{"id":918,"date":"2012-02-09T01:20:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T01:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcs.org\/archive-2017\/?p=918"},"modified":"2012-02-09T01:21:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T01:21:32","slug":"918","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/2012\/02\/09\/918\/","title":{"rendered":"The Border Book Festival April 19-22 in Mesilla, New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

PRESS RELEASE
\nCONTACT
\nDenise Ch\u00c3\u00a1vez
\nThe Border Book Festival
\n575-523-3988<\/a>
\nmoc.lavitsefkoobredrobobfsctd-3a5ff2<\/span>@fbb<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

THE SHAMANIC JOURNEY\/LA JORNADA CHAM\u00c3\u0081NICA<\/p>\n

2012. \u00c2\u00a0Year of Healing and Transformation. \u00c2\u00a0The Completion of a 26,000 year
\ncycle according to the Mayan and Aztec calendars. \u00c2\u00a0The Border Book Festival (BBF) is making plans for its 18th annual book festival, The Shamanic Journey, which will take place April 19-22 in Mesilla, New Mexico.<\/p>\n

Invited presenters include Curandera\/healer\/herbalist\/midwife Do\u00c3\u00b1a Enriqueta Contreras from Oaxaca, M\u00c3\u00a9xico, Dr. Marta Moreno Vega, Yoruba priestess from New York, Catalina Delgado Trunk, Papel Picado and altar artist, and Esther Yazzie-Lewis, Navajo Earth Activist, founder of the Din\u00c3\u00a9 Spiritual Land Recovery Project. \u00c2\u00a0Navajo Medicine Man, Ben Willie, will give the final blessing of the festival on Sunday, April 22<\/wbr><\/p>\n

A special Oaxacan Mole Fest Festival Fundraiser will take place on Thursday, April 19 with Oaxacan chef, Pilar Cabrera. \u00c2\u00a0Ms. Cabrera runs the world famous La Olla Restaurant in Oaxaca, M\u00c3\u00a9xico.<\/p>\n

The Festival artists\/writers\/healers are deeply involved with their communities and its healing. \u00c2\u00a0They will join us to share their vision of a world united.<\/p>\n

The Border Book Festival is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit literary, literacy and arts organization that is housed in the historic Frietze \u00c2\u00a0Store in Mesilla that dates from the mid 1800s.<\/p>\n

New Mexico\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s longest running book fair began over 20 years ago with readings, book signings and a small literary festival at the Holy Cross Retreat House. \u00c2\u00a0The event evolved into the nationally renowned and much loved Border Book Festival, which moved to Mesilla in 2004. Since then the BBF has opened the Cultural Center de Mesilla and Galer\u00c3\u00ada Tep\u00c3\u00adn, a multicultural gallery space.<\/p>\n

Writing and artwork will be gathered for JORNADA, a bilingual English\/Spanish book that will feature poetry, essays, stories and artwork from our featured presenters as well as various invited writers and artists whose work resonates with our theme. \u00c2\u00a0A special exhibition of Catalina Delgado Trunk\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s papel picado will take place at Galer\u00c3\u00ada Tep\u00c3\u00adn during the festival. \u00c2\u00a0Her art piece, Dancing at the Portal, will be featured on the festival poster.<\/p>\n

Festival highlights include An Afternoon Gathering for Women\/Sanaci\u00c3\u00b3n con Sabidur\u00c3\u00ada\/Una Tardeada Para Mujeres with Do\u00c3\u00b1a Enriqueta Contreras who will
\noffer a look at Zapotec Principles of Living. \u00c2\u00a0She will also offer a workshop called Home Remedies and the Importance of a Basic Herbal Home Kit\/Remedios Caseros y La Importancia de Una Canasta B\u00c3\u00a1sica en Nuestros Hogares. In this 3-hour workshop with Do\u00c3\u00b1a Enriqueta Contreras, we will learn how to assemble a home remedy kit.<\/p>\n

