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Spring brings great acts to Santa Fe

makinart — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:46:08 +0000

Perhaps some of the overflow of SWXSW still is happening. Many of the musicians will go on the road for awhile after that event. Imagine, once again, PoGirl coming to Santa Fe! It’s only April and the music keeps getting better and better. Check this out!

Thursday April 23 8 PM $10
CORNMEAL

BLUEGRASS / PROGRESSIVE / JAM BAND
www.myspace.com/cornmealinthekitchen

Friday April 24 8 PM $5

Saturday April 25 7:30 PM
SOUTHWEST ROOTS MUSIC PRESENTS
PO’ GIRL

FOLK/BLUES/SPIRITUAL/DEPRESSION-ERA JAZZ/EAST EUROPEAN GYPSY
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS

JT & the CLOUDS
1. $25 General Admission. Tickets at Lensic Box Office 988-1234.
2. $100 VIP Package: A pair of tickets, artist CD & acknowledgment from stage.
Helps fund our outreach programs. Call 473-5723 to order.
3. SW Roots Music members call 473-5723 for discount.

Sunday April 26      7:30 PM     $18 Advance
FAN MAN, THE SFR, & 98.1 KBAC PRESENT
www.lezzeppelin.com

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ANY OF THESE GREAT SHOWS, PLEASE VISIT OUR WEB SITES AT:
www.thepubandgrill.com

www.myspace.com/santafepubandgrill

TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

PO’GIRL with JT & The CLOUDS SAT 4/25 LEZ ZEPPELIN SUN 4/26 BOB SCHNEIDER SUN 5/17

New at Santa Fe Complex in Santa Fe NM

makinart — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:56:37 +0000

The Innovators Forum Comes
to the Complex

For more info, visit sfcomplex.org or call 505/216.7562

April 20, 2009

Finding High-Impact
Indivduals for Your Start-up
Tuesday, April 21, 2:300pm

One of the greatest challenges in bringing an innovative idea to market is finding the right, high-impact people to be part of your start-up team. Todd Hand, managing partner at Talent Capital Group, a venture-backed executive search firm founded in Boston with offices in New Mexico, brings over 15 years of experience in this area to the Innovators Forum at the Complex on Tuesday, April 22 at 2:30 pm. This event is free and refreshments will be provided. Register by emailing Gail Gordon or calling her at 505/820.1226. For more information about Innovators’ Forum, or to be added to the mailing list, please email Kim Sherwood or call her at 505/665.1305. Read more.

Crossroads in Medicine: When HIV Doesn’t Lead to AIDS and Stem Cells Are Made by Man
Tuesday, April 21, 7:00pmStatistical physics and cell biology are the latest seemingly-different scientific fields that may combine to offer insights into human health and medicine. Arup K. Chakraborty, the Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Biological Engineering at MIT, will describe work that brings together these approaches to consider two problems related to human disease: HIV autoimmunity and stem-cell research. This month’s installment of the q-bios lecture series is on Tuesday, April 21 in . Read more.

The Complex @ MIT
Building Intelligent City ModelsTwo Santa Fe Complex practitioners, Fabio Carrera and Stephen Guerin, visited MIT this week for a presentation on agent-based modeling entitled ‘Agent-based City Knowledge with Ambient Computing.’ They discussed recent applications of agent-based GIS simulations to urban systems in the Spatial Database Management and Advanced Geographic Information Systems class in MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies. More.

2nd NGO Meetup April 22 · 8:30am

It’s the second in a series of brainstorming sessions for NGOs to overcome challenges and better help our community and you’re invited. This participatory dialogue will focus on action-able items to do in 2009. Click here for more information.

Take the Railrunner
to the Complex

Leave downtown Abq at 4:15 on the #514 and you’ll be at the Santa Fe Depot by 5:46. Walk west, past the REI building, to the Complex for our evening events. (The Railrunner stops at three other spots in the Abq area en route to Santa Fe. For details, click here.

