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Public Invited To Lunchtime Concert At UNM-LA April 5

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Students who participated in the 2015 Music Theory for the Non-major class at UNM-LA. Instructor Juanita Madland is on the right. Courtesy/UNM-LA
 
UNMLA News:
 
The Music Theory class presents a public concert 12:30-1:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 5, in Building 2 at the University of New Mexico-Los Alamos (UNM-LA).
 
Students will perform musical pieces they worked on this semester as they explored how to understand what makes music and its emotions. The audience will hear performances by students Betty Carlson, Shane Kim, Skyler McCall, Rheta Moazzami, Nancy Nunnelley, Phyllis
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Santa Fe Opera: UnShakeable Premieres April 9

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SFO News:
 
SANTA FE ― Santa Fe Opera presents UnShakeable, a new opera composed by Performance Santa Fe’s general director Joe Illick with a libretto by Andrea Fellows Walters, the Opera’s Director of Education and Community Engagment.
 
Set in an abandoned theater in New Mexico 25 years in the future, UnShakeable tells the story of Wyatt and Meridian, Shakespearean actors and former lovers who have fallen victim to Erasure, a viral pandemic resulting in memory loss.
 
Separated from Meridian at the start of the pandemic, Wyatt has been searching for
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New York Singer To Perform Benefit For Los Alamos Y

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Seph Stanek

YMCA News:

Seph Stanek is coming to Los Alamos in the middle of a national tour of “The Pirates of Penzance” to hold a benefit performance for The Family YMCA’s scholarship program.

He will hold a preview performance for his “Broadway at the Y,” program at noon Monday, April 4 at the Betty Ehart Senior Center accompanied on the piano by Juanita Madland. His full benefit performance is 7 p.m., Tuesday, April 5, at the Los Alamos Teen Center where he will be accompanied on the piano by Nate Salazar.

The public is welcome to attend and the performance is free, however donations will be accepted Read More

New Mexico Philharmonic, New Mexico Ballet Present Fantastical Alice In Wonderland April 9

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COMMUNITY News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE ― To the delight of audience members of all ages, the New Mexico Philharmonic and the New Mexico Ballet will perform Alice in Wonderland at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 9 at Popejoy Hall in Albuquerque.
 
The newly appointed artistic director of the New Mexico Ballet, Natalie Harris, has created an extraordinary ballet telling of Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice stories, which are the basis of a successful 2010 Johnny Depp movie and its soon-to-be-released sequel, Alice through the Looking Glass.
 
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Teatro Paraguas: Flamenco Fiesta April 29-30

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TP News:
 
Teatro Paraguas will present two evenings of flamenco music and dance inspired by Federico Garcia Lorca, as well as selections of his poetry in Spanish and English, in commemoration of the eightieth anniversary of the poet’s death, at 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday April 29-30.
 
Compania Chuscales y Mina Fajardo have performed numerous times at Teatro Paraguas.  Chuscales (Guitarist, Musical Director, Composer), a world-renowned guitarist of legendary technical and musical prowess, will be joined by fascinating group of flamenco
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It’s All About Eggs! Three Hunts This Weekend

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Kids scramble for candy filled eggs at last year’s Eggstravaganza at the Los Alamos Golf Course. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com

Staff Report:

It will be all about the eggs for Los Alamos youngsters this weekend. Three separate egg hunts are scheduled.

The first is the annual Elk’s Lodge Easter Egg Hunt plus Wildfire 2016. Activities start at 10 a.m. and conclude at 12:30 p.m. at Ashley Pond Park

This will be a fun event for the entire family with the Easter Egg Hunt, a bicycle rodeo, children’s bicycle helmet giveaway, the LAPD bomb truck, the LAFD public education trailer, bounce houses, Read More

‘Snow & White & The Seven Conservationists’ May 6-7

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THEATRE News:
 
SANTA FE ― Umbrella Theatre (Teatro Paraguas) Children’s Program proudly brings “Snow & White & The Seven Conservationists” to the Teatro Paraguas Studio Theatre in early May 2016, adapted especially for TPCTP and directed by Rebecca Morgan, local producer, director and playwright.
 
The Twins, Snow & White, live with their beautiful Stepmother, Queen Narcissa, who LOVES pizza—especially with ground hog and squirrel sausage provided by her loyal Huntsman.
 
Snow &
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Lensic And Spanish Colonial Arts Society Present 16th Annual Nuestra Música

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LSCAS News:
 
SANTA FE ― The Lensic and the Spanish Colonial Arts Society proudly present Nuestra Música, an evening of remembering the traditional music of New Mexico, Friday, April 15 at the Lensic Performing Arts Center (211 West San Francisco, Santa Fe).
 
The evening begins at 7 p.m., and tickets are $10/free for seniors (reservations required by calling 505.988.1234).
 
The only annual concert in New Mexico that features the Hispano folk music of the state, Nuestra Música’s 2016 line-up includes favorites Roberto Mondragon
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Egg Splash At Aquatic Center Saturday

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AQUATIC CENTER News:

This Saturday, March 26, will be a fun-filled day at the Larry R. Walkup Aquatic Center with warm water, floating eggs and great prizes. 

This is an annual event for the community, and children up to 16 years of age are encouraged to participate. The event begins promptly at 1 p.m. with the youngest age group. The cost is $2.50 for each participant (16 years and younger). 

For more information about this event or to buy tickets in advance, contact the Aquatic Center at 505.662.8170. Read More

Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘Race’

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By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos
 
 “Race” is a new film about the African-American Olympic athlete Jesse Owens, once called the “fastest man on earth.”
 
The film covers Jesse’s college years when he broke several records in track, his qualifying for the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, and the U.S. Olympic Committee’s debate and vote over whether the U.S. should participate in an Olympics hosted by the Nazis.
 
Movie poster for ‘Race.’ Courtesy Photo
 
The role of Jesse Owens is played by Stephan James, the Canadian actor who played John Lewis in the film Selma
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