(Santa Fe, NM)— Free preview screenings in advance of the broadcast premiere of a new hour-long documentary Nasario remembers the Rio Puerco are set for Albuquerque and Santa Fe the first week of October.
Acclaimed folklorist Nasario García returns to the now abandoned villages of his youth in New Mexico’s Río Puerco valley to revive stories and ghosts in a landscape that also remembers him. Nasario remembers the Rio Puerco poses the question, do ruins remember us?
The documentary follows Garcia doing what he loves; wandering through landscape and memory amid the ghost towns of New Mexico’s Rio Puerco Valley, revising recuerdos tales of his youth when the ranching villages thrived and viejitos elders told stories beside a river that once ran. The film is directed by Shebana Coelho who previously adapted Dr. Garcia’s first book of oral histories into the stage play. When The Stars Trembled in Rio Puerco was performed in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Using interviews with Dr. Garcia, oral histories, archival photos and footage of the landscape, this hour-long film evokes the stillness and vividness of a tactile past, one that the landscape and the ruins still remember.
Dr. Nasario Garcia received a 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Historical Society of New Mexico for his ‘unparalleled’ work in the ‘preservation of Hispanic language, culture and folklore in New Mexico.”
New Mexico PBS will broadcast the film on Thursday, October 12, 2017 at 7pm within Hispanic Heritage month. Two free preview screenings will be held in Albuquerque (October 4) and Santa Fe (October 5).
The preview screening in Albuquerque is Wednesday, October 4, 7pm at the South Broadway Cultural Center, 1025 Broadway Blvd SE 505-848-1320. The preview in Santa Fe is Thursday, October 5th, 6pm at the New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue, on the Plaza 505-476-5200. There will be a brief presentation before the screening and a Q&A after the screening.
To RSVP, for more information and to see the trailer, follow this link nasarioremembers.com
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About the New Mexico History Museum and Palace of the Governors National Historic Landmark: http://www.nmhistorymuseum.org Opened in May 2009, as the state system’s newest museum, the New Mexico History Museum is attached to the Palace of the Governors National Historic Landmark, a distinctive emblem of U.S. history and the original seat of New Mexico government. The History Museum serves as an anchor of the campus that includes Palace of the Governors, the Palace Press, the Fray Angelico Chavez History Library, and Photo Archives. The Museum presents exhibitions and public programs that interpret historical events and reflect on the wide range of New Mexico historical experiences and serves as a history center for research, education and lifelong learning, delivering quality programs that encourage knowledge, understanding and appreciation of New Mexico’s diverse cultures. A division of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs. 113 Lincoln Ave. in Santa Fe, NM 87501. (505) 476-5200. Hours: 10 am to 5 pm daily, May through October; closed Mondays November through April. Events, news releases and images about activities at the History Museum and other divisions in the Department of Cultural Affairs can be accessed at media.newmexicoculture.org.
