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Essay collection in First & Wildest gathers voices of the Gila Wilderness

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KHALSA BUT NOT COLON I’m glad you chose [Dev Atma] Khalsa [for magistrate] as I had him on my list. I can follow your reasoning and vote the others too, with the notable exception of [Brian] Colón. Why would his deep ties to powerful interests and networks work best for the state? We already suffer from the deeply entrenched old boy networks.

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FEELING FURIOUS I want to express my frustration at this issue.

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Santa Fe does not need more development. People cannot afford to become homeowners due to various factors. One of them being, we are not paid enough. I cannot rent a studio for myself in the city I grew up in. How can anyone expect me to become a homeowner when I am paid less than $20/ hour? I have a college degree, by the way.

At the age of 24, I still live with my mom and my sisters and that is OK. There is no shame in that but part of me wants to move out so I can experience my own space but once again, that is not possible and it will not be possible if Santa Fe keeps catering to the gentrifiers.

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live here. The gentrifiers continue to take up space in a city that is not theirs. Nevertheless, no one talks about that. Homewise will not give you that answer either. I am tired of the word “affordable housing” being thrown around without mentioning the cause and effects of gentrification. I refuse to stay silent on this issue. That open space you want to destroy is my home. My neighbors and I have every right to be angry.

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SALE IS MISMANAGEMENT This is a travesty of county mismanagement. The city has now the responsibility of deciding on an issue not of its own making.

Big issues are at stake, and it looks like residents who love this space may be the losers. Development and money seem to be the determining factors. Santa Fe needs to pause and reflect. We are in danger of losing a cherished open space and in the longer run, continuing on a path to destruction. As Ed Abby said, “Growth for growth’s sake is the ideology of the cancer cell.” Water crisis looms, infill is reducing a beautiful high desert town to urban sprawl. Are we to be relocated along with our environs to decayed remnants of a once beautiful life or can we wake up and truly learn to cherish nature and find joy in creation?

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LOST AND LOCKED What I love most about New Mexico, and our country, is its diverse communities.

Likewise, what is most disturbing is when institutions make unnecessary decisions that drive communities asunder. Case in point: the recent high walled, chain linked and locked enclosure around the very heart of our South Capitol community: Wood Gormley Park and Playground. As a longtime resident, I am writing to express my dismay...

Miraculously, so many working and middle class people still call the South Capitol neighborhood home—despite rising housing costs and inflation...Why, Why, WHY in heaven’s name would a school of all places purposely close off a community from that level of connection? With no warning or discussion, no less? That park is a living, breathing heart that belongs to us all. It fosters the diversity, community, sharing, and openheartedness that are precisely the values that Wood Gormley School should be instilling in children.

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to care for them, Santa Fe Animal Shelter can help. We got you, boo! We can provide resources to make your experience successful and will spay/neuter the kittens before you return them to their outdoor home or put them up for adoption.

DO keep the kittens separated from your pets to prevent fights and minimize the transmission of disease and parasites. Be sure your pet cats are up to date on their vaccines.

DON’T let the cycle continue! To help break the cat-overpopulation cycle, spay or neuter! Santa Fe Animal Shelter has a trap-neuter-return-monitor (TNRM) program. Once kittens are old enough to be spayed/neutered and vaccinated, you want to also trap momma and bring her in so we can spay and vaccinate her as well.

We will happily assist you in your TNRM efforts. We believe TNRM is an effective way to control the growth of community cat populations and improve their health through vaccination.

The good news is, at least for the time being, most of us are spending a lot more time at home and have the bandwidth to foster kittens. If you’d like to help us out, or if you need help with a litter of kittens you’ve found, please email newhope@sfhumanesociety.org We’ll give you all the tools you need to be a successful foster parent to kittens in need.

Don’t worry though, if you can’t foster orphaned kittens, you can still help us out! To help care for kittens in need, Santa Fe Animal Shelter is throwing a virtual Kitten Shower donation drive. With just a few clicks, you can donate essential kitten care items from our wishlist. Your gifts will help us provide tiny kittens with the supplies they need to grow into healthy, adoptable cats. To view our wishlist and donate supplies, visit sfhumanesociety.org/how-you-can-help.

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t’s about that time again. As the weather starts to warm up, more and more kittens will be born all over Santa Fe County.

While this sounds like a super cute phenomenon, it actually creates a significant challenge for animal shelters and the communities they support.

Every year, we are inundated with litters of kittens that people assume have been abandoned by their momma. Most often, this isn’t actually the case. Usually momma kitty is somewhere nearby hunting for food to keep her strength up while she nurses. It’s a completely natural process for most animal species—but for some reason, when people see kittens left alone, the knee-jerk reaction is to believe they have been abandoned.

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the nearby shelter for care and support.

Here’s the problem with that though: Most shelters (ours included) are not set up to provide care 24 hours a day. Unweaned kittens under 8 weeks old need bottle feeding every few hours around the clock. Since we can’t do that in the shelter setting, we have to rely on fosters to take over care until they are old enough to be spayed/neutered, vaccinated and placed for adoption.

In a perfect world, we’d always have more than enough fosters to care for them—but alas, this isn’t a perfect world. Under normal circumstances, it’s actually rather difficult to recruit and retain willing fosters for kittens.

If we can’t find willing fosters to support during this busy season, then the only other alternative is humane euthanasia. I think we can all agree that is not a reasonable outcome.

We need to make sure that our shelters can support and care for the animals who actually need to be helped.

It’s true that there are more rare cases where kittens have been left without a mother because she was either captured by a predator, or run over by a car. But this is usually more the exception than the rule. In those cases, it’s absolutely the right decision to intervene and let your local shelter help.

Either way, we’re here for you. If you find a litter of kittens you fear may have been abandoned, here are some dos and don’ts to consider: DO monitor the situation. Watch the kittens, but don’t move them or touch them. The mother cat is probably nearby, but if she hasn’t returned by the end of day

(or eight to 12 hours) they may need assistance. If they are there overnight and still stable in the morning, it is likely momma is coming and going without you seeing her.

She’s sneaky, that one!

DON’T bring the kittens indoors. Unless they’re in danger, it’s best to leave kittens outside so the mother cat can care for them.

Remember, if stealthy momma is doing a good job, you may never see her!

If you must do something, you can place the kittens in a crate. Don’t change the location of the kittens, so the mother cat can be sure to find them.

DO be careful when handling kittens. You may inadvertently give them disease, and that’s no bueno. Older kittens may not be friendly and may scratch or bite you if startled or scared.

DON’T foster-parent all on your own. If the kittens are truly orphaned and you decide

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Jack Hagerman is CEO of the Santa Fe Animal Shelter and Humane Society.

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s wildland fires across New Mexico erupted in April—growing in size and scope as intensive winds rattled the state—Los Alamos National Laboratory research scientist Adam Atchley’s pervading thought was and continues to be: “We are watching climate change unfold. And we’re seeing it happen in fire behavior.”

Atchley is part of a team of scientists creating tools designed to meet that unfolding reality. Specifically, they are creating modeling programs that will allow for safer prescribed burns.

Before the early and dramatic start to the state’s wildfire season began, Atchley had been scheduled this week to deliver talks on wildfire, water and climate change as part of LANL’s Frontiers in Science lecture series. Those talks were postponed due to the Cerro Pelado Fire, which began April 22 and had grown to 43,000 acres as of press time.

The cause of the Cerro Pelado Fire remains unknown. But the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire, which had burned more than 200,000 as of press time, began in part as a prescribed fire (as, of course, did the Cerro Grande wildfire in 2000, which ultimately burned 43,000 acres and caused approximately $1 billion in damage).

Initially, the 1,207-acre Las Dispensas prescribed burn was designed as part of a larger project to protect the Gallinas Watershed, one of the City of Las Vegas’ primary water sources. Instead, by April 6, it had become the Hermits Peak Fire and, after extreme weather on April 22, merged with the Calf Canyon Fire.

The early start to the state’s wildfire season, coupled with weather conditions characterized as “historic,” put the kibosh on prescribed burns in the immediate future.

Carson National Forest fire managers had initially announced plans in early April for five prescribed burns totaling more than 8,000 acres throughout May, all of which are now postponed indefinitely, according to CNF Public Affairs Officer Zach Behrens.

Santa Fe National Forest has also since canceled indefinitely a prescribed burn that had

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been scheduled last month for more than 1,000 acres in the Santa Fe Watershed.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, speaking on April 24, acknowledged the importance of prescribed burns but said she had been “barking” at federal officials to avoid having them during New Mexico’s windy season.

State Forester Laura McCarthy followed the governor’s comments by noting “there probably won’t be any more prescribed burning in the spring,” adding that forest managers would look to the fall when “we may have a burn window right after the monsoon.”

US Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, D-NM, last week wrote to US Forest Service Chief Randy Moore describing herself as “shocked” the forest service would perform a prescribed burn given the dry and windy conditions present during the Las Dispensas burn and requesting an investigation regarding the decision.

But finding the right window for prescribed burns is tricky in the face of climate change, Atchley says, and the reason why new models are needed to conduct them successfully.

First, though, he offers a précis of why they’re needed: “I think the thing that we all have to

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remember, and sometimes repeat to ourselves, is that the forests we live in are in fire-dependent ecosystems. And so, without fire, you really don’t have the ecosystem.”

Our forests without fires, he says, would be akin to rainforests without rain, aka, no longer rainforests. Prescribed burns, he says, provide the opportunity to control the fire’s impact, versus wildland fires, which have the capacity to burn so severely as to create what’s known as an ecosystem transition, in which the landscape is so torched it has a reverberating impact on all aspects of the ecosystem—its water and wildlife. And that ecosystem transition results in less carbon storage, which, of course, is what’s causing climate change in the first place.

ABOVE: LANL scientist Adam Atchley and his team created scientific tools under development to manage prescribed burns and promote ecosystem stability in the face of climate change. BELOW: Atchley says more intense wildland fires cause ecosystem transitions that impact water, wildlife and carbon storage. At the time of this April 22 photo, Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon’s combined acreage was just under 11,000 acres—it has since grown to over 200,000 acres.

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The challenge, however, is existing fire models don’t work for the current conditions.

“We built these past models based on what we call empirical data. And that’s basically observations that we’ve made in the past,” Atchley says. “Because of climate change, we’re now outside of a calibration or validation range of the models and sometimes that means that the models aren’t able to predict what’s going to happen when you have something like these wildfires.”

Additionally, “the ecosystems themselves have changed because of climate change [and] also past fire suppression. So, these ecosystems are changing, and we’re not seeing the same type of fire behavior.”

The factors go beyond wind, he says.

“We consider wind, but we also consider fuel moisture,” he says. “And that’s probably one of the biggest drivers of fire behavior. We’re dealing with a double whammy here where we’re in a 20-year drought, a mega-drought.”

New Mexico’s topography also plays a role: “At a certain elevation, a prescribed fire might be OK. But at lower elevations where it’s drier, and the snowpack has dropped off a little earlier, it’s not OK. And those types of complications make it really hard to conduct prescribed fire. So, our hope—our goal—is that the science we provide will help prevent things like the Hermit Peak/Calf Canyon Fire.”

The new tools include what LANL describes as “a suite of computer models.” One of those, HIGRAD/FIRETEC, uses physics principles to produce 3-D simulations.

That model, however, comes at a computational price, Atchley says, meaning it’s too expensive and too slow to be used in an operational way. For that the lab has what’s known as QUIC-Fire models (Quick Urban & Industrial Complex), which use machine learning and, Atchley says, “runs 100 times faster and can be run faster than real time on a single processor.”

A hydrologist by training with a background in plant and forest ecology, Atchley’s particular interest is looking at issues such as how plant community structure and forest structure influence hydrology and fuel moisture. He’s been working on a model “that simulates ecosystem response to simulated fire behavior,” using the new modeling tools.

The bottom line? “In our landscape, fire is a good thing. In our landscape, we have to live with fire. And it’s not always a bad thing.

In order for it to be a good thing, we need to be able to perform prescribed fire. And there’s a whole science about it that we’re working on…so that we have the benefits of fire on the landscape rather than the problems of fire on the landscape.”

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Aiming for Accountability Candidates for state treasurer and state auditor hope to win New Mexicans’ confidence to manage and protect state finances

BY WILLIAM MELHADO w i l l i a m @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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ll the candidates for state treasurer and state auditor agree on one thing: Most New Mexicans don’t have a good idea of how either office functions.

The role of state auditor, as the candidates attest, hasn’t historically lent itself to a high profile. Yet in recent years, that’s changed, with the office working as a springboard.

The current auditor, Brian Colón, has launched a well-funded campaign for attorney general—as of presstime, Colón had accumulated the third-largest war chest of any candidate this election season. The man he hopes to succeed as AG, Hector Balderas, served two terms as state auditor before moving up. And between Colón and Balderas came Tim Keller, who parlayed his time in the auditor’s chair into two terms as mayor of Albuquerque.

Zack Quintero, who ran for city councilor in Albuquerque before taking on the statewide contest, says he’s not interested in using the office as a stepping stone. Rather, he tells SFR that the lack of awareness offers a chance to educate the public about the office’s role in protecting New Mexicans from fraud, abuse and financial exploitation.

For Quintero, 31, the opportunity to protect vulnerable residents from scams is personal. His grandfather fell victim to a predatory guardianship scheme that, he says, took control of his medical benefits as a veteran.

