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2006 Border Book Festival "RE-IMAGINING THE BORDER"
Join us for the 12th annual Border Book Festival, Re-Imagining
the Border/Re-Imaginando La Frontera, April 21-23, 2006, as we
look at the U.S./México border, that 2,000-mile area that
is a place of constant change and potential. How do people live
with borders and on the border? What purposes do borders serve?
What then, would happen if we re-imagined our world borders, our
concept of who we were and are within our current borders?
The Border Book Festival is one of the nation’s most unique
and well-loved book festivals because of the energy and power
of its readings, panels, workshops, literary and storytelling
events for all ages as well as its Trade Show, Libros y Más,
that attracts presses, authors and presenters from throughout
the U.S. and México.
This year’s Special events include:
Readings:
•
Gala Premio Fronterizo “Plato Fuerte” Reading with
Rubén Martínez, Norma Cantú and Aristeo Brito
followed by a dance with Dulce!!
• Probaditas: A Savory Evening of Readings with food with
Denise Chávez, Margaret Randall and Luis Urrea who will
offer a “taste” of the richness of our frontera
• Líneas Conectadas/Connecting Lines, a bilingual
reading with Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Elsa Cross and Francisco
Serrano
• Gen Mex Reading with writers Emmy Pérez, Christine
Granados, Carolina Monsivaís and Michelle Otero. Host is
Rich Yáñez.
• A Reading (in Spanish) by Mexican writers: Selfa Chew,
Osvaldo Ogaz, Fernando Martínez and María Caliano.
Host is Lourdes Pimentel de Rivera.
• Performance Readings and Music all weekend on the Plaza
Performance Stage
• Readings in the Storytelling Tent by students from Las
Cruces and Mesilla schools
Pláticas:
• A Platica/talk by David Romo
• A Platica/talk by Diana Washington Valdéz
• A Plática/talk/slide show with Michael Berman and
Chuck Bowden
• A Platica/talk with Aristeo Brito, Rubén Martínez
and Luis Urrea
• A Plática with cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz, creator
of “Migra Mouse”
Panels:
• Una Tertulia Fronteriza, A panel (in Spanish) on contemporary
Mexican literary themes with Osavaldo Ogaz, Selfa Chew, Fernando
Martínez, María Caliano, José García
García and Adriana Candia. Moderated by Jorge Robles
• Beyond Italics: A Journey of Language panel (in English)
with Emmy Pérez, Christine Granados and Francisco
Aragón. Moderated by Rich Yañez.
• Tradiciones: A Panel with Mary Martha
Egan and Ray Michael Baca
Workshops:
• An Adult writing workshop with Michelle Otero
• A Teen Writing workshop with Carolina Monsiváis
and Emmy Pérez
• A Cartoonista workshop with Lalo Alcaraz. Visiting Comiqueros/cartoonists:
Tuga, Rex and Oliver
• A Writing workshop (in Spanish) with Fernando Martínez
Children’s and Teen Events:
• The first ever children’s parade with Gigantes,
giant puppets
• A children’s and family storytelling tent
• Hands on activities for teens and younger children
• A Writing workshop for teens with Emmy Pérez and
Carolina Monsiváis
Invited 2006 festival artists include:
• Aristeo Brito, author of the classic novel, The Devil
In Texas
• Rubén Martínez, author of Crossing Over:
A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail and The Other Side: Notes
from the New L.A., Mexico City and Beyond
• Norma Cantú, author of Canícula: Snapshots
of a Girlhood en la frontera
• Lalo Alcaraz, Cartoonist and Artist, creator of “Migra
Mouse”
• Luis Urrea, author of The Hummingbirds Daughter and The
Devil’s Highway
• Denise Chávez, author of A Taco Testimony: Meditations
on Family, Food and Culture and Loving Pedro Infante
• Charles “Chuck” Bowden, author of A Shadow
in the City, Down by the River, and Juárez: Laboratory
for the Future
• Margaret Randall, author of Hunger’s Table: Women,
Food and Politics and Memory Says Yes
• Michael Berman, photographer of the book Inferno
• Elsa Cross, Mexican poet and author of Espejo al sol and
Vino de las Cosas
• Francisco Serrano, Mexican poet and author of Poemas
• Diana Washington Valdez, journalist and author of Cosecha
de Mujeres/Harvest of Women, about the Juárez murders
• David Romo, author of Ringside Seat to A Revolution: An
Underground History of El Paso and Juárez, 1893 to 1923.
• Rich Yañez, author of El Paso del Norte: Stories
on the Border
• Fernando Martínez, Mexican poet and essayist
• María Caliano, Mexican writer, author of El Puente
de Nahualapa, stories and legends of Xochimilco
• Selfa Chew, Juárez/El Paso poet
• Osvaldo Ogaz, Juárez poet, author of Reflexciones
de La Ganga: Sonetos del Barrio
• Micaela Seidel, puppeteer and artist
• Emmy Pérez, author of Solstice
• Carolina Monsiváis, author of Somewhere Between
Houston and El Paso: Testimonies of a Poet
• Michelle Otero, author of Malinche’s Daughter
• Ray Michael Baca, Brotherhood of the Light: A novel about
the Penitentes and the Crypto Jews of New Mexico
• Christine Granados, author of Brides and Sinners in El
Chuco
• José Garcia García, Mexican author
• Adriana Candia, Mexican writer
• Lourdes Pimentel de Rivera, President of La Casa de Cultura
in Lerdo, Durango, México, Las Cruces’ Sister City
• Francisco Aragón author of Jugglers y otros poemas |
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