Santa Fe Reporter, May 17, 2023

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OPINION 5

NEWS

7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6

ANALYSIS: TAX VETO PUZZLE 9

Governor avoids straight talk about why she vetoed proposed alcohol tax rate hike

GOING THE WAY OF THE CARD 10

The number of medical cannabis patients in New Mexico has steadily declined since last year and it’s not likely to rebound

COVER STORY 12

TAKING COVER

Santa Fe has a new plan to help shelter the homeless—if landowners step up

CULTURE

SFR PICKS 17

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Get funked up, peek inside the Art Vault, become en-wrap-tured by parkas and hear Zay Santos sing the blues

THE CALENDAR 18

3 QUESTIONS 22

With author Jennifer Egan

A&C

THE BOOKSHELF 31

What’s new for the second year of the Santa Fe International Literary Festival?

NOW AND THEN 33

Santa Fe Playhouse tackles the discomfort of the aughts with Pulitzer-winning Sweat

MOVIES 35

BLACKBERRY REVIEW

The somewhat mealy story behind that other smartphone named after a fruit

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COVER, APRIL 26: “LIFE WITH LESS WATER”

THE REAL PROBLEM

Increased water demand that is out of line with what this landscape can provide is the real problem.

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NEWS, MAY 10: “CHARTER TOUR”

MODEL ADVISES OPPOSITE

The League of Women Voters of Santa Fe County has been examining the recommendations of the current Charter Review Commission. We are concerned that there has been little public participation in the activities of the commission, and we wish this body had made more efforts to solicit public observation and input. We encourage the city’s residents

to review the recommendations and submit comments as the proposed changes make their way through the Governing Body’s committee review and public hearing process.

The League does not support or oppose any of these recommendations; however, we find it interesting that the commentary portion of the commission’s section on governance relies greatly on the Model City Charter…published by the National Civic League. Two of the commission’s recommendations are specifically opposed by this model charter: one removes the mayor as a full member of the governing body, giving him/her a vote only to break a tie; the other gives her/him veto power.

In fact, the model charter advises the opposite, “Communities should avoid granting special voting status to the mayor (e.g., vote on council only to make or break a tie). Such power will likely impede rather than enhance the mayor’s capacity to lead. Similarly, giving the mayor veto power in a council-manager city cannot help but confuse his or her role with that of the executive mayor in a mayor-council city.”

JODY LARSON, CO-CHAIR, ACTION AND ADVOCACY COMMITTEE, LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF SANTA FE COUNTY

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“Mom, look at the water! Look at the water!”

—Overheard from screeching child before running full-throttle into the Santa Fe River near Frenchy’s Field

“Oh, you are a brave girl.”

—Overheard from older woman to young girl picking up 64-quart bag of soil at Lowe’s

GOV. MLG CALLS NRC DECISION TO STORE SPENT NUCLEAR MATERIALS IN NEW MEXICO “INCREDIBLY DISAPPOINTING”

Maybe so, but if we’re ever gonna build that army of Hulks, this is a step in the right direction.

JJ ABRAMS REPORTEDLY SHOOTING SOMETHING OR OTHER IN NEW MEXICO

We can’t wait to feel mildly disappointed by whatever it might be.

CONSERVATIVE BLOGGER AND STATE REP JOHN BLOCK REPORTS “CARTEL SNUGGLERS ARE RAVAGING THE BORDER”

At first we read that as “raving,” which combines well with snuggling.

US NEWS NAMES SANTA FE NO. 15 FOR “BEST CHEAP VACATIONS IN THE US”

No word on where we place on the list of cities that become more unaffordable for its own residents every day.

CITY OF SANTA FE BUYS NEW FOAMSTREAM WEED MACHINE

Can’t they just smoke out of a Coke can like back in the day?

THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: TEARS OF THE KINGDOM RELEASE SPURS EN-MASSE FAUX SICK DAYS FOR NERDS ACROSS THE GLOBE Hyrule ain’t gonna save itself, shit.

MARK ZUCKERBERG WINS GOLD AND SILVER MEDALS IN SILICON VALLEY JIU JITSU TOURNEY

Zuck to celebrate by commodifying your very existence until you no longer know what’s real or not.

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SIR LOCKWOOD

Folklorist Charlie Lockwood will take over the executive director position at the Museum of International Folk Art.

WE ARE WAY MORE THAN WEDNESDAY HERE ARE A COUPLE OF ONLINE EXCLUSIVES:

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Tax Veto Puzzle

Governor avoids straight talk about why she vetoed proposed alcohol tax rate hike

BY TED ALCORN NEW MEXICO IN DEPTH

More than a month after Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham vetoed tentative steps that state legis lators had taken to address New Mexico’s worst-in-the-nation rate of alcohol-re lated deaths, her office offered rationales that don’t square with her actions.

The governor vetoed the first increase in alcohol tax rates in 30 years but she does not oppose increasing alcohol taxes, her spokesperson Maddy Hayden writes in an email to New Mexico In Depth one-penny increase—watered down from a proposed hike of a quarter-per-drink— “would not have a material effect on alco hol prevention and treatment,” Hayden adds, declining to say whether the gover nor supported a larger hike.

The governor also vetoed a measure that would have directed tens of millions of dollars of existing alcohol tax revenues to alcohol treatment and prevention but she “believes unequivocally” that New Mexico needs to devote more resources to addressing alcohol misuse, accord ing to Hayden. The governor felt the Legislature’s tax package represented “a potentially untenable hit to the general fund” and vetoed the reallocation of alco hol tax revenues “out of fiscal responsibil ity,” Hayden says, declining to clarify why the governor didn’t then retain the alco hol tax hike, which would have generated $10 million annually.

The vetoes continue to puzzle and dis appoint senior members of her own ad ministration and Democratic legislators.

Neal Bowen, who since 2019 has di rected the Behavioral Health Services Division, which oversees much of the state’s treatment and prevention services, called the outcome a “missed opportuni ty.” Even that “trivial alcohol tax hike,” Bowen writes in an email to New Mexico In Depth, would have put the state in “a posi tion to support an expansion of screening,

treatment, and recovery services specific to alcohol.”

Sen. Gerald Ortiz y Pino, D-Albuquerque, calls the governor’s vetoes “a serious misstep.” He had sponsored a standalone bill to shift half of alcohol tax revenues to treating and preventing alcohol misuse, about $24 million at current tax rates, rather than depositing them in the general fund. Health department data show the state has a serious shortfall of

alcohol treatment for beneficiaries of Medicaid would generate tens of millions of dollars of additional revenue. Every dollar the state spends on Medicaid, which insures 34% of New Mexicans, gets matched by the federal government by a ratio of nearly three to one. “We could have seen a $50 million or larger pot of money available to expand treatment,” Ortiz y Pino calculates.

“We’ll have to try again,” he adds, “but it sure would have helped if the governor’s staff had reached out to explain what was behind her decision.”

It often takes years for lawmakers to pass substantial legislation, and efforts to reduce alcohol deaths may be no exception. Hayden says the governor was

vote $5 million to a new Office of Alcohol Prevention in the health department. Lawmakers ignored that request, leaving the health department to reallocate $2 million from its base budget for a scaledback version of the office.

Health Secretary Patrick Allen, who was confirmed in February after holding a similar position in Oregon, says even a down-sized alcohol office would be “an incredible step forward” for the state. But he is uncertain when it would begin operating or what it would do. In an interview with New Mexico In Depth in April, he says the health department had not begun filling the office’s dozen positions and he could not predict how long that would take. As of last year, 28% of the positions

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Going the Way of the Card

als every week, but those numbers have dwindled to 10 renewals a month. She speculates that patients are opting to pay more at the pot store register out of convenience.

BY ANDY LYMAN andylyman@sfreporter.com

While state officials clamor over adult-use cannabis sales that brought in $300 million in revenue over the first year, the number of medical cannabis patients has consistently dropped. The state’s health department at first predicted the patient count would rebound after an initial post-legalization drop, but now it expects numbers to level off.

For years before the Cannabis Regulation Act, having a medical cannabis card meant the advantage of being able to buy weed for a medical condition without the fear of being hassled by the cops. After sales expanded beyond medical, the additional advantages of avoiding taxes along with being allowed higher potency products sweetened the deal.

Leading up to full legalization, skeptics expressed concerned that a profit-driven and high-THC market focus would leave medical cannabis patients in the dust with rising prices, limited choices for products and other complications.

But now, data indicates that patients, whose numbers have been dropping by the thousands each month since last April when adult-use sales officially began, would rather pay upwards of 20% in taxes than jump through the hoops of renewing their cards.

Dr. Dominick Zurlo, the head of the state’s Medical Cannabis Program, told SFR in October 2022 patient numbers had started decreasing because a large number of patients had not renewed their medical cards in anticipation of the new law. He expected those numbers to rise again. Instead, the opposite has occurred, says Department of Health spokesman David Morgan.

“We expect for now the number of patients enrolled in the program to continue to decrease, but the pace in recent decreases has slowed significantly,” Morgan wrote in an emailed statement to SFR. “We anticipate patient numbers will stabilize.”

Patient numbers peaked in May 2022 with more than 135,000 enrolled patients; every month since then, that number fell by between 1,000 and 3,000 to a low of 100,000 last month, which amounts to nearly a 26% overall decrease.

For comparison, the number of medical cannabis patients in Arizona dropped by about 14% during its first year of recreational-use sales and a further decrease of about 40% between April 2022 and April 2023. Colorado actually saw a slight increase in patients during its first year of full legalization, but about a 13% decrease in the past 12 months.

Those who have made a career of vouching for patients have also felt the impact of the decline. Ashley Carro, a nurse practitioner who has

been helping patients get their cards for about five years at her practice New Age Medical Santa Fe, first started seeing fewer patients when the Department of Health relaxed its card renewal rules in light of COVID-19 and the restrictions that came with it. Carro says adult-use came shortly after public health orders started to ease, and the flow of patients never ramped back up, so she began looking for ways to pivot her practice.

“I worked for the last three years to get my psychiatry practice up and running because of the cannabis decline,” she says.

Before the pandemic, Carro says, she was seeing about 20 to 30 patients for card renew-

“I guess they’d rather pay the taxes,” she says. “I mean, I only charge $40 to $50 for a renewal, so it’s really not that much money if you look at it in the long term, for three years.”

But the three-year lifespan of a medical card will switch to two years in June. During this year’s legislative session, lawmakers tweaked the cannabis statute to require card renewals every two years, but they dropped the requirement that patients have to show proof of annual check-ups.

Morgan says the change was designed to make everything easier.

“It’s less paperwork for both patients and medical providers, but more importantly, it reduces the out-of-pocket expenses many patients currently pay during their enrollment,” he wrote in his email to SFR.

Along with downward patient numbers, the Medical Cannabis Program has seen less money from the state. Lawmakers cut the program’s budget by about $3 million last year and kept it flat this year.

Morgan insists the budget and patient numbers are unrelated.

“Funding for the Medical Cannabis Program is not tied to the number of patients enrolled in the program,” he wrote.

The state allows patients with one of 30 conditions to qualify for a medical cannabis card. The department added anxiety disorder to the list in December and this month included insomnia as the latest qualifying condition.

The number of medical cannabis patients in New Mexico has steadily declined since last year and it’s not likely to rebound

VISIONS for the FUTURE of PHYSICS

Tuesday, May 23 | 7:30 p.m.

The Lensic Performing Arts Center

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Lectures are free and open to the public. Seating is limited. Reserve your tickets at www.santafe.edu/community

JOHN BAEZ is a mathematical physicist. He is a professor in the math department at U. C. Riverside in California, and also at the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore and the Topos Institute in Berkeley.

SFI’s 2023 lecture series is sponsored by the McKinnon Family Foundation, with additional support from the Santa Fe Reporter and the Lensic Performing Arts Center. The McKinnon Family Foundation

Background image: “Molle rudesse” By Vassily Kandinsky, 1927

BY ANDY LYMAN andylyman@sfreporter.com

Joe Dudziak keeps his head on a swivel as he drives along Santa Fe streets. He’s looking for people who would benefit from his help, even items as simple as a clean pair of socks, a package of batteries or a snack. His face and, more importantly, his compact SUV, are highly recognizable to many of the hundreds of unsheltered residents of Santa Fe who know him as Chaplain Joe and trust his street-based outreach efforts.

As he shows SFR some of the common spots for makeshift shelters, Dudziak says years ago he could easily spot groups of tents gathered together in mini communities, but a crackdown by the city and ever-expanding housing and business developments mean he has to stay on his toes to track folks down.

“They’re not even setting up camp anymore,” he says. “They’re just bedding down for the night and they get up in the morning and take all their stuff with them.”

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the City of Santa Fe loosened its rules on public camping, allowing unhoused people to live openly in congregate settings. Then last year, officials said the grace period was over and hired park rangers to help clear out encampments. City staff next proposed creating a sanctioned camping space on the Midtown Campus, sparking intense debate about the future of the city-owned space and the impact on nearby neighborhoods, among other issues. After that proposal fell flat, the Community Health and Safety Department returned last month to the City Council with an alternative branded “safe outdoor space.”

Councilors unanimously approved a resolution on April 26 to green-light a pilot plan that would use $1 million of remaining American Rescue Plan funds for capital and for the first year of operations to designate space for groups of small fiberglass and wood shelters equipped with heating, cooling and lighting. An estimated 25 so-called pop-up shelters or Pallet homes would be erected on land that also has bathrooms, showers and laundry machines.

The city’s latest gambit to address homelessness highlights the elusive nature of a solution to a growing local and national problem that intersects with a range of tough

systemic challenges, including affordable housing, mental health and addiction.

In addition to funding programs at St. Elizabeth, the Interfaith Community Shelter and other community-led organizations, city leaders have taken on new projects to combat homelessness in the past several years by opening a Midtown Campus shelter and converting a former hotel into low-income housing. The Office of Affordable Housing and the Youth and Family Services Division combined have increased such spending–often through grants or other federal programs–from nearly $3 million in 2021 to more than $7 million last year. Advocates say the new plan to add another layer of housing will help to close gaps for those living on the streets. It’s intended to be a step up from camping and a safer alternative to people living in spaces like parks, trails and underpasses.

