Pasatiempo, Dec. 15, 2023

The New Mexican’s Weekly Magazine of Arts, Entertainment & Culture

December 15, 2023

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Nutcracker A HOLIDAY CLASSIC MARCHES ON PAGE 24

December 15, 2023

17 The giving season by Mark Tiarks,

Spencer Fordin, Carolyn Graham, and Holly Weber Do you have a grouchy uncle on your holiday list? We do too! So we took it upon ourselves to help others in the same pinch by curating a selection of gift ideas from various Santa Fe purveyors of local goods. Presenting Pasatiempo’s nontraditional, possibly annual, grouchy uncle gift guide.

24 Ballet, Broadway, and bouquets ON THE COVER

by Michael Wade Simpson

Dancer Robert Fairchild took a leap of faith from the New York City Ballet to Broadway, which led him to step into a varied array of projects, including the role of the Prince in this season’s Aspen Santa Fe Ballet production of The Nutcracker.

28 Stand and deliver by Brian Sandford The Upstart Readers, an offshoot of the youth-centered Shakespearean group Upstart Crows, stay on book for a reading of the Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol.

32 OUT THERE 8 Santa Fe sweets for the season 8 Holiday tunes at Teatro Paraguas 9 Santa Fe Pro Musica’s Holiday Bach Festival 9 Performance Santa Fe’s Winter Wassail 10 Chatter’s Saturday clarinets 10 Lights of Los Luceros 11 Madrid’s Calliope Gallery 11 New Christmas songs at GiG

IN OTHER WORDS 14 Review The Object at Hand by Beth Py-Lieberman

COMIDAS Y MAS 32 Memories of tamales, in old and New Mexico by Ania Hull

EXTRAS 4 Editor’s Note: Sands and cranes 40 Star Codes 42 Pasa Week 44 Pasa Planner 47 Final Frame

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Cover: A toy soldier goes to battle against the Rat King in the 2022 production of The Nutcracker. Photo Sharen Bradford, courtesy Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Cover design by Marcella Sandoval

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PASATIEMPO I December 15-21, 2023

I woke up before dawn, brewed a carafe of coffee, and consulted Google Maps.

It was doable, but it meant a long day in the car. We could drive south 230 miles, visit White Sands National Park, and double back to celebrate the Festival of the Cranes at Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge on the way home.

We, in this case, meant me and my dog, Pepper, the Caribbean-born beach dog who has adapted incredibly well to being a Rocky Mountain explorer.

So we set off shortly after sunrise, driving south on U.S. 285 and seeing a side of New Mexico we’d never seen before.

We had the road to ourselves all the way to Carrizozo; the Sacramento Mountains beckoned as we approached Alamogordo, and then we triumphantly drove the final stretch into our 11th national park of the year.

Our Subaru Outback cruised into White Sands at about 10:30 a.m., and while it was warmer than back home, we soon found out it was still bitterly cold due to the whipping winds.

We hiked the half-mile Playa Trail, wandering among the desert vegetation, and then took the longer Dune Life Nature Trail.

Here, the titular white sands and hilly topography make it seem as if you’re on another world. The trails at White Sands are well marked, but the informational signs are weathered and in some cases, illegible.

We headed for one more hike, the short Interdune Boardwalk, where we savored another beautiful mountain vista. We climbed a dune to peer into the backcountry and then piled back in the car for the drive home.

The route took us through Alamogordo and Tularosa again; we turned west onto U.S. 380, committing to a longer road home.

It took about two hours to make it all the way to U.S. 85, and along the way, we passed the gate to the Trinity Site I had visited back in October.

We cruised into Bosque del Apache around 3 p.m. and slowly circulated around the driving loop. We watched as two sandhill cranes swooped in to make a water landing and saw four deer crossing the road. We saw ducks and geese and just paused to listen to nature.

I knew in advance that our hiking would be limited here, and that was OK; Pepper was pooped. After driving the loop, we arrived at Crane Central. Here they were, thousands of them gathered around a watering hole and with an incredible mountain backdrop behind them.

Pepper slept in the car while I joined a dozen people on a viewing platform, sharing the space and clicking photos. I had seen sandhill cranes before, but only a few at a time. I had never experienced a spectacle like this. They filled the landscape as far as the eye could see, eating millet to their heart’s content.

Even now, with all we had seen and done, it was only about 4 p.m.

We still had 2.5 hours of driving — and only about an hour of daylight — so we bid the cranes adieu. I filled up on gas and grabbed fast-food — MY FIRST WHATABURGER! — in Albuquerque on the way. We made it door-to-door back home in a little more than 12 hours.

As I drifted off into a contented postdrive slumber, I had just one thought on my mind: How lucky am I that I get to spend my days and nights in New Mexico?

Spencer Fordin, Staff Writer sfordin@sfnewmexican.com Follow us: @ThePasatiempo @PasatiempoMag

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WINTER GLOW HOLIDAY STROLL ON MUSEUM HILL Friday, December 15, 4–7 pm Celebrate the holidays with the Museum of International Folk and Museum of Indian Arts & Culture! Join MOIFA for the popular holiday play La Pastorela Cómica at 5 pm in the Vernick Auditorium, make Christmas cards, and savor refreshments in the atrium. MIAC welcomes visitors for holiday ornament making, a holiday Pueblo meal, storytelling, a visit from Santa Claus, and decorating the Christmas tree on Milner Plaza.

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OUT THERE IN GOOD TASTE

Just desserts

RANDOM ACT

Everybody loves dessert. And when it comes to holiday time, some families thrive on having the same traditional cakes and pies year after year. But what if you don’t have time to go through the family cookbook this season? And what if you want to try something new?

Pasatiempo has you covered with a bunch of local dessert options.

Chocolate Maven, 821 West San Mateo Road, 505-984-1980 Chocolate Maven’s menu has developed over 30 years, and many of its bakers have been on staff for decades, creating their signature confections. The bakery makes a wide variety of chocolate options from tortes to red velvet cakes, but the reigning heavyweight dessert champion at Chocolate Maven is the carrot cake, which comes with cream cheese icing with fresh chopped walnuts around the sides.

Cakes and pies are available in a wide variety of sizes and prices, and 24-hour notice is required to make a specific order. chocolatemaven.com

Local flavors

Chocolate Maven’s blackberry apple pie (top) and Sweet Santa Fe’s pecan pie

Clafoutis, 333 W. Cordova Road, 505-988-1809 This pastry shop and eatery has delicious French desserts year-round, but things get really interesting around Thanksgiving and Christmas. Clafoutis makes its signature bûche de Noël — or Yule Log — in four different flavors.

You can get the chocolate variety, which is a white cake with chocolate ganache, or the hazelnut bûche de Noël.

There’s also a raspberry version and a Black Forest variety, which is a chocolate cake adorned with cherries amaretto. clafoutis.biz Dolina Cafe and Bakery, 402 N. Guadalupe Street, 505-982-9394 Dolina — which means “valley” in Slovakian — offers some Hungarian selections such as its strudel and makos dios that you may not be able to find elsewhere in town. The strudel is made with a traditional Eastern European flaky dough loaf and is filled with fruit, while the makos dios is a gluten-free cake made from walnuts and ground poppy seeds. You can also find options like pumpkin pie and lemon meringue, and its chocolate bourbon pecan pie is decadent. Dolina’s cakes and pies are made in a variety of sizes and are not available for online ordering; you can see the bakery’s selection on its website. dolinasantafe.com

Along with poetry, plays, and flamenco shows, holiday concerts are a staple at Teatro Paraguas.

Guitarist Petra Babankova and cellist Nelson Denman, who are set to perform “old favorites and new delights” at the theater, are familiar faces in Northern New Mexico. Denman, a composer, earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, followed by a master’s degree from Harvard University, and served on the executive committee of the Sierra Club’s Northern New Mexico chapter.

Babankova was born in Prague in what’s now the Czech Republic, immigrating in 1980 to Canada, where she studied music. She moved in 2002 to Santa Fe, where she performs and teaches. — Brian Sandford 5 p.m. Saturday, December 16 Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie, Suite B $10 suggested donation 505-424-1601; teatroparaguasnm.org

Dulce Capital, 1100 Don Diego Avenue, 505-989-9966 There’s a number of holiday options on offer at Dulce Capital, starting with New Mexico’s state cookie — the biscochito, sold by the half-dozen and the dozen — and ranging to a number of pies. You can order pumpkin pie, apple pie, pecan pie or even a pumpkin roll at Dulce Capital, and the bakers also make a crimson pie, which has cranberry, blueberry, and orange juice baked in a double crust. Dulce Capital holiday orders must be made by December 20. dulcecapital.com Sage Bakehouse, 535 Cerrillos Road, 505-820-7243 You may think of this artisanal bakery as a bread maker, but it puts lots of interesting dishes on the table for dessert.

The bakery’s holiday specials include a cinnamon melt coffee cake and a pecan pie drizzled with chocolate and made with a sweet butter crust. There’s also a pumpkin pie and a pumpkin honey cheesecake, if you’re feeling adventurous. Sage Bakehouse’s holiday special offerings range in price from $25 to $38. sagebakehouse.com Sweet Santa Fe, 8380 Cerrillos Road, 505-428-0012 Sweet Santa Fe specializes in chocolates and stocks more than 27 flavors of truffles at their home base on Cerrillos Road. But the shop also has a selection of pies ranging from the familiar (blueberry and key lime) to the transcendently local (green chile caramel apple pie). The green chile apple pie is a favorite year-round, and the pecan is popular around the holidays. Whole pies with advanced notice are $25. sweetsantafe.com — Spencer Fordin

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PASATIEMPO I December 15-21, 2023

Nelson Denman and Petra Babankova will perform holiday music at Teatro Paraguas on Saturday, December 16.

FOR THE EARS

Sweet suites for a mellow cello Some of the most sublime classical music ever written might have vanished forever if it hadn’t been for the curiosity of a 13-year-old Spanish boy. In 1890 a precocious cello student named Pablo Casals went browsing at a Barcelona second-hand music store, where he found an old but interesting-looking score.

It was titled Six Suites for Violoncello Solo by J.S. Bach. At the time, few performers knew them and most who did believed they were etudes — demanding compositions designed to increase technical skills — rather than public performance pieces.

The soon-to-be famous Casals thought otherwise and spent 12 years practicing them before performing them in public. His legendary interpretations were recorded in the 1930s, the first time any of the six had been captured in its entirety, much less the entire set.

More than 50 versions of the suites are available now on CD, but the chance to hear them all live is much rarer. We’ll have one soon thanks to Santa Fe Pro Musica and its Holiday Bach Festival, with three of the suites performed on Wednesday, December 20, and the remaining three on Thursday, December 21.

The soloist here is Tanya Tomkins, artistic director of the Valley of the Moon Music Festival in Sonoma, California, who has performed the complete suites at venues including New York’s Le Poisson Rouge, the Seattle Early Music Guild, the Vancouver Early Music Society, and the Library of Congress. She has also recorded the suites for Avie Records, in 2011.

Gramophone said of the release, “A knowledgeable and stylish player, Tomkins varies the treatment of chords imaginatively and avoids the slavish ornamentation of every repeat. Her performances are characterful and heartfelt.”

Bach wrote the cello suites in different keys but unified them structurally. Each begins with a prelude, followed by a series of baroque dance forms, always including an allemande, courante, sarabande, and gigue, in the same order. Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich famously described Suite No. 6, which concludes the December 21 performance here, as “a symphony for solo cello.” — Mark Tiarks/For The New Mexican 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, December 20, and Thursday, December 21

DRINK IN THE MUSIC

Toasting a holiday tradition Challenged to think of a ritual involving toast, most of us could probably come up with just one — bringing some to The Rocky Horror Picture Show and hurling it at the screen when Dr. Frank-N-Furter proposes a toast to the just-engaged Brad and Janet.

The audiences were on to something there, and it relates to a holiday tradition that’s about to be celebrated in Santa Fe, thanks to Performance Santa Fe’s Winter Wassail performance on Friday, December 15, at the Scottish Rite Center.

An eight-member cast of singers, raconteurs, and baroque musicians will re-create the centuries-old tradition of wassailing, as attendees quaff the mulled drink (with or without alcohol), hear ancient carols and folk music from Scotland, Ireland, and Norway, and join together in some singalongs. It’s an immersive performance event that takes place in the facility’s ballroom, not the theater.

The local performance is actually the world premiere of William Hogarth’s A Midnight Modern Winter Wassail, a joint venture between PSF and Music Before Conversation (detail) 1800, whose Secret Byrd was performed in the same venue actually takes place here in mid-November. The group is led by Bill Barclay, former at 4 a.m. and shows director of music at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, and has the impact of a bit too much wassailing. been described as “Gotham’s flagship early music presenter”

by The New Yorker.

The term wassail comes from an Old Norse phrase, “ves heill,” meaning “be in good health.” It was more than just a jolly holiday booze-up, having roots in fertility rites as well. In this case, they were often focused on apple trees, providers of the hard cider that was often wassail’s main ingredient.

To ensure good harvests, wassail would be poured on the roots of the oldest apple trees, guns would be fired or pans banged to scare away evil spirits, and pieces of toast would be hung in the branches to attract benevolent ones.

Pieces of toast would also be added to the wassail just before it was drunk, so offering a toast to someone had a very literal meaning then, just as it does at The Rocky Horror Picture Show today.

As a Gloucestershire wassailing song from the Middle Ages put it:

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Crazy sex and clarinets Look at a chart showing all the different iterations of the clarinet, and you’ll think they should be called sexophones instead — they seem to be one of the most promiscuous, not to say incestuous, instrument families in music, with at least 21 different but very closely related versions.

James Shields, Chatter’s associate artistic director and the Oregon Symphony’s principal clarinetist, is featured on two of the 21 at Chatter’s Saturday, December 16, program at the Center for Contemporary Arts. They’re the standard B clarinet in Shields’ new arrangement of Mozart’s String Quintet No. 2 for clarinet and string quartet and the much rarer basset clarinet in Thomas Adès’ Alchymia, also for clarinet quintet, dating from 2021.

The basset clarinet is longer than the standard instrument and has several lower notes. (Don’t make a rookie mistake and confuse it for the basset horn, which is longer, has an even lower register, and is also a member of the clarinet family, despite its name.)

A quirk of musical fate is the only reason we know about the instrument today. In 1781, Mozart moved to Vienna, where he heard a local clarinetist named Anton Stadler. Stadler was something of a rascal, but he was clearly an extraordinary player, especially in the clarinet’s low range and in the richer, even lower register the basset clarinet provided.

Mozart wrote several masterpieces that showcased Stadler’s talent and his basset clarinet, including the 1789 clarinet quintet and the 1791 clarinet concerto, one of his last completed works. After Mozart’s death, virtually no new music was written for the basset clarinet until the late 20th century, when it was rediscovered by original instrument specialists for performances of the quintet and the concerto, and its capabilities became apparent to contemporary composers.

