Rotary Announces Deborah Beene Music Award Recipients
From left, Michelle Yang, Chip Mielke and Victor Kim. Photo by Ed Van Eeckhout
ROTARY News:
The Rotary Club of Los Alamos recently held auditions for the annual Deborah Beene Music Award competition. The award was established in the memory of Deborah Beene, daughter of Donald and Sara Beene, a violin and piano student who died while enrolled in school here in 1973.
The award is intended to assist students in their musical growth. The students receiving the award are asked to use the money for fees to attend a music camp, for college or university music expenses, for the purchase of a Read More
Topper Choirs in Concert Monday
LAHS News:
Join the Los Alamos High School Topper Choirs at 7 p.m. Monday, May 12 at Duane Smith Auditorium for their Spring Concert and Silent Auction.
Before the concert and during intermission, the choirs will be auctioning off groups of teenagers to help with yard work, garden and landscaping projects, spring cleaning and more. Read More
Writers Compete to Craft Best Novel Introduction
Kathryn Ostic, left, is a winner in the Los Alamos Writers Group Party Competition Thursday at Morning Glory Cafe. Inez Ross, meeting facilitator, congratulates Ostic on her prize winning entry in the booklet titled “Best Beginnings 2014.” Courtesy photoLAWG News:
Members of the Los Alamos Writers Group were asked to submit an introduction of 100 words for an original novel, with the title and a pen name. Entries were edited and formatted by Inez Ross, and with the help of Aspen Copies, were inserted into 11 photo books.
At the group’s Party Competition Meeting, members read all Read More
More Scenes From Saturday’s Arts and Crafts Fair
Saturday’s Los Alamos Arts Council’s (LAAC) Spring Arts and Crafts Fair on the Fuller Lodge lawn is a long-standing tradition in Los Alamos. Each year, the local nonprofit organization presents the community with an event that features quality and variety. Shoppers find a wide variety of art items and crafts including pottery, jewelry, wall hangings, pillows and much more along with fresh foods from pistachio nuts to honey. The Arts and Crafts Fair also is an opportunity to promote LAAC. LAAC provides community events year round such as the Kite Festival, Pumpkin Glow, Missoula Children’s Read More
Rock the Posse with DK and the Affordables May 10
NMDT Presents ‘Under the Big Top’
Poster for ‘Under the Big Top.’ Courtesy/NMDT
NMDT News:
The School of New Mexico Dance Theater (NMDT), directed by Susan Baker-Dillingham, presents its 10th annual spring recital, “Under the Big Top,” at Duane W. Smith auditorium at 7 p.m. Friday, May 9 and 2 p.m. Saturday, May 8.
Tickets are available in advance at Uli’s Cottontails or at the door 45 minutes prior to performance times and are $10 for adults, $5 for seniors and students, and children age four and under are free. Read More
Atomic City Children’s Theater Announces Summer Workshops
ACCT News:
Atomic City Children’s Theater is offering ACCT Summer Workshops this year; again in two sessions:
- Session 1: 9-11 a.m. Monday, June 16 – Friday, June 20
- Session 2: 9-11 a.m. Monday, July 28 – Friday, August 1
Any student entering grades 4th-10th (or a former member of ACCT) that have an interest in improving their musical theater skills may participate. The material taught at these workshops will be applicable to ACCT’s attendance at Junior Theater Festival 2015 and to help students interested in improving their musical theater skills or to be a part of our ACCT Read More
Art on Tap: Bird In Space Controversy Thursday
COMMUNITY News:This Week at the Reel Deal
Column By JIM O’DONNELL This week we are opening Heaven is for Real, and Neighbors. We will hold Bears andThe Amazing Spiderman 2 for another week. Draft Day and The Other Woman will end this Thursday.
Movie poster for ‘Heaven is for Real.’ Courtesy/Real Deal Theater
Heaven is for Real: Based on the #1 New York Times best-selling book of the same name, Heaven is for Realbrings to the screen the true story of a small-town father who must find the courage Read More
Handel, Bach Light Up Sangre de Cristo Chorale’s Baroque Fireworks! Concert
The Sangre de Cristo Chorale. Courtesy photoSANGRE DE CRISTO CHORALE News:
The Sangre de Cristo Chorale completes its 36th season with spring concert Baroque Fireworks! at 7 p.m. Friday, May 9 at Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church, 2390 North Road in Los Alamos.
