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NEA Big Read Program Guide
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NEA Big Read Virtual Kickoff
Watch the fruition of our partnership with Amp Concerts to kick off Santa Fe's NEA Big Read below, focusing on Into The Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea. Learn more about all the Big Read activities, enjoy music from Carlos Medina Conjunto and Lone Piñon, and readings from the book.
Singer, songwriter, comedian and actor Carlos Medina was born in Las Vegas, NM. Carlos performs throughout the Southwest with his acoustic trio, 4-piece conjunto and Mariachi. His one-man comedy show featuring his alter ego, Graviel de La Plaga, entertains his fans during the music breaks. Most of Medina's repertoire consists of original music based on life experience.
Lone Piñon is a New Mexican string band, or "orquesta típica," whose music celebrates the integrity of their region's cultural roots. With fiddles, upright bass, accordions, mandolin, guitars, and bilingual vocals, they play a wide spectrum of the traditional music that is at home in New Mexico.
NEA Big Read Beanstack Reading Challenge
NEA Big Read Youth Reading Beanstack Challenge (ages 0-12)
Mar 20, 2021 - May 30, 2021
Join Santa Fe Public Library and your community as we read Dreamers by Yuyi Morales and The Only Road by Alexandra Diaz. Log reading, complete activities, and share your thoughts on this year's NEA Big Read title and youth companion books.
NEA Big Read Challenge (ages 13 - Adult)
Mar 20, 2021 - May 30, 2021
Join Santa Fe Public Library and your community as we read Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea. Log reading, complete activities, and share your thoughts on this year's NEA Big Read title and youth companion books.
Mar 20, 2021 - May 30, 2021
Join Santa Fe Public Library and your community as we read Dreamers by Yuyi Morales and The Only Road by Alexandra Diaz. Log reading, complete activities, and share your thoughts on this year's NEA Big Read title and youth companion books.
NEA Big Read Challenge (ages 13 - Adult)
Mar 20, 2021 - May 30, 2021
Join Santa Fe Public Library and your community as we read Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea. Log reading, complete activities, and share your thoughts on this year's NEA Big Read title and youth companion books.
Big Read Trivia Bowl
Start building your teams and prepare to battle it out in the virtual Big Read Trivia Bowl!
Test your team's knowledge of this year's NEA Big Read selection Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea.
The winning team will be immortalized forever on the Big Read Trivia Bowl trophy displayed in the Main Library and invited back next year to defend their title.
Thursday nights starting April 1, 2021-April 30, 2021.
Sign up to participate at www.santafelibraryfriends.org/trivia-bowl.
Test your team's knowledge of this year's NEA Big Read selection Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea.
The winning team will be immortalized forever on the Big Read Trivia Bowl trophy displayed in the Main Library and invited back next year to defend their title.
Thursday nights starting April 1, 2021-April 30, 2021.
Sign up to participate at www.santafelibraryfriends.org/trivia-bowl.
Live Zoom Performance of
Into The Beautiful North
Santa Fe Public Library and Teatro Paraguas present INTO THE BEAUTIFUL NORTH
WHAT: A live Zoom performance of Into The Beautiful North, by Karen Zacarias
WHEN: April 23-25, 2021: Friday, April 23 at 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 24 at 2:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 25 at 2:00 p.m.
WHERE: Live on ZOOM
ADMISSION: Free
Information, Link to Register: teatroparaguas.org
In conjunction with the Santa Fe Public Library’s Big Read Project happening Spring 202 celebrating Luis Alberto Urrea’s novel Into The Beautiful North, Teatro Paraguas will present live on Zoom the play adaptation by Karen Zacarias.
WHAT: A live Zoom performance of Into The Beautiful North, by Karen Zacarias
WHEN: April 23-25, 2021: Friday, April 23 at 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 24 at 2:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 25 at 2:00 p.m.
WHERE: Live on ZOOM
ADMISSION: Free
Information, Link to Register: teatroparaguas.org
In conjunction with the Santa Fe Public Library’s Big Read Project happening Spring 202 celebrating Luis Alberto Urrea’s novel Into The Beautiful North, Teatro Paraguas will present live on Zoom the play adaptation by Karen Zacarias.
BORDER SOUTH
Online Screening and Discussion
BORDER SOUTH
Screening and Discussion
Monday, April 26, 2021
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM MDT
Register at https://tinyurl.com/BorderSouth
NMPBS and Santa Fe Public Library present a FREE screening and discussion of the PBS documentary Border South as part of the NEA Big Read.
