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Fiesta! At Chimayo Museum June 12

Antonia Apodaca/Courtesy photo
 
CHIMAYO MUSEUM News:
 
The community is invited to celebrate summer 1-5 p.m. Sunday, June 12 in beautiful Chimayo!
 
Enjoy performances of traditional northern New Mexico music under the giant cottonwoods with David Garcia and Friends, and Trio Jalapeño featuring the legendary Antonia Apodaca. Sample delicious homemade foods and tour the museum including our latest exhibit of incredible Don Usner photos of Chimayo’s lowrider community.
 
Family friendly and FREE! Chimayo Museum is located behind Ortega’s Weaving Shop just off
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Tuesdays At The Pond Entertainment Series Begins With Los Alamos Community Winds

Los Alamos Community Winds. Courtesy photo

 

LACDC News:

The Los Alamos Community Winds is opening the 2016 Tuesdays at the Pond, June 7, with a mix of popular music of today and yesteryear, marches and patriotic tunes.

The concert begins at 7 p.m. so bring a blanket and a picnic dinner and enjoys some great music with the Los Alamos Community Winds.

Los Alamos Community Winds is a wind ensemble made up of members of the Los Alamos community. It is comprised of both amateur and professional musicians of all ages and backgrounds from middle and high school students to retirees.

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LALT Offers Two Summer Camp Productions

Courtesy/LALT

Courtesy/LALT

LALT News:

I was encouraged to share some of the new happenings here in Los Alamos.  Hope you can share this.  Thank you.

Los Alamos Little Theatre is proud to offer two brand new summer camp productions. Join us this summer as we Act, Sing and Dance our way through two camps dedicated to capturing the hearts and minds of students, and creating a life long love of the performing arts.

The first camp will run June 20 through July 1 targeted at students aging 9-14. Each day will focus on an intensive skill building workshop and rehearsal period in which young performers Read More

Aaron Lee Tasjan Band Plays Ashley Pond Tonight

Aaron Lee Tasjan Band plays the pond at 7 tonight. Courtesy photo

CONCERT News:

Tonight at 7 p.m., the Los Alamos Summer Concert Series presents a very special concert starring the fantastic Aaron Lee Tasjan Band. Not only is he a fantastic singer-songwriter but he’s playing at the gorgeous Ashley Pond Park with a hot, hot band AND the show is FREE!

His early inspiration came from the Beatles and seeing Ted Nugent in concert at an early age but wait… after expanding his musical horizons he grew to love the great Texas outlaw singers. Singer-songwriters like Guy Clark, Steve Earl, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Read More

Coro de Camara Presents ‘Circle Of Life’

Coro de Camara. Courtesy photo

Staff Report

The final Coro de Camara concerts of the season will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 3 at First Presbyterian Church in Santa Fe and at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 4 at the United Church in Los Alamos.  

The program, called “Circle of Life,” is a celebration in sung and spoken word.  It touches upon the complexities, cycles, and ebb and flow that we experience on our journey through life.  

Eric Whitacre’s lovely Five Hebrew Songs will be presented, along with stirring musical selections that deal with aspects of the human condition such as birth, Read More

‘The Caveman Of Atomic City’ Free Screening At Reel Deal Theater Thursday

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COMMUNITY News:
 
The Caveman of Atomic City, an official selection of the 2016 Albuquerque Film & Media Experience, is having a FREE screening at 7 p.m., Thursday, June 2, at the Reel Deal Theater, 2551 Central Ave., in Los Alamos.
 
This feature documentary film tells the story of micromike, a unique Los Alamos man who lived for years in caves under the Los Alamos National Laboratory and came up with his own theory of time and space to rival Einstein’s. The entertaining film chronicles micromike’s efforts
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Daily Postcard: Clematis Spotted On Navajo Road

Daily Postcard: Clematis is spotted Monday growing on Navajo Road in Los Alamos. Clematis a genus of about 300 species within the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. Their garden hybrids have been popular among gardeners beginning with Clematis jackmanii, a garden standby since 1862; more hybrid cultivars are being produced constantly. They are mainly of Chinese and Japanese origin. Most species are known as clematis in English, while some are also known as traveller’s joy, a name invented for the sole British native, C. vitalba, by the herbalist John Gerard; virgin’s bower for Read More

Pajarito’s Biggest Summer Event Saturday

Scene from Summerfest 2015. Courtesy photo

PAJARITO News:

  • Beer Festival, Live Music and Mountain Bike Race

Pajarito Mountain Ski Area will kick off its summer season this Saturday with Summerfest, one of the mountain’s biggest events of the year.

