Examining the sociopolitical system in Guatemala through a queer lens. The content is based in the religious narratives and normative societal ideologies that campaigning politicians perpetuate. I emphasize the ways the USA has intervened and I base the work in research into hate crimes based on gender, sexuality, and race. Creating images and objects based on the signs and symbols found in Guatemalan folklore, which has been encrypted since colonial times. I intend to use tombstones, flags, piñatas, trophies, candles, and patriotic symbolism throughout the work to blame the folklore and state for oppressing society and condemning queer individuals.

This body of work speaks from a queer and brown perspective. We create political resistance by taking a stand, being nonconforming to impunity, inequality and corruption, and by so being a threat to the state and society. This systematic structure affects predominantly middle and lower social classes of Guatemalan citizens. My objective with this exhibition is to create a space to support political resistance by refusing to follow or perpetuate impunity, hate, heteronormativity, racism, and classism within cultures.

The Department of Film and Digital Arts is showing eight of Abbas Kiarostami’s films over the course of the spring 2020 semester, free and open to all UNM students.

Abbas Kiarostami was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active film-maker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker trilogy (1987–1994), Close-Up (1990), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), and Taste of Cherry (1997), which was awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year. His films Where Is the Friend’s Home?, Close-Up, and The Wind Will Carry Us were ranked among the 100 best foreign films in a 2018 critics’ poll by BBC Culture. Close-Up was also ranked as one of the 50 greatest movies of all time in the famous decennial Sight & Sound poll conducted in 2012.

The literary device of “swapping lovers” is nothing new to opera, theatre, literature or even television. Mozart and his librettist, Lorenzo da Ponte, created an “original” comic opera in 1789 which has been delighting audiences ever since. “The school for lovers,” better known as Così fan tutte, is the final collaboration between Mozart and da Ponte.
The UNM Opera Theatre presents Così fan tutte, a two act opera buffa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte. Directed and produced by Sam Shepperson. Dr. Kristin Ditlow will music direct the UNM Opera Theatre and the UNM Symphony Orchestra.
Performances are February 28 and 29 at 7:30 pm, with a pre-concert lecture at 6:30 pm, and March 1 at 2:00 pm, with a pre-concert lecture at 1:00 pm.

The UNM Department of Theatre and Dance presents faculty dance concert, META/PHYSICAL, February 28 through March 8 in Rodey Theatre. Original choreography in both contemporary dance and flamenco by international guest artists and UNM’s distinguished resident faculty, highlighting the extraordinary talents of the students in the dance program, for an evening of dance with strong theatrical elements that are innovative, insightful and inspiring. The concert displays collective, collaborative processes that heighten the choreographers’ point of view. Faculty and students in lighting and costume design areas co-curate alongside choreographers to enhance the production.

The literary device of “swapping lovers” is nothing new to opera, theatre, literature or even television. Mozart and his librettist, Lorenzo da Ponte, created an “original” comic opera in 1789 which has been delighting audiences ever since. “The school for lovers,” better known as Così fan tutte, is the final collaboration between Mozart and da Ponte.
The UNM Opera Theatre presents Così fan tutte, a two act opera buffa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte. Directed and produced by Sam Shepperson. Dr. Kristin Ditlow will music direct the UNM Opera Theatre and the UNM Symphony Orchestra.
Performances are February 28 and 29 at 7:30 pm, with a pre-concert lecture at 6:30 pm, and March 1 at 2:00 pm, with a pre-concert lecture at 1:00 pm.

Sponsored by The University of New Mexico Department of Music and the Latin American
and Iberian Institute

This talk explores the relationship between trauma and identity by examining Arab music performance on the U.S.–Mexico border. Drawing on the musicking of Syrian and Mexican migrant communities, I interrogate theories of cultural and psychological trauma and borderland epistemologies to explore how border tensions influence the often-fraught views of identity.

Presenter:  Andrea Shaheen Espinosa

The Department of Film and Digital Arts is showing eight of Abbas Kiarostami’s films over the course of the spring 2020 semester, free and open to all UNM students.

Abbas Kiarostami was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active film-maker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker trilogy (1987–1994), Close-Up (1990), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), and Taste of Cherry (1997), which was awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year. His films Where Is the Friend’s Home?, Close-Up, and The Wind Will Carry Us were ranked among the 100 best foreign films in a 2018 critics’ poll by BBC Culture. Close-Up was also ranked as one of the 50 greatest movies of all time in the famous decennial Sight & Sound poll conducted in 2012.

