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Santa Fe Opera Announces 78 Members Of 2019 Season Apprentice Program For Theater Technicians

The 78 members recently selected for the Santa Fe Opera 2019 Season Apprentice Program for Theater Technicians. Courtesy/SFO
 
SFO News:
 
SANTA FE — The Santa Fe Opera has announced the 78 members of its 2019 Season Apprentice Program for Theater Technicians.
 
This season’s program is comprised of technicians, designers and craftspeople from across New Mexico, the wider United States, South America, England and China.
 
The 78 individuals were selected from a pool of more than 900 applicants through a competitive screening and interview process by the Opera’s Production
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Upstart Crows: And Now For Something Completely Different – Scenes From Shakespeare And Monty Python

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UCSF News:
 
Thirteen young comedy enthusiasts, 8-18, perform scenes from Shakespeare’s plays and sketches from Monty Python’s television series and films.
 
Performances at 7 p.m., Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, July 19, 20, 2 p.m., July 21 at The Swan Theater, 1213b Parkway Drive, Santa Fe.
 
Directed by the International Shakespeare Center’s Artistic Director and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art masters graduate Ariana Karp.
 
Hilarity and fun for the whole family!
 
Tickets $10 at the door or through Brown
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Gallery Talk At Mesa Public Library Thursday

LIBRARY News:

Mesa Public Library’s Upstairs Art Gallery will host a gallery talk 6-8 p.m., Thursday, featuring several of the photographers showing work in the “So Far From Heaven” exhibit, which hangs in the Gallery until Saturday.

David Halpern, Wendy Young, Kirk Gittings and Jan Pietrzak will talk about their work and answer questions about both their processes and their inspirations.

Halpern has created a series of photographs showing Colorado’s Black Canyon of the Gunnison, following years of on-site photography. He has been an artist-in residence at the Black Canyon and several Read More

Los Alamos Makerspace Launches New Training, Collaboration And Hiring (MaTCH) Pilot

Alexandra De Lucia, a gifted LANL post-baccalaureate intern, learning how to solder and taking a stab at building hardware at the local makerspace. De Lucia researches machine learning-based monitoring tools on the LANL High Performance Computing Design team. She has been a seasonal volunteer with Los Alamos Makers since the summer of 2017. At that time, she mentored teens during the summer Coder Dojo. She has come back this year and led a weekly Python Club for teens and adults. Next year, she will study natural language processing, as a PhD student at Johns Hopkins Read More

Artists; Contributors Named For 2019 Governor’s Awards For Excellence And Lifetime Achievement

Nicolas Otero, Los Lunas artist, retablo Santo Nino de Atocha. Courtesy photo
 
Roxanne Swentzell, Santa Clara Pueblo artist, clay scultpure, Special Girl. Courtesy photo
 
NMA News:
 
SANTA FE Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and the New Mexico Arts Commission announced Thursday the artists and major contributors to the arts who will be recipients of the 2019 Annual Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts.
 
“Art is intimately woven into the fabric of our great state,” Gov. Lujan Grisham said. “Artists uplift us, inspire us and tell the stories that define us. I’m humbled
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Upcoming Santa Fe Summer Shakespeare Events

 
SFSS News:
 
Here’s what’s happening this weekend and next during the Santa Fe Summer Shakespeare festival—a staged reading of a new play based on Henry the Fourth; an open rehearsal; editing Shakespeare; and of course the ongoing community readings out loud.
 
Courage! To The Field!
7 p.m., Sunday, June 23
 
Courage! To the Field! is a new play written by Else C. Went.
 
Directed by Ariana Karp.
 
Courage! To The Field! is an alternate-history play, a good old-fashioned party, and a story told with music. As brand-new characters and old favorites alike bump up
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Human Rights Day Camp For Kids July 1-19

Moving Arts Española News:

ESPAÑOLA––Kids and youth from across the Española Valley will converge for a Human Rights Day Camp at La Tierra Montessori School this summer to learn about their own human rights.

