Who Killed the Electric Car? presented by Farmer's Market Institute Wed April 15th, 7PM
Joanne Smogor, Outreach & Communications Santa Fe Farmers’ Market Institute, 983-7726
www.santafefarmersmarket.com/institute
New Dawning of the Dead?
April 15 – WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?
Santa Fe Farmers Market Institute Wednesday Movie Series & Event!
7:00pm NM Film Museum (formerly Jean Cocteau Cinema)
418 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe
(Running Time: 90 minutes)
The Santa Fe Farmers’ Market Institute continues its Wednesday Night Movie Series on April 15 with WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? The third highest-grossing theatrical documentary of 2006, this film about electric cars, hybrids, hydrogen and the future of transportation explores the creation and subsequent destruction of the General Motors EV1 of the 1990s. What were the roles of automobile
manufacturers, oil industry, government, and others in limiting the development and adoption of this technology? A timely precursor to “Revenge of the Electric Car,” a new documentary now in production! This time the world is clamoring for a revolutionary new age in transportation. Will the EV prevail?
After the film, local biofuel and renewable energy experts will join us for Q & A and fresh local La Montanita pizza!
A murder mystery, a call to arms and an effective inducement to rage…one of the more successful additions to the growing ranks of issue-oriented documentaries. -- The New York Times
Building upon its success in 2008, the 2009 Wednesday Night Movie Series will run from January through May at the NM Film Museum. The films focus on sustainable agricultural, food and ecological issues. General admission for adults is $12, $10 for Institute members, farmers and seniors, and $6 for those under 18. Proceeds from the series support operating expenses for the Santa Fe Farmers Market Institute as it works to manage the new Farmers Market Building in the Railyard, implement programs to promote agriculture and other land-based traditions in northern New Mexico, and educate consumers about the cultural, nutritional and economic benefits of buying locally produced food and agricultural products.
* This is a CarbonFree® Event, offset by Carbonfund.org
Farmers Market Wednesday Night Film Series Jan 21,Feb 18, Mar 18, April 15, & May 20 at 7:00 PM
WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE SERIES STARTING IN JANUARY!
• Movies
• Farm-Fresh Local Treats & Tastings
• Speakers, Farmers, Local Experts
• Giveaways
Save the Dates:
Jan 21 The Garden – community mobilization; farmers’ struggles against big-city backroom politics (one of 15 documentaries in the running for the 81st Academy Award nominations)
Feb 18 Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home – follow a family as they keep garbage for 3 months and the changes they make after
March 18 One Man, One Cow, One Planet - a simple recipe to save the world? One old man and a bucket of cow-dung. Are you crazy?
April 15 Who Killed the Electric Car? - the hopeful birth and ultimate death of the electric car, an environmentally friendly, cost-saving salvation to some, but a profit barrier to others
May 20 FLOW: For the Love of Water – “…opens our eyes about the greatest threat of our time, the global water crisis….compelling and passionate…will grip the viewer.” Robert Redford
Movie series at the NM Film Museum, 7:00pm
Current sponsors: Casa Verde Graziers, Charter Bank, Contoured Cooking, Daniels Insurance, Isis Medicine, Lakind Dental Group, La Montanita Coop, Matthews Office Supply, The New Mexico Sun News, Shining Sun Aromatherapy, Bernard & Carol Toobin, Walter Burke Catering, Robert & Carol Warren (SPONSORSHIPS AVAILABLE)
For more information contact Joanne Smogor, Santa Fe Farmers Market Institute
505-983-7726 or Joanne@farmersmarketinstitute.org
Alvord Elementary School Exhibits Students Original Film Posters March 13th thru April 1st
Alvord Elementary school artists create film posters
-Talent! Imagination! Lights! Action! NM Film Office displays the unique talents of the young
While visiting Partners In Education, a distribution center for donated goods from the Santa Fe community to its teachers, art teacher Nina Mastrangelo became inspired. She found a box of empty DVD and CD cases.
Mastrangelo teaches at Alvord elementary. Alvord is soon to become a magnet school - dedicated to sustainability and community. Within a short walk of the school is the Railyard, the farmer’s market, Site Santa Fe and the NM Film office, very rich resources for a school interested in building community. Mastrangelo contacted the film office with an idea, thinking about the DVD covers she saw a way to pull it all together, community, recycling, art across curriculum; an exhibition of students art work as film posters and dvd covers. India Hatch at the NM film office was quick to see the possibility and an exhibition was born.
