Albuquerque, NM

This is New Mexico, and I really appreciate these newsletters which gives us an idea of a few important issues that the Senate are working hard on. Give a hand to communication!

Making College More Affordable

Just one year after Congress passed the largest increase in student aid in more than 50 years, I am pleased to report we have enacted another bill that helps make college more affordable and accessible to New Mexicans.

At the end of July, the Senate passed The Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008, which makes it much easier for New Mexico students to navigate the financial aid process and qualify for financial assistance. It also increases the maximum Pell Grant award and provides those grants year round so students can take courses in the summer.

The legislation requires greater transparency in the costs of attending college, helps reduce the costs of college textbooks and holds colleges accountable for their rising costs. It also reforms the student loan system and provides loan forgiveness, scholarships, and fellowships, and removes barriers for students with disabilities to qualify for financial aid.

I am particularly proud of the increases in funding for minority serving institutions included in this legislation. As a member of the Senate Health, Education Labor and Pensions Committee that finalized the bill, I urged the inclusion of increased funding levels for Hispanic Serving Institutions to $175 million. This funding is used to support two-and four-year Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs); most New Mexico colleges will qualify for such funds.

Also at my urging the bill creates a long-overdue program for graduate students enrolled at HSIs and funds it at $69 million over six years. The graduate program will provide support for fellowships and other services for graduate students. It will also provide funding to improve facilities and for faculty development, as well as for technology and distance education.

In addition to providing aid to HSIs, I was also able to include a provision that authorizes $25 million for Native American Serving Institutions – an initiative that provides funding to nontribal colleges with a student population that is at least 10 percent Native American. Grants of at least $200,000 would support curriculum development and academic instruction, faculty development, the purchase of books and other educational materials, and academic tutoring and counseling. Currently, eligible schools in New Mexico include San Juan College, University of New Mexico-Gallup, and New Mexico State University-Grants.

The Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 also helps students prepare for and succeed in college by strengthening the TRIO and GEAR UP programs and requiring students enrolled in these initiatives to take more rigorous school coursework such as Advanced Placement classes.

This new bill, which I expect will soon be signed into law, comes just one year after The College Cost Reduction Act of 2007 was enacted. That measure increased student aid by more than $20 billion over the next 5 years, of which New Mexico will receive $200 million.

Making sure that our nation remains competitive and continues to be an economic leader in the world is very important. We can retain this position by making sure students have the best and highest levels of education. New Mexico has a tremendous talent pool that, if given the tools, will succeed in becoming the nation’s best doctors, teachers, agriculture specialists, technical specialists, and businessmen and women. This bill goes a long way in helping us achieve that goal.

Housing Crisis

Our flagging economy is affecting millions of American families, many of whom are trying to avoid home foreclosure. To help those families, Congress approved the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 – a measure aimed at stabilizing the housing market and providing relief to hundreds of thousands of Americans who are struggling to keep their homes.

The bill provides assistance for communities devastated by foreclosures, counseling for families in need and also contains programs that assist returning soldiers to avoid foreclosure. It also provides tax benefits for homeowners, homebuyers, and homebuilders aimed at helping the housing market recover. It also modernizes the Federal Housing Administration, implements greater oversight and creates a new program that would help at least 400,000 families save their homes from foreclosure.

One of the most important parts of the bill is the affordable housing trust fund it creates to address the imbalance between the amount of extremely low-income households in our country and the number of affordable rental housing units available to them. The National Housing Trust Fund doesn’t cost the taxpayers because it does not require annual funding from Congress. Instead, it is funded by tapping a portion of the profits that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac make on their mortgage loans, which are estimated to yield at least $300 million a year and perhaps as much as $700 million.

This long-overdue legislation will provide some relief to struggling Americans.

Consumer Protection

As a result of an alarming number of recalls of imported products found to be dangerous to children, Congress has approved and the President has signed consumer protection legislation.

High levels of lead and other poisonous chemicals were found in toys and other imported goods entering the United States. Reports of injuries, and in rare cases even deaths, have eroded consumer confidence in the safety of products coming from overseas.

The Consumer Safety Commission Reform Act takes aim at transforming the commission into a much more effective watchdog. The bill also increases investment so that more safety inspection personnel can be hired and the lab facilities can also be updated. It also protects children from unsafe products by requiring testing and certification of children’s products, and by banning the use of lead in children’s toys. The bill also mandates tracking labels for children’s goods that will enable the purchaser to ascertain the manufacturer, production time period, and other identifying characteristics to help easily identify recalled products.

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Dialogue with the Machine

Santa Fe Complex · 632 Agua Fria · Parking via Romero St.

For more information, contact Don Begley at 505/216.7562 or visit sfcomplex.org

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Next Wednesday, August, 27, pioneering digital artist Woody Vasulka opens a two-part conversation at Santa Fe Complex on the changing relationship between art and technology over his four-decade career.

Each of those decades represents a distinct phase in the evolution of that relationship, says Vasulka. “It has been a dialogue with the machine that began in the political environment of the 60s with a time of continual interaction within an art community,” he explains. He explains, “We were looking for images that were not derived from the world in this earlier work. It was a generation of continual interaction between technology and art where we were learning, demonstrating, and building in a community of with a network of interests.”

That almost communal time of social and artisitc experimentation faded as computer-generated graphics overwhelmed art with hyhperrealistic images and an emphasis on the technical rather than the artistic elements of creativity.

As “the idea of realism slowly came to dominate art in the digital era,” Woody says, “the image itself took the dominant function and the contextual information lost its importance.” As a result, art became dominated by computer needs like resolution and color spaces rather than the artist’s vision.

The irrepressible artist believes the hyperrealistic phase is fading. He offers his “Dialogue with the Machine,” which is how Vasulka refers to his coming talks at Santa Fe Complex, as a return to a more collaborative and experimental community.

In fact, he says that technology will expand the artist’s horizons. Asking “is it the tool that limits you?,” Vasulka calls the computer a variation machine that will let artists leap beyond historic constraints. In the 70s, he says, artists asked, “What happens between the frames?” and “Why 24 frames per second and not 1000?” Today, with the variation machine, they can begin to answer those questions and more.

Thw process has begun, according to Woody. Santa Fe artists like Corey Metcalf and David Stout, he says, are heirs to the Vasulka traditions. They show that modern digital processes, once again, allow a reinterpretation of sound and sight.

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Woody pioneered video art in the late 1960s. Born in Brno, now in the Czech Republic, he trained as an engineer before studying television and film production at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He met his wife, Steina Vasulka, in the early 1960s and moved to New York City in 1965, where he worked as a multiscreen film editor, experimenting with electronic sounds and stroboscopic lights while pioneering the showing of video art at the Whitney Museum. Woody collaborated with Don MacArthur and Jeffrey Schier in 1976 to build a computer controlled personal imaging facility called The Digital Image Articulator. The Vasulkas have been based in Santa Fe since 1980. More information is available at http://vasulka.org/index.html

Don Begley
Managing Director
Santa Fe Complex
624 Agua Fria St
Santa Fe, NM 87501

Come Visit Us

Santa Fe Complex is located next to the Railyard Art District and within walking distance of the hotels, restaurants and shops at the plaza downtown. We’re housed in two facilities, the conference area at 624 Agua Fria and the project space at 632 Agua Fria.