“And they just stripped away everything that he had. And that had financial impacts on my family, and it’s really difficult to see him suffer like that,” Quintero says.

If elected to the office, Quintero hopes to build out the fraud unit to take on more cases like his grandfather’s.

After graduating law school, Quintero worked on Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s Medical Advisory Team for a brief stint before she appointed him to the role of state ombudsman. In this role Quintero says he gained experience investigating cases of financial exploitation.

Also a top priority for Quintero is analyzing the information fossil fuel companies report to state agencies through what he calls a Climate Accountability Audit. Currently, “it’s not consolidated in one report to the point where it’s easily digestible for everyone to look at the total environmental damage happening.”

His competitor, Joseph Maestas, brings decades of public service to his campaign.

Maestas hopes to take over for Colón after wrapping up his two-year term on the Public Regulation Commission, which is transitioning to an appointed body. Maestas tells SFR he doesn’t have his eyes on the AG’s office, either—which seems like a reliable assurance given he doesn’t have a law degree but rather is educated as a civil engineer.

In addition to his service as the former mayor of Española and Santa Fe city councilor, Maestas, 61, plans to lean heavily on his experience serving the public if elected to the statewide position.

“The person, in order to be effective, has to have a track record, a track record of experience, a track record of leadership and a track record of standing up to powerful interests,” Maestas tells SFR.

In response to the accusation Benavidez says, “I take all complaints seriously and I am in the process of responding. But in the meantime, I’m concerned about making sure I’m doing my job to the best of my ability and I don’t want anything else to distract from that.”

Benavidez would bring a diverse portfolio to the race, with over three years of experience in the treasurer’s office and as an elected magistrate in Rio Communities. A focus of her campaign is expanding the scope of Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) accounts, an existing program that supports

Laura Montoya

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Zack Quintero

Joseph Maestas

He points to an investigation he undertook as a councilor into Santa Fe’s misappropriation of 2008 park bond money that, Maestas says, the city was using to subsidize the operational budget and pay salaries.

Maestas adds that his experience includes forensic audits, like the McHard report, a 2017 indictment of the city’s financial procedures.

Jason Vaillancourt, a Libertarian, will face the winner of the Democratic state auditor’s race.

The other office responsible for keeping tabs on taxpayers’ money has created more of a spectacle than one might expect from the state treasurer’s race.

The Democrats are looking to elect the state’s first female treasurer, but the primary race has sown division between the candidates.

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Heather Benavidez, 43, works as Tim Eichenberg’s chief of staff and the current state treasurer has thrown his weight behind his hopeful successor, going so far as to accuse the other Democrat in the race, Laura Montoya, of failing to report unemployment benefits she received last year, among other charges in a complaint to the secretary of state.

Montoya, 45, denies those claims and provided documents that indicate she did not receive unemployment benefits while she was campaigning for state treasurer.

Montoya cast doubt on her opponent’s employment history while campaigning and has complained to the attorney general that Eichenberg is using his position unlawfully. Others have also raised questions about Benavidez’s work habits while campaigning.

A complaint filed last week alleges Benavidez was campaigning while working at the state treasurer’s office.

New Mexicans with disabilities to save and invest money.

“I would like to incentivize contributions to those accounts by making a certain portion tax deductible,” Benavidez tells SFR. She hopes to extend the program to children within the foster care system to better help them prepare for the future.

Montoya brings treasury experience to her campaign, serving two terms as the Sandoval County treasurer. If elected, she hopes to expand the state’s Local Government Investment Pool, a state-managed fund that local municipalities, counties and tribes can invest in.

Montoya says smaller communities can benefit from the program by investing their money “with big counties like Doña Ana, Bernalillo, Santa Fe and Sandoval, and they can make more bang for their buck in a pool that’s very safe and have a higher rate of return.”

Following the June 7 primary—early voting for which began May 10 at the County Clerk’s Office—either Montoya or Benavidez will ultimately face Harry Montoya, a Republican, in the November general election. Residents hoping to mail in their vote should request an absentee ballot before May 25.

Harry Montoya, 62, has a history in public office having served two terms as a Santa Fe County commissioner and three terms as a Pojoaque School Board member.

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Writers Gone Essay collection in First & Wildest gathers voices of the Gila Wilderness

BY JULIE ANN GRIMM P H O T O S B Y M I C H A E L P. B E R M A N e d i t o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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rom the howling lobos to the silent native Gila trout, the endangered animals that live in the Gila Wilderness are among its best-known inhabitants; the lumbering pines and the rushing rivers take a close second.

The writers of a new collection of essays from Torrey House Press recall a century of protection for 500,000 acres and the beings within them in southeastern New Mexico in First & Wildest: The Gila Wilderness at 100.

As the title hints, the Gila was the nation’s first-ever space designated as a wilderness area, a label that now defines 800 places in the United States, including the Pecos Wilderness in our own backyards. Federal law calls on them to remain “without permanent improvements or human habitation” that are “protected and managed so as to preserve [their] natural conditions.”

The book, partly funded by WildEarth Guardians, presents portraits of a rugged place: far from a policy guide or a tick-tock history of the fraught path to the present. Yet, it couldn’t succeed without being grounded in what’s come before—even the fairly recent past that includes bark-beetle infestation, setbacks for endangered species programs and wildfires of staggering acreage and intensity.

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Wild starry skies. Find an essay by Aldo Leopold from 1912 that’s credited with leading directly to the Gila Wilderness designation in 1924 and the broader Wilderness Act 40 years later, but also work from the late M.H. “Dutch” Salmon, whose tenacious activism in response to a proposed diversion on the Gila River contributed to that project’s deflation. There’s also a piece from Priscilla Solis Ybarra, who expounds on the complexity of the Gila’s racial narrative.

SFR is pleased to run excerpts from works by scientist and nuevomexicano Leeanna T. Torres; Santa Fe birder and writer Renata Golden; Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-NM; and Gabe Vasquez, a conservation activist and Las Cruces city councilor. Ahead of a reading this week at Garcia Street Books, we checked in with Elizabeth Hightower Allen, a Santa Fean who served as the book’s editor, to talk about how it came to be and what she learned. The interview has been edited for concision and clarity.

SFR: You’ve said that you are no Gila expert. How did you end up as the editor of this book?

Elizabeth Hightower Allen: I was the features editor at Outside magazine...and I had an environmental column and I did a lot of environmental features, editing them and assigning them. And I left in 2019 simply because I wanted to have more of a hand in the arena of conservation and climate and all that. The timing just lined up completely.

I knew people at WildEarth Guardians and they wanted to bring together a lot of voices for the Gila in this book and we talked with Torrey House Press—Kirsten Johanna Allen is the founder there—and we really wanted to make a book that was very personal, that would be just as useful to stick in your backpack when you are backpacking down there and really get to know the place and love the place and what it means to people but that could also be used as a conservation tool.

What was your process in choosing the writers? How did you respond to the challenge of looking back for 100 years

and also casting some kind of forecast or prescription for the future?

It was really fun. Kirsten and I talked about this a lot. We wanted it to be a celebration of the Gila after 100 years of wilderness...a celebration of the potential of the Gila and the treasures there, but also kind of the threats.

WildEarth Guardians had a lot of contacts in the conservation community and Kirsten had some ideas from the literary world. I had some ideas from my experience at Outside and mostly it was like pulling one thread and then another. There is a wonderful writer down there named Philip Connors and he has written Song for the River. I called him knowing that I wanted to have something from him in the book. And there were people like Sharman Apt Russell down there who are really well known Gila writers. There is JJ Amaworo Wilson, who runs the literary program at Western New Mexico University. The rest of it was serendipity. Phil was like, ‘Did you know that Beto O’Rourke is an avid backpacker?’ I had no idea, so I got in touch with Beto and he wanted to contribute, and obviously people like Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich who have been fighting to protect it and Laura Paskus who has been covering it for so long. And then there were people like Pam Houston. I knew it would be great to have her and I just sent her a note saying, ‘Hey Pam, do you want to go try to see a wolf?’ and she was like, ‘Yeah.’

A theme I’ve picked up on is that few people really get to experience or know the wilderness. How do the writers respond to those facts?

The writers treasure it and treasure how wild it has stayed, going back to Aldo Leopold, who proposed the wilderness there because he felt like it was already getting overused in 1922. So I think there are various forms of protecting it. There is the Wild and Scenic River bill that Martin Henrich is pushing to Congress and people are excited about that...I think people don’t want to see it completely overrun but you know, it would be hard to overrun it. Even in Beto O’Rourke’s essay he tries to go see these hot springs where he has this amazing image of his dad…and it takes him like three times to find it. It’s just a rugged place. It’s not an easy place. You are not going to find a lot of people on the trail. It’s a Yellowstone-sized chunk of wild country.

Several essays reference a Gila fire on record as the biggest in New Mexico history. How do those essays fit within the greater context of what is happening in the state right now as we talk?

We weren’t able to reprint the essay

by Priscilla Solis Ybarra, an associate professor of Latinx literature at the University of North Texas, but I recommend our readers get the book so they don’t miss what she has to say.

This is where we get into me not being a fire expert, but obviously [at] the moment right now we are watching flames to the left of us, flames to the right, and down there, climate change and drought are certainly even worse...We really have to take how we are going to handle fire here seriously and really try to protect these wild spaces around us. To make them the most resilient they can be is what we have to do.

I love what she has to say. For one thing, we hear all about Aldo Leopold. His wife [Estella Bergere Leopold] was from New Mexico, she was a Luna and she has a great legacy here of her family being connected to the land. And Priscilla writes, ‘Why does the Mexican-American background of one of the leading families of American conservation remain hidden in plain sight?’ [Estella] was a conservationist along with her husband and

their five children who became scientists, academics and conservationists...When we hear about the Leopolds, we think about Wisconsin and Sand County Almanac, but there was a real Mexican-American/New Mexican connection.

What did other writers have to say about the themes of race and what did you learn from them?

What expanded my knowledge is the many threads of human conservation that have gone into a place like the Gila. Jakob Sedig is an archaeologist and says we can learn a lot about drought from the Mimbres culture and the droughts that hit it twice and how they handled that. From Joe Saenz, a Chiricahua Apache council member and outfitter, who is like, ‘We’ve traveled this land for centuries.

This is how we live on it and we know how to live on it. We should be part of deciding how it is used.’ Priscilla Solis Ybarra writes in her essay that if you ask a Mexican-American, a place like the Gila Wilderness is not wilderness at all—but that it is built on lands held

by Mexican-Americans and before them countless Indigenous peoples. She writes in her essay, ‘What does it mean to be a father of American wilderness, anyway?’ There is a much longer history of taking care of the land and a much bigger future that is not just going to be the descendants of John Muir.

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HEAT: From “Fire Bird”

By Renata Golden

The bird flew across Signal Peak Road with the distinct undulations of a woodpecker—a graceful glide on the downbeat, rhythmic wingbeats on the upstroke. It had launched from the long shadows of the scorched skeletons of trees on the right-hand side of the road. The bird settled on a tree to my left, its dark body almost impossible to see against the charred black bark. As suddenly as it appeared, it returned to the other side of the road. In its flight I saw the smoky black of its shoulders, the smudged white on its back. It was an American three-toed woodpecker, a bird I had only seen in field guides.

A topo map showed that I was standing at an elevation of about 7,500 feet. I was surrounded by the vestiges of the Signal Fire, a “human-caused fire with an undetermined ignition source,” according to the official statement from the US Forest Service. The Signal Fire burned 5,740 acres before it was suppressed. Perhaps a camper got careless with a cooking fire. Perhaps a celebration at a family picnic got out of hand. Whatever the cause, someone holding a lighter or a lit match didn’t seriously consider the danger in a forest in the middle of a mega-drought. The fire started on an especially windy Mother’s Day in 2014; two years and two months later, I could still smell the smoke.

I tiptoed into the gloom of the standing snags to get closer to the bird. It was hard to imagine the vibrant green life that once thrived here. Signal Peak Road is a fire-lookout access road that climbs to nine thousand feet, through an area once thick with ponderosa pines. The fire had created a somber atmosphere but allowed me my first glimpse of

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this woodpecker, an opportunistic bird that survives amid devastation.

New Mexico had experienced record-setting fire seasons during two of the three years before the Signal Fire, and some of those fires were here in the Gila National Forest. In 2012, lightning sparked two separate fires in the Mogollon Mountains east of Glenwood.

When they converged, the combined Whitewater-Baldy Fire raced across almost three hundred thousand acres—bigger than the land area of San Antonio, Texas, and roughly the size of the city of Los Angeles—to become the largest fire in New Mexico history. And the drought continues.

Although there is no legal definition of drought, we all know it means there is not enough water. The US Drought Monitor began recording precipitation totals around the country in 2000 and comparing this data to long-term averages. The findings show that the longest-lasting drought in New Mexico began in May 2001 and ended in August

2007. In January 2021, exceptional drought— meaning migratory birds changed their flight patterns and no surface water was available for agriculture—was affecting more than half of all land in New Mexico. Some experts predict that the extended drought experienced here in the early 2000s will be the norm by the middle of this century.

