Arts

Authors Speak Series Hosts Photographer and Author Don Usner

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LIBRARY News:

Mesa Public Library Art Gallery presents seventy remarkable photographic portraits by Don Usner of participants in the Lannan Foundation’s Readings and Conversations literary series of the last 15 years. All the portraits are black and white and eloquently reveal the personality of each author.

The exhibition is open to the public this month, and at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21 Don Usner will be guest speaker for the monthly Authors Speak event. Both an author and photographer, he will discuss his experience meeting and photographing the Lannan authors as well as his own books.

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Treasures From Vault Exhibit Opens at Millicent Rogers Museum

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Picture of Millicent Rogers with museum exhibits. Courtesy photo

MRM News:

The Millicent Rogers Museum, located in Taos, announces the Nov 18 opening of Treasures from the Vault. This exhibit of rarely or never-before-seen objects from the permanent collections of the museum will be open through Jan. 26, 2014. 

“We are thrilled to be able to exhibit these objects that visitors may never have seen from our collections,” Museum Executive Director Peter S. Seibert said. “With more than 7,000 objects in our collection, the Millicent Rogers Museum collection is truly Read More

Olions Present One-acts at the Blackbox

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Mateo Cardiel and Megan Pimentel rehearse for the Olions one-act plays, which begin Friday at the LAHS Blackbox Theater. Courtesy photo

LAHS News:

The Los Alamos High School Olions Thespian Club will present four one-act plays in the LAHS Black Box Theater at 7 p.m., Nov. 16, 17 and 23, with 2 p.m. matinees Nov. 17 and 23.

Olions sponsor Rachel Saxton will direct “This Property is Condemned,” written by Tennessee Williams. The three remaining plays are student written and directed. They are Haley Henson’s “Chemistry,” Katie Downing’s “Terms Read More

Atomic City Children’s Theater Holds Auditions for Disney Aladdin, Jr.

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Courtesy/ACCT

ACCT News:

Atomic City Children’s Theater (ACCT), the Los Alamos Public Schools’ award winning after-school theater program, is excited to announce auditions for their Mid-School production of Disney Aladdin, Jr., a two-act musical play based on the full-length movie of the same name.

Auditions will be held in the Mountain Elementary gym 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16. The auditions are open to any 7th or 8th grade students in the Los Alamos area. Registration begins at noon.

ACCT also offers students the chance to explore other areas of technical theater, such as working lights Read More

LALT’s 8×10: Short, Sweet … So Good

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Frances (Jody Shepard) and Charlie (Brent Nye) in ‘Shadows.’ Photo by Larry Gibbons
 
Veronica (Gwen Lewis) and Joe (Larry Gibbons) in ‘Kubler-Ross Comes to Dinner.’ Courtesy photo.
 
Review by BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

One act plays are a lot like speed dating, the subject of the first of the eight one acts in 8×10: The Fourth Dimension. With only 10 minutes to make an impression, the playwright has to pack a lot of punch into a brief period. The actors have to engage you at once. It makes for an interesting and intense night at the theatre.

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Art in Public Places Board Quorum Possible

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Alabaster statue by Lilly Jaramillo on display at Mesa Public Library. Courtesy LAC

APPB News:

Members of the Art in Public Places Board may attend viewings of artwork at several loctions in which a quorum may be present, however, no board action will be taken:

  • Los Alamos Municipal Building – 3 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14;
  • Shidoni Foundry in Tesuque – 11:30 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 16; and
  • Wiford Gallery in Santa Fe – 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16.

All attendees must notify the Community Services Administrative Office in advance at 505.662.8241. Read More

NMDT-PC Will Move You with Four Original Ballets

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NMDT-PC dancers from left, Lindsay Roach, Justin Dunn, Sophia Jeffery, upper, Becky Cai, lower, Devon McCleskey and Louisa Belian. Design by Holger Waschinski/Photo by Brittany Felton

NMDT-PC News:

The New Mexico Dance Theater Performance Company (NMDT-PC), directed by Susan Baker-Dillingham, will truly move you next weekend with its newest production, “Be Moved,” when Baker-Dillingham’s company of 25 pre-professional dancers perform four of her original works.

Emotions will run the gamut with the four original ballets in store next weekend, all choreographed by Baker-Dillingham.

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LANL Retiree Explores Moral Dilemmas in ‘Fat Boy and the Money Bomb’

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Courtesy/WCS
 
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

What causes someone to become a whistleblower? Novelist William C. Sailor draws on his 23 years of experience at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to explore that question, among others, in “Fat Boy and the Money Bomb.”

Sailor holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Science from UC Berkeley. Now retired from LANL, he lives in Rio Rancho.

Author William Sailor

Like his hero Stan, Sailor grew up in suburban California and attended UC Berkeley. “Since this was my first work of fiction, I wanted to write about things I knew,” Sailor said.

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The Chosen – A Mini Festival of New Israeli Cinema Screens Four Films

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Israeli film poster for ‘God’s Neighbors.’

SFJFF News:

The Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival presents “The Chosen – A Mini Festival of New Israeli Cinema.” The Festival showcases some of the best of Israeli cinema today with award winning films from festivals such as Cannes, Tribeca and Toronto. The event includes four films over eight days, special events and more. There will be an exclusive Skype interviews and in-person appearances by special guests for this “first of its kind” event.

Israeli films have gained international stature in recent years, garnering awards at Read More

Gift of a Triumph TR6 Keeps on Giving

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A 1974 Triumph TR6 decorated by Hopi Tewa artist Dan Namingha and nine other Native American artists is a gift to MIAC that just keeps giving. Photo by Dody Fugate

MIAC News:

SANTA FE—A 1974 Triumph TR6 decorated by Hopi Tewa artist Dan Namingha and nine other Native American artists is parked in the lobby of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC), a symbol of a broadened approach by the museum to create partnerships with other area institutions that share a mission in honoring and perpetuating Native art and education.

Just as 10 artists collaborated to turn the car into an art piece, now MIAC Read More