June 25, 2009
4th of July Sizzling Sidewalk Book Sale
The Cultural Center de Mesilla, home base of The Border Book Festival, will hold its 5th annual Summer Sidewalk Book Sale Saturday July 4 and Sunday July 5 from 10-5pm. The Cultural Center de Mesilla is located at 2231 Calle de Parian in Mesilla, NM, next to the Mesilla Post Office, one block west of the Plaza.
This exciting annual book event includes new, used and first edition and out of print children’s and adults books as well as a bargain fiction table and children’s books priced at $1.00. Signed first editions include books by Rudolfo Anaya, John Nichols, Walter Mosley, James Dickey, Joyce Carol Oates, Joy Harjo and many others. Rare texts include a large format copy of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge with etchings and The History of Napoleon in French, as well as books dating from the 1700, 1800 and early 1900s.
The Center offers a large collection of Mexican movie lobby cards, Chicano and Latino posters, Tarahumara baskets, and work from Women’s groups including Centro Santa Catalina, the Chiapas Connection and Border Partners, featuring oil cloth bags and aprons from a women’s sewing collective in Palomas, México.
The annual sale benefits the Emerging Voices School Outreach Program, which took singer Perla Batalla and writer Luis Rodríguez into local and area schools last year. To view a video of the Mesilla Plaza performance visit Youtube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=m3F7O6GS2Tw
Plans are underway for collaborative work with Homeboy Industries, based in L. A. and started by Father Greg Boyle. Homeboy Industries offers jobs not jail to youth and assists at risk and formerly gang involved youth to become positive and contributing members of society through job placement, training and education. Now offering a magazine to the public, Homeboy Review editor, Leslie Schwartz will be coming to Las Cruces in the fall to offer a series of writing workshops for youth. http://www.homeboy-industries.org
The Border Book Festival is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit literary and arts organization that hosts the longest running book festival in New Mexico each April as well as cultural events throughout the year. Upcoming events include Cuéntame Un Cuento/Tell Me A Story, an intensive storytelling workshop with Denise Chávez, and book signings with authors Martha Egan, author of La Ranfla and Other New Mexican Stories and Dancing with Butterflies, a new novel by Reyna Grande.
Donations of books, posters, art and miscellaneous book related items are gratefully accepted. For more information please contact 575-523-3988 or bbf@zianet.com www.borderbookfestival.org
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