FLOW: From “Goyahkla”

By Leeanna T. Torres

Somewhere near the top of Raw Meat Canyon, I sit waiting for the time to pass. The treatment is almost complete. The bucket slowly leaking toxic fluid into the middle of the stream is almost empty. This mountain canyon of the West Fork of the Gila River is made of trees and rock and water, and I sit here in the heart of the wilderness, wishing

I had another sandwich, wishing it wasn’t raining.

Crouched under a tree, I hold the hood of my jacket steady over my head and face. The pines above me aren’t enough to keep the rain off; water falls right past their needles. The rain seems to leak right through the GoreTex, its waterproofness long ago worn away on field trips like this. Our trip began with a one-night stay at the Heart Bar. Owned by the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, the small two-bedroom cabin serves as a base camp for the scientific community. It’s a small, humble house full of spiderwebs and whiskey. There were seven of us set to pack in; we looked more like renegades than scientists, already dusty, already drinking on a Tuesday night before eight days of solid work in the Wilderness.

There is no magic about our work. We kill non-native fish in order to reestablish native Gila trout, one of the original species listed under the Endangered Species Act in 1973.

The US Fish and Wildlife Service is responsible for these restoration efforts, and I work for the agency. I am a biologist working on saving a fish. But to save one fish, we have to kill others.

We treat the streams with antimycin, a chemical piscicide used in fisheries management. It’s all applied science, here in these mountains. The basis for this trip, and all the work, is science, strictly science, and yet since we left the Heart Bar, I have been distanced from this thing called science. Instead, I am distracted by a spirit.

Geronimo is said to have been born in these mountains, near the source of the Gila River, around 1823. He was given the name Goyahkla, “the one who yawns”—the appellation Geronimo would only come years later, bestowed by Mexican forces during their many conflicts with the Apache people. I think of him fishing in this same stream as a young man, so much struggle and battle and death still ahead of him. History tells us that

Writers Gone Wild Mexican soldiers murdered his mother and wife, his three young children.

Our team had set out into the Gila Wilderness on horseback, with pack mules trailing behind. I’d done this seven-hour ride before, but still I took in all the scenery like a tourist. Pines and bluffs, blue sky and heated sun—riding into the Gila is always like seeing things for the first time. We passed through the large section of piñon and juniper burned in a 1996 fire. We passed by cliff dwellings not sketched on any map, and through the valley of McKenna Park, with small yellow flowers blooming between the grasses.

Throughout the ride, I thought of only one thing: Goyahkla’s ghost, lurking somewhere near, as close as all my insecurities and fears.

HOWL: From “Still Burning Bright”

By Martin Heinrich

On my first trip into the Gila, I went searching for wolves. It was 1996, and I’d just taken an AmeriCorps position with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, with the group working on Mexican wolf recovery. Mexican wolves are the most endangered and genetically unique subspecies of the North American gray wolf.

They had been extirpated from the Gila and the rest of the Southwest by the mid1900s and had only survived thanks to a small number of wolves captured from the wild in Mexico in the 1970s. By 1996, plans to restore the lobo to its home range were moving forward. My AmeriCorps colleagues and I were tasked with gathering data to dispel the rumors—persistent among some ranchers and other opponents of wolf reintroduction—that Mexican wolves still populated the mountains, mesas, and forests of the Southwest.

How does one do that exactly? I was about to find out. Two of us at a time would load a well-worn Fish and Wildlife truck with camping gear and head out into the backcountry for ten days at a time, surveying huge swaths of New Mexico and Arizona. Typically, we’d hike or drive a route, stopping every mile to howl into the darkness, once in each cardinal direction. Then we would record the responses.

A proper wolf howl starts high, drops an octave, and ends with a mournful tremolo.

Despite our best efforts, no wolves ever responded. We did, however, record a plethora of coyote calls and—surprisingly—an amazing array of owl hoots, ranging from Mexican spotted owls to tiny elf owls. One Mexican spotted owl responded to my howl by flying up to the top of a dead tree fifteen feet away and inspecting me sharply, as if to say, “You don’t look like a wolf.”

In the process, we created a data set that was used to successfully defend the recovery project in court when it was challenged as unnecessary. As a result, by 2020, 186 endangered lobos called New Mexico and Arizona home, 114 of those in the greater Gila region.

The Gila was also my first exposure to such a huge and dynamic landscape. I will never forget sitting at the edge of Cooney Prairie, north of the rugged Gila Wilderness, and watching wildlife mingle like wildebeest and impala on the African savanna. Elk, mule deer, and pronghorn antelope came and went as I watched through binoculars from under a tree at the edge of the massive grassy park. Wildlife I had only ever spotted in ones and twos populated the landscape in herds. It felt like getting something back that I didn’t know I’d lost—finding a home that I never knew I had.

SEEDS: From “Ojo”

By Gabe Vasquez

Did anyone ever teach you how to hold a crawfish without getting pinched? How about a hellgrammite? And if so, did they teach how to find these larvae, capture them, and use them for bait?

The natural world has much to offer us humans if we make the time to explore it and, more importantly, to protect it after we unlock its secrets. The Gila is one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, the nation’s first designated Wilderness, home to incredible biodiversity, history, culture, and people. It represents the abundance of desert riches for us to enjoy and help care for here in southern New Mexico.

If we’re lucky and privileged, we learn those lessons when we’re young. But the majority of New Mexicans don’t, and that’s an injustice on its own. Wild places like the Gila, and all their gifts, are often reserved for those with the economic means, the physical ability, and the experience it takes to get there. But mentorship and companionship may be the most important keys to access.

Just ask thirteen-year-old Jose of Anthony, New Mexico. On a warm spring morning Jose woke up to walk around camp in the Cliff-Gila Valley. A collection of fifty-dollar tents flapped in the breeze, encircling the remnants of the prior night’s bonfire, and two discos were already heated up and ready to receive a healthy heaping of chorizo con huevos before a morning hike.

Jose nodded and smiled, giving thanks in his own way for waking up to receive the world’s greatest portable hiking meal, the breakfast burrito.

“Mister, what is this?” Jose asked. He pointed to a walking-stick cholla, admiring its radiant purple flowers as he called over a group of friends emerging from their tents to admire the long, spiny cactus.

I told Jose it was a cholla and told him it made one of the finest walking sticks around.

He laughed and said, “Very funny.”

I pointed to a dead cholla stick under a tree, and replied, “Go get that—it’s the same cactus you’re looking at now. When they dry, they make for fine walking sticks—no needles. Go ahead, give it a try.” A forest secret unlocked.

We would spend the next three days camping in the Gila Wilderness—nine youth from the Juvenile Community Corrections Program in Las Cruces, two adult chaperones, and two volunteers from the Nuestra Tierra Conservation Project, which works to ensure that people from frontera, or border, communities have access to the outdoors.

We learned about the proposed Gila River diversion, about the native and invasive plant and aquatic species of the Gila, what to do if we encountered a black bear or a mountain lion (that was a popular question), the differences between wilderness and forest land, the Native peoples and cultures of the Gila, and so much more.

We fished for catfish, bass, and Sonoran suckers at Turkey Creek. We caught crawfish and hellgrammites at the Gila Box campground in Cliff. We poked a dead egret with a stick at Bill Evans Lake. We swam in the Gila River and jumped into swimming holes from magnificent sandstone cliffs. We stayed up telling ghost stories and making late-night tacos, and for the first time for many of these youths, we saw the Milky Way in all its glory.

Of course, the youth also eagerly explored every mountaintop surrounding camp to see if they could get cell phone service (they couldn’t).

For these young people, whose upbringing was filled with conflict and trauma, unlocking the secrets of the Gila Wilderness was more than just a trip to the forest. It was an opportunity to see the world in a different way. Among the many benefits that the Gila provides, its impact on our mental health and our understanding of ourselves is one of the most important.

You see, the Gila is more than spiraling mountain chains dotted with aspen and Douglas fir. It is more than its lowlands, with juniper, oak, and cactus. It is even more than one of the last free-flowing rivers in the Southwest, and more than the nation’s first Wilderness. It’s a place where we, its visitors, inhabitants, and admirers, can better understand our place in the world, and where we can develop a genuine appreciation and conservation ethic for all things wild.

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CUT/PASTE The last iteration of local writer and editor Bucket Siler’s Santa Fe Zine Fest went down in 2019, in the before times. Now, however, with things looking up all the time (for public health matters, anyway), Siler’s back on the case and bringing the event back to life at Wise Fool New Mexico. Oh, did you not know Wise Fool has an excellent community space? Meanwhile, back in the zine world, Siler’s got a killer lineup of zinesmiths this year, including Kate Stringer, Orianna Lee, Raashan Ahmad, Cuidado, Project Phenomena and more. It’s pretty much the best place to find passion projects from locals and visitors with the fortitude to write, draw, photograph and otherwise assemble homemade books for a discerning audience. Oh, to be young again. (ADV) Santa Fe Zine Fest: 2-4 pm Satuday, May 14. Free Wise Fool New Mexico, 1131 Siler Road B, (505) 992-2588

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MUSIC SUN/15 THE END...FOR NOW Considering we were all watching major cultural events through our laptops and iPads not too long ago, that the Santa Fe Symphony managed to mount such a successful 37th season this year seems no small feat. But, as they say, all good things must end, and folks who enjoy jamz from long-beloved or contemporary producers as played by a massive group of musicians will have to wait until next year to get back to that. For now, find the Santa Fe Symphony closing its current season with works by Mendelssohn, Ives and Brahms. Should be a banger, colloquially speaking, and yet another reminder that Santa Fe somehow has all this cultural stuff like a big town. (ADV) Santa Fe Symphony Season Finale: 4 pm Sunday, May 15. $22-$80 Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., (505) 988-1234

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EVENT WED/18 FESTIVAL SEASON Hold onto your butts, because we’re just about to hit Santa Fe’s season of markets, concerts, parties, jamz, BBQs, celebrations and fests, and we can think of no better way to kick the whole thing off than at the Indigenous Ways Festival at Villa Linda Park (that’s the one right by the Santa Fe Place Mall, which will always be Villa Linda to us). Find a whole slew of events throughout the day, including a performance from jazz and blues guitarist Lakota John and Native/Japanese singer Ishi. You’ll also experience drum circles, a well-being event, poetry, ceremony, food trucks and more. Other highlights include appearnces from activist/poet Beate Tsosie-Peña, Tauz TamuPovi and other local Indigenous leaders—and more events are coming all summer. (ADV) IndigenousWays Festival: 5-8 pm Wednesday, May 18. Free. Villa Linda Park 4246 Rodeo Road, indigenousways.org

Count It Coe Center’s No Records puts youth curators first Each year, Coe Center for the Arts’ Creative Director Bess Murphy hits up area schools looking for a promising crop of would-be youth curators with a goal of organizing a show using the center’s collection. According to Murphy, the program checks a lot of requisite boxes for students who need experience in hands-on volunteering, interning, mentorships and so on, and it also goes a long way toward demystifying arts stewardship, exhibition and history.

“This is our eighth year doing this program, and it’s open to any high school kid in Santa Fe,” Murphy explains. “I visit as many schools as I can coordinate at the beginning of the school year, and it’s a free program.”

This year’s result is No Records, a show culled from the Coe Center’s collection of more than 2,300 Indigenous arts pieces and comprised of sculpture, beadwork, fashion, weaving and more—and one centered around the idea that sometimes provenance is un-knowable. Many of the show’s pieces, says youth curator, multimedia aritst and New Mexico School for the Arts senior Cruz Davis-Martinez, lost their history at some point, and that common thread inspired him and his fellow participants to lean into the idea of origin.

“We had free rein to pretty much form any fixation on any object, whether it was from a time period or country, and in my group, we noticed...some didn’t have a known history,” Davis-Martinez tells SFR. “This provides a sense of ambiguity and makes the viewer ponder; it’s interesting because as we try

to connect the puzzle pieces on our own, whether subconsciously or not, we wonder what specific objects were used for what purpose? Did they have a utilitarian purpose, or did they just exist as an art piece? It can be art for art’s sake.”

We do, as a people, tend to search for utilitarian facets to historical art pieces, but Davis-Martinez’s position that art can be for beautification, consideration or even just escapism is intriguing. In the show’s brochure, he states that, as a collector of vintage Barbies, not knowing the history of an artifact can be just as interesting as it is challenging.

“The reality is that, for institutions that steward collections, this is not unusual,” Murphy notes. “And sometimes when you’re storing Indigenous collections, there’s information that we as the stewards can’t know and should never know.”

For Cruz, who curated alongside students from NMSA, the Academy for Technology and Classics and Santa Fe High, staying receptive is key.

“Through this year at the Coe, we learned what it was to be with these pieces and to be comfortable with that unknowing,” he says. “As long as we approach whatever it is with an open mindset, I think that’s integral.”

(Alex De Vore) NO RECORDS OPENING 5:30 pm Friday, May 13. Free Coe Center for the Arts 1590 B Pacheco St. (505) 983-6372 SFREPORTER.COM

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ONGOING ART *** form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256 Three artists confront the interlocking paradigms of artspace as white space and identity as fixed. Jami Porter Lara, Erin Mickelson and Kate Ruck contribute prints, tapestries, weaponry, neon signage and a sandbag wall. The artists are linked by their explorations of legacy, inheritance, indigeneity and whiteness.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free BENEATH THE SURFACE Annex on the Midtown Campus 1600 St. Michael’s Drive sciartsantafe.org Scientists and artists together?