Return on the #519 at 8:15, arriving in downtown ABQ at 9:42, or the #521 heads south at 9:30 to arrive at 10:57.

The Rest of the Week in Brief

A Map of Knowledge
Wednesday, April 22, 6:00pm

After articles in the Santa Fe New Mexican and the New York Times, we catch up with Johan Bollen’s map of knowledge and the paths it tracks across art, science and the humanities. Read more.

Vasulkas Come to Manipulated Image
Friday, April 24, 8:00pmVideo icons, and long time Santa Feans, Steina and Woody Vasulka will present their work at the next Manipulated Image, at the Santa Fe Complex, including live interactive video by Steina. Get a glimpse of history from the people that made it, as they give their insights and reflections on the significant moments in the chronicles of video art, and point the way to the future. Read more.

The UUUT Experiment (<65dB)
Lives On
Sunday, April 26, 3:00pmUUUUT is a monthly experiment in making music through unstructured improvisation, the use of found objects, extended techniques, laptops, robotics with the only rule being they can’t exceed 65 dB on a projected decibel meter. (That’s basically conversation level.) All musicians, artists and sound addicts in general are welcome to participate or simply come and experience the event. The performance is free and open to the public. Visit the UUUUT website for a detailed description, list of past perfomers and their comments or click here for the Complex site.

Come Visit UsSanta Fe Complex is located in the Railyard Art District within walking distance of the hotels, restaurants and shops at the plaza downtown. We’re housed in two facilities, the project space at 624 Agua Fria and the common space at 632 Agua Fria.
While there is parking at 624 Agua Fria, the Romero Street parking lot is more conveniently located for the 632 facility. Romero St. is an old-style Santa Fe ox-cart road just east of the 624 driveway. Follow it south from Agua Fria St. until it opens up to two lanes; turn hard right into the parking lot for 632. Or, enter from Manhattan St. & Romero St. to the south.

Here’s a map to our location, a representative shot showing the Railyard District and a sketchup drawing of the facility at 632. For more information, call 505/216.7562 or click here.

Santa Fe Complex
624 Agua Fria
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
505-216-7562

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This organization just keeps getting better and better. Mary

makinart — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:18:36 +0000

THE PUB & GRILL at the SFBC

SANTA FE’S FAVORITE LIVE MUSIC VENUE!

VOTED #1 BEST BAR FOR LIVE MUSIC

VOTED #2 BEST PLACE TO GO DANCING

IN THE SANTA FE REPORTER’S BEST OF 2008 ISSUE

37 FIRE PLACE - JUST OFF NM HIGHWAY 14 - SOUTH OF I-25 “AT THE TOP OF THE TURQUOISE TRAIL”

NEXT TO THE

SANTA FE BREWING COMPANY

VOTED #1 BEST LOCAL BEER

IN THE SF REPORTER’S BEST OF 2008 ISSUE

We hope to see ya’ll soon at the Pub & Grill!

Hey ya’ll! It’s that time again!

Please go to the Santa Fe Reporter’s home page at

www.sfreporter.com

click on the SFR Best of Santa Fe icon,

and cast a vote for your favorite Santa Fe business’s!

It’s fun, and you can win some really cool prizes

just by voting!

The Pub and Grill at the SFBC is on the ballot again for Best Bar for Live Music and Best Place to Dance, and the Santa Fe Brewing Company is on the ballot for Best Locally Brewed Beer! Please keep us in mind when you cast your vote!THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

THIS WEEK AT THE PUB & GRILL

at the Santa Fe Brewing Company

Monday April 13 7:30 PM $20 Advance/No Guaranteed Seating

AMP CONCERTS, FAN MAN, THE SFR, & 98.1 KBAC PRESENT

AMANDA PALMER

Amanda Palmer is the lead singer, pianist, and lyricist/composer of the “Brechtian punk cabaret” duo The Dresden Dolls. Palmer’s solo album, Who Killed Amanda Palmer was produced by Ben Folds. “The record was supposed to be simple. It ended up not being simple at all. This is like my life. I first got the idea to put together a really simple, stripped-down, record-in-in-my-underwear-in-my-apartment-in-boston kinda thing.” www.amandapalmer.net

