Four Rivers Charter School hosted their fourth annual Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration with a special guest star. This event, kicks off a month-long celebration of cultural heritage and community involvement.
GREENFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Four Rivers Charter School hosted their fourth annual Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration with a special guest star. This event, kicks off a month-long celebration of cultural heritage and community involvement.
This year’s special guest speaker and performer was the amazingly talented Madison Curbelo. who recently appeared on The Voice. Curbelo spoke to students about her Puerto Rican heritage, and her career to inspire others.
“I know when I was growing up, I would’ve loved to see some people that were Latino come to my school and talk about what it means to them so it’s just privilege to be here and to get to meet all the students,” said Curbelo.
Madison Curbelo, a proud Latina singer/songwriter from Westfield, made a special stop in the Four Rivers community as part of their month long celebration of cultural heritage.
“I think having a young person from the Latinx community and so close to home our Puerto Rican community, and having her come talk to our students is a huge inspiration,” mentioned Four Rivers Spanish teacher, Elizabeth Rodriguez-Salas.
Four Rivers embraces this year’s theme, Pioneers of Change: Shaping the Future Together as a way to inspire cultural and community engagement, promote diverse perspectives and learn about the Hispanic/Latinx community.
This Hispanic heritage celebration encourages students to Learn from and with each other. And students were able to not only listen to Madison perform songs in both English and Spanish, but ask questions to learn about her experience.
“I hope that students are more open to different cultures and learning about different people regardless of where they’re from where their parents are from where their grandparents are from so I just hope to inspire anyone to just be able to accept other people and also go for it themselves,” said Curbelo.
Curbelo’s talk and performance left a lasting impact on these students many telling 22News that they too want to dream big like her and be their most authentic selves.