Sun July 1: Four American Wind Quintets

Still, somehow not the Church of Beethoven but is.....music, poetry, coffee

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Four American Wind Quintets Sunday July 1 @ 10:30am At The Kosmos · 1715 5th Street NW in Abq · map Samuel Barber Summer Music for Wind Quintet Martin Bresnick Just Time Henry Cowell Suite for Woodwind Quintet Irving Fine Partita for Wind Quintet Jesse Tatum flute/alto flute Melissa Peña oboe/English horn James T Shields clarinet/bass clarinet Stefanie Przybylska bassoon Julia Erdmann Hyams horn Theresa Davis poet Theresa Davis, a classroom teacher for over twenty years, reclaimed her love for poetry nine years ago after the loss of her father. Since then, she has been a member of the Art Amok Slam Team, Women of the World Slam Champion (2011), poet in residence as the McEver Chair of Georgia Tech University, Emerging Artist Grant Recipient, and was honored by the City of Atlanta with a proclamation making May 22, Theresa Davis Day. Sibling Rivalry Press will release After This We Go Dark, Theresa's first book of published poetry, in May of 2013. Photos from June 24 1 & 2 Chatter Wind Ensemble playing Mozart's Gran Partita 3 James T Shields clarinet 4 Mary Dezember poet  Chatter Spotlight Tzu-Feng Liu hasn't been able to attend Sunday Chatter much recently. The pianist has taken a position as a professor of music and piano at a small private university in North Carolina. But it's summer, so she's back home in Albuquerque with her husband, Ben Cho, an engineer at Emcore's solar division. Ben says he is "Dr. Liu's biggest fan," and has been since they met as students at the University of Illinois and he became her "personal recording engineer." When he was growing up his parents couldn't interest him in classical music, but now he's an aficionado. On June 10 Tzu-Feng performed a hot rendition of Schulfhoff's "Hot Sonate" with saxophonist Patrick Posey at Sunday Chatter. She'll be performing with flutist Alaina Diehl at Robertson's recital hall July 8. You can keep up with her musical schedule at her website. QUICK LINKS July-Aug Calendar Tickets/FREQ Pass Info Day Sponsor Info Map to The Kosmos Volunteer Info Our three series ~ Sunday Chatter Chatter 20-21 Chatter Cabaret LIKE US   FOLLOW US         HEAR MORE Sun July 8 Sunday Chatter NO PERFORMANCE   One of two Sundays   each year that we rest!

Reminder: #Mountainair #SunflowerFestival early deadline

…register by July 1 for lower fees and to assure space. Download complete vendor / exhibitor application form (pdf). More information at the MMAC Sunflower Festival page.

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(PS ~ I'll request a list of exhibitors and vendors from MMAC Sunflower organizers  to post, hopefully with additional details and links)

NM Centennial News June 28

…plus #Mountainair weekend doings. Tomorrow Sat Jun30 is the Big Bash, MHS Class of 2013 Donation Dance, check it out, catch up, sign up, go, dance, eat, win something ~ don't miss the fun. If midday heat and encroaching impulse to turn up the fan, pull the curtains and nap does not carry me too far away for too long, I'll be back with more...if not with the full skinny, then links on where to find it for yourself. Plus any deadlines of note that we might still be on the not yet passed side of. 

New Mexico Centennial eNewsletter | June 28, 2012 New Mexico Historic Women's Marker Initiative

Opening June 28: "Spend it like Water"

Liquid Currency 2012: Spend it like Water…Art Exhibit & Dialogue (spoken word, discussions, music, ) about our most essential resource. Opening June 28, running through August 24)

ALBUQUERQUE, NM- Art exhibit opening June 28th features the work of 15 artists and opens a dialogue about our most essential resource. Begin the exploration into our relationship with water; the costs associated with how we use and abuse it, and how we can conserve it in our coming crisis.

Featuring art work by: Jane Abrams, Sally Condon, Barbara Grothus, Becky Holtzman, Joseph Lambert, Mary Lambert, Stephanie Lerma, Suzanne Marshall, David Ondrik, Valerie Roybal, Carol Sanchez, Janet Shagam, Marilyn Stablein, Harriette Tsosie, Jennifer A. Zona.

South Broadway Cultural Center will be hosting the exhibit opening June 28th and running through August 24th. A free public opening reception will be held on June 28th from 6PM-8PM featuring music by Bonnie Bluhm and spoken word by Cathy Arellano, Tani Arness, and Marilyn Stablein.

More at Spend it like Water Art Exhibit Opens June 28th — City of Albuquerque. Take a Virtual Tour of SB Cultural Center

Creativity Matters, June 25 Newsletter

…the week in @CreativeABQ & environs, which could include #Mountainair if any group cared to take notice & post to the calendar or submit an article. 

On the spike: final June reminders (June 27 TNT Fun Trip #505-353-0888, June 28 deadline to register for Estancia Valley Relay for Life; blowout MHS Donation Dance, June 30 ~ my personal vote for "don't miss" event of holiday cycle)) and surveying July in brief. If no answers email (a Town thing) or sends copy for Jubilee, I'll go with los sanfirmines July 7. Oodles more fun anyway if you can spring for the ticket to Pamplona: I've done both so know. On the trip over, do read The Sun Also Rises. Rumor has it there will be a mid-July iCreate musical event: again no flier or even timely updates. Try checking the NM Tourism Calendar. 

weekly chronicles of the creative economy Ancient in Albuquerque + other creative community headlines from albuquerque and beyond On display at the Albuquerque Museum! Hello, Creatives! Take five:

QCLAPS Newsletter, June 21-28

…reviews, articles, upcoming ongoing & coming Albuquerque events. Although not posted here weekly (more like when I remember, don't have another post on deck or am procrastinating on a local post that will take more time), this newsletter appears weekly. To stay current on Albuquerque arts, performance, and cultural events, you can subscribe to QCLAPS (AlbuQuerque, Community, Live Arts and Performance Series, Creative Albuquerque, the Weekly Alibi and other calendar sources. Those not sending newsletters are usually available in rss. with many on Facebook and Twitter. Staying on top of Albuquerque events and such is a whole 'nother post in itself…for another time. I'll even explain what happens to event information or any attachment sent with a blank subject line and no name on the from line. Today's postponed post is summer in Mountainair, mostly July. I'm waiting to hear back from the usual sources, reliable and less than. 

