We invite you to join us at the 2nd annual Albuquerque Cultural Conference,
“Building a People’s Culture,” on Labor Day 2008. We expect hundreds of
people from the Southwest and across the country to attend our holiday
weekend of poetry events, panels, and workshops on the state of American
progressive culture, as it is and as it should be. The events will be held at
the South Broadway Cultural Center and Harwood Art Center in
Albuquerque, taking place from Friday evening, August 29 to Monday
morning, September 1.
We want this meeting to empower us to further our common work. To do that,
we’re stressing personal and political forms of empowerment. In our panels
we’ll look at the social, economic, and cultural crisis of the present, as well as
the history of cultural struggles, current forms of grassroots organizing, and
the uses of cultural memory and resilience. We’ll ask how we, as poets and
writers, organizers and activists, confront the world, how we bring about
education in our communities, how we do cultural reporting, and how border
crossings (for example) shape our experience in the Southwest.
We’ll hold poetry readings, featuring popular writers and conference
participants. Among the poets and artists at our featured reading Friday
night, August 29 in the multicultural setting of the South Broadway Cultural
Center will be Linda Hogan, Demetria Martinez, Simon Ortiz, Charles Potts,
and Luci Tapahonso In the next two days and nights of the event we’ll have
panels in the daytime and readers in the evening, presenting their work and
sharing with others. A book and art display will accompany the readings. We
want you to come, read, participate, and help explore paths to our common
cultural future.
ABQconference2008@yahoo.com
“Building a People’s Culture,” on Labor Day 2008. We expect hundreds of
people from the Southwest and across the country to attend our holiday
weekend of poetry events, panels, and workshops on the state of American
progressive culture, as it is and as it should be. The events will be held at
the South Broadway Cultural Center and Harwood Art Center in
Albuquerque, taking place from Friday evening, August 29 to Monday
morning, September 1.
We want this meeting to empower us to further our common work. To do that,
we’re stressing personal and political forms of empowerment. In our panels
we’ll look at the social, economic, and cultural crisis of the present, as well as
the history of cultural struggles, current forms of grassroots organizing, and
the uses of cultural memory and resilience. We’ll ask how we, as poets and
writers, organizers and activists, confront the world, how we bring about
education in our communities, how we do cultural reporting, and how border
crossings (for example) shape our experience in the Southwest.
We’ll hold poetry readings, featuring popular writers and conference
participants. Among the poets and artists at our featured reading Friday
night, August 29 in the multicultural setting of the South Broadway Cultural
Center will be Linda Hogan, Demetria Martinez, Simon Ortiz, Charles Potts,
and Luci Tapahonso In the next two days and nights of the event we’ll have
panels in the daytime and readers in the evening, presenting their work and
sharing with others. A book and art display will accompany the readings. We
want you to come, read, participate, and help explore paths to our common
cultural future.
ABQconference2008@yahoo.com
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