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Month: October 2022

An invitation to History, Culture and Recovery in Mora, NM: October 22, 2022, 9am – 5pm.

An invitation to History, Culture and Recovery in Mora, NM: October 22, 2022, 9am – 5pm.

Hosted by La Merced de Santa Gertrudis de lo de Mora (known less formally as the Mora Land Grant), to preserve the History, Culture and Diverse Heritage of the Past, Present and Future of Mora County. This year, the events theme of Rancimiento or Rebirth, takes on a special resonance in the context of ‘recovery’. The organizers are keen to stress that this event is not focused on the destruction wrought by the fires, but is a celebration of the many ways that the community came together in “querencia” and “mutualidad”, during and after the fires.

Manitos Spotlight

Manitos Spotlight

Jordan is a musician and cultural activist whose work centers on the unique role that music and language can play as a pathway into intergenerational identity and creativity.  As a teenager he became interested in his family’s Ashkenazi Jewish and rural Missouri music traditions, and began his studies with master fiddlers in two distinct cultural regions in Missouri and with Yiddish language and klezmer music mentors.  His interest in the relationship between traditional, pre-capitalist cultural autonomy and subsistence agriculture led…

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