Alchymia is the Latin root word for alchemy, and Adès has described the work’s structure as “four threads leading out of the alchemical world of Elizabethan London.” Literary and musical inspirations are reflected in the four movements, each of which limns a process of metamorphosis.

The first, “A Sea-Change,” refers to Ariel’s famous song in The Tempest: Full fathom five thy father lies, Of his bones are coral made, Those are pearls that were his eyes. …

(Adès has long been fascinated by The Tempest; his 2004 operatic version had its American premiere at the Santa Fe Opera in 2006.)

“The Woods So Wild” refers to a Tudor-era song whose melody was used by William Byrd, among others, while “Lachrymae” invokes one of John Dowland’s characteristically

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Clockwise from top left: Clarinetist James Shields, composer Thomas Adés, silhouette of Anton Stadler

melancholy creations. (He scores high for self-awareness, titling one of his works “Semper Dowland, Semper Dolens,” meaning “Always Dowland, Always Doleful.”)

The fourth movement, “Divisions on a Lutesong: Wedekind’s Round,” hearkens back to the same era with the first half of its title but also forward to the final act of the opera Lulu. In an orchestral interlude based on an earlier song set to a Frank Wedekind text, seven woodwinds crudely simulate the sound of a barrel organ.

The Times (London) said of it: “Adès’s own alchemy was at its peak in the finale, which veered away from Elizabethan sources towards Alban Berg’s opera scorcher Lulu, with moods varying from clarinet screaming to quiet acceptance, at the end, of the power of conventional tonality.”

Alchymia was rapturously received at its premiere, with the Financial Times opining, “[Adès] has again created music that seems to break ground — original, inventive, but also bewitchingly elegiac, almost haunted by the past even as it reinvents the future.” The Guardian concurred, saying, “[Alchymia] is both immediate and intriguing: a 20-minute chamber work with the scope of a symphony.”

Shields wields his standard clarinet in the Mozart arrangement, which in some ways represents coming full circle. The String Quintet No. 2 wasn’t a new composition by Mozart; it was an arrangement he made in 1787 of his earlier Serenade No. 12 for winds, with the violins and violas taking the parts originally played by the oboes and clarinets.

“I’ll mostly be playing the 1st violin part and sometimes the 2nd, for variety’s sake,” Shields tells Pasatiempo, “and maybe some octave passages where it sounds better to have the clarinet on the bottom. We will be figuring all that out in rehearsals.”

Shields’ string-player colleagues on the program are Emily Cole, Elizabeth Young, Keith Hamm (whom Shields credits for tipping him off to the rearrangement possibilities of the Mozart), and Julie Hereish; John Barney provides the spoken-word segment. — M.T.

OUTINGS

Off the beaten path Los Luceros Historic Site is only 35 miles north of downtown Santa Fe, but on a clear night, it can look like a different world.

That’s because of the relative lack of city light pollution at the site, a few miles south of Velarde on one of the routes to Taos. If the weather cooperates, Lights of Los Luceros attendees will be treated to light shows both in the sky and on the ground, the latter in the form of farolitos and Christmas lights lining the site’s walking paths.

The gathering also includes vendors selling items such as Pueblo pottery and quilts; food, wine, and cider; and children’s activities. If the sky is clear, astronomers from the Pajarito Environmental Education Center in Los Alamos will be on hand to serve as celestial guides. — B.S. Paths are wheelchair-accessible 5-9 p.m. Saturday, December 16 Los Luceros Historic Site, 253 County Road 41, Alcalde $5-$10 nmhistoricsites.org/los-luceros

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OUT THERE

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Farolitos illuminate the way during the Lights of Los Luceros holiday event.

‘TIS THE SEASON

Yes, Virginia, there are new Christmas songs

Bolos by Martha Benson

Spend any amount of time in a public place around this time of year, and you’ll be visited by ghosts of Christmas past.

The soundtrack for the holidays sits on an increasingly dusty shelf. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas was written in 1943 and first performed the following year by Judy Garland in the musical Meet Me in St. Louis.

Bob Wells and Mel Tormé wrote The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You) — famed for its opening line, “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire” — in 1945, and the Nat King Cole Trio recorded it the following year. Jingle Bells was written in 1850 in Massachusetts, then Bruce Dunlap (left) published under the title The One Horse Open and Holly Mead will Sleigh in 1857. Jingle Bell Rock, a “contemporary” perform 12 new works take on that classic tune, was released in 1957 of holiday music at GiG

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An upcoming holiday-music performance by pianist Holly Mead and guitarist Bruce Dunlap won’t ring any bells — which is part of the point. The songwriters composed 12 interlocking pieces of music that they call Advent (Twelve New Songs of Christmas), which they describe as a cycle leading “from rest and repose to renewal and redemption.”

Mead, who has a degree in jazz studies from DePaul University in Chicago and a specialist certificate in producing music for film and games from Boston’s Berklee College of Music, also teaches music. Dunlap, who received a New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts in 2018, is the director of the nonprofit GiG Performance Space. Both live in the Santa Fe area. — B.S. Friday’s show was added after a performance the following night sold out.

WORTH A DRIVE

Wealth of experience When San Marcos artist Martha Benson was born in the late 1920s, Georgia O’Keeffe had yet to even visit the Abiquiú home she’d end up occupying for decades. The Dust Bowl hadn’t yet sent Oklahomans fleeing across the Land of Enchantment toward California. Calvin Coolidge was president.

Benson has been around for a lot, and she’ll be around for a pop-up show featuring her bolo creations at Madrid’s Calliope Fine Art and Craft Gallery. Benson, who creates jewelry and accessories, is one of more than 30 artists associated with the gallery, including owners Michael Lancaster and Barbara Harnack. — B.S.

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The Object at Hand weaves the history of individual Smithsonian artifacts into a bigger American story

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THE OBJECT AT HAND: INTRIGUING AND INSPIRING STORIES FROM THE SMITHSONIAN COLLECTIONS by Beth Py-Lieberman, Smithsonian Books, 2023

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Once she took that approach, “then all of a sudden, the artifacts that I wanted to tell the stories, they began to kind of line up for me in a way that made great sense.”

Py-Lieberman settled on 13 chapters, each grouped around a single word. A panel from the AIDS Memorial Quilt is one of the objects that embodies the theme of “haunting,” while the dress Billie Jean King wore in her “battle of the sexes” tennis match against Bobby Riggs encapsulates “triumph.”

One of the objects in the “deception” category is a mile-marker signpost from the protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline at the Standing Rock Reservation. Thousands of people, including New Mexican cartoonist Ricardo Caté, went to the reservation on the border of North and South Dakota to protest the pipeline in 2016 over fears it would pollute the reservation’s water.

Py-Lieberman says the sign, which includes a mile-marker pointing to Taos Pueblo, was recently donated to the National Museum of the American Indian and included in the “Nation to Nation” exhibit about the long history of treaties the U.S. government has made and broken with American Indian nations.

“This artifact uniquely defined that promise of these treaties, and I think it absolutely had to be in this book as part of our American story,” she says.

An object in the “utopia” chapter is a portion of a mural from Resurrection City, a tent city the Poor People’s Campaign built on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., for six weeks in 1968 as part of its ongoing campaign to end poverty in the wake of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination that April.

A traveling exhibit about Resurrection City and the Poor People’s Campaign from the National Museum of African American History and Culture is currently on display at the New Mexico History Museum. (See “Poverty under protest,” October 20, Pasatiempo.)

The Poor People’s Campaign was a multiracial coalition of activists from across the nation who were lobbying for various causes under the same umbrella.

One participant was Reies Tijerina, who founded the Federal Alliance of Land Grants in New Mexico in 1963. According to the New Mexico History Museum, the organization fought for the civil rights of Mexican Americans and lobbied for land rights that were lost

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On December 1, 1986, Beth Py-Lieberman started working at Smithsonian magazine.

“It was housed in the Arts and Industries Building, which is right next door to the Smithsonian Castle building,” Py-Lieberman says of the magazine’s headquarters. “So it was very romantic that morning, to walk through these enormous double doors of this fantastically designed 19th century building.”

The magazine was behind the times “even for the times,” she says, and was printing with hot lead type. It’s evolved over the years and now publishes online along with its award-winning monthly print magazine.

Py-Lieberman moved over to the digital team, becoming the editor for smithsonianmag.com. As she worked on building out its online offerings, she preserved a column she worked on at the magazine called “The Object at Hand,” where each month there would be a deep dive on one specific artifact that would tell its story more thoroughly than the information visitors would get from a museum plaque.

She drew on those columns for a recent book, The Object at Hand: Intriguing and Inspiring Stories from the Smithsonian Collections. Published in September by Smithsonian Books, the book draws from former articles as well as original reporting by Py-Lieberman to tell the stories of 86 objects in the Smithsonian collections.

The objects range from the famous, including Dorothy’s red slippers from The Wizard of Oz, Abraham Lincoln’s top hat, and The Star Spangled Banner to the more obscure, including a nailstudded paddle used to perforate mail and sanitize it from disease and an original 64-box of Crayola crayons.

“I tried to get an artifact or a piece of ephemera from everywhere across the Smithsonian and to hone in on the things that Smithsonian curators are delving into currently, what kind of material culture are they looking at for their next exhibitions,” she says.

Initially, Py-Lieberman says, picking fewer than 100 objects from a collection that includes more than 150 million items felt like an impossible task, along with how to organize them.

“We settled on something that’s really important to editors and writers, and that is the word; it’s the building block of our profession,” she says.

A mile marker signpost from the Standing Rock Reservation during protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline is one of the artifacts included in Beth Py-Lieberman’s The Object at Hand.

after the U.S. deleted parts of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo guaranteeing property protections for former Mexican landowners.

Py-Lieberman was living in Washington, D.C., as a child in 1968 but didn’t know anything about Resurrection City at the time.

“As an adult, when I learned about this, I was astonished,” she says. “And I’ve now spent a career working on the National Mall.”

One of her personal favorite museum objects is the Hope Diamond, which is featured in the book in the “playful” chapter. She credited emeritus curator of gemstones Jeffrey Post for spending four decades researching the diamond and finding out more about its history. By the time she wrote the book she had about 10 Smithsonian articles to pull from about the Hope Diamond, because Post kept making new discoveries about it.

“The thing that I find so beautiful about the Hope Diamond is the marriage of the stuff we keep in our nation’s museums and the people we hire to curate them, and the endless and boundless curiosity that leads to these new discoveries,” she says.

Py-Lieberman hopes the book will bring a part of the Smithsonian to people who aren’t able to make it to Washington, D.C. “There’s a lot to be said about visiting a museum, and I am a particularly avid fan of the museum,” she says. “But there’s also a tremendous amount of delight in snuggling in with a cup of tea in a warm chair and just reading.” ◀ Solidarity Now!: 1968 Poor People’s Campaign On display at the New Mexico History Museum through January 15, 2024 113 Lincoln Avenue 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday Admission $7 for New Mexico residents, $12 for nonresidents

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UH-OH.

You just drew the name of your grouchy uncle in the holiday gift exchange for 2023. What to do now?

We at Pasatiempo are dedicated to making your life a little easier and more enjoyable, so we voluntold The New Mexican Editor Phill Casaus that he would be serving as the avatar for grouchy uncles everywhere (not too much of a stretch in the acting department, BTW).

Armed with a budget of $50 each, intrepid Pasa writers (and amateur shoppers) Spencer Fordin, Mark Tiarks, and Holly Weber sallied forth, joined by intrepid editor (and professional-grade shopper) Carolyn Graham, under orders to scour the downtown area for the best of all possible presents for editor-grouchy-uncle-avatar Casaus.

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I was determined to do my shopping around the

$50 perimeter of the Plaza, and I stumbled down the

San Francisco Street stairway to the Santa Fe Honey Salon looking to provide our fearless editor with a little more flavor in his life.

The shop had an incredible variety of tastes and sizes, and I sprung for a gigantic 10-ounce jar of red chile-infused honey for $40; I tasted it before I bought it. It had a savory smoky bite to it, but it wasn’t overpowering.

Then I went across the street to the Original Trading Post to see what kind of treasure I could find for $10. I chose a $12 scented candle, because I’ve never known an editor who couldn’t benefit from aromatherapy.

This one is short and squat, and should Phill have a need to throw it, he could heave it with great energy across his office. We just hope he extinguishes it first.

Santa Fe Honey Salon, 112 W. San Francisco Street, 505-982-4381; santafehoney.com Original Trading Post, 201 W. San Francisco Street, 505-984-0759; originaltradingpost.com With just $20 more, we could’ve reached for the stars. Or at least the beef jerky. I don’t know a heck of a lot about Phill, but he seems like a man who might enjoy potato chips and also might enjoy beef jerky. So why not split the difference and get him made-in-New-Mexico Oakeley’s Jerky Company’s Red Chile Carne Seca Jerky Chips?

+ $20

Available at oakeleysjerky.com if money were no object? I will never drive ∞ $ And Elon Musk’s Edsel, the incredibly useless Tesla

Cybertruck. But I would love — LOVE — to say that I worked for an editor who drove one. We are approximately $79,950 away from making this happen for Phill, and the GoFundMe has not yet been activated. [Note: For those in the market for this unique holiday gift, Tesla skirted New Mexico’s direct car sales ban by opening dealerships on the Santa Ana and Nambé pueblos. The company is also in the midst of a massive recall.]

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I’m a newbie to daily journalism — most of my career has been in theater and opera production and management — so I can only speculate about what the life of the editor would be like. It seems certain to involve lots of surprises, crises, and unanticipated problem-solving, all good targets for the theoretically perfect gift.

But how could I find something that successfully addressed those issues, much less one for $50 or less? “What holiday gift would Jimmy Olsen have gotten for Perry White?” I asked myself. “What would Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein give to Ben Bradlee?” No answer was forthcoming.

Some research seemed called for, so I asked several New Mexican colleagues whether Casaus has any interests, hobbies, or vices that could be disclosed in print. Their responses were laconic but consistent. “Sports.” “Sports guy.” “He likes sports.” “Sports nut.” “As far as I know, only sports,” one said, in a burst of loquacity.

My heart sank. I knew price wouldn’t be the problem, it was availability. Where could I possibly find an inspiring sports-themed gift of any sort around the Plaza or in the Railyard? Time for

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some lateral and not-so-literal thinking … What about something that would d conjure up the sensation of sports watching, evoking that testosterone surge powered by seeing a game-winning touchdown pass or an inside-the-park home run?

Fortunately, the shopping gods were on my side that day, leading me to Santa Fe Trail Outfitters and telling me to look down and to the right. There it was, an ingenious item that hit the nail on the head for versatility whilee simultaneously radiating manliness, to mangle metaphors.