The conference area contains meeting rooms and facilities for short-term use associated with on-going complex projects. The project space houses the great room, where we hold events and offer working facilities for laptop users, coffee lounge and work carrels.

While there is parking at 624 Agua Fria, the Romero Street parking lot is more conveniently located for the 632 facility. Romero St. is an old-style Santa Fe ox-cart road just east of the 624 driveway. Follow it until it opens up to two lanes and turn hard right into the parking lot for 632.

Here’s a map to our location, a representative shot showing the Railyard District and a sketchup drawing of the facility at 632. For more information, call 505/216.7562 or click here.

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In Santa Fe: Team 476 (Precints 56,62,75, 86)

Saturday 8/23 & Sunday 8/24 Canvass
8/28 5PM-9PM Phone Bank at headquarters 720 St Michaels Dr
8/30 Voter Registration Southside Library 10 AM-5PM
Wednesday 9/3 Organizational Meeting 6:30 PM Southside Library

For anyone interested:
YOUTH KICKOFF MEETING Jazz and Pizza, Thursday 5 PM (headquarters)

Classic error what date??? Call 471-4833 about this next event:

Howard Dean in Santa Fe 10:15 AM Bus tour Rally Casa Solana Registering folks. Call: 471-4833.

Vote early. You cn even vote by mail.

Old music to set the mood. From an old DNC

Small town USA. According to Hillary Clinton, it is here, in every small town is where the political action occurs that can change the votes for America. Our personal involvement to get people out to vote, to encourage people to join our causes can make big changes. In New Mexico a few hundred votes made the difference in the last Presidental race.

Classic: Born In the USA….

Have you joined your neighborhood group yet? be bold. Make a difference, blog even, join the wave of Americans who will use the next 70 days to elect our President. (Yes I want you to work for the OBAMA campaign), however everyone’s involvement working for their candidate is very important. We have to keep working for the CHANGES that we need to make to IMPROVE this country. Join your neighborhood group today!

Not convinved? Don’t know how to help out? Go on over to the Obama for America Headquarters on 720 St Michael’s Dr. They have amazing hours so just go.
LIST of things you can do:
1) Phone Banks
2) Bring food for the staff
3) Join a neighborhood group
4) Have a garage sale and donate $$$, or buy more food.
5) Have a bake a cookie party. Oops, I am using creative license again. Like pay for someone’s gas on canvassing days.
6)Volunteer
7) Data Entry
Bring 5 friends to help you.
If some of these ideas don’t seem exciting enough, then make up your own too. BOTTOM LINE: VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED NOW!!!! If we all chip in the work will be easier.

Also you don’t have to be active forever. Work at times when you can. Perhaps participate 3-4 times. They need your help. Create a tag team with your friends. Find 10 friends who will pledge to work 4X’s. Do your bit, and then call the next volunteer. REpeat until everyone has kept their committment.

I am part of a Santa Fe non-profit and am doing a series of presentations
during the month of August. I am hoping that you will use the following as
public service announcements:

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Dr. Daniel Cobb DOM will discuss how to reverse
heart disease with dietary changes and nutritional supplements
Monday September 1st from 6:30 to 8:00 PM at:

Integrative Holistic Healing Center
826 Camino De Monte Rey
Suite B2
Santa Fe, NM 87505 This presentation is free and is open to the public.
For more information call: 424-9527

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Dr. Daniel Cobb DOM will discuss how to reverse
osteoporosis with dietary changes and nutritional supplements.
The problems associated with the uses of biophosphonates
(such as Fosomax) will also be discussed.
Monday September 8th from 6:30 to 8:00 PM at:

Integrative Holistic Healing Center
826 Camino De Monte Rey
Suite B2
Santa Fe, NM 87505 This presentation is free and is open to the public.
For more information call: 424-9527

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Dr. Daniel Cobb DOM will show a DVD titled: Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days This DVD shows a group of diabetics who all achieved a 100%
reversal of their diabetes (drug and symptom-free) in one month.
Monday September 15th from 6:30 to 8:00 PM at:

Integrative Holistic Healing Center
826 Camino De Monte Rey
Suite B2
Santa Fe, NM 87505 This presentation is free and is open to the public.
For more information call: 424-9527

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Dr. Daniel Cobb DOM will discuss CODEX Alimentarius
and how this threatens our ability to use nutritional
supplements without a prescription.
Monday September 22nd from 6:30 to 8:00 PM

Integrative Holistic Healing Center
826 Camino De Monte Rey
Suite B2
Santa Fe, NM 87505 This presentation is free and is open to the public.
For more information call: 424-9527

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Dr. Daniel Cobb DOM will discuss how to prevent
cancer with dietary changes, nutritional supplements, and
environmental controls.
Monday September 29th from 6:30 to 8:00 PM at:

Integrative Holistic Healing Center
826 Camino De Monte Rey
Suite B2
Santa Fe, NM 87505 This presentation is free and is open to the public.
For more information call: 424-9527

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Thank You,

Daniel Cobb DOM

So you think you’ve heard everything about these issues before. Think again. Show up to his lectures, ask questions, and bring friends. Tell him that Mary sent you. Most are amazed at the relatively easy changes in your diet and perspective that can dramatically change your life. Can’t show up? Call Daniel Cobb and ask for a consultation or a copy of his lecture notes.

Un related music video as a bonus:

This could be a long story, so let me find some music to go along with this.

How does this video relate to today’s topic? Well let’s start at the beginning. Late Friday night I receive a call giving me a blog topic: Hillary Clinton is coming to Espanola NM. SO I try a little to find some interst, and a ride. Work Saturday. No email or phone replies. SUnday I get up begining to plan a day, and keep thinking about the event. So I call a friend and say want to rent a car to go to Espanola? She says, “Sure!” So with some difficulty finding a car ro rent we end up going to the airport to get the car and we wonder why all the police cars: dah it was Hillary’s escort from the airport!

We head north and are making good time and run into rain. It has stopped by the time we arrive at Northern New Mexico University. The parking lot is very full. The walk extraordinarily far for two people with noticeable joint issues. I have Pat stop at the first guy and I ask, since we both need canes, if there is a way to park closer and he smiles and gives directions. As we get to the building, I hear that there are no more seats —and then someone tells a person in a wheel chair that there are a few seats near the front. A gentleman looks at us and asks if we need seat, and I say yes, and he says follow her! So we are escorted to the front of the auditorium and seated. We had a great view. We were honored and cared for. This is Northern New Mexico hospitality. People were friendly, welcoming, and helpful. The house was packed, speakers had just begun to talk, and we were blessed with seats.

There was joy and excitement in the air, and all the democratic politicos. Well not all but many. Each introduced the next guy, praised Hillary, and said hello to local politicians famous. This si how we do it here one said. It is important to support the players who are running. The Governor, THe Senator, the Senator running, the new wanna be rep….you get the picture. Our Lt Govenor was a great moderator and crowd speller. She wove a weave that enchanted everyone.

