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From the Left Field Bleachers: The World Cup and the Kick in the Groin

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on July 16, 2014 1

The World Cup and the Kick in the Groin by Alex Paramo

Alex Paramo Community Publishing

Alex Paramo

The World Cup just wrapped up and the probabiliuty that half the world was watching at one point or another is very impressive indeed. But what does that say about our world? Outside the U.S. and just about everywhere in the world Soccer, Futbol, Football is King. In some most countries no other sport even comes close.

World CupSports and Nationalism

In an interesting article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the author, David P. Barash, examines the possibility that our natural wiring for group participation is manipulated by sports and sports marketers. Additionally, Barash posits, the same vulnerabilities that are exploited for a sense of national identity are one and the same.

Opiate of the Masses

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Honoring our Heritage at the Rail Yards Market

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on July 12, 2014 2

Honoring our Heritage at the Rail Yards Market by Alex Paramo

Alex Paramo Community Publishing

Alex Paramo

Stop for a moment and think about the things you do and encounter in everyday life? Where did our habits, customs and collective knowledge come from? Whether we’re conscious of it or not, our heritage guides us. The choices of our ancestors, their lives and their beliefs, are worthy of understanding because they continue to inform our lives and our world even today. As we’re collectively re-discovering the value of all of the ancient wisdom that was written off as antiquated, out-dated, etc., we now see how vital this wisdom is and the prominent role it needs to play in our society today.

The Henna Fairy

HeritagePooja Lopriore aka the Henna Fairy is a great example of how wisdom from the past can lead and instruct us today. Pooja is of Indian descent and learned the Art of Henna from her family. According to Pooja, “Henna is very vast subject that has been used in Science, Art, Spirituality and traditions around the links throughout the world. Its recorded use has been 5000 years and most of it has been medicinal. It is new to the west and thus most popularly known as body adornment and temporary tattoos.”

Southwest University of Visual Arts

The Visual Arts have always been used as a means to SUVAcommunicate and pass down from one generation to the next elements of heritage and communal knowledge. To that overall end the Southwest University of Visual Arts (SUVA) is one of the Rail Yards Market‘s (RYM) sponsors and will be programming many of the Educational Zones! From SUVA’s mission statement, “Southwest University of Visual Arts strives to become an exemplary force in higher education recognized as a leading University of Art and Design.”

At the Children’s Zone, Chris Andrews and Lisa Ealy will be representing SUVA. Chris SUVA HeritageAndrews is part of the core faculty at SUVA. He studied Photography at NMSU in Las Cruces where he received his BA. Lisa Ealy is finishing out her freshman year as a student at SUVA, she is seeking a BA in illustration. Chris and Lisa are planning a variety of activities to fill the day. They will be reading some traditional fairy tales and scary stories, and I know they also plan to have some more hands-on activities as well such as mask making.”

The Pop-up Art Gallery will be featuring several examples of sculpture from of our current students and graduates.

***Programming below not affiliated with SUVA***

3D Art Heritage DayRYM Live Arts Zone presents two of our very own hard working grassroots local artists! Sarah Rose and Desiree Danielle Clugston will be working side by side all Market Day respectively sharing their gifts in the Ancient Arts of Mask Creation and Crafting along with the unique modern day innovations of  3Dimensional Canvas Paintings. In Celebration of Heritage Day come see the past become the present and the present reach out into our future!

On the Main and Community Stages the RYM will have many acts that contribute to our collective heritage including but not limited to Wamba Dance, Ramla Taal Belly Dancers, Poets Teresa Gallion and Georgia Santa Maria, Musicians Rev Tsolwar and Wilde Wood. Please click here for performance schedule.

Heritage is bi-directional, therefore what we do today individually and collectively becomes the heritage for future generations. As you enjoy the market today, take time to talk with your family and others you meet about what your/our heritage means to you. Reflect on how each of our respective heritages contain important tools that we can use as we co-create the world we want to live in. In our beautiful state of New Mexico, we honor our individual as well as our collective heritages. 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.

We are proud to be a community partner and digital marketer at the Rail Yards Market.
#JoinOurCommunity at http://communitypublishing.org

Thank you to contributing writers: Anthony Fleg of the Native Health Initiative, independent Healing Artist April Parrish and Chad Gruber. 