Tuesday April 14 7:30 pm $5

YVONNE PEREA

Yvonne has been playing guitar and writing songs since the tender age of 8 — true, she makes it look easy but many years have gone into perfecting her craft! Over the past 10 years, she has released four albums of original material: her first album, Knowing This Path (1996) seemed to predict where she would be going in her life, both as a woman and as a musician; it plots a very personal journey. Tomorrow’s Day (1999) began as a demo project of a few songs, but demand for another CD of her original music persuaded Yvonne to release it as an acoustic album. So, it became her “unplugged” project — just guitars and her searing voice. Her next album, My Peace (2002), truly captures for the first time Yvonne’s multi-dimensional talent and sound that defy a compartmentalized genre. It is a project representative of her maturity as an artist and as a person– combining upbeat, bluesy tracks with warm, full ballads and something in between. Her current album, “Mudpies”, has finally been released. A “mudpie” is a collection of mud, water, bugs, grass, rocks and anything else you can imagine as a child. This album, “Mudpies”, is a colorful collection of fun times, sad times, love and life. Produced, once again, by Matt Bissonette, “Mudpies” has landed. After hearing Yvonne’s music or watching her perform, most come away with the feeling that they have really seen a glimpse of Yvonne’s soul. In her own genuine and real way, she writes her heart into her songs. www.yvonneperea.com

Wednesday April 15 7:30 PM $19 Advance

FAN MAN, The SF REPORTER, & 98.1 KBAC PRESENT

GARY LOURIS

& MARK OLSON

OF THE JAYHAWKS

Gary Louris and Mark Olson are releasing Ready for the Flood, their first new release since Olson left the Jayhawks in 1995. Ready for the Flood, produced by Chris Robinson (Black Crowes), reunites their unrivaled harmonies. Led by their gifted songwriting & impeccable playing, Olson and Louris’ shimmering blend of country, folk, Americana, grit and bar band rock and songwriting skills, revive their unique sound.
www.myspace.com/readyfortheflood

Friday April 17 8 PM $5

The STRANGE

WITH DANIEL MURPHY

The Strange’s home grown unconventional blues rock is hypnotizing with heavy bass tones, groovy guitar licks, & euphonic piano melodies. Original music by talented Santa Fe musicians Mitchell Lacassagne, Justin Lindsey, Andrew Davey, Lynsay Ayala, and Braden Anderson. www.myspace.com/fourstrange

Saturday April 18 7:30 PM $20 Advance

FAN MAN, THE SFR, & 98.1 KBAC PRESENT

MICHELLE SHOCKED

Shocked writes, “I was moved by the power of rock ‘n’ roll. And if you follow the trail from rock ‘n’ roll, it always leads you back to the blues, sweet soul music and finally to the churches and gospel music.” In Shocked’s case, it led to “living by the Good Book, and putting out a gospel record.” Her new CD “ToHeavenYouRide” spotlights Shocked where she shines brightest-live onstage, delivering for an audience. The album captures her at her most soulful-in the original spiritual sense. www.michelleshocked.com

SUNDAY APRIL 19 4 PM $25/$30

FAN MAN, THE SF REPORTER, & 98.1 KBAC PRESENT

TINARIWEN

I really like the Pub, the music, but tonight the pictures caught my eye! Enjoy! Mary

makinart — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:06:58 +0000

Rethink Public Art:
Art, Community and Peace in a Complex World

April 7, 2009 by complextalk

April 9, 2009
6:00 pm	to	9:00 pm

Jack Becker, co-founder and executive director of Forecast Public Art, publishers of Public Art Review, will join Anne “Ahni” Rocheleau, founder and director of Spaces for Peace, and Erica Behrens, director of the New York office of Franz Mayer of Munich, on Thursday, April 9 at 6:00 pm for a panel discussion about rethinking the role of public art in connecting art, community and peace in a complex society.

