Virtual Bosque Chile Festival & Latinx Youth with Authors

 

Virtual Bosque Chile Festival Facebook Live Event Saturday and Sunday, August 15 & 16 2 pm The Bosque Chile Festival is a celebration of the art, culture, and food of New Mexico, developed to showcase and honor New Mexican and Latino/Hispanic culture and agriculture in the middle Rio Grande Valley through performances, art, educational sessions, chef demonstrations, value-added products, and produce that pay homage to time-honored and celebrated New Mexican traditions, foods, and crafts.  This year the Bosque Chile Festival announces a home decorating contest, Chile Casas. Break out the ristras, piñatas, flags, banners, sidewalk chalk, chile lights, and green and red balloons to show your chile pride! Red, green, or Christmas, you decide! Visit the Bosque Chile Festival website to register and for decorating ideas!   Join us for the Bosque Chile Festival happening virtually Saturday and Sunday, August 15 and 16, beginning at 2 pm on the Bosque Chile Festival Facebook page.

An Evening for Latinx Youth with Authors Lynda Lopez and Natalia Sylvester Live Zoom Event Thursday, August 13 7:30 PM EST/5:30 PM MST Register Here The National Hispanic Cultural Center, in collaboration with Duende District and Greenlight Bookstore, present Natalia Sylvester, author of Running, and Lynda Lopez, editor of AOC: The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, with special teen guests from the Latin American Youth Center and the National Hispanic Cultural Center.   The evening event will highlight and celebrate Latinx youth civic engagement, featuring authors Natalia Sylvester and Lynda Lopez. In Sylvester’s Running, fifteen-year-old Cuban-American Mariana Ruiz starts to see her father with new eyes when he runs for president. Lopez’s book AOC: The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, presents seventeen contributing writers’ points of view on a young Latina politician in the U.S. Congress. Just thirty, AOC represents her generation, the millennials, in many groundbreaking ways: proudly working class, of Puerto Rican descent, master of social media, a feminist—and a great dancer.