MASTER OF CEREMONIES ROEN SALINAS

Roen Salinas is one of the founding members of Aztlan Dance Company along with his mother, the late Maria Salinas. For more than 35 years, Aztlan has been a breeding ground for the cultivation of Latin dance in Austin.

FRIDA FRIDAY ATX: SEPTEMBER VIRTUAL MARKET

Join Frida Friday ATX for their September Market (y más)! The Frida Friday ATX Virtual Market will be open all week, starting Tuesday 9/15 at noon. Check out their website  and their Facebook and Instagram to view over 40 independent BIPOC artists and community creatives!

Frida Friday ATX is Austin's premier WoC centered monthly marketplace and cultural event. Frida Friday ATX is an intentionally intersectional grassroots movement that supports and amplifies BIPOC, WoC and community creatives. FFATX virtual markets create opportunities for economically marginalized communities to share their projects, connect and celebrate their cultures. Each month these markets help to promote and support makers and creatives from across the U.S. at a time were micro & small businesses need it most. To see live interviews and learn more about the participating vendors please follow Frida Friday ATX on their Instagram account at: @fridafridayatx!

"XX AT THE CROSSROADS XX" AN EXHIBIT BY DIANA MOLINA

A multi-media exhibition by Diana Molina of the Juntos Art Association will trace a labyrinth of photography, film, and collage to crisscross dimensions of the Mestiza experience in a storyline that portrays and memorializes decades of border trajectories and ancestral journey leading to 2020. The female perspective is at the core of the storytelling as we re-imagine, collectively, equity of representation and voice.

View Diana's ONLINE EXHIBIT! and take a tour of the book, below! Diana will offer live programming, join the Facebook Event or watch it on this page! The program will play at 7pm on Friday, Sept 18th.

LEARN TO COOK TRADITIONAL CHILES EN NOGADA!

Learn how to make Chiles en Nogada, a typical dish from Puebla, Mexico! This dish is eaten in for "las fiesta patrias" in September. This dish celebrates Mexican Independence with the colors of the Mexican flag: green, white, and red. Watch the instructional video below, and enjoy the dish, or your favorite other Mexican dish, as you enjoy our Viva Mexico programming all week!

Relleno/ Ingredients for the Filling:

• 1/2 pound of ground pork (media libra de carne de puerco)
• 1/2 pound of ground beef (media libra de carne de res)
• 1/4 cup of lard (1/4 taza de manteca de puerco)
• 1 peach (1 durazno)
• 1 apple (1 manzana)
• 1 pear (1 pera)
• 1 platain (1 platano macho)
• 3 ounces raisins (3 onzas de pasas)
• 3 ounces pinenuts (3 onzas de pinones)
• 3 ounces peeled almonds (3 onzas de almendras peladas)
• 3 ounces of acitron (3 onzas de acitron)
• Pinch of ground pepper (pizcaq de pimienta molida)
• Pinch of oregano (pizca de oregano)
• 2 pinches cinnamon (2 pizcas de canela)
• 2 pinches of thyme (2 pizcas de tomillo)
• 6 roma tomatoes (6 tomates roma)
• 1/3 onion (media cebolla)
• 3 cloves of garlic (3 dientes de ajo)
• Salt to taste (sal al gusto)

La Nogada/ Ingredients for the Sauce:

• 2 cups heavy cream (2 tazas de crema)
• 1/4 cup walnuts (1/4 copa nuez de Castilla)
• 1/4 cup peeled almonds (1/4 taza de almendras peladas)
• 1 tablespoon sugar (1 cucharada de azúcar)
• 1/2 tablespoon sherry (1/2 cucharada de jerez)
• 1 tablespoon goat cheese (1 cucharada de queso de cabra)
• To decorate: parsley and pomegranate seeds (para decorar: perejil y granos de granada)

BANDERA DEL PUEBLO (Flag of the People)

In the video below, students will be introduced to the ideals that motivated the Mexican Revolution, and invited to stand up for these values so that they can finally be completely realized. For our activity, students will use colored paper, markers, scissors and glue to create a “flag of the people”, representing some of the many different kinds of people that fought for the ideals of the revolution!

Join the MACC Education Team on Sunday, Sept 20th for a live-streamed lesson! It can be viewed on this page at 1pm (central time) on 9/20/20 or viewed on the MACC Facebook Page. Get a sneak preview, below!

OF THE EARTH HEALING WITH MARIKA ALVARADO

Marika has provided classes and workshops at the MACC's public events including Viva Mexico. We thank Marika for offering these healing sessions at the MACC. Read about Marika's practice:

"Welcome to of the Earth Healing! I am Marika, a Lipan Mescalero Apache. I am a direct descendant of generations of Medicine Women: traditional native healers of spirit and body, midwives, and plant medicine practitioners. My mother, grandmother, and aunt handed the medicine down to me. Learn more about my practice and how you can get involved at Of the Earth Healing."

Spanglish Series: Emmanuel Ortega

Emmanuel Ortega (PhD, Art History, University of New Mexico) is a curator, podcaster and a Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Ortega has lectured nationally and internationally on the topics of images of autos-de-fe, nineteenth-century Mexican landscape painting, and visual representations of the New Mexico Pueblo peoples in Novohispanic Franciscans martyr paintings. In addition to his scholarly work, he co-hosts the popular podcast Latinos Who Lunch, and co-produces a Latin American art history channel titled Unsettling Journeys. Ortega is a recurrent lecturer for Arquetopia Foundation for Development, the largest artist residency in México. An essay titled "Spanish Colonial Art History and the Work of Empire," was published in Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture by the University of California Press in the summer of 2019.

Livestream can be found on the MACC Facebook page.

For more information please visit the Spanglish Series.

Virtual Exhibit Opening: XX Timeline at the Crossroads XX

Celebrate the virtual exhibition opening of XX Timeline at the Crossroads XX with exhibiting artist Diana Molina. Join us for a series of artist studio visits to learn about the voice and representation of women in 2020. This kick-off program features artists from Molina’s book, Icons and Symbols of the Borderland: Art from the US-Mexico Crossroads: Cesar Martinez, Margo Tamez, Victoria Suescum, Davinia Miraval, and Gaspar Enriquez.

For more information please visit XX Timeline at the Crossroads XX

AUSTIN MUSEUM DAY

Explore Austin-area museums -- for free! The 23rd Annual Austin Museum Day is a free celebration of art, culture, history, music, nature, and science.

The MACC is presenting youth art activties as part of Austin Museum Day: BANDERA DEL PUEBLO (Flag of the People). Students will be introduced to the ideals that motivated the Mexican Revolution, and invited to stand up for these values so that they can finally be completely realized. For our activity, students will use colored paper, markers, scissors and glue to create a “flag of the people”, representing some of the many different kinds of people that fought for the ideals of the revolution.

For more information please visit the ESB MACC Museum Day event page.