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The Boca Chica Corazon Grande Regional Archival Project will hold a regional outreach initiative called “Playa de Memorias,” a beach happening taking place from 12 to 5 p.m. Saturday at Boca Chica Beach.
An organization billing itself as ENTRE Film Center + Regional Archive is promoting Playa de Memorias, as a free event aimed at uplifting and activating Boca Chica Beach as a natural gem that has long served served as “la playa de la gente.”
“Playa de Memorias is an offering to our community, and will feature free transportation, an art installation in partnership with La Tijera and led by Nansi Guevara, antojitos curated by Luna Vela of Neighborhood Molino and free roundtrip transport from the 77 Flea Market to the Beach Happening,” organizers stated in a news release shared with The Brownsville Herald.
Organizers urged participants to register through the registration link https://tinyurl.com/bdz8xp6r. In the release they stated that important details would be shared through the link, including the event’s final location, which the release characterized as contingent “on beach closures and rocket launches.”
The link states only that the event will take place at Boca Chica Beach.
“ENTRE Film Center + Regional Archive is hosting its first Boca Chica, Corazón Grande Beach Happening, Playa de Memorias, a community event aimed at uplifting and activating the place we love, adore and are fighting for. Our hope is to continue to raise the visibility of Boca Chica Beach, a humble yet deeply historical coastline that reaches the mouth of the Rio Grande River. Boca Chica Beach has long served as a community beach and sanctuary. Now, this is all at risk of erasure with the ongoing development of private corporations that continue to harm this fragile ecosystem and restrict access to a federal state park and public land,” the news release stated.
The release went on to say that “Playa de Memorias serves as an outreach effort that is part of ENTRE’s Boca Chica, Corazón Grande, a long-term community archival and creative resistance project focused on collecting and documenting the history and geography of Boca Chica Beach in South Texas. Through this initiative, ENTRE aim’s to co-create a land based collection for and with our border community. Together we will document, preserve, and bring awareness to the cultural and natural richness that is currently at risk with the development of Elon Musks’ SpaceX Starbase, creating a present-day complex economical, social, and environmental issue.”
Activities planned during Saturday’s event include:
>> Art on the Beach: “Join border artist and activist Nansi Guevara as she reimagines the Boca Chica, Corazón Grande Community Archive and transforms our collection into a fabric installation that can be viewed for one day only. This work was made in collaboration with La Tijera, a collective artist space who contributed textile materials for this project,” the release states.
>> Antojitos by Neighborhood Molino: “Luna Vela, a molinera, anthropologist, and culinary artist with roots in the RGV and North Mexico, joins us for this special event and has curated a dreamy menu you do not want to miss out on,” the release concludes.
