A TRADITION OF BEARS
DON’T MISS IT NeoRio comes home
The results of the recent Questa communal call to artists to decorate their cubes – and chronicle the process – using the theme of “Home” goes on view Thursday (Oct. 8) and roundtable artist talks take place on Zoom Oct. 9-11 at 4 p.m. More information and sign-up link at LEAPsite.org. The online home story-sharing events and archive is a collaboration with Questa Stories – Community Memory Project at QuestaStories.org.
Tell some stories
The 21st annual Taos Storytelling Festival sponsored by SOMOS is set to take place virtually this weekend (Oct. 9-10) and will once again feature renowned tellers. The 2020 lineup includes Gayle Ross, Francisco “Cisco” Guevara and Pat McCabe. Friday night’s
StorySLAM is hosted by Jeff Cochran; Saturday night is the big finale. Go to somostaos.org for schedule, to register and buy tickets.
A feminist play ends on the scaffolds
Curling Iron Productions experiments with a drive-in staged reading of Lauren Gunderson’s “The Revolutionists,” featuring four ladies of revolutionary Paris 1793 – playwright Olympe de Gouges (played by Gina Gargone), assassin Charlotte Corday (Mikala Martinez), former queen Marie Antoinette (Rita O’Connell) and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle (Crystal Starr) – who plot to change the world. The show runs Saturday-Sunday (Oct. 1011) at 4-5:30 p.m. in the back lot of Taos Community Auditorium, at 145 Paseo del Pueblo Norte. Suggested donation is $30 per vehicle. Tickets at tcataos.org/ calendar.
Millicent Rogers Museum plants and garden
The MRM has a veritable living learning exhibit in the form of the Native plants in the courtyard and around the museum building. The museum protects and displays many Native and Hispanic artistic and cultural treasures derived from natural materials – weaving dyes, basket material, pottery paint – while growing such plants as creeping Mahonia, Rocky Mountain iris and big sagebrush, which produced yellow, brown and green dyes for early Río Grande and Navajo weavings. The blooms of the common rabbit brush were also a source of textile dyes. Meander while checking out the museum store, which is open Thursday-Saturday, noon to 4 p.m.
Santa Fe Film Festival premieres with ‘Zappa’
The 12th annual Santa Fe Independent Film Festival will open Wednesday (Oct. 15) at 7 p.m. with an in-depth documentary directed by Alex Winter, which centers on the life, work and politics of musician Frank Zappa (1940-1993). With found footage from the Zappa family trust and other archives, Winter gives us a groundbreaking look into the musician’s life and musical collaborators. The film will be shown at Motorama at the Downs, Santa Fe; gates open 5 p.m. However, the rest of the film festival can be viewed virtually – go to boxoffice.santafeindependent. com/virtual-screenings/.