In order for the pilot to succeed, the city will need to find landowners willing to provide space and organizations to provide services for those who will use the shelters—partners to be solicited in a formal process set to begin by the end of the month. Next, those providers will need to convince people living in proximity to the shelters that their own lives won’t suffer as a result.

At a stoplight waiting to turn left on Cerrillos Road, Dudziak recognizes a man standing on the median, holding a cardboard sign that reads “Anything helps.”

Before the arrow turns green, he gives the man a small bag of snacks and a fresh pair of socks. After the man asks for a cigarette, Dudziak hands him two smokes from the pack

-Joe Dudziak, Chaplain

Street Outreach

Santa Fe has a new plan to help shelter the homeless—if landowners step up

T hey’re not even setting up camp anymore. They’re just bedding down for the night and they get up in the morning and take all their stuff with them.

Joe’s

bought with his own money.

Dudziak has been running his outreach program for the past four years and has been volunteering at shelters for nearly a decade. During those years, he’s come to know many people living on the streets and heard countless stories of struggles to even find work, let alone a place to stay.

He mostly interacts with folks who, for various reasons, can’t or won’t go to the handful of shelters around the city, each of which have their own requirements and

standards. Current programs for people experiencing homelessness in Santa Fe range from those with easy access and limited stays to long-term housing with long wait lists and specific living requirements.

Consuelo’s Place at the Midtown Campus, for example, houses women and families.

Santa Fe Suites, a former hotel the city helped convert to low-income apartments, offers monthly leases. The dorms at the Interfaith Community Shelter at Pete’s Place on Cerrillos Road and St. Elizabeth’s down-

town provide emergency shelter. With each level of increased services and longer-term stays comes more requirements, such as staying sober or finding steady work. But many who benefit from Dudziak’s outreach are not ready to take that next step.

Some, Dudziak says, have behavioral health issues that make congregate settings difficult, while others might simply want a certain level of autonomy. He says connecting with the unhoused community has become increasingly hard as people spread out to avoid too much attention from police.

“It used to be encampments. Then it was onesies and twosies,” Dudziak says. “Now people are stashed in a group of piñon trees where they’re hidden away, where you can’t see them.”

Dudziak attributes the shift to the city’s park rangers, a relatively new addition to the city’s workforce that primarily serves as a non-law enforcement agency to keep people from camping in unauthorized places.

One of the spots that’s been intermittently popular for camping is the street outside the nonprofit shelter at Pete’s Place, a cityowned building. The general congregation of people in the area has led to mounting tension for years. Neighbors have raised concerns about blatant drug use and some joined with area business owners to file a lawsuit against the shelter nonprofit and the city for failing to address the problems.

During a May 4 virtual community engagement meeting aimed at connecting with residents who live nearby and have ongoing complaints about adjacent activities, Jason Sharp, a team lead with the park rangers,

said when the city receives a report about encampments on city land, rangers ask people to clear out within 24 hours.

“A majority of the camps are referred to us through constituent services, but our rangers are out there proactively patrolling these areas and they’ll find new camps, they’ll patrol areas of camps that we’ve cleaned up before to ensure that the camps are not reestablished,” Sharp said.

City of Santa Fe Youth and Family Services Division Director Julie Sanchez says the meeting previews what potential neighbors of the proposed shelters can expect to see once the city identifies locations. Part of the city’s resolution specifies that service providers will craft “good neighbor agreements” to include terms about communication, standards for tenancy and dispute resolution, among other topics.

“I think the neighbors would know what to expect and neighbors would know who to reach and contact when they had an issue,” Sanchez says. “I think there’d be a lot of accountability on both sides.”

Since the city is still in the beginning stages of rolling out the shelter pilot program and potential sites have not been publicly identified, it’s still too early to begin talks with nearby residents and businesses. Community Health and Safety Department Director Kyra Ochoa tells SFR she expects to issue the request for solicitations from qualifying charitable organizations that own adequate land this month. The organi-

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LEFT: The Interfaith Community Shelter at Pete’s Place offers rows of bunk beds. RIGHT: Unhoused people in Santa Fe often find hidden spots to sleep as a way to avoid attention from police and city rangers.

LEFT TO RIGHT: Joe Dudziak and Doug Stuart spend their days cruising the city handing out supplies for those in need.

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zation or organizations awarded a contract would then begin outreach with surrounding communities.

Ochoa says some organizations have already shown interest in running the pilot program or providing land, but would not name them.

“We’re open minded. We really haven’t predetermined this at all. We’re really curious to see who does apply,” Ochoa says. “We know there’s a lot of interest that’s been expressed. Sometimes there’s a gap between the interest that is expressed and the work that’s required to reply to a solicitation like this.”

Marisol Atkins, a consultant for the S3 Santa Fe Housing Initiative—which includes Santa Fe County, the City of Santa Fe, Anchorum St. Vincent, Thornburg Foundation, the McCune Charitable Trust, Santa Fe Community Foundation and New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness— says many organizations are keeping their intentions quiet until the city issues its request.

“There’s some potential faith-based interest for the site, and then there’s some local service providers I’m aware of who are considering applications as well,” Atkins says.

Ochoa and her staff hit a roadblock last year when they proposed using the Midtown Campus as a sanctioned camping site after staff evaluated over 100 potential city-owned tracts. Area residents said at the time sanctioned camping at the already established shelter would have been too close to public spaces and would be a danger to nearby children.

Until the ball gets rolling it’s also unclear what will be required of residents in terms of length of stays or behavior-based rules such as drug or alcohol policies. The proposed shelters—small, one-room buildings designed to sleep one to two people—can accommodate pets, which aren’t allowed in most other shelter settings.

Cities such as Las Cruces and

Albuquerque have each tried to roll out designated areas for makeshift shelters, with mixed results. Las Cruces officials successfully paved the way for Camp Hope, an outdoor shelter area overseen by a local nonprofit. But Albuquerque officials are still struggling to gain full-fledged support for a similar proposal. Similar shelters to those the City of Santa Fe plans to buy have been erected in a handful of areas in Colorado, including the Beloved Community Village in Denver, cited in the city’s resolution.

Across the nation, cities struggle for the best ways to end—or at least curb—homelessness. Many have landed on the dual strategy of clearing encampments and providing services at sanctioned places for shelter. Los Angeles has taken steps to transition tent

dwellers into hotel rooms, similar to efforts in other cities such as Portland.

Dudziak and Doug Stuart, who rides shotgun, believe the pilot program will help alleviate concerns raised during the online meeting. The city’s resolution says the new site or sites would have shower and bathroom facilities, which Dudziak and Stuart note would help keep streets and sidewalks clean.

Stuart says the shelters would be another tool on the way to a more permanent solution for each person.

“You have all these little micro cultures,” Stuart says. “People who want to be loners, people who want to be in a camp, people who want to be in a shelter, people who are looking for housing, people who want jobs. There’s all these dynamics that happen with all these different people.”

As Dudziak drives down Cerillos and past Pete’s Place, people sitting on the curb with carts and tents in tow partly line the adjacent Harrison Road. A few minutes later and less than a mile from Pete’s Place, Dudziak spots a familiar face squatting down in the corner of a motel parking lot “smoking blues,” or illicit-market fentanyl.

Such scenes likely stoke anxiety for would-be neighbors of the proposed shelter area, yet Sanchez says the community can find middle ground with the right approach.

She believes one key to a successful safe sleeping space can be in making it as easy as possible for unhoused people with substance abuse issues to move into one of the pop up shelters.

“I hope that whatever operator, whatever service provider responds to this solicitation will make it so it’s not a barrier for individuals accessing that space, making it safe for everybody,” Sanchez says.

Still, she acknowledges that low barriers might be a tough sell.

“It is going to be a heavy lift for any organization doing this,” she says. “But I think

Save up to 40% this year thanks to recently passed legislation.

Jeremy Ladner, who was nearly homeless, now works the intake desk at St. Elizabeth’s men’s emergency shelter.

ANDY LYMAN

I think it’s important that the city recognizes the problem that we have, and that there needs to be something done,

-Jeremy Ladner, live-in volunteer intern, St. Elizabeth Shelter

starting early around education, understanding and then creating those expectations will reduce the amount of headache for both the provider and the neighbors.”

In the year Korina Lopez has served as full-time executive director of the Interfaith Community Shelter at Pete’s Place, as well as during her prior experience as director of the Midtown Consuela’s Place, she has seen and heard a lot about the need for additional services and shelters.

She says taking on the job of running a new safe outdoor space is something her organization is “very much interested in.”

“Obviously, we’re going to wait for the proposal, and then of course, location, location, location,” Lopez tells SFR. “I mean, that is our population.”

The shelter at Pete’s Place has a relatively low-barrier to entry. That means residents have a place to sleep as long as they get to the shelter in time to snag a bed, don’t use drugs or alcohol on site and generally don’t cause problems. Once they check in and shuffle past the shower facilities that are available three days a week, people can choose one of the 123 tri-level bunk beds for the night. The shelter offers “resource days” Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays for showers, laundry and case management appointments.

Prior to this year, the shelter was open overnight for men and women only during the winter months, but allowed women overnight during the summer. This year, due to the city cracking down on public camping, it will be open overnight all year for everyone.

Lopez says before the COVID-19 pandemic, the shelter was typically at full capacity on most nights. During the recent winter months, she says, about 80 people would stay each night.

The proliferation of fentanyl has fueled a change in how people use the facility, she says, noting that back in the day, those addicted to heroin could get one last fix in before bunking down for the night, but fentanyl wears off much quicker.

“What we see a lot is people will either just book it because they’re like, ‘I can’t go into withdrawal,’ or, people will try to sneak stuff in and use, and we’re like, ‘Hey, you can’t use on this site,’” she says, adding staff will often try to help with treatment options but that success is “hit or miss.”

Santa Fe Police Captain Anthony Tapia tells SFR it’s mostly up to individual officers to decide what to do when they encounter someone who’s illegally camping on city property, such as the streets surrounding Pete’s Place.

“Generally, officers aren’t just going to pull up and arrest everybody who’s hanging out there on the sidewalk,” Tapia says. “We’re going to try and work it out so they can move

on and [officers will] explain to them where they can hang out.”

Lopez tells SFR her staff can’t do much about situations occurring beyond the shelter’s wrought iron fence, but the staff sometimes allows people to congregate under the facility’s covered patio area.

“If you’re not getting into arguments and there’s no issues, if people can be chill and relaxed, we’re not gonna run them off,” she says.

The public testimony of several people at a recent City Council meeting, however, contrasts the frustrations of some of Pete’s Place neighbors. Residents of other areas of the city said they would welcome a safe outdoor sleeping space in their neighborhoods.

Kevin Rapp, a recent transplant from

Colorado, told the panel during an April 26 meeting that after seeing a similar program outside Denver, he’s all for it in Santa Fe.

“I would much rather have [a safe outdoor space] with all the services and all the support that goes with that than to have people just camping randomly that you don’t know who they are,” Rapp said.

About 3 miles north of Pete’s Place and on the edge of downtown, St. Elizabeth’s men’s shelter accommodates 28 overnight guests and also serves as the nonprofit’s main office. St. Elizabeth’s has a perpetual waitlist, but provides more stable housing in the way of a separate family shelter and an apartment complex with 160 units,

each also with their own waitlists.

Executive Director Edward Archuleta, who has served in nearly every staff role over a span of more than a decade, says the pilot probably won’t impact St. Elizabeth’s waiting list notably, but would provide an alternative for some.

“Folks who want to stay in the [new shelters] aren’t the ones who want to come here,” he says.

Cara Latil, who oversees St. Elizabeth’s Casa Familia shelter for women and families, says there have been a few instances of people trying their best to make it at the family shelter, but that single women don’t always want to be around families with young children and will find other accommodations.

“Sometimes it will last for a while, but then they’ll come to a point where they’re like, ‘Okay, I’m done,’” Latil says.

St. Elizabeth provides a longer term option for those who qualify, but also requires residents leave during the day for work or to look for a job unless they’re sick. The goal is to get people back on their feet.

Jeremy Ladner, a live-in volunteer intern, is usually the one who darts back and forth between the front desk and the front door, responding to the call button outside. In between stamping incoming mail and answering the phone and door, Ladner tells SFR he was on the verge of being homeless when he recently moved to Santa Fe until he managed to snag a bed at St. Elizabeth’s.

“I was basically just in between where I was staying and needing somewhere to stay,” he says.

Ladner says he hasn’t experienced living on the streets, but says he’s come to know many unhoused people in downtown Santa Fe through his trips to the skate park.

“I think it’s important that the city recognizes the problem that we have, and that there needs to be something done,” Ladner says.

He attributes the high cost of living in Santa Fe as one reason people can quickly fall into a situation where they don’t know where they might sleep or get their next meal.

“If you need to get out of where you’re staying and you don’t have money for your first and last month’s rent at a place at a really high rate, it’s not easy,” he says.

The city’s most recent “point in time” count estimated in January some 260 people are experiencing homelessness, and insiders say that’s likely a low figure. Archuleta, Lopez and Dudziak agree that the new shelters will probably not end homelessness in Santa Fe, but will fill in some gaps, even if the process seems slow moving.

“It’s not the solution,” Duziak says. “But it’s a piece of the puzzle. There’s not one size fits all.”

Pallet offers modest, two-person shelters similar those the city plans to buy.