The festival includes the New Mexico Craft BrewFest, two concerts, a downhill bike race, lift-served hiking and biking, a disc golf tournament and more. Summerfest is the first of several events happening at the Los Alamos ski area this summer.

The June 4 event begins at 9 a.m. with the downhill bike race and lift-served hiking and biking. The New Mexico Read More

Teatro Paraguas: ‘I Never Sang For My Father’

THEATER News:

Teatro Paraguas will present a staged reading of Robert Anderson’s classic play I Never Sang for my Father, directed by Maura Studi at 6 p.m. Sunday, June 26. Teatro Paraguas is at 3205 Calle Marie Suite B Santa Fe. Suggested donation is $10 at the door only.

A widowed New York college professor, Gene, is in a long distance relationship with a woman in California. He wants to marry and move to California, where his girlfriend has her medical practice and is raising her children.

Gene’s mother is sympathetic although aware of the toll it could take on his father. Family tensions arise Read More

Large Bear Treed On Rose Street

LAPD managed to tree this 200 plus lb. black bear at dusk Friday on the Rose Street side of the Oppenheimer Condos. LAPD called New Mexico Fish and Game. It appears they never arrived so the bear apparently climbed down from his perch some 40 feet in the tree and went on his way. Sgt. Andrew Goldie said at the scene that this bear has been all over town ransacking bird feeders and everything else he could eat at Timber Ridge townhouses, Smith’s Marketplace, Pajarito Brew Pub and private residences. He is not afraid of people and LAPD advises to not approach this bear. Photo by Jim O’Donnell
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Mesa Public Library Gallery: 3rd Paradigm Exhibit

‘Samarkind’ by Adrian Bayreuther. Courtesy photo

Lady Chaise Lounge by Izabella Pavlusko. Courtesy photo

LIBRARY News:

An international collective of artists, 3rd Paradigm, will show paintings and sculpture at Mesa Public Library in June. There will be an opening reception 6-8 p.m. Thursday, June 9.

Third Paradigm includes Jemez Springs sculptor Harriette Lawler, along with Alberto D’Assumpcao from Portugal, Adrian Bayreuther from Germany, Olga Dmytrenko from Ukraine, Izabella Pavlusko from Azerbaidjan and Constantin Severin from Romania.

Their work has been widely exhibited Read More

CCA Names Stuart Ashman Executive Director

CCA News:
 
SANTA FE — The Center for Contemporary Arts (CCA) has announced the appointment of Stuart Ashman as executive director, effective Aug. 8, 2016.
 
Ashman is leaving his position as president and CEO of the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, Calif., to return to Santa Fe and assume leadership of CCA.
 
“I am honored to have this opportunity to return to Santa Fe to lead CCA at this exciting time in its history,” Ashman said. 
 
Ashman comes to CCA with a distinguished record of leadership and innovation in the arts and government. Prior to his current position,
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Dinner Onstage At The Lensic: A Passage To India

SANTA FE — The Lensic is proud to host its fourth annual fundraising gala, Dinner Onstage at The Lensic: A Passage to India, at 6 p.m., June 18.
 
Featuring dinner, entertainment, and a live auction, the gala will also celebrate The Lensic’s 15th anniversary as Santa Fe’s nonprofit performing arts center. 
 
Tickets start at $500 per person (ten-person tables: $5,000) and support the historic Lensic theater, the Lensic Presents performance series, Lensic Community Outreach programs, and Lensic Arts Education programs, which touch the lives of more than
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Hear Russ Gordon Lay Out Summer Concert Band Lineup On Voice Of Los Alamos At Noon Today

Concert promoter Russ Gordon. File photo

COMMUNITY News:

Tune in to The Voice of Los Alamos at noon today on 101.5 FM to hear Bonnie Gordon of the Los Alamos Daily Post interview longtime Los Alamos concert promoter Russ Gordon.

Gordon details his band lineup including the blues and rock band “Slick” Nick Schnebelen from Kansas City, which plays at 7 p.m. today at Ashley Pond Park. Read More

Bandelier National Monument Stamp Dedication Ceremony June 2

USPS News:

The U.S. Postal Service is holding a First-Day-of-Issue Dedication Ceremony for the Bandelier National Monument Stamp as one of 16 National Parks Forever stamps being issued to celebrate the National Park Service on its 100th anniversary.

The ceremony at 11 a.m. Thursday, June 2 at Bandelier will be highlighted by the unveiling of the stamp by U.S. Postal Service and local park officials including U.S. Postal Service Vice President, Finance & Planning Luke Grossman, Bandelier Superintendent Jason Lott and Los Alamos Postmaster James Hunter.

The new stamps will be available Read More

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