The fifty-third annual RMMLA convention will be held 14–16 October 1999 at the Courtyard Marriott Hotel in Santa Fe. Santa Fe Community College and Saint John's College of Santa Fe are the local hosts. Susana Hernandez-Araico (California State Polytechnic Univ.) will speak at the Friday evening banquet on the topic Colonial and Indigenous Theater in Spain's American Viceroyalties. Michael Pavel (Washington State Univ.), a member of the Spokane Indian Nation, will discuss developing outreach to Native American youth. A reading by local writers Miriam Sagan and Arthur Sze will take place at the SFCC Planetarium. Also scheduled are presentations by TIAA-CREF and the Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program, panels on grant writing and scholarly publishing, a preconvention workshop on educational technology, and a raffle of local goods and services benefiting the RMMLA Grant and Scholarship Fund. The schedule of sessions and abstracts of papers can be found on the RMMLA.