With these inflation rates? Well, we’ll just have to make do. See the art the scientists make, courtesy of SciArt Santa Fe. If you didn’t think there was a connection with art and science, now you know.

1-4 pm, Fri & Sat, free DEEPENING THE LIGHT Pie Projects 924B Shoofly St. (505) 372-7681 How deep is this light? Well, when the premise of your show is how light is a chronicler of time, you’re in pretty deep.

August Muth’s solo exhibition highlights how he’s one of the great pioneers in the field of artistic holography.

11 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat

“Person in the Mirror“ by Emmanuel Manu Opoku, part of the show Here and There at Strata Gallery.

FINDING AMELIA Range West Gallery 2861 NM-14, Madrid (505) 474-0925 Artist Carla Caletti paints abstracted figures and constructs sculptures from recycled materials. Who is Amelia? She’s all of us, guys.

11 am-5 pm, free

FLOURISH form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256 Lush natural motifs are abundant here. Visual and tactile pleasures swirl while queer celebrations emerge. This show ends on May 14.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

GRAVITAS Evoke Contemporary 550 S. Guadalupe St. (505) 995-9902 A art exhibition celebrating the nude form. It features artists Harry Holland, Cheryl Kelley, Soey Milk, Kristine Poole and many more.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

HERE AND THERE Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road, Ste. 1C (505) 780-5403 Emmanuel Manu Opoku’s practice investigates the aesthetic value in everyday objects, transforming materials to express cultural change.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

IMAGINE THE IMPOSSIBLE Wild Hearts Gallery 221 B Highway 165, Placitas (505) 867-2450 Roger Evans makes whimsical animal figures. He combines his engineering and illustration backgrounds with an interest in social commentary. In his art, animals express human foibles in a way that bypasses assumptions related to race, class, sex or age.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Fri 10 am-2 pm, Sat & Sun, free INTO THE LIGHT ViVO Contemporary 725 Canyon Road (505) 982-1320 A light and shadow show.

10 am-5 pm, free SPECTRUM SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 An exploration of cultural repair and radical colonial resistance.

10 am-5 pm, Thurs, Sat, Sun 10 am-7 pm, Fri, free NATURE’S ALGORITHM Kouri + Corrao Gallery 3213 Calle Marie (505) 820-1888 Inspired by Rin-ha painting styles, Mitsuru Ando describes his work as “a new type of Japanese painting that depicts algorithms of natural form.”

Noon-5 pm, Tues-Sat By appointment, Sun & Mon, free NIGHT FEEDING Smoke the Moon 101 Marcy St., Ste. 23 smokethemoon.com See a universe where there’s darkness in rainbows, comfort in the presence of ghosts and an entire bestiary of supernatural familiars.

Noon-4 pm, Thurs-Sun, free OCHO CUBANOS AHORA Artes de Cuba 1700 A Lena St. (505) 303-3138 Cuban artists bring unique perspectives on the world we don’t see often in America.

Check out paintings from islandgrown artists.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, free PAULA & IRVING KLAW: VINTAGE PRINTS No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org The bizarre fetish underground scene is pretty cool, actually, and we thank No Name Cinema for teaching us that.

By appointment or during No Name Cinema events, free

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EL FLAMENCO: SPANISH CABARET El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 Flamenco in downtown Santa Fe. It’s artsy and romantic, but more than anything it’s cool.

Like, really cool.

Various times, $25-$43

2-STEPPIN' Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Live country tunes and guaranteed boot-scootin'.

7-10 pm, $10 suggested PIRATE SWING St. John's College 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca tinyurl.com/ka73h3u2 An outdoor silent dance using headphones. Pirate swing is a an homage to the radio pirates back in the early radio days, who'd broadcast without a valid license. The dance is held by the koi pond.

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KARAOKE NIGHT Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St. (505) 988-7222 Get those MCR covers ready.

10 pm, free SECOND CHANCES Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952 Country music tunes.

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ART HERE AND THERE (OPENING) Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road, Ste. 1C (505) 780-5403 Ghanian artist Emmanuel Manu Opoku brings humor into his paintings to explore the experience of a diasporic artist.

5-7 pm, free

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Saturday, May 14, 9:OO am–2:OO pm Cheer on the runners as they cross the finish line!

Museum Grounds Open  Giveaways & Live Entertainment Food Trucks, Beer Creek Brews on Tap Admission free for everyone!

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EVENTS BINGO MADRID PET FUNDRAISER The Mineshaft Tavern and Cantina 2846 NM-14 (505) 473-0743 Help raise money for the Fuzz Fund, which gives free healthcare to all of Madrid's dogs and cats—aka Obamacare for pets. Grand prizes, dirty jokes and strong drinks. A costume pet parade starts at 6 pm, which we know you’re into.

6-10 pm, free GOVERNOR'S MANSION TOUR New Mexico Governor's Mansion One Mansion Drive (301) 318-0940 Explore the historic Governor's Mansion. For more info, contact the number above.

By appointment, free HOTLINE B(L)INGO Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307 (505) 983-0134 Bingo is love, bingo is life.

7 pm, $2 per round

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A DELICATE BALANCE Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 Edward Albee’s 1967 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama continues its run at the Playhouse. Family drama on stage is something we all really crave.

7:30 pm, $30-$75 BACK TO THE STUDIO: AN EVENING OF SCENES FROM THE PLAYS OF REBECCA GILMAN Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie tinyurl.com/mu2akchy Ironweed Productions presents 12 local actors performing scenes from five plays by the dynamic American writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist Rebecca Gilman.

7:30 pm, $10-$15 SHORTS 5: A NEW COLLECTION OF THEATRICAL CREATIONS Santa Fe Improv 1202 Parkway Drive, Ste. A tinyurl.com/3r3t7uu7 Short stories for the stage.

7:30 pm, $12-$25 THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B tinyurl.com/mry3ehtn You know those plays where a bunch of stuff happens in an urban bar setting in some historical time period? It’s one of those, and that’s just dandy.

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PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM Ricardo Mazal's Studio 926 Shoofly St. punkeekart@gmail.com Ever felt pauses in the equilibrium caused by monumental events in the world? These paintings reflect that vibe through brush strokes and paint layers. Email the above for an appt.

By appointment, free SHELTERS FROM THE STORM 5. Gallery 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700 (505) 257-8417 Brick and wood sculptures.

Noon-5 pm, free SKATE NIGHT Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta (505) 470-2582 A photo series documenting the Black roller-skating community.

Noon-5 pm, Thurs & Fri, free TEXTURES Nüart Gallery 670 Canyon Road (505) 988-3888 A solo exhibition from sculptor Diana Moore, who’s inspired by ancient figurative sculptures from around the world. Moore is well-known for her series residing at the entrance to several federal buildings across the country, exploring the female seen through her preferred medium.

10 am-5 pm, free THE BODY ELECTRIC SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Jeffrey Gibson’s decades-long efforts bring a shocking exhibit to SITE. Gibson merges artistic styles and historical cultural references to create vibrant, multilayered works. His projects center around the complexities and relationships between injustice and identity.

10 am-5 pm, Thurs, Sat, Sun 10 am-7 pm, Fri, free BIGGER THAN THIS ROOM form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256 Bigger Than This Room is an art exhibition with ephemera which reframes the picture, embedding monuments within larger cultural vistas.

Documentations, sketches, tributes and fragments on display offer to bring a greater understanding to the larger works.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free READ TO LEARN. SEE TO REMEMBER. El Zaguán 545 Canyon Road (505) 982-0016 Marie Sheel takes us through the best things she’s learned from reading over 30 books on writing. She’s incorporated both essays and imagery as pages of an unfinished book. Learn art, learn grammar, be cultured.

9 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri, free

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ARTHUR SZE WITH FORREST GANDER Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 Sze has authored 12 poetry books, including The Glass Constellation and was the first poet laureate of Santa Fe Gander is a Pulitzer Prizewinning author.

7 pm, $5-$8

SANTA FE COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENT ART SHOW (OPENING) Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave. (505) 428-1000 A student exhibition featuring sculpture, printmaking, book arts, ceramics, film, media and beyond.

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With The Food Depot Executive Director Sherry Hooper

New Mexico has always faced food insecurity, and the recent wildfires are only exacerbating an already fragile situation. The Food Depot’s Executive Director Sherry Hooper tells SFR upticks in need continue to grow, and the public can always do more. Hooper spoke with SFR to remind us about the org’s pressing needs and what individuals can do to help displaced people in the region. Note the nonprofit’s warehouse (1222 A Siler Road, (505) 471-1633) is open for donations, too. (Riley Gardner) From the perspective of The Food Depot, what’s the hunger situation looking like in the wildfire-hit regions?

We saw an increase of people asking for help prior to the fires. We hadn’t seen these numbers since May 2020. Federal benefits decreased or expired, and so people are turning to us and our partner agencies for additional help. Some people haven’t been able to return to work because of a lack of adequate daycare, for example. We anticipated that, and [the fires] are just added on top of that. But we’re experiencing big numbers at our distribution centers, especially as grocery stores are closed because staff are evacuating or trying to protect their homes. We’re trying to get food up to Española, Taos, Raton—places people have evacuated to and are in the process of doing. We’re seeing that community donations aren’t keeping up with the increased demand. We’re having to order a lot of the products being requested by the different distribution sites. We just had to order a truckload of bottled water and Gatorade, and fresh produce and hygiene items obviously have a lot of demand right now, too.

What’s the org doing to help combat the food portion of this crisis?

We’re working with local emergency managers to provide food, these needed hygiene products and other things. This is a year-round goal for us, so we’re used to bringing donations in and providing for people. When I say we’re working with other local orgs, I mean partner agencies, emergency food pantries, soup kitchens and

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other nonprofit food programs. So obviously, a lot of those orgs are seeing an increase in demand right now. Some people are staying in hotels or in Red Cross shelters, and others are staying with family and friends. Those people staying with family and friends are people we’re really trying to reach because these households have so many extra mouths to feed. We’re in close contact to county emergency managers, plus the Red Cross and state emergency operations command center, who then communicate needs back to us. By knowing that, we can meet unique regional needs.

Our community and others throughout Northern New Mexico have been really generous. What we’re finding is those sites and shelters are overwhelmed with donations, so we pick them up and have our volunteers sort them. People are dropping off everything, including things like pet food, which we’ll take. Those sites don’t have the person power to arrange and organize, which would make it easier to access in an emergency. So we pick them up, sort them into boxes filled and labeled and bring it back up to them. That way when we get a call requesting certain items, we can just load them up onto our truck and take them over.

We’re getting a lot of requests for diapers.

Diapers are needed to help enable families to return to work or to school. Most people don’t know this, but if families can’t provide disposable diapers to the daycare, they can’t leave their kids there. So we wanted to remove that barrier. Water for firefighters is a must, and even things like Chapstick and eye drops are important.

What can Santa Feans do to assist The Food Deport for the people hit by these disasters?

Locals can help by donating in financial contributions. That goes to the cost of fuel and supplies, which is so high right now.

Food costs and fuel costs have skyrocketed, which makes it even harder for everyone in this situation. People can visit our website and see the list of items we’re really needing.

So, by working through us, you’re better able to address the specific needs of evacuees and firefighters. They can drop off donations at sites throughout the city. We aren’t short of volunteers right now, but with COVID-19 coming back we’re concerned people will choose to stay home and we won’t have enough volunteers to sort what’s coming in.

We don’t want to sit on those donations.

Volunteers can apply through the website. We have, because of COVID-19 rising cases, gone back to being masked in our buildings. This Saturday [May 14], we’re having a letter-carriers food drive: People can put their donations by their mailbox. Label it ‘For TFD.’ The Postal Service will load them up and bring them back to the Post Office, where we’ll be waiting to sort them and get them out.

Donations can be made by mail or at thefooddepot.org.

BOOKS/LECTURES FIRST AND WILDEST Garcia Street Books 376 Garcia St. (505) 986-0151 The Gila River Basin is beloved public land. Former Outside features editor Elizabeth Hightower Allen helped edit this book of essays entitled First and Wildest, which illuminates the river basin’s importance to countless species and cultures today. (see cover, page 16) 5 pm, free MIDDLE SCHOOL-AGE BOOK DISCUSSION Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820 Have your age-appropriate kid read The House on Mango Street, then stop by the library so they can get pizza and make art. It'll be fun and parents *might* not have to cook that night.

4:30-6 pm, free SAR CREATIVE THOUGHT FORUM: THE "CRISIS OF TRUTH" IN DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES Online tinyurl.com/mrf5mv79 From the School for Advanced Research, join moderator Drake Bennett with presenters Sophia Rosenfeld and Rebecca Solnit for this webinar, which looks into whether the alleged crisis of truth represents a serious danger to democratic institutions and, if so, what can be done about it.

2-3:15 pm, free

EVENTS ENTREPRENEUR STORY TIME: BROKEN ARROW GLASS Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive (505) 983-9817 Broken Arrow Glass is New Mexico's first creative glass recycling program, and founders Shelby Kaye and Chris Bogle are joining up with Kick-Ass Entrepreneurs to talk about their business and experiences with a start-up.

6:30-8:30 pm, free

GAME TIME Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780 Play your favorite board games in the sanctuary of the library.

Try not to scream if you decide on playing Risk.

