17th ANNUAL BORDER BOOK FESTIVAL
SCHEDULE - APRIL 7-10, 2011

VENUES

THURSDAY, APRIL 7

FRIDAY, APRIL 8

Bienvenida/Welcome & Vasundhara Blessing

Indian Dinner catered by Chutney’s Restaurant. Sitar, a traditional Indian string instrument and Songs of Tagore with Sudeshna Sengupta & Debarshi Roy. Indian Dance with Debjani Mukhopadhyay & students. Vasundhara Reading with Chitra Divakaruni & Sandra Cisneros.
Cost: $45 - Buy tickets  
Suggested dress: East Indian Inspired Attire
Book signing following.

SATURDAY, APRIL 9

Storytelling for Children/Families with Cristina García & Chitra Divakaruni. 
Cost: Free

Drawing workshop with Liliana Wilson 
Cost: Free

(Following a short break after the storytelling session, participants will draw their stories.  Paper and art supplies provided but you can also bring your own)

Creativity Workshop:  Rituals & Transitions with Cristina García   
Come prepared to loosen the muse and unleash the “duende” within!  Through a series of guided exercises for all ages and levels, we will tap into the stories we were born to tell.  We will use talismans, poetry and music to invite more creativity into our lives and enrich each other’s sense of narrative possibilities.

Important:  Please bring a small, personal object to tell us a story about, as well as a copy of a poem you love.

Limit 20. Multigenerational. 
Cost: $30 - Buy tickets 

Mother Earth Panel with Martín Espada, Sandra Cisneros, Cristina García, Chitra Divakaruni & Margarita Návar. Denise Chávez, Moderator. 
Cost: $10 - Buy tickets 

Earth Flag workshop for children & Families. All ages welcome. With artists Micaela Seidel & Sudeshna Sengupta.      

We will make Earth flags & decorative art for the Tree Planting on Sunday in honor of Mother Earth & Rabindranath Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary.
Cost: Free.

Writing for Our Lives: A Panel with Elise Capron, Agent with the Sandra  Dijkstra Agency, & Chitra Divakaruni, Writer.

This Plática/Talk goes beyond the traditional questions about copyright and query letters.
What is the future of the Word? How can we, as readers and writers & purveyors of the Word honor Mother Earth? How can we retain our voice in a society that often expresses a homogeneity? Come prepared to discuss the future of the Word and how to tell the Story of the World.
Cost: $10 - Buy tickets 

Opening of Vasundhara Exhibit. Artists include Santa Barraza, Nivia González, César Iván, Liliana Wilson, Rosemary McLoughlin, Peter Ortiz, Sudeshna Sengupta, & Daniel Zolinsky. 
Cost: Free

Madre Tierra Reading with Martín Espada & Cristina García. Music with Frontera Bugalú. Kiko Rodríguez — Accordion, Vocals; Amalia Castro — Trumpet, Clarinet, Vocals; Michael Nelson — Percussion; Jesús Guereca — Percussion; Ramón Villa — Bass; Joel Osvaldo — Piano.
Cost: $10 - Buy tickets 
Book signing following.

SUNDAY, APRIL 10

Café de La Olla & Pan Dulce Morning Open House
Cost: $5 Suggested Donation at event

Mandala Preparation & Creation
Making of an Alpana around the tree planting site. Alpana is an Indian form of Mandala art to bless, mark, and adorn the ground on special occasions, practiced primarily in India and Bangladesh.
Cost: Free

Tree Planting Ceremony: Tree Planting Ceremony: an open air Arts Event for the Earth, through Indian Mandala Painting, Music, and Poetry Reading, in honor of the 150th Birth Anniversary of Bengali poet, Rabindranath Tagore.

Presented by Sudeshna Sengupta, a visual artist, singer and art educator trained in India, working in the US for over twenty years.

"Living Miraculously/Viviendo Milagrosamente: A Ceremony with and for Mother Earth"
An Interactive workshop with Margarita Návar. 

In honoring Vasundhara/Madre Tierra, we take a moment to pause and reflect on just how to accomplish this personally globally.  This ceremonia/workshop offers us an opportunity to personally connect with Mother Earth in an open air setting by first connecting with ourselves, our innermost being.  Who are we, where do we come from, and whyare we here?  Through reflection and ceremony, we join forces with Vasundhara to create a commitment to her and our healing. 
Cost: Free

(If the weather is contrary, we will have move inside the Mesilla Community Center)

Colored Pencil Drawing Workshop with Liliana Wilson
All ages welcome. 
In this drawing workshop you will learn to draw what you see.  Whether you want to be a painter or a sculptor—your ability to draw realistically and constructively provides you with a solid basis for professional growth.  Students will work with objects such as flowers, fruits or toys.  Black drawing pencils, and color Prismacolor pencils will be explored. You will gain a better understanding of  composition, light, shadow & color. 

You need to bring the following:

• A set of 12 Prismacolor pencils
• 1 Kneaded eraser
• A dimensional object that you like:  flowers, fruits or toys.  If not, we will have some for you. 

These items will be provided:

• Paper
• Black pencils
• Kneaded erasers

You do not need to have previous drawing experience or what you consider talent or skill. All you need is a heart full of gratitude and the will to do it!

Cost: $50 - Buy tickets 

¡Gracias a La Vida! Thanks be to Life! Blessing Ceremony  & Despedida. Margarita Návar.
Cost: Free       

Note: The Silent Auction will be suspended from 5-6:30 p.m. for the Blessing Ceremony. The Silent Auction will close at 7:00 p.m.