Finally Hillary appeared. The lady behind me kept bellowing to her friend, “I came here to hear Hillary,” there’s one in every crowd. Cameras, Cell phones, and video cameras were active. For awhile, I thought several Old ladies thought they were at a concert as they remained standing when Hillary came on stage. Finally, they decided to sit down.

Hillary wore the same baby blue outfit, taylored, fiitting nicely, but reflecting like a half straight jacket. She needs a few fashion clues. She spoke energetically about community, about us working together to get the vote out, and then reviewing the principles shared by her and Obama. It was a great speech forus Hillary fans to transfer our support to the Great Obama. Afterall 18 million voters have supported her and still do. The time flew by. We were looking for a quick exit when we were informed by the Secret Service, that that exit was closed. Pat loved the attention a young agent gave her as we tried to return away from Hillary when most people were trying to greet her.

She was fantastic and inspirational. She shares an electrifying energy and connects well with her audience. She would scan the group making certain to discuss issue pertinent to them. She’s relaxed and know New Mexican style. Her art is masterful.

The violins convey the classical depth of conversation and experience. They also reveal my mother’s attitude of pretending to play when my father said the same old saaaaaame old…. did your Mom do that too? I heard this all before. These violins on the video demonstrate people coming together, at a grassroot level with life zest and interactive celebration! Ah we are all here having so many dynamic feelings and journeys to share. Hey vote for that young guy, wanna be Representative too: he’s now part of the team. We can all win in NM. Join the neighborhood group and work hard! All of us.

The rain, thunder, and lightening were pouring and flashing as we walked back to the car parked under the old and huge Cottonwood tree. I couldn’t keep up with Pat who discovered she could scuury faster with the cane. Not I. I did not mind the rain, only those who nearly pushed me into a ravine because I was a slow mover.

The rain became so severe that I insisted we pull off at a Casino, the first one we stopped at was overcrowded with a long line of cars, so i went back on the highway. Pat thought I was fooling until she realized we were at near flash flood conditions. We had a lovely dinner. I played briefly and lost.

The sun came back out and I drove through Tesquque where the roads were covered with dirt and rocks. We ventured up the mountain, up Artist Rd, past tenthousand waves and Hyde Park. Up higher into the Santa Fe National Park. A grand late afternoon carnival of colors and tones. Glistening with the freshness of the rain. We saw six or more lovely tall deer crossing the road and climbing up another summit. A rare treat on this road. We listened to the stream, enjoyed a lavender sunset that spanned from Albuqueruqe to north of Espanola. From clouds to mountains to the valley and plains below. As we drove to the Airport to retrieve my car, we suddenly enjoyed the full moon over western skyscape. Indigo darkening blue sky. All this because of Hillary. A grand and memorable day.

I’d love to go as I have never been able to make a Hillary event. Ah, but my car can’t get there from here, it’s a bit old and needs more work. Most of my friends aren’t political. However if you can go do! It’ll be fun and a great way to network. Plus all the politicos from Espanola might like to teach us a thing or two.

I am going to keep this one short. Bring food, have a picnic. There also are terrific restaurants to enjoy afterwards. Or stop at Gabriel’s on the way back. Buffalo Thunder has opened and is a big entertainment center, including a very big casino, or was that a very big bar?

So you could make a day of travel, politics, and fund merge along the highway to Espanola.

Obama himself is suppose to be arriving in NM too, perhaaps for a stop over with Bill Richardson, perhaps elsewhere…the papers did not know. Now if the man reaapears in Santa Fe, this time I may grab my cane and see if I actually could get into see him. Last ssspring it was a madhouse, and while I was at work, I didn’t really miss the backed up traffic literally for miles.

Gossip: Could my dream come true, could Hillary and Obama become running mates? Could Richardson be a VeeP? Either would make me VERY happy. All three converging here or abouts before the convention is not accidental. Keep your ears open. A few thousand Hillary fans wouldn’t hurt. Be there!

I’m writing several blogs tonight. Please go back and forward to get the news you need.
Here’s a promo for a previous blog:

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Here’s an additional plus, now you will be able to listen again on the R-a-d-i-o to the concerts.

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival’s 2007 Season to begin airing on KHFM 95.5 in New Mexico on Friday Aug. 15 at 7:00 PM

Re-live the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival’s 2007 season in the comfort of your home or car! Beginning Friday, August 15th tune in to KHFM 95.5, Albuquerque, to hear the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival’s 2007 season radio series broadcast.

The radio broadcast series is hosted by Kerry Frumkin and produced by Louis Frank of WFMT. It has been airing on different radio stations across the country since the late spring. Coinciding with the last few weeks of the 2008 summer season, the series is presented on KHFM 95.5 beginning this weekend, and will air on consecutive Fridays at 8:00 pm. (Please check local listings for more information.) The radio series also includes commentary from Festival Artistic Director Marc Neikrug, and several of the 2007 season guest artists whose playing is featured.

The Festival’s radio series is produced and nationally distributed by The WFMT Radio Network since 2005. Continuing its international presence, the Festival’s 2007 series was also broadcast again on the United Kingdom’s BBC Radio 3 in its Lunchtime Concert series.

Just a few examples of the great music you will hear:

BEETHOVEN, String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135

Featuring the Orion String Quartet: Daniel Phillips, Todd Phillips, Steven Tenenbom, Timothy Eddy

DEBUSSY, Syrinx for Solo Flute

Featuring Tara Helen O’Connor, flute

HK GRUBER, Frankenstein!!, a pan-demonium for chansonnier & ensemble

HK Gruber, chansonnier; Bart Feller, piccolo; Todd Levy, clarinet; Bill Barnewitz, horn; Stefanie Przybylska, bassoon; Charley Lea, trumpet; David Tolen percussion; Giora Schmidt, LP How, violin; Carla-Maria Rodrigues, viola; Zuill Bailey, cello; Marji Danilow, bass; Victor Santiago Asuncion, piano; Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor.

MENDELSSOHN, Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66

Featuring The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio: Joseph Kalichstein, piano; Jaime Laredo, violin; Sharon Robinson, cello

TCHAIKOVSKY, Trio in a minor, op. 50 for piano, violin, and cello, “In memory of a Great Artist”

Featuring Pinchas Zukerman, violin; Gary Hoffman, cello; Jon Kimura Parker, piano

There’s much, much more! So tune in to KHFM 95.5!

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Free Tickets to August 21st Concert for Area’s Young Musicians and Their Families

The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the First National Bank of Santa Fe both recognize the dedication, effort and time it takes to learn the beautiful art of music. Following the success of last year’s first collaboration, the two organizations are pleased to acknowledge and encourage the area’s young musicians again with a special free concert and post-concert reception on August 21.

Through a generous grant from First National Bank of Santa Fe, any young musician in the area, with their parent’s permission, may request up to four complimentary tickets for themselves and family members to the Thursday, August 21st 6:00 pm concert at Santa Fe’s Lensic Performing Arts Center. The concert features some of the most sought-after classical musicians in the United States.

