Extend your experience with Literary Day Trips and Community Events.
Santa Fe’s fabled blue skies and fresh air inspire festivalgoers to take a deeper dive into the city and its northern New Mexico environs. Literary Day Trips and Community Events on May 18th and May 22 give festivalgoers the chance to extend their stay, join an author, and experience the area’s cultural treasures and spectacular landscapes.
Writing in the Wild: A Literary Day Trip
Monday May 22 | 9 am to 11 am
$125 per person
Join Natalie Goldberg and Katie Arnold for a morning of walking and writing on Santa Fe’s hiking trails. Together, participants will explore the connection between silence, movement, nature, and their imaginations. Walking through the natural world is a form of story-gathering and telling, as well as a moving meditation. The deeper one goes into the silence of forest and mountains, the deeper ones goes into the mind. Join Natalie and Katie as they walk the trails in search of ideas and inspiration, foraging for stories.
Longtime friends and Zen practitioners, Katie and Natalie will share their way of walking in nature as a way of writing. This is a generative, process-oriented walking and writing workshop that will include periods of silence. Bring a pen and a notebook and your curiosity, as the group will be stopping often along the trail for writing exercises and prompts. All levels of hikers, walkers, and writers are welcome.
Natalie Goldberg is the renowned author of 15 books, including the international bestseller Writing Down the Bones, Wild Mind, and Three Simple Lines. Katie is the author of the critically-acclaimed memoir Running Home, an ultra running champion, and a frequent contributor to Outside magazine and The New York Times. Her next book, Brief Flashings in the Phenomenal World, will be published in 2024.
Free Community Events: May 18th, 19th & 22nd, 2023
For information and to register for any of these community events, please contact the businesses/organizations directly at the phone numbers/website addresses listed.
Join New Mexico State Senator (and “poet politician”) Bill O’Neill for a guided tour of the State Capitol Art Collection and a poetry reading
Thursday, May 18 | 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
New Mexico State Capitol, 490 Old Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe, NM 87501
New Mexico is blessed with a beautiful state capitol, built in our state’s Territorial style, featuring great natural light, with the Capitol Rotunda forming the Zia sun symbol. The Capitol Art Collection is housed throughout the public areas of the Capitol and consists of a wide range of media, styles, and traditions—all by New Mexico artists.
Please join New Mexico State Senator (and “poet politician”) Bill O’Neill for a personal guided tour of this stunning art collection, following a brief reading from his critically acclaimed poetry collection The Definition of Empty (University of New Mexico Press), which focuses on his work with our state’s incarcerated juveniles. Enter the Capitol through its main East Entrance; parking is available. No masks or vaccination proof is required.
Radiant Rest with Tracee Stanley at Living Threads Studio
Thursday, May 18 | 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Living Threads Studio, 1610 D Lena St, Santa Fe, NM 87505
Tracee Stanley will read from her best-selling book, Radiant Rest. She will share wisdom, practices, and self-inquiry as inspiration to reclaim your birthright to experience deep rest and ease. Join in for a reading, short practice, and discussion.
Tracee Stanley is the author of the bestselling book Radiant Rest: Yoga Nidra for Deep Relaxation and Awakened Clarity and the forthcoming The Luminous Self: Sacred Yogic Practices & Rituals to Remember Who You Are - Oct 2023 by Shambhala Publications. Tracee is the founder of Empowered Life Circle, a sacred community and portal of practices, rituals, and Tantric teachings inspired by more than 20 years of study in Sri Vidya Tantra and the teachings of the Himalayan Masters. Tracee is gifted in illuminating the magic and power found in liminal space and weaving devotion and practice into daily life. Visit Tracee’s website for more information.
Celebrate the Connection Between Art and Poetry at Hecho Gallery
Thursday, May 18 | 5:30 pm
Hecho Gallery, 129 W. Palace Ave, Santa Fe, NM 87501
In conjunction with the Santa Fe International Literary festival, Hecho Gallery invites you to an evening celebrating the connection between art and poetry. Artist Thais Mather will be sharing her recent installation, Shineth in Darkness, featuring celestial watercolor paintings of bouquets, each devoted to a deceased female poet. Poet Natachee Momaday Gray will give a reading from her recent publication, Silver Box. A meditation on sentimentality from the cradle to the grave, Silver Box is a prayer for words to adorn, cauterize and protect. Equal parts Natachee Momaday Gray and her many ghosts, the line is blurred and travels between multiple lifetimes.
