By Alex Paramo
Alex Paramo
We are all aware that grandparents love to coddle, spoil and splurge their grandchildren in love and tenderness! What many of us have lost sight of is that grandparents serve a crucial societal function as well: the dissemination of culture while providing a living, historical record. Unfortunately in todays’ over-saturated world of marketing messages, many have lost sight of the role our elders play in keeping our community vibrant and keeping us from repeating the mistakes made by previous generations.
Multigenerational Celebrations
In many Latin American countries, parties and festive occasions have a multi-generational flavor and you will often find babies and grandparents indulging in Music, Entertainment and the festive environments. This provides an opportunity for cultural transmit ion through historical recollections. In the US, ageism, created by our friends in the Marketing world, separates folks into non-sensical categories that serve to divide us and robs us of our historical identities. At the Rail Yards Market (RYM) grandparents are welcome and encouraged to participate and enjoy all that the RYM has to offer!
Celebrating Grandparents at the Rail Yards Market
In the Children’s Zone we are featuring the beadwork Artist Lisa Richards from near Canyon de Chelly, AZ, will bring pony bead crafts to the Railyards Kidzone on Sunday. Children can choose from a selection of colorful cords and and bins of brightly colored neon pony beads to create
their own custom lizard keychain.
Michael Lopez and Allyson Packer will be demoing their work at the Pop-Up Art Gallery. In the Traditional Zone, Carrie Murphy, will be sharing her Educational component as a Doula as well as featuring two Live Belly casts with two brave Mother’s to be! One @ 10:30am and the second at 1:30pm. Jade Leyva-Frouge and Tom Frouge will be sharing the upcoming plans for our ever growing Community Localquerque/Globalquerque gatherings upcoming respectively on September 14th & September 19th – 20th.
Main and Community Stages
Our usual slew of super talented Poets, Musicians and Entertainers will be at the RYM this Sunday including: For a complete listing please click here.
- The folks from Working Classroom, clowning around on the Community Stage
- The Haptics bring their electronic sounds to the Main Stage
- The National Institute of Flamenco will be dancing away the afternoon on the Main Stage
A tradition like Flamenco has been handed down from generation to generation from as far back as 1774!. Invite your grandparents out this Sunday and spend the afternoon with us. We have some grandparents at the Wheels Museum that can provide you with the rich history of the Albuquerque Rail Yards themselves. See You Sunday!
Alex Paramo is an Author and Co-Founder of Community Publishing. Community Publishing brings local artists of all mediums together in creative collaborations for distribution as multimedia eBooks while promoting literacy in our communities.
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