There was a lot of excitement in the air at the Harwood yesterday. Highlights for me included hearing Roberto Rodriguez talk about running with his students from Tucson to Phoenix in 115 degree weather to protest HB 2281, which bans ethnic studies in Arizona. This run inspired others, called barrio runs, that activists – adults [...]
We’ll be highlighting Albuquerque Cultural Conference poets and panelists in upcoming days. Learn more about poet and panelist Luis Rodriguez and panelist Antonia Darder in previous posts and check back to the blog to learn more about the activists, advocates and academics presenting at the 2012 Conference. We’ll also be blogging from the Conference. Expect [...]
Albuquerque Cultural Conference panelist, Antonia Darder, was interviewed this week for a piece with truthout.org. Antonia will be speaking Saturday afternoon with the Conference’s Panel Four: “Building a Culture of Resistance.” The link below takes you to the truthout article. http://truth-out.org/news/item/11739-a-dissident-voice-for-democratic-schooling-gabriel-san-roman-interviews-radical-educator-antonia-darder
Someone looking over our panels has protested, “But they’re all local and regional – the border, ‘Can Tucson Happen Here?’, community writing, our literary publication, the status of our neighborhoods – so where’s the attraction for folks from out of town?” Well, we think there’s plenty, first of all because communities, neighborhoods, and local publication [...]
Our conference organizing committee met yesterday, as we will every ten days leading up to the conference. We’re gaining momentum every day and the report backs each meeting about how panels are shaping up spur us on in our commitments to the conference. The conference schedule – as it’s developed so far – is on [...]
Albuquerque Cultural Conference Director – John Crawford says: We’re planning the ABQCC 2012, and it promises to be new and inventive in several ways. In the past 5 years we’ve adopted a set of formats for panels, not always consciously but in the working out of our planning each year. Main topics have included [...]
This poem is the work of Richard Vargas – Albuquerque Cultural Conference performer, participant and advisory board member. The “Joe” referred to in the poem is Joseph Arapiao, the Arizona sheriff who’s under fire from the Feds for his brutal arrests of suspected undocumented immigrants. if we controlled the movie industry the wicked witch of [...]
Our planning/organizing committee met Monday, the 11th. It was nothing if not dynamic – so many ideas, so little time! We talked about a “Live from the Conference” radio broadcast with Albuquerque’s community radio KUNM. We’ll begin talking with the host of Saturday’s radio program this week. The time we spent talking about events prior [...]
We’re continuing to develop panels for this year’s ABQ Cultural Conference and want you to be involved. Join our discussion of issues relevant to our conference theme – Crossing Borders: Historical, Social, Cultural – here on our blog and we’ll tease out panels for Sunday, the second day of the conference. We’ve built the three [...]
In March 2012, we helped the Librotraficantes raise thousands of dollars for books that were donated to Tucson students.
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