Community Folklife Fellows Workshop Series
Texas Folklife’s Community Folklife Fellows are hosting a series of workshops this season. We’ll be sharing flyers and details for each event as they’re announced.
April 24 | San Antonio, TX
Atlachinolli: We are the Movement of Fire & Water
Palacio de Palomas: A Westside Art Collective
Get ready to dive into the vibrant world of Atlachinolli, where fire meets water in an epic celebration of energy and flow. This is an in-person event packed with dynamic experiences, cool vibes, and powerful connections.
A unique evening of IndigeBaddie magic hosted by Laura Yohualtlahuiz as part of their by Texas Folklife
Community Fellowship and as a cultural organizing artist in partnership with Alternate Roots.
Click here to register.
April 25 | Brownsville, TX
RAÍCES EN REMIX ✂️🔥 Exhibition Closing Celebration at La Tijera
🪗 🦅We’re closing it out the right way 🪗🦅
Liberate Ediciones & Texas Folklife invite you to the official closing of Raíces en Remix at La Tijera; a night honoring the artists, the archive, and the culture that built this exhibition.
Featuring works by: Cande Aguilar, Enrique Palacios Alvarez, Jesse Burciaga, Josie del Castillo, Jessica Denise, Marcelina
Gonzalez, Karla Gabriela De La Fuente, Alex Macias, Chris
Marin, Clarissa Martinez, Cisco Jimenez, Cruz Ortiz, Olivia Ortiz, Gina Gwen Palacios, Mario Perez, Josue Ramirez, Alexis Ramos, Gil Rocha, Cecilia Sierra, Ray Smith, Mariana Smith, Jesus Treviño, Paul Valadez, Rodolfo Walss
🗓 Saturday, April 25th
⏰ 7PM – 10PM
📍 La Tijera Gallery 1121 E Elizabeth St, Brownsville, Tejas
🍽 Food by Malaquite
🍷 Drinks by Depósito: El Nopalito
🎶 Opening set by Genesis
🇲🇽 feat. the DLG Jukebox Collection, a collection of rare RGV Texas-Mexican 🇺🇸 pressings from the 60s/70s, back on the needle after 30+ years 🔊
🔥 Headliner: from South Central California “La Furia de Quebradita” 🪗 El Cocodrilo 🐊spinning genre(s) that shaped South Texas dance floors: fast, raw, and built for movement.
Pull up. Bring your people.
**Limited run of screen printed t-shirts & posters by @sixampress & @palosantoprints
🜂 El disco es cultura
🜃 Todo el pueblo unido
🜄 Sin miedo, sin frontera
IG: @liberate.ediciones @gen.e.ses @latijera_956 @crosstowntraffik @malaquite.tx @nopalito.us
May 2 | San Antonio, TX
Embodied Artifacts: the stories in our bones
We all have special objects we care for; we give them shelter, we wear them, we dust and display them, we keep them safe in protected places. These objects represent feelings we hold for certain memories, or they carry a story of something or someone significant, and perhaps they may represent hope for something we are still trying to reach.
This free workshop will invite participants to investigate storytelling that begins at an internal site within our bodies; stories from the inside out.
When: May 2, 2026 – 3-6 pm, 2-hour workshop with a 1-hour sharing = 3 hours of your time (light snack will be provided)
Where: International Folk Culture Center, 411 SW 24th St.
What to Bring:
- bring an artifact, something that is special to you, something that has a known story or holds the potential for revealing a good story.
- Bring water or some kind of hydration
What to Expect:
- We will begin with introductions and then move to grounding and settling into the space
- I will guide participants through a warmup to begin accessing awareness to our bodies and our environment.
- We will learn how to intentionally communicate with our bodies and practice listening for responses as well.
- There will be a series of guided movement explorations or scores with your artifact, followed by writing from the body
- We will have one 30-minute break and will finish with storytelling time and another break with more snacks.
No experience is required however, please bring a curiosity for embodied experience and for developing awareness of and with your body and the stories you hold within them.
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May 2 | Austin, TX
Puerto Rican Plena Percussion Workshop & Plenazo w/Héctor Matos
Grab your panderos and get ready to dive into the vibrant world of Puerto Rican Plena!
May 2, 2026
Danzersity Studio
7531 Burnet Rd
Austin, TX 78757
Join us for an exciting in-person workshop where you’ll learn plena history and pandero technique from our team of seasoned pleneros led by Héctor Matos (Houston), with Danny Rodríguez of Pleneros Ta’mo Akí (San Antonio), Enrique Quiñones Arocho ‘Quique Lares’ of Pleneros de la 100×35 (DFW), and Leo Vázquez of En Plena Fiesta (Killeen).
Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned percussionist, this session is all about learning and social engagement. The 1.5-hour workshop culminates with a lively Plenazo jam session – let’s make some music together!
Please bring your panderos – a limited amount will be available for lending!
Featuring:
– Héctor Matos (lead facilitator)
– Danny Rodríguez (facilitator)
– Enrique Quiñones Arocho (facilitator)
– Leo Vázquez (facilitator)
– Danzversity Studio (venue)
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