About this Event
Please join NMPBS and Santa Fe Public Library for a screening and discussion of the PBS documentary Border South as part of the Big Read.
To stem the immigration tide, Mexico and the U.S. collaborate to crack down on migrants, forcing them into ever more dangerous territory.
Every year hundreds of thousands of migrants make their way along the trail running from southern Mexico to the US border. Gustavo’s gunshot wounds from Mexican police, which have achieved abundant press attention, might just earn him a ticket out of Nicaragua. Meanwhile anthropologist Jason painstakingly collects the trail’s remains, which have their own stories to tell. Fragmented stories from Hondurans crossing through southern Mexico assemble a vivid portrait of the thousands of immigrants who disappear along the trail. Border South reveals the immigrants’ resilience, ingenuity, and humor as it exposes a global migration system that renders human beings invisible in life as well as death.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with Kathryn Pyle, consulting Producer for Border South.
New Mexico PBS (NMPBS) is one of the most watched public television stations in the country reaching almost 700,000 households each week with over 22,000 members in central and northern New Mexico. nmpbs.org provides users with a place to interact, learn more, and connect with others and has over 80,000 page views per month. NMPBS has extensive partnerships throughout the community. These partnerships include the K-12 community, higher- education, dozens of community service organizations and more.
NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
New Mexico PBS
Santa Fe Public Library - Community Services Department, City of Santa Fe, New Mexico
Screening and Discussion
Monday, April 26, 2021
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM MDT
Register at https://tinyurl.com/BorderSouth
NMPBS and Santa Fe Public Library present a FREE screening and discussion of the PBS documentary Border South as part of the NEA Big Read.
About this Event
Please join NMPBS and Santa Fe Public Library for a screening and discussion of the PBS documentary Border South as part of the Big Read.
To stem the immigration tide, Mexico and the U.S. collaborate to crack down on migrants, forcing them into ever more dangerous territory.
Every year hundreds of thousands of migrants make their way along the trail running from southern Mexico to the US border. Gustavo’s gunshot wounds from Mexican police, which have achieved abundant press attention, might just earn him a ticket out of Nicaragua. Meanwhile anthropologist Jason painstakingly collects the trail’s remains, which have their own stories to tell. Fragmented stories from Hondurans crossing through southern Mexico assemble a vivid portrait of the thousands of immigrants who disappear along the trail. Border South reveals the immigrants’ resilience, ingenuity, and humor as it exposes a global migration system that renders human beings invisible in life as well as death.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with Kathryn Pyle, consulting Producer for Border South.
New Mexico PBS (NMPBS) is one of the most watched public television stations in the country reaching almost 700,000 households each week with over 22,000 members in central and northern New Mexico. nmpbs.org provides users with a place to interact, learn more, and connect with others and has over 80,000 page views per month. NMPBS has extensive partnerships throughout the community. These partnerships include the K-12 community, higher- education, dozens of community service organizations and more.
NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
New Mexico PBS
Santa Fe Public Library - Community Services Department, City of Santa Fe, New Mexico
Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe Fundraising Dinner with Novelist Luis Alberto Urrea
Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe Fundraising Dinner with Novelist Luis Alberto Urrea
Friday, April 30, 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Purchase tickets here: text literacysfreads to 243725 or visit bidpal.net/literacysfreads
Have a catered dinner delivered to your home and join the author of the NEA Big Read selection “Into the Beautiful North” for an online video presentation and discussion of his work via Zoom meeting.
Proceeds from the dinner will support Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe’s efforts to assist residents in acquiring the literacy skills they need to complete schooling, find jobs, become U.S. citizens, and care more effectively for their families.
Photo courtesy of the Tuesday Agency.
NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
Friday, April 30, 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Purchase tickets here: text literacysfreads to 243725 or visit bidpal.net/literacysfreads
Have a catered dinner delivered to your home and join the author of the NEA Big Read selection “Into the Beautiful North” for an online video presentation and discussion of his work via Zoom meeting.
Proceeds from the dinner will support Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe’s efforts to assist residents in acquiring the literacy skills they need to complete schooling, find jobs, become U.S. citizens, and care more effectively for their families.
Photo courtesy of the Tuesday Agency.
NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