Dr. Maxine Thévenot will direct the chorale’s performance of Bach’s Cantata # 78, and Part Three of Handel’s Messiah, together with movements from Handel’s Four Coronation Anthems. Featured soloists are soprano Kate Winchester, alto Drea Pressley, tenor Jason Vest and baritone Edmund Connolly. Instrumentalists under Read More
Free Brass Concert at Fuller Lodge @ Noon Today
The Ad Hoc Octet, a brass ensemble made up of members of the Brave New Brass and the Black Mesa Brass quintets, will perform a Brown Bag Recital at noon today at Fuller Lodge. Ad Hoc Octet members include Dave Korzekwa, Bruce Letellier and Mandy Marksteiner on trumpet; Deniece Korzekwa on tuba; Larry Bronisz and Jerry Morzinski on trombone, Elizabeth Hunke and John Hargreaves on French horn; and Leonard Stoval on percussion.The concert is free. Courtesy photoDALA Presents ‘Neverland’ May 16-18
DALA Director Jonathan Guise. Photo by Rhiana Guise
By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN
Dance Arts Los Alamos will present “Neverland” May 16-18 at the Duane Smith Auditorium.
Dance Arts Los Alamos Director Jonathan Guise has written a one act ballet based on the novel “Peter Pan” by J.M. Barrie. Guise became the new director of DALA this year.
“I began dancing professionally when I was 18 year old upon graduating from the Harid Conservatory, an accredited dance arts school located in Boca Raton Fla.,” Guise said. He has danced professionally with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, the Boston Read More
Los Alamos Students Show Artwork at Fuller Lodge
Pinon kindergartener Ariela Rittner shows off her artwork. Photo by Pinon art teacher Stephanie Rittner.
Chamisa Elementary School artwork. Photo by Pinon art teacher Stephanie RittnerLAPS News:
The Los Alamos Public School art teachers show work from their programs each year in the Pajarito Room at Fuller Lodge during the Spring Arts and Crafts Fair.
The teachers choose work that represents their programs well, Pinon art teacher Stephanie Rittner said.
The art teachers include:
- Pinon Elementary: Stephanie Rittner
- Chamisa Elementary: Renee Mitsunaga
- Aspen Elementary: Britt
LALT Auditions for ‘Tower of Magic’ May 10-11
LALT Theater News:
Auditions for the Los Alamos Little Theater production of “Tower of Magic” are 2 p.m. May 10 and 6:30 p.m. May 11 at the LALT Performing Arts Center, 1670 Nectar St.
Scripts and audition sides are available at Mesa Public Library. Roles for four men and three women are available. Auditioners for the role of Capella should come prepared to sing a short song.
The show will be performed in September. Read More
Spring Arts and Crafts Fair Ushers in the Season
Shoppers examine the wares at Saturday’s Spring Arts and Crafts Fair on the lawn at Fuller Lodge. The event is organized by the Los Alamos Arts Council. Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Mom and son check out gleaming metal sculptures. Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Cool digs for feathered friends. Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
A bouncy house entertains kids at Saturday’s Spring Arts and Crafts Fair. Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Dress up finery. Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
A young fair-goer gets a new look. Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.comTake a Rollicking Ride Down the Romance Highway With ‘I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change’
From left, Ken Milder, Julia Mundt, Elisa Enriquez and Bruce Lamartine, as mom, daughter and pizza guys, belt out ‘He Called Me.’ Photo by Steve Wolfel and Larry Gibbons
Jim Jenkins and Kate Ramsey try to impress on a date. Photo by Steve Wolfel and Larry Gibbons I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change took theatre-goers for a rollicking ride down the highway of love at the opening performance Friday at Los Alamos Little Theatre.
The show is a series of 20, mostly musical, vignettes about romantic love, Read More
NMPW Announces 2014 Zia Book Winners
NMPW News:
New Mexico Press Women’s 2014 Zia Book Awards honored four writers at the organization’s annual meeting April 26 in Las Cruces. Their books rose to the top of the pool of 14 submissions entered this year for children’s books by female New Mexico authors.
The 2014 Zia Award judges selected one winner and one honorable mention in each of two categories: Picture Books and Youth Books.
Winning Books and their Authors:
Kitten Caboodle by Paige Grant (illustrated by Lisa Williams; Azro Press)
After retiring as a hydrologist, Paige Grant, along with her husband, became an active volunteer Read More
Opening of ‘Things with Wings’ Flies High Friday
A large crowd packed the opening of ‘Things with Wings’ Friday at the Fuller Lodge Art Center. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
A volunteer from the Wildlife Center shows a red tailed hawk to visitors at the opening of ‘Things with Wings.’ Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Artist Lily Schlien, right, speaks with gallery-goers about her solo show in the Portal Gallery. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Gymnists from High Flyers Gymnastics show off their skills outside the Fuller Lodge Art Center Friday. Photo by BonnieLeslie Bucklin Displays Her Photographs at Manhattan Project Restaurant
Photographer Leslie Bucklin of Quaking Aspen Fine Art held an open house Friday for her show, on display in the walkway outside the Manhattan Project Restaurant in downtown Los Alamos. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com