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The Global Village is returning to ¡Globalquerque! 2008 and promises to be a real highlight of this year's festival. Roughly 30 booths of international crafts, culture and cuisine will be available for your browsing and shopping pleasure. Come early so you'll have plenty of time to explore the diverse offerings. Food and drink will be available until late in the evening, but the craft booths will shut down around 8 or 9. Local cultural groups are invited to bring information about their activities, put out mailing lists and free materials for distribution at the Community Booth.
Hours:
- Friday: 4 PM to close
- Saturday: 11 AM to close
Note: The Global Village will be open during the free day programming, from 11 AM to 4 PM on Saturday.
Art for Social Change
We are a mother/daughter team working to galvanize energy towards positive change using the arts in India and
Sierra Leone. We do this in collaboration with the National Association of Sierra Leone Artists (NASLA) and Gramshree. We will have hand made dolls, jewelry and wood carvings from Sierra Leone and beautiful clothing and housewares from India. The profits from sales of these crafts are returned to Sierra Leone to help build an Art Resource Center for the preservation of the 16 indigenous tribal cultures and to Gramshree to continue to train and support Indian women in developing marketable skills. We have visited these communities and are honored to work with people who are alleviating poverty and promoting self sufficiency.
Adorn your body in the garments that make you feel like the goddess you are! Garments are 100% rayon batiked and silk-screened in Bali. Easy to care for and washable in cold water. Perfect for casual or dressy occasions and great for travel! Also part of the Goddess Garb line are necklaces, bags made of African textiles, and scarves.
Laughing Hare Hot Glass
¡Globalquerque! poster artist
Theresa Laferriere of Laughing Hare Hot Glass creates stained glass and fused stained glass mosaics. "In 1994 an old friend of mine was killed in a boating accident in Alaska. Because I could not attend her funeral, I decided to go down to the Rio Grande River and say goodbye to her there. That was the day I found the glass dump. Piles and piles of glass left over from garbage discarded many years ago. I knew instantly that I was supposed to do something with this glass. I spent that day building glass sculpture at the dump, and I came back the next day and did the same thing. Needless to say I brought some glass home and began the process of glass and me. Ten years later I've come to a whole new place with glass. Melting glass, cutting glass and creating mosaics and kaleidescopes is what it is all about now. No doubt this will change too over time. I continue to pursue creativity as a reason for living." Stop by and see the ¡Globalquerque! poster art.
Andy Luna
Andy Luna is a native of Albuquerque who has been painting for over twenty years. He is a contemporary visual artist who captures a broad range of subjects on canvas and sandstone primarily using acrylic paint as his medium. Andy has been a featured poster artist for the annual Bernalillo Wine Festival which he has been a participant for over ten years. He also participates in the annual Rio Grande Art's and Craft's Faire. Andy Luna's work can be found throughout the United States and around the world.
¡Globalquerque! Community Booth
Local cultural groups are invited to bring information about their activities, put out mailing lists and free materials for distribution at the Community Booth.
Information coming soon!
