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The NMBA 2023 Summer Gala is sold out. We will see you there, or see you next time.
When: Wednesday, August 23, 2023 | 5.30 PM - 8.30 PM Where: Santa Fe Las Campanas, Club Room What to expect:
Drinks: Credit Card Bar Dress code: Santa Fe Dressy Casual Parking: There is plenty of available parking at Las Campanas. |
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Jimmy Santiago Baca, a celebrated American poet, and writer of Chicano and Apache descent, has published over a dozen books of poetry, as well as memoirs, essays, and stories. Baca's work addresses social justice issues and turns the lens on marginalized and disenfranchised people, writing about addiction, community, and the American Southwest. His screenplay, Bound by Honor, became a feature-length film.
Abandoned by his parents at age thirteen and later convicted of a drug charge, Baca turned his life around while serving a five-year sentence in a maximum-security prison. While incarcerated, Baca taught himself to read and began to write, selling his poems to fellow inmates in exchange for cigarettes. |
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Literary success defines Baca’s career. A recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature, and the prestigious International Prize, Baca founded Cedar Tree, Inc., a nonprofit supporting literary workshops for inmates and troubled youth, and has produced two documentary films, Clamor en Chino and Moving the River Back Home.
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Nacha Mendez grew up in a southern New Mexico border town. Learning traditional Ranchera cancion from her grandmother, Mendez toured and performed in small towns near El Paso with her cousins, the sons of Mother Invention drummer Jimmy Carl Black. Before moving to New York City, Mendez studied classical voice and electronic music at New Mexico State University.
Mendez studied flamenco guitar with Manuel Granados of the Music Conservatory of Barcelona before joining Robert Ashley's opera company as a principal singer. Voted Best Female vocalist in Santa Fe in 2009 and 2010, Mendez received the New Mexico Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. |
Tickets
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The NMBA 2023 Summer Gala is sold out. We will see you there, or see you next time.
Tickets are $60 per person. (Ticket price includes one of Baca's books.) This event has sold out in the past; please be sure to purchase your tickets soon if you'd like to attend. We know plans can change and thus we urge you to let us know of any changes to your attendance status, as soon as possible. We will be happy to refund your payment and make room for others on the wait list to attend. Please pay below. For questions, email libroentry@gmail.com. |
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The Club at Las Campanas
Directions to Las Campanas Clubhouse
132 Clubhouse Drive
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87506
Travel North on US 84/285 toward Opera. Exit onto 599 West (Relief Route) and go about 3 miles to Camino La Tierra exit on your right.
At stop sign turn right and go 2.2 miles to fork; veer right onto Las Campanas Drive and go .2 miles to another fork.
Stay left on Las Campanas Drive for another 1 ½ miles to Clubhouse main gate on right.
Stop at gate and tell guard where you are going, then go about 1 ½ miles on Clubhouse Drive to Clubhouse, passing tennis courts and Fitness Center on your right.
WARNING: IT'S IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO GO TO THE MAIN GATE, WHICH IS ON CLUBHOUSE DRIVE BECAUSE IT'S STAFFED 24/7. SOMETIMES GPS TAKES DRIVERS TO A GATE OFF CAMINO LA TIERRA, WHICH IS NOT STAFFED TO LET PEOPLE IN.
132 Clubhouse Drive
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87506
Travel North on US 84/285 toward Opera. Exit onto 599 West (Relief Route) and go about 3 miles to Camino La Tierra exit on your right.
At stop sign turn right and go 2.2 miles to fork; veer right onto Las Campanas Drive and go .2 miles to another fork.
Stay left on Las Campanas Drive for another 1 ½ miles to Clubhouse main gate on right.
Stop at gate and tell guard where you are going, then go about 1 ½ miles on Clubhouse Drive to Clubhouse, passing tennis courts and Fitness Center on your right.
WARNING: IT'S IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO GO TO THE MAIN GATE, WHICH IS ON CLUBHOUSE DRIVE BECAUSE IT'S STAFFED 24/7. SOMETIMES GPS TAKES DRIVERS TO A GATE OFF CAMINO LA TIERRA, WHICH IS NOT STAFFED TO LET PEOPLE IN.
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