Santa Fe Pro Musica Presents ‘A Baroque Christmas’
The organ at the Loretto Chapel, which will be played for ‘A Baroque Christmas.’ Courtesy photoSFPM News:
Santa Fe Pro Musica is pleased to present its beloved holiday tradition A Baroque Christmas featuring the Santa Fe Pro Musica Baroque Ensemble with mezzo-sopranos Deborah Domanski and Drea Pressley (alternating performances) 6-8 p.m. Friday, Dec.19 through Wednesday, Dec. 24 in the historic Loretto Chapel.
Experience the magic of the holidays at Santa Fe Pro Musica’s seasonal favorite A Baroque Christmas, featuring music of Baroque era composers performed on baroque Read More
Chamisa Staff Gets Creative For A Good Cause: Empty Bowls Project
Empty Bowls Project Coordinator Deborah Gill receives a finished bowl from fifth grade teacher David Parsons. Courtesy photo
Chamisa teachers had so many colors to choose from. Courtesy photo
CHAMISA News:
Chamisa Elementary staff gathered Wednesday in the art room to participate in the Empty Bowls Project with coordinator Deborah Gill. Chamisa art teacher, Renee Mitsunaga will hold a second event Dec. 3 for parents.
“We would like to provide our parents an opportunity to show off their creativity for a good cause,” Mitsunaga said.
This service project benefits Self Read More
Olions One Act Plays Preview 7 P.m. Today
Olions members acting in ‘Idiosynchronization’ from left, Leander Murphy, Emma Martens, Lauren Partin, Max Herrmann and Jack Majure-Barkley. Courtesy photo
‘Roll the Dice’ cast members from left, Ryan Gunther, Megan Pimentel, Donald Poston, Marja Graham, Opale Schappert and Rosemary Vigil. Courtesy photoLearn To Capture Autumn Plants And Pods At PEEC’s Art Workshop Series
A drawing and watercolor by Lisa Coddington. Courtesy/PEEC
PEEC News:
PEEC is pleased to welcome back Santa Fe artist Lisa Coddington, for a series of art workshops on capturing the botanical wonders of autumn.
Coddington will lead a drawing workshop Thursday, Dec. 4 and then for those wishing to enhance their drawings with watercolors, there will be a painting workshop Dec. 11. Both classes run 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and are suggested for beginner and intermediate levels.
Autumn seed pods and dried plants offer an interesting stage of plant growth for observational art. These workshops will offer
Small Business Saturday Profile: Fuller Lodge Art Center
Ready to greet shoppers on Small Business Saturday, from left, Fuller Lodge Art Center Executive Director Ken Nebel, Gallery Manager Amy Bjarke and Art Center volunteer Arlene Mansfield. Courtesy photo
BUSINESS News:
Facilitating and supporting creativity in the visual arts since 1977, the Fuller Lodge Art Center’s Affordable Arts Sale is a long-standing tradition in Los Alamos.
Year round the Art Center gallery hosts an average of 100 local and regional artisans. Every November the gallery shop expands to add 30 to 40 artists and take over the entire gallery space. Yearly the Art Center Read More
Small Business Saturday Profile: Village Arts
Kathy Nebel with a masked friend inside Village Arts where preparations are underway for Small Business Saturday. Courtesy photo
BUSINESS News:
Feeding the creative spirit in Los Alamos since 1983, Village Arts has become a staple for most any creative project from the raw materials to getting the finished work presentable and up on the wall.
Village Arts, at 216 DP Road, takes pride in carrying fine arts and crafts supplies as well as school supplies and those hard to find specialty items. Most importantly, Village Arts takes pleasure in framing and preserving memories and masterpieces Read More
Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘Intersteller’
By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB“Interstellar” is an all-engrossing and vastly entertaining Science Fiction film, currently playing at the Reel Deal. Absorbed in it, one doesn’t notice that the film runs as long as two hours and 49 minutes. Writer/producer/director Christopher Nolan opts to keep the story in one piece, unlike many over-edited films today.
“Cooper” (whose first name is never given) is a NASA trained pilot who, after a horrific crash, becomes a farmer. He is raising two kids with the help of his late wife’s father (John Lithgow) in a dystopian future, where history is rewritten Read More
ACCT Presents Willy Wonka Jr. Nov. 21-22
Courtesy/ACCT
ACCT News:
Greetings to you, the lucky finder of this Golden Ticket, from Mr. Willy Wonka! I shake you warmly by the hand! Tremendous things are in store for you! Many wonderful surprises await you!
For now, I do invite you to come to the stage of Smith Auditorium before the show and be my guest for one chocolate bar—you and all others who are lucky enough to find my Golden Tickets. You will be conducted around my chocolate factory, and be shown everything that there is to see.
But this is by no means the most exciting thing that will happen on the day of your visit. I am preparing other surprises Read More
This Week At The Reel Deal
Column By JIM O’DONNELLDue to Thanksgiving week we will be open for additional showtimes so please check our schedule closely.
This Friday we are opening Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, but don’t forget our special showing at 8 p.m. Thursday Nov. 20. Tickets are going quickly.
Movie poster for ‘Mockingjay Part 1’ Courtesy Reel Deal Theater
On Tuesday, Nov. 25, St. Vincent and Interstellar will be leaving to make room for Penguins of Madagascar and Horrible Bosses 2, which both open Wednesday the 26th. We will hold Read More
Piano Students Featured In Recital At Fuller Lodge Sunday
From left, pianists Josh Shevitz, Lily Shevitz and Sruthi Garimella. Courtesy photo MUSIC News:
What does one get when 16 of the finest young pianists in Los Alamos present a public recital? Find out by attending the Musicale Recital at 2 p.m., Sunday at Fuller Lodge for a vibrant mixture or solos, duets and trios spanning all musical style periods from J.S. Bach to the present.
