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Upcoming Events

Performances & Speaking Engagements

December 15 The Emma Tenayuca Book Premiere, Esperanza Peace & Justice Center, San Antonio, TX
Feb 23 Tenth Annual Dia de la Mujer, Michigan State University, Ann Arbor, MI
Feb 28 Montgomery College Featured Poet, Conroe, TX
March 6-7 Texas A&M University, Kingsville, TX
March 8 Texas ACLU 70th Anniversary Gala- Tenayuca Booksigning, San Antonio, TX
March 15 Texas Public Radio Luminarias, San Antonio, TX
March 25-26 Reading Rock Stars, Texas Book Festival, McAllen, Mercedes, & Roma, TX
March 27-28 FESTIBA International Arts Festival, University of Texas Pan American
April 2 Texas Board of Professional Engineers, Performance and Diversity training, Austin, TX
April 24 Las Comadres National Book Selection Interview
May 16 Nebraska Women’s Health Symposium
May 23 National Conference of MANA, Fort Worth, TX
June 18-23 2008 Conference, International Association for the Short Story in English, Featured Author, Cork, Ireland
July 16 National Association of Hispanic Nurses, Boston, Massachusetts
August 3 1 PM: Museo Alameda de Smithsonian, San Antonio, TX
"What Can You Do with a Rebozo?" Book Party
August 13 Archdiocesan Schools, San Antonio, TX
Opening Address to Teacher Inservice
Sept 4 7:30 pm, Langdon Review of the Arts, Granbury, TX
Sept 19 Reforma National Conference, storytelling, El Paso, TX
Sept 27 TAIR Conference, UNT, Denton, TX
Oct 11 San Antonio Public Library,"The Chicano Renaissance" Lit Panel
Oct 12 Southwest School of Art and Craft, "The Holy Tortilla, a feast of short fiction"
Oct 30

Southwest Writers Collection, Texas State U, a reading from
The Holy Tortilla and a Pot of Beans

Nov 1 Texas Book festival, Austin, TX
Nov 15 12 PM, Latino Leadership Summit, UT Austin


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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