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Fundraiser for the Rail Yards Market

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on July 10, 2014 Respond

Fundraiser

The Rail Yards Market (RYM) is a Sunday market (9 am to 3 pm) that occurs in the Barelas neighborhood of Albuquerque, NM. It is a community powered event that occurs due to the incredible effort from a team of volunteers. Community Publishing is proud to serve as the Marketers for the RYM!

Fundraiser In the Spirit of Giving

Giving is at the very core of the RYM. The RYM provides economic opportunities for local growers and vendors, educational opportunities for the community, a platform to showcase their arts for local artist of all mediums. In the spirit of giving, Raven & the Sweet Potato Pie Band is having a fundraiser tonight (July 10) 6-9 pm at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. The band is a wonderful mix of blues, soul, and rock. Join our community, see you there tonight!

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Successful Defiance: Low Expectations as the World Awakens

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on July 9, 2014 1

Low Expectations as the World Awakens by Joseph J. García

Time to live beyond the limits of what is expected
Time to go beyond the mental barriers erected
Detach yourself from the limited vision
Decisions decisions, Oh, theres never time time to remonstrate
Forget about Hollywood’s romantic love and the Amerikan family life
The picket fence only denigrates leading to internal strife
The ability to think beyond the Amerikan dream
Are but like reems and reems of printed laws that only scream
But contain flaws in the human cause, that lead national liberations

Now is but the fermentation
Of too much drug induced castration
Take a longer stroll to an adventurous fate?
Escape the future, escape the past
Work beyond the standard Amerikan mad dash
Too much time spent on the bottom less pit of the 401k
When health insurance, retirement, social security
Are programmed to secure their pilfering ways
Greasing walls streets thugs
Heeps of pandering manure never taint
Madoffs’ scapegoating mates
Believe there are no chances to take
Yes, no chances for the billionaire few
But, the vacuums vortex
Is what’s at hand

The “Global Political Awakening” is making demands
Players, outside the World Cup stands
Kick tear gas canisters for future goals
The Cup but provides momentary spoils
As the Awakening releases our collective souls
Yet as we in states live by our low expectations
The world resounds by the growing reveberations
As final match brings forth the storms of consternation

Expectations

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Successful Defiance Dr. Joseph Garcia is a PhD in Latin American Studies at the University of New Mexico. Joseph is also a Poet/Creative Collaborator at 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.
#JoinOurCommunity at http://communitypublishing.org
Community Publishing is a proud partner and digital marketer at the Rail Yards Market.

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Bandwidth No Name at Battle of Bands

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on July 8, 2014 Respond

This UPCOMING Sunday July 13th Albuquerque’s our Creative Collaborator Nick Fury powerhouse group Bandwidth No Name (BNN) will be competing in their 1st ever battle of the bands. This all ages event takes place at the Launchpad located at 618 Central Ave SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102. The event means a lot to BNN who is seeking a bigger, national platform to share their music. BNN is a live band, featuring a fusion of sounds including but not limited to: HipHop-Funk-Rock-N-Reggae. Bandwidth is doing it BIG.

Bandwidth No Name Battle of the Bands

Bandwidth No Name and Erika Viking and the Hoff of 102.5

This year twice BNN was featured on the 102.5 morning show with Erica Viking and the Hoff. They also released an EP titled Music Is The Message

Bandwidth No Name Band
Listen to a song or two…

 Anti-Bullying Campaign

This year they also released an anti-bullying song inspired and dedicated a tragic victim of bullying, Amanda Todd. Forever is a critically acclaimed, tribute to Amanda Todd and all of those folks that have been preyed upon. It is a call for us as a society and stand-up against this sociopathic epidemic that has swept across our country and world.

Message from Nick Fury

“Hey it’s Nick Furious BNN frontman. We need your help now more than ever family. We to purchase some presale tickets for this ALL AGES EVENT! Tickets are 10 dollars day of show and we are selling them now for ONLY $8. With every purchase our time slot at the battle gets better and it ensures YOU, our fams, will be there to root us on with your applause when we take the stage. The lineup is determined day of show from each band’s ticket sales and the band with the most tix not only has their fan base present when needed most, THE LAST SET OF THE SHOW.

