New to opera? This FREE\, two-part program is specifically designed for those "\;students"\; whose experience of opera is limited or non-existent. Popular local music expert\, Oliver Prezant\, will conduct this lively program\, first providing a lighthearted overview of the history\, and mystery\, of this 400 year-old art form. For the second part of the program\, the "\;class"\; will go onsite to the Santa Fe Opera itself. You will go behind the scenes to discover why and how opera is the total theatrical experience. For those who complete both segmants of the class\, graduation presents\, awards\, and incentives will be offered.
PART 1 At Collected Works Bookstore
Wednesday\, March 10\, 5\:15 to 7pm
REPEATS
Saturday\, March 13\, 10\:15am to Noon
PART 2 At The Santa Fe Opera
Wednesday\, March 17\, 5pm (Refreshments) to 7pm
REPEATS
Saturday\, March 20\, 10am (Refreshments) to Noon
Registration is required due to limited seating.
Register for either date of Part 1 and either date of Part 2.
Call 505.629.1410\, x105 or email opera101@santafeoperaguild.org
Please provide name(s)\, contact information\, and dates you wish to attend.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100312T001605Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100312T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100312T030000Z UID:http://www.collectedworksbookstore.com/event/fruit-tree-and-orchard-scouting-southwest-orchardist-gordon-tooley-presented-santa-fe-botanica URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.collectedworksbookstore.com/event/fruit-tree-and-orchard-scouting-southwest-orchardist-gordon-tooley-presented-santa-fe-botanica SUMMARY:\\"Fruit Tree and Orchard Scouting in the Southwest\\" - with Orchardist Gordon Tooley\, presented by the Santa Fe Botanical Garden DESCRIPTION:\;
Santa Fe Botanical Garden presents “Fruit Tree and Orchard Scouting in the Southwest” with Orchardist Gordon Tooley. Thursday\, March 11th\, at 6pm.
The intricate magnificence of trees is what delights the expert eye of Gordon Tooley.
Gordon lives and works at Tooley’s Tree Farm\, a retail and wholesale organic nursery located in Truchas\, NM. His nursery is spectacularly sited at 8\,000 feet on the highroad between Santa Fe and Taos. Gordon and his wife\, Margaret Yancey\, raise trees that are drought tolerant and adapted to high Ph.
Tooley’s specializes in species of trees and shrubs and old heirloom fruit varieties that thrive in difficult sites and conditions. Grafts are on rootstocks carefully selected to match climate and soil types in this area.
Lecture is free and open to the public.
For info call SFBG at 471-9103 or email info@santafebotanicalgarden.org
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Meanwhile\, a mystery unfolds\, revealing the terrible truth about Rachel's last morning on a Chicago rooftop. Interwoven with her voice are those of Jamie\, a neighborhood boy who witnessed the events\, and Laronne\, a friend of Rachel's mother.
Inspired by a true story of a mother's twisted love\, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky reveals an unfathomable past and explores issues of identity at a time when many people are asking "\;Must race confine us and define us?"\;
Winner of the 2008 Bellwether Prize for Fiction\, established by Barbara Kingsolver and awarded in even-numbered years. The Bellwether Prize is the only major North American prize that specifically advocates literary fiction addressing issues of social justice. The prize is awarded to a previously unpublished novel representing excellence in this genre.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100312T001605Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100313T171500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100313T190000Z UID:http://www.collectedworksbookstore.com/event/opera-101-0 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.collectedworksbookstore.com/event/opera-101-0 SUMMARY:Opera 101 DESCRIPTION:New to opera? This FREE\, two-part program is specifically designed for those "\;students"\; whose experience of opera is limited or non-existent. Popular local music expert\, Oliver Prezant\, will conduct this lively program\, first providing a lighthearted overview of the history\, and mystery\, of this 400 year-old art form. For the second part of the program\, the "\;class"\; will go onsite to the Santa Fe Opera itself. You will go behind the scenes to discover why and how opera is the total theatrical experience. For those who complete both segmants of the class\, graduation presents\, awards\, and incentives will be offered.
PART 1 At Collected Works Bookstore
Wednesday\, March 10\, 5\:15 to 7pm
REPEATS
Saturday\, March 13\, 10\:15am to Noon
PART 2 At The Santa Fe Opera
Wednesday\, March 17\, 5pm (Refreshments) to 7pm
REPEATS
Saturday\, March 20\, 10am (Refreshments) to Noon
Registration is required due to limited seating.
Register for either date of Part 1 and either date of Part 2.
Call 505.629.1410\, x105 or email opera101@santafeoperaguild.org
Please provide name(s)\, contact information\, and dates you wish to attend.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100312T001605Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100316T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100316T030000Z UID:http://www.collectedworksbookstore.com/event/gustavo-arellano-ask-mexican URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.collectedworksbookstore.com/event/gustavo-arellano-ask-mexican SUMMARY:Gustavo Arellano - Ask a Mexican DESCRIPTION:
WHAT IS ¡ASK A MEXICAN!?
