Archive Launch
March 16, 2024, 6-10pm
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson
265 South Church Ave, Tucson, AZ 85701
We’re challenging and changing the stories about migration and the borderlands. Come be a part of it!
Award-winning author Luis Alberto Urrea is coming to Tucson to help UA Libraries’ Special Collections and Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry celebrate the launch of the Reclaiming the Border Narrative digital archive.
Keynote Speaker
Luis Alberto Urrea
Writer
Digital Archive Presentation
Verónica Reyes-Escudero
Katheryne B. Willock Head of Special Collections
University of Arizona Libraries
Music & Dance Party
MizSkoden (Emilia Villegas)
DJ & Producer
FronteriForum
Cultural Organizing and Archiving in the Borderlands
Join University of Arizona’s Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry and Libraries’ Special Collections for this virtual roundtable to hear how organizations across the borderlands are using art, culture, storytelling and archiving to build power.
Panelists
Photo by Arnoldo Segovia
Josue Ramirez
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Trucha RGV
Rio Grande Valley
Photo courtesy Michelle Carreon
Michelle Carreon
Food Justice Storyteller at La Semilla Food Center
Anthony, New Mexico
Photo courtesy Sarah Soto
Sarah Soto
Financial Director and Co-Founder of Espacio Migrante
Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
Moderator
Photo courtesy Celeste González de Bustamante
Dr. Celeste González de Bustamante is Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Moody College of Communication and holds the Mary Gibbs Jones Centennial Chair in the School of Journalism and Media at UT Austin.
FronteriForum
Archiving, Art and Advocacy for Migrant Justice
We are changing the border narrative!
Join University of Arizona’s Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry and the UA Libraries’ Special Collections for a virtual roundtable with artists, human rights advocates, and archivists who are building cultural and political power in the borderlands.
Panelists
Daniel Hernandez
Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project
Arizona
Alejandra Aragón
Chavalx
Ciudad Juárez, México
M. Jenea Sanchez
The BAC Fellowship
Douglas, Arizona & Agua Prieta, Sonora
Evan Apodaca
Monumental Interventions
San Diego California
Gabriela Treviño
Achieving Climate, Environmental & Racial Justice in Laredo con Arte y Cultura
Laredo, Texas
Moderator
Dr. Anita Huizar-Hernández