FORT BRAGG, CA., 9/25/26 — Fiesta Latina brightens downtown Fort Bragg Saturday, with live music, traditional dancing, food and a salsa-making contest.
The fiesta runs from 3 to 7 p.m. on North Franklin Street, according to the city. Flockworks, the Fort Bragg arts nonprofit that helps organize it, puts it in the 400 block of Franklin, and the event’s bilingual flier places it between Laurel and Pine streets.
The city calls the afternoon “a vibrant celebration honoring the cultures, traditions, and contributions of our Latino residents.” Event listings promise Latin American food, folkloric dancing and prizes for the top salsa makers. The city’s tourism site adds food trucks, craft vendors and a kids’ craft corner. Neither that site nor Flockworks’ website had posted a lineup of performers or vendors as of Thursday.
The city says it’s supporting the Latino Coalition of the Mendocino Coast, the Mendocino Coast Children’s Fund and Flockworks. Flockworks scheduled a free workshop Sept. 19 to make giant paper flowers to decorate downtown for the event.
Flockworks called the 2024 fiesta the inaugural Fiesta Latina, and an arts council listing that year placed it in Bainbridge Park. Last year it moved downtown. More than 850 people came, Flockworks reported.
The Fort Bragg City Council proclaimed Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 Hispanic Heritage Month at its Sept. 14 meeting. Mayor Jason Godeke read the proclamation and presented it to Cristal Muñoz, who described the fiesta during the meeting.
About a third of Fort Bragg residents identify as Latino, the city says. In the schools the share is closer to half: 47.1% of Fort Bragg Unified’s 1,679 students in the 2025-26 school year were Hispanic or Latino, according to the California Department of Education.