Trixie & Milo’s Axe Multi-Tool. It’s perfect for solving any numbeer of sur$50 prises and emergencies, because the cunningly compact item includees an axe,

a hammer, a saw, a knife, a wrench, multiple screwdrivers, pliers, a rasp, wiree cutters, a bottle opener, and more, all for just $30. Just placing it inconspicuously on the desk seemed like it might also solve some personnel issues without much discussio on.

I had $20 left for something to elevate my gift offering to an even higherr level of perfection and ensure victory. On my way to Collected Works Bookstore, I p pondered the fact that being a sports fan means inevitable disappointment, as your team will lose 50% of the time over the long haul.

Something that would transport Casaus (or at least his mind) to a calm mer, more peaceful place would be just the ticket. Once again, the shopping gods intervened, telling me to turn into the parking lot for Rocky Mountain Cannabis as I was apprroaching the bookstore.

A few minutes later, I left with two dollars, two packages of 505 Gummies — one margarita flavored and one mango chile — and a vow to thank the shopping gods profusely. (I don’t want to be overconfident, but victory seems within my grasp.)

Santa Fe Trail Outfitters, 110 W. San Francisco Street, 505-470-3573; santafetrailoutfitters.com Rocky Mountain Cannabis, 121 Sandoval Street, 505-365-2681; rockymountaincannabis.com

PHOTO GORMAN COOK PHOTOGRAPHY, COURTESY GIORDANO DANCE CHICAGO

For the splurge item, I decided a cap of $100 was in order and wanted to $  find something that related to Pasatiempo’s arts focus. A quick check at the

Lensic Performing Arts Center box office provided the answer, so Casaus should mark his calendar for 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, February 21. It’s a ticket to Giordano Dance Chicago, one of the nation’s preeminent jazz dance companies. Why? Their performances are incredibly athletic, as well as immediately enjoyable and accessible, and sport some great music.

There are none of the mysterious conventions and traditions of 19th-century story ballet and the performances aren’t long, either, with no timeouts on the field or afterfurther-review coaches’ challenges to slow things down. To be specific, Casaus will be in Seat 1 of Row C, Mezzanine Left, which costs $95. It’s on the aisle, so there’s plenty of legroom, and offers a sweeping view of the dancing field.

Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234; lensic.org “money is no object” gift presented a different conundrum. The unlimited ∞ $ The budget was an upside, but it still had to come from around the Plaza or the

Railyard, and to resonate for the recipient.

As I searched stores on Marcy Street, the suggestion of a helpful salesclerk kept recurring: “Why not give a permanent gift?” The gift in question would be impossible to regift or to dispose of, so I had to ensure that it would refer to a sports team our editor wouldn’t change his mind about liking down the road.

He’s an alum of the University of New Mexico, so that seemed like the best choice. And as you may have noticed from the photo that runs with his Sunday columns, Casaus’ hairstyle requires the absolute minimum of maintenance, if you catch my drift. (The harmonic convergence begins here…)

With his $1,000 gift card from Rivers Collective Body Art, Casaus will be transformed into the ultimate Lobos fan — not one of those doofuses who dons a wolf costume and face paint, but one who proclaims his allegiance with tasteful Lobo logos tattooed on either side of his head.

Since he’ll look like he’s wearing a Lobos football helmet, the television cameras are sure to zoom in on him in the stands at the next home game, which is on August 24, 2024, against the Montana State Bobcats. Don’t miss it!

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Carolyn Graham

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It’s been firmly established that our grouchy uncle Phill has an interest in baseball and the like. But what sort of arts and culture editors and writers would we be if we failed to infuse a bit of arts and culture into the life of a die-hard sports fan? Besides, I happen to know that this uncle is not only intelligent, well-read, and a dedicated arts patron, but he’s also a bit of a softie. He just doesn’t show it outwardly. So this portion of the gift guide is crafted and curated (a word I know he hates) to not only celebrate our city’s arts and artists but also to honor the artist himself, who, as the leader of our state’s most prolific and powerful publications, needs an outlet for the inevitable work stress that accompanies the title.

Let’s start with the $50 budget options: As artists, it’s not always practical or possible to buy original works of art or limited edition prints of our favorite artists, some of whom are no longer even living and producing art. But that doesn’t mean we can’t own a piece of their work. I often wander through our city’s galleries to admire my favorite artists and then, as I’m nonchalantly walking out the door, I snag the free cards promoting those works at the exit. I then scurry to Michaels, buy a postcard-size frame (using a BOGO coupon), and then, voilá!, you have a piece of framed art. trick works on small (even original, less expensive) unframed gallery $50 That prints and greeting cards, which are popular among museum and gallery gift

shops. One of my favorite New Mexico artists is Gustave Baumann, better known for his carved marionettes that were a staple in the Santa Fe arts scene in the 1920s. I love his marionettes, but his paintings of New Mexico and Santa Fe scenery are lovingly captureed in card form and available at the New Mexico History Museum gift shop for the low w, low price of about $3 each. Just pop them in a frame, artfully arrange them on a naked d wall, and you’ve got a New Mexico art conversation piece. My favorite? Old Santa Fe, 1924, a 6-inch-by-7 5/8-inch color woodcut depicting an adobe home adorned with blue doors and flowers. You can also buy them by the box (12 different designs), for $28.

[Editor’s note: Want to learn more about Baumann? The New Mexico Museum of Art’s Holiday Open House on Saturday, December 16, will include Teatro Dueende’s performance of A Holiday Party for Pappa Gus, a puppet show featuring NMMOA’s replicas of Gustave Baumann’s puppets. The performance honors the museum’s Baumann Marionette Christmas Show tradition that’s endured since 1932.]

That leaves us with some cash to burn, which we can do by picking up one of luxury hand-poured candles made specially for the Museum of New Mexico Foundation’s museum gift shops ($38). Scents include “Santa Fe” (earthy musk and sandalwood), “Abiquiu” (basil, geranium, amber, and warm woods), and others, plus my pick, “Canyon Road,” which has an essence of piñon and cinnamon that reminds me of a stroll on that famously artsy road.

New Mexico History Museum, 113 Lincoln Avenue, 505-476-5200; shopmuseum.org

$  modern furniture and home goods store that, on the

Next, I wandered nearby to Design Warehouse, a

surface, might appear to be far from the mark for our particular grouchy uncle. But here I found two great gifts (one particularly good for the stocking). The This Annoying Life: A Mindless Coloring Book for the Highly Stressed (by cartoonist Oslo Davis) covers several bases: self expression, depictions of life’s scenes we all can relate to, and a blood-pressure-lowering guided art project.

Crayons or markers not included, so be sure to pick up a 64-pack so that he doesn’t get stressed by a lack of options. It retails for $12.95.

As office jockeys, we are required to carry keys, so the Write Drunk, Edit Sober keychain ($7) perfectly sums up the preferred routine of the newspaper (or weekly arts and culture magazine) editor. It’s printed on an easy-to-keep-track-of vintage motel key fob, reminding the former sports writer of the numerous Motel 6 stays he endured in his early days of reporting on high school football games from Artesia to Zuni.

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this point, I was ready for a splurge. And I also see my role here as one to help our ∞ $ Atgrouchy uncle find a top-flight gift for that special person in his life. The collections

at 4Kinship, a gallery and shop owned by Amy Denet Deal (Diné), benefits Native artists and other Native causes, such as providing funding for weekly skate lessons at Two Grey Hills Skate Park or Christmas presents for children at a school on the Navajo Nation near Shiprock.

Among my favorites are the hand-dyed skater flysuits ($350) and beaded-rim hats ($395) by Diné artist Retha Reige, but the sterling roadrunner cuff by Diné artist Gino Antonio is my top pick for a splurge ($550). The rough-hewn texture is thanks to a sandstone casting, and the rustic roadrunner, representing a symbol for protection, is subtle and eye-catching.

4KINSHIP, 812 Canyon Road; 4kinship.com Surprise! Santa Fe is a town filled with art that has never heard-tell of a budget. And if you can dream it, a gallery here probably has it — or can find it for you.

If I had to choose just one money-is-no-object Santa Fe gallery piece, I’d gravitate to LewAllen Galleries’ Roy Lichtenstein Bull No. 1 (1973, linocut on paper), which perfectly captures Phill’s minimalist but classic style, with a tender nod to our state’s aggie roots (as a die-hard Lobo, he’s going to love that “aggie” reference). Lichtenstein’s typical works are bright and full of parody-pop — this piece is part of a series that progressively reveals a series of abstract versions of the cow. Phill, if I’m guessing, would favor the least abstract depiction — but would be happy to know that weirder versions are part of the story. Just like Phill. Retails for “inquire for pricing.”

Right: Roy Lichtenstein, Bull No. 1 (1973), linocut on paper, 27 x 35 in.

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I’ve held a romantic notion of the newspaper business as long as I can remember. When I was about 10 years old in small-town Louisiana, the only thing I asked my parents to bring back to me from their trip to The Big Apple was a copy of The New York Times. I remember spreading it out and examining its eleventyseventhousand pages and thinking, “One day, I too will be a starving journalist and hated by many.”

Despite breaking my heart several times, my love affair with the newspaper endures — in no small part, I imagine, because of the interesting and smart and determined and demented folks who populate a newsroom. Hell, I married one. But our fearless leaders who steer these ships are a very special sort. They write and edit and plan and coach and rant and light copy on fire and stop the presses, and I always assumed they got through it because of the bottle of whiskey tucked away in their desk drawer. When I was in college majoring in Journalism with a minor in Creative Newsroom Cursing, I envisioned a day when I would be summoned to the editor’s office where he or she would share a nip with me in celebration of some Major Award. (Still waiting, BTW.)

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when coming up with a gift idea for SFNM’s editor, my mind immediately $50 So (sadly?) went to the booze-related, something that might also be appropriate

for, say, someone like my late Uncle Joe, a Baptist bachelor who only drank the hard stuff when he snuck it into Mema’s house and spiked the eggnog on Christmas Eve (we pretended we didn’t know). I had seen the lovely (and discreet) stainless steel and acacia wood Vie Flask at Nambé, and luckily at the time of purchase it was (and as of press time is) on sale for $35, down from its usual price of $60. Since I was under budget, I added on the stainless steel Titan Bottle Opener, made exclusively for Nambé by designer Neil Cohen (also on sale for $21; regular price $40) for the convenient opening of a Kölsch or a hard kombucha or whatever floats your boat.

Both of these items can be engraved for an additional charge, making tippling and popping a top that much more classy.

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$  thing and provided the liquor to actually put IN the flask,

Had I about twice the budget, I would have done the proper

something along the lines of Santa Fe Spirits’ small batch Atapiño Liqueur ($39.99 for a 375 milliliter bottle), in which roasted piñon nuts are soaked in the distillery’s Silver Coyote pure malt whiskey that then spends 6 months in an oak barrel and finally is sweetened with hand-collected ponderosa pine resin and sugar. They also have small-batch ready-to-drink cocktails ($30), putting a New Mexico twist on classic cocktails like the Manhattan or Negroni.

Available at the Southside distillery (7505 Mallard Way) and the Downtown tasting room (308 Read Road); 505-467-8892; santafespirits.com If price were no object, I think I’d choose to one-up Mr. ∞ $ Tiarks in the Lensic department and give Uncle Phill the

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Left: Robert Fairchild, who will dance the role of the Nutcracker Prince in Santa Fe, performs in a New York City Ballet production of Sleeping Beauty.

Opposite: Dancers with Aspen Santa Fe Ballet perform their interpretation of the yuletide classic The Nutcracker in 2022.

Bottom: The Mouse King and the Nutcracker battle in a scene from the 2022 ASFB production of the beloved holiday ballet.

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A triple-threat performer, the star of Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s The Nutcracker is also enjoying the sweet smell of success offstage

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obert Fairchild is tiring of tights. His role as the Nutcracker Prince in Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s production of the Christmas classic requires the costume, but he’s 36 now, and no longer a New York City Ballet dancer. As the Prince, he’ll get to dance (and help choreograph) a short tarantella solo, but a lot of his time will be spent making the Sugar Plum Fairy, performed by Brittany Pollack, look good. Such is the life of a male ballet star.

The company where he danced for 12 years was founded by George Balanchine, who used to say, “Ballet is woman.” When Fairchild left NYCB in 2017, former director Peter Martins said to him, “You are the youngest principal dancer ever to retire from the company,” as if he were crazy. He was 30.

His next job? Broadway — playing the Gene Kelly part in An American in Paris. He sang, he acted, he danced.

He was nominated for a Tony and won several other awards as outstanding actor in a musical that year.

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How did it feel to trade his 12 years at NYCB for the life of an eight-show-a-week Broadway actor?

“Heavenly,” he says. “At New York City Ballet, you would practice and practice, and then, as a principal dancer, get maybe two chances to dance a particular part during a season. Each year, you might be given the same role again, for which you would practice and practice for a couple more performances.” He adds, “You couldn’t help but want to be perfect. That’s what we were trained to do.”

Eight shows a week on Broadway sounds like a recipe for possible eventual boredom, but Fairchild found it liberating. “It was so interesting to learn how to explore the depths of my character. There was an opportunity to ‘play’ on stage. That’s such a sense of freedom,” he says. “You can take chances, do different

line readings, surprise your scene partner. Now, even when I am in a ballet, I feel a focus on being in the moment instead of getting everything right. I like that version of myself onstage.”

His branching-out as a triple-threat performer (dancer/actor/singer) has taken him to London for a production of Brigadoon choreographed, like An American in Paris, by Christopher Wheeldon. It also provided the opportunity to play (and choreograph) the part of Frankenstein in an off-Broadway production of that show; perform in Kiss Me Kate at a Roundabout Theater gala in New York; and appear in a movie in the role of Munkustrap in the 2019 film of the long-running Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats, acknowledged to be one of the worst movies of the century.

“That movie may have caused the pandemic,” Fairchild jokes. Even Lloyd Webber ridiculed it, telling the press the movie was so bad it had forced him to get a dog.

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Cats the movie was directed by Tom Hooper (Academy Award winner for The King’s Speech) and included cameo appearances by Idris Elba, Rebel Wilson, Jennifer Hudson, James Corden, Judi Dench, and Taylor Swift, all done-up in computer-generated feline fur. “We were so confused,” Fairchild says. “We didn’t know. We were doing it like Macbeth. Everyone was so serious.”

Fairchild and his older sister, Megan, who at 39 still dances with NYCB after three children, grew up in Salt Lake City. “Mom and Dad were really supportive.

They gave us opportunities to try out different activities,” he says. “Megan picked dance, and I was so enamored of her, I’d do whatever she did. I played soccer until the practices started to get in the way of dance. Dance always came first.”

His first Nutcracker was with the city’s Ballet West at age 9, and playing the bratty little brother Fritz may have been his favorite role ever. “I had so much fun!” he says.

