THE WANDERING BALLAD
The 15th Annual Scandinavian Festival. People have sung stories since times immemorial as a way to memorize and record history and myths. A kind of stone age data base. The songs we today call medieval and traditional ballads have their roots among Nordic epic sagas, French romantic lays, Celtic lore and World mythology. As the […]
REHABILITATION OF THE U.S. CUSTOMS HOUSE, COLUMBUS, NM.
“Pancho Villa State Park lies South of Deming, New Mexico at the border of Mexico. The park commemorates the raid of General Francisco “Pancho Villa’s soldiers, who attacked the small border town of Columbus and Camp Furlong on March 9, 1916.
ESPANOLA WRITES!
Writers of all levels are invited! Española Writes! kicks off with poet Michelle Holland exploring how cultural myths and folklore inspire personal poetry and storytelling. This writing workshop will be held on Tuesday, October 6th and Wednesday, October 7th, from 4:30-6:00pm. Reach out to Michelle if you have questions at: michholland2@gmail.com. Poets and authors featured […]
LOS TIEMPOS DE ANTES, LOS TIEMPOS QUE VIENEN
Northern New Mexico is a place with a rich history that is rightly celebrated — perhaps nowhere more than at the Chimayó Museum. But what about the future of New Mexico’s historic communities and traditions? Two authors who have written extensively about Northern New Mexico — Don Usner and William deBuys — will share their thoughts after decades of watching change transform the region, and will discuss where it may be going.
CELEBRANDO LOS ANTEPASADOS/CELEBRATING THE ANCESTORS THROUGH WORD & MUSIC
MUSEO DE LA GENTE events will take place Friday and Saturday October 23 and 24: a concert by Música del Aire, a group formed in 2015 in Albuquerque. Their intention is to honor our musical ancestors, including Antonia Apodaca (whose son, José is in the band). The group sings Boleros, rancheras, cumbias, folk songs, polkas, gospel, bossa nova, weaving English and Spanish in music that comes from New Mexico, México and Latin America and featuring guitar, vihuela, violin, mandolin, and voice.
Música del Aire Director Cynthia Wooley, will read from her book, Grandes Amores: Interviews with Vibrant Elders. We are planning an Inter generational writing and music workshop and want the group to visit local Nursing Homes or schools. All of this is in process now. If you would like to join us in planning these events, we are looking for venues, and can use your suggestions and energy!
ROSALIA CANTA NUEVO MEXICO
This program explores the music and dance of New Mexico. New Mexico’s rich musical history comes to life through audience participation. Audience members are provided with printed materials to preserve the important musical treasures for generations to come. This program is accompanied by guitarist Estevan Pacheco
THE WANDERING BALLAD
People have sung stories since times immemorial as a way to memorize and record history and myths. A kind of stone age data base. The songs we today call medieval and traditional ballads have their roots among Nordic epic sagas, French romantic lays, Celtic lore and World mythology. As the songs have traveled, they have metamorphosed and melted into various musical traditions, weaving a world of fantasy and mystery. Scott and Johanna Hongell-Darsee are a duo who perform early traditional ballads, songs and tales from Scandinavia, The British Isles and other parts of the world. Their performances blend both modern and traditional instruments in unique, original arrangements. Their wanderings have led them from Finland and Iowa respectively – through Europe, Scandinavia, India, and North America. On the way they have picked up tales and songs that they perform together with the stories behind them, in particular exploring the links between these story singing traditions.
MAKING MEMORY: HISPANO ARTISTS OF THE NEW DEAL with TEY MARIANNA NUNN
Drawing on years of archival research, oral histories, interviews, and serendipitous discoveries, Tey Mariana Nunn brings to light the largely untold stories of Hispano artists of the New Deal era, helping fill a significant gap in New Mexican, Hispanic and Latino, and American art history. Work that began as a major exhibition at the Museum of International Folk Art became a groundbreaking book, Sin Nombre: Hispana and Hispano Artists of the New Deal Era, and continues today — in small part through presentations like this Gallup New Deal Art Guest Lecture.
Join Nunn to hear the stories of Hispano artists who created art for New Deal projects in Gallup and meet some newly re-discovered Hispano New Deal artists!
Part scholarship, part detective work, and always a labor of love, Nunn’s work invites audiences to gain a fuller picture of one of the most active and transformative periods of public art in the history of the United States.
DEATH CAFE DISCUSSION SERIES
The Columbus Village Library, also known as the Carlos Ogden Memorial Library, is hosting a monthly Death Cafe series. Their second gathering will take place Saturday, September 12.
Death Cafes are informal, open gatherings where community members come together to talk about death and dying; not as a somber topic, but as a natural and human part of life. Led by Maria Constantine, Library Director of the Columbus Village Library, these conversations are relaxed and agenda free. There is no presentation, no curriculum and no right or wrong way to participate or show up. Simply attend and share your thoughts in a warm and welcoming environment.
HORROR DAZE
Films from horror genres that make you laugh, fear the unknown, haunt you with family dysfunction, or just make you scream! This film series invites conversation about the nexus of hope and horror and what drives human interest in these stories. Consider realities—dead on—that are otherwise hard to look at (pun intended).