The Barrie Latin Festival is a community event, sanctioned by the Barrie City council; to promote Latin culture and expose the city of Barrie to its ever growing Latin community. This community festival is used to showcase Barrie's infrastructure, developments, and community services, as well as its embrace of ethnic cultures.

Last year's festival was a huge success with attendance in the thousands from Barrie, surrounding cities, Toronto and the GTA and people are now anxiously anticipating the festivities of 2008.