After both siblings moved to New York City to study at the School of American Ballet, Fairchild later joined NYCB, where he danced as a parent, a mouse, a candy cane, Mother Ginger, the Cavalier, and in the Spanish dance.

“I abhor hearing the (Tchaikovsky) music playing in drug stores before Halloween,” he says. “At the appropriate time, it’s lovely. And as a freelancer, I understand how The Nutcracker is such a backbone for funding dance. It’s a gift to communities.”

During the pandemic, as many dancers moved back home or taught online ballet classes to survive, Fairchild started a floral business. Boo-Kay began after he was inspired by a pair of ex-dancers in

London who had started a florist shop in Covent Garden centering around nearby theaters.

“We didn’t really have anything like that in New York,” he says. In London, on his days off from the British production of An American in Paris, he began taking floral arranging classes. “Flowers are my therapy,” he says. “I thought it might be something I would do when I was 65.”

During the worst months of the pandemic in New York City — in addition to choreographing and performing funny quasi-commercial dances with his roommate on the roof of their apartment building and continued on Page 26

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UPSTART READERS STAY ON BOOK FOR DICKENS’ CLASSIC A CHRISTMAS CAROL

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eading from a script is easier than acting and memorizing lines; several members of Upstart Readers agreed on this point during a recent afternoon chat — but that doesn’t mean it’s easy.

Each year, group members treat crowds to readings from Charles Dickens’ performance script for A Christmas Carol, completing one another’s lines and trading rapid-fire dialogue while wearing Victorian-era costumes. It requires the timing of a concert performance; a missed cue can result in dead air and scramble others’ timing.

Groups of three readers each present a long version of the holiday classic. Upstart Readers is a cousin of Upstart Crows, a Shakespeare troupe for ages 10 to 18.

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space in Eldorado. A Victorian tea party is presented at intermission.

Three members of Upstart Readers — Julia Kelso, Max Rogers, and Jeff Gaba — gathered along with Farkas and Pasatiempo on a recent Friday to discuss teamwork, timing, and other fine points of oration as entertainment. They met in a private room at Eldorado’s Vista Grande Public Library, where Kelso serves as director.

Rogers is 16; the others are older than 16. Their responses are edited for length and clarity.

How does Upstart Readers differ from traditional acting, and what drew you to it?

Kelso: I did dramatic interpretation when I was in high school. It’s acting without acting; you still get to show off in front of an audience, which is fun.

Rogers: There’s no walking around. You’re not running around doing costume changes. I really enjoy doing the voices and being wildly over the top with my voice and hand gestures.

Gaba: And he’s very good. I’m a retired law professor, so I was up in front of classes during my career, frequently reciting Shakespeare at the same time. This is a way for me to be in front of a crowd.

Farkas: A reader who reads out loud is employing acting skills. You’ve got to hold your audience with your intonation, with small gestures.

Upstart Crows obviously is Shakespeare-focused.

Why is Upstart Readers Dickens-focused, and how are the two connected?

Farkas: I like to say that Dickens was our first rock star. People lined up overnight to get tickets to his readings in New York. He would do all the voices.

You can’t paraphrase Dickens. It’s so calibrated. One reader’s phrase will lead into the next, it’ll bounce back, and the cleverness of it is off the charts.

Kelso: Dickens is like Shakespeare [because] the language is not what we’re used to.

Rogers: If you’re monotone, no one understands what you’re saying. With Shakespeare, sometimes

no one knows what a word means, but if you say it in a certain way, the audience will know.

Are there any challenges you didn’t anticipate when you signed up to serve as a reader?

Kelso: When paying attention to the other readers, sometimes I’ll get so engrossed in what they’re doing.

It’s like, oh, wait! I have a line now.

Rogers: It’s a lot of places to put your attention. You look at the other reader, then your own script.

Farkas: As one reader finishes their piece, the next person needs to jump right on the tail of it so it creates that feeling of one hive mind all reading together.

Kelso: There’s about 30 seconds of dancing. It’s difficult to get it right every single time even after doing it for several years. On the other hand, I’ve done it once a year for several years. It’s not like I’m doing it every week.

Gaba: Dickens also does give some direction. There are behaviors that are referenced in the text. So you’re picking up on that.

Farkas: That’s the other thing. What Dickens will often do is, your character will say something and then the description comes after: “he said, wringing his hands.” So you’d better be wringing your hands before it gets there.

You rehearsed in October for a show in December.

What do rehearsals for readings involve?

Kelso: We were rehearsing weekly. We try to have it pretty nailed down, just to make sure you’re standing in the right spot. You’re trying to remember which

voice you used last time for a particular character.

Gaba: I’m surprised, listening to the other casts, at the differences among the actors taking on the same character, which is kind of fun.

Farkas: There’s a lot of room for flexibility. One cast will watch another and offer comments. Then they’ll flip. People get inspired by each other and steal from each other.

Kelso: Yeah, all three of us do Scrooge vastly differently.

Gaba (jokingly): Curiously, I’m the only one who keeps Scrooge nasty. He rejects Christmas at the end.

Kelso: There are moments when you’re listening to someone do something and say, “Well, I wouldn’t have done it that way.” But I’ve had plenty of moments where I’m like, “I wouldn’t have done it that way, but man, that’s really good.”

Rogers: [Others’ performances] can provoke the thought of how you would have done it, which can help you.

When you’re performing, how aware of the audience are you?

Rogers: Occasionally I can feel a tense silence in the audience, as opposed to just silence, which is very interesting. I don’t really look at people, because I’m busy doing other things, but occasionally I’ll hear them and think, “Good. They laughed.”

Kelso: I try to make eye contact with where I think people are supposed to be. If you’re Macbeth, you’re not trying to make eye contact with the audience. As Max says, sometimes it’s like, “Why are you laughing

right now? This wasn’t supposed to be funny. What have we done wrong?”

Gaba: This is an event for people to attend at Christmas, and I feel a responsibility to the audience to make their Christmas experience a good one.

Farkas: When you’re up there, you’ve got a lot of balls in the air. So between each stave, there’s a musical interlude, which gives the readers a chance to get a drink of water and look at each other and be like, “Oh my God, what happened?”

A Christmas Carol has a strong message about greed. Do you feel that this message is especially resonant right now?

Kelso: You’re pushing back against the dark a little bit. Dickens was huge on social justice.

Farkas: The social justice elements are very strong.

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The Upstart Readers group annually performs live dramatic interpretations of A Christmas Carol from Charles Dickens’ own performance script.

Opposite: Dressed in Victorian garb, Amy Meilander reads during a 2021 performance of the iconic Christmas tale.

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What unites us Memoriees of tamales from both sides of the border Ania Hull l For The New Mexican

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Some say that the use of manteca in tamales dates back to the Spanish conquest of Mexico, when Spaniards introduced pork into the local diet. However, archaeologist and University of New Mexico professor Keith Prufer says there were wild pigs in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and local populations did eat them too — and that, potentially, they may even have used fat from wild pigs in their cooking.

Both Chavez and Chef Cano express their amazement at the diversity of tamales and at how many thousands of variations there are across the Americas. But they also believe in staying true to the ingredients for each of these traditional recipes.

But cooks in Santa Fe who cater to customers with food restrictions can’t always use traditional ingredients. For example, Loretta Thomas grew up at the far end of Canyon Road eating traditional New Mexican tamales. As an adult, she had to remove manteca from her tamale recipes for health reasons. The owner of Little Flower Foods of Santa Fe says life-threatening health problems in the past has forced her to revolutionize not only her own nutrition but also her tamale menu.

Thomas used to sell gourmet tamales at the Sunday Artisan Market.

She now hopes to open a restaurant in town where she will serve tamales COURTESY SANTA FE SCHOOL OF COOKING WEBSITE

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hef Michelle (Mica) Chavez is a Southwest culinary powerhouse.

Not only has she cooked for Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Vicente Fox, and George H.W. Bush and worked in restaurants across the country, she now runs her own gourmet catering business in town and works at the Santa Fe School of Cooking, where she celebrates our region’s gastronomical traditions. On her catering website, she even quotes Anthony Bourdain: “I think food, culture, people, and landscape are inseparable.”

So I’m surprised to hear that Chavez didn’t like tamales growing up.

As in, tamales, the major staple food here in the Southwest and south of the border. That meal that unites New Mexico around Christmas, the way green and red chiles do year-round. That corn delicacy most of us order for the holidays from a local tamale source we’ve been swearing by for years.

Chavez, who now makes tamales by the thousan nds, is quick to explain her childhood mis-tastes. “The texture, somethingg about the corn flavor, I just didn’t like that,” she says. In the very next breath, she adds that in her defense, “it didn’t last very long, though.”

What she did love as a child was to watch her grrandmother and greataunts making tamales, including their signaturee red chile tamales, for their family in El Paso, Texas.

“My grandmother and her sisters would grind enough corn every day to make 15 pounds of masa,” she says. “My parentss still have her metate.”

She points at the one on the windowsill behind her; the metate on display in the dining area at the School of Cookin ng looks like a slightly curved stone, a quern, with another stone atop it that resembles a rolling pin without handles.

“Then, I’d just watch the folding,” she says. “A A nd my grandma had kind of short, fat fingers. And I’d watch her fingerss move when she would make tamales.” Chavez waves her hands in the air, folding one side of an imaginary corn husk and then the other. “My grandmother’s fingers, it’s something that I can pull up right now, as I’m m sitting here thinking about it.”

“I also remember my grandmother making tamaales dulces that I really liked, with apple,” Chavez says, and adds that her childhood distastes did not extend to sweet tamales. “And I took herr idea. So when I make my tamales dulces, I use brown sugar in the massa, and I use butter for the fat. And then I use apple juice for the liquid. And so that makes the masa subtly sweet, and then you can put in pecan ns. It’s like apple pie.”

Chavez now teaches her grandmother’s gesturees during tamale workshops at the Santa Fe School of Cooking, alongside Chef Noe Cano. There, she also prepares tamales with ingredients that spell home, starting with manteca (lard).

based on recipes she says taste the same as those her ancestors made but that use alternative ingredients she can eat.

“If I can’t eat it, I won’t cook with it,” she says. She’s planning on further sourcing blue corn and continuing her search for lost or forgotten ancestral ingredients.

It takes a village I hoped a recent trip to Mexico City would help me uncover the essence of tamales. The region around the Mexican capital is, after all, thought by some to be the cradle of tamale culture.

Although to be fair, as Prufer points out, wrapping food in leaves — which is what making tamales is, in a sense — was likely widespread

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Chefs Mica Chavez (left) and Noe Cano from the Santa Fe School of Cooking make thousands of tamales during the holidays.

Right: SFSC teaches the preparation of traditional New Mexican foods, including lessons in tamale-making.

Opposite: Choose from red chile pork, green chile chicken, calabacitas, and duck tamales to-go from SFSC.

throughout pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, as it is today, and was not restricted to central and southern Mexico. Across pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, ancient peoples may have wrapped their masa or other foods, as their descendants do today, in the heart-shaped and velvety hoja santa, which tastes of anise, or in the broad waha leaf from the plant Calathea lutea, also known as the cigar plant.

The use of the corn husk is what differentiates the practice in the region around Mexico City and parts of central and southern Mexico from the practice of wrapping food in the rest of what was pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Prufer says that today, “using the husk is very distinctively Mexican.” continued on Page 34

From left: Juana Zavala makes masa for tamales with her daughter Cittlali in their outdoor kitchen n in Tláhuac in southern Mexico o City.

Zavala shows au uthor Ania Hull how to makke green chile chicken tamaless.

Doña Juana's tamales are ready to be steaamed. She and Citlali estimate she has made at least 2 million n tamales in her lifetime.

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Tamales, continued from Page 33 In Mexico City, I took tamale workshops, atte my share and a half of all kinds (from traditional to controversial), and d harvested maize, whose flour a local family will use next year to make evven more tamales. I heard stories of tamales that go back generations an nd legends about tamales that were cooked in water used to wash the dead. I watched as cooks folded them this way and that, with and with hout a string. I watched homemakers add in secret ingredients, which they wouldn’t name, and restaurant chefs follow traditional recipes to th he letter.

And the more I looked for it, the more I reaalized that the essence of tamales was right in front of me all along — not only in Mexico City, and in Mexico as a whole, but also in New Mexiico. It often takes a village to make tamales — or at least many relatives or an entire kitchen team.

Tamales, like Christmas, represent communityy coming together.

In Mexico City, I asked one of my tamale mentors, Juana Zavala, a matriarch, home cook, and artisan, how many tamales she had made in her lifetime. The 73-year-old Doña Juana was showing me how to make tamales from scratch in her outdoor kitchen. Sh he lives in the village and borough of San Pedro de Tláhuac, on the southerrn outskirts of the capital.

Tláhuac is surrounded by small and big volcan nos — some active, some not — and is a mere few hours by car from where humans are said to have first domesticated corn. Doña Juana growss her own corn on her late Native husband’s ancestral field, or chinampa,, which borders from the east with Xochimilco, a UNESCO World Heritt age Site and agricultural marvel.

Doña Juana laughed out loud. “En toda mi vidaa?” she asked. We had just prepared our masa by hand in a large but someewhat shallow aluminum cauldron, and I was holding a corn husk in my left hand, ready to spread some masa in with a large spoon, the way Doñ ña Juana had just shown me. She shrugged. “Pues, no sé.” I have no ideaa.

Her adult daughter Citlali then reminded her that these days they make at least 1,000 to 2,000 tamales per cellebration. And there are many celebrations to be had in their multigenerrational home: birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas, Easter, la Candelaria, la Fiesta del Elote, el Día

de los Muertos, Independence Day, Revolution Day, and all the other holy days and historical markers, including the Día de la Virgen de Guadalupe in December, plus all the visits from relatives living in nearby towns, the baptisms, weddings, and funerals.

Any social event is reason for eating tamales. Neighbors help each other out, and Doña Juana is not one to shy away from helping friends make more tamales for their own celebrations.

I paused making my first tamale ever, my corn husk now heavy with masa, to calculate that if Doña Juana makes an average of 1,500 tamales per celebration, at a rate of 20 celebrations per year, and has done so for the last 50 years, she’s made at least 1.5 million tamales in her life.

Citlali thinks the number is much too low. Two million at least, she says, and to prove her point, she and her mother list all the family’s children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts, and uncles. As I try to recalculate, Doña Juanita tells me with a smirk to stop wasting my time and get back to work. I’ve got 2 million tamales, minus one, to catch up with her, she says.

Christmas present Back at the Santa Fe School of Cooking, I meet Noe Cano, chef de cuisine, just as he sets a bowl of pale masa on his kitchen’s enormous counter. Nearby, on the stainless-steel island, is a batch of fresh tamales wrapped in husks and tied like candies with husk ribbons. Cano and his team have just started working on this year’s holiday orders :red chile pork, green chile chicken, vegetarian calabacita, and duck with citrus chile sauce.

