Cafecito Sundays Selena Edition closed the latest series at Coffee Alley with music, vendors, JEFAS Magazine and DJ Jackie Chavez.
Coffee Alley-Callejón del Café felt like Selena this weekend.
There was purple everywhere. Cumbias. Tejano. Merengue. Latin pop. People stopped at vendor tables, took photos, laughed with friends and sang along when the songs came on. On May 3, Cafecito Sundays closed its latest series with a Selena-themed edition led by DJ Jackie Chavez, also known as DJ Jakcke.
JEFAS Magazine sponsored the series, and the last gathering felt like the right way to end it for now. Nothing stiff. Nothing too polished. Just people showing up for music, coffee, culture, small businesses and each other.
The Selena Edition had the details people remember from events like this. Guests could shop with local makers, enter giveaways, join the best dressed contest and pick up $5 mini bouquets with raffle tickets. The flyer promised cumbias, Tejano, merengue and Latin pop, and the music did what it was supposed to do. People moved. People sang. People stayed.
Jackie Chavez was at the center of it. The DJ and founder of VibraSonika was featured in the latest edition of JEFAS Magazine, where she spoke about building music-driven spaces in Nebraska and making room for connection, culture and community.
You could see that in the room.
Cafecito Sundays did not feel like a networking event trying to call itself community. People seemed to have their own reason for being there. Some came for Selena. Some came for the vendors. Some came because Coffee Alley-Callejón del Café has become one of those local places people associate with culture. Some probably came because a friend sent the flyer and said, “Let’s go.”
That is usually how these things start. Someone plays the music. Someone sets up a table. Someone brings flowers. Someone takes pictures. People walk in, stay longer than they meant to, and the room starts feeling less like a venue and more like a place that belongs to the people inside it.
Cafecito Sundays wrapped its latest series at Coffee Alley-Callejón del Café with a Selena-themed night led by DJ Jackie Chavez and supported by JEFAS Magazine.
For JEFAS Magazine, sponsoring Cafecito Sundays meant supporting the women and small businesses building creative spaces in Nebraska. The series brought together music, entrepreneurship, culture and local media in a way that felt natural for a magazine centered on Latina leadership and business.
That kind of leadership does not always look corporate. Sometimes it looks like a DJ booth, a cafecito, a vendor table or a room full of people dressed for Selena. Sometimes it looks like a woman building the kind of space she wanted to find.
Through VibraSonika, Chavez has been creating events rooted in sound and shared memory. The Selena Edition showed that clearly. It was not only nostalgia, and it was not only a theme. It was people bringing culture into the room and letting it feel alive.
At Coffee Alley-Callejón del Café, located at 7310 Harrison St., the night kept moving in small ways. Jackie at the mic. Vendors with stickers, buttons and handmade pieces. Purple flowers on the tables. Friends posing near the counter. Kids sitting with drinks. People stopping mid-room because they ran into someone they knew, or because the song changed, or because something on a table caught their eye.
Cafecito Sundays closes this chapter for now. Jackie Chavez and VibraSonika were there. Coffee Alley-Callejón del Café was there. JEFAS Magazine was there. So were the vendors, the guests, the kids on the couch, the people in purple, and everyone who showed up to celebrate Selena together.
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