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Name: Carlos Contreras Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico Topics: Art, Poetry, Albuquerque, Collaboration, Economic Development Quote: “Get out and experience your city! Plug yourself into an art scene. You don’t have to be an artist to benefit from it. It’s healing in all ways.” My name is Carlos Contreras. I was born and raised here in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I’m a son of two amazing parents, and one of three sons. I’m 32 years old.
I have a daughter now. I’m a full-time working person in Albuquerque; a poet, an artist, and a human being. I always say that, so that’s crazy that Humans of New Mexico and I have found each other. I just work to make this a city where I want to live because I am not going anywhere. I joke – I was born here and I will die here! If that’s the case, then I definitely want to enjoy that time here. Albuquerque is interesting, it’s not like any other place I have been, so growing up I didn’t leave a lot until I was like 17 years old.
I really had not been out of Albuquerque. Finding poetry and the poetry slam world, competitive slam poetry actually put me on the road.
Getting on that road, I realized how special Albuquerque was. We might not have a lot of things and sometimes people try to find all the bad things and say what we don’t have. Going on the road reminded me of all the good things I had to come to. Albuquerque is a place where I love to leave a lot, but it’s always a place I like to come back to.
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In high school, I found the competitive slam poetry scene by way of a librarian in Menaul School. She was a competitive slam poet and I went to school there.
I took an extra curricular course and the rest is kind of history. That speaks to the strength in the poetry community in Albuquerque. At 17 years old I wanted a place to be and they created on. So, 15 years from that it’s a responsibility that I take very seriously in creating that experience, that space for young people, for adults, for all communities in general. Everybody that I know about in my family was born and raised here in Albuquerque. Maybe that’s why I’m so tied to it.
We are generations deep. A lot of the stuff I do comes out generations deep. Rest the souls that are no longer with us, they use to show up. It’s a place that is very prideful; it’s very proud of who it is, if you come from here you are expected to be proud of where you are from. There’s some dissonance in that. There’s some interesting texture and nature to that, because not everything we have is a whole lot.
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Albuquerque is a place where I think people learn to be resilient, resourceful, helpful, humble, and grateful. And if you don’t it chews you out and spits you out. It will send you somewhere else. If you come here and you have those ideals and bind to them, it will hug you and embrace you just the same. I dabble in visual arts and I was playing with merchandise and clothing really early on at 17 years old, branding stuff.
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Became the brand and I built it into a lifestyle brand; a personal brand, and a community events and engagement thing. So really, Immastar is what people want it to be and it’s really one of those things that everyone should be able to feel like a star.
Juan Carlos Contreras
Everyone should say that once in their life, whether they are an amazing chef or a mechanic or a mother or a father, whatever it is they are a star of something they do. That’s the pitch, it’s not about being a poet or a graffiti writer or a Hip-Hop artist or any of those things in some of those things I dabble in, but it’s really about being the best you can be and whatever that is. Immastar productions certainly supports that. It supports incredible people and organizations and doing things in community. “I’ll Drink To That” is a variety show that aims to poets, musicians, comedians, and artists of all kinds in the same building. Really it parades as a show and an event but it’s really a networking event that cross pollinates crowds on a Sunday. It’s traditionally not a day in which artists gig on.