The 2014 San Sebastian Street Fiestas Are Underway!

Yes­ter­day was a great day in Old San Juan.  Despite a lit­tle rain a few min­utes before com­mence­ment, the 2014 edi­tion of the San Sebas­t­ian Street Fies­tas start­ed right on time about 5:00pm.

Writ­ing a whole new post about the 2014 San Sebas­t­ian Street Fies­tas (or SanSe 2014, like the younger crowd has come to call them) would be redun­dant.  So instead I shot this short video that shows the first “com­parsa” led by this year’s hon­oree Mr. Ray­mond Arrieta.

So give us four min­utes of your time and wit­ness the kick­off of “Las Fies­tas De La Calle San Sebastián 2014”.

Enjoy Puer­to Rico,

©2014,Orlando Mer­gal, MA
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©2014,Orlando Mer­gal, MA
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Bilin­gual Con­tent Cre­ator, Blog­ger, Pod­cast­er,
Author, Pho­tog­ra­ph­er and New Media Expert
Tel. 787–750-0000, Mobile 787–306-1590

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2 thoughts on “The 2014 San Sebastian Street Fiestas Are Underway!”

  1. Very inter­est­ing video. This the first time I have wit­nessed such a cel­e­bra­tion. Obvi­ous­ly, a very hap­py crowd. Ahh! The Ple­nas. How I miss them. I first heard them when I lived in St. Just. I must have been 5 or 6 years old. The one ele­ment miss­ing is the dark skin Puer­to Rican. I saw noth­ing but Euro­pean types, or light skin if you will. That’s my obser­va­tion. Just a thought. Blessings.

  2. Thank you Dr. Velázquez for your inter­est­ing comments.

    You know, it’s fun­ny that you should men­tion the lack of dark skin Puer­to Ricans, because that is one of the things that I crit­i­cize the most in many Island publications. 

    For exam­ple, there’s a sup­ple­ment in “El Nue­vo Día” called “Mag­a­cín” that only seems to cov­er high soci­ety events attend­ed by white peo­ple. So I would have nev­er been expect­ed to be accused of doing such a thing.

    The fact is that most of the shots in our video are of the wide angle vari­ety, includ­ing a bird’s-eye view that shows the actu­al length of the parade, so they present the event as it actu­al­ly happened.

    Final­ly, I have nev­er been one to see Puer­to Ricans as white or black. Puer­to Ricans are main­ly a soci­ety of “mulatos” where white, black, Taíno, Arabs, Jews, Chi­nese and dozens of oth­er cul­tures have meld­ed togeth­er over five cen­turies to cre­ate a unique and mar­velous indi­vid­ual called a “Puer­to Rican”.

    So for­give me if I don’t see the world through these arbi­trary look­ing glasses.

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