Throwback on the Big Screen: The Milagro Beanfield War
Sunday, August 17th, 2025
4:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Price: Pay what you can
Taos Center for the Arts
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Tierra, Agua, y la Gente – A Taoseño Movie Series
The Milagro Beanfield War
Film followed by panel discussion w/ community experts
SUN Aug 17 | 4-6pm
A tale of how one man’s decision to water his beanfield sparks a community uprising, in the tiny village of Milagro in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Filmed mostly in Truchas, this beloved 1988 film blends magical realism, northern New Mexican culture, and timely themes about water, land, and the people who steward them.
1988 | Comedy/Drama | Directed by Robert Redford | 1h57m | R
The movie will be preceded by a quick introduction from Will Jaremko-Wright, Taos County Agricultural Extension Agent. Afterwards, a panel discussion with Dr Syliva Rodriguez, Olivia Romo, Yolanda Lewis and Dr Dabi Garcia will deepen the conversation on the dynamics of tourism in northern New Mexico and the role acequias play in our communities.
More about the panelists:
Dr Sylvia Rodríguez is a native Taoseña, professor emerita of anthropology and former director of the Alfonso A. Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies at UNM. She is a commissioner on the Acequia de San Antonio in Valdez and a member of the TVAA board of directors. She works collaboratively with acequia organizations and researchers.
Olivia Romo is a farmer, poet, water rights activist, and proud Taoseña. She has dedicated her work to educating and mobilizing New Mexicans around the risks and uncertainties of their natural resources. A bilingual poet immersed in the regional Manito dialect and culture, Olivia’s flagship poem “Bendición del agua” was featured in the Western Folklife Center’s Moving Rural Verse series.
Dabi F. García, Ph.D. is a cultural anthropologist, a graduate of UT Austin 2016, and a musician who reflects on the public spaces and cultural movements related to land based knowledges in the US southwest / northern Mexican borderlands. Born in the Española Valley, they and their family have been parciantes on the Acequia de los Salazares for more than 6 generations, where they grow various crops in their hoop house and apple orchard.
Yolanda Silva Lewis, is a fifth-generation farmer from Arroyo Seco and mayordoma for the Acequía del Rebalse in Des Montes. Yolanda grows and harvests hay for her cattle, continuing long-standing agricultural traditions in the area.
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