A Special Evening with Sam Shepard

Somos Admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:25:52 +0000

SOMOS FUNDRAISER 2010
Sunday, September 26th
6:00 PM @ the TCA
Tickets: $20.00 in advance $30 at the door ~ if available
Tickets on sale at the Taos Center for the Arts!!! 575-758-2052 with a credit card

BIG SOMOS BOOK SALE

Somos Admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:19:54 +0000

Saturday, September 4 10 – 1 PM

at the SOMOS Office (across from Smiths)

Lots of new titles!!

SOMOS BOOK CLUB UPDATE

Somos Admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:38:29 +0000

The next book for Wednesday, September 1st, is "Lit" by Mary Karr - her
latest memoir on her recovery from alcoholism and drug addiction. We decided
last night that we would like everyone to bring the names of at least 3
books they would like to read in the coming year and we can have a
discussion about what to pick and set up a schedule. The discussion will be
facilitated on a rotating basis.

SOMOS SUMMER WRITER SERIES WRAP UP

Somos Admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:35:30 +0000

This Friday, August 27

An Evening of Poetry

Sawnie Morris &

Jon Davis

Morris is a poet and UNM-Taos professor of creative writing and poetry. She recently won the 2010 Poetry Society of America’s George Bogin Memorial Award. Morris’ chapbook of poems, appeared, along with those of Espanola poet Michelle Holland and Galisteo poet Catherine Ferguson, in “The Sound a Rave Makes(2006), winner of the 2007 New Mexico Book Award.
Davis is the author of five collections of poetry including his most recent, “Preliminary Report”(Copper Canyon, 2010). He has received numerous awards for his poetry,

including a Lannan Literary Award, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets. For the past twenty years he has taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe.

7:30 PM
At the RANE Gallery, 214 Ledoux Street
$8 and $6 for SOMOS members

Books will be on sale at the event!!

Spoken Word – The Film

Somos Admin — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:52:37 +0000

Will be playing one more week at the CCA Santa Fe.  On September 3 SPOKEN WORD will play in Espanola, NM
at the Storyteller Theatres Dreamcatcher 10. Parts of the film were shot in Espanola, NM
so it is great to have this film truly come back home! 

The film will also open at the Fountain Theatre in Las Cruces, NM on 9/10. 

Melissa Miller
Variance Films
44 West 28th Street, Suite 1427  New York, NY 10001
p: 212.537.6769 / f: 646.964.6569
melissa@variancefilms.com

Summer Writers Series

Somos Admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:20:19 +0000

This Friday, August 20

TOM IRELAND (short stories)
&
Tania Casselle (short stories and travel writing)
with
Musical Guests Zanagroove

Zanagroove performs acoustic reggae and funk in their fourth appearance in the SOMOS Writers Series. Featuring the singer/songwriter team of Brooke Zanetell and Philip Handmaker, Zanagroove’s soulful sound is a platform for sung poetry. Themes such as love, loss, and finding one’s way are expressed in humorous, heartfelt and sometimes edgy lyrics. “Some songs come tumbling out of their own accord,” reports Handmaker. “Others require patient coaxing to become themselves.”

The band also muses on current events. The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, for example, is “devastating,” according to Zanetell. “Drowning in Oil” is a ballad she wrote that expresses her grief about the loss of marine and avian life. “Songwriting is a way to transform feelings of powerlessness into something powerful.” The song can be heard at www.zanagroove.com and on the band’s Facebook page.Zanagroove enlists accordion, melodica, guitar, and drums to round out their acoustic sound. They often perform as a trio with drummer John Huxsol. Based in Taos, NM, they have performed at local venues and a vast array of community events and fundraisers.

“We enjoy supporting our community through music,” states Zanetell. “It brings us together and makes us strong.”

7:30 PM
At the RANE Gallery, 214 Ledoux Street
$8 and $6 for SOMOS members

Books will be on sale at the event!!

The SUMMER SERIES wraps up next week ……………

SOMOS BOOK CLUB UPDATE

Somos Admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:10:37 +0000

The next book for Wednesday, September 1st, is “Lit” by Mary Karr – her latest memoir on her recovery from alcoholism and drug addiction. We decided last night that we would like everyone to bring the names of at least 3 books they would like to read in the coming year and we can have a discussion about what to pick and set up a schedule. The discussion will be facilitated on a rotating basis.

Summer Writers Series

Somos Admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:02:30 +0000

This Friday, August 13, Novelist Summer Wood

and Poet/Short Story writer James Nave

7:30 PM
At the RANE Gallery, 214 Ledoux Street
$8 and $6 for SOMOS members

Books will be on sale at the event

Natalie Goldberg and Eddie Lewis

Somos Admin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:39:18 +0000

Friday, August 6^th, 2010, at 7:30 p.m. RANE Gallery 214 Ledoux Street, Taos

$8/$6 for members/seniors, high school students free

Natalie Goldberg, a long time resident of Taos, now living in Santa Fe, still teaches all her national retreats and workshops at the Mabel Dodge Luhan in Taos. She is the author of eleven books, including, “Writing Down the Bones”, which has sold over a million and a half copies and is translated into 14 languages, and “Old Friend From Far Away”, “Thunder and Lightning” and a novel, “Banana Rose”.

Eddie Lewis also lives in Santa Fe. His first novel, “Ray Had an Idea About Love”, was published by Simon & Schuster in 1995. He is currently working on essays and a novella. Goldberg and Lewis are ‘very old writing friends’ and as Natalie says, “Eddie has read every manuscript I’ve ever written before it goes to the publisher.” Both will be reading selections from their current writing.

SOMOS SUMMER WRITER SERIES CONTINUES

Somos Admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:12:18 +0000

This Friday, 7/30

Melanie Sumner, novelist

Davida Singer, Poet

& Musical Guest Philip Handmaker from the

band Zanagroove

7:30 PM
At the RANE Gallery, 214 Ledoux Street
$8 and $6 for SOMOS members

and hot off the press:

CHOKECHERRIES 2009,

the Annual SOMOS Anthology

Chokecherries will be available for purchase for $14.

UPCOMING READINGS …………………

8/6 Natalie Goldberg and Eddie Lewis – fiction

8/13 Summer Wood, novelist and James Nave – poetry and short stories

8/20 Tom Ireland – short stories; Tania Casselle – short stories and travel writing; and a special musical performance by Brooke Zanatell and Philip Handmaker of Zanagroove.

8/27 Sawnie Morris and Jon Davis – poetry

A Special Evening with Sam Shepard

BIG SOMOS BOOK SALE

SOMOS BOOK CLUB UPDATE

SOMOS SUMMER WRITER SERIES WRAP UP

Spoken Word – The Film

Summer Writers Series

This Friday, August 20

SOMOS BOOK CLUB UPDATE

Summer Writers Series

This Friday, August 13, Novelist Summer Wood

and Poet/Short Story writer James Nave

Natalie Goldberg and Eddie Lewis

SOMOS SUMMER WRITER SERIES CONTINUES

This Friday, 7/30

Melanie Sumner, novelist

Davida Singer, Poet

& Musical Guest Philip Handmaker from the

band Zanagroove

7:30 PM At the RANE Gallery, 214 Ledoux Street $8 and $6 for SOMOS members

and hot off the press:

CHOKECHERRIES 2009,

the Annual SOMOS Anthology

Chokecherries will be available for purchase for $14.

7:30 PM
At the RANE Gallery, 214 Ledoux Street
$8 and $6 for SOMOS members