Saturday 17th of February was celebration day for Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. Here in the Netherlands, the tradition involves a lot of people in Limburg region, mainly celebrated in the towns of Maastricht, Den Bosch and Tilburg. Past Saturday, Utrecht wanted to do it the same way as Brazilian people does. The goal of the party was to unite multicultural community of the Netherlands in one roof in the spirit of Carnival and it was an amazing party with a lots of Brazilian and Afriacan inputs from Capoeira till Samba.

“A FESTA!“ was the party hold in the Trianon (Oudegracht) organised by Domenicodellefeste.com and Talent Talen BV (language school in Ambachtstraat 2 – Utrecht).
This event, that coincides with the 30000 unique visitors in the website, was organized with the purpose of collecting money for the charity foundation Siva for Kids Foundation.

The great success of this event has showed the altruism of the people, that joined the party to celebrate Carnival.

Domenico La Ferla,¬†(PR world wide of S4K and one of the organizers of A FESTA!),¬†talks about the party: “Our idea was to bring in the Netherlands a little bit of Brazil and Africa. People assisted to presentations of Samba Reggae, Zouk and Capoeira, and danced until the end of the party. Our goal was accomplished: having fun and doing charity“.

Same feelings for Gisa Muniz (Director of the school Talent Talen): “A great party, people enjoyed in the Brazilian way, a lot of Dutch people mixed with the Brazilian community of the Netherlands. A successful Carnival Party for a good charity purpose“.

U.K. Sivanathan (Ceo and founder), who joined the first A FESTA! in Utrecht,¬†says “A wonderful party with multi-cultural party people enjoying the atmosphere of Carnival and same time¬†supporting a charity organization is just making this party to a very unique¬†event.¬†Personally I¬†enjoyed every¬†moment of it.¬†Well done and keep up the¬†Afesta spirit alive!“¬†

In their words and in the pictures, everybody could feel the mix of people coming from Brazil, Africa, Netherlands and other countries.

Special mention and thanks to the artists of this event: Angolese Zouk, Samba de Bakere, Capoeira.

Domenico La Ferla (PR world wide for S4K) says “A FESTA! in Utrecht is just the beginning of a new way of celebrating the Life and at the same time contributing to help the children in the third world countries. All had a good time knowing that some of the money they spend during the party do get to help children through Siva for Kids Foundation. Yes, I am sure there will be more A FESTA in the future. You can check out the next happenings of A FESTA activities on www.afesta.nl“.