UPCOMING EVENTS AT MERCADO MAYAPAN FESTIVAL MARKET PLACE

"Health Fair, The Roots of Our Health"

Saturday,July 16th, 2011. 9:00am - 2:30pm

A health fair to learn and celebrate ancestral health practices.
Free family event filled with dance and movement workshops, Health workshops, Information tables, and much more.
Come and taste the delicious Pre-Hispanic food menu. Plus, our weekly Farmers' Market! Harvest season peaks in July! See you there!

"Feria de las Artes" community arts festival

Saturday, August 20th, 2011.

More information coming soon!

PAST EVENTS

 

video archives:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJio6WrMJ00 DANZANTES AZTECAS/MATACHINES AT MERCADO MAYAPAN

 

La Mujer Obrera’s and Mercado Mayapan's Mexican Heritage Cultural Arts Program promotes the diverse and living traditions of Mexican culture on the U.S. Mexico border through a dynamic multi-disciplinary cultural arts and historical education program.

Our Mexican Cultural Heritage program also seeks to reclaim the space in which women of Mexican origin toiled and sacrificed to build the economic foundation of the city of El Paso.

We believe that resistance to these forces that have eliminated the economic stability of so many families, has been our most prolific and creative act. Our artistic vision and cultural aesthetics is based on making the arts work in the world. Arts and cultural heritage are not simply arts for arts sake, but an art that works in service to a community in struggle.

Thus, woven throughout our organizational structure is an inherent commitment to the arts as a means to individual and community transformation. Furthermore, our cultural arts program seeks not only to reclaim the social and physical spaces where women worked but also to pay homage to the sacrifices of women who helped to build the community and re-insert their story into the narrative of the history of (immigrant) labor in this country..

Many immigrants in our community have experienced the intense pressure to assimilate and be more “American”. This pressure to assimilate has led to both an active forgetting of one’s place/culture of origin and to a total loss of the traditions, tastes, smells, and arts of one’s native land. Thus, in our everyday practice, La Mujer Obrera is constantly working towards creating an environment in which we begin to develop our capacity to be creative and come together to begin to rescue the traditions of people of Mexican origin living in the South Central/El Paso community.

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