CONVERSATIONS WITH ALDO LEOPOLD: THE INDIGENOUS INFLUENCE
THE INDIGENOUS INFLUENCE PART 2 OF 4: CONVERSATIONS WITH ALDO LEOPOLD https://youtu.be/0d-zRZynJmE Starting Conversations is celebrating the Gila Wilderness Centennial with a special series featuring Steve Morgan, Chautauqua performer, as Aldo Leopold in conversation with three scholars working directly in forestry, environmental restoration, and land ethics. Aldo Leopold was stationed in New Mexico from the […]
CONVERSATIONS WITH ALDO LEOPOLD: CELEBRATING THE GILA WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL
2024 marks the centennial anniversary of the Gila Wilderness, the first designated wilderness…
CULTURE SPRINGS FROM FOOD: FOOD AND POWER
Our second session in our latest Starting Conversations series explores the intersections between workers from all parts of the food chain. We talk with Anita Adalja, founder of Not Our Farm, Trish Gallegos, Catering Coordinator at Three Sisters Kitchen, and Andrea Serrano, Executive Director of OLÉ to discuss the issues food workers face, how they are rooted in the exploitative history of our food system, and the inequalities that result. This conversation centers the organizers’ and workers’ agency in forming creative solutions to these problems.
This Starting Conversations series is in partnership with Three Sisters Kitchen in Albuquerque, NM, a nonprofit organization focused on nourishing each other from the ground up. The discussion series is based on the idea that “culture springs from food” and each session will explore the unique relationship between food and culture in New Mexico, bringing together voices including farmers, chefs, local experts, artists, historians, and academics, among others
CULTURE SPRINGS FROM FOOD: COOKING AS ARCHIVING
Our newest Starting Conversations series is in partnership with Three Sisters Kitchen in Albuquerque, NM, a nonprofit organization focused on nourishing each other from the ground up. The discussion series is based on the idea that “culture springs from food” and each session will explore the unique relationship between food and culture in New Mexico, bringing together voices including farmers, chefs, local experts, artists, historians, and academics, among others.
For our first episode “Cooking as Archiving” we invited Josie Lopez, Curator at Albuquerque Museum, Andi Murphy, food journalist and host of the Toasted Sister Podcast, and Eric Romero, Professor at NM Highlands University to discuss how culture is preserved and passed down through food and cooking. He is also the organizer of the Digital Matanza with Manitos Community Memory Project. In this discussion, our guests pondered the current definition of “archive” and ways that definition is limiting and could be expanded to incorporate foodways from history and the present.
COMMUNITY ARCHIVING: ARCHIVING THE DIASPORA
Our newest Starting Conversations series takes up the subject of Community Archiving. This series explores the methods and effects of public and communal archiving practices, especially in the context of the Manitos Community Memory Project, which is a community-built digital archive. Shane Flores…
COMMUNITY ARCHIVING: THE LIVING ARCHIVE
“The Living Archive” is the third installment of our Starting Conversations series on Community Archiving. In this session, facilitator Shane Flores is diving into questions about community archiving and community engagement. His guests Katy Gross and Isabel Trujillo draw conclusions around what…
THE MANHATTAN PROJECT
This session was the final part in our Starting Conversations series “History, Memory and Public Space,” which investigated how historical narratives are shaped within communities of diverse perspectives. Facilitator Raffi Andonian specifically examined how public sites and community memory play a…
ACEQUIA AQUI: TECHNOLOGY AND CRAFT
Technology and Craft is the third part of our Starting Conversations: Acequia Aqui series. As part of our partnership with The Paseo Project (Taos, NM), this program is celebrating Paseo Project’s recent publication: “Acequia Aqui: Water, Community and Creativity.” This booklet highlights selections from the Acequia Aqui project that took place between 2018 and 2020. It’s an artistic and community driven project that aims to give voice to the historic acequias of Taos to illuminate the importance of this vital resource and cultural wellspring. You can view a digital version of this booklet on ISSU.
ACEQUIA AQUI: WATER, COMMUNITY AND CREATIVITY
In partnership with The Paseo Project, the New Mexico Humanities Council is pleased to host a live Starting Conversations discussion in celebration of the publication of Acequia Aqui: Water, Community, and Creativity. For this conversation we will be joined by two contributing writers, Miguel Santistevan and Sylvia Rodriguez, who will address the urgent topics of acequias in New Mexico, their histories, and their futures.
ACEQUIA AQUI: STORYTELLING AND POETRY
Storytelling and Poetry is the second installment of our Starting Conversations: Acequia Aqui series. As part of our partnership with The Paseo Project (Taos, NM), this discussion series is celebrating Paseo Project’s recent publication: “Acequia Aqui: Water, Community and Creativity.” This booklet highlights selections from the Acequia Aqui project that took place between 2018 and 2020. It’s an artistic and community driven project that aims to give voice to the historic acequias of Taos to illuminate the importance of this vital resource and cultural wellspring. You can view a digital version of this booklet on ISSU.