LOT 257: MILLAND LOMAKEMA [Dawakema] (Hopi, b. 1941), Germination, 1977, Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000

NEO WESTERN

Experimental film geeks will find the Jennifer West-curated Lust Severs show at the Thoma Foundation’s Railyard-based Art Vault thrilling. But even if you’ve never seen West’s work, you don’t need much context to get the appeal. West, who tells SFR she approached the exhibition as a “techno-archaeologist,” delights in tactility, exposing film strips to pepper spray, skateboard wheels and smoke. Thus far, Art Vault has proven to be all about the textural qualities of digital art, and it presents this show among three events promoting the release of the monograph Jennifer West: Media Archaeology, alongside a screening at No Name Cinema and a book launch at SITE Santa Fe (see sfreporter.com/cal for details). All the same, given the parallels between filmmaking and curating, we’re especially excited for this one. (Siena Sofia Bergt)

Jennifer West: Lust Severs Reception: 7 pm Friday, May 19. Free with registration. Art Vault 540 S Guadalupe St., (505) 428-0681; bit.ly/41MNtmq

EXHIBIT SUN/21

THAT’S A WRAP

You could say the Museum of International Folk Art’s new exhibit has been in the works for at least four years, ever since a 2019 colloquium in Alaska on the culturally crucial art of parka-making. However, the 20 garments featured in Ghhúunayúkata/To Keep Them Warm really represent more than 150 years of Indigenous innovation. From a traditional Yupik ceremonial seal gut parka to Dena’ina artist Joel Isaak’s fish skin motorcycle jacket, the flexibility of form and fashion the pieces collectively demonstrate echoes the naturally treated furs, hides and innards used to create them: bending rather than cracking in the face of even the most extreme conditions. (SSB)

Ghhúunayúkata/To Keep Them Warm: The Alaska Native Parka Opening: 1-4 pm Sunday, May 21. Free Museum of International Folk Art, 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1204

MUSIC MON/22

The Funktastic Messers Fox

Todd and the Fox returns—this time for the kids

ZAYDAY

It can be easy to come to a place with blues-rock wherein one winds up exhausted by the sheer and endless guitar wankery of it all. It’s kind of like, do you wanna watch some goob bend strings and make orgasm faces? When we put it that way, maybe not (thanks a lot, John Mayer). When it comes to Santa Fe’s Zay Santos, though, there’s one thing keeping it real and keeping it tight: Sincerity. “I’m writing from the depths of myself,” Santos told SFR when he was first playing shows around town in 2018. So while there will most certainly be fuzzed-out guitar riffage of a bluesy nature should you see the guy play, know that he’s coming at it in the most organic way he can rather than checking boxes and playing blues scales all fast. That’s gotta count for something. (ADV)

Zay Santos: 4 pm Monday, May 22. Free. Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565

It’s not as if Todd Lovato and Erik Sawyer of Todd and the Fox stopped making music on purpose over the last however many years, but more that life, the universe and everything got in the way. Pre-pandemic, the dynamic duo last mounted shows in Colorado, sure, but for any New Mexicans who’ve followed the band (or Lovato’s long and illustrious career as a Santa Fe musician), their upcoming performance at the Queen Bee Music Association’s Honeypot Hootenanny might technically be called a reunion. And even as band newcomer Brian Nelson joins in, longtime fans will still recognize the T&TF sound.

”This is what I’d call a combination of the vintage Todd and the Fox songs,” Lovato tells SFR, “and a series of kids’ songs.”

Unexpected though it may be, Lovato’s new songs-for-children bent aligns well with Queen Bee’s mission to spread music far and wide, particularly for young, developing folks. For his part, Lovato, a father himself, came to creating the stuff naturally during what he calls “the dark times; when we were all cloistered.” He worked with his kids on the sound and style, and together they circumvented the worst tropes of the genre—those that seemingly talk down to kids.

“I’ve always been a fan of good kids’ music; like, Harry Nilsson’s The Point, some of the songs by Barenaked Ladies—and I don’t even like that band—or They Might Be Giants,” Lovato explains. “I’ve had an affinity for kids’ music for a long time, but there’s so much bad stuff out there! Kids’ music has been insulting forever, it’s usually racially-skewed, you don’t see a whole lot of people of color. Thankfully, it’s getting more attention now, there’s a revolution, there’s a change.”

Todd and the Fox for sure takes that route on the Funky Worm|Night is Good EP. This stuff sounds like later Aquabats mingling with Cake and that unique Nilssonesque silliness thrown in to round things out. You’ll find funk for sure, but in a kid-friendly fashion amidst musical elements that don’t assume kids are too unsophisticated to get it. In short? It’s fun for you and your kids, plus the event helps raise funds for Queen Bee to continue doing its thing. (Alex

De Vore)

QUEEN BEE HONEYPOT HOOTENANNY WITH TODD AND THE FOX 1-3 pm Saturday, May 20. By donation Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 303-3808

MUSIC SAT/20

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BEYOND MASTERY CONTAINER

1226 Flagman Way (505) 995-0012

The inaugural class of Institute of American Indian Arts Studio Arts MFA grads share their thesis works. Closes Sunday.

11 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, free

BRICOLAGE UNBRIDLED!

CONSTRUCTING ARTIFACTS

Aurelia Gallery

414 Canyon Road (505) 501-2915

Kevin Watson shares multimedia scavenged pieces.

11-5 am, Mon-Fri; Noon-5 pm, Sat-Sun, free

CALL TO ARTISTS

Online, whollyrags.org

Submit pieces made to the 23rd annual Arte de Descartes XXIII juried recycled art show by Aug. 1.

CHASING IDENTITY:

HARRIETTE TSOSIE

ART

ANDREA PETERSON

Blue Rain Gallery

544 S Guadalupe St.

(505) 954-9902

Portraits on floral backgrounds.  10 am-6 pm, Mon-Fri; 9 am-5 pm, Sat, free

Mesa Public Library

2400 Central Ave., Los Alamos (505) 662-8250

A retrospective of the painter’s forays into ideas of inheritance.

10 am-8 pm, Mon-Thurs; 10 am-6 pm, Fri; 10 am-5 pm, Sat, free

THE CONTEMPORARY PRINT

Zane Bennett Contemporary 435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8111

A group show highlighting various printing techniques, including monotypes, intaglio and more.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

DANIEL BLAGG: URBAN LANDSCAPES

Aurelia Gallery

414 Canyon Road (505) 501-2915

Uncanny paintings of abandoned objects and American urban decay subtly reminiscent of Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina’s World.”

11 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri; Noon-5 pm, Sat-Sun, free

DANIEL RAMOS: THE LAND OF ILLUSTRIOUS MEN

Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta (505) 470-2582

The Chicago-based photog shares black and white images exploring the concept and iconography of Mexican Americana.

Noon-5 pm, Thurs-Fri; 12:30-5 pm, Tues, free

DECONSTRUCTING BEAUTY AND URBAN ABSTRACTS

Edition ONE Gallery

728 Canyon Road (505) 570-5385

Textural photographic experiments from Nathalie Seaver and Dolores Lusitana abstractly evoke winter landscapes.

11 am-5 pm, Weds-Mon, free

ECOLOGICAL SOUP: INTERSPECIES ENCOUNTERS

Currents 826

826 Canyon Road (505) 772-0953

Jiabao Li uses photography, installations, VR art and more to interrogate the intersection of human and non-human lifeforms.

Noon-5 pm, Thurs-Sun, free

ELEMENTS: SUSAN EDDINGS PÉREZ

Susan Eddings Pérez Galley 717 Canyon Road (505) 477-4ART

The gallery owner showcases her own latest subdued and textured abstracts, which are studded with gold leaf peeking through the paint.

10 am-5 pm, Mon-Sat; Noon-5 pm, Sun, free

ENCHANTMENT SHOW: THE JOURNEY 2023

Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch

145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators shares selected works from its local branch members. Maybe an opportunity to scout new books for the little ones in your life?

10 am-8 pm, Tues-Thurs;

10 am-6 pm, Fri-Sat., free

FLORA & FAUNA

Evoke Contemporary

550 S. Guadalupe St. (505) 995-9902

A group exhibition exploring spring-appropriate ideas of greenery, growth and regeneration.

10 am-5 pm, free GOING WITH THE FLOW

SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

Southwestern artists use a variety of traditional and innovative mediums to grapple with the central role of water in desert landscapes.

10 am-5 pm, Thurs, Sat-Mon; 10 am-7 pm, Fri, free

JACK CRAFT: WHAT ONCE WAS THE SEA IS NOW A DESERT

Kouri + Corrao Gallery

3213 Calle Marie, (505) 820-1888 Organic shapes in cast iron.

Noon-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free JAMES STERLING PITT |   {#}  [——— —-]  ########## _____%%%%%%%%_____

5. Gallery

2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700 (505) 257-8417

No, the office cat didn’t just walk across our keyboard: That truly is this sculptural exhibition’s title.

Noon-5 pm, Thurs-Sat, free JODI BALSAMO Counter Culture Café 930 Baca St. (505) 995-1105

Selected mixed media still lifes. 8 am-3 pm, free

KATE JOYCE: SELECTED WORKS

Pie Projects 924B Shoofly St. (505) 372-7681

Colored photographs inspired by Ovid and airplane views, respectively.

11 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

Trickster beings guard the landscape from on high in Irene Hardwicke Olivieri’s “Flight of the rascals,” on view this week in Flora and Fauna at Evoke Contemporary.

KEL BRANDWOOD: THE FORGOTTEN GODS

Prism Arts & Other Fine Things

1300 Luisa St., Ste. 3A (248) 763-9642

Layered abstract expressionist works.

11 am-5 pm, Weds-Sat, free

KEVIN BELTRAN:

UNOBSERVABLE NOISE

Iconik Coffee Roasters (Original)

1600 Lena St. (505) 428-0996

Colorful, Americana-infused vehicular photography inspired by sound.

7:30 am-5 pm, free

L SCOOTER MORRIS: THE TIPPING POINT

Aurelia Gallery

414 Canyon Road, (505) 501-2915

Mixed media canvas and acrylic-based pieces incorporating images of guns, flags and money.

11-5 am, Mon-Fri; Noon-5 pm, Sat-Sun, free

LINDSEY REDDICK:

I CRIED IN FRONT OF YOU form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256

Ceramic sculptures probing familial bonds through folk imagery and delicate pastel glazing.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

MARCOS LUCERO:

GUARDIANS OF THE SOUL

Hecho Gallery

129 W Palace Ave (505) 455-6882

Paintings on paper inspired by the communities of Oaxaca, featuring imagery of animal spirits and masked figures.

10 am-5 pm, Weds-Sun, free MINIPRINT!

Hecho a Mano

830 Canyon Road (505) 916-1341

A selection of more than 50 diminutive prints juried by Alfonso Barrera and Mirel Fraga. Originally presented as part of April’s Print Santa Fe festivities.

10 am-5 pm, Weds-Sun, free

MONOTHON EXHIBITION

Santa Fe Community Gallery

201 W. Marcy St. (505) 955-6707

Showcasing one work per participating artist from Monothon Print Week.

10 am-3 pm, Weds-Fri; free

NOURISHING BEAUTY

Cafe Pasqual’s Gallery

103 E Water St., Second Floor (505) 983-9340

Gail Reiki, Bonnie Lynch and Romig Streeter share multimedia pieces inspired by the art and culture of Japan.

10 am-5 pm, free

OUR PLACE: TOM AND RAVENNA OSGOOD

form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256

A daughter and her late father connect across psychic space through assemblage, sculpture, design objects and more.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

THE PHOTOGRAVURE: SELECTIONS FROM 1897-2023

Obscura Gallery 1405 Paseo de Peralta (505) 577-6708

Over a century of copper plate intaglio prints, ranging from Alfred Stieglitz to Eddie Soloway.

11 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

PIÑON COUNTRY

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

A photographic installation by Christina M. Selby documenting piñon-juniper environments and their endangered avian inhabitants.

9 am-5 pm, free

POST FIESTA WARES

Axle Contemporary Visit axleart.com for daily location (505) 670-5854

Rick Phelps’ recycled paper art, presented in conjunction with the Museum of International Folk Art’s cartonería exhibit.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sun, free

REID RICHARDSON:

KINDRED SKIES

Globe Fine Art 727 Canyon Road (505) 989-3888

Symbolist oil landscapes with a particular emphasis on the aerial.

10 am-6 pm, Mon-Sat;

11 am-5 pm, Sun, free

SANTA FE 5X5

Zane Bennett Contemporary

435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8111

Selected works from five up-and-coming printmakers.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

SIGNE STUART: EVOLUTION

Pie Projects

924B Shoofly St. (505) 372-7681

Sewn and stained canvasses evoking the quantum world.

11 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

SIGUE PASANDO POR AQUÍ form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256

Enrique Figueredo’s 15-foot zoetrope and woodcut prints examining migration and movement.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

SOLARE:

LETTING IN THE LIGHT

Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery

222 Delgado St., (928) 308-0319

Iconographically influenced wooden sculptures, digital prints and beyond.

11 am-6 pm, Mon-Sat, free

SPECTRA: THE RAINBOW IN ART

ELECTRA Gallery

825 Early St., Ste. D (505) 231-0354

A showcase of paintings, jewelry and more utilizing rainbow imagery.

By appointment, free

SPRING GROUP SHOW

Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art

558 Canyon Road (505) 992-0711

Highlighting recent abstract works by eight gallery artists.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

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STINA FOLKEBRANT: DREAM ANIMALS

Edition ONE Gallery

728 Canyon Road (505) 570-5385

Black and white acrylic pieces influenced by traditional Chinese ink painting, shared in collaboration with the Women’s International Study Center.

11 am-5 pm, Weds-Mon, free

THE TAOS SIX COLLECTION: AN HOMAGE TO W. HERBERT DUNTON

Blue Rain Gallery

544 S Guadalupe St. (505) 954-9902

Gallery artists “paint tribute” to the Taos Society of Artists founding member by reinterpreting his pieces.

10 am-6 pm, Mon-Fri;

9 am-5 pm, Sat, free

THINKING INSIDE THE BOX: RETABLISTA

VICTOR HUÁMAN GUTIÉRREZ

International Folk Art

Market Center

620 Cerrillos Road (505) 992-7600

An uber-brief exhibit retablo exhibit, up through Friday.

10 am-4 pm, free

TIM WELDON: A TRIP TO THE FUN HOUSE

Calliope

2876 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 660-9169

Carnivalesque mixed media pieces.

11 am-4 pm, Fri-Mon, free

T.N.