This project incorporates a highly imaginative display of student’s work from all grades, kindergarten through sixth. The children had to select a genre, conceive of a story for a movie starring themselves, develop sketches of images and titles to promote their movie, and produce both a DVD cover and a large scale movie poster for their imaginary movie. As the scale of this project increased, many school families have set aside time to help with the installation.
The students at Alvord are truly excited to see their work up and invite the community to attend an opening March 13 to celebrate their efforts. There will be plenty of Zombie images for zombie lovers to ponder, cute animal stories too.
As Mickey Rooney might have said to Judy Garland let’s design a bunch of movie posters and put em up in a museum
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If you would like more info about or to schedule an interview
Contact about the Film Museum; India Hatch
Contact about the Poster Project; Nina Mastrangelo: teachart@aol.com, 982-9833
Contact for Alvord magnet school information; Karen Sneiders: ksneiders@sfps.info
OAS Brown Bag Lunch Talks Offered
OAS is once again offering monthly brown bag lunch talks on current research of OAS archaeologists, research associates, and esteemed colleagues. The lectures will start at 12:10 pm and be held at the New Mexico Film Museum Theater (the former Jean Cocteau) at 418 Montezuma. Parking is on the street or in adjacent commercial parking lots. We are very grateful to the New Mexico Film Museum for providing us with this wonderful and venerable space. The first four talks are listed below.
October 21 Wolky Toll, Ph.D. and OAS
Archaeologist. “Acting to Protect Galisteo
Archaeology.” The Galisteo Basin Archaeological
Sites Protection Act was passed in 2004. OAS has
been involved in performing initial assessments of
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these impressive sites preliminary to the establishment
of a federal preservation entity. Initial assessments are
the first step in developing and implementing long
term management plans for these sites. Wolky will
talk about the law and the process, focusing on the
sites themselves.
November 18 Ann Noble and Guadalupe
Martinez. “A Vietnam and Laos Excursion.”
During the month of June, Guadalupe Martinez, Ann
Noble, their son Francisco and friend John Faure flew
off to Vietnam and Laos for a Siamese adventure.
Their self guided tour started in Ha Noi, the capitol of
Vietnam. Then they crossed into Laos to visit
archaeological sites, natural wonders and World
Heritage sites such as Louang Prabang and
Champasak. Traveling by bus, motorbike and covered
trucks, they traversed the Laotian countryside.
Eventually, they walked back into Vietnam, making
their way to Hue and Hoi An, another World Heritage
site, in central Vietnam. They visited many temples,
met local people, went to markets, shopped and ate
their way across a small part of Asia. With over 3,000
photographs to draw from, they will show some of the
beauty of the region while sharing their adventures on
this amazing trip.
December 9 Dean Wilson, OAS Ceramic Lab
Director. “Early Southwestern Ceramics:
Inception, Spread and Differentiation before A.D.
900.” Dean will encapsulate the presentations and
discussions from the early ceramic conference he is
organizing for November 7 and 8 in Santa Fe.
Early Ceramics Conference
Examining Ceramic Technologies &
Traditions up to A.D. 900
The Office of Archaeological Studies and Friends of
Archaeology are sponsoring a conference on
November 7 and 8, 2008. This conference, organized
by Dean Wilson, is titled “Early Southwestern
Ceramics: Inception, Spread and Differentiation
before A.D. 900.”
It will bring together archaeologists who have
studied early ceramic developments in various regions
of the Southwest, including the Hohokam, Mogollon,
Anasazi and Jornada Mogollon cultural areas.
Presentations will focus on the timing, nature and
potential causes of the introduction of simple ceramic
technologies into various regions of the Southwest
and the subsequent development of more complex and
distinct regional ceramics traditions until A.D. 900.
This conference will provide a framework to place
existing knowledge into a broader regional
perspective, highlighting common problems that
cross-cut the research areas of individual
archaeologists.
One important issue is whether the introduction
of ceramics can be traced to specific sources. Other
important issues include the possible causes of distinct
ceramic traditions that developed in different
Southwestern regions. Possible explanations for these
differentiations include influences of the qualities and
limitations of ceramic resources that would have been
available in different geological provinces, the
different needs for containers by groups with different
economic or adaptive systems and the idea that such
differences may reflect cultural boundaries of
different “peoples.”
