Author Archive
March 9th, 2010 | 
Author: The book for Tuesday, April 6th will be “The Color of Water” by James McBride. A memoir written by a black man as a tribute to his white mother. Bonnie has kindly agreed to be the facilitator for the group next month in my absence (I’m traveling to WY to visit my daughter). Thanks Kathy for arranging with Moby dickens for some extra copies to be available…. Happy reading.
Jan M. Smith
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Cultural Energy will be airing the last SOMOS Winter Writers Series reading by dg nanouk Okpk & Cathy Strisik on KTAO 101.9 FM a little after 8 pm
Thursday, March 11th. and will post it online at http://www.culturalenergy.org/somos.htm by Wednesday of this week.
Cultural Energy
A Non-Profit Organization Creating Media Voices
for Youth, Arts & Activism for Northern New Mexico
192 Blueberry Hill, HCR74 Box 21912, El Prado, NM 87529
575-758-9791 energy@culturalenergy.org
http://www.culturalenergy.org
(Thanks Robin & Mike!!!)
We are pleased to announce the 2010 Board
President: Alan Macrae
Vice President: Janet Webb
Secretary: Phyllis Hotch
Treasurer: Billy Knight
Members-At-Large: Kathy Fitzgerald & Cherie Burns
Thanks to all of our dedicated board members for their service last year, and special thanks to Steve Fox (who has resigned to pursue other commitments) for his dedication and many contributions to SOMOS.
GIGANTIC BLOW-OUT BOOK SALE
Saturday, March 6, 11 am – 2 pm
At the SOMOS office across of Smiths
on Paseo del Pueblo Sur
WRITE TO THE FINISH
With Sean Murphy and Tania Casselle
Taking registrations now for an April start, spaces limited.
A 9-month, long-distance course for writers working on a book-length
project. The group works by email and phone, so you can take part wherever
you are. Write to the Finish supports you with craft, community, focus and
feedback. Includes a full manuscript critique. Led by award-winning writers
Sean Murphy (www.murphyzen.com) and Tania Casselle (www.writeondeadline.com
& www.tcwriter.com). For full outline and details email:
shouthootu@garrifulio.mailexpire.com
LOS ALAMOS WORKSHOP – Saturday March 13
Writing in New Directions with Sean Murphy
A day of creative inspiration to encourage fresh ideas for your fiction,
memoir, non-fiction, poetry or journaling. Beginners and experienced writers
equally welcome. We’ll do lots of writing in a supportive atmosphere,
experimenting with structure, style, and various techniques to kick-start
your creative process. Los Alamos, March 13, from 10 am to 5 pm. Details and
registration at www.murphyzen.com or email:
shouthootu@garrifulio.mailexpire.com
Thank you Jan Smith, curator of the Winter Writers series; all the writers who participated; and our dedicated volunteers for making the 2010 series a success.
Dear AROHO Friends,
This is an invitation for you and your friends, students, and colleagues to attend a free New Mexico performance of Ellen McLaughlin’s “Penelope”, a gripping one-woman theater piece about the trauma of war, Saturday, March 6 at the NHCC’s Salon Ortega from 6:30 – 8pm. Ellen’s work is life-changing and the evening will be intimate and beautiful.
Composed and performed by McLaughlin, “Penelope” opens when a woman’s husband appears at her door after an absence of 20 years, suffering from brain damage. A veteran of a modern war, he doesn’t know who he is and she doesn’t know who he’s become. While they wait together for his return to himself, she reads him The Odyssey, and in the journey of that book, she finds a way into her former husband’s memory and the terror of war.
McLaughlin, an award-winning New York actress and playwright, is best known for originating the Angel in Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America”. She is on AROHO’s advisory board and has endowed an AROHO Shakespeare’s Sister Scholarship for Women Playwrights. She lives in New York and teaches at Bernard, also having taught at Princeton and the Yale School of Drama. She has stunned many of us by systematically rewriting the classic Greek Plays, which, according to the New York Times, make us “feel the new acutely. Every age has its own rhythms and drives…McLaughlin..serves and uses the original with true power and grace”. Don’t miss her!
We are partners with the “2010 Women & Creativity Conference” at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. You may have received the hot pink program guide in the mail. The full calendar of events is available on the NHCC homepage— http://nhccnm.org/images/PDF/womanandcreativity/women2010schedule.pdf. AROHO’s weekend programming includes classes and workshops for writers and women looking for funding for their creative projects (price reductions available). All of the details are on our site: www.aroho.org (conferences).
You are also encouraged to attend Littleglobe Theater’s performance of Salve: Women on War and Warriorship following the “Penelope” performance at 8pm. The spoken word performance piece features the poetry of Santa Fe Poet Laureate, Valerie Martinez, and the music of BING, and will be staged just across the courtyard at the NHCC’s Albuquerque Journal Theater. Tickets are $12. The two performances back-to-back will offer a fascinating presentation of women’s perspectives on war.
Please reply to this email if you’re interested in attending any portion of the weekend’s events or classes. We’re planning a champagne toast following the “Penelope” performance and the RSVP numbers will help.
Thank you so much for your support, and hope to see you there!
All the best,
Tracey
Tracey Cravens-Gras
Associate Director
A Room of Her Own Foundation
mailto:tracey@aroomofherownfoundation.org
PO Box 778
Placitas, NM 87043
This month we’re reading, “Brother, I’m Dying” by Edwidge Danicat. Group meets to discuss this book on Tuesday March 2nd, at the SOMOS office, 233B Paseo del Pueblo Sur (next to the Enchanted Florist) from 6:30 -8:00 pm. For further information, call or email Jan Smith 575-770-9047, jms@intuitcounselingservices.com,
All opinions welcome!
This FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2010!
7 PM
Caffe Tazza – 122 Kit Carson Road
dg nanouk Okpik is an Alaskan native, Inupiat – Inuit from Anchorage, currently living in Santa Fe. She will present a layered introduction to the Inuit spirit world through her poetry, and will read from “For-the-Spirits-Who-are-Coming-Around-the-Bend” as featured in the Academy of American Poets, in an introduction by Arthur Sze of her work. She received her BFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. While at IAIA, she received – among other awards – the Truman Capote Scholarship and a fellowship to the Centrum/Port Townsend Writer’s Conference. Okpik recently received her MFA at Stonecast, USM, So. Portland , ME in January, 2010.
Cathy Strisik has been active in the Taos writing community for 27 years as a poet, teacher and youth mentor. Numerous publications include The Cafe Review, Northwest Review, Canteen, Comstock Review, Studio, and she has been awarded numerous poetry awards. Strisik will be reading from her recently published first book, Thousand-Cricket Song, reflective of her journey in Cambodia, observant of the flow of motherhood, grief, and the Mekong River, and her sense of place in the country of Cambodia.
$8 and &6/members/seniors/students