When I ask chefs Cano and Mica Chavez how many tamales they’ve each made so far in their lives, the two chefs burst out laughing, just like Doña Juana. “Millions,” Cano says, and Chavez seconds him. “Millions.

Millions.” continued on Page 36

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Above: The finished tamales at Tres Colores Restaurant are tidy, tasty packages of tradition.

Top right: Masa is scooped onto the husks during assembly of tamales at Tres Colores.

Bottom right: The red chile pork tamale, one of four kinds offered at Tres Colores, is made with New Mexican red chile and Mexican guajillo chile.

Opposite page: Tres Colores’ co-owners are Hugo Sena (from left), Larry Katz, Arturos Sena, and Petro Diaz (not pictured).

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Tamales, continued from Page 34 “Every Christmas, starting now actually, that’s what he is doing every day,” Chavez says of Cano. “We make tamales here by the dozen, and last year for Christmas, we made something like 700 dozen.” They also make them year-round. Plus, Cano has been making them since childhood, with corn husks and banana leaves, as so many I’ve spoken to on both sides of the border have.

That includes Hugo Sena, co-owner of Tres Colores Restaurant on Marcy Street near the Plaza. Sena comes from the same area in Veracruz as Cano and says that they even attended the same small village school, although not at the same time.

As a child, Sena preferred to stay away from tamale making. And it’s no wonder: Tamale-making is not unlike working in an assembly line. But young Sena would sometimes be forced to sit at the long table and help.

He smiles and reflects on how predominant tamales were at home.

“For Christmas, the only thing we unwrapped were tamales,” he says.

“There were no other presents.”

Now, he and his team at Tres Colores make between 7,000 and 8,000 tamales every holiday season. They also partner with a Santa Fe school to help local students raise funds for a cause of their choice.

And this year, for the first time, Tres Colores is selling tamales to raise money to help a school in Chacaltianguis, in the state of Veracruz.

“We’re supporting a very small school that has only 90 kids. It’s my old elementary school. We’ve already donated in the past and helped create a kitchen at the school so that kids who have no food at home, they can come into school and eat and focus on learning.”

I taste the four kinds of tamales Tres Colores offers: red chile pork, green chile chicken, green chile vegetable (vegan), and chicken mole.

The red chile pork is especially wonderful — the sauce is made from two different chiles, one from each side of the border. “Food is all about mixing flavors and mixing cultures,” says Larry Katz, one of the four co-owners of Tres Colores. “And that’s what we tried to create here. Our red chile, it’s made of a New Mexican red chile and Mexican guajillo chile.”

What I can’t stop eating, though, is their tamale with the mole sauce, which Sena says is based on a recipe from Veracruz and calls for a sweeter chocolate than the one used in the famous chocolate mole from Oaxaca. The latter is made with the darkest of chocolates, and neither Sena nor I like it that much. “Oaxacan mole is too bitter,” he says quietly, because one of his cooks back in the kitchen is from Oaxaca. I nod in agreement and scoop up another bite of the tamale with Veracruz mole. Spectacular. ◀ Ania Hull is a journalist and writer based in Albuquerque. She writes about the arts, the environment, book culture, film culture, immigration, and travel.

GET YOUR TAMALES Santa Fe School of Cooking Holiday tamale orders (call in advance) and cooking classes 125 N. Guadalupe Street, 505-983-4511, 800-982-4688; santafeschoolofcooking.com Mica Chavez: Catering and culinary experiences, including tamales micachavez.com Tres Colores Restaurant Holiday tamale orders (call in advance) 101 West Marcy Street, 505-490-0296; trescoloresnm@gmail.com, trescoloresrestaurant.com Little Flowers Foods of Santa Fe 929-319-3712, 843-817-6846; littleflowerfoodsofsantafe.com

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In 1983, archivist, filmmaker, writer, and educator Rick Prelinger began collecting “ephemeral films” — films made for specific purposes at specific times, such as advertising, education, and industry; they are more recently called “useful cinema.” His collection of 60,000 films was acquired by the Library of Congress in 2002, and since then the Prelinger Archives has again grown to include some 30,000 home movies and 7,000 other film items.

No Name Cinema will close out the year with three days of events in Santa Fe and Albuquerque celebrating Prelinger, with the filmmaker in attendance.

On Friday, December 15, NNC will host Centers and Edges 2: Home Movie Revelations and Provocations (75 minutes, digital scans from 8mm and 16mm film), a program that includes unusual home movies from a variety of North American communities and a talk about how home movies point toward thinking about cinema in different ways.

On Saturday, December 16, The Guild Cinema in Albuquerque will screen a new frame-by-frame restoration of Prelinger’s No More Road Trips?, an interactive film (during which the audience is encouraged to speak) taking place along US 66.

On Sunday, December 17, Vladem Contemporary will host Noisy Archives and the Future of Memory. Beginning with what we think we know about archives, history, and the digital turn, this talk (with photos and archival clips) takes the audience on a contrarian and speculative journey through archives and memory keeping.

For more information, visit nonamecinema.org.

Opening CHRISTMAS WITH THE CHOSEN: HOLY NIGHT A young mother labeled impure. A shepherd boy considered “unclean”. Experience the story of Jesus’ birth through their eyes. A never-before-seen performance from Andrea Bocelli highlights seven music performances and two beautiful new monologues. Holiday/drama, not rated, 125 minutes, Dreamcatcher 10 WONKA Armed with nothing but a hatful of dreams, young chocolatier Willy Wonka (Timothée Chalamet) manages to change 38 PASATIEMPO I December 15-21, 2023

Timothée Chalamet stars as the titular candymaker in the origin story Wonka.

the world, one delectable bite at a time. “In addition to committing to its sense of fun, Wonka reminds us that life is made sweetest by the people we share it with. If that’s not particularly novel, it’s still as comforting and scrumptious a notion as a chocolate bar.” (Entertainment Weekly) Fantasy/ comedy, rated PG, 116 minutes, Dreamcatcher 10, Regal Santa Fe Place 6, Violet Crown

Return engagement FALLEN LEAVES This enchanting love story from Finnish virtuoso Aki Kaurismäki circles two financially strapped Helsinkians who keep finding and losing one another in a world that seems to be falling apart. The sardonic yet exquisitely melancholic film devotes its wry, humane gaze to grocery clerk Ansa (Alma Pöysti) and construction laborer Holappa (Jussi Vatanen), who begin an on-again, off-again relationship of extreme tentativeness while seeking employment and stability. As with the greatest of Kaurismäki’s films, everyday details register as grand, meaningful cinematic gestures.

Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.

“Kaurismäki never, ever misses the mark. Even by his high standards, Fallen Leaves is close to perfect.” (The Atlantic) Comedy/romance, not rated, 81 minutes, CCA

Special Screenings KRAMPUS (2015) Tuesday, December 19, and Wednesday, December 20 While the holiday season represents the most magical time of year, ancient European folklore warns of Krampus, a horned beast who punishes naughty children at Christmastime. When dysfunctional family squabbling causes young Max to lose his festive spirit, it unleashes the wrath of the fearsome demon. As Krampus lays siege to the Engel home, mom (Toni Collette), pop (Adam Scott),

sister, and brother must band together to save one another from a monstrous fate. Horror/comedy, rated PG-13, 98 minutes, Jean Cocteau Cinema SCARFACE (1983) Friday, December 15, through Sunday, December 17 After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana (Al Pacino) stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels, and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall. Drama, rated R, 170 minutes, Jean Cocteau Cinema

Continuing THE BOY AND THE HERON Twelve-year-old Mahito struggles to settle in a new town after his mother’s death. However, when a talking heron informs Mahito that his mother is still alive, he enters an abandoned tower in search of her, which takes him to another world. A semi-autobiographical fantasy about life, death, and creation, in tribute to friendship, from the mind of Hayao Miyazaki. “This is not a happy-go-lucky story, but an old-school fairy tale meant to frighten, confuse, and excite. It’s the good kind of scary: the kind that helps prepare children for the terrors of the real world.” (The Washington Post) Fantasy/adventure, rated PG-13, 124 minutes, Violet Crown

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by Rebecca’s glamorous, enigmatic presence. As the two women grow closer, Eileen is inspired to explore new facets of her own personality and desires. But her metamorphosis takes a twisted turn when Rebecca reveals a dark secret — throwing Eileen onto a much more sinister path. Mystery/ thriller, rated R, 96 minutes, Violet Crown GODZILLA MINUS ONE Post war Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster, baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb. Adventure, rated PG-13, 125 minutes, Dreamcatcher 10, Regal Santa Fe Place 6, Violet Crown THE HOLDOVERS A curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school remains on campus during Christmas break to babysit a handful of students with nowhere to go. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and with the school’s head cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War. Comedy/drama, rated R, 133 minutes, Violet Crown THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES Years before he becomes the tyrannical president of Panem, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow remains the last hope for his fading lineage. With the 10th annual Hunger Games fast approaching, the young Snow becomes alarmed when he’s assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler) from District 12. Uniting their instincts for showmanship and political savvy, they race against time to ultimately reveal who’s a songbird and who’s a snake. Action/adventure, rated PG-13, 158 minutes, Dreamcatcher 10, Regal Santa Fe Place 6, Violet Crown KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON Based on David Grann’s broadly lauded best-selling book, director Martin Scorsese’s adaptation is set in 1920s Oklahoma and depicts the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, a string of brutal crimes that came to be known as the Reign of Terror. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, and Lily Gladstone.

“As a work of history and heightened political consciousness, Killers of the Flower Moon is beyond reproach; it dramatizes a grievous truth — about the depravity, destruction and self-deception that undergird the American idea — that has been buried for too long, especially in movies.” (The Washington Post) Crime/drama, rated R, 206 minutes, Violet Crown

MAESTRO The biographical drama Maestro centers on the relationship between American composer Leonard Bernstein and his wife, Felicia Montealegre. Directed by Bradley Cooper from a screenplay he wrote with Josh Singer, the film stars Carey Mulligan as Montealegre alongside Cooper as Bernstein . Maestro uses the love story between Bernstein and Felicia — complicated by Bernstein’s bisexuality — as the impressionistic framing device to cover the renowned conductor’s five decade career. “Cooper throws himself into the role of Bernstein and delivers one of his finest performances, playing a complicated family man who desired men and couldn’t deny that desire even while loving his wife.” (Observer) Musical/romance, rated R, 129 minutes, CCA NAPOLEON A look at the military commander’s origins and his swift, ruthless climb to emperor, viewed through the prism of his addictive and often volatile relationship with his wife and one true love, Josephine (Vanessa Kirby). Ridley Scott directs; Joaquin Phoenix stars. War/drama, rated R, 158 minutes, Violet Crown THE OATH In 400 A.D., during a forgotten time of ancient America, a lone Hebraic fugitive must preserve the history of his fallen nation while being hunted by a ruthless tyrant. But rescuing the King’s abused mistress could awaken a warrior’s past.

Action/drama,ratedPG-13,104minutes,Dreamcatcher10 OPPENHEIMER Christopher Nolan’s biographical feature film about American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) and his role in the development of the atomic bomb. With Robert Downey Jr., Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, and Florence Pugh. “Murphy embodies Oppenheimer so naturally that you may start thinking you’re watching documentary footage of the real thing. The film humanizes Oppenheimer. … Murphy’s perfect portrayal leaves us with an image of a brilliant mind put to work to kill a nation, a people, and

Box office Center for Contemporary Arts Cinema, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 505-982-1338, ext.105, ccasantafe.org Dreamcatcher 10, 15 State Road 106, Española; dreamcatcher10.com Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 Montezuma Ave., 505-466-5528, jeancocteaucinema.com No Name Cinema, 2013 Piñon St., nonamecinema.org Regal Santa Fe Place 6, 4250 Cerrillos Road, 505-424-6109, sfnm.co/3o2Cesk Violet Crown, 106 Alcaldesa St., 505-216-5678, santafe.violetcrown.com

maybe the entire world. There’s a price to pay for that kind of knowledge.” (Robert Nott/The New Mexican) Drama, rated R, 180 minutes, Violet Crown PRISCILLA When teenager Priscilla Beaulieu (Cailee Spaeny) meets Elvis Presley (Jacob Elordi) at a party, the man who’s already a meteoric rock ‘n’ roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, and a gentle best friend. Directed by Sofia Coppola. “Priscilla is neither lurid nor sugar coated. It’s a sensitive, if slight, look at a young woman rousing from a dream and confronting waking life.” (Vanity Fair) Drama/romance, rated R, 110 minutes, Dreamcatcher 10 RENAISSANCE: A FILM BY BEYONCÉ Pop superstar Beyoncé performs hit songs in concert and discusses the creative process behind her world tour. Music documentary, not rated, 168 minutes, Violet Crown SALTBURN Academy Award-winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) brings us a beautifully wicked tale of privilege and desire. Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi), who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family’s sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten. Comedy/drama, rated R, 127 minutes, Violet Crown THE SHIFT In this modern-day retelling of Job, Kevin Garner embarks on a journey across worlds and dimensions to reunite with Molly, his true love. The narrative unfolds as a mysterious adversary, The Benefactor (Neal McDonough), disrupts Kevin’s reality. Faced with infinite worlds and impossible choices, Kevin must navigate through an alternate reality, resisting The Benefactor’s tempting offer of wealth and power. As survival hangs in the balance, Kevin fights to return to the familiar world he cherishes and the woman he loves. Sci-fi, rated PG-13, 115 minutes, Dreamcatcher 10 TROLLS BAND TOGETHER Poppy (Anna Kendrick) discovers that Branch (Justin Timberlake) and his four brothers were once part of her favorite boy band. When one of his siblings, Floyd, gets kidnapped by a pair of nefarious villains, Branch and Poppy embark on a harrowing and emotional journey to reunite the other brothers and rescue Floyd from a fate even worse than pop culture obscurity. Comedy, rated PG, Dreamcatcher 10, Regal Santa Fe Place 6 WISH Young Asha (voice of Ariana DeBose) makes a wish so powerful that it’s answered by a cosmic force, a little ball of boundless energy called Star. With Star’s help, Asha must save her kingdom from King Magnifico (Chris Pine) and prove that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen. Musical/fantasy, rated PG, 95 minutes, Dreamcatcher 10, Regal Santa Fe Place 6, Violet Crown SOURCES: Google, IMDb.com, RottenTomatoes.com, Vimeo. com, YouTube.com PASATIEMPOMAGAZINE.COM

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Our challenge this year is to celebrate safely and do so in the face of the world’s agonies. Mercury is retrograde in serious Capricorn, turning our minds to churn on the world’s conditions while work taps on our shoulder throughout the week.