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Music of the Masters

Thursday, August 21 at 6:00 pm

Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe, New Mexic

Free to young musicians and their families; Tickets for the General Public are: $58, 45, 29, 17

Bruch, String Octet
with violinists Daniel Phillips, Benny Kim, Wu Jie and Guillermo Figueroa; violists L.P. How and Pierre Lapointe;
cellist Eric Kim; bassist Marji Danilow;

Janácek, Mládí (Youth)

with Tara Helen O’Connor on flute & piccolo; oboist Liang Wang; clarinetist Michael Rusinek; bass clarinetist Kyle Knox; bassoonist Nancy Goeres and horn player Julie Landsman

Mendelssohn, Sextet

with violinist Daniel Phillips; violists Guillermo Figueroa and Benny Kim; cellist Gary Hoffman; bassist Marji Danilow and pianist Jeremy Denk

Following the concert, First National Bank of Santa Fe will host a reception for the young musicians and their families in the lobby of its main office on the Plaza at 62 Lincoln Avenue, where they can meet, mingle and ask questions of the performers from the concert. Interested students and/or their parents can call the Festival’s ticket office at (505) 982-1890 to order their free tickets for this event.

First National Bank of Santa Fe is a locally owned and operated bank that has been serving the financial needs of New Mexicans for over 137 years. A full service bank, First National offers commercial lending, trust and estate planning, private banking, investment management and insurance services. There are nine convenient locations, including offices in Eldorado, Los Alamos and Albuquerque. www.fnb-sf.com.

For more information on this special offer, please call Kristen Tidwell, Development & Outreach Director of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, at 505.983.2075, ext. 108 or e-mail her at kristen@sfcmf.org

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Neikrug’s Through Roses, to be performed at Festival on August 24th, to be recorded for the third time by Koch, and will culminate a special five-day event in New York City this November

The Financial Times praised Marc Neikrug for the 1980 world premiere of Through Roses in London, stating, “His compositional gifts on the evidence of Through Roses are profuse and versatile; there would be few elegancies of sound, one imagines, he could not contrive.”, and the Allgemeiner Anzeiger in Zurich commented on the 1985 Zurich performance, “At the end of the hour-long performance not a hand moved to applaud; not because of artistic disappointment but rather from too much pain unleashed by the confrontation with unimaginable events, beyond any measure or category.”

Marc Neikrug’s world-renowned music-theatre piece, Through Roses, has been performed over 800 times and translated into ll languages since its debut in 1981. The subject of two films: a documentary co-produced by England’s Channel 4 and Germany’s WDR, and a motion picture featuring Academy Award winning actor Maximilian Schell produced by Cinecentrum, the emotion-laden piece will be recorded for the third time by Koch in the United States (it previously has been recorded for the Deutsche Gramophon and Enja labels) and released this November 2008.

Artists featured on the recording will be those heard performing on August 24th concert at 6:00 pm at the Lensic: actor John Rubinstein; flutist Tara Helen O’Connor; oboist Liang Wang; clarinetist Todd Levy, violinist Pinchas Zukerman, violist Jethro Marks, cellist Amanda Forsyth, pianist Jeremy Denk, percussionist David Tolen and Marc Neikrug, conductor.

The work will also be the culminating piece of a special, five-day event being presented by the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, in association with Canada’s Royal Conservatory of Music. Entitled “Music in Exile-Émigré Composers of the 1930s,” the series of concerts and talks, which celebrates the music of Jewish composers forced to flee the Third Reich and German composers who resisted the Nazi regime, begins on Sunday, November 9, 2008, the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, and 75 years since Adolf Hitler’s rise to power.

Held at the Museum’s Edmond J. Safra Hall at 36 Battery Place in New York City, the series culminates on Thursday, November 13 with a 7 pm concert that concludes with Marc Neikrug’s work, Through Roses, which will feature the noted theater, film, and television actor Saul Rubinek. Mr. Rubinik portrays violinist Carl Stern, tormented by his memories of Auschwitz, where through the rose hedges of the camp commandant’s garden, he witnessed the horror of the arrival of his fellow prisoners of war, the selection process and the inevitable journey to the gas chambers. Called an “extraordinary achievement” by The New York Times when it premiered in New York 27 years ago , this is its first New York performance since then.

The New York performance on November 13 will feature: Saul Rubinek, actor/director; Marc Neikrug, conductor; Daniel Phillips, violinist; Anne-Marie McDermott, pianist; Tara Helen O’Connor, flutist; Steve Tenenbom, violist; Tim Eddy, cellist; Alan Kay, clarinetist; Steve Taylor, oboist, and Jonathan Haas, percussionist. Information and tickets for “Music in Exile-Émigré Composers of the 1930s” are available by calling the Museum of Jewish Heritage at 646.437.4202 or by visiting the Museum’s Web site at www.mjhnyc.org

Spotlight on Festival Supporters

The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival wishes to thank all of the businesses and individuals whose support have made the 2008 Festival possible. In this portion of the newsletter, we’ll be acknowledging our supporters each month. Should you have the opportunity to avail yourself of their services, please do so.

The Festival thanks
Thornburg Investment Management
for its generosity and support
of the 2008 season.

Thornburg Investment Management® is a privately held investment management company based in Santa Fe, NM. Founded in 1982, the firm manages $50 billion (as of 7/31/08) in six equity funds, eight bond funds, and separate portfolios for institutions and individuals. Thornburg Investment’s disciplined investment style focuses on investors’ long-term goals.

SANTA FE’S FAVORITE LIVE MUSIC VENUE!
VOTED #1 BEST BAR FOR LIVE MUSIC!
VOTED #2 BEST PLACE TO GO DANCING!
IN THE SANTA FE REPORTER’S BEST OF 2008 ISSUE!
THANKS TO ALL OF YOU THAT VOTED FOR US!
37 FIRE PLACE - JUST OFF NM HIGHWAY 14 - SOUTH OF I-25
NEXT TO THE SANTA FE BREWING COMPANY
VOTED #1 BEST LOCAL BEER IN THE SF REPORTERS BEST OF 2008 ISSUE!
“At the Top of the Turquoise Trail”
T.G.I.F.! After a long week of work, it’s time to head out to the Pub & Grill at the SFBC for a great weekend of hot live music, delicious food, and cold craft beer!
See you there
PS I TRIED SENDING THIS EMAIL EARLY THIS AM; HUNDREDS BOUNCED BACK! RESENDING W/O SOME PHOTOS!
SORRY FOR ANY REDUNDANCE/INCONVINIENCE!