Invited participants include Bill Lucius, Lori
Reed, Kelley Hays-Gilpin, Dennis Gilpin, Jim
Allison, Winston Hurst, Jim Heidke, Barbara Mills,
Peter McKenna, Tom Windes, Myles Miller and Eric
Blinman. This group of researchers includes
individuals from a broad range of programs including
contract archaeology, academia and various
governmental agencies.
These individuals will present topical, geographic
and temporal summaries as part of an organized
program. Drs. Dean Arnold and Richard Wilshusen
will be formal discussants, reflecting on the substance
of the conference through the perspectives of ceramic
ecology and Southwestern community development.
Interested archaeologists, students and the public are
welcome to register and attend all sessions as an
audience. There will be opportunities for audience
participation in the discussions that end each morning
and afternoon session. For more information contact
Dean Wilson at dean.wilson@state.nm.us or call 827-
6386.
Dean Wilson
OAS Ceramic Lab Director
Join the Friends of Archaeology
Membership is free for Museum of New Mexico
Foundation members. Dial (505) 982-6366, ext. 106
to
Alaska Wilderness League Presents 5 Short Films about the Future of America's Arctic March 14th, 7PM
2020 Vision for the future of America’s Arctic: 20 years after the Exxon Valdez
Tuesday, March 24 will mark the twentieth anniversary of the disastrous Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska. I invite you to join us as we commemorate that event.
Early in the morning on March 24, 1989, the ship hit Bligh Reef and spilled nearly 11 million gallons of crude oil, covering nearly 11,000 square miles of ocean. Hundreds of thousands of fish, animals and birds died as a direct result of the spill. Wildlife populations in the area continue to suffer to this day. The herring fish population, that drove the local economy, has never rebounded. Nearly 26,000 gallons of oil remain in the sandy soil of the Sound’s beaches, according to a 2007 study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Despite the devastating results of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, oil and gas development continues in Alaska – particularly in America’s Arctic. During the eight years of the Bush administration, more than 4 million acres were leased to oil and gas interests in the Arctic Ocean, compared to just 186,000 in the previous eight years. Government experts predict a 40 percent chance of a major oil spill in the Chukchi Sea alone, yet the oil industry admittedly lacks the technical ability to clean up such a spill in the Arctic’s icy conditions.
America’s Arctic is a diverse, unique and fragile ecosystem. Alaska Natives have been relying on its natural resources for thousands of years. Another Exxon Valdez-type spill must not take place in America’s Arctic. Now is the time to take a step back, study this amazing ecosystem, and create a comprehensive conservation and energy development plan.
Come see our vision for America’s Arctic through the lens of a variety of filmmakers.
What: Short films from five filmmakers from around the world about America’s Arctic and interviews from young people about their vision for the future of America’s Arctic.
When: March 24th- 7 p.m.
Where: New Mexico Film Museum (formerly Jean Cocteau Cinema), 418 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, NM, 87501
Directions: On Montezuma Ave between Guadalupe Street and Sanbusco. Just up for the Santa Fe Depot Rail Runner stop.
For more information on this event contact Liz at (505) 438-4245 or liz (at) alaskawild (dot) org and for more information on the events across the country, go to www.alaskawild.org/visionfest.
Films to Be Shown (Tentatively Scheduled):
“Freedom to Roam” by German filmmaker Florian Schulz
“Voices from the Land” by Emmy-award winning filmmaker Richard Kahn
“Cost of Oil” winner of the Festivus Film Festival Best Documentary Award, by Stone Soup Productions
“Polar Bears in Peril” by young filmmaker Claire Kaufman
Michael Berman ,2008 Guggenheim Fellow, will talk on the Chihuahuan Deset Project, Tues. March 31, 6PM
Grasslands of the Chihuahuan Desert
Join New Mexico photographer Michael P. Berman for his talk on the Chihuahuan Desert Project, the latest lecture in conjunction with the exhibition, Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe. Berman will speak at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 31, at the New Mexico Film Museum/Jean Cocteau Theater, 418 Montezuma Ave.
A recipient of a 2008 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation grant, Berman has spent almost thirty years photographing the arid border regions of the American Southwest. A resident of southern New Mexico, he is fascinated by the land and how people use and value it, an interest that developed from his background in biology. Berman says of the grasslands that he photographs:
For seven years I have photograph the lands that stretch from the Southeast corner of Arizona across New Mexico into the Big Bend of Texas and North of the Rio Conchos in Chihuahua. I call it the Chihuahuan Desert Project.