Their panel presentation will examine how to connect art, community and peace in our complex society. Jack Becker will discuss public art and community building, with an emphasis on art that bridges cultures, brings people together and addresses conflict. Ahni Rocheleau will share a visual presentation on how her organization provides groundwork knowledge to create cultures of peace through public art sites. Erica Behrens will discuss Franz Mayer’s fabrication techniques and how the firm works with artists’ designs and clients globally. The presenters will then field audience questions.

Jack Becker has actively pursued his passion for art in public spaces since 1976. A graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, he specializes in projects that connect the ideas and energies of artists with the needs and opportunities of communities. He is the editor of Public Art Review, the world’s leading journal devoted exclusively to the field of contemporary public art.

Anne “Ahni” Rocheleau founded Spaces for Peace in 2004. The former director and curator of The Rhode Island Foundation Gallery, Ahni has worked as an arts educator and administrator in nonprofit, government, museum and academic worlds. Spaces for Peace collaborates with communities to build open-air public art sites that educate the public to a nonviolent way of life. These sites represent a singular fusion of contemporary visual and sound art with written word, integrated into landscaped architectural spaces in plazas, parks and on campuses.

For more than 16 years, Erica Behrens has worked with artists on public art projects at various stages. Behrens managed highly successful public art projects with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Art for Transit Program in New York City for 11 years. In her current position with Franz Mayer, Behrens works with artist’s designs and clients globally.

Santa Fe Complex is located at 632 Agua Fria Street. Limited parking is available by entering on Romero Street or Manhattan Avenue. Additional paid parking is available at the City of Santa Fe Railyard Parking Garage. “Rethink Public Art” is partnership between the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission, New Mexico Arts, a division of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, Santa Fe Complex and Spaces for Peace

More News From Locals Care

makinart — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:29:00 +0000

It’s great for to see our community come together again and again to support our local non-profits and businesses. Our Public Radio Station just finished its pledge drive! Yeah and yes I pledged. Our famous Food Depot still needs help. Many of us are also making sure to keep vigilence with some of our fav bizes to make sure they can continue. Numerous businesses have closed, and more and more for resnt or sale signs are appearing. Wherever you live please do what you can to help your fav enterprise’s. Here’s the latest locals care news.

Great New Place to use your
Locals Care Card!

Have you shopped at a Locals Care
Store this week?

It only takes moving one purchase a week to a Locals Care store from a national chain to make a BIG difference.

1 in 5 people carry the card!

Over 5.5 Million Dollars spent at Local Merchants since 2006

Current List of
Participating
Locals Care Merchants

Dear Mary, Here is a new business that accepts Locals Care!

Please support this business, and welcome them to the Locals Care Community!

Fantastic Coffee, good food and incredible service.

Located on the south end of town a few blocks of Cerillos on Jaguar. Click here for a map

Miklo’s makes a great cappuccino, or americano. Just the right amount of foam, and a rich flavor. The price is very reasonable. They have indoor and outdoor seating and wireless Internet.

Artifical Intelligence Brain Dead?

makinart — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:05:32 +0000

Is Artifical Intelligence Brain Dead?
Tuesday, April 7 · 6:00pm

Dr. Pei Wang, an associate professor at Temple University and international authority on artificial intelligence, joins the Complex this week to discuss the effort to build thinking machines. Some consider artificial intelligence a science while critics say it is brain-dead; Dr. Wang says the first step is to understand the nature of intelligence before designing thinking machines. Read more.

DinoMax Heads Up
J.A. Deane
Comes to SFMaxDino (J.A. Deane), who has appeared on a diverse range of recordings, from Ike & Tina Turner to Brian Eno and John Zorn, joins SFMax on Friday, April 17 at 8:00pm. Mark this on your calendar as a great opportunity to gain some insights into performing live sampling & live electronics from someone who has been doing it since before it had a category. More.