Venus now in introspective Scorpio can leave us ambiguous about companionship; we may paradoxically both long for a good gathering and crave solitude when we get there. If this is so, both needs are real; let each moment be what it is. Gather when the gathering is good then enjoy the solitude between.

An Aquarius moon over this weekend encourages us to feel that collective spirit. Sunday through Tuesday a Pisces moon calls us deep within and underlines that need for tender privacy. Tuesday through early Thursday an active Aries moon helps with a flurry of last-minute urgencies.

Thursday evening the mood shifts as the moon enters comfortable Taurus and the sun enters Capricorn at 8:27 p.m., heading into that long night. Capricorn encourages us to come back to our roots to remember what brings us strength and security. In the quiet, let’s ask what feeds our soul and the soul of the world.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15: This morning can bring a sad memory or waft of depression as the moon conjuncts Pluto in Capricorn. We’ll feel more sociable as the moon enters communal Aquarius this afternoon. Offer some hard-earned personal wisdom as Mars trines Chiron, but don’t insist they listen to advice.

Enjoy general camaraderie this evening.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16: Follow seasonal magic and take a break from practicalities. Early morning can feel irritably disjointed as the moon squares Venus, but the day flows later on. Evening can be magical; enjoy the feeling of connection without expecting to solve any problems. Later tonight keep an eye out for bad weather or drunk drivers as the sun squares intuitive, foggy Neptune.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17: Odd tender places need some love as the moon enters more sensitive Pisces. Deal directly with emotional responsibilities this afternoon as the moon conjuncts serious Saturn, then seek good conversation this evening as Mercury trines expansive Jupiter. Make good memories.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 18: Catch people doing something good and share appreciation as Mercury trines generous Jupiter. We are easily swamped by emotions, whether delight or our soul’s sore edges as the Pisces moon trines Venus, so don’t take people’s emotional delicacy personally.

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19: Morning is soft and dreamy as the moon conjuncts Neptune in Pisces. Our focus sharpens to a more decisive edge this afternoon as the moon enters Aries and squares Mercury. Rein in irritation; stay present, aware, and safe.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20: Deal with short quick errands and succinct statements; don’t oversimplify, but do keep to the point. Patience is thin as Mercury semi-squares Venus under an urgent Aries moon. Remember what really matters underneath any surface irritations.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21: The stars deal us a paradox. Venus opposes change-master Uranus and calls for a break in routine, leaving us restless, while competence encourages us to follow through on our responsibility midday as Mercury sextiles Saturn. Tonight, hold still and honor the turning; the moon enters cuddly Taurus, the sun enters Capricorn, and winter begins. ◀ Contact astrologer Heather Roan Robbins at roanrobbins.com.

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FRIDAY 12/15

Eleventh Annual A Musical Piñata for Christmas

Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie, 505-424-1601 Compañia Chuscales y Mina Fajardo, A Christmas Carol on Airport Road, a short play by JoJo Sena Tarnoff, Ballet Folclórico de mi Pueblo, poetry readings, and Santa Claus; 7 p.m., encores 2 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday; $15; teatroparaguasnm.org.

Gallery and Museum Openings

5. Gallery

2351 Fox Road, Suite 700, 505-257-8417 Death in a Cornfield, collage by Darrell Wilks; reception 5-7 p.m.

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Eternal Summer Symphony Orchestra

826 Canyon Road, 505-772-0953 Notice of Disquiet, interactive installation by Ranran Fan; through March; reception 6-8 p.m.

First Presbyterian Church, 208 Grant Avenue Albinoni’s Double Oboe Concerto, Bach’s Brandenburg Concert No. 4, and Corelli’s Op. 6, No. 7 in D Major; 5:30 p.m., doors 5:15 p.m.; donations accepted.

Heidi Loewen Fine Art

315 Johnson Street, 505-988-2225 Jewelry designs by Sasha Alexander Golovanenko; through Saturday; reception 4-7 p.m.

Holly Mead & Bruce Dunlap Advent (Twelve Days of Christmas Show)

GiG Performance Space, 1808 Second Street Pianist and guitarist; 7:30 p.m.; $25; gigsantafe.tickit.ca.

HERE Gallery

213 E. Marcy Street, 562-243-6148 Small Works — the 40-4,000 Show, paintings

by Gary Barten, drawings by Katherine Meyer, and ceramics by Joey Serim; through Dec. 30.

The Night Before Christmas

Santa Fe Playhouse, 142 E. De Vargas Street, 505-988-4262 An irreverent holiday comedy by Andrew Neilson, directed by Emily Rankin; 7:30 p.m. ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through Dec. 23; $15-$75; santafeplayhouse.org.

Meyer Gallery

225 Canyon Road, 505-983-1434 Paintings by Jhenna Quinn Lewis; through Dec. 28; reception 4-6 p.m.

Santa Fe Desert Chorale

Nüart Gallery

Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, 131 Cathedral Place Candlelight Carols; 7 p.m. today, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 4 p.m. Sunday, encore Dec. 22; $10-$100; 505-988-2282, desertchorale.tix.com.

670 Canyon Road, 505-988-3888 Equinations, paintings by Juan Kelly; through Jan. 7; reception 5-7 p.m.

Patina Gallery

Winter Glow Holiday Stroll on Museum Hill

131 W. Palace Avenue, 505-986-3432 Echoes of Gold, work by jewelry designer Carolyn Tyler; reception 5-7 p.m.

Museum of International Folk Art and Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Free admission 4-7 p.m.; holiday-card making, performance of the holiday drama Los Pastores o Pastorelas and the comedy La Pastorela Cómica.

In Concert

Celebration of Dance Party with Korvin Orkestar

Winter Wassail

Paradiso, 903 Early Street, 505-231-0087 Bellydancers accompanied by the local Balkan-music brass band; 7 p.m.; $20; holdmyticket.com/tickets/424390.

Scottish Rite Center, 463 Paseo de Peralta Alehouse sing-alongs by Scandinavian baroque ensemble Barokksolistene; 7:30 p.m.; $125; 505-984-8759, secure.performancesantafe.org.

Southall World Tour

Nightlife

Meow Wolf, 1352 Rufina Circle, 505-395-6369 Oklahoma-based country-rock mashup; 8 p.m.; $20; tickets.meowwolf.com.

Annalisa Ewald

Agave Restaurant & Lounge, Eldorado Hotel & Spa, 309 W. San Francisco Street, 505-995-4530 Classical guitarist; 6-9 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays; no cover.

Theater/Dance

EntreFlamenco

El Flamenco de Santa Fe, 135 W. Palace Avenue, 505-209-1302 Featuring Antonio Granjero and Estefania Ramirez; 6:15 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through December, Tuesdays-Thursdays through Dec. 28; $25-$45; entreflamenco.com/tickets.

Runi Tafeaga’s Hot Lava Polynesian Show

Tesuque Casino, 7 Tesuque Road, 800-462-2635 Performers from Samoa, Tahiti, New Zealand, Hawaii, and Fiji; 4 and 7 p.m. today through Sunday; win show tickets or $20 at the door; tesuquecasino.com.

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Carlos Medina & Trio CPR

Tesuque Casino, 7 Tesuque Road, 800-462-2635 Traditional Hispanic tunes; 6:30-9:30 p.m.; no cover.

Aurelia Gallery (aureliagallery.com) shows prints by Leesah Corradino through Feb. 4.

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown

New Mexico Actors Lab Theater, 1213 Parkway Drive, 505-395-6576 Family Theatre of Santa Fe presents a revised version of Clark Gesner’s musical; 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday, 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; $27, students $7; theatresantafeorg/calendar.

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Yuletide Celebrations

Collected Works Bookstore Annual Holiday Players

202 Galisteo Street, 505-988-4226 Including Ali MacGraw, Carol McGiffin, Jim McGiffin, Natachee Momaday Gray, Felix Cordova, and others; 6 p.m.; no charge; collectedworksbookstore.com.

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Club Legato, 125 E. Palace Avenue, 505-988-9232 Jazz pianist; 6-9 p.m.; no cover.

Second Chances

La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda 100 E. San Francisco Street Country-rock band; 6:30 p.m.; no cover.

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SATURDAY 12/16 Gallery and Museum Openings Contemporary Mexican Gallery

Plaza Mercado, 112 W. San Francisco Street, Suite 108-A Multidisciplinary works by Hugo Ximello-Salido; grand opening 2-5 p.m.

Classical Music

Chatter North

Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 505-982-1338 Thomas Adés (Alchymia) and Mozart (Quintet in C minor K. 406), with Emily Cole, David Felberg, Keith Hamm, Julie Hereish, and James Shield; 10:30 a.m.; $5-$17; chatterabq.org/boxoffice.

In Concert

David Berkeley

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery, 2791 Agua Fría Street, 505-393-5135 Santa Fe singer-songwriter; 7:30 p.m.; $10 and $17; holdmyticket.com/event/421350.

Books/Talks

Tony Bonanno

Photo-eye Bookstore, 1300 Rufina Circle, Suite A-3, 505-988-5152 The local photographer signs copies of his monograph Horse of the Sea: The White Horses of the Camargue; 3-5 p.m.

Events

Volunteer Palooza

Rainbow Rainbow Community Arts Center, Meow Wolf, 1352 Rufina Circle, 505-395-6369 Arts and culture volunteer fair, presented by the Santa Fe Opera, Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, Performance Santa Fe, Santa Fe International Film Festival, and other local nonprofits; 2-5 p.m.

Santa Fe Women’s Ensemble

First Presbyterian Church, 208 Grant Avenue Winter Lights, holiday selections; 3 p.m. today and Sunday; $30 in advance, $35 at the door; 505-303-8468, sfwe.org.

Welcome Back to the New Norm Christmas Bazaar

San Ildefonso Pueblo Gym, Tunyo Po’ (NM 502, 15 miles north of Santa Fe off U.S. 84/285) Silversmiths, painters, beadworkers, and potters (50 vendors); Pueblo oven breads, pastries, and hourly raffles; 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Winter Village

Railyard Plaza and West Casitas, 1612 Alcaldesa Street Holiday market, The Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Earl Buck, Adam Arcuragi, Schola Cantorum, and vintage records spun by DJ Christina Swilley; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Donations accepted for the Northern New Mexico Toy Drive.

Nightlife

2Smooth Duo

Tesuque Casino, 7 Tesuque Road, 800-462-2635 Santana-tribute band; 6-9 p.m.; no cover.

Bill Hearne

La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda 100 E. San Francisco Street Country singer-songwriter; 6:30 p.m. today and Sunday; no cover.

Bok Choy

Tiny’s Restaurant & Lounge, 1005 St. Francis Drive, 505-983-9817 Rock ‘n’ roll band; 8 p.m.-close; no cover.

Robert Fox Trio

Club Legato, 125 E. Palace Avenue, 505-988-9232 Jazz pianist; featuring a special guest clarinetist; 6-9 p.m.; no cover.

SUNDAY 12/17

Yuletide Celebrations

In Concert

Palace of the Governors, 105 W. Palace Avenue Live music, Santa and Mrs. Claus, and opportunities to operate the antique printing press; 5:30-7:30 p.m.; free admission.

Donations of non-perishable food welcomed.

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery, 2791 Agua Fría Street, 505-393-5135 Folk-rock duo; 7:30 p.m.; $18 in advance, $23 day of; ampconcerts.org.

Holiday Open House

Rick Prelinger: Noisy Archives and the Future of Memory

Christmas at the Palace

A Winter’s Evening with Ryanhood

Books/Talks

New Mexico Museum of Art and New Mexico History Museum (Downtown) Music, the Baumann Marionette Christmas Show, and holiday crafts; 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; events 11 a.m.4 p.m.; free admission.

New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary, 404 Montezuma Avenue, 505-476-5062 Archivist, writer, and filmmaker; 11 a.m.; no charge.

Holiday Party at Gerald Peters Contemporary

Schola Cantorum of Santa Fe

1011 Paseo de Peralta, 505-954-5700 Champagne cocktails, hot cocoa, and festive treats; 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Market Music Holiday Concert

New Mexico School for the Arts, 500 Montezuma Avenue, Suite 200, 505-216-7888 Soprano Kathlene Ritch (Handel’s Messiah), harpsichordist Kathleen McIntosh (music of Couperin); violinist Stephen Redfield (music of Telemann); noon; $20 suggested donation.

The Nutcracker

Lensic Performing Arts Center Aspen Santa Fe Ballet; 2 and 7:30 p.m. today, 1 and 5 p.m. Sunday; $34-$94. Call for ticket availability. (See story, Page 24)

Petra Babankova and Nelson Denman

Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie, 505-424-1601 Guitar and cello recital of holiday music; 5 p.m.; $10 suggested donation.

Santa Fe Desert Chorale

Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail Insights & Sounds Family Concert; interactive performance; 3 p.m.; suggested donation $10-$20.

Nightlife

Doug Montgomery

Rio Chama, 414 Old Santa Fe Trail, 505-955-0765 Pianist-vocalist; Great American Songbook; 6-9 p.m. Sundays and Mondays; no cover.

Santa Fe Great Big Jazz Band

Tiny’s Restaurant & Lounge, 1005 St. Francis Drive, 505-983-9817 Local 16-piece ensemble; 7-9 p.m.; no cover.

TUESDAY 12/19 Yuletide Celebrations Holiday Flamenco

Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie, 505-424-1601 Performance by Compañia Chuscales y Mina Fajardo, based in part on Fajardo’s album Holiday Flamenco; 7 p.m. tonight and Wednesday; $20 and $25; teatroparaguasnm.org.

Natalie MacMaster and Donnel Leahy

Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 The fiddle players present A Celtic Family Christmas; 7:30 p.m. Dec. 19; $49-$75; tickets.lensic.org/ events.

Nightlife

Flashbacks Duo

Tesuque Casino, 7 Tesuque Road, 800-462-2635 Oldies, country, and standards; 6-9 p.m.; no cover.

Santa Fe Woman’s Club, 1616 Old Pecos Trail Historian Sara Dant on Finding the Future in the Last Frontier; 6 p.m.; $20; southwestseminars.org.

TerraCotta Wine Bistro, 304 Johnson Street, 505-989-1166 Jazz guitarist; 6-8 p.m.; no cover.

Terry Lynn Browning

La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda 100 E. San Francisco Street Jazz, blues, and Broadway tunes; 6:30 p.m.; no cover.

OUT OF TOWN Albuquerque

Mariachi Christmas

Corrales

Instrumental Jazz Jam

Old San Ysidro Church, 966 Old Church Road More than 100 displays from around the world; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 16 and 17; free and open to the public.

Wine & Jazz Night

Madrid

La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda 100 E. San Francisco Street Classic ‘60s and ‘70s hits; 6:30-9 p.m.; no cover.

Club Legato, 125 E. Palace Avenue, 505-988-9232 Robert Fox Trio hosts; 6-9 p.m.; no cover.

