Que vivan las acequias: Cuentos y Cantos Acequieros with Soledad D. Gárcia PhD

El Pueblo de Abiquiú Library & Cultural Center welcomes

¡Que vivan las acequias!: Cuentos y Cantos Acequieros
​with Soledad D. Gárcia PhD
Sunday, November 9 | 2:00PM at the Abiquiú Library

Join us for an afternoon of musical and poetic offering as a symbolic vaso de agua to honor our acequia elders and youth. Soledad D. Gárcia presents their collection of songs and poems that been shared with New Mexico acequia communities since 2009.

Soledad D. Gárcia, PhD, Promotora Cultural for the New Mexico Acequia Association is a cultural anthropologist, a graduate of UT Austin 2016, and a musician who reflects on the public spaces and cultural movements related to land based knowledges in the US southwest / northern Mexican borderlands. They received their MA in Spanish at UNM in 2008 and taught Spanish language at UNM in the Spanish as heritage language program. 

Born in the Española Valley, they and their family have been parciantes on the Acequia de los Salazares for more than 6 generations.In addition, they has played violin with the ritual dance drama of Los Matachines de Alcalde for the last 25 years. 

They see music and the arts as a vehicle to participate and promote community engagement in the NM acequia movement as well as immigrant rights activism. García says,  “I see my work as promoting knowledge and dialogue about our shared cultures, languages, histories and lifeways.”