Java Joe’s (Siler)

1248 Siler Road, (505) 780-5477

Colorful, geometric acrylic abstracts.

7 am-1 pm, Mon-Sat, free TOWARD FIGURATION: TOM APPELQUIST

FOMA

333 Montezuma Ave. (505) 660-0121

Abstract pieces with line work that nods towards Keith Haring.

11 am-5 pm, free TRISTYN BUSTAMANTE: POSTBIOLOGICAL PONDERINGS

Strata Gallery

418 Cerrillos Road (505) 780-5403

Clay sculptures drawing inspiration from the geometry of electrical equipment.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

TWO PIONEERING WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE PHOTO LEAGUE

Monroe Gallery of Photography

112 Don Gaspar Ave. (505) 992-0800

Featuring the black and white work of Sonia Handelman Meyer and Ida Wyman.

10 am-5 pm, free

EVENTS

SANTA FE BIKE MONTH

Santa Fe, bikesantafe.org

Celebrate the wheel-centric month with social rides, restaurant discounts for those who arrive on bicycles and more.  all month, free

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It only makes sense for a reporter to be nervous about a chat with author Jennifer Egan, given her credentials as a Pulitzer Prize winner for her 2010 novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, the president of lit-forward nonprofit PEN America and an all-around intellectual titan. But Egan’s conversational approach was as clever and thoughtful as her writing suggests. Egan’s latest novel The Candy House hinges on a technology called “Own Your Unconscious,” which allows characters to revisit any of their own memories, and to make them accessible to others in exchange for access to the collective. Egan will be in conversation with Alex Parsons at the Santa Fe International Literary Festival (9:15 am Saturday, May 20. $15-$50, Santa Fe Community Convention Center, 201 W Marcy St., sfinternationallitfest.org; see more on page 31). This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

(Annabella Farmer)

How would ‘Own Your Unconscious’ change the role of story, if at all? That’s an interesting question. [The character] Bix’s son Gregory, who wants to be a writer, is appalled by this technology because he feels it will eliminate the space for books. The way the technology plays out is often with a sense of great disappointment, because it turns out we may not actually want to know what it’s like to be inside someone else’s consciousness, or even to review our own memories as they ‘actually were.’ So, in the world as imagined, what would be the role of books? I guess what we would learn is that the curation of information is actually essential to making the experience meaningful. I’m very interested in the relationship between data and storytelling because we’re so data-obsessed as a culture, and yet the limitations of data are so manifest. I discovered in writing about all

this that in the end it’s the interpretation that gives meaning to data, and it may be that art is what gives meaning to this spectatorship of other consciousnesses.

There are technologies and ideas in the book that you imagined as fiction, but have since become reality. What’s that like? That has happened to me a lot. Not as much with this book as with some, but when I was working on it, it felt a little out of step with reality. Now it feels so in step that in the end, it’s going to feel like it was just verisimilitude. For instance, I imagined a guy whose job was to create a mathematical system that could encompass any sort of plot. He believes he’s working for an entertainment company, but he doesn’t know what the product is and neither do we. As soon as ChatGPT came along, I suddenly realized that’s the product. He’s participating in a program that synthesizes groupthink into entertainment. So, the book is going to feel like a reflection on ChatGPT— who cares that I published it nine months before that was released. I know nothing about technology. But it’s no surprise my imaginings would parallel those of people who really do know technology and can make things happen. The way I see art generally, and fiction specifically, is as a distillation of the cultural moment that we occupy. Our job is to create artifacts that articulate the dream life of the culture collectively. So it makes sense there’s a tandem between art and reality in which sometimes the artistic expression gets slightly ahead, because we’re all drawing on the same experience, the same forces.

How did you come to think about art that way?

When I was working on my novel Manhattan Beach, which is a noir-ish historical thriller, I needed to know everything about what life was like during the war years in New York. I originally thought that would mean knowing what people drove, what they smoked and what they wore. But I realized as soon as I tried to write that that’s nothing. What you need to really understand is what people were thinking about, what they were remembering, what they were nostalgic for, the cultural touchstones. History books can’t exactly tell us that, but fiction can. That experience got me thinking, What is fiction, really? And what I came to feel is that it’s sort of like the way we dream, and those dreams take the everyday stuff of our lives and transform it into symbolic works of art. To my mind, artists perform exactly the same function collectively for the culture that contains us.

With Author Jennifer Egan

PIETER

M. VAN HATTEM

FILM

OPEN SUBMISSION: MADRID

FILM FESTIVAL

Online, madridfilmfest.org

Submit shorts by July 28 for festival screening and possible prizes.

All Day, free

WED/17

BOOKS/LECTURES

MATIKA WILBUR:

PROJECT 562

Santa Fe Indigenous Center

1420 Cerrillos Road (505) 660-4210

The artist and author shares her new book—which compiles photographs from her work documenting every sovereign Indigenous territory in the country.

6 pm, free

MEDICARE

INFORMATION SESSION

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon (505) 466-7323

Get all the juicy deets on picking a Medigap plan.

10 am, free

MIKE HAMMER

Hotel Santa Fe

1501 Paseo de Peralta (505) 982-1200

The Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa joins Global Santa Fe for a talk about US policy in the region he represents.

5:30 pm, $25-$35

NATURE LOVERS BOOK CLUB

Santa Fe Public Library Southside

6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820

Gather to gab about Dan Flores' American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains.

6-7:30 pm, free

READING AND SIGNING WITH

ELENA BROWER

Ark Books

133 Romero St., (505) 988-3709

The host of the Practice You podcast shares Softening Time, her first poetry collection.

6-8 pm, free

EVENTS

FREE KIDS SING-ALONG

Santa Fe Public Library Southside

6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820

Sarah-Jane from Queen Bee Music Association leads music games and sing-alongs for toddlers and babies.

3:15-4 pm, free

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Second Street Brewery (Railyard)

1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-3278

Whatever you do, don't call it trivia.

8-10 pm, free

HISTORY CHAT

35 Degrees North

60 E San Francisco St.

(505) 629-3538

Walking tour guide Christian Saiia invites locals to chat about the effects of world geo-politics on westward colonization.

Noon-2 pm, free

LEISURELY BIKE RIDE

Fort Marcy Park

490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2500

Thrice-weekly instructor-led bike rides through the city. Free for members of the City of Santa Fe recreation centers.

10-11 am, $5

LET’S TAKE A LOOK WITH CURATORS

Museum of Indian Arts & Culture

710 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1269

Bring in family heirlooms for pro analysis from the museum curators every third Wednesday.  Noon-2 pm, free

OPEN MIC COMEDY

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Wayward Comedy welcomes you to the stage weekly. Better make ‘em laugh. 8 pm, free

WEE WEDNESDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Today's story topic is "counting in the sea." We gather that numerical fish sorting will be involved.

10:30 am, free

WRITER'S DEN

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

A weekly quiet, communal space to write to the sound of others' clicking keyboards.

5-6:30 pm, free

FOOD

COOKING MATTERS: EASY EATS

Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center

4801 Beckner Road (505) 772-1234

Part of a series on cooking healthy on a budget. Taught by dietician Megan McNeil.

2-3 pm, free

MAS CHILE POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

Never fear, comparatively late night chile is here.

4-10 pm, free

MUSIC

INSTRUMENTAL JAZZ JAM

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

Play an instrumental role in the improv session.

6 pm, free

JOHN FRANCIS & THE POOR CLARES

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

Storytelling folk.

8-10:30 pm, free

JOHNNY LLOYD

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Old school Americana.

4-6 pm, free

SOUL SHAKE

As Above So Below Distillery

545 Camino de la Familia (505) 916-8596

DJs Swilley and Prairiedogs spin funk and soul in the institution formerly known as Altar Spirits.

8-11 pm, free

YOKE LORE

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 New York-based banjo-wielding indie pop with support from James Supercave.  7 pm, $20

WORKSHOP

AERIAL FABRIC WITH LISA

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road (505) 992-2588

Don’t let gravity get the best of you.

5:30-7 pm, $23-$28

THU/18

BOOKS/LECTURES

LITERARY NIGHT

Hecho Gallery

129 W Palace Ave. (505) 455-6882

Artist Thais Mather shares a poetry-inspired installation while Natachee Momaday Gray reads from her debut collection, Silver Box

5:30-7 pm, free

SAR ARTIST TALK

School for Advanced Research

660 Garcia St. (505) 954-7200

Janna Avner discusses her experiences as the 2023 Eric and Barbara Dobkin Native Artist Fellow, then opens her studio for a tour.

5:30 pm, free

SALLY DENTON: THE COLONY

Santa Fe Women's Club

1616 Old Pecos Trail santafelibraryfriends.org/events

The author shares her investigation of the 2019 deaths of nine Mormon women and children in Northern Mexico.

5 pm, $10

STORYTELLERS OF NEW MEXICO: OFF THE PAGE

Travel Bug Coffee Shop

839 Paseo de Peralta (505) 992-0418

A fine example of the oral tradition. Featuring Paul White and others.

6 pm, free

THE SANTA FE INTERNMENT CAMP (1942-1946)

Santa Fe Public Library

Main Branch

145 Washington Ave.

(505) 955-6780

Yup, you read that right: Santa Fe kept detaining Japanese American citizens into the year after World War II ended. Learn more about that horrible period in our local history from Nancy Bartlit.

6-7 pm, free

THIRD THURSDAY: JOHN FORMBY

New Mexico Museum of Art

107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072

The forest health specialist chats about what carvings in the exhibit  With the Grain can reveal about the trees they came from.

5:30-6:30 pm, free

DANCE

ECSTATIC DANCE

Railyard Performance Center

1611 Paseo de Peralta

A weekly DJ'd free movement sesh. Contact hello@ EmbodyDanceSantaFe.com for more information.

6:30 pm, $15

EVENTS

ALL FIERCE COMEDY SHOW Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

We still have Carlos Medina's "No le Digan" stuck in our heads from that music video where he makes out with a puppet of himself.

7 pm, $10-$26

BEDTIME STORIES:

RHINESTONE PROM

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

Expect plenty of flash at the multiverse's latest neo burlesque revue.  8 pm, $27

DISTILLERY TOUR

Santa Fe Spirits Distillery

7505 Mallard Way, Ste. 1 (505) 467-8892

Learn how whiskey is made— from grain to glass. Reservations required.

3 pm, 5 pm, $20

DRAG BINGO!

Opuntia Café

1607 Alcaldesa St., Ste. 201 (505) 780-5796

Celebrate community and play with the queens (and kings). Admission is free, and you can pick up six bingo cards for $20.

7-9 pm, free

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Social Kitchen & Bar

725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952

Don't call it trivia.  7 pm, free

HUMAN DESIGN READINGS

Fruit Of The Earth Natural Health 909 Early St. (505) 699-2771

Richard Corbett gives weekly body graph readings. Drop-ins are welcome, but you can also call to reserve a spot.

3-6 pm, $60

NOISE FOR NOW

TEACH IN HAPPY HOUR

Honeymoon Brewery

907 W Alameda St., Ste. B (505) 303-3139

Get the lowdown on fake abortion clinics (deceptively known as "crisis pregnancy centers"): both what they are and how to help friends avoid 'em.

5:30-7 pm, free

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Hues good enough to eat in Immersed in Colour and Time: New Works by Frank Balaam and Angus, opening May 26 at Ventana Fine Art.

VENTANA FINE ART

SEEDS & SPROUTS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail

(505) 989-8359

Wee ones make nature journals out of organic materials.

10:30-11:30 am, free

VAMANOS SANTA FE WALKS:

FIND A NEW PATH

Rail Trail

Zia Road trailhead to Siringo Road (505) 989-7019

Meet at the Zia rail station for a communal mosey.

5:30 pm, free

VIBRANT HEALTH

WITH BEMER

The Sage Hotel 725 Cerrillos Road

Dr. Stephen Weiss discusses— and demonstrates—pulsed electromagnetic field therapy.

6 pm, free

FILM

JENNIFER WEST: FILM TITLE

POEM AND SHORT FILMS

No Name Cinema

2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org

An experimental feature made entirely of glitches in film credits, presented alongside selected 16mm shorts.

7:30 pm, $5-$15 suggested

FOOD

FLIGHT NIGHT

Santa Fe Spirits

Downtown Tasting Room

308 Read St., (505) 780-5906

If you prefer your tipsiness with less decision-making, sample four mini cocktails instead of one large one.

3-10pm, free

SUSHI POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

Brent Jung is our seafood hero.

5-8 pm, free

MUSIC

ANNALISA EWALD

Agave Restaurant & Lounge

309 W San Francisco St. (505) 995-4530

Classical and baroque guitar.

6-9 pm, free

ALEX MURZYN QUINTET

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

Sax-centric jazz.

6 pm, free

BILL HEARNE

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Americana and honky-tonk.

4-6 pm, free

DAVID GEIST

Osteria D'Assisi

58 S Federal Place (505) 986-5858

Cabaret renditions of Broadway, pop and original tunes.

7-10 pm, free

HALF BROKE HORSES

Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive (505) 983-9817

Two-step your way to honkytonk heaven.

7-10 pm, free

LOVE COLOR WITH JESSIE DELUXE

Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

Indie pop from Vanessa Silberman, Ryan Carnes and Jessie Deluxe.

7 pm, free

PAT MALONE

TerraCotta Wine Bistro

304 Johnson St. (505) 989-1166

Solo guitar.

6 pm, free

ROOTBEER RICHIE & THE REVEILLE

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery

2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808

Americana, Soul and R&B. Presented by Lost Padre Records.

7 pm, free

SUNSET SERENADE

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759

Music may soothe the savage beast, but add fresh cocktails and the rumble of the train to the picture and you’ll be nearing sedation in no time.

6:30 pm, $109-$129

THEATER SWEAT

Santa Fe Playhouse

142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262

Lynn Nottage's drama about the factory deunionization. Tonight's tickets are sliding scale for industry members. (See Theater, page 33)

7:30-9:30 pm, $15-$75

SYMPATICO

The Actors Lab

1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576

Nicholas Ballas directs Sam Shepard's story of the dark side of horse racing. Did y’all know Shepard used to live here?