Take the Railrunner
to the Complex

Return on the #519 at 8:15, arriving in downtown ABQ at 9:42, or the #521 heads south at 9:30 to arrive at 10:57.

ReThink Public Art Thursday, April 9, 6:00pm

Jack Becker, co-founder and executive director of Forecast Public Art, publishers of Public Art Review, will join Anne “Ahni” Rocheleau, founder and director of Spaces for Peace, and Erica Behrens, director of the New York office of Franz Mayer of Munich, in a panel discussion about rethinking the role of public art in connecting art, community and peace in a complex society. The presenters will then field audience questions. Read more.

Canary in a Coal Mine Friday, April 10, 7:00pmWhile we hope this won’t be true, this may be one of the last opportunities the Santa Fe community will have to see the avant-garde talent that has been fostered in the unique programs offered by the College of Santa Fe. This student-organized event of cross-disciplinary works starts at 7:00pm this Friday, April 10, and includes experimental works of sculpture, photography, drawing, and painting, as well as new media digital performances, dance, and poetry reading. Read more.

Here’s a map to our location, a representative shot showing the Railyard District and a sketchup drawing of the facility at 632. For more information, call 505/216.7562 or click here.

Santa Fe Complex
624 Agua Fria
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
505-216-7562

Hope you have fun! Mary

Locals Care: $116,000 to nonprofits $5million plus to businesses

makinart — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 04:44:12 +0000

The City of Santa Fe Economic Development Department has launched the ‘Buy Into It’ Campaign. They are asking for consumers to spend their money in Santa Fe, versus online or in other cities.
We support this idea of keeping dollars local.

The City of Santa Fe would like to publicly recognize some of those people who have made the choice to ‘Buy into Santa Fe’. The City of Santa Fe is asking residents to voluntarily submit the amount they are spending locally, and may recognize them in local advertising. If you would like Locals Care to submit your name and total volume of local spending on your behalf, please reply to this email and let us know you would like to participate. We will do the rest.

When You Shop Local at least Once a Week, something Special Happens…

When you shop at a participating Locals Care merchant, you of course know that part of your transaction is donated by the merchant to the nonprofit you have selected. But did you also know, that every time you visit a merchant in the Locals Care network, you are increasing tax receipts? You are making sure your dollars recirculate longer within our economy, generating more money for parks, police and fire support, and the Santa Fe River. In fact, a recent study by Dr. David Blond, Principal at Query International and former Chief Economist at the Pentagon during the Carter and Reagan administrations, demonstrated that Locals Care has generated an estimated additional $500,000 in tax revenue for the City of Santa Fe! WOW! What a difference shopping local can make!

Support locally owned businesses, and Support your nonprofit!
This is your program. You have chosen the nonprofit to support. You have chosen where to spend your money.

From all of us at Locals Care, Thank you… for doing something special.

William, Carrie, Colt & Andy

Well, I wanted to be at the top. These are great programs. Perhaps you’s like to start one in your neighborohhod too or city, etc. Mary

makinart — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 04:20:53 +0000

The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival presents an exclusive private recital featuring
Festival pianist Kuok-Wai Lio

You may not be a loyal patron, but you may still get a seat! Here’s the information.

Mary

As a loyal patron of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, you are invited to attend a free private recital on stage at the Lensic Performing Arts Center featuring Festival artist Kuok-Wai Lio. This is your opportunity to hear this exciting young musician before his Festival debut performance on August 20. Artistic Director Marc Neikrug acclaims, “Lio is one of the most complete musicians I have ever heard at his age. When he performs he is totally transported by the music and takes you with him.”

Monday, April 20, at 5:30 p.m.
Lensic Performing Arts Center
211 West San Francisco Street

Space for this free event is limited and you MUST make a reservation to attend.
Please RSVP by April 10, 2009, to Sarah Weiler at the Festival office,
(505) 983-2075, x. 111 or sarah@sfcmf.org.

