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Upcoming Events 2010

Performances & Speaking Engagements

April 23

National Latino Children’s Literature Conference, “Noche de Cuentos” Storytelling - Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 7 pm

June 11 “Hungry for Affirmation: Meeting the Needs of Immigrant and ELL Children”, SMU, Newcomers Academy
July 8-11

CantoMundo, Inaugural Latino Poetry Workshop, Albuquerque, NM

July 12

Dramatic Performance, National Council of La Raza, Young Lideres, Sunset Station, San Antonio, TX, 7 pm

July 26 Tucson USD, Summer Professional Development Conference
July 27-28

“Giving a Voice to Bilingual Children” Dramatic Performance, Bilingual Summer Institute, Boise State University

Sept. 14

“Respecting The Diversity of Our Children,”Title I Community Presentation, Bandera ISD, Bandera, TX, 6 pm

Sept. 18

Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators, Keynote, Incarnate Word University. San Antonio, TX

Oct. 14-15 Tomas Rivera Book Award Presentation & Public Readings
Oct. 16-17 Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX
Oct. 23 Américas Award Presentation, Library of Congress,
9:30 am -12 pm
Nov. 13

Tamales at The Twig Event, Reading & Booksigning for the 2nd edition of the hit gift book Tamales, Comadres & The Meaning of Civilization. (The 1st edition sold out in 72 hours last year!),
12-2 pm

Nov. 18 National Council for the Teachers of English, Orlando, FL


Coming Soon

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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