Arts

Pajarito Reads: Discover the Divine in Yourself with Henry Ahlefelder

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Column by BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

Henry 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

Call for Artists for ‘Trickster’

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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

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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

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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

Call for Exhibitors at White Rock Art Market

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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

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‘Sword of Arundel’ collage. Courtesy/Samantha Filer
 
Samatha Filer, right, with the movie poster for her film that was one of her prizes. Courtesy photo

Staff 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

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Ali (Pat Beck) and Jeff (Eric Bjorklund) struggle with love in ‘No Easy Points.’ Photo by Larry Gibbons

LAAC 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

Art in Public Places Board Meets June 13

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‘Grandmother’s Joy’ created in 1998 by Fritz White is on display in front of the Betty Ehart Senior Center, 1101 Bathtub Row. Courtesy/LAC

APP News:

The Art in Public Places June meeting has changed from Thursday, June 27 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, June 13 at Mesa Public Library.

The meeting is open to the public and community members are encouraged to attend. Read More

Janet Davidson Brings ‘Love, Loss and What I Wore,’ to Los Alamos

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Producer and director Janet Davidson performing as Gingy in ‘Love, Loss and What I Wore.’ Courtesy photo
 
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

The role played by clothing in most women’s lives cannot be overestimated.

From Brownie uniforms to prom outfits, little black dresses, spike heels, Grateful Dead t-shirts, pedal pushers, tube tops and wedding gowns, women’s memories are tied up with what they were wearing at the time.

And then there’s “the purse,” that ubiquitous accessory with which women seem to have a love/hate relationship.

Clothing is the hook on which Read More

‘Bomb’ Author Speaks Thursday at Mesa Library

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Steve Sheinkin, author of ‘Bomb: The Race to Build – and Steal – the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon’ is Thursday’s Authors Speak featured guest. Courtesy photo

By KIRSTEN LASKEY

A 20-something spy, an incredible scientific discovery, and a race that spanned three continents – these are just some of the pieces of the story behind the atomic bomb.

Steve Sheinkin captures this amazing tale in his young adult book, “Bomb: The Race to Build – and Steal – the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon.”

The book reveals the details of a German chemist who discovered a uranium atom could split in Read More