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“SALSA IN TORONTO FESTIVAL

Salsa at Ontario Place:
Thursday July 10

Salsa on St. Clair Street Festival:
Saturday, July 12 – Noon to 11pm, and Sunday, July 13 – Noon to 8pm

Salsa Fever Takes Over Toronto with the launch of the Salsa in Toronto Festival!

The Salsa on St. Clair Street Festival shot onto the event scene like a cannon in 2005 uniting diverse cultures that share the passion and love for Latin culture. The Festival has attracted over 750,000 revelers to the streets of Toronto since its launch. This year, TLN Television, the City of Toronto, Hillcrest Village BIA, and Ontario Place have joined forces to make Canada’s most successful Latino street festival even bigger. Salsa on St. Clair will be transformed into the Salsa in Toronto Festival and include multiple destination partners between July 10 -13, a week which has been traditionally recognized as Latino Week in Toronto in honour of the festival.

Salsa in Toronto Festival highlights include the inaugural all-day Salsa at Ontario Place on Thursday July 10 and the 4th annual Salsa on St. Clair Street Festival on Saturday July 12 between Noon and 11pm and Sunday July 13 from Noon to 8pm in midtown Toronto just west of Bathurst Street between Christie St and Winona Drive. Play, Dance, Sing, Eat, and Parade in a carnival of fun.”

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“Media Alert

For the first time in the history ESPN2 network will Broadcast World Salsa Championships

Broadcasts will begin May 27, 2008 at 9:00pm EST.

ORLANDO, Florida, May 27 – The Salsa Seven Inc., the company producing the World Salsa Championships for the ESPN television network, today announced that the TV channel will begin broadcasting the most anticipated dance competition of the year.

What:

Broadcast of the 3rd Salsa World Championships, held last December at Walt Disney World’s(R) Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, Florida. Dancers from 34 countries compete at this major international competition, where they put their artistic skills to the test in the following categories: Salsa Group, Salsa Individual, and Salsa Group/Cabaret. The championship’s grand prize is $80,000. Contestants from Australia, Colombia, Mexico, United States, Puerto Rico and Venezuela will be defending their titles.

Where:

On ESPN2, available nationwide in the U.S. to more than 90 million homes.

When:

Event broadcasts will begin Wednesday, May 27,at 9:00 p.m. EST (eastern standard time);6:00 p.m. Pacific time.

For the third consecutive year, the Third Annual Salsa World Championships have been produced by Rob Beiner, famed producer and winner of 12 Emmy Awards. Beiner has produced or directed more than 2,000 sports and Entertainment broadcasts for leading TV networks such as ABC Sports, CBS, NBC Sports, USA Network and ESPN. Beiner considers salsa competitions to be a new sport or “dance-sport”, due to the rigors of training and the skills the dancers must demonstrate in order to qualify for a world event he calls “the Salsa Olympics”.

For more information, go to: www.worldsalsachampionships.com.The 4th Annual World Salsa Championships will be celebrated at the Disney’s Wide World of Sports from December 3-6,2008.”

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