Email us NOW at bandwidthnoname@gmail.com for tickets. Leave us your name and phone number and we will contact you asap.

Promoting Bands

We realize that this type of show model is not our 1st choice and we usually promote and market our OWN events but we see this battle as a solid chance reach a new demographic, to get some steam and utilize the grand prize.

So support Bandwidth No Name by visiting our website at
http://www.bandwidthnoname.com and get a ticket B :D”

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Nick Fury is the Lead Audio Engineer on Community Publishing’s bilingual multimedia eBook, Fiona the Funkadelic Freckle Fairy.  Community Publishing brings local artists of all mediums together in creative collaborations for distribution as multimedia eBooks while promoting literacy in our communities. #JoinOurCommunity at http://communitypublishing.org

Community Publishing is a proud partner and digital marketer at the Rail Yards Market.

 

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Instructing the Next Generation of Musicians from our Community

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on June 22, 2014 Respond

Music that Moves Us

Hello all! Our Creative Collaborator Keith Sanchez is having a fundraiser for his music camp: The New Mexico Academy of Rock & Blues (NMARB) features hands on lessons from some of New Mexico’s most talented musicians Keith Sanchez and Glen ‘Buddha’ Benevidez.

Fundraising for the sake of Music

The Fundraiser event will also feature fine talent including Albuquerque Poet Laureate Jessica Helen Lopez. Keith’s dream is to be able to provide free tuition for all of the students that attend the camp. You can make that happen!

NMARB Music Camp

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The Rising Sun at the Rail Yards Market by Alex Paramo

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on June 21, 2014 Respond

Summer SolsticeThe Summer Solstice is when the summer begins in the Northern Hemisphere and for us living in Mountain Time Zone that moment is “officially” occurs at 4:51 AM on Saturday, June 21. Known as Litha in many pagan traditions, there are many celebrations that take place around the globe and and in many creative ways.

Summer Solstice and the Midsummer Night

Summer SolsticeIn Northern European countries, Midsummer is a very important celebration that revolves around the Summer Solstice. Sometime known as St. John’s Day, this celebration is as important as Christmas and New Years Day. The celebration is often celebrated with bonfires and there is usually a clear inter-mingling with Christian rituals.

Rail Yards Market Fun

Along with our usual fantastic food and local growers we have a plethora of activities planned for you and your family at the Rail Yards Market this Sunday!Summer Solstice Mandala

The Live Arts Zone is deeply honored to welcome our very own Ramona Snow Teo Graphic Designer, Co-Founder and Manager of Albuquerque’s Guerrilla GraphiX  Ramona will be joined by gifted local Artist Hammon Buck for an all day Mandala set that will knock your socks off and inspire the Sacred Mind.

Summer Solstice MasksIn the Children’s Zone, super artist and educator Stephanie Galloway will be making animal masks to welcome the Summer! These wonderful fun masks will be decorated by children in whatever stylings their creative minds inspire them to. Come join Stephanie in the Children’s Zone!

Seed Jewelry Summer SolsticeThe Traditional Zone will be featuring Seed Blossoms Art Seed Jewelry. “Seeds. The entire life of a plant contained in a little tiny package, a miracle waiting to unfold. These pieces celebrate the miniature miracles that link the cycles of life together.” These awesome artists want to bring attention to the plight of seeds, invaluable life crucial to our existence, that are decreasing in genetic diversity due to corporate exploitation.

Music and Entertainment

As always we will have an exciting lineup of musicians, poets and entertainers:

The Rail Yards Market is truly a #CommunityPowered event. So come on over help us out around the RYM or just watch the sun come up with us. Sure we will be a day late  but rising for the morning sun is always worth the wait. See You Sunday!!

Alex Paramo is an Author and Co-Founder of Community Publishing. Community Publishing brings Alex Paramo Summer Solsticelocal artists of all mediums together in creative collaborations for distribution as multimedia eBooks while promoting literacy in our communities.

We are proud to be a community partner and digital programmer at Rail Yards Market.
#JoinOurCommunity at http://communitypublishing.org

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