Born in Macau in 1989, Kuok-Wai Lio began his piano studies at the age of five. In 1997, he was awarded a scholarship to study at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. In 2006, he entered The Curtis Institute of Music In Philadelphia where he studies with Gary Graffman. He has performed in master classes given by Murray Perahia, András Schiff and Krystian Zimerman.He was the winner of the 2007 International Fulbright Concerto Competition for Pianists and the 2005 Gina Bachauer International Young Artists Competition. He was awarded an Honorary Diploma by the Chief Executive of Macau, and was invited to perform for the President of China, Hu Jintao. Recently, he has performed as a soloist with the Camerata Salzburg, Russian Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic.

Films, Volunteers and Events NM update

makinart — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:35:10 +0000

Yes you Can become involved in the arts. Your talents can be used in multiple activities. Read the details and call the people. Remember you never know who will show up and add some excitement or spice to your life! Mary

Film Arts

art films, films about art, and news from the Film Industry
My Life with SDS and the Weathermen
Take in a booksigning with the author Mark Rudd and a FREE screening of Sam Green’s oscar nominated documentary on the radical 60s activists group The Weathermen. Also watch for Jim Belshaw’s interview with Rudd in the April issue of albuquerqueARTS.
Book signing and screening Thursday, April 2, 6pm
The Guild Cinema
3405 Central NE
(505) 255-1848
guildcinema.com

Volunteer Opportunities-Aldo Leopold Film Festival
The Aldo Leopold Centennial Celebration 2009 honors Leopold’s legacy in New Mexico by promoting Leopold’s vision that an ethical relationship with the land is essential to a vibrant and healthy community. The theme of this year long celebration is the relevance of his land ethnic as we address today’s pressing environmental issues.
* April -May - Organize logistics for film screenings
* June - Film submission deadline
* July - Film judging (jury panels for content and film quality/creativity)
* August - Winners announced and film screenings
Contact execdirector@goldenapplenm.org with information on your volunteer interests, times available, and contact information. Helping organize this project will not preclude your submission of a film for the competition.

Read albuquerqueARTS Film News for March on line - Reel News: CrewNewMexico.com, IAIA Workshop and a new PSA, By Tom Gibbons

Take a Road Trip

You have asked for some out of town coverage too
Prelude to the 400th: Music of Spain & Mexico
The Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, in cooperation with the Santa Fe 400th Anniversary, Inc., presents a prelude to the City of Santa Fe’s 400th Anniversary. To commemorate the proud tradition of Hispanic culture, which is the basis of so much pleasure in New Mexican living, the Symphony brings you Music of Spain & Mexico, featuring Ponce’s Estrellita, de Falla’s La vida breve, Turina’s Rhapsodia Sinfonica, and Galindo’s Danza de las fuerzas nuevas. The program will celebrate 400 years of culture in Santa Fe, and includes a reading of the March 30, 1609 Royal Proclamation entitled Instructions to Peralta, which were given by the Viceroy of Spain to Don Pedro de Peralta to build a presidio and six districts around a plaza. The new settlement was named La Villa Real de Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asis. Concert Sponsored-In-Part by Sanbusco Market Center. Performance Sunday, March 29, 2:45 and 6pm
The Lensic
211 West San Francisco Street
(505) 983-3530
santafesymp hony.org

Read on…

Workshops, calls for entry, workshops and more opportunities
A complete listing of auditions and other calls for artists as well as every type of arts event can be referenced at the Arts Alliance website where you can also subscribe to their all new Something to Do Online Newsletter. www.abqarts.org Read on…

Interns Wanted for A small Recording Studio

makinart — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:29:57 +0000

Opportunities keep opening up for those in the arts. www.Abqarts.com is a terrific place for the creative people to connect. Also for everyone else: pull out your calendar and start planning. Mary

