ANTHEMS OF BELONGING: FOR A NEW AMERICA
Presented by Hakim Bellamy
Part songwriting workshop, part poem writing workshop, this workshop will analyze, deconstruct and reconstruct an anthem. Any anthem! Starting with the Star Spangled Banner and building from there, participants will both be invited to bring an anthem (regardless of national origin) or song that speaks to their values and notions of identity. By the end of the workshop, the group will collectively craft an “Anthem of Belonging” after creatively navigating a dialogue of complementary and conflicting aspirations for our community. The workshop will include writing, singing, sharing, laughing, clapping, possibly even dancing and a beginner-level discussion of music theory and the semiotics of music. No prior (musical) experience needed!
CULTURAL COMPLEXITY AND ABUNDANCE IN NEW MEXICO’S MUSIC
Presented by Lone Piñon
Lone Piñon is a collective of four expert musicians who travel the country and world performing their collaborative interpretation of the New Mexico musical traditions they have learned from elder culture-bearers. They will take us on a musical journey through the New Mexican musical landscape–through several centuries of bailes, wedding parties, fandangos, and fiestas that have shaped our musical inheritance. In addition to the vibrant performances, they’ll share anecdotes and history from the elders they’ve learned from that bring light to the unique cultural space they’ve inherited from their musical ancestors: a distinctly New Mexican landscape where the edges of cultures, ethnic groups, and civilizations overlap, communicate, and ultimately form a distinct musical voice that has much to say about our past, present, and future as ethnically and culturally diverse New Mexicans.
DIVERSITY, RESILIENCE, INCLUSIVITY: THE FILIPINO IDENTITY IN A FOREIGN LAND
Presented by Jeron Velasco
Filipinos are the third biggest Asian population in the United States according to Pew Research 2021. With the growing numbers of Filipino professionals and families settling in the state to work in the academic and medical field, Filipinos brought not only their skills and talent but also their culture, language, food and values to the communities they chose to serve. The presentation is about the coexistence and resilience of Filipino community and culture in the United States at the heart of one of the Native American reservations in New Mexico, the Zuni Pueblo. This study presents the perspective of Filipinos in a foreign land in respect of cultural preservation, generational changes and challenges and approaches for healthy sustainable coexistence. This centers on the stories of Filipino families’ persistence on discipline, culture, faith, family values, language and communal connections way back home and to the host community. The presentation will detail the cultural and social origins of Filipino beliefs, traditions and customs influenced by its colorful history touched by Austronesian, Chinese, Arab, Spanish, Japanese and American visitors. Coming from different 171 ethnic groups themselves, this presentation will provide a picture of intra-cultural dynamics among Filipino families in a distant land.