In Robbin’s ongoing body of work, she considers her experiences and memories from the first eleven years of her life. Childhood photographs, objects and memories that all come from her childhood home, and the home itself, are her main source of reference. Robbin is currently interested in the importance of the materials she uses to create works based on these references and how they inform her decisions to recreate or reform these memories or the nostalgia that is tied to them. Materials such as fabric and the act of embroidering, concrete and the act of placing her handprint into wet cement or recreating precious objects out of similar materials as the original object, such as plexiglass for a bear necklace or wood for a parrot hairpin. Much like the paintings from her solo show, You’d Be Home Now, which was at CFA Downtown Studio June of 2019, she is still interested in colorful, playfulness with semi-abstracted forms, or naïve childlike created forms, and actual objects that are markers of childhood, not of just her own childhood but possibly for the viewers as well. This experimentation with material and the relationship to the memory and objects has helped her place a deeper meaning to her process of how to figure out what home is for her and what her interpretation and relationship is to place.

Unmade Bed is Robbin Lou Bates MFA Thesis Exhibition.

In Robbin’s ongoing body of work, she considers her experiences and memories from the first eleven years of her life. Childhood photographs, objects and memories that all come from her childhood home, and the home itself, are her main source of reference. Robbin is currently interested in the importance of the materials she uses to create works based off these references and how they inform her decisions to recreate or reform these memories or the nostalgia that is tied to them. Materials such as, fabric and the act of embroidering, concrete and the act of placing her handprint into wet cement or recreating precious objects out of similar materials as the original object, such as plexiglass for a bear necklace or wood for a parrot hairpin. Much like the paintings from her solo show You’d be Home Now, which was at CFA Downtown Studio June of 2019, she is still interested in colorful, playfulness with semi-abstracted forms, or naïve childlike created forms, and actual objects that are markers of childhood, not of just her own childhood but possibly for the viewers as well. This experimentation with material and the relationship to the memory and objects has helped her place a deeper meaning to her process of how to figure out what home is for her and what her interpretation and relationship is to place.

The Department of Film and Digital Arts is showing eight of Abbas Kiarostami’s films over the course of the spring 2020 semester, free and open to all UNM students.

Abbas Kiarostami was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active film-maker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker trilogy (1987–1994), Close-Up (1990), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), and Taste of Cherry (1997), which was awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year. His films Where Is the Friend’s Home?, Close-Up, and The Wind Will Carry Us were ranked among the 100 best foreign films in a 2018 critics’ poll by BBC Culture. Close-Up was also ranked as one of the 50 greatest movies of all time in the famous decennial Sight & Sound poll conducted in 2012.

The Department of Film and Digital Arts is showing eight of Abbas Kiarostami’s films over the course of the spring 2020 semester, free and open to all UNM students.

Abbas Kiarostami was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active film-maker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker trilogy (1987–1994), Close-Up (1990), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), and Taste of Cherry (1997), which was awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year. His films Where Is the Friend’s Home?, Close-Up, and The Wind Will Carry Us were ranked among the 100 best foreign films in a 2018 critics’ poll by BBC Culture. Close-Up was also ranked as one of the 50 greatest movies of all time in the famous decennial Sight & Sound poll conducted in 2012.

The Department of Film and Digital Arts is showing eight of Abbas Kiarostami’s films over the course of the spring 2020 semester, free and open to all UNM students.

Abbas Kiarostami was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active film-maker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker trilogy (1987–1994), Close-Up (1990), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), and Taste of Cherry (1997), which was awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year. His films Where Is the Friend’s Home?, Close-Up, and The Wind Will Carry Us were ranked among the 100 best foreign films in a 2018 critics’ poll by BBC Culture. Close-Up was also ranked as one of the 50 greatest movies of all time in the famous decennial Sight & Sound poll conducted in 2012.

The Department of Film and Digital Arts is showing eight of Abbas Kiarostami’s films over the course of the spring 2020 semester, free and open to all UNM students.

Abbas Kiarostami was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active film-maker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker trilogy (1987–1994), Close-Up (1990), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), and Taste of Cherry (1997), which was awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year. His films Where Is the Friend’s Home?, Close-Up, and The Wind Will Carry Us were ranked among the 100 best foreign films in a 2018 critics’ poll by BBC Culture. Close-Up was also ranked as one of the 50 greatest movies of all time in the famous decennial Sight & Sound poll conducted in 2012.