViva Immigrant Outreach & Service program and the Somerville Arts Council hosted a festival to mark “Día de la Raza.”

The event commemorated the heritage and cultural diversity of Latin America and the intermingling and mutual influence of Latino and European cultures over time, both historically and here in present-day Somerville.

The festival celebrated corn, a potent symbol of Latino culture (with delicious corn-based food-arepas, chichamorada, tamales, pozole and esquites), and included many performances, including Latin Logic, an explosive band led by ManoloMairena.