Tesuque Casino, 7 Tesuque Road, 800-462-2635 Saxophonist Alex Murzyn’s trio; 6-9 p.m.; no cover.

All Fierce Comedy Show

Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 Montezuma Avenue, 505-466-5528 Hosted by Graviel de la Plaga (Carlos Medina’s stage persona); 7 p.m.; $10; jeancocteaucinema.com.

Books/Talks

Encountering the Unseen

La Luz de las Noches

Southwest Seminars

Pat Malone

Henry Sutro & the Nouveau Hippies

Nightlife

MONDAY 12/18 Books/Talks

Agave Restaurant & Lounge, Eldorado Hotel & Spa, 309 W. San Francisco Street, 505-995-4530 Classical guitarist; 6-9 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays; no cover.

Los Luceros Historic Site, 253 County Road 41, 505-476-1165 Walking paths lined with farolitos, Christmas lights, and arts & crafts vendors; 5-9 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 16; $10, ages 16 and under $5; my.nmculture.org/21041/26822.

Vanessie Santa Fe, 427 W. Water Street, 505-984-1193 L.A.-based pianist; 6-9 p.m. today and Thursday.

Kyle Moore

Annalisa Ewald

St. Francis Auditorium, 107 W. Palace Avenue Complete solo Cello Suites, Part I, featuring Tanya Tomkins; 7:30 p.m.; tickets start at $35; 505-988-4640, ext. 1000, tickets.sfpromusica.org; additional performances through Dec. 29.

New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary, 404 Montezuma Avenue, 505-476-5062 Exhibiting artists Morgan Barnard and Mira Burack in conversation about consciousness, perception, and our relationship to the environment through art; 5-7 p.m.; $5 suggested donation; Sci Art Santa Fe, 505-476-5063, sciartsantafe.org.

Rio Chama, 414 Old Santa Fe Trail, 505-955-0765 Pianist-vocalist; Great American Songbook; 6-9 p.m. Sundays and Mondays; no cover.

Club Legato, 125 E. Palace Avenue, 505-988-9232 Jazz saxophonist; 6-9 p.m.; no cover.

Alcalde

Santa Fe Pro Musica Holiday Bach Festival

Theater/Dance

Doug Montgomery

Alex Murzyn Trio

Yuletide Celebrations

Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 417 Agua Fría Street Christmas music; 2 p.m.; donations accepted.

Hervé Wine Bar, 139 W. San Francisco Street, 505-795-7075 Spanish, Latin, and flamenco guitar; 5:30-7:30 p.m.; no cover.

Nightlife

WEDNESDAY 12/20

THURSDAY 12/21

Annalisa Ewald

St. Francis Auditorium, 107 W. Palace Avenue Complete solo Cello Suites, Part II, featuring Tanya Tomkins; 7:30 p.m.; tickets start at $35; 505-988-4640, ext. 1000, tickets.sfpromusica.org; additional performances through Dec. 29.

Popejoy Hall, 203 Cornell Drive SE, 505-925-5858 Mariachi Juvenil Aztlán and Ballet Folklórico University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 15; $25-$65; popejoypresents.com.

Yuletide Celebrations

Nightlife

Santa Fe Pro Musica Holiday Bach Festival

Lights of Los Luceros

Festival of the Nativities

Madrid Christmas Open House

Townwide Holiday lights and extended shops hours; weekends through December shopping days.

Placitas

Placitas Artists Series

Las Placitas Presbyterian Church, 7 Paseo de San Antonio, NM 165, Exit 242 off Interstate 25 Violist Kim Fredenburgh and the Altura Ensemble; Reverie for Viola and Piano by David Dean Mendoza, two movements from the Concertino for Flute, Viola

by Schukgiff, and music of Brahms and Bach; 3 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 17; $25; placitasarts.org.

Taos

Taos Art Museum at Fechin House

227 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, 575-758-2690 Natural Forms, sculpture by Britt Brown; reception 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 16; through Jan. 21; taosartmuseum.org. Closed Mondays.

Yuletide Celebrations

PEOPLE WHO NEED PEOPLE

Santa Fe Botanical Garden, 715 Camino Lejo, 505-471-9103 The Light of the Nights: farolito-lined paths, holiday lights, cash bar, and performers Rachel Kelli, ShanDien LaRance, Vicente Griego, and Revozo Flamenco; 4:30-7:30 p.m. through Jan. 1; $27, discounts available; santafebotanicalgarden.org.

Grants awarded to New Mexico artists creating contemporary works; $2,000 to $10,000; application deadline 11:59 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 20; 516arts.org/fulcrumfund. ◀

516 ARTS Fulcrum Fund

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A guide to performances & events for the weeks ahead

The Lone Bellow

Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 Indie-folk trio’s 10th anniversary tour; 7:30 p.m. Jan. 16; $25-$130; tickets.lensic.org/9303/9304.

Yungchen Lhamo

Taos Center for the Arts and San Miguel Chapel Tibetan singer-songwriter; 7:30 p.m. Jan. 17 and 18; $25 and $35; ampconcerts.org.

Alash Ensemble

St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Avenue Republic of Tuva throat singers; 7:30 p.m. Jan. 19; $25-$75; performancesantafe.org.

Winter Reverie

Harwood Museum of Art, 238 Ledoux Street, 575-758-9826 Violinist Elizabeth Baker, violist Laura Chang, cellist Sally Guenther, and pianist Debra Ayers; music of Brahms and Dohnányi; 5:30 p.m.

Jan. 20, 3 p.m. Jan. 21; $24 and $30; taoschambermusicgroup.org.

Albert Catiglia

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery, 2791 Agua Fría Street, 505-393-5135 Blues guitarist; 7:30 p.m. Jan. 24; $25; ampconcerts.org.

SOJA

The Historic El Rey Theater, 622 Central Ave., SW, Albuquerque, 505-510-2582 Roots-reggae band; special guests Hirie and Likkle Jordee; 7:30 p.m. Jan. 25; $38; lensic360.org.

Dust City Opera

Lensic 360 presents The Lone Bellow Jan. 16 at the Lensic.

Music

Santa Fe Pro Musica Bach Ensemble

Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 Bach and Beyond, music of Philip Glass, Bach, Mendelssohn, and Arvo Pärt, led by violinist Colin Jacobsen; 7:30 p.m. Dec. 28; $33-$98; 505-988-4640, ext. 1000, tickets.sfpromusica.org.

The Met: Live in HD

Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 Verdi’s Nabucco, with baritone George Gagnidze in the lead role, and soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska as his vengeful daughter Abigaille; 11 a.m. Jan. 27; $22-$28; tickets.lensic.org/events.

Slaughter Beach Dog

Meow Wolf, 1352 Rufina Circle, 505-395-6369 Rock band; Sun June opens; 7 p.m. Jan. 9; $27.50; meowwolf.com.

Leo Kottke

Taos Center for the Arts, Lensic Performing Arts Center, KiMo Theatre, Albuquerque On the road again; 7:30 p.m. Jan. 10, 12, and 13; tickets start at $42; (Taos) tickets.lensic360.org/tickets/421575, (Santa Fe) tickets.lensic .org/9245/9246, (Albuquerque) holdmyticket.com/tickets/421859.

Delirium Musicum

Duane Smith Auditorium, Los Alamos High School campus, 1300 Diamond Drive L.A.-based chamber orchestra on tour; 7 p.m. Jan. 12; $35, ages 6-18 no charge; losalamosconcert.org.

An Evening with Jamie Barton

Taos Center for the Arts, 145 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, 505-758-2052 The mezzo-soprano sings operatic selections and contemporary songs; 4 p.m. Jan. 13; $65, concert and artist reception $125; tcataos.org.

Diderot Quartet

St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Avenue Caroline Shaw’s Punctum, Bach, selections from Art of the Fugue, and Mendelssohn’s Quartet in A Minor, Op. 13; 3 p.m. Jan. 14; $24-$94; 505-988-4640, ext. 1000, tickets.sfpromusica.org.

Philippe Quint in Charlie Chaplin’s Smile

Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 The violinist joins the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra in a multimedia program accompanying clips from classic Chaplin films; 4 p.m. Jan. 14; $25-$92; boxoffice.santafesymphony .org/8733.

Fusion 708, 708 First Street NW, Albuquerque The folk-rock orchestra presents Sadness, Madness, & Mayhem, including performances by Conservation Carnivale Science Circus members, Giovanni String Quartet, and tarot readings; 6:30 p.m.

Jan. 27; $25 and $150; ampconcerts.com.

Santa Fe Pro Musica

Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 Music of Mozart, Carl Nielsen, and Jessie Montgomery, led by Marcello Cormio, with flutist Anthony Trionfo; 3 p.m. Jan. 28; $28-$98; 505-988-4640, ext. 1000, tickets.sfpromusica.org.

Amy Ray Band

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery, 2791 Agua Fría Street, 505-393-5135 Touring in support of her album If It All Goes South; 7:30 p.m. Jan. 29; $25; tickets.lensic360.org/tickets/421574.

Benise

KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Avenue NW, Albuquerque American self-described nouveau Spanish flamenco guitarist in his stage production Fiesta!; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 2; $29-$95; holdmyticket.com/tickets/416770.

David Wax Museum & Lone Piñon

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery, 2791 Agua Fría Street, 505-393-5135 Folk/roots-rock band and New Mexico string band; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 5; $20; ampconcerts.org.

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Portugal. The Man

Sunshine Theater, 120 Central Avenue SW, Albuquerque, 505-764-0249 Portland, Oregon-based rock band; 8 p.m. Feb. 6; $43; tickets.lensic360-org/tickets/422759.

Brad Mehldau: 14 Reveries

Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 The jazz pianist performs cuts off his new composition; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 7; $35-$95; performancesantafe.org.

Robert Jon and The Wreck

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery, 2791 Agua Fría Street, 505-393-5135 Southern-rock band; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 8; $30; ampconcerts.org.

On Stage

Wise Fool New Mexico Winter Cabaret

Wise Fool New Mexico Studio, 1131-B Siler Road, 505-992-2588 The contemporary circus-arts company presents In the Clouds; 2 and 7 p.m. Dec. 28, 4 p.m. Dec. 29; wisefoolnewmexico.org /wintercabaret.

The Peking Acrobats

Santa Fe Pro Musica Holiday Bach Festival

MOMIX

St. Francis Auditorium, 107 W. Palace Avenue A Baroque Christmas, Dec. 22 and 23; Bach and Beyond, Dec. 28; tickets start at $33; 505-988-4640, ext. 1000, tickets.sfpromusica.org; Bach and Beyond for Families, Dec. 27 (free).

Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 Accompanied by musicians; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 1; $35-$59; tickets.lensic.org/events.

Kelly Hunt and Stas Heaney

Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 The modern-dance troupe in Alice, Moses Pendleton’s choreography inspired by Alice in Wonderland; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 6; $36-$114; tickets.lensic.org/events.

Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo

A Mardi Gras Celebration with Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra

Tradition and Invention: American Jazz Dance with Nan Giordano & the Giordano Dance Chicago

GiG Performance Space, 1808 Second Street Folk singer/banjo player and fiddler; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 9; $25; gigsantafe.tickit.ca.

Duane Smith Auditorium, Los Alamos High School campus, 1300 Diamond Drive Known for their programs ranging from bluegrass to Bach; 3 p.m. Feb. 10; $35, ages 6-18 no charge; losalamosconcert.org.

Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 Part of the 2024 Art + Sol Winter Arts Festival; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 10; $35-$115; performancesantafe.org.

Bentano Quartet

St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Avenue Music of Mozart, Shostakovich, and Mendelssohn; 3 p.m. Feb. 11; $24-$94; performancesantafe.org.

Matisyahu

Meow Wolf, 1352 Rufina Circle, 505-395-6369 Reggae singer/rapper on his Hold the Fire tour; 7 p.m. Feb. 14; $50.50-$145.50; meowwolf.com.

Rosanne Cash

Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 With John Leventhal; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 14; $59-$84; tickets.lensic.org /events.

Santa Fe Symphony

Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 American Classics, with violinist Alexi Kenney performing Barber’s Violin Concerto No. 1; also on the program, Bernstein’s Chishester Psalms, Copland’s Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo; 4 p.m. Feb. 18; $25-$92; boxoffice.santafesymphony.org/8735.

Mauro Durante & Justin Adams

San Miguel Chapel, 401 Old Santa Fe Trail The percussionist-violinist and guitarist fuse love songs of southern Italy and the blues of North Africa and North America; 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 20; $30 and $50; ampconcerts.org.

Dylan LeBlanc

Paradiso Santa Fe, 903 Early Street, 505-577-5248 Singer-songwriter-guitarist; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 22; $18; ampconcerts.org.

Terence Blanchard, E-Collective, and Turtle Island String Quartet

Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 Paying tribute to jazz composer Wayne Shorter; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 22; $49-$72; tickets.lensic.org/events.

Judith Hill

Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 Singer-songwriter; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 23; $30-$55; tickets.lensic.org /events.

Las Migas

National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 Fourth Street SW, Albuquerque, 505-246-2261 Spanish flamenco-crossover quartet; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 24; $22-$44; ampconcerts.org.

Severall Friends

New Mexico School for the Arts, 500 Montezuma Avenue Telemann in Paris, with flutist Sandra Miller, violinist Elizabeth Blumnstock, viola da gambist Mary Springfels, cellist Katie Rietman, and harpsichordist Kathleen McIntosh; 4 p.m. Feb. 25, $30 in advance; severallfriends.org.

Donavon Frankenreiter

Taos Center for the Arts, 145 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, 505-758-2052 Surfer-cum-singer-songwriter; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 28; $30; tickets.lensic360.org/tickets/424080.

Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 Comic drag troupe celebrating its 50th anniversary; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 12; $36-$114; tickets.lensic.org/events.

LewAllen Galleries, 1613 Paseo de Peralta, and Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street Presentation by the artistic director of Giordano Dance Chicago; 5:30 p.m. Feb. 20; $125 (at the gallery); secure.performancesantafe .org/9039/9064. Giordano Dance Chicago jazz troupe; 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 21; $35-$115; secure.performancesantafe.org/842/8865.

Spectrum Dance Theater

Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 Choreographer Donald Byrd’s production of Grief, depicting the experiences of Mamie Till-Mobley after the murder of her son Emmett Till; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 29; $49-$75; tickets.lensic.org/events.

Happenings

Ways of Seeing: Four Photographic Collections

New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Avenue Photographs from the mid-20th century, including works

by Ruth Bernhard, Edward Burtynsky, Harry Callahan, Adam Fuss, David Michael Kennedy, and Minor White; opening Jan. 20; through July 7, 2024.