Dr. Marta Moreno Vega will offer a workshop on Yoruba teaching and the festival will screen her documentary,”Cuando los Esp\u00c3\u00adritus Bailan Mambo”\/”When the Spirits Dance Mambo.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00c2\u00a0A triumphant voyage of faith and power, the film traces the role of sacred African thought and practices in the formation of Cuban society, culture and music in a 90-minute documentary is a tribute to the spiritual energy that traveled from West Africa to Cuba and New York. \u00c2\u00a0In addition, she will be giving a reading on Saturday, April 21 with music and a dance following.<\/p>\n

The \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Picasso of Paper,\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 Catalina Delgado Trunk, who is considered one of the top world paper artists will offer present a Talk\/Pl\u00c3\u00a1tica on The History & Evolution of D\u00c3\u00ada de Muertos in M\u00c3\u00a9xico & Its Healing & Cultural Traditions as well as a Papel Picado workshop during the festival weekend.<\/p>\n

A panel of artists\/healers and scholars will discuss the Future of Our Shared Journey and What Lies Ahead. \u00c2\u00a0Invited featured scholars are Dr. Arturo Madrid, Professor of Literature at Trinity University, author of In The Country of Empty Crosses: \u00c2\u00a0The Story of A Hispano Protestant Family in Catholic New Mexico, Margarita N\u00c3\u00a1var, healer and author of Zapotec Woman of the Clouds, a biography of Do\u00c3\u00b1a Enriqueta Contreras and \u00c2\u00a0Dr. Antonia Casta\u00c3\u00b1eda, Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at St. Mary’s University and editor of Gender on the Borderlands: \u00c2\u00a0A Frontier Reader. \u00c2\u00a0Special guests include Diana Campoamor, Director and CEO of H.I.P., Hispanics In Philanthropy, based in San Francisco and Lourdes Portillo, documentary filmmaker, whose film, Se\u00c3\u00b1orita Extraviada, won the Ariel, the equivalent of an Academy Award, in M\u00c3\u00a9xico. It is the story of the disappeared young women in Ju\u00c3\u00a1rez, M\u00c3\u00a9xico.<\/p>\n

As ever, music interacts with powerful workshops, stellar readings, and good food at the festival. The BBF will feature the music of The Plateros, a unique hybrid of blues rock musicians, only comparable to artists like Los Lonely Boys from the Tohajiilee Indian Reservation near Albuquerque NM. \u00c2\u00a0In 2099 they were invited to The 11th American Indian Inaugural Ball for President Obama, in Washington DC. Other featured music includes Oussa Bossa, a Brazilian Jazz group, and traditional Yoruba music and chanting.<\/p>\n

A Plant exchange will take place during the weekend in front of Galer\u00c3\u00ada Tep\u00c3\u00adn. \u00c2\u00a0If you want to donate seeds or plants, please contact the BBF.<\/p>\n

The festival will end Sunday, April 22 with a Blessing of the Spirits: \u00c2\u00a0A Gathering of the Healers and a Talk\/Pl\u00c3\u00a1tica by Esther Yazzie Lewis on her work with the Din\u00c3\u00a9 Sacred Land Recovery Project and her book, The Navajo People and Uranium Mining. Ben Willie, a Navajo medicine man, from Tohijille, New Mexico, will offer the final festival ceremony.<\/p>\n

The festival is looking for Volunteers\u00e2\u20ac\u201dSpirit Teams\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto work on aspects of the festival and with particular healers. \u00c2\u00a0A community Volunteer meeting will take place Thursday, February 16, at the Cultural Center de Mesilla, 2231 Calle de Parian, Mesilla, NM. \u00c2\u00a0575-523-3988<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0bbf@borderbookfestival. \u00c2\u00a0If you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make it, we will be meeting on a regular basis. \u00c2\u00a0Please call for more information.<\/p>\n

Please visit the Festival participants websites at:
\nhttps:\/\/donaenriquetacontreras.com\/<\/wbr><\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/www.martamorenovega.com\/<\/wbr><\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/www.calaca-arts.com\/artist.htm<\/wbr><\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/www.laolla.com.mx\/chef.html<\/wbr><\/a><\/p>\n

Please contact us for information on how YOU can get involved in the festival work. \u00c2\u00a0Join a Spirit Team and help us sponsor a particular featured participant.
\n575-523-3988<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0moc.lavisefkoobredrobobfsctd-64ed8a<\/span>@fbb<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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