T O N I G H T !
FRIDAY AUGUST 15 8 PM $10
GREEN MOUNTAIN GRASS
Live acoustic gonzograss from Austin, TX! Eclectic melodies, creative harmonies, explosive jams, and a thoroghly danceable experience. The four band members in GREEN MOUNTAIN GRASS are Dave Wilmoth (29, mandolin), Adam “Pickles” Moss (24, fiddle), Trevor Smith (18, banjo/guitar), and Jesse Dalton (25, upright bass). Together, they are exploring the sounds of traditional bluegrass, gypsy swing, folk, funk, reggae, and jazz to discover their own genre-bending sound. While some listeners haven taken to calling this sound “gonzograss,” the end result is described by the band as “melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic mastery with elements of sarcasm, quotes, humor, and exaggeration.”
Whether they are in front of an attentive listening-room audience, on a tall stage playing to a throng of sun-baked festival-goers, or in a local venue orchestrating a gonzograss dance party for their fans, something exciting and inspiring is always being created. www.myspce.com/greengrassplayers

Saturday August 16 8 PM $5
NO GO KNOW
Tropical concrete zouk space rock direct from Portland, Ore.!www.myspace.com/nogoknow

SUNDAY AUGUST 17 6 PM $30 ADVANCE / $35 DOOR
TOOTS & the MAYTALS
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS
I Y A H
Toots and the Maytals are legends of ska and reggae music. Their sound is an original combination of gospel, ska, soul, reggae and rock, led by Frederick “Toots” Hibbert. The band won the 2005 Grammy award for best reggae album True Love, an album consisting of re-recorded versions of their classics alongside musicians such as Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson, Eric Clapton, and Keith Richards, as well as popular artists today such as No Doubt, Ben Harper, The Roots, & Shaggy. www.tootasandthemaytals.com

TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW FOR THESE GREAT SHOWS AT THE PUB & GRILL!
TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS with Iyah SUN AUG 17
RECKLESS KELLY with SPECIAL GUEST tba THURS AUG 21
THE MIGHTY DIAMONDS W/The Yellow Dub Squad FRI AUG 22
JJ GREY & MOFRO with the Hill Country Revue TUES SEPT 9
JOHN HIATT & the AGELESS BEAUTIES with the Sean Healen Duo WED SEPT 10
LIAM FINN with the VeilsTUES SEPT 16
JOE BONAMASSA TUES SEPT 23
The SKATALITES TUES OCT 14
PICK UP YOUR TICKETS TODAY AT THE PUB & GRILL AT THE SFBC,
THE LENSIC BOX OFFICE 505.988.1234, OR ORDER ONLINE AT www.ticketssantafe.com

At the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta Park
We are a sponsor of this year’s Green Globe Festival and will be pouring beer all day! Get your earth conscious buzz on.

The Green Globe Festival is not just the name of a party. It is a way of thinking, changing, living. The entire planet is feeling the pains of resource shortage and climate change. This is not only going to continue, it is going to get worse. Sustainable living is working with the planet to insure our ability to survive. Alternative energy, water conservation, sustainable agriculture, no matter the facet of our lives, there is a sustainable solution for almost all of our needs. The Green Globe Festival is the coming together of our community to educate ourselves on how we can all contribute to our future. Professionals and educators from across the state will be speaking and presenting information on how we can all help our community survive.

The Green Globe Festival is not just a multi-subject seminar. It is one heck of a party! It is the coming together of local and national acts in support of the move to sustainability. This year we have nine bands and a Hula troop, that’s right all, guys and girls in grass skirts! Gates are to open at 9 am and speakers will begin at 10am. Music performances will begin at 12pm and run till 10 pm with speakers featured between select performance sets throughout the afternoon. So come on out with the family and learn how you can help our community and have a great time doing it.

2008 Lineup includes:
Hawaiian Pride
Nosotros
Jeff Scroggins & Fresh Horses
Civitas
Jenn Grinels
Felonious Groove Foundation
Rebilt
The Big Spank
Aranda
Ryan McGarvey

Time: 12:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Cover: $ 10 in advance ($15 day of show) $10 for students
www.greenglobefestival.com

From the greenglobefestival site…the speakers

THE SPEAKERS

Alfonz Viszolay of VM Technology
Alfonz Viszolay is a Hungarian-born engineer and inventor. Over the course of his career he has done many environmental remediation projects for large corporations. At the Green Globe Festival he is presenting a biofuel-producing living algae system, a version of which will ultimately be installed at the Santa Fe Brewing Company to provide fuel for their vehicle fleet. To find out more about Viszolay’s Algae Machine, watch video and slideshows of the installation and a demonstration at the Santa Fe Brewing/VM Technologies booth.

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Del Jimenez of New Mexico State University
Del Jimenez is a product of Arizona, born in Phoenix and raised in Scottsdale. He holds an Associate of Arts Degree in Agriculture, received at Eastern Arizona College in Thatcher, Bachelors of Science degrees in Animal Science, Agronomy, and Horticulture from the University of Arizona, and a Masters of Arts in Extension Education from New Mexico State University. Del worked internationally for many years in Central and South America doing large agri-industrial projects and has also farmed over 8,000 acres a year on his own farm.

Del Jimenez now works for New Mexico State University’s Cooperative Extension Service as an Agriculture Specialist. He covers the northern half of the state of New Mexico, working with limited resource farmers and ranchers implementing sustainable farming and ranching programs appropriate for their needs. See what Del is up to at alcaldesc.nmsu.edu.

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Dr. James Biggs of the Conservation Partnership
Dr. James Biggs has been involved in a wide-range of local and regional wildlife science and management projects in New Mexico. Much of his current research pertains to the distribution, movement patterns, and habitat use patterns of large herbivores. His interests center on wildlife-habitat interactions and ecosystem approaches to managing wildlife and habitat resources, in addition to habitat conservation, which he believes is directly linked to sustainable living through responsible development and the “localization” vs. “globalization” of our food and natural resources production and distribution.

Dr. Biggs recently left Los Alamos National Laboratory after a 17 year career as a wildlife biologist to focus his efforts on rangeland conservation. Dr. Biggs started “The Conservation Partnership, LLC” to provide technical support to landowners and developers at all levels of land management, from land use planning to long-term ecological monitoring. His goal is to work with interested parties to ensure long-term conservation of our natural resources.

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Terry McMains the Director at Large of the American Rain Catchment Systems Association
Terry J. McMains is considered a leading pioneer in water sustainability and was the first in the US to implement rain harvesting systems as a standard in large scale residential development. Terry has designed and installed over 600 projects throughout the United States for commercial, mixed use, military, university, and healthcare development. Terry is one of twelve accredited rain harvesting professionals in the nation and is currently serving as Director at Large for the American Rain Catchment Systems Association. Terry is considered a leading resource for rain harvesting and innovative water management consultation and design for new and existing development. To find out more about what Terry is doing follow this link: www.aquaharvestintl.com.

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Dan Duffield of Direct Power and Water
Daniel received his baccalaureate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri in December 1994. He also attended the Solar Technology Institute in Carbondale, Colorado in 1989. As an undergraduate, he played an active role in the design and construction of the vehicle entered by the University of Missouri into the 1993 and 1995 Department of Energy’s National Photovoltaic cross-country vehicle race - “SunRayce 93″. He has an A.A.S. degree in Building Construction Technology, a basic certificate in welding, and is a graduate of Computer Technology Curriculum from the Bryan Institute. In addition, he received the NABCEP PV Installer Certification in 2005 and holds a New Mexico Electrical Contracting license. He has engineered, designed and installed systems for Sandia National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, AT&T Wireless, Sprint PCS, worked with hundreds of remote home clients, and established many custom remote electrical power system applications. He has received factory training and authorization to perform service on Trace Inverters. He is a member of SMA’s Solar Pro Club. He also has been a member of IEEE for 12 years.

