Booksigning

Reading & Booksigning: Antonio C. Marquez, Volver

2 pm to 4 pm Join author Antonio C. Marquez for a reading from his new book, a memoir titled Volver: A Persistence of Memory. Volver recounts Marquez’ life story from his childhood memories to the impact of immigration and war on his family; his experiences of gang conflict in El Paso and Los Angeles; his enlistment in the Marine Corps; and his activism in the civil rights movement and the antiwar movement of the Vietnam era. Born on the eve of World War II into a (more…)

Book Reading and Signing: “Coyota in the Kitchen” by Anita Rodriguez

2 pm to 4 pm Anita Rodriguez is a New Mexican artist and writer.  Her father’s side goes back ten generations in her beloved Taos valley, and her mother is a painter who came to Taos from Austin, Texas.  Anita’s training as an artist began in childhood from her mother and extended to her formal training at the Colorado College. With many artist shows to her credit, Coyota in the Kitchen is Anita’s first full-length book.  Coyota in the Kitchen is a book of stories and recipes, (more…)

Give Me Life: Iconography and Identity in East LA Murals

2 pm to 4 pm Join author Holly Barnet-Sanchez for a presentation and book signing as she offers detailed analyses of individual East LA murals, sets them in social context, and explains how they were produced. Leading experts on mural art, Barnet-Sanchez and her co-author Tim Drescher use a distinctive methodology, analyzing the art from aesthetic, political, and cultural perspectives to show how murals and graffiti reflected and influenced the Chicano civil rights movement. This free event, generously sponsored by The Bank of Albuquerque, will take place (more…)

¡Órale! Lowrider: Custom Made in New Mexico

2 pm to 4 pm Join author Don Usner, and collaborators Kate Ware and Daniel Kosharek, for a presentation and book signing of ¡Órale! Lowrider: Custom Made in New Mexico, a beautiful photography book that pays homage to an enduring but evolving, cultural tradition with a fascinating compilation of four decades of lowriding, including photographs by New Mexico’s most renowned documentarians with cultural studies of lowriders in their communities. In addition, Levi Romero will read his poem “Wheels” which is featured in the book. Lowriding is a (more…)

Only the Road/Solo El Camino: Eight Decades of Cuban Poetry

Join poet and author Margaret Randall on Dec. 3 for a presentation, reading and book signing of ONLY THE ROAD/SOLO EL CAMINO: Eight Decades of Cuban Poetry. This book, featuring the work of more than 50 poets born between 1902 and 1981, paints a full and dynamic picture of modern Cuban life and poetry, highlighting unique features and idiosyncrasies; changes across generations; and the ebbs and flows between repression and freedom following the 1959 Revolution. It is the most complete bilingual anthology of Cuban poetry available to an English readership.

Hidden Chicano Cinema: Film Dramas in the Borderlands Talk, Screenings, and Book Signing

2 pm to 4 pm The National Hispanic Cultural Center presents an afternoon talk, screenings, and book signing of “Hidden Chicano Cinema: Film Dramas in the Borderlands.”  by A. Gabriel  Meléndez the  Distinguished Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. He has authored books on borderlands literature and film, serves on the board of the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project and is a general editor for the Pasó por aquí Series at UNM Press.  He has been a Fulbright Teaching Fellow at (more…)

Tour & Book Signing: Moving Forward, Looking Back: Journeys Across the Old Spanish Trail

4 pm to 6 pm Join artist and curator Janire Nájera for an exhibition tour and book signing of Moving Forward, Looking Back: Journeys Across the Old Spanish Trail, which explores Spanish heritage in the United States Southwest via the Old Spanish Trail, a route that linked the colonial outposts of New Mexico and California. The exhibition is presented by the National Hispanic Cultural Center and SPAIN Arts and Culture, and supported by Wales Arts International.  This free event will take place at 4pm on April 2, (more…)

Lecture & Booksigning: Heribert von Feilitzsch, The Road to Columbus

6 pm Mexican Revolution and diplomatic history scholar Heriberto von Feilitzsch presents a lecture tracing the events that led to Pancho Villa’s attack on New Mexico one hundred years ago—on March 9, 1916. He will be signing his book Felix A. Sommerfeld and the Mexican Front in the Great War following the lecture. Von Feilitzsch grew up in Germany, only yards from the East German border—the “Iron Curtain.” In 1988 he came to the United States as a student. Fascinated with the Mexican-American border, he pursued a (more…)

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