Sun and Salsa Festival
The Sun and Salsa Festival was an annual festival put on in the Kensington Business Revitalization Zone of Calgary, Alberta.
It took place along 10 Street and Kensington Road, which both have parts closed off to traffic.
Attendance at the festival has grown to around 100,000 in 2010. In 2015, organisers announced that the festival would be cancelled due to construction developments in the community, citing sidewalks, trees, and streetlights upgrades as key factors. Since then, the festival has been under an indefinite hiatus.
Features
The festival features a competition for the best Salsa, Best Presentation Salsa & Most Creative Salsa.It has a variety of merchant booths. It includes a fashion show to showcase the area's fashion retailers. As well it includes various entertainment, such as musical acts and dancing, on multiple stages.
The festival serves as a fundraiser for its charities, which as of 2010, are the Brenda Strafford Centre and Brown Bagging for Calgary's Kids.