7:30 pm, $15-$35

WORKSHOP

ART JAM

Mad Contemporary 3 Firehouse Lane, Madrid (505) 603-5225

A queer-centric multidisciplinary collaborative sesh for writers, dancers, musicians and more.

7:15 pm, $10 suggested

BEGINNER FABRIC

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road

(505) 992-2588

Can you hang? If not, this class will show you all the metaphorical ropes.

5:30-7 pm, $23-$28

CLARIFYING

MEDITATIVE WORK

Online, bit.ly/3K8d586

(505) 281-0684

Forty minutes of group meditation, followed by discussion.

7-8:30 pm, free

HATHA YOGA

Four Seasons Rancho Encantado

198 NM-592 (505) 946-5700

Think of hatha as your original flavor yoga: slow, methodical and with a focus on breath.

10:30-11:30 am, $18-$90

TRAPEZE AND LYRA CLASS

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road

(505) 992-2588

Expand your aerial vocabulary on static trapeze and hoop.

5:30-7 pm, $23-$28

FRI/19

ART OPENINGS

INAUGURAL EXHIBITION Stablewest

821 Canyon Road stablewest.com

The new gallery on the block celebrates its debut with horse-centric charcoal drawings by Tianyin Wang and collage work William Crump.

4-8 pm, free

JACK CRAFT: WHAT ONCE WAS THE SEA IS NOW A DESERT (RECEPTION)

Kouri + Corrao Gallery

3213 Calle Marie (505) 820-1888

The contrast between the heavy material and those gentle circular shapes is bizarrely satisfying.

5-7 pm, free LUST SEVERS (RECEPTION AND PREVIEW)

Thoma Foundation Art Vault

540 S Guadalupe St. (505) 428-0681

Jennifer West guest curates an exhibition of digital and new media work exploring the intersection of technology and the body. (See SFR Picks, page 17) 7 pm, free with registration

MIDNITE RIDER AND VISIONS UNFOLDING (OPENING)

Keep Contemporary

142 Lincoln Ave. (505) 557-9574

Figurative works exploring death imagery and mysticism from Micah Wesley and Sarah Vaccariello.

5-8 pm, free

STINA FOLKEBRANT: DREAM ANIMALS (RECEPTION)

Edition ONE Gallery

728 Canyon Road (505) 570-5385

Black and white acrylic pieces influenced by traditional Chinese ink painting, presented as part of a collaboration with the Women's International Study Center.

5-7 pm, free

SURFACING: MICHAEL BERGT (OPENING)

Nüart Gallery

670 Canyon Road (505) 988-3888

Egg tempera and gold leaf figurative work inspired by myth and allegory.

5-7 pm, free

TRISTYN BUSTAMANTE: POSTBIOLOGICAL PONDERINGS (RECEPTION)

Strata Gallery

418 Cerrillos Road (505) 780-5403

The artist discusses her smallscale clay sculptures inspired by the geometry of electrical equipment.

5-7 pm, free

WRANGLING THE SUN: ROBERT HAGAN (OPENING)

The Signature Gallery

102 East Water St. (505) 983-1050

Impressionist Americana imagery.

5-7:30 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

ALL ABOUT E-BIKES!

Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center 4801 Beckner Road (505) 772-1234

An info session covering everything from picking an e-bike to safety and charging tips.

4-7 pm, free

GARDEN CONVERSATIONS:

LINDA CHURCHILL Museum Hill Café

710 Camino Lejo (505) 984-8900

The Santa Fe Botanical Garden’s director of horticulture gives you her best tips and tricks for a happy pollinator garden, then leads a tour.

8:30-10:30 am, $40

JENNIFER WEST: MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY

SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

The experimental filmmaker (recognize her name from earlier?) launches her monograph probing the intersection of digital and analog media.

5:30 pm, free

SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL

Santa Fe Community

Convention Center

201 W Marcy St. (505) 955-6590

Event programming kicks into high gear tomorrow, but you can celebrate the fest’s return tonight at the reception and conversation with Colum McCann.

(See A&C, page 31)

5-7:45 pm, $15-$220

STORY EXCHANGE WITH COLUM MCCANN

Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave. (505) 428-1000

The Irish author pays the college a visit as part of the festival's Young Writers and Readers Program. Open to literary students from across Santa Fe. (See A&C, page 31)

9 am-noon, free

DANCE

ENTREFLAMENCO SPRING SEASON

El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302

Director Antonio Granjero's flamenco company performs alongside Juan Jose Alba. 7:30 pm, $25-$45

EVENTS

ABOUT LAST NIGHT: CABARET REVAMP

Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St. (505) 954-1068

A variety show featuring everything from guitar to glow poi, burlesque to belly dance. 8 pm, free

ALL AGES CHESS

Vista Grande Public Library 14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323

Go checkmate that king.  3-5 pm, free

ANDERSON PEYNETSA

Andrea Fisher Fine Pottery 100 W San Francisco St. (505) 986-1234

The Zuni Pueblo potter gives a demonstration.  Noon-4 pm, free

CRASH KARAOKE

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

It may be true that nothing good happens after midnight, but the karaoke probably sounds better when you're a little delirious.

9 pm-1 am, free

DISTILLERY TOUR

Santa Fe Spirits Distillery

7505 Mallard Way, Ste. 1 (505) 467-8892

Learn how whiskey is made— from grain to glass—before finishing with a tasting.

Reservations required.

3 pm, 5 pm, $20

EXPRESSIONS:

CHARLES SLOCOMB

The Legacy at Santa Fe

3 Avenida Aldea, (505) 333-0210

Showcasing poems and portraits by the Legacy resident.

4:30-7:30 pm, free

FINE ART FRIDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Young'uns will make beaded dreamcatchers, apparently.

2-4 pm, free

FREE AURA PHOTOS

Dragonfly Transformations

129 W San Francisco St., Ste. E (505) 652-7633

Human atmospheres like having their picture taken, too. And while you’re waiting for Annette Gates to snap that photo, check out paintings by Erin Fore and a group meditation at 6 pm.

5-7 pm, free

HERITAGE PRESERVATION

AWARDS

St. Francis Auditorium at NM Museum of Art

107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072

Think of it as the Oscars of adobe restoration.

2 pm, free

LEISURELY BIKE RIDE

Fort Marcy Park

490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2500

Your second city-led bike ride opportunity of the week.

10-11 am, $5

MINIATURES PAINTING

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

Gather weekly to paint tabletop game figurines.

4-6:30 pm, free

NATIONAL

BIKE TO WORK DAY

COFFEE ON THE RAIL TRAIL

Railyard Park Community Room

701 Callejon St., (505) 316-3596

Stop in for free coffee and donuts to power your twowheeled commute.

7-9:30 am, free

OPEN SPACE-TIME

Rainbow Rainbow at Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle

(505) 395-6369

The closet at Rainbow Rainbow may not lead to another dimension, but it does have art supplies you can use.

Noon, free

PUBLIC GARDEN TOUR

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo (505) 471-9103

Each staff or docent tour leader pays special attention to their own unique floral faves, so it's worth taking more than once.

11 am-noon, free

RAPID HIRING EVENT

Keep Santa Fe Beautiful 1142 Siler Road (505) 955-2215

If you've dreamed of working at the city's Environmental Services or Wastewater divisions, this is your time to shine.

10 am-3 pm, free

TEEN NIGHT

Genoveva Chavez

Community Center

3221 W Rodeo Road

(505) 955-4000

The pubertal crowd can enjoy free swimming, basketball, putt putt, kickball—and corn hole. What teen hangout would be complete without corn holing?

5-8 pm, free

TUMBLEROOT COMEDY

NIGHT

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

The Tripp Stelnicki-hosted yukfest returns with Sara Anne Meyers, Jack Tapestry, Libby Tonning and more.

8:30 pm, $10

WILD: SOFT LAUNCH

Alexandra Eldridge Studio Gallery

1802 Second St. (505) 690-9259

Christie Green debuts a capsule collection of hunting-inspired garments and fabrics under her  christie nell label with a runway and refreshments.

5-7 pm, free

FOOD

MAS CHILE POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery 2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

Slake your spice cravings.

4-10 pm, free

POKI TAKO POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

Chef Randy Tapia's dreamy poke bowls and fusion faves.

4-9 pm, free

MUSIC

ANNALISA EWALD

Agave Restaurant & Lounge 309 W San Francisco St. (505) 995-4530

Classical and baroque guitar plucking.

6-9 pm, free

AMTRAC Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

Electronic music from producer

Caleb Cornett, with openers Davy Jones and Joey Fettucine

(whose name unfortunately keeps reminding us of Freddie Spaghetti from Parks and Rec.)

9 pm, $22-$37

THE CALENDAR

CHARLES TICHENOR

CABARET

Los Magueyes

Mexican Restaurant

31 Burro Alley, (505) 992-0304

Vocals and piano.

6 pm, free

CRAWDADDY BLUES FEST

PRE PARTY

Mine Shaft Tavern

2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

James Estes and the High Desert Playboys play Americana to kick off the crustacean festivities.

5 pm, free

NATHAN CLEAVELAND

First Presbyterian Church

208 Grant Ave., (505) 982-8544

Bach, Mendelssohn and more on organ.

5:30 pm, free

PAT MALONE

Four Seasons Resort Rancho Encantado

198 NM-592, (505) 946-5700

Solo guitar.

7 pm, free

ROBERT FOX JAZZ TRIO

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

Jazz on jazz on jazz.

6 pm, free

SALSA NIGHT

The Bridge at Santa Fe Brewing Company

37 Fire Place, (505) 557-6182

Norteño dance music from Nosotros.

6 pm, free

SUNSET SERENADE

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759

All rails and cocktails.

6:30 pm, $109-$129

THE STRANGE

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Local rock n' roll.

8 pm, free

THEATER

SWEAT

Santa Fe Playhouse

142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262

When unions fall, so do the communities counting on them.

(See Theater, page 33)

7:30-9:30 pm, $15-$75

SYMPATICO

The Actors Lab

1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576

You can lead a friend’s horse to water, but ya can’t make it yours.

7:30 pm, $15-$35

WORKSHOP

SLACKLINE AND POI

WITH ELI

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road

(505) 992-2588

Satisfy your curiosity about tightrope walking and flaming pole tricks in one go.

7-8:30 pm, $18-$22

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THE CALENDAR

YOUTH AERIALS CLASS

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

Aspiring aerialists ages 7-12 are invited to explore vertically.

5-6 pm, $24

SAT/20

ART OPENINGS

ARTWALK SANTA FE

IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900

Browse the works of 25 local Indigenous creators and check out the museum for free.

11 am-4 pm, free

POP UP ART SHOW

The New Baking Company 504 W Cordova Road (505) 557-6435

Featuring cannabis paintings by Polly Jackson and whimsical 3D work by Diane Moreno.

5-8 pm, free

THE SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET

In the West Casitas, north of the water tower 1612 Alcaldesa St.

An outdoor juried art market featuring pottery, jewelry, painting, textiles and more.

9 am-2 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

A TRAIL RUNS THROUGH IT

Santa Fe Public Library Southside

6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820

Kelly L. Jenks discusses the history of San Miguel del Vado in this month's End of the Trail Chapter meeting.

1:30 pm, free

DAVID TREUER

Santa Fe Community Convention Center

201 W Marcy St., (505) 955-6590

The Ojibwe author shares his latest, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present. Part of the Santa Fe International Literary Festival.

(See A&C, page 31)

2 pm, $15-$50

DEAR PARK RANGER:

JEFF DARREN MUSE

Travel Bug Coffee Shop

839 Paseo de Peralta (505) 992-0418

The author launches his essay collection, which Travel Bug describes as "part Generation X travelogue...part reflection on white male identity."

4-6 pm, free

NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH

Santa Fe Community Convention Center

201 W Marcy St., (505) 955-6590

The author talks about his forthcoming novel   Chain Gang All Stars—which follows two gladiator women inside a private prison.  Part of the Santa Fe International Literary Festival.

(See A&C, page 31)

3:30 pm, $15-$50

PAUL VALDEZ: THE MARQUIS INCOGNITO

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

The author shares his Nuevomexicano genderswapped Cinderella story.

Noon-1:30 pm, free

SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL

LITERARY FESTIVAL

Santa Fe Community

Convention Center

201 W Marcy St., (505) 955-6590

You know Santa Fe loves a festival, but this one really hit the ground running last year and doesn’t seem to be letting up. (See A&C, page 31)

8 am-7:45 pm, $15-$220

SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL

LITERARY FESTIVAL

YOUNG READERS & WRITERS

PROGRAM

Santa Fe Community Convention Center

201 W Marcy St., (505) 955-6590

Raashan Ahmad, the Santa Fe Public Library and Collected Works Bookstore present readings, workshops and more to satiate younger bookworms. (See A&C, page 31) 9:30 am-4:45 pm, free

DANCE

ENTREFLAMENCO SPRING

SEASON

El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302

Dinner and dance.

7:30 pm, $25-$45

EVENTS

AEROSPACE EDUCATION

OPEN HOUSE

Santa Fe Community College

6401 Richards Ave. (616) 443-5942

Check out flight simulators, model rockets, drone displays, info about the Civilian Air Patrol youth program and more.

10 am-2 pm, free

ANNUAL SPRING CLEAN UP DAY

Fairview Cemetery

1134 Cerrillos Road (505) 989-1623

Help take care of previous Santa Feans' final resting place.

9 am-noon, free

BEWELLNM MEDICAID

UNWINDING

ENROLLMENT EVENT

Genoveva Chavez

Community Center

3221 W Rodeo Road (505) 955-4000

Folks on the verge of losing Medicaid coverage will learn about enrollment options.

10 am-3 pm, free

COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS WITH THE Q/C

Rainbow Rainbow at Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

Join the Human Rights Alliance's outreach initiative to discuss community-building.

