floats, cars, horses, spectators..
Salinas Pueblo NPS Centennial
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
This Weekend in Mountainair
Jubilee of course ... as we've been reminding you elsewhere on blogs (reminder, pet show, car show, community sale & more), online calendars/event announcements, the Jubilee web page & other sites and flyers about town.
Later than intended (blame it on recent tendency to tire easily & crash unexpectedly), three late Jubilee posts condensed into a single post: photography; music; weekend overview.
Digital Photography Exhibit, Dining/Recreation Hall, MAC
Affordable digital cameras opens the world of photography to everyone, whether as art form, hobby, adjunct to business record keeping or to preserve memories. As barriers of cost and time come down, new photography enthusiasts, some of whom don't even consider themselves photographers, are learning the subtle techniques of composition. This presentation showcases their photographic vision. Enjoy the slide show - also digital. Discover the previously hidden talents of your family, friends and acquaintances.
Exhibitors:
- Aleta Lawrence - landscapes, nature photography, Native American culture, NPS
- Christina Fulfer - weddings, family events, portraiture, some landscape.
- Robin des Jardins - art photography, digital art, events, animals
- Tamra Hayes - travel photography - New Mexico, Egypt, Turkey, macrophotography
- teej - candid, dogs, children, facial shots...
- Irene Weinmann - landscapes, scenery (Katy Trail photos )
- Dennis Fulfer - light painting and reflections
Support your local musicians: Jubilee is their venue. This year - more musicians on two stages - popular, traditional, experimental - progressive rock, Spanish, folk, guitar, country/western.
- Stage one:
Pat Autrey - National Anthem
12-1:30 Cognitive Dissidents w/Jack Presley
1:30-2:15 Christian Raphel
2:30-3:15 Debbi Gutierrez - Gerard Bezzeg - Kay Stillion
3:15 - Erineo Ortiz
- Stage Two:
1-1:45 Kay StillionThis Weekend in Mountainair
1:45-2:30 Tommy Reynolds
2:30-3 Eldon McMath & Dennis Fulfer
(which started Friday with the Leaky Roof Sale at the Methodist Church and a Carnival - rides, games, cotton candy - at MAC)
Saturday
- All day event Firecracker Jubilee (MAC)
- All day event Abo Trading Clearance Sale (Abo Trading)
- All day event Leaky Roof Sale (Methodist Church, 301 S. Sunset)
- 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Car Show (NPS Visitors Center)
- 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Exhibit: wood and decorative tin by Anne Ravenstone (Cibola Arts Gallery)
- 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM Horse & Pony Rides (Shaffer Hotel)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Voices in the Wind (Gran Quivira)
- All day event Abo Trading Clearance Sale (Abo Trading, Mountainair)
- 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Exhibit: wood and decorative tin by Anne Ravenstone (Cibola Arts Gallery)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Voices in the Wind (Gran Quivira)
Friday, July 3, 2009
It's time to stand up for homemade potato salad
Perfect for the 4th - and a match for the Founding Fathers, Willie Nelson & BBQ cartoon. Garrison Keillor writes,
Come on, people, it's not that hard to make. Do you really think we can't tell the difference?
July 1, 2009 | I walked the length of the westbound Lake Shore Limited as it left Albany last Sunday, six crowded coaches, and counted three Twitterers and a couple of phone texters, six laptoppers (two of whom were watching movies), four video gamers, and 27 people reading books. Books made of paper! Turning the pages with their fingers one by one, reading the lines left to right, just as people have done for hundreds of years. Ain't that something? I didn't lean down for a close look at the books they were reading -- I was not brought up to do that -- so perhaps bodices were being ripped and stalkers were stalking and meteorites were heading straight for Earth, but no matter. Books were being read!
Along with live theater, monogamy and the bald eagle, the paper book has been despaired over and its demise freely predicted, and yet, among people heading west, it seems to be the diversion of choice. So Dickens and Jane Austen and Flannery O'Connor are not dead yet. And the bald eagle is coming back, along with the gray wolf and the Yellowstone grizzly -- though less attractive endangered species such as the glassy-eyed smelt and the orangefoot pimpleback mussel and various arachnids are still in doubt -- and theater seems as alluring as ever, judging by the number of young New York waiters with large personalities. And as for monogamy, it's there, waiting to be rediscovered.
So let me speak up for an endangered menu item this Fourth of July weekend and that is homemade potato salad.