Volume 42 Number 4June 21 to 28, 2012

Today Jun16 in #Mountainair

…*Days of the Rancher event at Mountain Arts on Broadway, #farmersmarket (Mountainair Farm & Garden Market) and maybe a community garden work session (no word on that: check with Joan Embree, housemaven@comcast.net)

Art on the Range schedule, exhibit information and Pie Rules (nothing like the Cider House ones) as posted on the Manzano Mountain Art Council page and now **here.

Art on the Range schedule

#NMCentennial Newsletter June 14

A packed issue... Summerfest, ballooning, Heritage Days in Portales, Centennial Choral Celebration at the historic Rio Grande Theater in Las Cruces, follow up on Centennial Pony Express from Hobbs to Santa Fe and more... 

Problems viewing page? Click here New Mexico Centennial eNewsletter | June 14, 2012 New Mexico Centennial Summerfest in Albuquerque    Join in on the fun this Saturday, June 16th, from 12pm to 9pm, for New Mexico's largest Centennial celebration in downtown Albuquerque. Centennial Summerfest will feature six different stages and pavilions along Central Avenue. At 6 pm, the main stage becomes the focal point with performances by award winning musicians, followed by the multiple Grammy®-winning band Los Lobos rockin' the stage from 8pm to 9:30pm. For more information, please visit NMCentennial.org or www.abqsummerfest.com

Nominate an Open Government Hero!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 13, 2012 For more info contact: Gwyneth Doland (505) 764-3750 gwyneth@nmfog.org Nominate an Open Government Hero!  Transparency Watchdog Taking Award Nominees The New Mexico Foundation for Open Government is now accepting nominations for the 2012 William S. Dixon First Amendment Freedom Award.  BRIEF: Nominations must be received by July 16, 2012. Nomination letters should discuss how the person has advanced the cause of open government or free-speech rights in New Mexico. Awards are given in the areas of education, law, government, business and journalism. Submit nominations to info@nmfog.org.

Creativity Matters: Flamenco, Summerfest, Savor #ABQ

Always a plus when a ready made, ready to go post just falls into my mailbox... if only local ones were this convenient, requiring no reminding... just turn it around as sent. 

So many things to do, see, read! Not displaying correctly? View it in your browser .   Fabulous Flamenco + other creative community headlines from albuquerque and beyond Flamenco Stars Rafael Campello and Pastora Galvan (image Cisco Casado) Take five, friends:

Real NM History ~ resources, lectures, museum exhibits, presentations, links, etc. from the Historical Society of New Mexico.

Greetings All, Here is the June edition of the New Mexico Historical Notebook in pdf (or Word)

Regards, Don Bullis

hsnminfo@gmail.com 

 If you have a keen interest in New Mexico History, enjoy attending historical conferences  and reading stimulating and revealing articles by noted historians, archivists and recognized experts in their fields, HSNM is for you!

Save the date now- for the 2013 Annual History Conference, Las Cruces, NM: a Joint New Mexico & Arizona Event.

 

The Historical Society of New Mexico is an active group of New Mexico history enthusiasts. In addition to sponsoring an annual history conference and speakers bureau, the society is dedicated to: increasing the knowledge of and disseminating information on New Mexico history; encouraging preservation of historic objects and property

     

Come, browse our site. We offer links to organizations, museums and other historic points of interest in New Mexico. 

ramblings, June 9

A Saturday morning list of / musings on happenings of sorts around #Mountainair and environs that I can't get to, but, to be honest, might not if I could. Rambles are defined as moving about aimlessly from place to place. 

If I could have, I would have visited Jude at the new Painted Finch Gallery's artist reception in Meadesville PA to see my namesake dolls (the Vanessa Collection) and again at today's Art Walk to see Molly the Artmobile (aRtV) all decked out. (See more about Jude's current and well furnished art world at Arts4Everyone.) Meat world, both locations are equally inaccessible, yet equally accessible in cyberspace. 

Jude on gallery (above left): "beautiful…wonderful feel about it…a quietness…to appreciate the artwork"

Back to Mountainair, Sunday is the second and last shot clinic, organized by Jodie Gustin and sponsored by the Town of Mountainair (Animal Shelter). This one is at the Dr Saul Community Center, schedule and details posted on the Town page (link above). Not a weekend item, but important: please remember that GED classes are now available in Mountainair. Support the program by spreading the word. Instructor Cynthia Fonder also welcomes donations of supplies.

Later, further down Broadway, the art council presents a Readers Theater reading, at Mountain Arts on Broadway: Love Letters, a popular but not critically well regarded play by A.R. Gurney. The Outdoor Sculpture project, May 5 kickoff workshop, is of particular interest: updates with pics on workshop and ongoing progress would be most welcome.

June 2012 at MAoB in #Mountainair

Manzano Mountain Arts Council calendar of art center activities, meetings, etc. Generally, individual notices are also sent for events, contact mmacevents@gmail.com to be added to the email list.