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The announcements have been made: This year's youth arts and music festival is happening!

The Bee Boys have been working hard making preparations: coordinating artists, videotaping the introductions of local rap artists, painters and breakdancers to play on projectors and promote on social media. Jeremias is in charge of booking the bands, sound equipment and videos. Edwin keeps the accounts and meets with the municipal government, catholic church and local organizations for permissions and participation. 

They festival coordinators worked with local artists to design the festival logo: Ijatz "The Seed" symbolizing the re-emergence of mayan traditional knowledge, the multicolored corn cob symbolizing cultural diversity and harmony, and the white, red, yellow and black representing the four directions and the Mayan colors. 

The stage will be playing a series of rap, rock and traditional marimba music, poetry, breakdance with art displays lining San Pablo's public basketball court in the center of town.  All these artists will be displaying their work voluntarily in the spirit of community development and youth awareness of social issues affecting their town. This year the festival is dedicated to Overcoming Violence: bringing awareness to violence in all forms: drugs and alcohol, gangs, domestic violence and emotional abuse.

The coordinators say they want to show the state of Solola that San Pablo is full of artists and people committed to social change.

Thanks to you, [first name], we were able to support the Bee Boys and the San Pablo Youth Group's effort to keep their yearly festival free and open to the public!  

                                                          Stay tuned for videos from the artists!