Celebrate 30 years of literary excellence and community spirit!
The gala promises an enchanting experience with special guest, Hampton Sides, a captivating guitar performance by Nacha Mendez, and the announcement of winners of our Southwest Book Design and Production Awards.
Details
When: Tuesday, August 27, 2024 | 5.30 PM - 8.30 PM
Where: Santa Fe Las Campanas, Club Room
What to expect:
Food: Heavy Hors d'oeuvres
Drinks: Credit Card Bar
Dress code: Santa Fe Dressy Casual
Parking: There is plenty of available parking at Las Campanas.
Where: Santa Fe Las Campanas, Club Room
What to expect:
- Special guest Hampton Sides, best-selling narrative nonfiction author Hampton Sides
- Guitar performance by Nacha Mendez, New Mexico Platinum Music Lifetime Achievement Award recipient
- Winners of our Southwest Book Design and Production Awards (SWBDA)
- Results of our Board elections (to be conducted online before the gala)
- Collected Works Bookstore will be on hand to sell books by Hampton Sides. For those wanting to read in advance. CWB has signed copies available in the store.
Food: Heavy Hors d'oeuvres
Drinks: Credit Card Bar
Dress code: Santa Fe Dressy Casual
Parking: There is plenty of available parking at Las Campanas.
Images from the 2023 Gala
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Hampton Sides is the award-winning editor of Outside Magazine and a bestselling historian. He is best-known for his gripping adventure stories, often set in war-time or depicting epic expeditions of exploration and discovery. Most recently the author of The Wide Wide Sea, Sides has written about the Korean War, polar exploration, World War II, Kit Carson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the American Frontier. His lectures captivate audiences and bring his sweeping tales to life.
Hampton is a partner in Atalaya Productions, a Santa Fe-based independent production company that develops historical dramas and non-fiction projects for the screen. A native of Memphis and a Yale graduate, Hampton is an advisory board member of the Author’s Guild and a 2015 Miller Distinguished Scholar at the Santa Fe Institute. A frequent lecturer, he divides his time between Santa Fe and Colorado College, where he teaches narrative non-fiction and serves as Journalist-in-Residence. |
Photo Credit: Kitty Leaken
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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
Tickets are $75 per person.
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 waitlist to attend.
For questions, email [email protected].
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 waitlist to attend.
For questions, email [email protected].
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.
