2. Shoes for the Santo Niño – An Opera for Children: Cultural Collaboration or Collision? Who’s story is it anyway? Regina Carlow, The University of New Mexico, USA

3. My introduction to New Mexico

4. New Mexico

5. Population Statistics

8. More sheep and cows than people

9. Red or Green?

10. If you are uncertain, ask for Christmas

11. My questions What is the nature of the cultural ownership of the story? Are there rules in interpretation of a beloved folktale? What voice do the cultural stakeholders have in the project? When does collaboration become collision?

14. The formula The Children The Story The Music The Culture

15. JOHN DONALD ROBB

16. Robb Musical Trust Archives

18. Children’s singing games allow a more profound insight than anything else into the primeval age of folk music. Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song. ….

19. Chimayo, NM Today

20. The Holy Boy

21. Santo Nino and Children’s Shoes

22. Every Child Who Wishes to Sing is Welcome

23. Debut Performance of UNM Children’s Chorus 2007 (21 children) Laughing Song by John Helgen, Text by Robert Blake