Globalquerque

Day Programming

Saturday, Sept. 21, 10:30 AM - 4 PM
FREE!

Get a sneak preview of ¡Globalquerque! with an afternoon of fun filled activities and workshops created in collaboration with the National Hispanic Cultural Center's Education Department. The whole NHCC campus will be full of dance, music and hands-on activities for the young and the inquisitive of all ages. Activities are geared towards both children and adults.

All events at the National Hispanic Cultural Center
(1701 4th St SW, at Avenida César Chávez)

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We are still working on this year's schedule and programs. Here is last year's schedule to give you a sense of what the Global Fiesta is like.

2012 Day Programs - Download a printable map/schedule (PDF)

Demonstrations: 11 AM to 4 PM - Cottonwood Stage
MC: Hakim Bellamy

10:45 AM: Folk Roots of Modern Pakistani Music - Zeb & Haniya
11:45 AM: The Long Flutes of Colombia - Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto
12:45 PM: Tuareg Music and Culture - Bombino
1:45 PM: The Rhythms of Puerto Rico - Plena Libre
2:45 PM: Cross Cultural Collaborations - R. Carlos Nakai Earth Sounds Ensemble

NHCC Art Museum

12:30 PM: Guided tour of Fabuloso, a show celebrating a full range of Mexican Ceramics. Museum will be open and free.

Dance Workshops - Salón Ortega
Hosted by Sarita Streng

11:45 AM: Tahitian Dance Company
12:45 PM: Cumbia with Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto
1:45 PM: Flamenco with Jesus Muñoz
2:45 PM: Puerto Rican bomba & plena with Plena Libre

Wells Fargo Theatre - Talks & Discussions

11:00 AM: Regilaul - Estonian Runic Singing - Leanne Barbo
      A short overview of both men's and women's runic singing traditions, along with information about the archaic language of these songs, and the poetic expressions they represent. This type of singing is called kalevala in Finnish or regilaul in Estonia. The workshop will include some singing.
     - Leanne Barbo is a graduate of and instructor at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theater

12 noon: Throat Singing Workshop -  Shinetsog DorjnyamLocal Poets Guild

1:00 PM: Wordplay / World-Play
Presented by the Local Poets Guild. Hosted by Lisa Gill
      Margaret Randall, renowned author of more than 70 books, will read from her latest release, a long poem rooted in Angkor Watt, Cambodia. During the reading she will also project photographs from her time there and in other parts of Southeast Asia, including Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos. Acclaimed poet, historian, essayist and fiction writer, E. A. "Tony" Mares, whose entire body of work is currently being translated into Spanish, will read poems in Spanish and English, including works of the great Spanish poet Angel Gonzalez and Mares' own translations.

2 PM: The Environmental Situation in Madagascar - Razia Said

3 PM: New Mexican Musical Traditions - Cipriano Vigil, in conversation with Alicia Lueras Maldonado

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