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Teatro Paraguas: ‘Don’t Call Me Young Lady’ One Woman Stand Up With Carolyn Meyer Jan. 19 & 26

Storyteller and comedian Carolyn Meyer. Courtesy photo
 
TEATRO PARAGUAS News:
 
A silver-haired woman walks into a bar. The bartender asks, “What can I get for you, young lady?”
 
Thus begins Don’t Call Me Young Lady!, Carolyn Meyer’s story of how she, the author of more than 60 children’s books, steps out of her comfort zone at the age of 80 and into an improv comedy class, goes on to test the murky waters of standup, and ultimately finds a new career as a storyteller and comedian. 
 
Through multiple scenes she leads the audience through seven decades—as the lonely
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Santa Fe Desert Chorale Announces Appointment Of Emma M. Marzen As New Executive Director

Emma M. Marzen
 
SFDC News:
 
SANTA FE — Santa Fe Desert Chorale Board President Patricia Stanley has announced the appointment of Emma M. Marzen as executive director, effective Jan. 16, 2020.
 
Marzen succeeds Janice L. Mayer who has served as the Chorale’s executive director since June of 2015. The Board of Directors said it is deeply grateful for Mayer’s leadership and dedication to SFDC over the past five years.

“We celebrate the homecoming of Emma Marzen as she returns to lead the Desert Chorale family,” Stanley said. Having already contributed tremendously to the Chorale’s Read More

Trisha Ancell Wins Los Alamos Daily Post 3rd Quarter Photo Contest With Colorful Hummingbird Depiction

Los Alamos Arts Council Executive Director Chris Montieth, left, presents a $100 check recently to Trisha Ancell, the third quarter winner of the Los Alamos Daily Post Photography Contest. The Post Photography Contest began when Robert and Ann Wells of Los Alamos established a fund in 2017 at the Los Alamos Arts Council, whose purpose is to award a prize of $100 to the photographer who submits the best photo of the quarter, published as a Daily Postcard in the Los Alamos Daily Post. ‘We have been impressed by the steady development of the Los Alamos Daily Post as a comprehensive community Read More

LAMS Students Gather At Reel Deal For Jumanji

More than 200 Los Alamos Middle School students gather today at the Reel Deal Movie Theater to watch Jumanji after their last day of school before the winter break. Photo by Jim O’Donnell
 
Nicole Sutherland keeps watch on a mountain of backpacks for the students. Photo by Jim O’Donnell
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County Streetlights Off For Farolito Viewing Dec. 24-25

Various local streetlights will be turned off Dec. 24-25 to enhance the viewing of holiday farolitos. Courtesy/NHCC
 
COUNTY News:
 
The Los Alamos County Traffic & Streets Division will be turning off the power to various streetlights to enhance the viewing of holiday farolitos.
 
The streetlights will be turned off Tuesday, Dec. 24 and will be restored Thursday, Dec. 26.
 
For safety purposes, the Traffic & Streets Division requests that all vehicles and trailers be moved to off street parking during the full period that lights will be off. If this is not possible,
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UbiQD Hosts 2019 Ugly Sweater Christmas Party … Applied Physics Director Nikolay Makarov Wins Honor

UbiQD Founder and CEO Hunter McDaniel, standing on chair, announces that Applied Physics Director Nikolay Makarov wins the ugliest sweater award during the company’s 3rd annual Ugly Sweater Party Tuesday evening at Bathtub Row Brewing Co-op in Central Park Square. UbiQD is headquartered at 134 Eastgate Dr. in Los Alamos Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Hunter McDaniel announces that his wife Lauren McDaniel is the runner up in the ugliest sweater contest Tuesday evening during the company’s Ugly Sweater Party. The couple’s 9-month-old daughter Sophie appears Read More

Los Alamos Middle School Ornaments Showcased In President’s Park Across From White House

Los Alamos Middle School seventh-grader Lynzee Clay, whose ornament was selected along with 23 others to be displayed on a Christmas tree across from the White House, traveled to Washington, D.C. with her father Marc Clay recently to check out the display. Photo by Marc Clay

LAMS students made nichos boxes for their ornaments, which include paper folding, watercolors, collages and drawings. Photo by Marc Clay 

 
By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailypost.com

Trees and ornaments representing all 50 U.S. states, five territories and the District of Columbia are Read More

Canes Of Power Film Screening At MIAC Jan. 19

Grouping of Canes. Courtesy/Silver Bullet Productions
 
MIAC News:
 
SANTA FE The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) announces a screening of the award-winning documentary, Canes of Power, at 1 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020.
 