As a contracted Mitsubishi UPS service provider, he sizes large commercial Mitsubishi UPS systems (Un-interruptible Power Supplies) and specifies the necessary complimentary components for protecting computer networks, industrial machinery, internet computer server farms/facilities and other critical electrical appliances and machinery.

Daniel has been living with a stand-alone photovoltaic residential energy system for over nine years.

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Katherine Yuhas the Water Conservation Officer for the Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Water Authority
Katherine Yuhas attended the University of Pennsylvania for her undergraduate work in geology and Penn State University for graduate work in geochemistry. She worked at the NM Environment Department in ground water protection from 1995-2000 and was the hydrologist for Santa Fe County from 2000-2003. Katherine has been the water conservation officer for the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority for the past five years.

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Michael Cadigan City Councilman
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Denna Archuleta, Bernalillo County Commissioner
Deanna Archuleta represents an integral and vibrant part of our urban community including Nob Hill, Altura Park, Bel-Air, Parkland Hills and Alta Monte areas.

Beginning her first term in January of 2005, she has been actively involved in the community and focused her efforts on healthcare, substance abuse treatment, the UNM Hospital and economic and structural revitalization in existing neighborhoods. She has been instrumental in legislative funding and direction for the new Metropolitan Assessment and Treatment Services Center (MATS), the acquisition and renovation of the historic Hiland Theater and working with new businesses to re-locate or establish their industry in Bernalillo County. She was elected Vice-Chair of the Board of County Commission in January 2008 and was also elected Chair of the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority. She is a member of the Metropolitan Detention Center Operation Subcommittee, the Legislative Committee, the Regional Juvenile Detention Committee and the Board of Finance.

Commissioner Archuleta, a native New Mexican, is also the new Southwest Regional Manager for The Wilderness Society, a national non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and protecting America’s wilderness areas. Prior to her election, she served as President of the Summit Park Neighborhood Association, which provided a first-hand opportunity to develop the district’s vision. She also served as a representative of the Big I Task Force, as a member of the City of Albuquerque Transit Advisory Board, Vice-President of the APS Citizens’ Advisory Council and PTA President.

A New Mexico native, she received her Masters from the University of New Mexico and is currently finishing her Doctoral degree. She has two sons.

Representing the needs of her constituents, she serves on the following boards and committees:

Albuquerque / Bernalillo County Government Commission (ABCGC)
Metropolitan Detention Center Operation Subcommittee
Alb/Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority
Board of Finance
Legislative Committee
Regional Juvenile Detention Committee

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SPONSORS

Words and music unite when actors Alan Arkin, Jonathan Richards and guitarist Bruce Dunlap take the stage. The one-night only event features an eclectic selection of favorite poems that range from works by W.B. Yeats, Carl Sandburg and Elizabeth Bishop to Rumi, Rilke and Dorothy Parker

So who knows what will happen next with this crew? Could be quite astonishing. Previous video, Bruce Dunlap on bass.
Friday, August 15
6 p.m. at St. Francis Auditorium
(West Palace & Lincoln Avenue)

All Seating Levels $25, Full-time students $10

Complex News § August 10, 2008
Week of August 11 Brings Dance, Art, Theater,
Mathematical Music to the Complex
Samantha Giron, Woody Vasulka, Missoula Oblongata Head Full Week

Santa Fe Complex · 632 Agua Fria · Parking via Romero St.
For more information, contact Don Begley at 505/216.7562 or visit sfcomplex.org

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Greetings!
Next week is an exciting week for us at Santa Fe Complex. In addition to our regular Wednesday night blender, we are honored to host two groups that came to us through our town’s rich network of artists & scientists. Both — Samantha Giron on Monday night and Missoula Oblongata on Wednesday night — are last-minute scheduling opportunities that we are fortunate to have. They also epitomize the spirit of Santa Fe Complex in our quest to create and explore connections across science, technology and art. We hope to see you there and to see you at the other events this week at the complex.

-don

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Samantha Giron Dance Project will be presenting work from two distinct shows on Monday, August 11 at 8:00: a premiere entitled Quickly Going Somewhere and Back, and two excerpts from Women and War, called Fire Diary and Interrogations.

Women and War explores the human experience of war from different perspectives than those typically presented to us. War is usually focused on men who play the heroic roles of killing, being killed, being captured and tortured. Physical bravery is shown as a male trait.

Quickly Going Somewhere and Back represents a new approach for Samantha Giron Dance Project. When Christianson and Giron were invited to perform at San Francisco’s COLLABORATION Festival, they set out to co-create a dance and music performance. Christianson wrote the score first and provided Giron with some imagery and narrative context. Giron then set to work responding to the score. Since then, the two have continued to adapt their own contributions to the performance. Christianson performs his original violin score on stage in Quickly Going Somewhere and Back.

The performance is free though contributions to support the tour are appreciated.For more information, visit the Santa Fe Complex web site. Samantha Giron Dance Project’s web site is here.

Woody Vasulka Offers a Retrospective

Pioneering digital artist Woody Vasulka brings a retrospective exhibit and three work sessions to the complex in August and September. His show opens on Wednesday, August 13 at 5:00; his workshops will follow through the next month.

The retrospective revisits a generation of “continual interaction within an art community,” according to Woody, which was lost as “the idea of realism slowly came to dominate art in the digital era.” Vasulka believes the hyperrealistic phase is fading once again and offers this exhibit as a bridge between the earlier period it represents and modern trends.

Woody pioneered video art in the late 1960s. Born in Brno, now in the Czech Republic, he trained as an engineer before studying television and film production at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He met his wife, Steina Vasulka, in the early 1960s and moved to New York City in 1965, where he worked as a multiscreen film editor, experimenting with electronic sounds and stroboscopic lights while pioneering the showing of video art at the Whitney Museum. Woody collaborated with Don MacArthur and Jeffrey Schier in 1976 to build a computer controlled personal imaging facility called The Digital Image Articulator. The Vasulkas have been based in Santa Fe since 1980. More information is available at their website.

Details will be posted on the complex website in the next few days.
The romance of vaudeville, the adrenaline of punk,
and the playfulness of the Children’s Television Workshop
Missoula Oblongata is coming, Meow Wolf is moving, the Process held firm and Santa Fe Complex is ready.

The three-person theater company’s visit was in danger when Meow Wolf had to move. Christian Hagy of The Process stepped in to sponsor the show, turning to Santa Fe Complex for a venue at Meow Wolf’s suggestion.

Thanks to their work and Missoula Oblongata’s support, the show goes on. They’ll alight in Santa Fe Wednesday night, August 13 at 8:00, after its Monday night show in Ft. Worth and before moving on to Phoenix, Tucson, LA, San Francisco and points beyond. Long-time friends Donna Sellinger, Madeline ffitch and Sarah Lowry are the core of the company, which travels light to perform in any venue with electricity and space. St. Louis Magazine says they have the “romance of vaudeville, the adrenaline of punk, and the playfulness of the Children’s Television Workshop;” Thanks to the efforts of many supporters, Santa Fe will get a chance to taste this eclectic mixture.

The performance is free though contributions to support the tour are appreciated. For more information, visit: Santa Fe Complex, Meow Wolf or Missoula Oblongata

Santa Fe Complex is a nonprofit, community studio creating connections in science, technology and art. Our studio stands on three core activities:

Collaboration to address real-world problems, encourage cooperation and create economic opportunities in applied complexity, urban planning and simulation, and computational arts.