1 pm, free

DISTILLERY TOUR

Santa Fe Spirits Distillery

7505 Mallard Way, Ste. 1 (505) 467-8892

Whiskey witnessing.

3 pm, 5 pm, $20

EL MUSEO CULTURAL MERCADO

El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia (505) 992-0591

An eclectic collection of art and antiques.

9 am-4 pm, free

FRIENDS OF SFPL LITERARY FESTIVAL BOOK SALE

Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

If your shelves aren't already buckling after the Vista Grande Library sale, you can browse more librarian-curated picks.

9:30 am-1 pm, free

THE IRIS IN FIGURES OF SPEECH

DeVargas Center 564 N Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4671

The Santa Fe Iris Society celebrates 40 years of growth with some of their favorite blooms.  Noon-4 pm, free

LA TIENDA FLEA

La Tienda at Eldorado

7 Caliente Road

Imagine if you took all the individual yard sales from a given weekend and combined them.

8 am-noon, free

MOVING DAY SANTA FE

The Montecito 500 Rodeo Road (505) 428-7777

Hit the proverbial pavement to raise funds for the Parkinson’s Foundation.

9:30 am, free

NAMIWALKS

Bicentennial Alto Park

1121 Alto St., namiwalks.org

Another chance to use your gams to raise gelt—this time for mental healthcare.

8:30 am, free

NEW MEXICO ALE TRAIL Sky Railway 410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759

Sip local brewery samples and a complimentary beer onboard.  1:30 pm, $99

PUBLIC GARDEN TOUR

Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo (505) 471-9103

Feast your eyes on the season’s most fabulous florals.

11 am-noon, free

RAPID HIRING EVENT

Keep Santa Fe Beautiful

1142 Siler Road (505) 955-2215

Another opportunity to nab a wastewater division gig.  9 am-noon, free

SCIENCE SATURDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Xiaobai Li and Zhe Mei share a surprise experiment.

2-4 pm, free

THE MET LIVE IN HD: DON GIOVANNI

Lensic Performing Arts Center

211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234

Ivo van Hove directs an unusually abstract production of Mozart's dramedy.

11 am, 6 pm, $22-$28

THE SANTA FE CENTURY

Rowe Mesa, Rowe santafecentury.com

OK, obviously a 25-55 mile ride can't take place entirely in the city, but it's still exciting.

All Day, free

WORLD MIGRATORY

BIRD DAY

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon (505) 466-7323

Learn about bird banding, meet a raptor, hear how best to provide water for avians and more.

1-3 pm, free

YOUR ROAD TO HEALTH AND WEALTH…BY BICYCLE!

Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center

4801 Beckner Road (505) 772-1234

Get tips on picking a bike, navigating the city and more.

9:30 am-12:30 pm, free

FILM

SATURDAY MORNING

CARTOONS

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

Pajamas highly encouraged.

11 am-7 pm, free

FOOD

MAS CHILE POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

Picante pero sabroso.

4-10 pm, free

PLANTITA POP UP

Reunity Resources

1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 393-1196

Today's all-vegan menu includes chocolate cupcakes with strawberry frosting, chocolate dipped macaroons and more.

9 am-1 pm, free

POKI TAKO POP UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

Randy Tapia packs you a bowl.

4-9 pm, free

MUSIC

BOB MAUS

Inn & Spa at Loretto

211 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 988-5531

Blues and soul.

6-9 pm, free

CANDYMAN ROCK CAMP

Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom)

2920 Rufina St. (505) 954-1068

Adult and youth bands take to the stage. We pledge allegiance to the band of Mr. Schneebly.

1 pm, free

CEDRIC WATSON AND COREY HARRIS

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

Traditional Creole and blues.

8 pm, $27-$30

CHARLES TICHENOR

CABARET

Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant

31 Burro Alley, (505) 992-0304

King Charles serenades diners with vocals and piano.

6 pm, free

COMING HOME TO HERSELF

Santa Fe Women's Club

1616 Old Pecos Trail trimsantafe.org

Tri-M productions presents a solo cabaret benefit performance by Julie Anne Shapiro.

7:30 pm, $20

CRAWDADDY BLUES FEST

Mine Shaft Tavern

2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

The 17th annual Cajun food and crooning fest shares sets from Hillary Smith and many more.  Noon, $30

GARDENS OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS

San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 983-3974

Severall Friends performs Tudor music for voice and strings.

7:30 pm, $20 in advance only

HALF

PINT AND THE GROWLERS

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Swing gumbo.

1 pm, free

HONEY POT HOOTENANNY

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

Queen Bee Music Association's annual scholarship fundraiser rolls back around with live music from Todd and the Fox, prizes, food and activities. (See SFR Picks, page 17)

1-3 pm, free

KYLE MARTIN TRIO

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Cowboy rock.

8 pm, free

NATOK ROK

Unity Santa Fe

1212 Unity Way (505) 989-4423

Song and spoken word from Praising Earth's Madi Sato and Timothy McLaughlin.

7 pm, $25

ROBERT FOX JAZZ TRIO

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

Rehearsed jazz followed by jazz jamming followed, occasionally, by appearances from special guests.

6 pm, free

RON ROUGEAU

Pink Adobe

406 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 983-7712

‘60s and ‘70s acoustic tunes.

5:30-7:30 pm, free

SERENATA FLAMENCA

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St.

(844) 743-3759

Flamenco dance on a moving train must require some next-level coordination.

1:30 pm, $109

SUNSET SERENADE

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St.

(844) 743-3759

All rails and cocktails.

6:30 pm, $109-$129

THEATER

CHILDREN'S THEATRE FESTIVAL

Fashion Outlets of Santa Fe 8380 Cerrillos Road

(505) 474-4000

Theatre Santa Fe shares kids' performances, swordplay from Upstart Crows and plenty more.

1-3:30 pm, admission by donation

SWEAT

Santa Fe Playhouse

142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262

Go watch this if you’ve got doubts about ongoing strikes.

(See Theater, page 33)

2 pm, 7:30 pm, $15-$75

SYMPATICO

The Actors Lab

1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576

Don’t look a stolen horse in the mouth.

7:30 pm, $15-$35

WORKSHOP

CHILDREN'S SAFETY

WORKSHOP

Santa Fe Girls' School

310 W. Zia Road, (505) 820-3188

A two-day intensive teaching kids to protect their boundaries. Couldn't we all have benefitted from that a little younger?

9 am-noon, $125

IMPROVED SLEEP

Fruit Of The Earth Natural Health

909 Early St., (505) 310-7917

Daina Rasutis deep shares tips on how to rest easier.

1-2:30 pm, free

PRANAYAMA SHAKTI YOGA

Four Seasons Rancho Encantado

198 NM-592, (505) 946-5700

Say ‘ah’ with your chakras.

10:30-11:30 am, $18-$90

SUN/21

ART OPENINGS CALL FOR ART

Online, eainm.com

Submit wax-based works to the Museum of Encaustic Art's Global Warming is REAL exhibit by July 31.

$30-$35

GHHÚUNAYÚKATA/ TO KEEP THEM WARM: THE ALASKA NATIVE PARKA (OPENING)

Museum of International Folk Art

706 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1204

The parka exhibit kicks off with snacks and a 2 pm artist talk. (See SFR Picks, page 17)

1-4 pm, free

RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET

Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion

1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726

Buy fine art and crafts directly from local creators.

10 am-3 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

YOUTH POETS READING

Santa Fe Community

Convention Center

201 W Marcy St., (505) 955-6590

Featuring young voices from the Witter Bynner Foundation. Part of the Santa Fe International Literary Festival. (See A&C, page 31)

12:30-2 pm, free

NAMWALI SERPELL

Santa Fe Community

Convention Center

201 W Marcy St., (505) 955-6590

The author discusses her psychological exploration of grief in The Furrows: An Elegy. Part of the Santa Fe International Literary Festival. (See A&C, page 31)

2 pm, $15-$50

SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL

Santa Fe Community

Convention Center

201 W Marcy St., (505) 955-6590

The final day to hear this year’s group of global storytellers sharing their takes on the precarious and ever-changing world we live in.  (See A&C, page 31) 8 am-7:45 pm, $15-$220

SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL

YOUNG READERS & WRITERS PROGRAM

Santa Fe Community Convention Center

201 W Marcy St., (505) 955-6590

Encourage the youngsters in your life to soak up this last day of literary programming. (See A&C, page 31) 9:30 am-4:45 pm, free

DANCE

SUMMER BREAKIN AUDITION

New Mexico School for the Arts

500 Montezuma Avenue, Ste. 200 (505) 310-4194

Santa Fe Breakin Academy invites locals (divided into those below and those above the age of 7) to bring their best moves for its hip-hop intensive.

1-2:30 pm, free

EVENTS

EL MUSEO CULTURAL MERCADO

El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia (505) 992-0591

Art and antiques.

10 am-4 pm, free

THE SANTA FE CENTURY

Santa Fe Railyard 332 Read St. santafecentury.com

In honor of the event’s 37th edition, the city has named today Santa Fe Century Day.  All Day, free

GEEKS WHO DRINK Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St. (505) 983-0134

A quiz promising to range "from Hungary to The Hunger Games."

7-9 pm, free

OPEN MIC

Honeymoon Brewery

907 W Alameda St., Ste. B (505) 303-3139

Let the hard kombucha fuel you through your stage fright. All mediums encouraged.

6:30 pm, free

OPEN MIC JAZZ

Chile Line Brewery 204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Take the stage alongside High City Jazz Quartet and bring your Billie Holiday dreams to fruition.  5-7 pm, free

FOOD

POKI TAKO POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery 2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

Don’t knock that vegan poke bowl ‘till you try it.  2-9 pm, free

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MUSIC

CRAWDADDY BLUES FEST

Mine Shaft Tavern

2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid

(505) 473-0743

The festival closes with Charlie Overbey & the Broken Arrows, Westin McDowell and more.

12 pm, $30

DK & THE AFFORDABLES

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St.

(505) 982-2565

Danceable roots music.

12-3 pm, free

DOUG MONTGOMERY

Rio Chama Steakhouse

414 Old Santa Fe Trail

(505) 955-0765

Ivory tickling.

6 pm, free

GEORGIA AND BEYOND

San Miguel Chapel

401 Old Santa Fe Trail

(505) 983-3974

Sevda Ensemble and Carl Linich present an evening of polyphonic vocals.

6 pm, $15-$20

RIO GRANDE SCHOOL

BENEFIT CONCERT

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St.

(505) 393-5135

Boomroots Collective, Nosotros and others perform to support the local elementary school.

2 pm, $20

ROOTBEER RICHIE & THE REVEILLE AND LEVI DEAN & THE MESA RATS

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road

(505) 982-1931

Alt.country and swamp pop.

6-9 pm, free

SUNDAY SWING

Second Street Brewery

(Rufina Taproom)

2920 Rufina St., (505) 954-1068

Gumbo boppin' from Half Pint and the Growlers.

1-4 pm, free

SUNSET SERENADE

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St.

(844) 743-3759

All rails and cocktails.

7:15 pm, $109-$129

THE RIGHTS OF NATURE/

LOS DERECHOS DE

LA NATURALEZA

Teatro Paraguas

3205 Calle Marie, (505) 424-1601

Nelson Denman shares an ecologically minded folkloric opera.

5 pm, free

THEATER

SYMPATICO

The Actors Lab

1213 Parkway Drive B

(505) 395-6576

Dark horse, darker underbelly.

2 pm, $15-$35

WORKSHOP

BELLYREENA BELLY DANCE

YogaSource

901 W San Mateo Road

(505) 982-0990

The human spine can do some amazing things with practice.

1-2 pm, $15

CHILDREN’S SAFETY WORKSHOP

Santa Fe Girls’ School

310 W. Zia Road, (505) 820-3188

Teach ‘em the importance of their own boundaries young.

9 am-noon, $125

KNITTING CLASS:

FIXING MISTAKES

Hacer Santa Fe

311 Montezuma Ave. (505) 467-8174

If this class had been around back in the day we might’ve finished that sock we started in high school.

1 pm, $45

MON/22

BOOKS/LECTURES

GRANT S. MCCALL

Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta (505) 982-1200

On the context of Southern African rock art. Presented by Southwest Seminars.

6 pm, $20

EVENTS

FREE KIDS SING-ALONG

Queen Bee Music Association

1596 Pacheco St. (505) 278-0012

If you went to yesterday’s Hootenany, today you can see Queen Bee’s education in action. 10:30-11:15 am, free

LEISURELY BIKE RIDE

Fort Marcy Park

490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2500

Just dare the goatheads to touch these tires.

10-11 am, $5

WATER PROTECTION

CIRCUS PERFORMANCE

SITE Santa Fe

1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

Students from Milagro Middle School working with SITE Santa Fe, Wise Fool and the Santa Fe Community Educators Network mount an aqua-centric show.

6 pm, free

FILM

BLESS ME, ULTIMA

Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave.

(505) 466-5528

You are innocent until you understand.

6 pm, free

FOOD

POKI TAKO POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

A-poke-lypse now.

4-9 pm, free

MUSIC

DOUG MONTGOMERY

Rio Chama Steakhouse

414 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 955-0765

A pianist with a pedigree.

6 pm, free

TRANSVIOLET

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

West Coast pop rock with support from Jagwar Twin.

8 pm, $20-$35

ZAY SANTOS

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Homegrown blues-rock. (See SFR Picks, page 17)

4-6 pm, free

WORKSHOP

JUGGLING AND UNICYCLING

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

Learn everything from the basics of one wheel riding to advanced juggling patterns.

7:30-9 pm, $18-$22

MANDALA WORKSHOP

DancingBones

2801 Rodeo Road, #C-13 (505) 557-6209

Argus Eliam teaches mandala creation, all materials included.

11 am-4 pm, $125

MONDAY MORNINGS WITH MAURA YOGA

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

Join the plants in their sun salutations.

8:30-9:30 am, $20-$25

PRANAYAMA SHAKTI YOGA

Four Seasons Rancho Encantado 198 NM-592, (505) 946-5700

Elementally-focused yoga.