“Less than 1 percent of juveniles throughout the world know anything about their human rights and neither public nor private schools are doing much to rectify the situation. This is a major reason current human rights abuses against children have reached an all-time high.” –Kids for Global Peace

In a move toward promoting self-advocacy and empowering the youth of Española Valley, Moving Read More

Daily Postcard: Cactus Blooms On Bandeliers Frey Trail

Daily Postcard: A prickly pear cactus blooms along the Frey Trail in Bandelier. The trail begins at Juniper Campground and makes its way to the edge of the canyon where it switchbacks down to the canyon floor (>550′ elevation change), and provides excellent bird’s eye views of Tyuonyi as well as a foot route from the campground to the visitor center. The Frey Trail was resurfaced in 2018 from where it enters Frijoles Canyon, to where it joins the Main Loop Trail. A somewhat strenuous trail at any time, it can be exceedingly hot and difficult in summer as there is little shelter from Read More

State Pays Down $100 Million In Film Credit Backlog

NMED News:
 
SANTA FE By the end of last week, the New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department had paid out nearly $100 million in backlogged film credits for about 100 film and television shows produced in the state over the past several years that were allowed to build up by the prior state administration.
 
Another $95 million is available to be paid out over the coming fiscal year to productions that have completed filming as part of the new administration’s efforts to clear the backlog and ensure sound footing for the film and television industry in the state into the future.
 
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Scenes From Manzanares Show At Summer Concert

Manzanares wows the crowd during the Friday night Secret City Summer Concert at Ashley Pond Park. Manzanares is lead by brothers David and Michael Manzanares and features the virtuosic rhythms of their Latin/Worldbeat band. David and Michael grew up in Abiquiu, according to a press release and their Nuevo Latino style delivers an aggressive approach to the very danceable Rumba Flamenca style mixed with exotic, progressive blends of Latin and Afro-Cuban rhythms. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

Scene from the Friday night concert. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

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Los Alamos Big Band & Swing Shift Santa Fe Hold 2nd Big Band Bash At Betty Ehart Senior Center Sunday

Los Alamos Big Band performs in September 2018 at Fuller Lodge. Courtesy/LABB

Los Alamos Big Band News:

The Los Alamos Big Band and Swing Shift Santa Fe are excited to hold the second annual Big Band Bash, 3-5 p.m. Sunday, June 23, at the Betty Ehart Senior Center in Los Alamos.

Admission is free and dancing is encouraged.

This is the second time that these bands have gotten together to share the great swing music of the 30s, 40s, 50s and beyond with big band fans and dancers. Read More

Local Actress Nora Cullinan On Broadway Monday!

Los Alamos actress Nora Cullinan will perform on the Broadway stage Monday, June 24 in the Jimmy Awards. Courtesy photo
 
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post
bjgordon@ladailypost.com
 
Los Alamos actress Nora Cullinan bested 10 other New Mexico female high school students for the title of Best Actress in the Enchantment Awards May 4 at Popejoy Hall in Albuquerque, winning the opportunity to work with Broadway professionals and perform on a Broadway stage in the Jimmy Awards® in New York City.
The National High School Musical Theatre Awards® (NHSMTA®) program impacts more than
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Scenes From Pre-Concert Fun Friday At Ashley Pond

Concertgoers pack the lawn for the opening acts at the Secret City Summer Concert Friday at the Ashley Pond Park Pavilion. Enterprise Bank & Trust sponsored the evening’s entertainment. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
The fabulous Chamber Director Ryn Herrmann, left, and the amazing Liddie Martinez, Los Alamos Market President of Enterprise Bank & Trust, which sponsored Friday’s concert, are spotted partying with Sammy Davis Junior at the bank’s pre-concert picnic. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Fresh from a week at
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Bring Out Your Manhattan Project Era Cars To Main Gate Park Saturday, July 13 For 2019 ScienceFest!

Courtesy/Chamber

 

Courtesy/Chamber

 

CHAMBER News:

 

All year long thousands of visitors take photos in front of the façade at Main Gate Park at the entrance to Los Alamos. But only once a year is the complete photo-op available with the car parked in front, just like in the iconic photo.

 

It’s become a ScienceFest tradition to have Ken Uher park his 1939 Buick convertible in front of the Main Gate façade at Main Gate Park on the Saturday of ScienceFest. This year, Los Alamos MainStreet would like to invite anyone with a Manhattan Project Era car to join him.

 

While the Read More

Scenes From Summer Solstice Festival At Pajarito

Scene from the Summer Solstice Festival 4-8 p.m. today at Pajarito Mountain Ski Area. The event is part of the Los Alamos County’s 100 Days of Summer promotion and included lift-served biking and hiking, live music from Eddie and the Nomads and beer from Bathtub Row Brewing Co-op. Photo by Robert McClees MD

Scene from the Summer Solstice Festival 4-8 p.m. today at Pajarito Mountain Ski Area. Photo by Robert McClees MD

Attending the Summer Solstice Festival today, from left, Sheila McClees, Ethan Aulwes and Natalie Aulwes at Pajarito Mountain Ski Area. Photo by Robert McClees MD

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