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Casa Camino Real Bookstore (CCRB) will hold a Pop-Up Sale of Books and Art benefiting Libros Para El Viaje/Books for the Journey, an ongoing book distribution program, CCRB owner Denise Chávez said in a news release.
The event will be 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Aug. 18-19, at the Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico, 2640 El Paseo Road. It will include folk art, original and vintage postcards, ephemera, prints, paintings, photographs, posters, Mexican lobby cards and posters, vintage vinyl records, jewelry and rare and special books, including signed first editions focusing on Chicano/a, Latino/a, native and indigenous, southwestern, border, New Mexican and Latin American art, culture and related themes, Chávez said.
“Since 2018, Libros Para el Viaje/Books for the Journey has distributed more than 40,000 books to refugee, migrant and asylum families in Anapra, Palomas, Juárez, México, as well as locally to children, youth and families at El Caldito Soup Kitchen, Border Servant Corps, Peace Lutheran Church, St. Albert the Great Newman Center, El Calvario Methodist Church, Alma d’arte Charter High School, Casa del Sol Senior Center, Anthony Elementary School, Raíces del Saber Xinachtli Community School, Desert Hope Apartments for the formerly unhoused, Weaving for Justice, various local little free libraries, and many others community organizations, schools and individuals,” Chávez said.
During the pandemic, several drive-by book giveaways took place in front of CCRB during which thousands of books were distributed to children, teens and adults, she said.
Book donors for the pop-up event include the Children's Book Council, REFORMA, The Children's Reading Alliance, major U.S. publishers, presses, bookstores, authors, schools libraries and individuals, she, Chávez said.
CCRB is located at 314 S. Tornillo St. in the Mesquite Historic District west of downtown Las Cruces.
To volunteer or donate items for the event, contact Chávez at 575-649-9173 and comezon09@comcast.net.
Contact CFSNM at 575-521-4794. Visit www.cfsnm.org.
