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Bandelier: Free Entrance Launches National Park Week And Art Exhibit Opening At Fire Tower April 21

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on April 20, 2018
Tyuonyi Pueblo in Frijoles Canyon, Bandelier National Monument, Historic Fire Tower. Courtesy/NPS
 
BANDELIER News:
 
Bandelier announces that entrance fees will not be collected this Saturday, April 21, to kick off National Park Week. 
 
According to Superintendent Jason Lott, “It’s a great time to visit Bandelier before temperatures and visitation rise.” Bandelier provides opportunities for short walks to see archaeological sites, long hikes out into the Bandelier Wilderness, bird watching, taking photos of plants,
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Espanola Valley Fiber Arts Center Hosts Fiber Crawl

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on April 20, 2018
Scene from a past New Mexico Fiber Crawl. Courtesy photo
 
Scene from a past New Mexico Fiber Crawl. Courtesy photo
 
 
EVFAC News:
 
The Espanola Valley Fiber Arts Center (EVFAC) has partnered with local artists, businesses, and cultural centers to open doors for the public to learn and experience the fiber arts for free 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., May 18-20, in the Second Annual New Mexico Fiber Crawl across northern New Mexico.
 
The event is open to anyone, and with a free 2018 New Mexico Fiber Crawl Passport participants can tour the many local artists’ studios, retail shops,
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Make It @ The Library Tuesday

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on April 20, 2018

Melissa Mackey demonstrates a crafts technique for rolling recycled paper into small tube shapes for use in crafts. Photo by Katy Korkos

Sample crafts made for Tuesday’s class at the library. Photo by Katy Korkos

 

LIBRARY News:

The Library has a new program designed to get people started with crafts, with no prior experience needed. The second class in the series “Make It @ the Library” is 5:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Zone at Mesa Public Library, 2400 Central Ave. Everyone who attends will learn a new technique for crafting with paper and will complete a project in one evening.

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LANL’s Ian Tregillis: Master Of Alternate Worlds

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on April 19, 2018

Ian Tregillis is physicist by day and novelist at night. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Laboratory physicist Ian Tregillis, of the Plasma Theory and Applications group, spends his work days on physics validation of the models in simulation codes. Nights and weekends, he invents his own.

Tregillis writes category-bending science-fiction/fantasy novels. His Milkweed Triptych series veers into alternate World War II history, with magic and superhumans. His “angel noir” novel, Something More Than Night, slips through the literary looking glass, imagining a 1940s gumshoe detective solving Read More

LANL: Student Teams Showcase Computing Projects

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on April 19, 2018

More than 200 New Mexico students and teachers will come together April 23-24 at Los Alamos National Laboratory to showcase their computing research projects. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • The Supercomputing Challenge is project-based learning geared to teaching a wide range of skills including computational thinking and computer programming.

More than 200 New Mexico students and their teachers will come together April 23-24 at Los Alamos National Laboratory to showcase their computing research projects at the 28th annual New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge expo and awards ceremony. Read More

National Parks Adventure Premieres On PEEC’s New Planetarium Projector April 21

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on April 19, 2018
Courtesy/PEEC
 
PEEC News:
 
The Los Alamos Nature Center is bringing the National Parks Adventure to its planetarium at 2 p.m., April 21 after the Earth Day festival and will be the first full-dome film to be shown on the new planetarium projector.
 
The power of America’s national parks is undeniable. Millions have packed up the family to hike through impossibly lush forests, to gaze upon towering cliffs and deep-plunging canyons, to witness the breathtaking arcs of natural history, and, to share moments of wonder amid the protected treasures of this land.
 
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Kala Vandana Dance Performance April 22

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on April 19, 2018
 
ART News:
 
The Community is invited to a free showcase of Bharatanatyam – an East Indian classical dance form at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, April 22 at the New Beginnings Fellowship Church.
 
The performance is expected to last about an hour Bharatanatyam is a classical dance form considered to be almost 2000 years old. The dancers in traditional costumes and jewellery communicate the story through facial expressions, neck and eye movements, interpretive hand gestures and intricate footwork set to music and a specific set of rhythmic beats. The stories are often drawn from
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Los Alamos ScienceFest Discovery Day Exhibitors Register Free Until May 31

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on April 19, 2018
Scence from a ScienceFest day with attendees enjoying STEAM-related exhibits. Courtesy photo
 
Scence from a ScienceFest day of a STEAM exhibitor talking with a young attendee. Courtesy photo
 
SCIENCEFEST News:
 
Each year, thousands flock to Los Alamos for the three-time award-winning ScienceFest, which celebrates New Mexico’s past and present contributions to science and fosters science curiosity for future generations.
 