4-5:30 pm, free GEEKS WHO DRINK Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952 Trivia night for people feeling smart. If you're smart in even just a few things, you've got a shot to win.

7-9 pm, free NATIONAL NURSE’S MARCH NEW MEXICO State Capitol Roundhouse 490 Old Santa Fe Trail tinyurl.com/44kmhf83 Gather at the Roundhouse to help support fair wages for healthcare staff, safe patient-staffing ratios and work to defeat violence against healthcare workers.

10 am, free NEW MEXICO RURAL SUMMIT State Capitol Roundhouse 490 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 927-0108 Join rural, frontier and tribal leaders for two days of in-depth discussions on infrastructure, education and more.

All day, free PRIDE AFTER 5 Opuntia Café 1607 Alcaldesa St., Ste 201 (505) 780-5796 Santa Fe Pride and the Human Rights Alliance hosts a queer mixer. Tea is queer-friendly.

5:30-7:30 pm, free SECOND THURSDAY SOCIAL RIDE Railyard Plaza Water Tower Market and Alcaldesa Streets tinyurl.com/2nfxs5me Meet at the Railyard Water Tower at 7 pm and have a socially paced 5-8 mile ride, then return to Second Street Brewery at the Railyard. Bring your lights, locks and smiles. You have a great smile.

7 pm, free

YARDMASTERS Railyard Park Community Room 701 Callejon St. (505) 316-3596 Help beautify the Railyard. Bring your own gardening gloves.

10 am-noon, free

MUSIC BOB MAUS Cava Lounge at the Eldorado Hotel 309 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-4455 Classic piano tunes of '60s, '70s and '80s.

6-9 pm, free

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FRI/13 ART <NO_RECORDS> (OPENING) Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts 1590 Pacheco St. (505) 983-6372 Check out the new Indigenous art program curated by students. (see SFR picks, page 19) 5:30-7:30 pm, free EVANESCENCE (OPENING) Charlotte Jackson Fine Art 554 S Guadalupe St. (505) 989-8688 Clark Walding’s paintings glow.

The aching and mystic blues here have a gravity all their own.

5-7 pm, free WATER SONGS (OPENING) Alas de Agua Art Collective 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 alasdeagua.com Israel Haros is a Chicano painter, poet and muralist, with work that ignites ancestral memory. (see A&C, page 33) 5-7:30 pm, free

EVENTS HAIKU TRAIL OPENING Randall Davey Audubon Center 1800 Upper Canyon Road (505) 983-4609 This permanent installation showcases 24 haiku by New Mexican poets. The work is site specific, all of it being written at the Center. Carpool with others if you can, as parking is limited.

5:30-7 pm, free

Student Jesus Gallegos from a 2019 Santa Fe Community College Student art show. SFCC’s 2022 art show opens on Thursday, May 12.

FILM NO NAME CINEMA: UFO DOC MARATHON No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org A marathon screening of low-budget UFO documentaries presented on glorious, ever glorious VHS. Not for the faint of heart, the skeptical or squeamish—real UFO heads only. Sorry if you have trouble sleeping afterwards.

6-11:45 pm, free (but donate because cinema is cool)

MUSIC LITTLE SATCHMO Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528 See a new documentary about Louis Armstrong’s secret daughter. Before the show, hear a live trumpet performance by Chief Sanchez.

6:30 pm, $16-$32 BOK CHOY Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive (505) 983-9817 Rock ‘n’ roll for the whole fam.

8 pm-midnight, free

RECITAL DE CANTE Y GUITARRA El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia casaflamenca.org Spanish flamenco guitarist Juani de la Isla and Spanish flamenco singer Miguel Rosendo take the stage.

8-9 pm, $30 THE WIDOW OXLEY Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952 A classic rock and country cover band likely to play one of your favorite nostalgia trips. Well, we actually can't promise that. But we can hold out hope for you.

6-9 pm, free THE WORLD OF STAN GETZ Club Legato 125 E Palace Ave. lacasasena.com/clublegato Santa Fe’s own Dave Anderson has been a long time musical voice in Northern New Mexico, most notably as a frequent guest soloist at El Mesón’s (RIP) jazz lounge. It’s no wonder Dave has played with everyone from Ella Fitzgerald to Mel Torme. His beautiful sound and sense of distinguish him.

6 pm, $25-$30

OPERA OPERA MAKES SENSE: FAMILY CONCERTS Main Library 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780 This show is for children ages 3-5 to explore the world of opera through music and storytelling.

2 pm, free

SAT/14 ART ART BY BIKE Frenchy's Field Osage Avenue and Agua Fría St. santafebikemonth.com Bike on Agua Fria from Frenchy’s Field in the temporary protected bike lane with art, music and activity stops along the way.

11 am-3 pm, free FAMILY MORNINGS AT FOLK ART Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200 Bring the kids up to learn about animals in art.

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THE CALENDAR SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET In the West Casitas, north of the water tower 1612 Alcaldesa St. (505) 310-8766 Santa Fe's best in pottery, jewelry, painting, photography, furniture and more.

9 am-2 pm, free

DANCE DIRT DANCE IN THE PARK Patrick Smith Park 1001 Canyon Road allaboardearth.com Silent disco, disco silently.

2-4 pm, $5-$12

EVENTS 2022 LOWRIDER DAY Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Live music on the bandstand and a car show on the Plaza and a 2 pm cruise through the downtown streets.

Noon-4 pm, free 25TH ANNUAL SNOW BALL Eldorado Hotel and Spa 309 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-4455 Support the Adaptive Sports Program of New Mexico. Tickets include include a three-course dinner with wine, silent auction plus music by ChillHouse and Hillary Smith.

5:30 pm, $115 BANS OFF OUR BODIES RALLY State Capitol Roundhouse 490 Old Santa Fe Trail tinyurl.com/5n9xadt8 Join Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains and other reproductive health and justice organizations for an organized response to the SCOTUS leak. We know New Mexicans kick butt when it comes to organizing.

10:30 am-12:30 pm, free DISTRICT 3 COUNTY COMMISSIONER FORUM Online tinyurl.com/368uxh3m Hear 'em out, chat with 'em, have a grand old time and feel better about participating in our democracy.

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FORT MARCY BALLPARK GRANDSTAND PAINTING DAY Fort Marcy Park 490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2501 As the event title suggests, help paint the grandstand at the Fort Marcy Ballpark.

9 am-2 pm, free GRATITUDE OFFERING CLOSING CEREMONY form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St. (202) 216-1256 Part of form & concept's current show Flourish, this immersive and ever-evolving show calls attention to fleeting moments of beauty through ceremonial reverence and ecstatic joy. Join in a ritual of giving and gratitude in this closing ceremony led by artist Niomi “Moss” Fawn.

5-7 pm, free NORTHERN NEW MEXICO COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT Northern New Mexico College 921 N Paseo De Onate, Española (505) 929-0746 Graduation ceremonies are back in a semi-normal way. The 9 am ceremony covers business administration, education and language/letters graduates. The 3 pm ceremony covers arts and sciences, biology, chemistry and environmental science, engineering and technology, mathematics and nursing and health sciences graduates.

9 am & 3 pm, free SANTA FE WOMEN'S CLUB FUNDRAISER FLEA MARKET Santa Fe Woman's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail (505) 983-9455 Help raise money for Women's Scholarships and different nonprofits in Santa Fe. There'll be a ton of nice items for sale at very low prices (cash or checks only).

8 am-2 pm, free SANTA FE ZINE FEST Wise Fool New Mexico 1131 Siler Road, Ste. B. (505) 992-2588 Local creators will display their handmade zines; attendees can buy or trade works and get to know local zine makers. (see SFR picks, page 19) 2-4 pm, free

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FOOD FARMERS MARKET Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo De Peralta (505) 983-4098 Fresh food options stretching far beyond the horizon. And by that we mean the Railyard Plaza and pavilion. That’s big too.

8 am-1 pm, free HIGH DESERT HYDRATION CHOMP Food Hall 505 Cerrillos Road tinyurl.com/ynunzmu7 Enjoy several special mineral waters from around the world, while learning about source, acquisition and history.

11:30 am-1:30 pm, $30 PLANTITA VEGAN BAKERY POP-UP Plantita Vegan Bakery 1704 Lena St. Unit B4 (505) 603-0897 Plantita's pop-up bakery offers top-selling items like orange chocolate cayenne cupcakes, green chile apple hand pies and blueberry muffins.

10 am-noon, free

MUSIC AGUA FRIA ALLEYCAT Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 A race (for the hammerheads) and a ride (for the laid-back types). That’s right, it’s alleycat time. This starts and stops at Tumbleroot Brewery.

3-6:30 pm, free AUDIOBUDDHA Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952 Drinks and sweet beats. You know how it goes.

6-9 pm, free BIG RICHARD Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Ever rage-fiddled tunes with the intention of smashing the patriarchy? You'd be right at home at Big Richard's show, then. This soon-to-be big time neo-acoustic band is not to be missed.

7:30-10:30 pm, $20-$25

LITTLE SATCHMO Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528 A doc about Louis Armstrong’s secret daughter with a live trumpet performance kicking off the screening.

2:30 pm, $16-$32 CHATTER SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Chatter weaves together traditional and contemporary chamber music programs.

Hear Julia Wolfe's With A Blue Dress On, Shulamit Ran's East Wind and others. Poet Elizabeth Jacobson is this week’s Chatter poet of the morning.

10:30 am, $5-$16 ROBERT FOX TRIO Club Legato 125 E Palace Ave. lacasasena.com/clublegato It’s called a jazz jam, you uncultured swine. Sorry, wait, that was mean—but check out this magnificent trio and hear real time jazzy jazz.

6-9 pm, free SHAKE ALERT AND PUPFISH Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St. (505) 954-1068 Shake Alert is a happy explosion of musical energy and invention that draws from the diverse experiences of its members.

Threads of Afrobeat, hip-hop, rock, fusion and good old funk all show up in Shake Alert's all-original, all homegrown music. This is filthy, unfiltered funk—as funk should be.

8-10 pm, free

THEATER CYMBELINE Unitarian Universalist Santa Fe 107 N. Barcelona Road upstartcrowsofsantafe.org Cymbeline is the Crows’ second Blackfriars Production. See one of Shakespeare’s last works, filled with seduction, deceit, pursuit and more madness.

6 pm, $15

WORKSHOP DOORS OF EUROPE: ALBRECHT DURER WATERCOLOR PENCILS Wendy Layne Art Gallery & Workshops 8380 Cerillos Road. Ste. 408 855-MAKE-ART Learn Wendy Layne’s drawing techniques using Faber Castell Albrecht Durer watercolor pencils and create beautiful watercolor paintings working from reference photos of doors taken in Europe.

4-6 pm, $125 INFINITE PLAY: MOVEMENT WORKSHOP Old Fort Marcy Park 490 Bishops Lodge Road bitly.ws/otWX Like moving? Consider this weekend workshop experience with movement maestro Kyle Fincham. Be prepared to get dirty, laugh and meet awesome people.

10 am-5 pm, $80-$170

SUN/15 ART BACK TO BASICS Bluebird Studio 8 Joy Lane (720) 933-4022 Chris Morel takes students through the process of plein air painting. Expect to touch on all aspects of painting outside, from choosing subject matter, composition, value, color mixing and application. Please note this is the start of a three-day workshop.

8:30 am-4:30 pm, $575 IMAGINE THE IMPOSSIBLE (ARTIST RECEPTION) Wild Hearts Gallery 221 B Highway 165, Placitas (505) 867-2450 Roger Evans doesn’t kid around when it comes to his whimsical animal portraits. Plus, he’s a smart dude from an engineering background, so those of you who know nothing about art will feel right at home. Meet Evans, ask questions, learn about art.

1-4 pm, free

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RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Railyard Artisan Market 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-4098 Shop locally made fine arts and crafts, jewelry, health and beauty remedies and home goods. Vendors rotate weekly, so there’s always new options.

10 am-3 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES LAS MERCEDES QUE NO MUEREN: LAND GRANT HISTORY IN NEW MEXICO Placitas Community Library 453 Hwy. 165, Placitas (505) 867-3355 Heirs, acequias and parciantes are located all over the state.

Jacobo Baca leads this lecture, giving a general overview of land grant history in New Mexico.

2 pm, free FREETHINKERS FORUM: GUN SAFETY IN NEW MEXICO Online tinyurl.com/mw3hn2f7 Miranda Viscoli of New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence presents and leads what's promised to be an informative discussion.

8:30 am, free

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EVENTS SKY RAILWAY: COCKTAILS AND RAILS Santa Fe Railyard Plaza 1612 Alcaldesa St. skyrailway.com Soothe away your day while you enjoy our hour and a half chill train. Complimentary champagne too, just sayin'.

5:30 pm, $59-$79 SANTA FE BIKE SWAP The Betterday Coffee Shop 905 W Alameda St. skyrailway.com Buy and sell used or new discounted bicycles, bike clothes and accessories.

5:30 pm, $59-$79 SAN YSIDRO DAY Full Circle Farm 2080 San Ysidro Crossing threesisterscollective.org Alas de Agua Art Collective and Three Sisters Collective celebrate the patron saint of farmers with a blessing, feast, readings and more.

10 am-3 pm, free

MUSIC CRASH KARAOKE Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952 It's karaoke, Crash Romerostyle. Grab a drink and get those sweet Madonna covers you’ve been practicing at home out into the open.