Communication with local, national and international communities about our work in Santa Fe and elsewhere. Whether it’s a live feed or published reports, we broadcast our work - and the role Santa Fe plays in this important effort - to all interested parties.

Education through the principle of learning-by-doing in active projects that lets students be part of, and contribute to, their project team. We offer formal classes, scientific and technology lectures, and internships.

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Music Is Mathematics.
Or, Was that Mathematics Is Music?

Mathematician Jack Douthett and music theorist John Clough wrote the book on music theory and mathematics, so to speak, in their 2008 publication titled, curiously enough, Music Theory and Mathematics: Chords, Collections, and Transformations. Douthett visits Santa Fe Complex on Thursday night, August 14 at 6:00 to review the theory of maximally even sets, an algebraic structure initially designed to model musical scales and chords, with an emphasis on visualization. For more information, click here.

WedTechs Reborn & Expanded

We’re reviving and expanding a community tradition that existed before Santa Fe Complex was born: the Wednesday afternoon tech talk on matters complex. Each Wednesday we’ll open the Complex to a community forum on the Internet, 3D- and agent-based modeling or any other topics that pique the interest of technology experts and novices alike. The sessions run from 1:00 to 3:00 at sfX, 632 Agua Fria. Lunch is available for a $7.00 contribution to defray costs.

WedTech’s technical talk tradition will continue as well. This Wednesday, August 13 at 1:00, we’ll be joined by Larry Kilham entitled Original Thinking, Innovation and Imagination in the Complex World. Larry is an entrepreneur and engineer with three patents to his name and an IR-100 award (developer of one of the 100 most significant technical products in 1986) for his work in optical and video processing.

On tap at the complex . . .
Sharpening the Artistic Vision

All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best, or so said William Oakham back in the 14th century. Somehow, that became Occam’s Razor and set the standard for evaluating scientific explanations and theories.

Albert Einstein saw the risk of excessive simplicity, though, and countered by saying, “Things should be as simple as possible but not simpler.”

What does that have to do with Santa Fe Complex’s first juried art show? It’s up to the artists, who can explain their ideas here. We’ll be happy with a cabinet of curiosities, a science fair, an art exposition, and a three-ring circus of brilliant and fun interpretations of the wisdom of Messrs. Oakham and Einstein. For more information, click here. Entry concepts are due September 2; the opening date is October 18.

Come Visit Us

Santa Fe Complex is located next to the Railyard Art District and within walking distance of the hotels, restaurants and shops at the plaza downtown. We’re housed in two facilities, the conference area at 624 Agua Fria and the project space at 632 Agua Fria.

The conference area contains meeting rooms and facilities for short-term use associated with on-going complex projects. The project space houses the great room, where we hold events and offer working facilities for laptop users, coffee lounge and work carrels.

While there is parking at 624 Agua Fria, the Romero Street parking lot is more conveniently located for the 632 facility. Romero St. is an old-style Santa Fe ox-cart road just east of the 624 driveway. Follow it until it opens up to two lanes and turn hard right into the parking lot for 632.

Here’s a map to our location, a representative shot showing the Railyard District and a sketchup drawing of the facility at 632. For more information, call 505/216.7562 or click here.

Don Begley
Managing Director
Santa Fe Complex
624 Agua Fria St
Santa Fe, NM 87501

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I heard him take a call and discovered that he is “loaning” the local Obama for America campaign a lot of computers, printers, cables, and basically whatever they need to operate more efficiently. He works with several non-profits as well. I am proud how he and many smaller businesses do their best to really support local projects. When I asked if I could have permission to blog about this he said, “Sure. However I have something else that really important to me. EWASTE.”
What followed was a long story of countries and companies complicit in a nightmarish tale. The drama is enough to make one sick.

I’ll try to keep this short. Awhile back, Steve took a consulting job with the US Post Office. They wanted to recycle their old scanners. As a good detective would do, he researched the normal story about EWASTE. What he learned was rather disappointing. Most of our waste is sold to companies in China. Many companies that claim to be earth friendly make more money and incur less expenses by selling to the Chinese. “Duh”, you may say, “so what else is new Mary? It’s a global economy right?”
When I go to recycle or do good for the earth, I seek a truely earth friendly venue.

Go visit a Chinese processing plant, and according to Steve, you’ll find children smashing monitors with sledge hammers. Children. Inside you monitor is a lead coating to reduce the radiation from the monitior to protect us. When the kids crash that monitor the lead is airborn. These children work long days, everyday, with thousands of monitors. They work in the dust. They breathe the dust. Look up the effects of lead poisioning. This is only one part of the story.

Steve did further research, and discovered that there are a few businesses in the United States that have safer technologies to reclaim the parts that can be recycable without posioning their workers. It costs more. They are monitiored and have earned the highest DOD and EPA clearances and licenses. The US Post Office went for the American companies. Encourage your community to learn about this.

In the meantime, Steve had to consider his own business. He also is concerned about educating others about these issues. First, he has created a local, at his business, recycling project. Remember this costs money. TO recycle a computer is $15, a monitor $6. Please verify the prices to make sure I am accurate. His customers often complain about the prices. I would have at first thought twice about it. However, he said he explained it to one guy this way,” You have your trash picked up, don’t you?” “Yes”, “The city charges you for trash pick-up don’t they?” “Yeah”. “Your electronics are your trash aren’t they?” “Yes.” So-o-o. It is better to become responsible citizens. It is necessary that we support our earth. Don’t forget those children.

Then I asked Steve, “What about the City of Santa Fe, the State of New Mexico?” He told me about research he has done and guess what? Some entities feel that they can pass on their guilt, responsibility, etc. to the next guy, and somehow become innocent. Sounds familiar, give our toxic waste to a management company and don’t pay attention to where they dispose of it. Hmmm, they dump it in landfills,rivers, on the side of the road….ever heard this song before. Guess what most of our EWASTE still goes to China. Picture those children again. They are just like the poor kids in our cities who are exposed to lots of toxic waste daily. They are like the Native Americans exposed to waste from uranium mining.

If anyone has time and energy, and perhaps a little political savvy to take on our local issues, join in. I’ll ask Steve for notes and names and addresses. Please contact me here. Work locally and change the world. These matters are our responsibility. If you are in Santa Fe, bring your stuff to Santa Fe Computer Works. If you have truckloads, bring friends to help sort parts safely. Call first for lots of stuff. You could also create a fund to help pay for workers, or pay fees to those who don’t have much $$$. Tell him I sent you. Reuse when possible. My computers may last me another 2-3 years!

In the meantime: organize.

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Samantha Giron Dance Project in Town for One Night Only

Samantha Giron Dance Project will be presenting work from two distinct shows: a premiere entitled “Quickly Going Somewhere and Back,” and two excerpts from “Women and War,” called “Fire Diary” and “Interrogations.”

“Women and War” seeks to explore the human experience of war from different perspectives than those typically presented to us. The representation of war in our culture is usually focused on men; men play the centrally-depicted, heroic roles of killing, being killed, being captured and tortured. Physical bravery is shown as a male trait.

