Art Spark Texas: Artist of the Month: (Oct. 1, 2020).
1910 and the Making of a Border Hero: Jacinto Treviño: Museum of South Texas History. (June 14, 2020).
Speaker, TEDx Mountain View College, Dallas, TX (Feb. 6, 2020).
The Valley’s 1933 Labor Day Hurricane and WWII: Museum of South Texas History. (Nov. 24, 2019).
“The Hunger: Cause & Effect” @ Talleres Huitilopochtli, Dustin Michael Sekula Library, Edinburg, TX (Aug. 1, 2019).
“Tapping Into Creativity” @ Talleres Huitilopochtli, UTRGV Continuing Education, McAllen, TX (July 6, 2019).
Guest Author, Texas Library Association, San Antonio, TX (March 2017).
Guest Lecture/Reading: English 4338, "Teaching Secondary School Literature," UT-Rio Grande Valley (July 25, 2016.)
First-Ever Guest Author (reading/Q&A) at the J.E. & L.E. Mabee Library, Special Collections: University of the Incarnate Word University (May 10, 2012.)
Featured Reader, Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Webster, TX (July 2010).
Featured reader, storyteller’s tent, FESTIBA Book Festival, UT-Pan American, Edinburg, TX
(2010).
An Evening With The Poet Mariachi: Guadalupe Regional Middle School, Brownsville (Nov. 21, 2009)
Meet The Author/Día de los Muértos Reading, Heights Books-Libros, Houston, TX (Nov. 7, 2009).
Featured Reader, Dallas International Book Fair, with José José, Lucy Hurston, et.al., Dallas Public Library, Dallas, TX (Oct. 29—31, 2009).
Featured Reader, Festival de Letra y Música, with José José, Arnulfo Vigíl, et. al., Dallas, TX (Oct. 30—31, 2009).
“Border Experiences,” grant participant in Texas Latino Voices, by invitation from the Texas Center For The Book, Beaumont Public Library, Beaumont, TX (Oct. 10, 2009).
Guest Speaker at Dr. Luz Murillo’s Bilingual Education class, UT-Pan American, Edinburg, TX (July 6, 2009).
Featured Reader, South Texas College presents The Poet Mariachi, Rio Grande City, Mid Valley Campus, Pecan Campus (July 15—17, 2008).
Featured reader, storyteller’s tent, FESTIBA Book Festival, UT-Pan American, Edinburg, TX (2008.)
Meet The Author Night at Hastings Entertainment Bookstore, McAllen, TX (Oct. 27, 2007.)
Hispanic Heritage Month Featured Reading by Daniel García Ordaz, a.k.a. The Poet Mariachi, at the Dustin Michael Sekula Memorial Library, Edinburg, TX (Sept. 27, 2007.)
Teen Poetry Night featuring Daniel García Ordaz, a.k.a. The Poet Mariachi, at Speer Memorial Public Library, Mission, TX (Sept. 20, 2007.)
Featured Reader, Resistencia Bookstore, Austin International Poetry Festival, Austin, TX (Apr. 2007.)
Featured reader, storyteller’s tent, FESTIBA Book Festival, UT-Pan American, Edinburg, TX (2007.)
Featured Reader. UT-Pan American Summer Creative Writing Institute, with Thomas Centonella (June 13, 2007.)