6-9 pm, free GERRY CARTHY Chile Line Brewery 204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474 Traditional Irish tunes and locally brewed brews. Is that paradise? For many of us, it very well is. Check it out.

6-8:30 pm, free THE SANTA FE SYMPHONY: SEASON FINALE Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 The Symphony's 37th Season is brought to a spectacular close.

Winner of the Robert Frederick Smith Prize at the 2018 Sphinx Competition, Rubén Rengel joins the full orchestra for Mendelssohn’s brilliant Violin Concerto in E Minor as part of a new three-year collaboration with the Sphinx Organization, the Detroit-based national organization dedicated to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts. (see SFR picks, page 19) 4 pm, $22-$80

LITTLE SATCHMO Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528 Louis Armstrong’s “secret” daughter is the focus of this new documentary. Plus, the show kicks off with with a live trumpet performance from Chief Sanchez.

7 pm, $16-$32

THEATER CYMBELINE Unitarian Universalist Santa Fe 107 N Barcelona Road upstartcrowsofsantafe.org It may not be Shakespeare’s best-known work, but it’s just as dizzying with drama. Youth theater is the coolest theater.

3 pm, $15 THE SUNDAY GET DOWN DRAG BRUNCH Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528 Divas D'Lite DeLeon, Seliah DeLeon, Drag King Rusty Nutz, Brandi and more host this get down. Bring your $1 bills, grab a mimosa or bloody mary—but there’s a full bar as well. Plus delicious brunch foods, which makes any parking struggle worth it.

Noon & 3 pm, $20-$50

WORKSHOP BASIC BLOCK PRINTING WORKSHOP Hat Ranch Gallery 27 San Marcos Road W (505) 424-3391 Block printing is a popular printmaking technique that originated in China more than a thousand years ago. Bring a simple image or use the one that’s in your mind’s eye to create your own unique blockprint. Fear not—no experience necessary.

11 am-3 pm, free BELLYREENA BELLYDANCE CLASS Move Studio 901 W San Mateo Road (505) 660-8503 Dance that cute little belly. Burn calories, get a little confidence and see how it might be less intimidating than you first thought. Please RSVP in advance so COVID-19 safety policies can be addressed in advance.

1-2 pm, $15

MON/16 BOOKS/LECTURES SURPRISING FINDS FROM A CLASSIC MAYA SITE: RECOVERY AND REDISCOVERY Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta tinyurl.com/3zvurkef Object conservator Harriet “Rae” Beaubien details findings from the above subject. History nerds refer to such talks as "bliss."

6 pm, $20

DANCE SANTA FE SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road It may be every college student’s favorite hobby, yet in our city with limited colleges swing still thrives. $8 for a class and the open dance, $3 if you’re just stopping by for the dance.

7-9:30 pm, $3-$8

EVENTS '90S NIGHT Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952 Drink specials + nostalgia. Extra points for folks who dig out those extra-tight nylon shirts.

4-10 pm, free QUEER NIGHT La Reina at El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 It's all about community, don't you know? Meet queer identifying people and their allies to celebrate and strengthen Santa Fe's queer communities. We’re gonna need it more than ever.

5-11 pm, free (but donate to support the Transgender Resource Center)

MUSIC ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 Animal Collective is considered by some to be a founding member of Indie Rock.

It took two decades, but they've finally brought their sounds to Santa Fe. It’s sold out, but ask around to see if any tickets are floating around. There’s always a few out there.

8 pm, $36 BARBERSHOP CHORUS REHEARSALS Zia United Methodist Church 3368 Governor Miles Road (505) 596-0350 Teens and adults, if you can carry a tune you can be a barbershop singer. Give it a shot, friends.

6:30-8 pm, free BILL HEARNE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Hearne puts the happy in happy hour. Hear Americana and country tunes from a local legend.

4 pm, free BRUCE COCKBURN St. Francis Auditorium at NM Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072 Folk, jazz and worldbeat musical styles.

7:30 pm, $30-$54 METAL MONDAYS Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Cloud Catcher, TKTWA, Terra Damnata and Red Mesa.

7:30 pm, $10

TUE/17 EVENTS LGBT "PLUS PLUS" NIGHT Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952 An inclusive weekly event to celebrate our community in a certified safe space.

4-10 pm, free PLEIN AIR CONVENTION & EXPO Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino 20 Buffalo Thunder Trail (505) 455-5555 Meet members of the Plein Air Painters of New Mexico as well as master artists from around the world. This is the world's largest gathering of outdoor painters, and we think that's pretty dang nifty.

All day, $347-$997 YARDMASTERS Railyard Park Community Room 701 Callejon St. (505) 316-3596 Flowers. Bushes. Grass. Plant ‘em, make the park pretty and get your head out of the computer for a bit.

10 am-noon, free

SFCC HIGH SCHOOL EQUIVALENCY GRADUATION William C. Witter Fitness Education Center at SFCC 6401 Richards Ave. (505) 428-1142 Santa Fe Community College celebrates 65 students who successfully completed their exams in the Adult Education programs.

6 pm, free VETERANS EXEMPTION OUTREACH Genoveva Chavez Community Center 3221 Rodeo Road (505) 428-1142 The Office of the Santa Fe County Assessor hosts this event to help assist veterans with exemptions and disabled veterans exemptions, eligibility certificates and more.

6 pm, free

FOOD FARMERS MARKET TOUR Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo De Peralta tinyurl.com/2p8zthbc Join a tour host and guide on a Tuesday morning stroll through the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market.

9 am, free

MUSIC JOHNNY LLOYD The Dragon Room 406 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 983-7712 Johnny Lloyd performs Americana music. Toe-tapping entertainment is defs on the menu, friends.

5:30-7:30 pm, free MUDHONEY AND MEAT PUPPETS Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. tinyurl.com/42x4efkm Mudhoney has been jamming since the late ‘80s with their muck-crusted version of rock. Famous rock heads the Meat Puppets, who recently were inducted into the Arizona Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame, joins.

7:30 pm, $31 JUSTIN LARKIN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Larkin is a one-man band with a suitcase drum, plus a few tambourines and harmonicas for a roots-powered afternoon.

4-6 pm, free (no cover)

MUSEUMS IAIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900 Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology. IAIA 2021–2022 BFA Exhibition: Awakened Dreamscapes.

10 am-4 pm, Wed-Sat, Mon 11 am-4 pm, Sun, $5-$10 MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200 Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass.

Birds: Spiritual Messengers of the Skies. ReVOlution.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$9 MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200 Yokai: Ghosts and Demons of Japan. Música Buena.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$12 NEW MEXICO HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave. (505) 476-5200 The Palace Seen and Unseen.

Curative Powers: New Mexico’s Hot Springs.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-$12, NM residents free 5-7 pm first Fri of the month MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART 18 General Goodwin Road (505) 424-6487 10th Anniversary Exhibition.

11 am-4 pm, Fri-Sun $10

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SECULAR ALLIANCE: PAGANISM'S HISTORY, CURRENT PRACTICES AND CELEBRATIONS Online tinyurl.com/2p9fyxt8 The talk's presenters describe themselves as iconoclastic queer witches. They'll give a brief history of contemporary paganism, from its pre-Christian origins through its expansion in the 20th century to today.

Noon, free

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A circa 1850 jar from San Ildefonso Pueblo from the exhibit “Di Wae Powa: A Partnership With the Smithsonian.” Courtesy of the National Museum of the American Indian.

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo (505) 982-2226 Pueblo-Spanish Revival Style: The Director’s Residence and the Architecture of John Gaw Meem. Trails, Rails, and Highways: How Trade Transformed New Mexico.

1-4 pm, Wed-Fri, $5-$12, free for members NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5063 Western Eyes. Poetic Justice.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-12

POEH CULTURAL CENTER 78 Cities of Gold Road (505) 455-5041 Di Wae Powa: A Partnership With the Smithsonian. Nah Poeh Meng: The Continuous Path.

9 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-$10 WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 704 Camino Lejo (505) 982-4636 Indigenous Women: Border Matters (Traveling).

Portraits: Peoples, Places, and Perspectives. Abeyta | To’Hajiilee K’é.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, $8

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SEASON FINALE!

Sunday, May 15—4:00 PM @ The Lensic

The Symphony’s 38th Season is brought to a rousing close with a spectacular afternoon of great music under the baton of Maestro Guillermo Figueroa. Don’t miss The Unanswered Question by Charles Ives, Felix Mendelssohn’s powerful Violin Concerto with Venezuelan violinist and winner of the Robert Frederick Smith Prize at the 2018 Sphinx Organization, RUBÉN RENGEL, and the monumental Second Symphony by Johannes Brahms.

FULL CONCERT UNDERWRITER ANN NEUBERGER ACEVES This concert is dedicated to the memory, life, and service of Joyce Nicholson, former President of The Santa Fe Symphony Board of Directors (1994–1996).

Facemasks, photo ID, and proof of vaccination OR negative COVID test required.

View our COVID-19 safety protocols at santafesymphony.org/covid-19 for details.

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Helping Hands Bar Castaneda, Shooting Star Acres among those feeding displaced New Mexicans

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y wife and I had a long conversation about what the best way to help would be,” says Sean Sinclair, owner of Las Vegas, New Mexico’s Bar Castaneda and Lamy’s Legal Tender Saloon & Eating House. “Eventually we were like, ‘What are we talking about? We’re a restaurant. Let’s cook food.”

For a few weeks now, Sinclair and his staff have presided over a nightly free buffet at Bar Castaneda for firefighters and New Mexicans displaced by the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon fire. Just last Friday, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham warned of worsening conditions for the wildfire, which is currently the largest in the country and recently surpassed 200,000 acres. Temperatures are due to rise this week, as are winds, and at 39% containment as of this writing, that’s a whole lot of fire to fight.

Meanwhile, Sinclair, who moved to Lamy last September from Las Vegas to open the Legal Tender, but who still considers Vegas like his home, estimates the meals were feeding roughly 150 displaced New Mexicans per night as of last week. He now tells SFR that number has doubled and will likely go up.

He and his crew will also continue delivering

meals to homebound locals in that area, and it’s all possible, Sinclair says, through food and time donations.

Charlie’s Spic and Span in Las Vegas, for example, has donated food to the cause, as have that town’s Prairie Hill Café and Hillcrest Restaurant and Trading Post Saloon.

Albuquerque’s Farm and Table has also lent a hand, and on the day SFR spoke with Sinclair, he’d just partnered with Heritage Hotels & Resorts, the parent company of hotels like Hotel St. Francis and the El Dorado Hotel & Spa, to keep the project going. Sinclair previously worked for Heritage, he says.

Additionally, a crowdfunding operation accessible through website feedlasvegas.com had raised more than $59,000 by the time of this writing, and the buffet and deliveries will continue, according to Sinclair, seven days a week—until they’re no longer needed.

“That’s the New Mexican in all these people,” Sinclair explains, adding that some of his staff who have also been displaced by the fires continue to show up and serve others.

“It’s unbelievable how New Mexicans come together in a crisis, it’s such a blessing to live here. These gestures of kindness are healing in themselves, and it’s what gives us the energy to dig deep and keep pushing.”

Sinclair briefly notes that, like many restaurants today, he’s working with a limited staff and the outfit could use volunteers.

Already, he says, organizers are working on an online platform through which potential volunteers can donate their time for a shift or two at the buffet or delivering food.

“We’re already beat and exhausted, but

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LEFT: Various eggs from Shooting Star Acres. ABOVE: A scene from a recent free buffet in Las Vegas organized by chef Sean Sinclair.

we’re really not complaining,” Sinclair tells SFR. “The most impactful thing will be to put boots on the S ground—that’s the resource S EI IA W ALIC we need help garnering. The thing is, there are community foundations and wonderful nonprofits that are going to step in—FEMA, even, and things that help with large-scale support. We just saw something we had the means to produce, so we did, and we’re going to supply this as long as it’s necessary.”

Meanwhile, up near La Puebla, Alicia Weiss of Shooting Star Acres, a small off-thegrid farm, tells SFR she’s offering a free dozen eggs to any displaced New Mexicans, and they can come from any number of birds, be it chicken, duck or quail. A Navy vet, Weiss grew up in Los Alamos, fell in love with smallscale farming and animal rescue while living in Georgia, and has now returned, along with her two children and husband, to get growing. For now, she says, Shooting Star is operating on a small plot of land belonging to a

friend, but she and her family are searching for a dream spot. While they’re looking, she says, she wants to elucidate farming for a new generation.

“Our mission is to grow, sustain and educate, and if we’re not aiming to do better for the community, or to leave the community in a better condition for future generations, then we’re not doing anything,” she says.

Those interested in claiming a dozen eggs can reach out to Weiss through Facebook (facebook.com/ShootingStarAcres) or Instagram (@shootingstaracres), which she says she checks daily, and those in need can even request a melange of various egg types.

Usually, Weiss says, she only sells the eggs to pay for feed. In giving them away, however, she hopes to play some role in providing comfort to those whom the fire has affected more gravely.

“It’s about a sense of community,” she tells SFR. “Not everybody can go supply dog crates or toiletry items, but this is what we’re able to do. I’m not selling my eggs, this is just to try and help. It’s the least we can do for those going through something so unimaginable.”