5:30-6:30 pm, $18-$90

TEEN/TWEEN AERIALS

WITH KRISTEN

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

An opportunity for all those ages 11-15 to explore trapeze, lyra, fabric and rope.

5:15-6:15 pm, $19-$24

TUE/23

BOOKS/LECTURES

THE FUTURE OF PHYSICS

Lensic Performing Arts Center

211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234

John Baez (not to be confused with Joan) breaks down what the 21st century might mean for the study of physics. Presented by Santa Fe Institute.

7:30 pm, free

THE IMPORTANCE OF A LOCAL PRESERVATION

ORDINANCE

El Zaguán

545 Canyon Road (505) 982-0016

City preservation consultant

Nicole Ramirez Thomas chats about preservation laws across governmental levels.

3 pm, $10

EVENTS

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Boese Brothers Brewpub

145 Central Park Square, Los Alamos (505) 500-8325

A British-style pub quiz.

8-10 pm, free

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Santa Fe Brewing Company

35 Fire Place, (505) 424-3333

Don't call it trivia.  7 pm, free

OPEN MIC POETRY AND MUSIC

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Be a modern-day bard.  8 pm, free

FOOD

POKI TAKO POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

Chef Randy Tapia's dreamy poke bowls and fusion faves.  4-9 pm, free

SANTA FE FARMERS' TUESDAY MARKET

Farmers Market Pavilion

1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726

A truly radishing selection.  8 am-1 pm, free

MUSEUMS

MUSIC

GARY GORENCE

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Pecos singer-songwriter.

4 pm, free

WORKSHOP

AERIAL FABRIC CLASS

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

Use silks to approach the ceiling.

10:30 am-noon, $23-$28

BEGINNER ROPES

WITH CAREY

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

Make like a spider climbing a web.

5:30-7 pm, $23-$28

DEVELOPING INNER

STRENGTH AND JOY

Santa Fe Women's Club

1616 Old Pecos Trail (505) 292 5293

Find enthusiasm for meditation.

6-7:30 pm, $10

HATHA YOGA

Four Seasons Rancho Encantado 198 NM-592 (505) 946-5700

Gentle yoga with a focus on breath work.

10:30-11:30 am, $18-$90

INTRODUCTION TO BLOCK

PRINTING

Georgia O'Keeffe Education Annex 123 Grant Ave. (505) 946-1039

Apparently O'Keeffe also explored print work early in her career? Taught by Gal Senderowitsch.

10:30 am-1:30 pm, $35-$45

QUEER BURLESQUE WITH AUDREY

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road (505) 992-2588

Each class both teaches and critically examines one element of a burlesque act: costuming, teasing off clothes, walking the stage or presenting a persona.

7:30-9:30 pm, $18-$22

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE

MUSEUM

217 Johnson St. (505) 946-1000

Making a Life. Radical Abstraction. Selections from the Collection.

10 am-5 pm, Thurs-Mon, $20 (under 18 free)

IAIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS

108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900

Inherent Memory. Rick Rivet: Journeys, Mounds and the Metaphysical. The Stories We Carry.

10 am-4 pm, Wed-Sat, Mon

11 am-4 pm, Sun, $5-$10

MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART

18 County Road 55A

(505) 424-6487

Selections from the Permanent Collection.

11 am-5 pm, Fri-Sun, $10 (18 and under free)

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE

710 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1269

Down Home. Grounded in Clay.

10 am-5 pm, $7-$12, NM residents free first Sun of the month

MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART

706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1204

To Keep Them Warm. Yokai.

10 am-5 pm, $3-$12, NM residents free first Sun of the month

NEW MEXICO HISTORY

MUSEUM

113 Lincoln Ave. (505) 476-5200

Enchantorama! Silver and Stones.

10 am-5 pm, Sat-Thurs, 10 am-7 pm, Fri; $7-$12, NM residents free

5-7 pm first Fri of the month

MUSEUM OF SPANISH

COLONIAL ART

750 Camino Lejo (505) 982-2226

Trails, Rails, and Highways.

1-4 pm, Wed-Fri, $5-$12

NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART

107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5063

An American in Paris: Donald Beauregard. Manuel Carrillo: Mexican Modernist. The Nature of Glass. With the Grain.

10 am-5 pm, Sat-Thurs, 10 am-7 pm, Fri; $7-$12, NM residents free 5-7 pm every Fri May-October

POEH CULTURAL CENTER

78 Cities of Gold Road (505) 455-5041

Di Wae Powa. Nah Poeh Meng: The Continuous Path.

10 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri, $7-$10

WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 704 Camino Lejo (505) 982-4636

Always in Relation. California Stars. From Converse to Native Canvas. Medicinal Healer, an Artist to Remember. Native Artists Make Toys.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, $10, free to all first Sun of the month

Darby Raymond-Overstreet (Diné), “Woven Landscape, Monument Valley.” From Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles, opening this summer at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.

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40,000 HUNGRY PEOPLE.

WE NEED YOU.

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What’s new for the second year of the Santa Fe International Literary Festival?

BY ANNABELLA FARMER boeinbrief

After filling 9,000 seats and selling thousands of books at last year’s inaugural Santa Fe Literary Festival, organizers returned ready, co-founder Clare Hertel says, “to underline that the world of writing and reading is more interconnected than ever.”

Hertel, local writer Carmella Padilla and curator Mark Bryant have rebranded the weekend (now with the qualifier “International”) and organized a dense program.

Highlights of the impressive lineup include internationally-recognized writers such as Jennifer Egan, John Irving, Diana Gabaldon and Gillian Flynn, as well as local luminaries such as Hakim Bellamy, Deborah Taffa, Michael McGarrity and Denise Chavez.

“It’s nice to focus not just on the big names from afar, but local people that have done so much for the literary community here in New Mexico and should be better known,” Hertel tells SFR.

The festival kicks off on Friday with Pulitzer Prize-winning Kiowa writer N. Scott Momaday, the SFILF honorary chair, who will speak briefly before the evening’s sold-out conversation between Dublinborn novelist Colum McCann and Taffa, director of the MFA in Creative Writing program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. McCann’s most recent novel Apeirogon tells the true story of two fathers who come together through the loss of their daughters in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“We chose a lot of writers who are gonna talk about difficult things,” Bryant says. “These are really rough times, and we want authors who don’t shy away from that.”

For example, Nana Kwame AdjeiBrenyah’s novel Chain Gang All Stars takes place in a dystopian US where people incarcerated in the private prison system have the option to fight for their freedom in gladiatorial contests. Adjei-Brenyah will appear

in conversation with former Albuquerque poet laureate and community organizer Bellamy, and hopes to address “the current reality of the prison industrial complex, abolition and what that even means, and what it means to be a compassionate society,” he tells SFR.

“I think the best I can do is write towards a smarter, better version of myself,” Adjei-Brenyah says when asked about his imagined audience for the book, “but I’m really interested in a lot of different people: People who are not yet convinced of the possibility of abolition. People who find community in the book. People finding new ideas.”

Colombian-born author Ingrid Rojas Contreras will discuss The Man Who Could Move Clouds, a lyrical memoir that tells of her own family legacy of magic and curanderismo intertwined with the legacy of colonialism in Colombia and the violence between them. She sees the book as “a way to reclaim those stories,” and notes that as she’s been traveling with Clouds, she’s noticed such tales are familiar among the Latino people she meets, “even though we don’t always talk about them in public.” Rojas Contreras says her favorite part of a reading is the moment right afterward, when someone in the audience comes up to her and says, “I have a story just like that.”

Jennifer Egan’s most recent novel The Candy House—a companion to her Pulitzer -winning 2010 novel A Visit from the Goon Squad—also explores the possibility of connection through story, but in a radically different way. It hinges on an imagined (for now!) technology that allows people to upload their consciousnesses to a platform

accessible to anyone. Sound creepy? Egan agrees, but her characters’ willingness to sacrifice privacy for a chance at true connection is the essence of both the novel and a theme of humanity’s zeitgeist.

“To me, the urge for people to join the collective consciousness is the inherently human curiosity about what the world looks like to another human,” Egan tells SFR. “It’s the thing we’ll never know, like not being able to communicate with the dead.”

For Egan, fiction presents an opportunity for that type of connection (minus the surveillance-state part).

“To my mind, fiction is the narrative art form that best delivers that experience of being inside another consciousness,” she says.

While image-based media like videos, television and movies are inherently exterior, she says, language is inherently interior.

“So reading fiction and talking about fiction is exactly the exploration of that experience,” Egan adds. “The real machine here is the novel. That’s the machine that can do this, and so that’s what we’re gonna be there to talk about.”

Lit Fest organizers also hope to explore connection through storytelling in their educational and community programming.

“I think it’s gonna be a real step up from last year,” Hertel says, citing free events such as a youth writers panel, poetry readings and writing workshops organized by musician, DJ and leader of artist-forward nonprofit Vital Spaces, Raashan Ahmad, who this year directs the festival’s Young Writers and Readers program.

McCann will also bring his project— Narrative 4, a story-sharing program meant to combat loneliness and motivate kids to make positive changes in their communities—to students from the Santa Fe Community College Creative Writing program, the MASTERS Program and several Santa Fe high schools.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

“The response last year was way more positive than we expected,” Bryant says, “but that doesn’t mean we’re not always thinking about things we could do differently and better: ticket prices, diversity, a robust collection of authors. Over time I think we’ll develop a better understanding of the kinds of authors that are most important to bring to Santa Fe.”

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FE INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL:

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Carmella Padilla

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Colum McCann

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Now and Then

BY ZOE BURKE author@sfreporter.com

As the Santa Fe Playhouse embarks on its 101st season of programming, it chose wisely to included the powerful and devastating production of Sweat in the initial lineup. The Pulitzer Prizewinning play by Lynn Nottage opened May 11 in a local production that lives up to the acclaim it has earned on other stages.

The play itself was first performed at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2015 before landing on Broadway in 2017; it won its Pulitzer for drama that same year and picked up several Drama Desk and Tony Award nominations to boot. Additionally, publications such as the Wall Street Journal and The New Yorker lauded the production for its nuanced portrayal of working class people, race relations and the 2008 economic crisis.

In Santa Fe, Sweat becomes a true tour de force for the Playhouse company with director Robyn Rikoon assembling a stellar cast and guiding them through the piece’s development. The actors perform their characters in two time periods: 2000 and 2008. The story centers around a group of factory workers, their families and friends as they face the ramifications of a shifting economy, both in their professional and personal lives. Relationships splinter as the stakes get higher, ending in a devastating sequence that leaves audience members—as with good productions of Romeo and Juliet—able to see the trajectory and fervently wishing for a different outcome.

Central to the plot are the relationships between two sets of friends: Tracey (depicted in a powerhouse performance by Kate Udall) and Cynthia (played by regular Playhouse and Theater Grottesco favorite Danielle Louise Reddick) and their respective sons Chris (a grounded and nuanced Joshua Caleb Horton) and Jason (played as a powder keg often on the verge of explosion by newcomer Danny Martha). All four work at the nameless factory, though Chris aspires to escape that world and become a teacher.

Tensions further rise when management seeks a worker from the line to join their white collar ranks and both Tracey and Cynthia apply; things only escalate when a busboy of Colombian descent, Oscar (played by Juan-Andres Apodaca, who returns to the Playhouse after appearing in The Effect last

Santa Fe Playhouse tackles the discomfort of the aughts with Pulitzer-winning Sweat

season), shares information leading to the discovery that the powers that be are preparing to cut costs in ways that directly harm the long-term workers. As the conflict comes to a head, race relations already bubbling beneath surface become overtly difficult,

leading to broken friendships and violence as the characters simply fight to survive. Consistently strong, multifaceted performances round out the cast with Freddie Lee Bennett as gruff parole officer Evan; Karen Gruber Ryan as Tracey and Cynthia’s

barfly friend, Jessie; Scott Harrison as barkeep Stan; and James J. Johnson as Brucie, Cynthia’s troubled husband.

Clocking in at about two and a half hours with one 10-minute intermission, Rikoon’s take on Sweat runs quite a bit longer than many of the productions mounted by the Playhouse in recent seasons. Adding to the already intense endurance challenge, the actors depict their characters within the two disparate time periods with very little onstage turnaround—and while eight years might not seem like a long time, the audience slowly learns how those eight years were particularly difficult for these characters.

The execution of the technical design helps viewers understand the fluctuations of the setting, as well. Scenic designer James W. Johnson triumphs with an incredibly detailed and highly realistic bar set that makes fantastic use of the Playhouse’s small stage. It absolutely looks like a place any patron would be glad to stop in and grab a pint; a functioning beer tap and jukebox further the effect beautifully—and speaking of the jukebox, sound design from Patrick Janssen is immensely effective as well. Jared Roberts’ lighting design sings, too, with most of the play taking place at the bar, but a few notable scenes meant to exist elsewhere. The specificity of Roberts’ lighting creates clear distinctions to support the setting changes and storytelling. Costume designer Erica Frank returns to the Playhouse with expert costume design that made this writer (a person who graduated high school in 2008) slightly uncomfortable to realize Sweat is technically a period piece. Frank’s work captures the clothing styles of 2000 and 2008 effectively, as does video design from Freedom Hopkins, whose contributions do a lot of work to ground the piece in its distinctive time periods while providing cues and easy points of access for audience members.

While entertaining and engaging, Sweat presents challenges that can feel all too real, especially for those who have lived experience with the economic tumult of the early-to-mid-aughts. Some of the experiences and ramifications of the period remain present today across a wide gamut of arenas, not least of which, the economic and interpersonal. Though many elements of the production are difficult to watch, Nottage’s piece is an important one to absorb, to ponder and to sit with. The Playhouse makes it work.

SWEAT

7:30 pm Thurs., May 18-Sat., May 20 2 pm Sat., May 20 and Sun., May 21 $15-$75. Santa Fe Playhouse

142 E Devargas St., (505) 988-4262

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While layoffs and the ’08 economic crisis might sound like bummer themes for a play, playwright Lynn Nottage’s Sweat is a tour de force at the Santa Fe Playhouse.