“Quickly Going Somewhere and Back” is a new kind of project for Samantha Giron Dance Project. Usually Giron approaches Christianson once she has a clear idea for a dance piece, and he composes new work that best fits her ideas for the project. However, when Christianson and Giron were invited to perform at San Francisco’s COLLABORATION Festival, they set out to truly co-create a dance and music performance. This time, Christianson wrote the score first and provided Giron with some imagery and narrative context. Giron then set to work responding to the score. Since then, the two have continued to adapt their own contributions to the performance. Christianson performs his original violin score on stage in “Quickly Going Somewhere and Back,” and even performs some of the choreography alongside dancer LeTania Kirkland!

For more information, visit the Santa Fe Complex web site. Samantha GIron Dance Project’s web site is here.

Santa Fe Complex is a nonprofit, community studio creating connections in science, technology and art. Our studio stands on three core activities:

Collaboration to address real-world problems, encourage cooperation and create economic opportunities in applied complexity, urban planning and simulation, and computational arts.

Communication with local, national and international communities about our work in Santa Fe and elsewhere. Whether it’s a live feed or published reports, we broadcast our work - and the role Santa Fe plays in this important effort - to all interested parties.

Education through the principle of learning-by-doing in active projects that lets students be part of, and contribute to, their project team. We offer formal classes, scientific and technology lectures, and internships.

Quick Links
our blog
events calendar

Support the Complex

Support Santa Fe Complex
Click here for info

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About Samantha Giron Dance Project
Samantha Giron Dance Project, a contemporary dance company, was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2001. Artistic director Samantha Giron earned an MFA in Choreography from California Institute of the Arts in 2006 and a BA in Dance from Mills College in 2001. She has performed the choreography of Mark Morris, Tere O’Connor, and Scott Wells, and her choreography has been staged at over a dozen venues throughout California. She co-choreographed the dance film Hotel Scopeli, which won a Kodak Grant award; music video credits include “The Kids” by People.

“. . .Giron shined in a solo that accumulated force through an expanding web of delicately folding and unfolding limbs.”
–L.A. Times, re: “Fire Diary,” choreographed & danced by Samantha Giron
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These Albuquerque hot-shots could be the deviant love child of Kurt Cobain and Emmy Lou Harris…..Voted best New Emerging Band in the annual Best of Burque-2008! www.myspace.com/theoldmain
OR, THE WHALE

Weaving indie rock epics, sweet folk lullabies, boot stompin’ country rockers, and the grtitty blues porch anthems into a seamless and powerful live show that never disappoints. San Francisco’s most energetic family band, Or, the Whale comes to Santa Fe at last! With a strong DIY ethic, and a Carter Family chemistry, they’ve continued to warm hearts and move feet throughout the country!
“Brandishing four Grand Ole Opry-worthy vocalists-frequently harmonizing to thrilling effect-as well as three other accomplished musicians, Or, the Whale throw one hell of a barn dance.”-San Francisco Bay Guardian www.orthewhale.com
B E L L E M A H

Bellemah features beautiful melodic rock fronted by the sweetest voice in all of Albuquerque! www.bellemah.com

FRIDAY AUGUST 8 8 PM $8
THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF A SANTA FE LEGEND

THE GLUEY BROTHERS

WITH VERY SPECIAL GUESTS DJ ROCQUE RINALDI & DJ COCQUI

The fusion of funk, rap, and metal is hardly a new trick, but what make California’s Gluey Brothers one of the smarter novelty acts to come along recently is their deftly delivered performance art shtick: wild, prop-driven theatrics that are both offbeat hilarious and well-rehearsed. Best of all, dual frontmen MC Tahina and King Hummus seem virtually telepathic, never missing out on a shared punchline. Join the fun! This will be the release party for the GLUEY BROTHERS first ever DVD, RIO VISTA VISUALS-VOL. 1! www.myspace.com/glueybros

SUNDAY AUGUST 10 7 PM $10
MICHAEL HEARNE
& SXSW

Southwest Americana with New Mexico’s favorite country-western dance band! www.michaelhearne.com

TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW FOR THESE GREAT SHOWS AT THE PUB & GRILL!
The TAJ MAJAL TRIO WED AUG 13
TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS SUN AUG 17
RECKLESS KELLY with Jason Boland & the Stragglers SUN AUG 21
JJ GREY & MOFRO with the Hill Country Revue TUES SEPT 9
JOHN HIATT & the AGELESS BEAUTIES with the Sean Healen Duo WED SEPT 10
The SKATALITES TUES OCT 14
PICK UP YOUR TICKETS TODAY AT THE PUB & GRILL AT THE SFBC,
THE LENSIC BOX OFFICE 505.988.1234, OR ORDER ONLINE AT www.ticketssantafe.com

UPCOMING AT THE PUB AND GRILL
TUESDAY AUGUST 12 7:30 PM $10
T H E L A W S
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 13 7:30 $32 ADVANCE / $36 DOOR
TAJ MAHAL
TRIO
FRIDAY AUGUST 15 8 PM $10
GREEN MOUNTAIN GRASS
SUNDAY AUGUST 17 6 PM $30 ADVANCE / $35 DOOR
TOOTS & the MAYTALS
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 20 7:30 PM $10
The BELLEVILLE OUTFIT
THURSDAY AUGUST 21 6:30 PM $17 ADVANCE / $20 DOOR
R E C K L E S S K E L L Y
WITH SPECIAL GUEST
JASON BOLAND & the STRAGGLERS
FRIDAY AUGUST 22 7 PM $15 ADVANCE / $20 DOOR
THE MIGHTY DIAMONDS
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS
THE YELLOW DUB SQUAD
SATURDAY AUGUST 23 4 PM to MIDNIGHT JUST $10! KID U-12 FREE!
FROGFEST III
CELEBRATING 5 FROGTASTIC YEARS!
8 HOURS OF LOVE & MUSIC!
F E A T U R I N G
HUNDRED YEAR FLOOD GOSHEN NATHAN MOORE TAARKA BORIS &the SALTLICKS
JOE WEST XOE FITZGERALD TIMETRAVELING TRANSVESTITE THE BILL HEARNE TRIO
SUNDAY AUGUST 24 7 PM $10
BILL HEARNE’S
ROADHOUSE REVUE
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 27 7 PM No Cover
OPEN MIC NIGHT
HOSTED BY JASON REED
FRIDAY AUGUST 29 8 PM $10
THE SOUTH AUSTIN JUG BAND
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 3 7:30 PM $5
T H E G O U G E R S
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 5 9 PM $10 ADVANCE / $15 DOOR
THE STRING CHEESE INCIDENT
HI-DEF RED ROCKS VIRTUAL MOVIE EXPERIENCE
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6 7 PM $10
THE MOTHER TRUCKERS
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 7 7 PM $5
SYD MASTERS & the SWING RIDERS
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 9 6:30 PM $18 ADVANCE / $25 DOOR
JJ GREY & MOFRO
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS
THE HILL COUNTRY REVUE
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 10 7:30 $37 ADVANCE / $40 DOOR
J O H N H I A T T
and the