The screening will be presented inside MIAC’s Kathryn O’Keeffe Theatre. 
 
Following the film, a Q&A session will be led by Dr. Matthew Martinez, MIAC’s deputy director, and associate producer of the film.
 
Canes of Power, narrated by Cherokee Actor Wes Studi – a recent Academy Award recipient – is the story of President Abraham
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PAC 8 Offers Stop Motion Animation Classes In January

Los Alamos High School senior Allegra Dougherty will teach stop motion animation for students aged 9-12 years in Jnauary. Courtesy/PAC 8

PAC 8 News:

PAC 8 will be offering classes in stop motion animation for students aged 9-12 years 2-4 p.m. Wednesdays in January.

Stop motion is an animated filmmaking technique in which objects are moved in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they will appear to exhibit motion when the series of frames is played back.

Students will be learning Dragonframe software, a program used in the making of “Coraline” and “Shaun the Sheep”. Read More

Taos Chamber Music Group Hosts Chatter Jan. 11-12

Albuquerque native, violinist and conductor David Felberg is artistic director and co-founder of Chatter. He plays a J.B.Vuillaume 1829 violin. Courtesy/TCMG

TCMG News:

The Taos Chamber Music Group launches the New Year when it brings Chatter to the Harwood Museum in Taos at 5:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 11-12.

The popular series format includes music, poetry and two minutes of silence and will feature compelling compositions by Pulitzer-prize winners Carolyn Shaw, John Luther Adams and John Coolidge Adams with poetry by Ariana Kramer.

Albuquerque native, violinist and conductor Read More

Scenes From 2019 Luminaria Walk At Stables Sunday

The Annual North Mesa Stables Luminaria Walk Sunday evening featured to the delight of young and old, a quiet walk through of the stables open house, campfires (‘luminarias]), and plenty of s’mores and opportunities to interact with horses, goats, sheep, cows and other stable animals. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

Scene Sunday evening from the Annual North Mesa Stables Luminaria Walk. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

Scene Sunday evening from the Annual North Mesa Stables Luminaria Walk. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

Scene Sunday evening from the Annual North Mesa Read More

LACF Announces Creation Of Rosalie Heller Annual Memorial Lecture Endowment Fund

Rosalie Heller. Courtesy/LACF

LACF News:

The Los Alamos Community Foundation announces the creation of the Rosalie Heller Annual Memorial Lecture Endowment Fund to financially help support the lecture series held annually by the Los Alamos Arts Council.

“To honor the many contributions Rosalie made to life in Los Alamos, most especially in music, I created the Rosalie Heller Annual Memorial Lecture Fund,” Rosalie’s husband Leon Heller said. “Its purpose is to help finance the lecture series with the same name held under the auspices of the Los Alamos Arts Council.”

To help launch the fund, Read More

International Holocaust Remembrance Day Jan. 27

Martin Schoeller, left, with Yad Vashem Chair Avner Shalev have embarked on a commemorative project to mark 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz. As Holocaust survivors continue to age, this may be one of the last opportunities to record their images. Courtesy/YV

Yad Vashem News:

Throughout 2020, the world will be marking the 75th anniversary to the end of World War II. Starting Jan. 27, 2020, which is the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, perhaps one of the most iconic symbols of the Holocaust, Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center will be involved Read More

Jeff Moore Wins Los Alamos Daily Post 2nd Quarter Photo Contest With Iris Blooming On Cerro Grande Trail

Los Alamos Arts Council Executive Director Chris Montieth presents a $100 check recently to Jeff Moore, the second quarter winner of the Los Alamos Daily Post Photography Contest. Moore is pastor of La Vista Church of the Nazarene in White Rock. The Post Photography Contest began when Robert and Ann Wells of Los Alamos established a fund in 2017 at the Los Alamos Arts Council, whose purpose is to award a prize of $100 to the photographer who submits the best photo of the quarter, published as a Daily Postcard in the Los Alamos Daily Post. ‘We have been impressed by the steady development of the Los Alamos Read More

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