Mesa Public Library presents ‘New Work’ by Meg Kremer
One of the pieces from ‘New Work’ by Meg Kremer. Courtesy photoLIBRARY News:
The Upstairs Art Gallery of the Los Alamos Mesa Public Library presents “New Work” by Los Alamos artist Meg Kremer. The show opens to the public on Monday, June 3 and runs through June 29 with an artist’s reception at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 9.
The exhibit is a selection of elegant and evocative drawings and prints from a project started in November 2011 and ended in January 2013.
“The work is the result of a disciplined process producing one or two drawings a day,” Kremer said. “Each piece focused Read More
Dixon Community Players Present World Premier of ‘Salt and Pepper’ by Robert Benjamin
Brandon Santos and Silvana Neal perform in ‘Warm Ashes,’ one of seven one-acts that make up ‘Salt and Pepper.’ Courtesy photo
Kristen Woolf and Chris Heron in ‘Resting Places.’ Courtesy photo Staff Report:
Salt and Pepper by Los Alamos playwright Robert F. Benjamin is a gently provocative stage play about aging with grace, courage and humor, while exploring quirky but realistic relationships and situations not unknown to those of a certain age.
Eleven characters lead the audience through seven intertwined tales that celebrate life’s Read More
Del Norte Credit Union Presents Art of Amado Peña
DNC News:
SANTA FE—Del Norte Credit Union, northern New Mexico’s hometown financial cooperative, recently partnered with celebrated artist Amado Peña as part of its just-launched DNCU North Star Artists Series dedicated to supporting northern New Mexican artists.
Four Peña pieces now decorate the walls of the just-renovated DNCU Cordova branch, allowing members and visitors to experience Pena’s vibrant interpretation of Native peoples who live in harmony with an untamed land.
“As a company and as individuals, DNCU and its employees and members support the communities in which Read More
Pajarito Reads: Discover the Divine in Yourself with Henry Ahlefelder
Column by BONNIE J. GORDONHenry Ahlefelder didn’t start out to be a teacher, healer and follower of a spiritual path.
“I was the opposite of a new age type of person,” Ahlefelder said. “I was into rock and motorcycles.”
On a whim, he asked a friend to teach him to meditate. The results amazed him and set him on his path to become a healer and a teacher. The journey let him to his first teacher, Yogi Behjan. He learned the practice of kundalini yoga and studied healing from a Japanese monk.
The journey led him to India where Yogi Bhajan’s teacher, Baba Virsa Sign took him as a student. Read More
Posts Live from Van Cliburn International Piano Competition: Behind the Scenes at the Semifinals
Posts Live from Van Cliburn International Piano CompetitionThe Van Cliburn International Piano Competition has been called the Piano Olympics. There are similarities.
Both are quadrennial. Both attract competitors from around the globe. Both generate constant rumblings about biased judges, which suggests that playing the piano has more in common with gymnastics or figure skating than with, say, running marathons. Competing in the Cliburn requires intense preparation over many years, careful coaching, physical and mental Read More
Emily Silks Presents Senior Recital Wednesday
Emily Silks. Courtesy photo
SENIOR RECITAL News:
Emily Silks will present her Senior Music Recital at 7 p.m. Wednesday June 5 in Kelly Hall at Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church.
Silks will perform on marimba, piano, drum set, cajon, djembe and other assorted percussion instruments. The program will include music ranging from Bach to the Beatles.
She will perform alongside her teachers Joe Cox and Steve Iliff as well as friends Nate Hall and Kile Uhlenbrock. Her brother Andrew will join her on acoustic and electric guitar and her mother Valerie will play a piano duet with her. Silks will also Read More
LANB’s Annual ‘Summer at the Movies’ Free for Kids Starts Today
LANB News:
Summer at the Movies
Los Alamos National Bank is once again sponsoring its annual “Summer at the Movies” at the Los Alamos Reel Deal Movie Theater.
Free movies will be playing every Monday, Wednesday and Friday this summer starting today, June 3 and running to July 26.
Doors and arcade open at 9:30 a.m. and movies start at 10 a.m. No ticket is required so get to the Reel Deal early to be sure to get a seat! Today’s movie was Kung Fu Panda. Movies are subject to change. For a list of upcoming movies, visit https:////www.lanb.com/Summer-at-the-Movies.aspx
Posts Live from Van Cliburn International Piano Competition: Getting Underway
Posts Live from Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
FortScenic Roots Plays Los Alamos June 10
Amber and Erin Rogers are Scenic Roots. Courtesy photoStaff Report
Amber and Erin Rogers are Scenic Roots. These sisters perform original and traditional Ozark, Appalachian, and Celtic music on mountain dulcimer, fiddle and clawhammer banjo.
Scenic Roots will be in Los Alamos at 7 p.m. Monday, June 10, for a concert at Morning Glory Bakery. This show is part of the sister duo’s nine-state spring 2013 concert tour. Both sisters have degrees in commercial music from the renowned bluegrass program at South Plains College.
Amber’s musical journey began when she started playing fiddle when she Read More
Posts Live from Van Cliburn International Piano Competition: Introduction
Posts Live from Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
On a spring day in 1958, a gangling young man perched atop the back seat of an open Chrysler Imperial as it rolled down 5th Avenue in New York. Confetti and ticker tape swirled down. People packed the sidewalks and strained to catch a glimpse of him. He was not a visiting head of state, or a military hero, or a sports luminary. He was an American, he was a pianist and he had just won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
The Tchaikovsky Competition was conceived as a demonstration Read More
Richard Hannemann’s Music To Benefit Posse Lodge
Staff Report
There was a time when Richard Hannemann was billed as “The Rocky Mountain Balladeer.”
