Thriller Throwdown
Join us for a thriller of a Halloween-themed latte art throwdown at Rebel Dog Coffee Co. East Hartford!
In addition to the throwdown, we'll be hosting a costume contest open to everyone in attendance and will have plenty of complementary food, as well as beer and wine available for purchase.
This is a community event open to the public, and we would love to see you there, whether you're competing in the throwdown, dressing up for the costume contest, or just want to check it out!
Whether you're competing or spectating, this is a ticketed/registration-based event due to limited capacity! Entry fees for the throwdown competition ($10) will be divided between prize winnings and donations to Covoya Guatemala's Coffee Kindergartens and Health Clinic, and general admission tickets ($5) will be donated to the Coffee Kindergartens and Health Clinic. We're so grateful to also have great prizes from several generous sponsors that we're excited to announce very soon!
Grab the ticket that's right for you below, and we'll see you there!
ONLINE PRE-REGISTRATION
To participate in the latte art throwdown, pay your registration fee (donation/prize winnings split) and fill out the registration form here!
GENERAL ADMISSION
Not competing in the throwdown? Grab a GA ticket to watch the competition and enjoy the free food, costume contest, music, and more!
MAKE A DONATION
Can't attend the Throwdown but want to support the Coffee Kindergartens and Health Clinic? Attending the event but want to give more?Benefiting Covoya Guatemala's Coffee Kindergartens & Health Clinic
With the funds raised from this event, we are thrilled to be supporting two programs that directly impact communities that we source coffee from through Covoya Specialty Coffee. Read more, and check out the videos below, to learn about the Coffee Kindergartens and Health Clinic that will benefit!In the Ayarza and Huehuetenango regions of Guatemala, coffee harvesting season coincides with the children's school vacation. For many families in the coffee regions, they are stuck with a dilemma: on one hand, the parents need the income from picking coffee, and on the other, there are limited options for childcare while they work. As the first to bring the Child Labor Monitoring & Remediation System (CLMRS) program to the coffee sector in Guatemala, OFI/Covoya created Coffee Kindergartens and Coffee Camps to support these working families. The communities that receive the Coffee Kindergartens are determined by risks assessments done in the field in partnership with their on-the-ground social workers. Coffee Kindergartens are set up in public schools where children learn, get a meal, and play with other children under the care of competent teachers for 35 school days during peak harvest.
The program started during the 2020-2021 harvest with four Coffee Kindergartens in different coffee growing regions in Huehuetenango and Ayarza/Santa Rosa. During the 2023-2024 harvest, there were 24 Coffee Kindergartens, with each receiving 20 children.
In the community of Manzanillo, Ayarza, the closest local public clinic is an hour plus walk. The Blue Ayarza coffee that we source from Covoya is processed at this mill. To support the local community, Covoya opened a rural health clinic in 2021. The Clinic is open two days a week for walk-ins. The other three days, the nurse is in the field training the surrounding communities on preventive health measures, best practices, and doing home visits. Through field visits, over 2,000 children have been screened for malnutrition, given supplements, and seen at follow up visits. The clinic is provided free of charge and basic medicines are also provided free of charge. In the first two years, the clinic also performed over 700 primary consults in the clinic, and made over 7,000 total visits/trainings/campaigns for common illnesses in the surrounding communities.
