Fifth Annual Celebrando las Acequias will be held June 14 – 16 at the Mission in Dixon and will focus on Ingenious Landscapes: Indigenous Infrastructures and Sustainable Design for Drylands.
Below is the schedule of events. For more information contact event organizer Estevan Arellano at (505) 579-4027 or the Arid Lands Institute at aridlands@woodbury.edu
| June 14th | 6:00pm |
Registration | |
| 6:30 | Welcome and Overview | ||
| 6:45 | 2012 Current Planning Guidelines | Rio Arriba County Planning and Zoning | |
| Strategic Planning | New Mexico Acequia Association | ||
| June 15th | 4:30pm | Registration | |
| Overview | Dr. Peter Arnold, Arid Lands Institute | ||
| Book excerpt reading | Dr. Arturo Madrid, Trinity University (San Antonio | ||
| 6:30 | Keynote Address | Dr. William Doolittle, University of Texas (Austin) | |
| Relationship Between Comanches and Hispanic Villages | Dr. Severin Fowles, Barnard College and Columbia University | ||
| Music | |||
| June 16th | 8:30am |
Registration |
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| 9:30am | Acequia Systems in Valencia, Spain | Dr. Thomas Glick, Boston University | |
| Recognition of Acequias as World Heritage Sites | Dr. Manuel Montoya, University of New Mexico | ||
| Indigenous Irrigation Systems in Arid Landscapes | Dr. James Wescoat, MIT | ||
| Lunch | |||
| Study of New Mexico and northern Mexico Acequias | Jorge Ricardo Ponte, Author, Sociologist and Landscape Architect | ||
| Embudo Watershed Acequias | Estevan Arellano, Historian, Journalist | ||
| Dinner | |||
| Acequia Recognition | |||
| Poetry Reading | Yasmeen Najmi, Beata Tsosi-Peña, Adan Trujillo | ||
| Music | Los Coyotes de Cañoncito |