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B Y A N N A B E L L A FA R M E R a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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hen I heard that the first-ever Santa Fe Literary Festival would be taking place this May, I was like, “Wait, didn’t we have one before?”

It seemed so natural that a town crawling with literary talent should have a festival to celebrate that. Nonetheless, this month marks Santa Fe’s inaugural literary festival, the brainchild of Santa Fe-based publicist Clare Hertel, food writer Julia Platt Leonard of Santa Fe and the UK, and editor and publisher Mark Bryant of Santa Fe. The three imagined creating a platform where diverse readers and writers could come together to celebrate the power of story and engage with issues of politics, race, immigration, the environment and more through the lens of literature.

“Santa Fe is a town of great bookstores and passionate readers,” Bryant says, “and we felt like there was an opportunity here to do something special.”

One global pandemic later, their vision is coming to fruition. And boy, is it star-studded. Colson Whitehead.

Joy Harjo. Margaret Atwood. George RR Martin. Sandra Cisneros. N. Scott Momaday. John Grisham, for some reason. The festival kicks off on May 20 at the Santa Fe Convention Center with Whitehead as keynote speaker and runs through May 23. There will be lectures and conversations, lunches with chefs and cookbook authors, walking tours and a smattering of literary day trips.

Among the lineup are a few authors I’m particularly psyched about:

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Valeria Luiselli is a novelist and essayist who was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa and India. Her latest novel, Lost Children Archive (Knopf, 2019), follows a family traveling from New York to Arizona, their stories interweaving with those of “lost children” crossing the southern border from Mexico. At the Santa Fe Literary Festival, Luiselli’s work will interrogate the histories of borders, too, and she’ll present excerpts from a work in progress: a 24-hour “sonic essay” dubbed Echoes From the Borderlands. The piece traces the line that divides the US and Mexico, a journey that takes approximately 24 hours straight. Luiselli describes the piece as a “sound drive along the border,” an exploration of “the different layers of the histories of violence against land and bodies,” as told through archival recordings, field recordings and narrative.

“We record people talking about their lands,” she tells SFR, “talking about fear, water, future, imagination and borderlands.”

The piece incorporates three realms of sound: geophony, the sounds of the earth; biophony, the sounds of nature; and anthropophony, the sounds of human life and human-made things. These three intertwine into a chorus that is sometimes musical, sometimes narrative and illustrative of “these histories of violence and plundering of the land.” It also centers the voices of women: “It’s a very choral piece,” Luiselli says, “a kind of female chorus that pushes the story onwards.”

Through this lens, she focuses on migration and environmental issues, the history of surveillance and the prison industrial complex, plus “histories of resilience and resistance in those same spaces.”

Though audio journalism isn’t what many people typically think of as literature, Luiselli explains how sound offers a

cept of Indigenous celebrity chefs, Bitsoie says.

Craig Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Walt Longmire mystery series, adapted into the hit TV show which—though set in Johnson’s home state and the only state windier than this one, Wyoming—was filmed right here in New Mexico.

“Coming to Santa Fe is like old-home week,” Johnson says, “since the television show Longmire was filmed there.”

The event he’s most excited about at the Santa Fe Literary Festival is a

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unique way to engage with ideas, telling SFR that “Sound forces people to step outside the automatic mode in which we consume images, for example—so automatically, so thoughtlessly. You can’t scroll through sound the way you scroll through images. It forces you to inhabit time differently, with more patience and presence.”

If listening is a different way to inhabit time, then tasting is, too. Freddie Bitsoie is a Diné chef, Native foods educator and author of the gorgeous cookbook, New Native Kitchen (Abrams, 2021), where you’ll find a recipe for Wampanoag cherrystone clam soup once made with sea water that’ll make you curse this landlocked state. Thankfully, Bitsoie substitutes clam stock.

“Each kind of dish has its own particular story,” Bitsoie says.

He’ll host two literary lunches at the festival, and the menus are drool-worthy with roasted sumac lamb leg with onion sauce, grilled butternut squash and sweet corn-squash blossom sautée with sage butter sauce, and a summer peach and cherry crisp and chocolate piñon nutcake and prickly pear coulis, to name a few. Bitsoie’s cookbook collects and riffs on recipes from Indigenous cultures across the continent, but it isn’t just a record, it’s an innovation.

“I decided to view Native food in the future and think about where it’s going, where it’s headed,” Bitsoie says.

The cookbook, then, is a reflection of the way Indigenous cultures have been uprooted and displaced, preserving and reinventing culture through food. He sees a parallel between this history and the way he grew up, moving all over the Four Corners region.

“I’ve pretty much lived in every major town on I-40 west of Albuquerque,” Bitsoie tells SFR. “Experiencing that and knowing how different food is in each area of Arizona and New Mexico, it repeats that same story where I moved and had to create something that I don’t have access to anymore.”

His cookbook has sometimes been criticized as not “traditional enough,” but Bitsoie bites back, saying there’s really no such thing as a “classic Native American dish.”

“As someone who studied anthropology,” he continues, “food was something that people ate and appreciated. There’s really no record of it.”

His work is laying the groundwork for a new way of viewing Native foods through books, television and the con-

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Man, once said, ‘The saying is that a people are never defeated until our women’s hearts are on the ground,’ but what if there are no women at all?”

Kirstin Valdez Quade’s work is steeped in her family’s history in New Mexico.

“It very much grows out of my family history and New Mexico’s history in general. It feels very place-based,” she says.

Her latest novel, The Five Wounds, traces the convergence of five generations of a family in a small New Mexico town.

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story of Jaya “Longshot” Long, a high school basketball star who begins receiving death threats because she’s Indigenous. Johnson got the idea for the book when he was doing a library event on the Crow Reservation in Montana, and saw a missing persons poster on a bulletin board. He hopes the book will help draw attention to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women movement.

“It’s a scourge, plain and simple, and the numbers are staggering,” Johnson says. “As a friend of mine, Leroy White

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panel with Anne Hillerman and James McGrath Morris about Tony Hillerman’s life.

“Tony was a friend and mentor,” Johnson says, “besides which, I can’t think of a single individual who is more emblematic of Southwestern literature than he. The opportunity to be a part of the very first Santa Fe Literary Festival and to be able to sing his praises was too much to pass up—that, and some green chile.”

Johnson’s latest Longmire novel, Daughter of the Morning Star, tells the

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“That kind of intergenerational braided experience is my experience of being in a family,” she explains.

Her work is also heavily influenced by Catholicism. As a child, Valdez Quade was fascinated by stories about the lives of the saints.

“I love the gorier stories,” she says, “and some of them are just darkly funny.”

She’s been working on a collection of stories based on this childhood obsession.

The first she published on this theme was inspired by the life of a holy woman known as Christina the Astonishing.

“She first attracted me because she was clearly such a difficult person,” Valdez Quade says, describing how a 12th century hagiographer documented her life: “Her sisters could do nothing and they tied her up like a dog. When I read that I thought, ‘Oh my God, imagine being this person’s sister.’ And so that was the beginning of that story, and really the project.”

At the upcoming festival, Valdez Quade takes part in a virtual author talk with N. Scott Momaday on his latest book and the writing life.

“That’s a real honor for me,” she notes.

Tickets for the event are on sale now through sfliteraryfestival.org. There’s no denying prices are steep, though the firstyear festival is funded primarily through ticket sales, organizers say. There are some discounts available for New Mexico students and residents, with promo codes listed on the website. There will also be a free showcase for local youth poets and writers held outside in the courtyard of the Santa Fe Community Convention Center from 12:30 to 2 pm on Saturday and Sunday, May 21 and 22, and organizers hope to schedule free book and poetry events on Monday, May 23.

They also just launched a project called Story Ladder, a pilot writing program partnering with local schools and nonprofit organizations to host events for young writers during the festival weekend, including free community poetry slams and opportunities for young wordsmiths to meet with festival authors.

“Between two years and counting of the pandemic and so much else, it’s come to feel like we’re living in this era of serial crises,” Bryant says. “We hope the festival is a way for people to come together and celebrate our shared humanity, but also explore where we’re headed.”

SANTA FE LITERARY FESTIVAL: Various times and locations Friday, May 20-Monday, May 23 $15-$1,700. sfliteraryfestival.org

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Yes, funding would be a godsend, but Alas members are a little too busy creating opportunities for BIPOC and youth artists to worry about filling out applications with countless pages or competing for a few measly bucks by promising they’ll constantly report every single move they make. According to collective member and grant writer Katy Medley, the broad strokes of finding funding are challenging. Some funders, for example, require labyrinthian applications for paltry sums, and preparing painstakingly detailed demographic info seems more burdensome than not, especially for a smaller organization like Alas de Agua that mostly runs on volunteers.

They’ve had better luck with out-of-state opportunities, Haroz Lopez and Medley say, with Pennsylvania’s Mural Arts Philadelphia kicking in $94,000 over two years for both

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oughly four years to the day since SFR featured Santa Fe’s Alas de Agua Art Collective on our cover, and things are still an uphill battle for the ragtag group of artists, designers, writers, performers, grant writers, etc., and its co-founder, the artist Israel Francisco Haros Lopez. No matter how much Haros Lopez tries to shine a light on the collective’s myriad other members— like his wife Isabel Ribe, artist JP Granillo and any number of local youths—he’s still become somewhat of a de facto leader. It’s likely something to do with his own prolific practice as a writer, poet, performer, director, painter, illustrator, muralist, educator and activist, but he’s still always shifting focus to the other people who work within the nonprofit.

“That’s the cool part about who comes through here,” he says. “It’s prayer-centered, healing-centered, and sometimes that’s really sensitive, really vulnerable work, but we wanted to give people the space to do that work.”

The broader point is that Alas de Agua is doing meaningful things on a shoestring budget from a too-small storage space off Airport Road. From workshops and gatherings to sign-making parties, readings, open mics and more, it’s the kind of place we all needed growing up—and still need. During the pandemic, for example, Alas de Agua handed out hundreds of meals to folks in need, and it helped found the Full Circle Farm, a plot of land adjacent to Reunity Resources Farm through which Alas de Agua and Indigenous activist group Three Sisters Collective can help educate and feed any interested Santa Feans. This is all a very abridged explanation of the work Alas does on the regular— we could easily fill another cover story—and though Haros Lopez, who came to Santa Fe from Los Angeles in 2009, says the collective is on the lookout for a larger space to better house the artistic goings-on, they make do.

Still, that they even have to fight so hard for help at all begs the question: Why is it so difficult for such a valuable and hardworking organization to get proper space, funding and support? Why do Santa Fe’s governing bodies, donors and nonprofits that fund arts spend so much time crafting hoops to jump through, especially for an outfit like Alas de Agua? Just kidding, that’s all rhetorical—it’s harder for

a series of community murals and Alas’ involvement with the Full Circle Farm; and $25,000 from the Andrus Family Fund in New York City. Compare that to a $5,230 grant from New Mexico Arts and a $10,000 grant from the New Mexico Foundation, according to Medley, and one wonders why outof-state donors seem more interested. Credit where credit is due, yes, and the local orgs

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deserve thanks for backing Alas de Agua as they have—plus we all know New Mexico isn’t exactly super-rich outside of certain Santa Fe neighborhoods. Still, we can do better, andwithout calling anyone out, newer arts nonprofits in Santa Fe seem to have a much easier time finding money.

“I’m at a point where I’m trying to inspire the rest of our collective and anybody in O’gah Po’Geh to know there’s bigger art appreciation at the national level,” Haros Lopez says, using the original Tewa name for Santa Fe. “That the art scene in Santa Fe seems to cater to tourists can really stifle our artistic vision.”

Yes, results-based funding makes sense on paper, and it can be a big ask to fund an organization with a decentralized style of leadership. But Alas de Agua’s work continues to speak for itself, from new murals at the Salvador Perez pool and Cesar Chavez Elementary School, to its enduring workshops, gathering and events. Haros Lopez himself shows twice per year, including the upcoming Water Songs opening at the Alas space. We’re talking new paintings that tap into Chicano and Indigenous identity, that showcase a sort of light and dark dichotomy and that highlight the importance of working with one’s own hands. Some are dense and symbolist, others more urgent and humanist; all are worth a deeper look. You’ll also find members cutting the ribbon at the Salvador Perez mural this week, then celebrating San Ysidro Day (San Ysidro being the patron saint of farmers) at Full Circle Farm this weekend.

“The part I keep finding out is that artists are the ones who come in to help their communities,” Haros Lopez says. “We’re the ones who get left out of lots of things, but we’re already engaged in the community anyway, always.”

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Nearly a decade before Lin-Manuel Miranda convinced the world he was the king of the anachronistic stage musical with 2015’s Hamilton, a slew of relatively unknown actors, producers, directors and writers joined rock songwriter Duncan Sheik to premier 2006’s Spring Awakening, a dark and powerful piece about German school kids in the late 1800s who find no meaningful adult relationships and are forced to navigate their own comings-of-age through pretty sick rock songs. Now, some 15-ish years later, the HBO Max streaming service presents a documentary about the 2006 Steven Sater show as both an historical record and the account of a 2021 one night re-mounting of a stripped down version of the show that benefitted the nonprofit Actors Fund during COVID-19.

