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Date(s) - 06/21/2023
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
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Transcending Borders, a free, five-part documentary film discussion series, at Parottia Hall on the WNMU campus. Featuring the stories behind the art of four world-renowned Mexican folk artists, and a photographer storyteller from Oaxaca, discussion with the artisans will follow each film.
Saturday, June 23rd 1-2:30pm
Admission: FREE
WNMU Parotti Building is located in the WNMU Expressive Arts Complex
Film three, “Dyes of the Coast: The Quest to Save the Mixtec Weaving Tradition”
This film follows Don Habacuc Avendano, Mixtec master weaver and founding member of Cooperativa de Tintoreros de Pinotepa, in coastal Oaxaca, Mexico as he works to save the endangered purpura pansa snail, the world’s only source of tixinda, the sacred purple dye of the Mixtec people. Avendano will be accompanied by weavers from the Mexican Dreamweavers, a 60-member cooperative of women weavers who use the purple dye to weave their traditional clothing.
Thanks to our special series sponsor, New Mexico Humanities Council.
This event is part of the Fiesta Latina weekend, June 22-24, 2018