When the family meets this weekend to hobnob and burn burgers, the family member assigned to bring the potato salad is likely going to walk in with a couple of gallon plastic buckets of yellowish muck bought at a convenience store, the price stickers still on them, and set them down on the table with no apology whatsoever. Or, if they have more disposable income, they'll bring paper containers full of brownish muck from the natural organic sustainable united empathetic co-op.
If you bring garbage to share with your family, the least you can do is tell a lie and say, "I couldn't make the potato salad myself because I am bipolar and my lover left me and my dog has leukemia and I have an oozing leprous sore on my mixing hand."
It is not that hard to make potato salad, people. Take half an hour away from your Facebook page and do the job right. Boil some eggs, chop the celery and chives and green onions, boil the potatoes, make your mayonnaise, maybe toss in a little sour cream, use plenty of dill, and sprinkle paprika on top. The eerie-yellow store-bought stuff in the tubs was manufactured at Amalgamated Salad in Houston by undocumented 12-year-olds from the hills of Michoacan. Worse, it is teaching our children that accomplishment doesn't matter.
A child served yellow slop from a bucket is being told that it's OK to plagiarize a term paper off the Internet just so long as it's poorly written.
What if Thomas Jefferson had been too busy hobnobbing to write the Declaration of Independence so he just downloaded a bunch of stuff he found Googling "independence" and coming up with stuff about indolence, pendants, incontinence, but hey, close enough, and he pasted it together and they all signed it and went out to a movie? Not good.
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the potato salad that has connected them with another, they will do it, believe me, so why insult us? Just because we're polite, do you think we can't tell the difference? Are we demented? Does this not seem self-evident to you?
Attend to the details. Teach your children manners. Write cogent paragraphs. Drive carefully. And make a good potato salad, one with some crunch, maybe accompanied by a fried drumstick with crackly skin -- the humble potato and the stupid chicken, ennobled by diligent cooking -- and is this not the meaning of our beautiful country, to take what is common and enable it to become beautiful? All our beautiful young people -- so diligent and focused and powered by hope -- you can't tell me those kids didn't have parents who took time to chop the celery and onions and experiment with the ratio of mayo to mustard to achieve a potato salad that is worthy of our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
© 2009 by Garrison Keillor. http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/07/01/potato_salad/index.html?source=newsletter
Thursday, July 2, 2009
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
JULY 8, 2009 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: 3rd Annual Short Movie Festival. Any movie 5 minutes and under, any genre, any topic, no commercials, industrials, or explicit adult content. August 1st, 2009 - Festival and Awards Ceremony at the Santa Fe Complex, 624 Agua Fria Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Submission Deadlines: Physical - Postmarked no later than July 8th, 2009; Digital - Uploaded no later than July 15th, 2009.
AWARDS: "Best of the Festival" Award. Gold Award. Silver Award. Audience Choice Award. Tell anyone that might be interested. Pass this information on to schools and students. http://www.santafemug.org/Film-Festival.html
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
An early something for the 4th - hopefully a satisfactory substitute / atonement for not having gotten to today's Jubilee menu...
Monday, June 29, 2009
NALAC grants open to artists and organizations
(cross posted from NM Slam list)
NALAC Fund for the Arts Announces Fifth Funding Cycle: National Latino Arts Grant Is Open to Artists and Organizations
SAN ANTONIO – The National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC) announces the fifth funding cycle for its grant program, the NALAC Fund for the Arts (NFA). The NALAC Fund for the Arts provides grant support to Latino artists and small and mid-sized organizations in all regions of the United States. Through the NFA, NALAC has awarded more than $523,000 to Latino artists and organizations in four years, representing a significant investment in the creative and cultural assets of the nation.
Launched in 2005 with major support from the Ford Foundation, the NALAC Fund for the Arts is the only national arts fund in the country that provides support specifically for Latino artists and arts organizations working in all artistic disciplines.
"The NFA was created to support the work of Latino artists and organizations and to recognize their important role in serving the cultural needs of communities across the country," said Maria De Leon, Executive Director of NALAC.
The NFA provides funding for projects, programs and artist fellowships. Grants range in size from $2,500 to $10,000. The NALAC Fund for the Arts grant program aims to:
- Encourage the creation and presentation of works by independent Latino artists and ensembles;
- Provide operating support to help build the internal capacity of small to mid-sized Latino arts organizations;
- Recognize community-based projects that exhibit a high level of artistic excellence; and
- Strengthen communities by investing in the cultural assets and human and social capital of Latinos in the U.S.
The NALAC Fund for the Arts is made possible with funding from the Ford Foundation, the JP Morgan Chase Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the San Antonio Cultural Collaborative, Heineken USA and Southwest Airlines.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
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