This year’s theme is “Changes in a Changeless Desert: A celebration of commitment, compassion, and community across the US/Mexico borderlands.”

The United States-Mexico borderlands has always been a beautiful mix of culture, language, cuisine, economies, and people. It has also been a place of struggle, high and low temperatures, a fragile environment, and the push and pull of immigration.
The Borderlands is the perfect place to explore the arts, touch the culture, and have deeper conversations about the complicated issues that collide here. We hope you will come and explore with us all the possibilities.

Thursday is a day of engaging field trips to immerse ourselves in the culture, life, and issues along the US/Mexico border. Then there will be an evening film screening of the documentary film, "Samaritans", by David Damian Figueroa.

On Friday we will have keynote addresses in the morning, classes in the afternoon, and a great dinner followed by the film, "El Norte", and conversation with David Villapando and actor Enrique Castillo.

On Saturday we will have keynote addresses and a festival in the morning, classes in the afternoon and another great dinner followed by an evening exclusive documentary film, "Ugly Little Monkeys" - The story of the world-renowned mariachi youth group, "Los Changuitos Feos," and a concert by Los Changuitos Feos.