Whether or not you know the multi-Tony Awardwinning Spring Awakening, there’s no denying much of its cast and crew are now household names. From John Gallagher Jr. and Skylar Astin to Hamilton alum Jonathan Groff and Glee star Lea Michele, the show was one of those cultural powerhouse underdogs that swept Broadway, won all the things and catapulted

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Despite jumping on the social medias last week to bemoan my lack of interest in yet another entry in the seemingly never-ending onslaught of viking-based entertainment of late, I found myself at Violet Crown alongside the other beardos to see The Northman from The VVitch director Robert Eggers. Eggers sure makes pretty movies, and if you don’t believe that, please see The Lighthouse immediately, for it is a masterpiece.

Eggers’ works are generally dense-adjacent, symbolist films wherein folks are undone by obsession and wherein toxic masculinity turns men into something inhuman while the people around them—or they themselves—suffer horrible fates. He also likes taking his sweet damn time and never shies away from ugly violence. These aren’t new concepts by any means, though the juxtaposition of gorgeous cinematography and even more gorgeous backdrops against spilled blood and the dark motivations of man don’t hurt the timeless messaging.

In The Northman, Alexander Skarsgård plays a viking—a berserker, no less (Google it)—who sets out with vengeance on his mind but then, like, also finds a little bit of love along the way. It’s a little bit Hamlet (Skarsgård’s dude’s name is even Amleth), a little bit Lez Miz-meets-Oedipus, a little bit Count of Monte Cristo and a whole lot of hard to watch.

Seems Amleth’s kingly dad (Ethan Hawke) got got by his brother (Claes Bang), who also kidnapped the queen Gudrún (Nicole Kidman), leading to decades of festering resentment turned to seriously creative ideas for face-stabbing. When Amleth does indeed

many of its people to super-stardrom. Groff, of course, kept doing musicals and entered the worlds of television and film; Gallagher Jr., too. Michele, despite having faced numerous accusations of abusive behavior from her Glee costars, has enjoyed success as well. But the HBO doc focuses more on a hardscrabble gang of youths who had no idea what they’d signed on for, and who would impact youths worldwide forever—plus how totally pumped everyone was to meet up again for that benefit show.

Those You’ve Known makes a great case for how American theater can transform, uplift and connect, but it’s another example of a documentary that shines a light on subjects who also produced the film (in this case, Groff and Michele, who eat up the lion’s share of the interviews) while glossing over things that deserved better. Intimacy coaching, for example, was not much of a thing back in 2006, but when cast members like Gallagher Jr., Lili Cooper or Lauren Pritchard discuss how hard it was to dive into material like suicide, sexual abuse, intimacy and so on, one can’t help but feel they’re still affected. We also never

catch up to his dear old uncle with a little help from a Norn (a Norse fate-making witch kind of deity) played by Björk, it’s off to Iceland for clobberin’ time; a simple plan right up until he develops the hots for an enslaved Russian named Olga (the ever-impressive Anya Taylor-Joy who is in every movie ever made) and a little bit of a hallucination issue. Even so, Amleth believes himself fated to succeed, and no amount of beatings, bloodsport, cave monsters or shitty family mechanics are going to stop him.

Skarsgård feels borderline silly with his massive, hulking muscles and hunched gait and broad shoulders glistening in the overcast Icelandic wild.

Taylor-Joy grounds his character in better motivations than hate, though, and she’s all about breaking men’s minds. Bang makes an imposing enough villain, though he’s really more of a presence or cipher for evil, and we don’t learn what drives him until way later. It isn’t self-generated. Kidman (who played Skarsgård’s wife in HBO’s Big Little Lies but here plays his mother because fuck Hollywood) turns in one of the better performances of her career, however, which kind of deflates the moments she isn’t onscreen, at least in the later bits wherein she emerges as a more powerful creature than seemed possible.

Moviegoers will likely take The Northman’s ending any number of ways, but hopefully realize how even getting the things over which we’ve obsessed doesn’t always mean it feels good—or is good for those around us. Someplace in there, find reasons to dislike white supremacy even more than you already should, and also some satisfying homage to other shocking films (no spoilers, though). The payoff, however, does not particularly satisfy, though that’s kind of the point.(ADV) Violet Crown, R, 136 min.

learn how much money the benefit raised.

Full songs are also in short supply, which particularly disappoints given the film’s short runtime. We all know “Bitch of the Living” is the jam, but more Cooper or Pritchard would have been nice when, instead, we get a full rehearsal version of Michele’s “Mama Who Bore Me.” Groff’s a treasure, though, and every bit as adorable as he is talented. Gallagher Jr. might be the one to steal your heart, however, as he seem all tough and aloof, but also full of heart. Astin, who presumably is way too cool after the Pitch Perfect movies isn’t much involved; ditto many others.

Too bad Those You’ve Known doesn’t go longer or deeper. We get the importance and we’re told repeatedly that it was important with “We thought it wouldn’t work, and then it did,” interviews.

In the end it just feels suface-scratchy.

SPRING AWAKENING: THOSE YOU’VE KNOWN Directed by Michael John Warren With Groff, Michele, Gallagher Jr., Cooper, Pritchard, Sater and Sheik HBO Max, NR, 90 min.

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Crazy Rich Asians?!), make it your business to head into theaters for Everything Everywhere All at Once, a brilliant sendup of the evermore commonplace concept of infinite realities—you know; the multiverse. Brought to us by the inimitably strange directing team of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, aka Daniels (the auteurs behind the bold and beautifully bizarre Swiss Army Man), it’s the type of film that should sate the heady science nerds, the self-assigned cultural elite and those who just plain want to see a weird movie rolled up into a sci-fi/rom-com/kung fu/family story.

Here we follow Evelyn (Yeoh) and Waymond Wang (Ke Huy Quan of Goonies and Temple of Doom fame), a long-married couple who live above the middling laundromat they run together. As the Wangs face an IRS audit from a seemingly heartless agent (Jamie Lee Curtis, who gets gloriously weird), Waymond wants a divorce, and their daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu) isn’t helping so much as she seems hellbent on using her girlfriend to freak out her folks. It’s a bit of a humdrum life until an alternate-universe Waymond appears, kung fu fanny pack in hand, to inform Evelyn she’s the last hope in facing a threat to the infinitely layered universes that make up reality. A dark presence called Jobu Tupaki is killing Wangs and anyone else they encounter across timelines. Using tech to take over the consciousnesses of their multiverse counter-

parts, Waymond and Evelyn can instantly learn the skills of their other life versions, and that’s precisely how a middle-aged laundromat owner becomes a master of martial arts, a flawless singer, a talented movie star and, ultimately, learns acceptance.

Yeoh is absolutely riveting as the dissatisfied mother, and whereas her kung fu skills have always been apparent, here she shows off her acting chops. It’s a pleasant surprise to learn she’s a secret goofball, and her journey feels reminiscent of Jennifer Lawrence’s in Aranofsky’s Mother!, only more focused and relatable. In the quieter moments, even the very funny ones, Yeoh’s range feels unmatched. Quan, meanwhile, steals the show often, and his presence as the all-important jester archetype softens Yeoh’s character, which is not to say he isn’t a badass in his own right.

Hsu might be the true breakout, though, pulling double duty as the chaotic daughter and the even more chaotic villain. Of course, nothing is simple in Daniels’ vision—and three cheers to Jamie Lee for nailing emotional scenes with literal hot dog fingers.

The humor cuts the tension while helping to make sense of the converging timelines, though it might help to have read comic books one’s whole life. Even still, one needn’t have a physics degree to get into why Everything Everywhere All at Once is so fun. It begs for repeated viewings, not least of which for Yeoh’s career-defining performance.

People will talk about this one for years to come, and it’s likely to inspire a whole new generation of filmmakers. Rarely does something so weird make its way into the mainstream, but thank goodness it did. (ADV) Center for Contemporary Arts, Violet Crown, R, 139 min.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Choose the least important day in your life,” wrote Aries author Thornton Wilder. “It will be important enough.” I recommend that you make those your words to live by in the next two weeks. Why? Because I suspect there will be no tremendously exciting experiences coming your way. The daily rhythm is likely to be routine and modest. You may even be tempted to feel a bit bored. And yet, if you dare to move your attention just below the surface of life, you will tune into subtle glories that are percolating. You will become aware of quietly wondrous developments unfolding just out of sight and behind the scenes. Be alert for them. They will provide fertile clues about the sweet victories that will be available in the months ahead.

ruining your life. You’re embarrassing your family.” Luckily, Jones didn’t heed the bad advice. “You can’t listen to that,” she says now. “You have to listen to yourself.” Now I’m suggesting that you embrace the Leslie Jones approach, Virgo.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Every successful person I know starts before they feel ready,” declared life coach Marie Forleo. Author Ivan Turgenev wrote, “If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything, is ready, we shall never begin.” Here’s what educator Supriya Mehra says: “There’s never a perfect moment to start, and the more we see the beauty in ‘starting small,’ the more we empower ourselves to get started at all.” I hope that in providing you with these observations, Taurus, I have convinced you to dive in now. Here’s one more quote, from businesswoman Betsy Rowbottom: “There’s never a perfect moment to take a big risk.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Poet Ranata Suzuki writes, “There comes a point where you no longer care if there’s a light at the end of the tunnel or not. You’re just sick of the tunnel.” That’s good advice for you right now, Gemini. The trick that’s most likely to get you out of the tunnel is to acknowledge that you are sick of the damn tunnel. Announce to the universe that you have gleaned the essential teachings the ride through the tunnel has provided you. You no longer need its character-building benefits because you have harvested them all. Please say this a thousand times sometime soon: “I am ready for the wide-open spaces.”dd CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the coming weeks, your imagination will receive visions of the next chapter of your life story. These images and stories might confuse you if you think they are illuminating the present moment. So please keep in mind that they are prophecies of what’s ahead. They are premonitions and preparations for the interesting work you will be given during the second half of 2022. If you regard them as guiding clues from your eternal soul, they will nourish the inner transformations necessary for you to welcome your destiny when it arrives. Now study this inspirational quote from poet Rainer Maria Rilke: “The future glides into us, so as to remake itself within us, long before it occurs.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “A person must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.” Author Jean Genet wrote that, and now I’m offering you his words as the seed of your horoscope. If you’ve been attuned to cosmic rhythms, you have been doing what Genet described and will continue to do it for at least another ten days. If you have not yet begun such work, please do so now. Your success during the rest of 2022 will thrive to the degree that you spend time dreaming big in the darkness now.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Cursed are those who feel floods but who can only express a few drops.” So says an internet proverb. Luckily, this principle won’t apply to you in the coming weeks. I expect you will be inundated with cascades of deep feelings, but you will also be able to articulate those feelings. So you won’t be cursed at all. In fact, I suspect you will be blessed. The cascades may indeed become rowdy at times. But I expect you will flourish amidst the lush tumult.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “It takes a great deal of experience to become natural,” wrote Sagittarian author Willa Cather. I’m happy to report that in recent months, you Sagittarians have been becoming more and more natural. You have sought experiences that enhance your authenticity and spontaneity. Keep up the good work! The coming weeks should bring influences and adventures that will dramatically deepen your capacity to be untamed, soulful, and intensely yourself.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “I intend to live forever,” proclaims 66-year-old comedian Steven Wright, who then adds, “So far, so good.” I offer you his cheerful outlook in the hope that it might inspire you to dream and scheme about your own longevity. Now is a great time to fantasize about what you would love to accomplish if you are provided with 90 or more years of life to create yourself. In other words, I’m asking you to expand your imagination about your long-term goals. Have fun envisioning skills you’d like to develop and qualities you hope to ripen if you are given all the time you would like to have. (PS: Thinking like this could magically enhance your life expectancy.)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Stop insisting on clearing your head,” advised author Charles Bukowski. “Clear your f---ing heart instead.” That will be a superb meditaLEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Remember that you will never tion for you to experiment with in the coming weeks. reach a higher standard than you yourself set,” wrote Please understand that I hope you will also clear your author Ellen G. White. That’s true! And that’s why it’s so head. That’s a worthy goal. But your prime aim should crucial that you formulate the highest standards you can be to clear your heart. What would that mean? Purge all apologies and shame from your longings. Cleanse your imagine—maybe even higher than you can imagine. tenderness of energy that’s inclined to withhold or Now is a favorable phase for you to reach higher and resist. Free your receptivity to be innocent and curious. think bigger. I invite you to visualize the best version of PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “The winner will be the one the dream you are working on—the most excellent, who knows how to pick the right fights,” wrote author Jane beautiful, and inspiring form it could take. And then Ciabattari. Heed her advice, please, Pisces. You will soon be push on further to envision even more spectacular offered chances to deal with several interesting struggles results. Dare to be greedy and outrageous. that are worthy of your beautiful intelligence. At least one VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Before Virgo-born Leslie will technically be a “conflict,” but even that will also be a Jones achieved fame as a comedian and actor, she fruitful opportunity. If you hope to derive the greatest worked day jobs at United Parcel Service and Roscoe’s potential benefit, you must be selective about which ones House of Chicken and Waffles. Her shot at major appreci- you choose to engage. I recommend you give your focus to ation didn’t arrive until the TV show Saturday Night Life no more than two. hired her to be a regular cast member in 2014, when she Homework: Is there somewhere in your life where you try was 47 years old. Here’s how she describes the years to exert too much control—and should loosen your grip? before that: “Everybody was telling me to get a real job.

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