FESTIVAL FINDS IDEAL THEME.Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard Don Quixote is in his soul. He is also sitting on Cecilio Venegas' lap, taking shape, once again. Venegas is an artisan from the city of Apaseo el Alto Apaseo el Alto is a Mexican city (and municipality) located in the state of Guanajuato. The municipality has an area of 491.81 square kilometres (1.6% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north by Apaseo el Grande, to the east by the state of Querataro, to the south in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico, who specializes in woodcarvings of Don Quixote, the idealistic central character of Miguel de Cervantes' early 17th century novel of the same name. Venegas is in Lane County for this weekend's 14th annual Fiesta Latina at Island Park in Springfield, an invited guest of Armando Morales
The theme of Don Quixote - this is the 400th anniversary of the novel's first publication in 1605 - runs through this year's festival, an event that celebrates Latin American culture Latin American culture is the formal or informal expression of the peoples of Latin America, and includes both high culture (literature, high art) and popular culture (music, folk art and dance) as well as religion and other customary practices. in a community whose Hispanic population continues to grow. Art is always a big part of the festival, which this year will feature a variety of paintings, murals, basketry basketry, art of weaving or coiling and sewing flexible materials to form vessels or other commodities. The materials used include twigs, roots, strips of hide, splints, osier willows, bamboo splits, cane or rattan, raffia, grasses, straw, and crepe paper. , sculptures and photographs. `(Quixote) has a big influence on the whole state of Guanajuato,' Venegas said Tuesday at Oak Hill School through the translation of Morales. "He's a revered figure who everyone wants to follow." Many families in the small towns that dot the state are working families with farms, he said. They ride horses, as Quixote did, and work the fields, as Quixote did. "It's a story that has influenced everybody," said Venegas - who made his first trip to Oregon this week with his wife, Juana, also an artist and a woodcarver. "Each of us has a Quixote in our soul. We are all working to find something, and he was a worker looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ideals. And this is what we are doing every day - looking for new hopes." "Don Quixote" is the story of a Spanish landowner in the province of La Mancha La Man·cha A region of south-central Spain. The high, mostly barren plateau is famous as the setting for Cervantes's Don Quixote. who enlivens his life by reading fictional tales about heroic knights of old. He takes the name of Don Quixote of La Mancha, dresses in armor and sets out on horseback on the back of a horse; mounted or riding on a horse or horses; in the saddle. See also: Horseback to gain fame by performing heroic deeds. His sidekick The first popular popup program for DOS PCs, introduced by Borland in 1984. Sidekick included a calculator, notepad, calendar, phone dialer and ASCII table and popularized the concept of a terminate and stay resident (TSR) utility. , the peasant Sancho Panza Sancho Panza is a character in the novel Don Quixote written by Spanish author Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra in 1602. Sancho acts as squire to Don Quixote, and provides comments throughout the novel, known as sanchismos , rides alongside on a donkey. While Panza represents reality, Quixote represents the ideal. Venegas, 59, will work with students at Oak Hill School and also at the festival, teaching them carving techniques. Next week, he will work with a group of five selected high school students at the school to carve a 6-foot-tall Don Quixote statue from the trunk of an oak tree that fell on the school's property a few years ago, Morales says. Morales hopes that Venegas will inspire the students and those who attend this weekend's festival. "The message to the younger generation is about the values we are losing in this world," such as respect and loyalty, Morales said. "These are the values of Quixote." The meeting of Morales and Venegas was somewhat serendipitous ser·en·dip·i·ty n. pl. ser·en·dip·i·ties 1. The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident. 2. The fact or occurrence of such discoveries. 3. An instance of making such a discovery. , much like the first meeting of Quixote and Panza in the novel. Morales makes a trip to Mexico every year with a group of his students. Last year, while in Apaseo el Alto, Morales saw one of Venegas' Quixote carvings at an artisans' fair and decided he had to have it. After meeting Venegas, who has been carving Quixote figures since he was about 16, Morales knew that "this is the guy I'm going to take to Eugene," he said. Morales knew that the theme of this year's Fiesta Latina would be Quixote because of the 400th anniversary of the novel, and Venegas gladly accepted the invitation. Venegas was just 6 when he created his first toy by molding black dirt into an ugly dog mask to play with children in his neighborhood. "I made a mask of clay because my parents didn't have the money to buy me one," he said. Venegas has his own store in Apaseo el Alto, where he works with his wife, their daughter and some of their grandchildren GRANDCHILDREN, domestic relations. The children of one's children. Sometimes these may claim bequests given in a will to children, though in general they can make no such claim. 6 Co. 16. . There are many artisans in the city, influenced by the work of Domingo Galvan, a rural art teacher and a self-taught master craftsman A master craftsman (sometimes called only master or grandmaster) was a member of a guild. In the European guild system, only master craftsmen were allowed to actually be members of the guild. who is still living and working in the area in his late 90s. Cecilio and Juana Venegas do restorations for area churches, carving altars and saints out of wood and decorating them with gold ornamentation ornamentation In music, the addition of notes for expressive and aesthetic purposes. For example, a long note may be ornamented by repetition or by alternation with a neighboring note (“trill”); a skip to a nonadjacent note can be filled in with the intervening . Venegas would like to leave some sort of legacy in Lane County during his short stay, as he helps others carve Quixotes and mold them out of clay (he can form the head - complete with hat and goatee - in about two minutes). "All teachers are Quixotes," Morales said. FIESTA LATINA What: 14th annual celebration of Latin American culture with song, dance, art and food When: Friday (starting at 5 p.m.) and Saturday (starting at 11 a.m.) Where: Island Park, 200 West B St., Springfield How much: $5 each day; no admission charge for children younger than 10 CAPTION(S): Cecilio Venegas, an artisan from Mexico who specializes in woodcarvings of Don Quixote, works with one of his creations. Venegas will be at the 14th annual Fiesta Latina at Island Park in Springfield this weekend. "Each of us has a Quixote in our soul,' the artist says. |
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