Masterworks of New Mexico Spring Art Show
Four separately juried shows are divided by media and represent artists throughout New Mexico.
Opening Reception Friday, April 3, 5-8pm
Expo New Mexico Fine Arts Gallery
300 San Pedro NE, Gate 4
(505) 265-1791
exponm.com

Opening a Book: Environmental Artists’ Books
The exhibition explores the artist’s book as a medium for addressing ideas about the environment. See altered and sculptural books, works of visual poetry, and books build around process and performance by various artists.
Reception Saturday, April 4, 6-9pm
The Land/Gallery
419 Granite Ave. NW
(505) 242-1501
landartsite.org

Artist Studio Thriving in this Economy
If you missed the 6pm news on KOAT tonight, read about Paula Manning-Lewis and Chroma Studios and how they are surviving this economy in the art business. Congratulations to Paula and her husband on their April one-year anniversary of the business. Interview on line at www.koat.com/money

Performing Arts

Theater, Dance, Lectures, Poetry and more …
New Works 4 New Mexico at the Cell
Enjoy this staged reading series’ presentation of East of the Desert, West of the Dead by Jen Silverman. If you’ve never been to the Cell, you will experience an historic building (opened in 1912 as a produce cold storage facility) adjacent to the Wool Warehouse. Enter the hand-carved front door and be transported to a magical world of comfort and delight. Come early to enjoy refreshments and the art gallery. Presented by Fusion Theater Company. Tickets are only $5 - purchase them at the door.
Special Event Friday, March 27, 7pm
The Cell Theater
700 First St. NW
(505) 766-9412
fusionabq.org

Last Weekend of Global DanceFest
The 9th annual Global DanceFest ventures to Latitudes North/Scandinavia to offer New Mexicans a window on contemporary dance and culture at the top of the world. Much of the work is multi-media, infused with theatrical devices and technology. The art is cerebral but imbued with humor. The artists represent the global shifts and schisms common to every region - a Norwegian-Iranian, Israelis at home in Denmark, Indigenous Greenlanders sharing a contemporary tale. This weekend features: POLAROID (what’s really going on around the North Pole). Jo Strømgren Kompani is an internationally acclaimed dance company based in Bergen, Norway. In Polaroid (what’s really going on around the North Pole) the company uses authentic Greenlandic language, a marginal language only spoken by Inuits and rarely heard on the international theatre scene. · Co- produced by NAPA/ Nordic Institute of Greenland, Polaroid makes a tongue-in-cheek dance statement about Greenlandic culture and contemporary environmental issues.
Performances Fri-Sat, March 27-28, 8pm
N4th Theater
4904 Fourth St. NW
(505) 344-4542
vsartsnm.org

World Premiere and Benefit for ALT
The Viagra Dialogues , a must see comedy about men by Senator Joe Carraro, opens with a gala benefit performance with reception by Scalo. Gala benefit $50 donation to ALT, additional performances Saturday and Sunday at $20.
World Premiere performance Friday, April 3 with 7pm reception and 8pm performance
Performances Sat. April 4, 8pm, Sun. April 5, 6pm
Albuquerque Little Theatre
224 San Pasquale SW
(505) 242-4750
albuque rquelittletheatre.org

18th Albuquerque Antiquarian Book Fair
Check out 35 exhibitors of out-of-print and rare materials from across the West as they bring books, maps, photos, prints and other printed collectibles in diverse subjects to Albuquerque.
Book Fair Friday April 3, 5-9pm; Saturday April 4, 10-4
UNM Continuing Education Building
1634 University NE
(505) 291-9653

Music

musical performances, workshops and festivals
Irish Take Over SBCC Stage Friday Night
Famed Irish bands Beoga and Grada will perform at the John lewis Theater at South Broadway Cultural Center Friday night. Beoga (Irish for lively) is a 5-piece traditional band from Ireland. Grada has taken Irish traditional music to a new level, effortlessly blending contemporary music styles, modern songs and other forms of ethnic music into their own natural style.
Performance Friday, March 27, 8pm
South Broadway Cultural Center
1025 Broadway SE
(505) 848-1320
cabq.gov/sbcc

