International High School of New Orleans to Hold Hispanic Heritage Celebration on October 4th

WHAT:          
The International High School of New Orleans (IHSNO) will hold its 4th Annual Hispanic Heritage celebration for the school  with an assembly featuring speakers, traditional dance, student performances, music, arts, traditional Hispanic Food.
 
Speakers at the event will include Mary Moran, the co-founder and Executive Director for Nuestra Voz New Orleans and Dr. Wanda Solano, NASA engineer in charge of the critical DATA center.

WHEN:         
Wednesday, October 4, 11:30am
 
WHERE:       
The International High School of New Orleans, 
727 Carondelet Street, New Orleans, LA 70130
 
Phone (504) 613-5703
 
WHY: The International High School of New Orleans (IHSNO) takes pride in its cultural diversity and will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month to acknowledge the contributions of Latinos in the United States and promote multicultural understanding and awareness of the efforts of the growing Hispanic population in the New Orleans metropolitan area.  
 
IHSNO holds a series of cultural celebrations every year for the students, representing the languages that are taught at the school: Hispanic Heritage Celebration, Vietnamese and Chinese New Year (TET), French Week, Indian Day, Arabic National Day, and Black History Month.
 
The purpose of the Hispanic Heritage Month celebration is to carry on the beautiful Latino traditions that diffuse through the music, dance, arts and food.  This celebration integrates all Hispanic descend students with the community as a way to empower, recognize and commemorate the cultural contributions of Latinos in America. 
 
International High School of New Orleans is an International Baccalaureate World School with an emphasis of language learning and diversity appreciation.  Founded in 2009, IHS is the only school in Orleans Parish to offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP), a curriculum with a reputation for its international external assessment with published global standards that focus on the development of a student’s critical-thinking skills by engaging them intellectually, emotionally, and ethically, creating a “passport for success”. Go to: www.ihsnola.org