Creative Connections — A Celebration of Aunties

Institute of American Indian Arts, 83 Avan Nu Po Road Native American arts, food, music, and a presentation from Indigenous Performance Productions, with director Kendra Potter (Lummi), executive creative producer Andre Bouchard (Kootenai/Ojibwe/Pend d’Orielle/Salish); performers include Nora Naranjo Morse (Santa Clara Pueblo), Laura Tohe (Diné), and IAIA students; 5:30 p.m. Jan. 23; $40; performancesantafe.org.

The Writing Generation Series

Via Zoom Free readings by New Mexico writers, and creative-writing sessions; Santa Fe Poet Laureate Janna Lopez launches the series with a reading of her collection such is; 6 p.m. Jan. 24; session follows 6 p.m. Jan. 31. The series continues with online readings and workshops offered by Santa Fe Community College and Institute of American Indian Arts graduates and professors through spring.

The Aunties: Women of the White Shell Water Place

Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 Multimedia storytelling, with Nora Naranjo Morse (Kha’p’o Owenge/Santa Clara Pueblo), Deborah Taffa (Quechan/Laguna Pueblo), and Laura Tohe (Diné, Tsénahabiłnii, Sleepy Rock People clan); 7:30 p.m. Jan. 24; $25-$85; performancesantafe.org.

Winterbrew

Santa Fe Farmers’Market Pavilion, 1607 Paseo de Peralta Annual New Mexico Brewers Guild’s craft beer tasting event; 6-9 p.m. Jan. 26, $10-$45; eventbrite.com.

2024 Souper Bowl

Santa Fe Community Convention Center, 201 W. Marcy Street, 800-777-2489 The Food Depot’s fundraiser with local chefs competing in this best-soup challenge, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Jan. 27, adult VIP $100 in advance, $150 day of, child VIP (13 and up) $30, general admission $30 in advance (by 12/27), $50 in advance, $75 day of, children $15, ages 12 and under no charge; 505-471-1633, thefooddepot.org.

Sin Nombre Brass Quintet St. Bede’s Episcopal Church, 550 W. San Mateo Road Including Sweelinck’s Hodie Christus Natus Est, The First Noel, and music of Irving Berlin, Mel Tormé, and Buddy Greene; 4 p.m. Dec. 23; no charge.

Santa Fe Symphony Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Streeet Nochebuena Clasica!, Vivaldi’s Guitar Concerto, and Rod drig go’ss Concierto de Aranjuez, with guitarist Jason Vieaux; also, Corelli’s Christmas Concerto and Mozart’s Symphhony No. 36; 4 p.m. Dec. 24; $25-$92; tickets.lensic.org/eveents.

Canyon Road Christmas Eve farolito walkk Neighborhoodwide Annual pedestrian-only holiday tradition, with farolito-lined d streets and adobe walls; begins at dusk Dec. 24.

Flix & Chopstix

Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival’s tradition: The Produccers and Young Frankenstein; 2 p.m. Dec. 25; $8 or $144, one film and dinner $32, both films and dinner $38;; dinner 5:45 p.m. (Temple Beth Shalom); santafejff.org/tickets.

Max Gomez & Friends Holiday Concert Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery, 2791 Agua Fría Street Americana singer-songwriter; 7:30 p.m. Dec. 28; $25-$40; holdmyticket.com/tickets/423900.

Joe Illick & the NYE Orchestra Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street Soloist Augustin Hadelich; Burch Violin Concerto, Sarasate’s Carmen Fantasy, and Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2; 5 p.m. Dec. 31; $30-$80; open rehearsal 1 p.m.; $5 and $20; tickets.lensic.org/8818/8820.

New Year’s Eve Show & Party Tesuque Casino, Tesuque Road, 800-462-2635 Carlos Medina and Danny Duran bands; 7 p.m.-12:15 a.m. Dec. 31; $20 at the door.

Carousel: NYE at the House of Eternal Return Meow Wolf, 352 Rufina Circle, 505-395-6369 Dance to Ana M, Bacon, Callie Jones, Red Flag, Saint’s Ball, and Spoolius; doors 9 p.m. Dec. 31; $45 and $55; meowwolf.com.

New Year’s Eve Love & Happiness Dance Party Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery, 2791 Agua Fría Street, 505-393-5135 Led by Raashan Ahmad; 9 p.m. Dec. 31; $12 cover.

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Museum of International Folk Art

706 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-476-1204 Protection: Adaptation and Resistance, works

by Alaskan Indigenous artists ranging from regalia to images of traditional tattooing and graphic design; through April 7; Ghhúunayúkata /To Keep Them Warm: The Alaska Native Parka, examples from the mid-19th century to contemporary reinterpretations; through April 7 • La Cartonería Mexicana: The Mexican Art of Paper and Paste, historic sculptures from the collection, exhibited with the work of three visiting cartoneros; through Nov. 3, 2024. Core exhibits: Multiple Visions: A Common Bond, works in the Alexander Girard Wing • Lloyd’s Treasure Chest: Folk Art in Focus, thematic displays from the permanent collection; moifa.org. Open daily.

Museum of Spanish Colonial Art

750 Camino Lejo, museum@spanishcolonial.org Grow and Flourish: Spanish Colonial Arts Society New Acquisitions, historic and contemporary bultos and hide paintings; through December • Generations and Imagination: What Lies Behind the Vision of Chimayó Weavers, highlighting the shifting traditions through four generations of the Trujillo family’s work; through April; spanishcolonial.org. Open Wednesdays-Fridays.

New Mexico History Museum

Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian includes painting by Frank LaPen in the exhibit California Stars:

Huivaniūs Pütsiv; through Jan. 14.

AT THE GALLERIES

MUSEUMS & ART SPACES

Santa Fe

Santa Fe

Aurelia Gallery

414 Canyon Road, 505-501-2905 Colors Gone Wild, group show; through Feb. 4.

Edition One Gallery

729 Canyon Road, 505-982-9668 A Walk in the Park, photographs by Andy Katz; through December.

form & concept

435 S. Guadalupe Street, 505-780-8312 Happening, Doreen Wittenbols’ installation; Lifted Labor, paintings by Andrew Alba; Paper Trails, mixed-media group show; through Dec. 23.

Gaia Contemporary

225 Canyon Road, Suite 6, 505-577-8339 Holiday Small Works Show; through December.

Giacobbe-Fritz Fine Art

702 Canyon Road, 505-986-1156 24th Annual Small Works Holiday Show; through December.

Manitou Galleries

123 W. Palace Avenue, 505-986-0440 Annual Small Works Show; through December.

No Name Cinema

2013 Piñon Street, nonamecinema.org Calendar, video installation by Andrew Weathers and Gretchen Korsmo; through December.

Vivo Contemporary

725-A Canyon Road, 505-982-1320 (Untitled), group show of works by gallery artists; through Jan. 1.

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Coe Center for the Arts

1590-B Pacheco Street, 505-983-6372 African, Asian, European, Native American, and Oceanic objects; email info@coeartscenter.org for tours; coeartscenter.org. Open by appointment.

Georgia O’Keeffe Museum

217 Johnson Street, 505-946-1000 O’Keeffe and Moore, paintings and sculptures

by O’Keeffe and Henry Moore; through December • Rooted in Place, O’Keeffe’s studies of trees; through April 15 • Georgia O’Keeffe: Making a Life, art and objects from the collection; through Nov. 15, 2024; okeeffemuseum.org.

Closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

113 Lincoln Avenue, 505-476-5200 Solidarity Now! 1968 Poor People’s Campaign, a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibit exploring the grassroots movements of the civil rights era; through Jan. 15. Core exhibitions: Palace Seen and Unseen: A Convergence of History and Archaeology, photographs and artifacts • The Massacre of Don Pedro Villasur, graphic art

by Turner Avery Mark-Jacobs • The First World War, ephemera relating to New Mexicans’ contributions • Setting the Standard: The Fred Harvey Company and Its Legacy, objects from the collection and photographs from Palace of the Governors archives • Telling New Mexico: Stories From Then and Now, artifacts, photographs, films, and oral histories; nmhistorymuseum.org.

Closed Mondays.

New Mexico Museum of Art

107 W. Palace Avenue, 505-476-5072 Selections from the 20th-Century Collection, through December • The Nature of Glass, group show, through December • Manuel Carrillo: Mexican Modernist, photographic exhibition; through Feb. 4 • Rick Dillingham: To Make, Unmake and Make Again; through June 16; nmartmuseum.org. Closed Mondays.

New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary

IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

404 Montezuma Avenue, 505-476-5062 Shadow and Light, including works by Larry Bell, Judy Chicago, Agnes Martin, and Leo Villareal; through May 28; nmartmuseum.org/vladem-contemporary.

Closed Mondays.

Meow Wolf

Poeh Cultural Center and Museum

108 Cathedral Place, 505-983-8900 The Art of Jean LaMarr, prints; through Jan. 7 • The Stories We Carry, jewelry from the museum collection; through September 29, 2025; iaia.edu/mocna. Closed Tuesdays.

1352 Rufina Circle, 505-395-6369 The House of Eternal Return, immersive, evolving exhibits; meowwolf.com. Days and hours vary.

Museum of Indian Arts and Culture

710 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-476-1269 Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles, historic/contemporary weavings, prints, photographs, and other related items; through June 2 • Here, Now and Always, artifacts from the collection; long term; indianartsandculture.org.

Closed Mondays.

78 Cities of Gold Road, 505-455-5041 Di Wae Powa: They Came Back, historical Tewa Pueblo pottery • Nah Poeh Meng, 1,600-square-foot core installation highlighting works by Pueblo artists; poehcenter.org.

Open Mondays-Fridays.

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-471-9103 18-acre living museum; santafebotanicalgarden .org. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays.

SITE Santa Fe

1606 Paseo de Peralta, 505-989-1199 Interference Patterns, multidisciplinary work

by Nicholas Galanin; and Water, paintings by N. Dash; through Feb. 5 • Field of Dreams, textile compositions by Billie Zangewa, through Feb. 12; sitesantafe.org. Closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian

704 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-982-4636 California Stars: Huivaniūs Pütsiv, the first Californian artists whose works reflected personal experiences, mythology, and social justice; through Jan. 14. Long term: Center for the Study of Southwestern Jewelry, devoted to Diné and Pueblo traditions • Rooted: Samples of Southwest Basketry; works from the collection; wheelwright.org. Closed Sundays and Mondays.

Albuquerque

Indian Pueblo Cultural Center

2401 12th Street NW, 505-843-7270 Grounded: Honoring Our Cultural Ties with Strength and Resilience • Birds and Feathers: Their Beauty Within Our Traditions, groups shows; through April; indianpueblo.org. Open Tuesdays-Sundays.

National Hispanic Cultural Center

1701 Fourth Street SW, 505-246-2261 Hecho en Nuevo México, showcases New Mexican artists whose artworks have been added to the museum’s permanent collection; through Jan. 21 • Hourglass: Paño Arte from the Rudy Padilla Collection, celebrating paños as an art form and the contributions of incarcerated artists to the broader fields of Chicano and American art; through April 14; nationalhispaniccenter.org.

Open Tuesdays-Sundays.

UNM Art Museum

203 Cornell Drive NE, 505-277-4001

UNM Art Museum

203 Cornell Drive NE, 505-277-4001 Pelton & Jonson: The Transcendent 1930s, paintings, drawings, and archival materials

by Agnes Pelton and Raymond Jonson; artmuseum.unm.edu/exhibition. Closed Sundays and Mondays.

Taos

Couse-Sharp Historic Site

138 & 146 Kit Carson Road, 575-751-0369 Plein Air Painters of America: Out West, annual exhibition; through Jan. 20 • Joseph Henry Sharp: The Life and Work of an American Legend; through December 2024; couse-sharp.org.

Open by appointment Tuesdays-Saturdays.

Harwood Museum of Art

238 Ledoux Street, 575-758-9826 Harwood 100: Centennial Exhibition, including works by Emil Bisttram, Andrew Dasburg, Gene Kloss, and Agnes Martin; through Jan. 28; harwoodmuseum.org. Open Wednesdays-Sundays.

Millicent Rogers Museum

1504 Millicent Rogers, 575-758-2462 Tuah-Tah/Taos Pueblo: Home, highlighting the Pueblo’s culture and artistic achievements • Pop Chalee! Yippee Ki Yay!, paintings; millicentrogers.org. Closed Wednesdays.

Taos Art Museum at Fechin House

227 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, 575-758-2690 Natural Forms, sculpture by Britt Brown; reception 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 16; through Jan. 21; taosartmuseum.org.

Closed Mondays.

FINAL FRAME

COURTESY BEST WESTERN CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY

Blockhead, a 44-inch-by-44-inch acrylic-on-canvas piece, is part of Glyphs, an exhibition of works by Jeremy DePrez running through January 27 at Best Western contemporary art gallery. 1-4 p.m. Saturdays or by appointment. 4328 Airport Road, Suite B; office@westernbest.org, westernbest.org — Brian Sandford

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Don’t miss Grammy® Award nominee Philippe Quint in Charlie Chaplin’s Smile on January 14, 2024. Experience this violin virtuoso and The Symphony Orchestra live on the Lensic stage performing music from Chaplin’s most celebrated films (City Lights, The Kid, Limelight, and more) interspersed with rare footage of Chaplin, along with still images and video clips from his films. This exciting program includes his beloved “Smile” from Modern Times, Debussy’s iconic Claire de Lune, and works by other composers who influenced Chaplin’s musical style—such as Brahms, Stravinsky, and Gershwin. Tickets start at just $25.

Sunday, December 24—4:00 pm Nochebuena Clásica!

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Sunday, January 14—4:00 pm Charlie Chaplin’s Smile THE LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Sunday, February 18—4:00 pm American Classics THE LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Saturday, February 24—6:00 pm Champagne & Chocolates RIO CHAMA PRIME STEAKHOUSE |FUNDRAISER

Jason Vieaux, Classical Guitar

Philippe Quint, Violin

AlexiKenney,Violin

Doug Montgomery, Piano

Sunday, March 17—4:00 pm Italian Nights

Tuesday, April 9—7:00 pm SFS Strata I

Sunday, April 21—4:00 pm Oceana

Thursday, May 16—7:00 pm SFS Strata II—with special guest

THE LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

MEOW WOLF SANTA FE

THE LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Kim Fredenburgh, Principal Viola

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Gabriel Martins, Cello

NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART

AnaMaria-Martinez, Soprano

truly phenomenal.

—BBC Music Magazine

Sunday, May 19—4:00 pm Beethoven’s Ninth

Saturday, June 1—6:00 pm Studio 84 | Annual Gala

THE LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

FOUR SEASONS RESORT & SPA SANTA FE

Santa Fe Opera Apprentices

Party like It’s 1984!

Tuesday, May 21—7:00 pm We Remember—FREE CATHEDRAL BASILICA OF ST.FRANCIS OF ASSISI

The Santa Fe Symphony Chorus