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Scenes From Thursday’s VIP Tour Of Buffalo Thunder

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 24, 2016
Guests mingle in the Governor’s Suite during a VIP tour Thursday evening at Buffalo Thunder Hotel and Spa. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Director of Sales and Marketing Christie Windle with guests at the VIP Reception in the Governor’s Suite Thursday at Buffalo Thunder. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Buffalo Thunder Director of Catering Peter Lovato and Los Alamos Medical Center Marketing Director Mary Beth Maassen under a festive light-decked canopy set up in a ballroom at the resort during Thursday’s VIP Tour. Photo by Carol
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Chamisa Elementary Student Emma Raven Wins Youth Art Month Flag Contest

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 24, 2016
Chamisa sixth grade student Emma Raven with her winning poster. Courtesy photo
 
LAPS News:

The fifth and sixth graders at Chamisa Elementary participated in the Youth Art Month Flag Contest in December. Three of the posters were sent to the New Mexico Art Education Association and the Council for Art Education.

“The decision to choose only three was difficult as many of these students did an awesome job with their posters,” Chamisa Art Teacher Renee Mitsunaga said. “As we celebrate the work of Emma Raven, sixth grader at Chamisa, we want to also recognize all of the students. Read More

February Events At New Mexico History Museum

Submitted by Chris Clark on January 23, 2016
Courtesy/NMMA
 
NMMA News:
 
SANTA FE — Doth thou love William Shakespeare? Then February’s your month. The New Mexico Museum of Art features First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare, in collaboration with the New Mexico History Museum’s The Book’s the Thing: Shakespeare from Stage to Page. Come throughout the month to each museum for lectures, performances, hands-on art activities and more.
 
Here are ways we’ll help you fall in love with history this February, including a few non-Shakespearean ones:
 
5–7 p.m., Friday, Feb. 5:
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‘Swerving’ Performance 12:45 p.m. Wednesday Jan. 27

Submitted by Chris Clark on January 22, 2016
Actors John Gustafson and Caroline Evarts in a scene from SWERVING. Photo by Larry Gibbons 
 
COMMUNITY News:
 
The Los Alamos Senior Centers are hosting two free performances of a brief play, SWERVING, written by Robert F. Benjamin. 
 
It is being performed as a “concert reading” by Caroline (“Pip”) Evarts and John Gustafson, with Sally Cassil narrating. SWERVING premiered during the 2015 8×10 Short-Play Festival at Los Alamos Little Theatre. Performances at senior centers this month
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Artists Of Figurative Painting Expressing Content And Addressing Contemporary Issues

Submitted by Chris Clark on January 22, 2016
 
ART News:
 
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. has releases its newest fine art title, Bodies of Work—Contemporary Figurative Painting by Lauren P. Della Monica.
 
Human forms can be intensely intimate or broadly universal. Here, figurative artists use the human form as a tool to express varied content and contemporary issues. These paintings depict our feelings and sentiments, our sense of belonging to a larger community in the contemporary world, while capturing the impulses behind the range of figuration presented by today’s contemporary international artists.
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Letter To The Editor: Music Teachers Give Thanks

Submitted by Chris Clark on January 22, 2016
By LAPS MUSIC TEAM
Los Alamos
 
Have you ever enjoyed listening to the marching band at a parade and watching the drumline cadence by?
 
Maybe you’ve been to a football game and seen the marching band sousaphones or the xylophones entertaining the crowd? Or perhaps you’ve been to an elementary music performance and seen your child or grandchild singing from the risers? Possibly your child is a cellist and is able to use a cello at school – eliminating the need to haul one from home.
 
All of these musical supplies – drums, sousaphones, xylophones, cellos,
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LACS And LASO Present Brahms Concert Jan. 23

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 21, 2016
By CHARMIAN SCHALLER
Los Alamos

When the Los Alamos Choral Society and the Los Alamos Symphony Orchestra present Johannes Brahms’ Requiem on Saturday, their performance will be the culmination of hundreds of hours of practice.

Approximately 45 singers and 43 orchestra members will be part of the performance. Those singing have been learningthe 95-page work since early September, practicing together for two hours every Tuesday night. In the two weeks before the concert, they participated in several two-hour rehearsals with the orchestra, which had been practicing the complex music since Read More

Medieval To Metal: Art & Evolution Of Guitar Feb. 5

Submitted by Chris Clark on January 20, 2016
ART News:
 
SANTA FE — Medieval to Metal: The Art and Evolution of the Guitar opens at the New Mexico Museum of Art with a free public reception from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Feb. 5.
 
The exhibition examines the craftsmanship, design, and history of this popular musical instrument.
 
Medieval to Metal is a companion exhibition to two others opening the same evening at the New Mexico Museum of Art, First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare and Stage, Setting, Mood: Theatricality in the Visual Arts. Together, these three
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Watoto Children’s Choir Performs At Crossroads Bible Church 6:30 p.m. Thursday

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 18, 2016

Courtesy image

COMMUNITY News:

The Watoto Children’s Choir traveling from Africa is thrilled to present a brand new choir production entitled “Oh What Love” at 6:30 p.m., Thursday at Crossroads Bible Church, 97 East Road in Los Alamos.

The group’s tour began in Norway in September of 2015 and traveled around Scandinavia for three months, before arriving in Phoenix, Ariz., Dec. 6, where they began a four month tour visiting several states throughout the West Costal region of the U.S.

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African Wildlife Presentation At Nature Center: Expedition To Masai Mara

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 18, 2016

Wildebeests at sunset on the plains of the Masai Mara in Kenya. Courtesy/PEEC

PEEC News:

Learn more about African birds and large mammals at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 19 in the Los Alamos Nature Center Planetarium, the Walkers and Coopers will share their photographs and stories from their trip to the Masai Mara in Kenya.

During their 10-day stay at two upscale tent camps, they encountered and photographed more than a hundred species of birds and 25 species of large mammals. They witnessed several river-crossing events and learned more about the plains ecosystem and the culture of the native Masai Read More

Youth Mobilizers Screens ‘Race To Nowhere’ For Teens

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 17, 2016

LATC News:

Youth Mobilizers from the Los Alamos Teen Center (LATC), which is run by the Y and funded through Los Alamos County, are slated to show the documentary film “Race to Nowhere” to their fellow teens at 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 21 and 3 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 26 at  the teen center, 20th Street and Central Avenue.

“Youth Mobilizers are young people who choose issues that affect their schools or communities and do the necessary research to present to school boards, town councils, and other government entities, with a view to solving problems,” Coordinator Maire O’Neill said.

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