Momaday Gray and Mather have collaborated previously as an artist/poet duo- illuminating the bond between our most human pursuits, language and semiotics. An event not to be missed!
Embracing Life with Coralee Quintana and Gladys Margarita Perez at Art MOZAIK Gallery
Thursday, May 18 | 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Art MOZAIK Gallery, 713 Canyon Rd, Santa Fe, NM 87505
Embracing Life: A Pandemic Loss Journal is a beautifully illustrated workbook that invites the reader to create a safe space to express their pain and grief related to losses they have experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this self-help journal, the authors provide valuable tools that encourage the reader to process, vent and release complicated layers of grief such as sadness, frustration, anger, anxiety and fear.
As the reader writes their thoughts and feelings, they will learn techniques to care for themselves and cope with the array of emotions that surface. With the help of this workbook, the reader will begin to regain control of their emotions and move toward a place of forgiveness, gratitude and hope.
Off the Page Storytelling!
thursday, may 18 | 6 pm
The Travel Bug, 839 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501
Gather ‘round for tellings of tales, ancient and modern, be they myths, epics, folklore or authored works, brought off the page and told by seasoned storytellers Lucinda deLorimier, Mary Ellen Gonzales, and Regina Ress.
Enjoy the intriguing art of oral storytelling with a variety of stories and array of tellers’ styles at The Travel Bug, Santa’s Fe’s cozy travel book store, coffee shop and taproom, due east of the Plaza.
Literary Day at School for Advanced Research
FridAY, may 19 | 1o am - 2 pm
School for Advanced Research, 660 Garcia St, Santa Fe, NM 87505
Tours
10 a.m. & 2 p.m.
Take part in one of SAR’s literary tours of the campus, offered at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. ($15, free to SAR members) or a tour of our Native American art collection at the Indian Arts Research Center at 2 p.m ($15, free to SAR members and Native Americans; 50% discount to Santa Fe public school educators with ID).
Reservations are required for all tours. Click here to reserve.
Walk the winding paths of Amelia Elizabeth and Martha White’s residence while learning about its ties to the literary history of Santa Fe.
Please wear comfortable walking shoes so you can fully appreciate the rustic beauty of the campus and its gravel and flagstone walkways.
Brown-Bag Poetry Reading
12 p.m - 2 p.m.
Head over to the Dobkin Patio for a Brown-Bag Poetry Reading featuring Indigenous writers Max Early, Darryl Wellington, and Tara Trudell. Please bring your own lunch, refreshments will be provided. No reservations required.
Oaxaca Stories in Cloth: A Book About People, Identity, and Adornment with Eric Mindling at Living Threads Studio
Monday, May 22 | 10 am – 11 am
Living Threads Studio, 1610 D Lena Street, Santa Fe, NM 87505
Eric will take you into the world of Oaxaca where he spent 25 years. This talk will peek into ancient, living humanity and explore cultures of belonging, roots, and elderhood.
Oaxaca Stories in Cloth is a portrait of indigenous cultural diversity and creative humanity in southern Mexico. The images that bring this book to life were created during two years of fieldwork and are the largest visual collection of community fashion in Oaxaca in existence.
Thunderbirds and Lightning Tongues
Monday, May 22 | 1 pm - 3 pm
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), 108 Cathedral Pl, Santa Fe, NM 87501
Join the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) Creative Writing students for a cross genre reading! Students from both the Undergrad and Master’s programs will be sharing their portfolio work. The genre-blending reading includes fiction, non-fiction, poetry and screenwriting. From diverse heritages and backgrounds, these IAIA Creative Writers are re-writing the literary landscape through indigenous narratives, storytelling and voice. Witness the thunderbirds with lightning tongues.
Jean Cocteau Cinema Presents: Bless Me Ultima
monday, may 22 | 6 pm
Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, NM 87501
The Santa Fe International Literary Festival and Jean Cocteau Cinema celebrate the Godfather of Chicano literature with a free community screening of the 2012 feature film, Bless Me, Ultima, based on Anaya’s classic 1972 novel and filmed in New Mexico. Directed by Carl Franklin and starring Luke Ganalon and Míriam Colón. PG-13.