This year’s event is sponsored by New Mexico Magazine and runs July 11-15 with a “Science Rules in Los Alamos” theme.
 
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Locally Celebrated Pianist Performs Brown Bag Concert

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on April 19, 2018
Pianist Charles Lieou peforms May 2 at Fuller Lodge. Courtesy photo
 

LAAC News:

Local pianist and scientist Charles Lieou will perform a varied program of Classical and Romantic music for solo piano noon May 2 at Fuller Lodge. The concert is free.

The program will include music of Mozart, Ravel and Brahms.

Lieou is a native of Hong Kong and a postdoctoral research associate at Los Alamos National Laboratory. While pursuing his PhD in physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, between 2010 and 2015, he simultaneously studied piano with Charles Asche at the UCSB Music Department. Read More

Spring Fling For Pianists At UNM-LA Sunday

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on April 18, 2018

Performers in the Feb. 22 Musicale, front row from left, Henry Gans, Lenny Svyatsky, John Kang, Gala Nelson, Anna Simikov and Emily Xu. Back row from left, Daniel Kim, Karin Eby, Philip Ionkov, Jack Ammerman, Evan Strohmeyer, Philippa Fung, Betty Kang and Yunseo Kim. Courtesy photo

 
COMMUNITY News:

The UNM-LA Campus continues its ongoing mission of Community Outreach and Service through their sponsorship of the Sunday Musicale Recital Series, presented at 2 p.m. this Sunday, April 22, by students of teachers in the Los Alamos Music Teachers Association (LAMTA).

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Jemez Springs Hosts Earth Day Cleanup Event, Evening Star Party April 21

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on April 18, 2018
JEMEZ SPRINGS News:
 
In honor of Earth Day, Jemez Sustainable Solutions in Jemez Springs, New Mexico is hosting its annual cleanup event 9 a.m. to noon, April 21, along the Jemez Mountain Scenic Byway, and invites the public to participate.
 
That evening at 8 p.m., the Village in cooperation with the Pajarito Astronomy Club will host the Village’s first star party in years. The day time clean up event will take place between the Trail House in Cañon, NM at mile marker nine – along the Jemez Mountain Scenic Byway – and continue past Jemez Springs to La Cueva,
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Topper Revue 2018: The Eastons April 26, 27, 28

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on April 18, 2018
 
 
LAHS News:
 
Have you ever wanted to attend the Oscars? Well we’ve got the next best thing. Come see the Los Alamos High School 2018 Production of Topper Revue: The Easton Awards! 
 
It’s just like the Oscars, but you get to decide who’s the best host (and, obviously, there’s better talent).
 
Performances are 7 p.m., April 26, 27 and 28 in the new and improved Duane Smith Auditorium. Tickets are $7 for students and seniors, $10 for adults, and $5 for children under 5.
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Celebrate ‘2018 Spring Festival Of The Arts’

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on April 18, 2018
MAE News:
 
ESPANOLA — Moving Arts Española (MAE) announces the second event in its ‘Moving Hearts’ 10th Anniversary Performance Series – the 2018 Spring Festival of the Arts.
 
More than 150 young actors, circus artists, dancers, gymnasts, musicians and visual artists ages 3-18 will showcase their talents over three weekend performances in MAE’s beautiful, state-of-the art Moving Arts Performance Center, located on the pueblo of Ohkay Owingeh just north of the Ohkay Casino and Conference Center.
 
Moving Hearts 2018 Gymnastics and Tumbling Showcase
 
  • When:
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Dede Feldman Speaks In Los Alamos April 23

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on April 18, 2018
Dede Feldman
 
VOLA News:
 
Former New Mexico senator, journalist and professor of political sciences Dede Feldman will be the guest speaker at this month’s Voices of Los Alamos progressive advocacy meeting.
 
Feldman’s presentation will be based on her new book, Another Way Forward, which highlights the work of non-profits, social enterprises, and grassroots organizations traveling another route to economic development and healthy communities.
 
This free event is 6:30-7:30 p.m., April 23 at the Unitarian Church, 1738 N. Sage
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Choral Evensong With Visiting Cathedral Choir April 22

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on April 17, 2018

The Cathedral Choir performing in May 2015 in Los Alamos. Courtesy/TOTH

TOTH News:

The 50-strong choir of the Cathedral of St John in Albuquerque will visit Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church in Los Alamos at 5 p.m. Sunday, April 22.

The Cathedral Choir, directed by Maxine Thévenot, with Edmund Connolly on organ, will sing a service of Choral Evensong with the resident Evensong Choir and singers from other parts of Northern New Mexico.  

The Cathedral Choir has toured the US and the UK and made several critically acclaimed recordings. The service, which uses the language of the 1662 prayer Read More

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