Sylvia
Ernestina Vergara emphasizes cultural and contemporary topics in her musical
compositions, poems, essays, short stories and plays. Her concerns include
environmental and social issues locally and globally. Presently, she is a
recipient of Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program through the US Fish
and Wildlife Service (New Mexico Ecological Services Field Office): a ten year
project commitment concerned with restoring and improving habitat for migratory
birds, declining, threatened, endangered, and candidate species and
encouragement of pollinator habitat. Her focus is hydrologic cycle research and
immune system awareness in nature. Vergara is a founding member of the Red
Planetaria Mujeres Poetas and has been interviewed inOccursus Blog: Sylvia
Ernestina Vergara: A “Whole-istic Artist.” Her poem is featured in Asfalturas,
un projecto de Carmen Amato in 2012. Her last poetic epic work, The
Great Salmon Run (Songs of the Fishermen) was a contributing text at the Festival
Palabra en el Mundo: Programa May 2012 in La Paz , Mexico and was
premiered as a music-drama at the Earth Day Weekend Commemoration April
2012 in Dixon , New Mexico , USA . In addition to her environmental epic
poem, she created an orchestra called The Embudo Valley Flowing Stream
Ensemble (Water Orchestra). Her photographs, books and orchard culinary works
were featured at the Dixon Art Tour, 2012. Her last performance was
a vocal presentation featuring her lyrics called A Trillion Reflecting
Pools at NNMC (Dec. 2012). Vergara has written and produced a large scale
work called Raindrop, an environmental opera.
Sylvia
Ernestina Vergara is a long-standing faculty member of Northern New Mexico
College Fine Arts Department in performing arts. Presently, she is teaching
Music and Dance Appreciation. She is on Face Bookand hopes very soon to
create her own blog featuring her writings, music, photographs and more.
