#Mountainair Community Garden

…on Broadway (adjacent to art center) info now also posted at MMAC website. The community garden started by iCreate and then in cooperation with the arts council is now a 4-way operation, iCreate, MMAC, St Vincent de Paul and CP-SWCD. Would that be a consortium?

Saturday mornings, the garden sheds will be open 9-11 am for access to the community tools. One or more experienced gardeners will be available to advise and assist less experienced and novice gardeners. The garden is also available daily for anyone interested adopting a plot and being part of the community garden. The consortium will also host special gardening events. 

For more information on the community garden, contact Tomás Wolff at 505-847-2444 or by email or Lenora Romero at 505-847-2419.

The Mountainair Online network will continue to post garden news and blog about community gardening and related topics here, on varioussocial media, at the Mountainair Online and Everybody Eats blog as well as occasionally re-blogging posts to iCreate.  Look for the tag "Everybody Eats" (because we all do). 

May 4, SEEDS: Multimedia Arts + Poetry

 

SEEDS: A Collective Voice

Brings together Artists, Poets, Dancers, Farmers & more from around the World to Raise Awareness on Seed Preservation and GMO Issues

Multi-media Arts Exhibit Opens at Downtown Contemporary Gallery May 4

SEEDS: A Collective Voice, a multi-media arts exhibit to raise awareness about the importance of organic and ancient seed preservation as well as inform and educate people about GMO issues, will open on May 4, 2013 at the Downtown Contemporary Gallery in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The show runs through June 7.

The opening reception for SEEDS: A Collective Voice will feature 60 local, national and international artists, poets, farmers, dancers, speakers, filmmakers and seed preservationists coming together to collectively express the beauty and sacredness of seeds. Each artists is contributing one piece around the theme of seeds to the show.

Works include all mediums from painting to sculpture, textile to mixed media and beyond. Participating artists are from around the region, nation and the world including Paris, Mexico City, San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit, Phoenix and throughout New Mexico. Confirmed poets debuting original pieces on the subject include Hakim Bellamy, Gary

Brower, Christian Leahy, Mary Oishi and Danny Solis. Albuquerque South Valley organic farmer Fidel Gonzalez will do a short presentation on his experience and the importance of organic farming. Laguna/Santa Domingo storyteller and artist Larry Littlebird will share The Seed Basket Story. There will also be a film and video installation running throughout featuring a variety of seed & sustainability related pieces. Other guests and presentations are TBA.

SEEDS is the brainchild of New Mexico-based Mexican-born Magical Realism painter Jade Leyva and is produced in association with Avokado Artists, a 360°non-profit arts organization based in Placitas, NM. Ms. Leyva began harvesting local seeds over a year ago and became interested in seed preservation and, by extension, GMO issues. As her

involvement with seeds grew, it germinated and blossomed into the idea of an exhibit that would use the arts as a vehicle to educate people on the importance of protecting seeds.

"We need to realize that we have to ensure a healthy, sustainable future for people and the planet" says Ms. Leyva. "It all starts with a tiny, precious seed. My hope is that in some small way, our exhibit will help get people thinking about how fragile our relationship is to Mother Earth and all she provides"

For more information on SEEDS: A Collective Voice please contact Tom Frouge at Avokado Artists 505.771.3166 / tom@avokado.net

SEEDS: A Collective Voice. Opens May 4th, 2013 | 4:00 – 8:00 PM at 

Downtown Contemporary Gallery

105 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102

Avokado Artists ✪ Placitas, NM USA ✪ 505.771.3166 ✪ skype:

May 3-5, Annual ASNM Meeting

... with Mountainair's Sor Maria de Agreda and other history inspired murals, regular NPS/arts council collaboration and, of course, proximity to  the Salinas Pueblo Missions ruins and the Salt Missions Trail, local interest in New Mexico history and archaeology seems a natural. Here's your chance for a full weekend of it ~ or just dropping by to sample sessions of particular interest.

Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Society of New Mexico, May 3-5 (4-9 pm) at ~ Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico. This meeting's theme is "Life on the Rio Grande." Program and field trip descriptions to print or download (pdf format).

The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center has been newly renovated and enlarged (check out its website) and should be a great venue with its own museum and restaurant on the premises. The registration table will be open Friday from 4 until 8 pm, as will the poster display. An Indian Taco buffet bar (with numerous vegetarian selections) will be available in the meeting room prior to the evening program. "Life Along the Rio Grande" will be the theme of the meeting.

The Friday evening program will give special recognition to the late Kit Sargeant, a former ASNM member and experienced archaeologist, who discovered the remains of a Pueblo IV structure as well as an Archaic component on the property that she and her husband Arnold had purchased in Albuquerque's North Valley in the 1970s. A number of ASNM members participated in the excavations at the Chamisal Site. Arnold Sargeant will be at the Friday gathering to talk about Kit's work and explain a film made during the excavations. Kit's survey of neighboring North Valley sites and excavation at the Spanish Colonial Los Ranchos Plaza contributed to the understanding of the earlier inhabitants of Los Ranchos de Albuquerque.

Saturday morning's program will begin with a mini-symposium detailing the results of the analysis of the materials recovered from the Chamisal Site. Presenting will be Alex Kurota and his associates whose final report on the site is nearing completion. We hope that the call for papers will add other speakers on the general theme of Life along the Rio Grande. The afternoon session after the business meeting will be open to papers on other archaeological or anthropological subjects. The poster display will be available both Friday evening and on Saturday. Vendor's tables will be located in the meeting room for sales during breaks.

Dr. Matt Schmader, Albuquerque City Archaeologist, will present the Bandelier Lecture at the Saturday evening Awards Banquet. Dr. Schmader has excavated numerous sites from Paleoindian to Historic along the Rio Grande, most recently at the Piedras Marcardas site, where he has uncovered evidence of a battle between Pueblo defenders and Spanish attackers. 

Sunday field trips will include nearby sites in Albuquerque.

IPRA / OMA training from FOG

…care about transparency, accountability and public access to government information at all levels?

Continuing Legal Education Seminar: Public Access to Government When Thursday May 16, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM MDT Add to Calendar   Where Albuquerque Publishing Company 7777 Jefferson NE Albuquerque Albuquerque, NM 87109 Driving Directions Greetings! Time's running out to register for our full-day Continuing Legal Education class on open government, so register now!   Between the 2013 legislative session and important court decisions, much has changed in open government law recently. How will these changes to IPRA and OMA affect your work?    Find out at our May 16 seminar on public records and open meetings laws. Sign up now to find out about the latest developments in public records and open meetings from FOG Hotline attorneys Martin R. Esquivel, Charles R. Peifer, Charles "Kip" Purcell, Robert M. White, Gregory P. Williams and Dan Yohalem-with Kent Walz.   The course is worth six Continuing Legal Education credits (including one ethics/professionalism credit) but the class will also be useful for public officials, journalists, students and community members. For the full agenda and to register, click on the link below. See the full agenda here Register Now! Because NMFOG's own team is conducting this training, 100 percent of the tuition will go to supporting our mission.   Members of NMFOG get a significant discount on the training, but space is limited, so sign up today!    Sincerely,   Executive Director Gwyneth Doland New Mexico Foundation for Open Government gwyneth@nmfog.org 505-764-3750

New Mexico Foundation for Open Government | 115 Gold Ave. SW | Suite 201 | Albuquerque | NM | 87102

Reminder: Book Sale & Signing Sat Apr20

…9am-4pm at the Moriarty Civic Center. Proceeds benefit the "Read Write" Adult Literacy Program and the Moriarty Public Library. Winners of the Community Writing Competition will also be announced. 

Manzano Mountain Scribes usually support this event and enter the contest: 2103 participation detail remain, alas, unconfirmed. 

More details in MVTelegraph article "Authors to appear at event" by Rory McClanahan