He’ll be returning to those roots when he plays 7-11 a.m., Sunday at the Posse Lodge Cowboy Pancake Breakfast.
“There will be music and a money jar. Everything that goes in it, I will be donating to the Posse to help with their unexpected expenses,” Hannemann said. “I’m hoping we fill it.”
The Sheriff’s Posse is facing expensive repairs to the septic system and the kitchen at the Posse Lodge.
The program, “The Frontier,” will include several songs and instrumentals Read More
Call for Artists for ‘Trickster’
FLAC News:
Fuller Lodge Art Center is issuing a call for artists for its next show, “Trickster.”
The trickster is an alchemist, a magician, creating realities in the duality of time and illusion. Every culture has a trickster in its cast of characters.
Bring us the king’s fool, the class clown, Loki and the Coyote. Who is the trickster in the tale?
Tease us with an optical illusion.Give us something visually crafty, play the farce and make sure the joke’s on us!
The application deadline is Friday, July 12. The opening reception is 6-7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 16. Download the application Read More
NMSA Seniors Achieve 96 Percent Graduation Rate
All 38 members of the New Mexico School for the Arts 2013 graduationg class. Photo by Cathy Weber NMSA News:
SANTA FE – New Mexico School for the Arts might just be the ideal model for the future of high school education. With a graduation rate this year of 96 percent, the small, statewide charter school is gaining the attention of renowned universities and colleges from around the nation.
The 38 students comprising the class of 2013 garnered nearly $3 million in scholarships and financial assistance, including the prestigious Presidential Award from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Read More
Submit Your Art to 2013 SMART Art Contest
NBI News:
In conjunction with the Los Alamos MainStreet event, The Next Big Idea, SMART, Science and Math based Art Competition will begin accepting artwork entries June 1 for this year’s International SMART Art Contest.
What is SMART? It is science and math-based artwork demonstrating scientific or mathematical concepts, principles, or phenomena in creative ways.
It can be created digitally using computers, be photographic, or be produced through traditional fine arts methods. including drawing, painting, pottery, fiber arts, and so on. The contest will be free to enter, and all entries Read More
Mambo to Los Pinguos Friday at the Pond
Los Pinguos play Ashley Pond Friday. Courtesy photo
By RUSS GORDON
Los Pinguos play Ashley Pond at 7 p.m. Friday for the 2013 Los Alamos County Summer Concert Series.
The band is from Buenos Aires, Argentina and they play a mix of Latin rhythms, reggae, rumba, tango, flamenco and rock. The music is very energetic, fun, sexy, fiery and passionate. All right! It’s the third Friday night party of the Series!
I looked up Los Pinguos in the Spanish-English dictionary. Nada. On the computer, I only found an outstanding band from Buenos Aires. The Spanish word for “penguins” is “pinguinos”. I looked up Read More
Hawk-2-Hilltopper Event Friday at Urban Park
COUNTY News:
The Hawk-2-Hilltopper event for graduating 8th graders is 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, May 31 at Urban Park, despite the fact that Los Alamos Middle School is holding its last day of school Wednesday.
The annual event includes a BBQ lunch, music, giant inflatable toys, and ends with the always hilarious shaving cream melee.
Direct questions to the Los Alamos County Recreation Division at (505) 662-8173, (505) 662-8170, or lacrec@lacnm.us. Read More
Call for Exhibitors at White Rock Art Market
LACD News:
The Los Alamos Creative District will be having its first Art Market 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 8 at the White Rock Visitors Center at 115 N.M. 4 in White Rock. The event is free and open to the public.
A $15 participation fee is required for sellers and the Creative District staff is currently looking for artists and artisans to join in.
For dates, terms, conditions and online registration, visit https:////www.chamberorganizer.com/members/evr/reg_event.php?orgcode=LACC&evid=11017231
To participate June 8 or at any other market, contact Melanie Peña at melanie@losalamos.org Read More
Samantha Filer Wins Desert Light Film Festival
‘Sword of Arundel’ collage. Courtesy/Samantha Filer
Samatha Filer, right, with the movie poster for her film that was one of her prizes. Courtesy photoStaff Report
Samantha Filer, a home school student active in the Los Alamos Community, received the Best of Festival Award in the statewide Desert Light Film Festival.
The festival was held on the campus of New Mexico State University and at the Flickinger Center for Performing Arts in Alamogordo.
“The Sword of Arundel,” a seven minute drama with a Lord of the Rings feel to it, was submitted by Filer of Jemez Springs. Not only Read More
June Brown Bag Features Short Play Sampler
Ali (Pat Beck) and Jeff (Eric Bjorklund) struggle with love in ‘No Easy Points.’ Photo by Larry GibbonsLAAC News:
The Los Alamos Arts Council’s next feature in the Brown Bag Performance Series will be “A Short-Play Sampler” written by local playwright Robert F. Benjamin, directed by Beth Kennedy Jones and performed by local actors.
The sampler consists of three short plays each presented as a concert reading. The event will take place at noon, Wednesday June 5 at Fuller Lodge. All performances in the Brown Bag Series are free and open to the public.
While many theater patrons Read More