Questions and answers about our spiciest Americans. Arellano explores the clichés of lowriders\, busboys\, and housekeepers\; drunks and scoundrels\; heroes and celebrities\; and most important\, millions upon millions of law-abiding\, patriotic
American citizens and their illegal-immigrant cousins who represent some $600 billion in economic power.
Gustavo Arellano is a staff writer with OC Weekly\, an alternative newspaper in Orange County\, California\, and a
contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times Op/Ed pages. He is a familiar presence in Southern California radio
as a frequent guest on liberal and conservative talk shows\, where he discusses local and national issues.
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day at Collected Works with the High Desert Harp Ensemble!
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Based on a series of conversations between Metzner and Ram Dass and recorded by psychiatrist and author Gary Bravo\, this book describes their initial experiments at Harvard\, the experiments after they were dismissed from Harvard\, their journeys to India and their reflections on that transformative era.
Birth of a Psychedelic Culture is filled with never before published photographs. Luminaries who appear in this astonishing account include\: Aldous Huxley\, Allen Ginsberg\, R.D. Laing\, Charles Mingus\, Maynard Ferguson and William Burroughs\, as well as many lesser known personalities. These include convicts\, graduate students and Vedantist monks! In addition to reviewing the experiments\, the conversations offer vividly-recalled descriptions of particular trips\, with profound insights into the nature of hallucinogens and the role they can play in transcending social conditioning.
Included in Birth of a Psychedelic Culture are personal commentaries from some of the other players integral to the scene\: Peggy Hitchcock\, the Mellon Foundation heiress\; Dr. George Litwin\, Harvard professor and author\; Dr. Gunther Weil\, psychologist and educator\; Dr. Michael Kahn\, clinical psychologist and Professor Emeritus at USC\, Santa Cruz\; poet Dr. Elsa von Eckartsberg\;Dr. George Litwin\, organizational behavior consultant\; Dr. Paul Lee\, professor of philosopy and religion\, UC Santa Cruz\; Dorothy Fadiman\, award winning filmmaker\; Lisa Ferguson\, and many others. No understanding of the history of the sixties could ever be complete without a grasp of the work of Leary\, Alpert\, and Metzner\, the cultural resistance to their experiments\, and the way in which psychoactive drug use became a part of contemporary society.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100312T001605Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100326T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100326T030000Z UID:http://www.collectedworksbookstore.com/event/rabbi-min-kantrowitz-counting-omer-kabbalistic-meditation-guide URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.collectedworksbookstore.com/event/rabbi-min-kantrowitz-counting-omer-kabbalistic-meditation-guide SUMMARY:Rabbi Min Kantrowitz - Counting the Omer\: A Kabbalistic Meditation Guide DESCRIPTION:Counting the Omer is a Kabbalistic meditation guide to understand the in-depth meanings of each of the forty-nine days between Pesach (Passover) and the Shavuot celebration of the revealing of the Torah.
Rabbi Kantrowitz follows Kabbalistic guidelines to show how the unique values of the sephirot interact each day\, giving the reader insight into the strengths of the day. Through this guide the reader is led to meditate on the mystical qualities of life and self.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100312T001605Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100402T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100402T030000Z UID:http://www.collectedworksbookstore.com/event/john-thorndike-last-his-mind-year-shadow-alzheimers URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.collectedworksbookstore.com/event/john-thorndike-last-his-mind-year-shadow-alzheimers SUMMARY:John Thorndike - The Last of His Mind\: A Year in the Shadow of Alzheimer's DESCRIPTION:Joe Thorndike was managing editor of Life at the height of its popularity immediately following World War II. He was the founder of American Heritage and Horizon magazines\, the author of three books\, and the editor of a dozen more. But at age 92\, in the space of six months he stopped reading or writing or carrying on detailed conversations. He could no longer tell time or make a phone call. He was convinced that the governor of Massachusetts had come to visit and was in the refrigerator.
Five million Americans suffer from Alzheimer's\, and like many of them\, Joe Thorndike's one great desire was to remain in his own house. To honor his wish\, his son John left his own home and moved into his father's upstairs bedroom on Cape Cod. For a year\, in a house filled with file cabinets\, photos\, and letters\, John explored his father's mind\, his parents' divorce\, and his mother's secrets. The Last of His Mind is the bittersweet account of a son's final year with his father\, and a candid portrait of an implacable disease.
It's the ordeal of Alzheimer's that draws father and son close\, closer than they have been since John was a boy. At the end\, when Joe's heart stops beating\, John's hand is on his chest\, and a story of painful decline has become a portrait of deep family ties\, caregiving\, and love.
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