The Agency is closing its doors
The Agency is packing up its live recording and production equipment and closing its doors after a year of art openings, music shows, performances and production work. The last show at The Agency will be the Farewell Party.
Performance Saturday, March 28, 6pm
The Agency
111 Central SW, Downtown

George Lewis Trio with Nicole Mitchell & Hamid Drake
The Outpost presents the UNM Composers’ Symposium opening night concert by this year’s featured composer- MacArthur Fellow and Columbia University Professor of Music- George Lewis, and his trio featuring Nicole Mitchell and Hamid Drake. Long prominent in the experimental music tradition, trombonist George Lewis studied composition with Muhal Richard Abrams at the famed Chicago musician’s cooperative, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) School of Music, and studied trombone with Dean Hey. A member of the AACM since 1971, his work as composer, improvisor, performer and interpreter explores electronic music, computer-based multimedia installations, text-sound works, and notated and improvisational forms. With more than 120 recordings to his name, he has also published numerous articles which have appeared in scholarly journals. His book, A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music (University of Chicago Press) was published in 2008. Nicole Mitchell is the founder of the acclaimed Black Earth Ensemble and Black Earth Strings and Downbeat magazine’s “Rising Star” flutist 2005-2008. Her compositions integrate new ideas with jazz, gospel, pop, and African percussion to create a synthesis of “postmodern jazz.” Hamid Drake, widely regarded as one of the best percussionists in improvised music, is known for adapting to North and West African and Indian styles as well as reggae and Latin. He has collaborated with top free jazz improvisers including William Parker, Peter Brötzmann, Marilyn Crispell, Herbie Hancock, Misha Mengelberg and Pharoah Sanders. The Symposium features free events and concerts through Wednesday, April 1, including panels, Meet the Artist sessions and more. Outpost’s Tom Guralnick will join George Lewis and Nicole Mitchell (current co-president of the AACM) in a panel discussion about the AACM on Monday, March 30 at 9 a.m. followed by a talk with Nicole Mitchell. For more info visit www.robbtrust.org. This concert is part of Women in Creativity month.
Performance Sunday, March 29, 7:30pm
Outpost Performance Space
210 Yale SE
(505) 268-0044
outpostspace.org

Hawai’ian Treasures Celebration Tour comes to SBCC
Escape to Hawai’i for an evening of traditional slack- key guitar, ukulele, and falsetto vocals from these three renowned artists. George Kahumoku Jr. has won the Grammy three straight years for Best Hawai’ian Music Album and is considered by many as the greatest solo slack key guitarist alive. Dennis Kamakahi is one of Hawaii’s most prolific composers and the writer of many famous Hawaiian standards. Richard Ho’opi’i is a living legend of Hawai’ian music and master of the traditional art form of Hawaiian falsetto. He has received the National Endowment for the Arts Folk Heritage Fellowship, America’s highest honor for traditional artists. All three Grammy winners will be playing solo sets with some accompaniment and hula. Then all three musicians will perform together in a big finale to end the show. Accompanying Kahumoku on this tour: Dennis Kamakahi, one of Hawaii’s most prolific composers and the writer of many famous Hawaiian standards. Richard Ho’opi’i, a living legend of Hawaiian music and master of the traditional art form of Hawaiian falsetto. All three Grammy winners will be playing solo sets with some accompaniment and hula. Then all three musicians will perform together in a big finale to end the show. Buy tickets on-line through Brown Paper Tickets or by phone: 1-800-838-3006
Performance Thursday, April 2, 7:30pm
South Broadway Cultural Center
1025 Broadway SE
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Little Kiss Records is seeking interns
Little Kiss Records is a small but mighty local record label. They are expanding their marketing efforts and are looking for non-paid interns to participate on several levels including making calls to radio stations, coordinating the overall marketing effort, and more. This might quality as course credit for a graduate student.
Contact James S. de Champion
(505) 515-4036