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Thursday, July 24, 2008

Spanish Market This Weekend


Journal Staff Report
      The 57th Annual Traditional Spanish Market takes place this weekend, with related events starting today.
    The market, featuring more than 250 artists, is scheduled for 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday on the Santa Fe Plaza. Admission is free to the public.
    Traditional art forms on display and for sale will include santos, hide paintings, straw appliqué, textiles, furniture, colcha, tinwork, ironwork, precious metals, pottery, bonework, ramilletes and basketry. For more information, call 982-2226. And for a complete listing of artists, visit www.spanishcolonial.org.
    Park-and-ride service by the Santa Fe Trails bus system will be available on market days from Santa Fe Place (behind JC Penney) or from DeVargas Center (behind Albertsons). Cost is $2 round-trip for adults, $1 for seniors and youth, and free for children under 6 with adults.
    Buses will run beginning at 8:15 a.m. Saturday and 9:45 a.m. on Sunday. The buses will run every 30 minutes. Call 955-2001 for more information on the bus service.
    Here is the schedule of events:
   
    Today
    Lecture on "Collecting Furniture in 20th Century New Mexico" by Keith Bakker, conservator at 5:30 p.m. in the New Mexico Room at La Fonda Hotel on the Plaza.
    Friday
    Members-only Spanish Market Preview of market award-winners at Santa Maria de la Paz Catholic Community Parish Hall on College Way, 7 p.m.
    Saturday
    Spanish Market, on the Plaza, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
    Entertainment on the Plaza Stage:
    8 a.m. — Los Nativos de Santa Fe
    9 a.m. — Trio Los Musicanos
    10 am. — "Exhibición de Modas" by La Sociedad Folklorica
    11 a.m. — Mucho Corazón
    Noon — Maria Benitez Dance Company âˆ' The Next Generation
    1 p.m. — Qwest Presentation
    1:15 p.m. — Esteban
    2:30 p.m. — Chuy Martinez & Oti Ruiz
    3:30 p.m. — Ivon Ulibarri & Café Mocha
    Booksignings at the Book Booth:
    9 a.m. — Artist Elias Rivera, "Elias Rivera" by Edwards Lucie-Smith
    9:30 a.m. — Adalucia, "La Chica de Mendiburo," and Ana Pacheco, "Saints & Seasons: A Guide to New Mexico's Most Popular Saints"
    10 a.m. — Mary J. Straw Cook, "Doña Tules: Santa Fe's Courtesan & Gambler," and Diana Bryer, "Doña Tules Lithograph"
    10:30 a.m. — Annie Lux and Daniel Nadelbach, "Historic New Mexico Churches"
    11 a.m. — Stanford Lehmberg, "Churches for the Southwest: The Ecclesiastical Architecture of John Gaw Meem," and Marta Weigle, "Brothers of Light, Brothers of Blood: The Pentitentes of the Southwest"
    11:30 a.m. — Ameilia Montoya Andrews, "Mi Familia: Four Centuries of History"
    Noon — David Roybal and Fabian Chavez Jr., "Taking on Giants: Fabian Chavez Jr. & New Mexico Politics"
    12:30 p.m. — Lois Franke, "J. Frank Torres: Crusader and Judge"
    1 p.m. — Jon Hunner, "Mesilla Valley: An Oasis in the Desert," and Phillip B. Gonzales "Expressing New Mexico"
    1:30 p.m. — Charlotte Whaley, "Nina Otero-Warren of Santa Fe"
    2 p.m. — Antonio Garcez, "New Mexico Ghost Stories," and Nasario Garcia, "Brujas, Bultos y Brasas: Tales of Witchcraft & the Supernatural in the Pecos Valley"
    2:30 p.m. Willian deBuys, "River of Traps"
    Also:
    10:30 a.m. — Paella-making at The Spanish Table, 109 N. Guadalupe St.
    12:30 p.m. — Paella-making at The Spanish Table, 109 N. Guadalupe St.
   
    Art demonstrations throughout the day on the Plaza.
    Sunday
    8 a.m. — Spanish Market Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis followed by a procession to the Plaza and the blessing of market by Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan
    9 a.m.-5 p.m. — Spanish Market on the Plaza
    Entertainment on the Plaza Stage:
    9 a.m. — The Quintana Sisters
    10 a.m. — Mariachi Paisano del Valle
    11 a.m. — Spanish Market Awards Ceremony
    Noon — Cielo
    1:30 p.m. — Manzanares
    3 p.m. — Esteban
    Book signings at the Book Booth:
    10 a.m. — Charles M. Carrillo, "Saints of the Pueblos," and Napoleon Garcia and Analinda Dunn, "The Genizaro & the Artist"
    10:30 a.m. — Margaret Nava, "Remembering: New Mexico Cemeteries," and Virginia Ortiz, "Tradition & Heritage"
    11 a.m. — Doris Francis, "Faith & Transformation: Votive Offerings and Amulets," and Rick Hendricks, "New Mexico in 1801: The Priests Report"
    11:30 a.m. — Marie Romero Cash, "Santos: Enduring Images of Northern New Mexico"
    Noon — Pat Mora and George Ancona, "Join Hands: The Ways We Celebrate Life"
    12:30 p.m. — Judith Beatty, "La Llorona"
   
    Art demonstrations throughout the day on the Plaza.
   

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