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BlackBerry Review

Phoney bologna

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

Uh-oh, friends and cinephiles, it seems we have unwittingly wandered into the timeline wherein filmmakers pump out business-glory prattle like the one about the Nike shoe guys and the other one about the janitor guy who invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos (whom, the Los Angeles Times reports, did not actually invent said Cheetos). One could easily argue such films fan the flames of today’s sick brand worship. And though BlackBerry from writer/director Matt Johnson seemingly straddles the style, another take ultimately emerges: Progress ain’t pretty and people are jerks.

BlackBerry recounts the rise of Canada’s Research in Motion, the company founded by nerds who created the first-ever smartphones in the 1990s. Of course, by today’s standards, BlackBerrys would be woefully out of date, but there once was a time when an email and instant messaging machine that could also phone was the height of amazing in the business and private sectors. Most of our phone habits were born of BlackBerry and, according to the movie, RIM controlled nearly half of the entire cellphone market at one point. Johnson’s film looks at how the company got there, how its founders were ill-suited to compete in a rapidly evolving marketplace and how the iPhone singularly crushed practically all competitors shortly after its 2007 first-gen launch.

8 + INSPIRING AND NOSTALGIC - OVERUSE OF DRAMATIC B-ROLL

It’s tempting to describe the arc of Michael J. Fox’s advocacy for Parkinson’s research in a direct course from the actor’s diagnosis at age 29 with an early onset of the disease. Yet, the new documentary Still candidly explains how Fox hid his illness for seven years before he publicly acknowledged what he thought at first must be the “cosmic price” he had to pay for skyrocketing Hollywood success.

The script distills some of Fox’s wordsmithing from his four books into a story that vacillates between the late-night circuit and the red carpet, and his daily reality of medication and physical therapy to adjust to diminishing functions. There’s a good measure of nostalgia as many viewers already know the story: His breaks came first with TV sitcoms, then stardom followed when Back to the Future and Teen Wolf hit No. 1 and No. 2 on the Blockbuster chart the same week in August of 1985.

Director Davis Guggenheim makes great use of Fox’s myriad roles, using clips from The Secret of My Success and Family Ties, for example, as story devices in Fox’s own timeline. In Still’s interview segments, Fox discusses

Here the inimitable and underrated Jay Baruchel (Man Seeking Woman—maybe the funniest show ever) tackles Mike Lazaridis, the soft spoken co-CEO and co-founder of RIM who totally gets the tech but not the people. His foil, as it were, is Jim Balsillie (Always Sunny’s Glenn Howerton), a brash and success-obsessed capital-B businessman type who drops F-words while trampling anyone who doesn’t show him the respect he believes he deserves. Baruchel has an undeniable vulnerability throughout the film, even when the chips are way down. Howerton, however—who has proven he’s got chops on shows like AP Bio—takes the cartoonish route. Some of this comes down to the writing, but in contrast to the legendary Michael Ironside as a bullish exec meant to keep the phone nerds in line...well, let’s just say quiet, threatening rage feels scarier than nonstop shouting any day. If the goal was to prove how real-life Balsillie was all bite and no substance, then mission accomplished. Still, Howerton delivers an irksome and dimensionless performance

There are enjoyable yet briefer turns from vets like Cary Elwes as the PalmPilot sonofabitch who

the irony that for the early years of his television and movie career, he never stopped moving. Then, as the tremors, rigid muscles and spasms that characterize the disease descended on him, stillness eluded him in a new, involuntary way.

The Marty McFly sparkle lingers in his blue eyes, but looking into Fox’s 61-year-old face as he struggles to form words can take one’s breath away. He explains a thrust into work, depression and alcoholism that comprised his initial response to the illness; he only went public after it became too difficult to hide.

Pity him not, Fox admonishes: “If you pity me, it’s never going to get to me. I’m not pitiful. I’ve got shit going on. I am a tough son of a bitch. I am a cockroach.”

True that: Fox famously fought back by establishing a philanthropic foundation for Parkinson’s research and advocating to Congress. To date, he’s raised more than $2 billion and he’s still at it. (Julie Ann Grimm) AppleTV+, R, 95 min.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3

7 + ROCKET! STUNNING TO BEHOLD - HARDER AND HARDER TO WANNA KEEP UP WITH MARVEL

Roughly six years to the day after the emergence of the second Guardians of the Galaxy

thwarts Balsillie whenever possible, or Saul Rubinek (Frasier) as the Verizon guy who helped BlackBerry conquer the world. Johnson himself takes on a role as Lazaridis’ partner and friend, Doug Fregin, though his constant reminders that nerds enjoy Ninja Turtles and Spielberg movies and Doom feel less like sly nods and more like Balsillie’s nuclear tirades—awkward. And so it goes up until the mid-aughts, when the SEC took a look at the company; and the disastrous BlackBerry Storm release. That phone was meant to be the iPhone killer, but did you have one? Did anyone? The film posits that something like 93% were returned or forgotten. And though there’s no question that RIM and BlackBerry changed how we live, do business and interact with our phones and tech—not to mention how data is packaged and sold—Johnson and company don’t quite broach the question we should really be asking: Was it actually for the better?

BLACKBERRY

Directed by Johnson With Baruchel, Howerton and Johnson Violet Crown, R, 120 min.

movie, director James Gunn closes out his popular trilogy based on the Marvel Comics heroes’ squad in space. Gunn, you might recall, was fired by Marvel’s Disney overlords some years back after a number of unsavory and aged tweets surfaced. But after helming HBO’s Peacemaker (a DC property, no less; Gunn ultimately took over that company’s entire filmic operations, too), he came back into the fold and now gets to do it his way (play Sinatra song in your head here).

Vol. 3 comes across as a bit of an outlier when it comes to Marvel’s stable. It’s a little less Marvel-y than the behemoth’s other properties. Guardians is supposed to cool, too, bro. You’re gonna hear Beastie Boys and Florence and the Machine songs play while Starlord (Chris Pratt, or Crisp Rat if you’re nasty), Drax the Destroyer (Dave Bautista), Mantis (Pom Klementieff), Groot (Vin Diesel), Nebula (Karen Gillan) and Gamora (Zoe Saldaña) phase between badassery and kicky little jokes.

It is *air quotes* radical. Still, despite the very real Marvel fatigue so many are feeling after years of multiple yearly movies and television shows, comics, streaming one-offs, etc., Gunn actually manages to eke out an enjoyable, if wildly predictable, sci-fi romp with some notably beautiful special effects and a whole lot of chosen family thematics at play.

All in all, though, this is a film about Rocket Raccoon (voiced by Bradley Cooper), that little humanoid raccoon whom we all love because why is a raccoon talking and flying spaceships and shooting lasers? Anyway, he’s straight up unconscious this time out, following an attack by series newcomer Adam Warlock (Will Poulter) who has come for mysterious but probably also nefarious reasons. He works for the High Evolutionary (an honestly excellent Chukwudi Iwuji from Peacemaker), whom, we learn through a series of flashbacks, plays a prominent role in Rocket’s very existence and is out there doing genocide on a planetary scale. Rocket’s flashbacks are easily the most enjoyable parts of the film, and rather emotional to boot. Gunn’s writing evolution really shows in these scenes, even if they are heavy-handed—compare that to the samey fast-talking yuks found elsewhere throughout.

Of course, if you’ve been following along this whole time, you’ll certainly get a sense of satisfaction when the credits roll. And though the story belongs to Rocket, no question, the ultimate fates of his fellow Guardians are satisfying and bittersweet. The endings of their disparate stories feel more grown up than expected and show that Gunn has matured as a filmmaker. Also a bunch of shit blows up.

(Alex De Vore)

Violet

Crown, Regal, PG-13, 150 min.

JONESIN’ CROSSWORD

“Sandwiched Between”—some deep cuts here.

by Matt Jones

19 Get carried away at a concert? 24 Moonshine, by another name 25 “Big Yellow Taxi” singer Mitchell 27 Social wisdom

Overactors 29 “Mayday” Parker’s alter ego

“Bonne fete ___” (“Happy Birthday” line, in Canada)

Polliwog’s place 32 Site of the Kon-Tiki Museum

Bridge length

“OK” 35 Up in the air, briefly

PSYCHICS

MIND BODY SPIRIT

Rob Brezsny Week of May 17th

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries dramatist Samuel Beckett, winner of the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote 22 plays. The shortest was Breath. It has no dialogue or actors and lasts less than a minute. It begins and ends with a recording of the cry of a newborn baby. In between there are the sounds of someone breathing and variations in the lighting. I recommend you draw inspiration from Breath in the coming weeks, Aries. Be succinct and pithy. Call on the powers of graceful efficiency and no-nonsense effectiveness. Relish the joys of shrewd simplicity.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the coming weeks, you Bulls must brook no bullies or bullying. Likewise, you should tolerate no bullshit from people trying to manipulate or fool you. Be a bulwark of integrity as you refuse to lower your standards. Bulk up the selfprotective part of your psyche so you will be invincibly immune to careless and insensitive spoilers. Your word of power is BUILD. You will align yourself with cosmic rhythms as you work to create situations that will keep you strong and stable during the next 12 months.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): How much do you believe in your power to become the person you want to be? Ninety percent? Fifty-five? Twenty? Whatever it is, you can increase it in the coming weeks. Life will conspire with you to raise your confidence as you seek new ways to fulfill your soul’s purpose. Surges of grace will come your way as you strive with intense focus to live your most meaningful destiny. To take maximum advantage of this opportunity, I suggest you enjoy extra amounts of quiet, meditative time. Request help from the deepest core of your intelligence.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Early in the 19th century, cultural researchers Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm gathered an array of old folk stories and published a collection of what we now call fairy tales. Because the two brothers wanted to earn money, they edited out some graphic elements of the original narratives. For example, in the Grimms’ revised version, we don’t get the juicy details of the princess fornicating with the frog prince once he has reverted to his handsome human form. In the earlier but not published stories of Rumpelstiltskin, the imp gets so frustrated when he’s tricked by the queen that he rips himself apart. I hope you will do the opposite of the Brothers Grimm in the coming weeks, Cancerian. It’s crucial that you reveal and expose and celebrate raw, unvarnished truths.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Is there a job you would love to have as your primary passion, but it’s different from the job you’re doing? Is there a calling you would delight in embracing, but you’re too consumed by the daily routine? Do you have a hobby you’d like to turn into a professional pursuit? If you said even a partial yes to my questions, Leo, here’s good news: In the coming months, you will have an enhanced ability to make these things happen. And now is an excellent time to get underway.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo-born Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) was a versatile virtuoso. He excelled as an essayist, biographer, playwright, editor, poet, and lexicographer. How did he get so much done? Here’s one clue. He took his own advice, summed up in the following quote: “It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote. Present opportunities are neglected and attainable good is slighted by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.” Johnson’s counsel is perfect for you right now, Virgo. Forget about the future and be focused on the present. Dive into the interesting work and play that’s right in front of you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I would love you to go searching for treasure, and I hope you launch your quest soon. As you gather clues, I will be cheering you on. Before you embark, though, I want to make sure you are clear about the nature of the treasure you will be looking

for. Please envision it in glorious detail. Write down a description of it and keep it with you for the next seven weeks. I also suggest you carry out a fun ritual to formally mark your entry into the treasure-hunting chapter of your life.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the coming weeks, you’ll be guided by your deep intelligence as you explore and converse with the darkness. You will derive key revelations and helpful signs as you wander around inside the mysteries. Be poised and lucid, dear Scorpio. Trust your ability to sense what’s important and what’s not. Be confident that you can thrive amidst uncertainty as you remain loyal to your core truths. No matter how murky this challenge may seem, it will ultimately be a blessing. You will emerge both smarter and wiser.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you take the Bible’s teachings seriously, you give generously to the poor and you welcome immigrants. You regard the suffering of others as being worthy of your compassionate attention, and you express love not just for people who agree with you and share your cultural traditions, but for everyone. Numerous Biblical verses, including many attributed to Jesus Christ, make it clear that living according to these principles is essential to being a good human. Even if you are not Jewish or Christian, Sagittarius, I recommend this approach to you. Now is an excellent time to hone your generosity of spirit and expand your urge to care for others.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1982, Capricorn actor Ben Kingsley won an Oscar for his role in the film Gandhi. Then his career declined. In an animated movie in 1992, he voiced the role of an immortal frog named F.R.O.7. who worked as a James Bond-like secret agent. It was a critical and financial disaster. But Kingsley’s fortunes rebounded, and he was nominated for Academy Awards in 2002 and 2003. Then his trajectory dipped again. He was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor for four separate films between 2005 and 2008. Now, at age 79, he’s rich and famous and mostly remembered for the great things he has done. I suggest we make him your role model for the coming months. May he inspire you to emphasize your hits and downplay your misses.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’m devoted to cultivating the art of relaxation. But I live in a world dominated by stress addicts and frenzied overachievers. Here’s another problem: I aspire to be curious, innocent, and openminded, but the civilization I’m embedded in highly values know-it-all experts who are very sure they are in command of life’s secrets. One further snag: I’m an ultrasensitive creator who is nourished by original thinking and original feeling. And yet I constantly encounter formulaic literalists who thrive on clichés. Now here’s the good news: I am a successful person! I do what I love and enjoy an interesting life. Here’s even more good news, Aquarius: In the next 12 months, you will have a knack for creating rhythms that bring you closer than ever to doing what you love and enjoying an interesting life.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Most of us suffer from at least one absurd, irrational fear. I have a daft fear of heights, even when I’m perfectly safe, and a manic fear of mosquitoes dive-bombing me as I sleep, an event that has only happened four times in my life. My anxiety about running out of money is more rational, though, as is my dread of getting sick. Those worries help motivate me to work hard to earn a living and take superb care of my health. What about you, Pisces? Do you know which of your fears are preposterous and which make at least some sense? The coming weeks will be a favorable time to get a good handle on this question. Ask yourself: “Which of my fears are misdirected or exaggerated, and which are realistic and worthy of my attention?”

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