Artists have long contributed to a progressive shift in how we envision nature. Environmentalists now understand the critical role grasslands play for both the habitat of endemic flora and fauna and the corridors that connect the landscapes we have traditionally protected. And the people who have lived here for generations have a deep abiding love for this place. These photographs will be used to bring to together these communities and offer the larger culture a vision of the complexity of a living system.
Berman’s photographs are included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Amon Carter Museum, the Harry Ranson Research Center, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and the Museum of New Mexico. He has received numerous awards including a Visual Artist Fellowships from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Southwest Center of the University of Arizona; his installations, photographs and paintings have been reviewed in Art in America, and exhibited throughout the country. He has published two books; Sunshot (University of Arizona Press, 2006), with text by Bill Broyles, and Inferno, with text by Charles Bowden (University of Texas Press, 2006). Both were named Southwest Books of the Year by the Pima County Public Library and Arizona Historical Society, and each was given a Southwest Book Award by the Border Regional Library Association of El Paso.
Since the 1850s many of the most recognized names in photography have focused their lenses in and on Santa Fe. Through their creative efforts they have documented a particular place and its visual history. They helped create that "place" and the mystique of Santa Fe. Photography has long been significant in the construction of notions of space and place, landscape and identity, and especially in Santa Fe, however malleable visual meaning may be, has helped define the geographical imagination.
Curated by photographer and educator Krista Elrick and Palace of the Governor Curator of Photography, Mary Anne Redding, Through the Lens examines the history of Santa Fe through the visual record created by internationally respected photographers. Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe is on view at the Palace of the Governors through October 25, 2009.
The exhibition, lecture series, and publication of the companion book, Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe, are sponsored by the Scanlan Family Foundation, Verve Gallery of Photography, New Mexico Council on Photography, New Mexico Humanities Council, Visual Arts Gallery at the Santa Fe Community College, Photography Department/Marion Center for Photographic Arts at the College of Santa Fe, Scheinbaum & Russek LTD., Santa Fe 400th Anniversary Partnership, Santa Fe Art Foundation, Andrew Smith Gallery, Museum of New Mexico Foundation, Palace Guard, Phyllis and Edward Gladden Endowment Fund, and the Women’s Board of the Museum of New Mexico.
Mary Anne Redding
Curator of Photography
Photo Archives/Palace of the Governors
The New Mexico History Museum
PO Box 2087
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-2087
505.476-5026
www.palaceofthegovernors.org
click on the Photo Archives
Trout Unlimited & Reel Life present 2009 Fly Fishing Film Tour
Santa Fe is a fly fishing hub for anglers in the American southwest and for those traveling from around the world. It is only fitting, therefore, for our city to be chosen as one of the host cities for the 2009 Fly Fishing Film Tour.
AEG Media, the producer of the tour, will travel the country and screen in over 70 cities with an all new lineup of films. AEG Media is the producer of “The Trout Bum” series, but the Fly Fishing Film Tour features work by a host of cutting edge filmmakers. Last year the Fly Fishing Film Tour traveled to over 45 movie theaters across the country highlighting some of the best fly fishing films from independent film makers such as Felt Soul Media, Beattie Outdoor Productions, Roll Cast Productions, Castaway Films, World Anglers, AEG Media and more.
On April 2nd and April 3rd, The Reel Life will be hosting the 2009 Fly Fishing Film Tour at the New Mexico Film Museum (formerly the Jean Cocteau Cinema). “We wanted to bring the most exciting and current fly fishing video content to Santa Fe and show it on the big screen for our community,” says Jeff Croy owner of The Reel Life. “We also wanted to help Trout Unlimited’s Youth Program get out its message”, said Croy. Ten percent of the profits of this event will be donated by The Reel Life to Trout Unlimited’s Youth Program. Additionally, there will be a raffle with proceeds going directly to Trout Unlimited.
The show is a collection of highlights and short films that will take audiences on a hard core hour and a half journey of pure fly fishing adventure. The Tour is one of the most exciting fly fishing events of the year. This year’s show will feature a whole new lineup of films.
“Our goal is to entertain, inspire, generate new interest in fly fishing, and to help local and national conservation organizations share their message.” Says tour manager Thad Robison of AEG Media. The 2009 Fly Fishing Film Tour promises to deliver on all of that, so be sure to pick up your tickets at The Reel Life next to Borders in Sanbusco. Or they can be purchased on line at www.aegmedia.com. The venue is intimate and seating is limited so advance ticket purchases are recommended (they are available right now!). Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the door.
