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Upcoming Events 2012-2013

Performances & Speaking Engagements

Oct. 24

Henry B. Gonzales Convention Center, 4-5 p.m.
“REBOZOS! Sneak Preview of the Grand Debut of the long-awaited Rebozos, Art & Poetry gift book, released by Wings Press, featuring the premiere of the new dramatic performance Rebozos!, based on the book by the same name.

Nov. 10

Opening Night Premiere of Rebozos! Performance and booksigning. At Esperanza Peace and Justice Center. Stay tuned for more
information!

Nov. 16

A Celebration of Three Poet Laureates:  US Poet Laureate - Natasha Tretheway, 2011Texas State Poet Laureate - Dave Arsons, and San Antonio Poet Laureate - Carmen Tafolla, UTSA, 7:30pm

   

2013

 
Jan. 17

School Reform Initiative, 9 a.m.

Feb. 7 Panel: "Is Multicultural Education a Civil Right?", Palo Alto College, 12-2 p.m.
Feb. 7 Reading and Book signing, Witliffe Collection, Texas State U., 7 p.m.
Feb. 21-22 Angelo State U., Creative Writing Institute, Readings by Carmen Tafolla
Feb. 24

Poemas y Musica - A Concert of New Compositions by the San Antonio Composers’ Association, on the poetry of Carmen Tafolla, Trinity University, Ruth Taylor Music Hall, 3 p.m.

Feb. 28 Tafolla introduces Phillip Levine, Southwest School of Art
Mar. 1 Tafolla introduces Laurie Ann Guerrero at Book Premier, Texas A&M Downtown Arts Center (former Museo Alameda), 7 p.m.
Mar. 4 Dramatic Performance, 12-1:30, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, Texas
Mar.. 7 "Makers: Women Who Make America", Screening and Panel Discussion, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m., KLRN-TV Studios
Mar. 8

El Retorno: El Valle celebra nuestra Gloria Anzaldúa / “How to tame a wild tongue” with Carmen Tafolla Reading, University of Texas Pan American, 7 p.m.

Mar. 16

Luminaria, City-wide Arts Night, Readings with Jazz Poets, San Antonio

Mar. 21-23

Bordeaux, France, International Conference on Interlanguage: Transatlantic Views on Multilingualism, Université Michel de Montaigne

Mar. 29 Rebozos, la Voz de la Mujer, Tafolla’s poetry plus the music of Azul, University of Texas San         Antonio  Downtown Campus, Buena Vista Theater, 7 pm
April Viva the Spoken Word! City-Wide Declamación Contests, San Antonio, TX
Apr. 4 Witliffe Panel, Texas State, San Marcos, 6:30 p.m.                       
Apr. 6 CantoMundo poets read, San Antonio Central Public Library, 2 p.m.
Apr. 13 San Antonio Book Fair, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Apr. 17 “Voices de La Luna" and the Latino Library Leaders Banquet Gala, The Bright Shawl, 7 p.m.
Apr. 20

“Cultura, Corazon y Cuerpo: When Healthcare Comes to Life”, UT Health Science Center, 1-2p.m.

Apr. 24 “Books Under Fire” Panel, Texas Library Association, Fort Worth, Texas, 1-2pm
Apr. 27 Grand Marshall, The King William Parade
Apr. 28,
May 1-4

Dia de los Ninos
, San Antonio, Lions Field, 1-4 p.m.
Apr. 29 Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, readings, Instituto Cultural Mexicano,
7 p.m
May 3 “La Voz de San Antonio”, city-wide declamacion/spoken word finale
May 18

National Children’s Book Week, Readings & Storytelling, Corpus Christi Public Library, Corpus Christi, TX

June 3 “ EXITO” performamce, UT Health Science Center, San Antonio
Oct. 4 Texas Association for the Education of Young Children
Oct. 5

A Blessing of Our Beginnings, San Pedro Park Springs, San Antonio


Current

Fiesta Babies
Join in the lastest fun from a Pura Belpré Honor-winning team. These Fiesta Babies dance, march on parade, and sing along to mariachi songs in their spirited celebration of fiestas. From piñatas to flower coronas, little ones are introduced to the many coloful aspects of an important and lively Latino cultural tradition.

The Life of Emma Tenayuca
The full adult biography of Emma Tenayuca, considered by many to be the most significant Mexican-American civil rights leader in U.S. History, researched and co-authored by Carmen Tafolla and social justice lawyer Sharyll Teneyuca, Emma’s niece. The amazing and almost-larger than life labor organizer, orator, scholar, community activist, educator and feminist, Emma Tenayuca, who in the 1930’s, at the tender age of 21, helped organize the first successful large-scale strike of Mexican-Americans in the United States, has long been hidden from history.

Rebozos y Voces
This moving exhibit of 15 original art paintings by Catalina Gárate and poetry by Carmen Tafolla has toured San Jose, El Paso, Austin, and McAllen, speaking to the universal experiences of womanhood, told through the rebozos and the voices of the rural Mexican indigenous woman. Now, a beautiful coffee table book captures these haunting paintings, as well as poems in English and Spanish exploring La Soledad, La Curandera, La Tormenta, La Espera, La Bruja, and El Rebozo Rojo (shown on home page) among others.

 

 

 

 

 

     
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