News/Press Releases

From the Director/Writer and Producer Margarita Cadenas .In Post production .Patricia is also the Executive producer of the film

Patricia Velasquez will be on Ugly Betty Wednesday the 27th of January ,2010

Patricia Velasquez will be presented with the Lee Salk
“Good-works Award”, named in memory of Theatreworks’ beloved trustee, at their annual Gala on
Monday, October 26, 2009:

"Every year, we sit down and put together a “wish list” of honorees that are synonymous with artistic
success, community impact, and unparalleled philanthropic spirit. In short, we look for honorees that
are changing the world and are “do-gooders” through and through. We think Patricia embodies each of these
characteristics and are especially delighted to honor her. Her dedication to our global community
through her work with UNESCO and the Wayuu Taya Foundation, as well as her numerous
professional successes, makes us especially privileged to honor her".

TheatreworksUSA’s Gala 2009 at The Pierre Hotel will be a celebration of children, access to the arts,
diversity, and the spirit of change and renewal. Every year they begin their season with the goal of
reaching over 3 million children across the country and The Gala helps fulfill that goal. . Past presenters have included Phylicia Rashad, Sandra Oh, Stephen
Sondheim, Edward Albee, and Bill Irwin, amongst others.

On behalf of  the
Non-profit Venezuelan entertainment artists organization,
Venezolanos en Hollywood,

I would like to invite you to a special night with
model, actress and humanist
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ
founder of

http://www.wayuutaya.org/about.htm

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A casual meeting with her.
Where we’ll talk about her career but most important,
about this wonderful Foundation, created in order to help improve
the lives of Latin-America indigenous people, with education, comfort, nutrition and support;
respecting their traditions, culture and belief.

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If you want us to know you are going to join us that evening,
please, write us an email to Contacto@VenezolanosEnHollywood.com
with your name and how many people are coming with you, or just come over.
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It’s a free event,
but contributions to the Wayuu Taya Foundations are very welcomed.
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September 14th, 8:00pm
@
Coupa Café
419 N. Canon Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
(2 blocks south of Santa Monica Nlvd.)
(310) 385.0420
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http://www.wayuutaya.org/about.htm
http://www.VenezolanosEnHollywood.com

Juan Pacheco
Entertainment
Public Relations
and Marketing

vox: 323.512.8867
cell: 323.580.7756
juanpa@ca.rr.com
juanpacheco@gmail.com

"Patricia Velasquez @ Vanguardia Latina 09 Getty Center "

Espacio USA: Vanguardia Latina 2009

“The Youth Perspective”
Los Angeles, California
September 10th

The Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive? Los Angeles, CA, 90049 R

ROUNDTABLE #3 SEPTEMBER 1O, 2009 02:15 – 03:45 p.m.

Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Latino Appeal and the U.S. Media

We will discuss the rich and complex relationship between the mass media and the Latino identity. What is the role that media should play, and what role have they played up to now? Is there something recognizable as a Latino identity? What is it? Does the media recognize that preexistent identity, or would they rather try to reshape it every day? Who builds whom? These are some of the questions that will be asked in the session.

May 20th, NY
AWARD
Women Together Foundation and United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) to honor Patricia Velasquez with the Women Together Award to acknowledge her professional success as an actress and model, combined with her humanitarian work as a president and founder of The Wayuu Taya Foundation, created with the objective to improve the life of Latin-Americans indigenous, and her effort to bring education to the poorest of her country.

Venezuelan actress Patricia Velasquez named UNESCO Artist for Peace 
 
  
06-06-2003 5:00 pm Paris – Venezuelan model and actress Patricia Velasquez will be appointed UNESCO Artist for Peace on June 11 by the Organization’s Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura. The ceremony will take place at 12 noon in the Salle des Actes. Patricia Velasquez was born in 1971 in La Guajira, one of the poorest regions in Venezuela. From a modest background, with schoolteacher parents, Patricia had planned to work in the oil industry when, by chance she was spotted by a model scout and launched into a modelling career. She then turned to films (The Jaguar, The Mummy, The Return of the Mummy, etc.) and took advantage of her success to become involved in humanitarian projects. She founded the Wayuu Taya Foundation in 2003 to help the indigenous people of her region, to whom she is related through her mother.

As she explains in a letter to Koïchiro Matsuura, her Foundation has succeeded, in less than a year, in installing a water pump in a school that had no access to drinking water, and to take charge of a nutritional centre. “Our goal,” she goes on, “is to develop educational programs focused on nutrition, health care and basic job training.” The Foundation is also committed to helping native people preserve their cultural heritage.

Artists for Peace are international celebrities whose influence, charisma and prestige lend a special resonance to UNESCO’s message. Brazilian singer and Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil, Chinese actress Gong Li, Israeli architect Dani Karavan, South Korean opera singer Sumi Jo and Russian orchestra conductor Valery Guerguiev are among UNESCO’s Artists for Peace.