This event is part of Opera Lafayette’s New Mexico Residency at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico.

SCREENING OF TITIXE
AN AWARD-WINNING FILM BY MEXICAN FILMMAKER
TANIA HERNÁNDEZ VELASCO
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 7 P.M. GMT
TAOS CENTER FOR THE ARTS
133 PASEO DEL PUEBLO NORTE
TAOS, NEW MEXCO

A mourning tree, dancing sprouts, ghosts, stories and forgotten seeds. This is a Mexican family’s very last attempt to cultivate their land.The last peasant of a family has died and with him, all wisdom to till the soil has been lost. Without experience, his daughter and granddaughter will attempt a last traditional harvest to try to convince Grandma, the widow of the peasant, to keep their plot of land. Together they will uncover the leftovers (locally known as the titixe) of this man and his world: a mourning tree, dancing sprouts, the language of clouds, ghosts, stories and the endless menace of losing the crops to a tempest. This is an intimate mosaic of the last harvest of a Mexican family, in a country that has forsaken its rural origins.

Attendance is free to the public, but reservations are recommended. Donations to Rio Grande Farm Park are encouraged.