Mountainair NM

Sunday Apr15: Dance With Dragons

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Dale Harris, formerly residing in the Mountainair area, Hummingbird Cafe, founding TCAC member (Torrance County Arts Council, later renamed Manzano Mountain Art Council), Poets and Writers Picnic founder, poet, potter, book artist, and nurse (for the greenhorns who don't know her) writes, 


Dancing With Dragons opens this Sunday 4/15, 1pm-5pm, at the New Mexico Art League

 
What a gorgeous art show this is, a must see! please take a look at the attached flyer for more info. And the opening reception this Sunday afternoon  at the New Mexico Art League is chock full of fun, interesting demos like calligraphy, sumi-e painting, ikebana, tea sampling and origami. I get to show off some of my book arts that incorporate Asian materials and style and also will bring along some of the Book of Seasons print folios and boxes for just the day. Hope to see you there!

Dale Harris

Dancing With Dragons
Opening reception Sunday, April 15, 1 - 5 pm

New Mexico Art League
3407 Juan Tabo Blve. NE
Albuquerque, NM  87111
(next to the Juan Tabo Library)
505-293-5034
 

  

Mountainair Beautiful

These arrived over the electronic transom last Saturday with the following note from an anonymous but civic minded believer in transparency and publicly sharing information of community interest,

Spring must be in the air cause the hits keep coming.  On my way through town, I noticed Berna's condemned building tagged by vandals!  Spray paint all over it.  Message?  

"This building is condemned. Stay out. DANGER!"  all over it!

Who? Activist vandals?  Owner vandals? Imagine my surprise to learn that the tagger was a municipal employee!

Anonymity guaranteed to contributors of accurate and verifiable content of community and public interest. Opinions, supported and appropriately expressed, are also welcome.

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Wed Mar28: Genaro Padilla on Colonial history

Via ASNM, “Reading a Spanish Colonial Epic from a Chicano Context: Villagrá's Historia de la Nueva México, 1610” at 12:00 PM March 28, 2012, Hibben Center, Room 105 

UC Berkeley associate dean, Chicano literary critic, and NM native Genaro Padilla will be delivering a talk tomorrow.  His book "The Daring Flight of My Pen" was recently awarded an honorable mention by MLA.  The talk poster is attached and information is below. There will be a reception following the talk.

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NM Centennial E-Newsletter March 2012

Every issue I check to see if any Mountainair entity ~ town, chamber, local business, arts council, farmer market, community garden, school district, service or cultural organization ~has registered a Centennial event or project, Still nothing. Maybe next month...

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The New Mexico Centennial, Discover New Mexico, Honor our Heritage, Reach for the Future
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New Mexico Centennial eNewsletter | March 27, 2012

Centennial commemoration activities underway statewide

 
 
 
2012 has been a memorable commemoration year for New Mexico  thus far -- and we thank communities statewide for their grand participation.  All 33 counties have been busy planning and putting on events, which will heat up this spring and summer.  Highlights coming up include: 

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TCAS March Meeting 7pm Mon Mar5

A Torrance County Archaeological Society notice via Bob Berglund, this is also a post in the Virtual Salt Missions Trail Project (SMT) series.

Hi, Everyone….. It's less than a week until our March meeting.  This month, we have Jeanette Wolfe, historian for Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument. Her presentation, The Great Battle - Women in Preservation, will include some history of Clara Corbyn, the author of La Gran Quibira (1904) and homesteader near the present day Gran Quivira National Monument.

Gran Quivira Ruins Entry Sign at Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument 

The business meeting following will include updates on our progress in hosting the 2012 Annual ASNM Annual Meeting in conjunction with Friends of Tijeras Pueblo.  Volunteers are still needed to help pull it all together. Treats for the evening will be provided by Lucy Berglund, Rick Koll, and Sandy Carr.

Hope to see you all there… Bill Simms, Program Chair

March 2012 Ancient Southwest Lectures and Conferences

Note: showing listings for NM and adjacent states (AZ & CO) only. NM listings and links are in boldface. For complete updates and more Southwest archaeology news, subscribe to ASNM-L@list.unm.edu. This blog series is part the Virtual Salt Missions Trail project.

 

March 5, 6:00 PM, Southwest Seminars Lecture: "Chaco Canyon: The Enigmas of Fajada Butte and the Symbolism of the Center." Dr. J. McKim Malville, Hotel Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico

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NM Archaeological Society, April 20–22 in Moriarty

Local historians, archaeology buffs, Salt Missions Trail Scenic Byways and Cultural Corridor management committee, supporters and fans.... don't miss this one. Mark your calendars. (Yes, this is early, but we'll be reminding you again... and again) Check out the Call for Papers too. It is to be hoped that MRCOG's management plan coordinator and committee members will present, at the very least, a spiffy poster about the Corridor.

Estancia Valley dry salt lakes, from 30,000' 
Estancia Valley salt lakes
Saturday's program opens reviewing the Estancia Basin and the peopling of the Salinas Province from early man through the historic period. The historic perspective will focus on use and trade of salt from the lake on the La Salina Grant.  

2012 Annual Meeting April 20 to 22 in Moriarty includes Friday Evening Events and Saturday Mini-Symposium

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Whistler in Corsica

 

An essay about James Abbot McNeil Whistler, illustrated and based on his correspondence, courtesy of ACFA Éditions (Association Culturelle France-Amerique), 23, avenue Guy de Maupassant, 13008 Marseilles - France. Tel. fax : 33(0) 491 77 98 08. Email: acfa1@aliceadsl.fr

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New Mexico Dance Institute @ Mountainair Elementary School

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Each year, the Manzano Mountain Art Council sponsors a residency program at the Mountainair Elementary School.  For several years it has been the Santa Fe Opera. This year we are pleased to announce that the New Mexico Dance Institute will spend a week (December 12-16) working with MES students. 


NDI-NM Mission Statement: We care about the whole student: challenging tasks develop their minds; vigorous activities make their bodies strong; a high standard of excellence raises the bar for what can be achieved; and team-building exercises boosts their confidence and enriches their spirits. NDI-NM is founded with the knowledge that the arts have a unique power to engage and motivate children.

The program culminates in a public performance on Friday, December 16, 2011 at 1:30 pm. The performance will take place in the Mountainair Elementary School Gym. Please join us in celebrating the children of Mountainair in putting this performance together for parents, teachers, and the community.