The Sunday Musicales are regular presentations by the Los Alamos Music Teachers Association (LAMTA), presented in fall and spring Read More
New Mexico School for the Arts Hosts Open House for Prospective Students
NMSA News:
New Mexico School for the Arts will hold an Open House for prospective students to the school 1-3 p.m., Dec. 6.
Eighth, 9th and 10th graders interested in learning more about NMSA are encouraged to attend, as well as all current applicants. The event is at New Mexico School for the Arts, 275 E. Alameda Street in Santa Fe.
NMSA provides access to a rigorous mastery arts and academic high school education for youth with passion and aptitude in the arts, leading to post-secondary learning, careers in the arts, and lives that contribute to society. NMSA is a public high school and admission Read More
MOIFA Raises Funds To Restore Giant Giraffe
Sculptor Felipe Archuleta with his giraffe creation, created in 1973. Courtesy photo
MOIFA News:
The Museum of International Folk Art is undertaking the restoration of this giraffe created by sculptor Felipe Archuleta in December of 1973.
Of the many imaginative animals he created (some currently on view at MOIFA in the exhibition Wooden Menagerie: Made in New Mexico) this giraffe is one of his first large-scale exotic animals.
Since its donation to the museum in 1973 by the Atrium Orbis Gallery Corporation of Santa Fe, this magnificent sculpture has brought smiles to thousands of museum Read More
County Prepares Holiday Lights At Ashley Pond
Los Alamos County crews were busy Monday evening preparing the lights in the trees around Ashley Pond for the upcoming holiday season. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
LAAC Holiday Arts And Crafts Fair Saturday
Photo by Jay Sturdevant, a Santa Fe based photographer. Courtesy/LAAC
High fired stoneware created by artist Jarrett West. Courtesy/LAACThe Los Alamos Arts Council’s (LAAC) Holiday Arts and Crafts Fair is getting a bit of a makeover although its new look may seem familiar.
After several years of holding the fair at Crossroads Bible Church, the event is returning to the Los Alamos Middle School, which had hosted the event before construction of the new school began. This year’s arts and crafts fair is 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Saturday. LAAC Executive
Indian Country, The Art Of David Bradley
Harvest Moon, Godzilla vs. Zozobra, 2009, David Bradley, Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 in., Collection of Ed and Pam deZevallos, Houston, Texas.
ART News:
- To be an artist from the Indian world carries with it certain responsibilities… which I do not take lightly.—David Bradley
SANTA FE—David Bradley (b. 1954), Minnesota Chippewa, creates narrative artworks which tell stories and histories not often heard by non-Native people nor understood from a Native American perspective.
Saturated with a powerful Native voice and evocative visual descriptions of Indian experience, Bradley’s Read More
Christmas Arts and Crafts Fair Saturday, Dec. 13
COMMUNITY News:
The Ladies Auxliary is hosting its annual Christmas Arts and Crafts Fair 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13.
The event is in the Parish Hall at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church, 3700 Canyon Road in Los Alamos.
Breakfast and lunch will be available for purchase. Breakfast is a Continental Breakfast and lunch is Green Chile Stew and Posole. This event is a great Christmas shopping opportunity.
For more information, call Gloria Lopez at 505.920.3143. Read More
Friends Of The Shelter At Annual Holiday Arts And Crafts Fair Nov. 22
Scene from previous Holiday Arts and Crafts Fair. Courtesy/Los Alamos Arts Council
FOS News:
Friends of the Shelter (FOS) will be at the Arts Council Holiday Arts and Crafts Fair 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22 at Los Alamos Middle School.
Molly and Maggie are looking for a permanent home. Courtesy/FOS
The Friends of the Shelter 2015 calendars will be available as well as a variety of small craft items including Pet and Petroglyph magnets and Pottery for Pets. Funds from sales enable FOS to improve the lives of shelter animals in northern New Mexico. FOS activities include promoting adoptions, Read More
Preceptor Beta Chapter Creates ‘Frozen’ Themed Christmas Tree
Preceptor Beta Chapter’s ‘Frozen’ themed Christmas Tree is on display at the Betty Ehart Senior Center as part of the Festival of Trees display. Silent auction bids are underway until 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22. Photo by Claire Swinhoe
Photo by Claire Swinhoe
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New Mexico History Museum: Christmas, Fred Harvey, Las Posadas And More
Photo by Hannah Abelbeck
NMHM News:
December events at the New Mexico History Museum begin Friday, Dec. 5, 6 p.m., with Free First Friday Gallery Talk: “Mapping New Mexico”.
As New Mexico morphed into the state we know today, its paper outlines changed the lives of those who called it home. Gather in the exhibition Telling New Mexico: Stories from Then and Now, where Librarian Tomas Jaehn will demonstrate those changes via maps, plus explain a cartographic error that determined who was American and who was Mexican. Free admission 5-8 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 7 is the opening of Setting the Read More
Annual Holiday Arts And Craft Fair Saturday, Nov. 22
LAAC News:
The Los Alamos Arts Council is hosting the annual Holiday Arts and Craft Fair 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 22 at Los Alamos Middle School, 1 Hawk Dr.
This is an opportunity to do holiday shopping plus benefit an organization that brings numerous events to the community throughout the year, such as Brown Bag Concerts, Kite Festival and Pumpkin Glow.
