Cool Picks for the Week

• Keep the Santa Fe Plaza Beautiful –Meet at the Bandstand for team assignments for painting and cleaning around the Plaza. No experience is needed; team captains and parks crews provide guidance.  breakfast and beverages provided.
  Santa Fe Plaza Sat, Jun 1 from 7 – 10:30am, 100 Old Santa Fe Trail
• Hummingbird Music Camp Student Concert – Students from Hummingbird Music Camp perform outdoors at San Jose de los Jemez Mission at the historic site. Listen to their melodies while exploring the historic site after hours. Jemez Historic Site Sat, Jun 1 from 6 – 8pm, 18160 Hwy. 4, Jemez Springs
• Joe Illick: “The Ring” in 60 Minutes—A Talk at the Piano – In just 60 minutes, multi-talented maestro Illick introduces us to the entire saga of Richard Wagner’s The Ring Cycle, playing the piano (and sometimes singing) the complex notes that Wagner wrote for an orchestra of 88 or more. A collaboration with the Wagner Society of Santa Fe. SITE Santa Fe $5 – $10 Sat, Jun 1 at 6pm, 1606 Paseo de Peralta
• Journeysantafe: Meet with County Commissioner Anna Hansen and learn about current initiatives, ranging from the construction of a new administration building, sustainability projects, improvements and changes to the DCI code for hard rock mining, and much more. Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse Sun, Jun 2 at 11am, 202 Galisteo St.
• WISC Fellow-in-Residence Dr. Jennifer Denetdale of UNM’s Feminist Research Institute presents “The Photographs of Milton Snow and the Making of the Modern Navajo Nation, 1937-1959″. Wed, Jun 5 at 5:30pm  Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. The events are free, but please register at WISC’s website: https://app.etapestry.com/onlineforms/WomensInternationalStudyCente/fellows.html
• Calling All Minds, An Evening with Temple Grandin – As one of the first individuals on the autism spectrum to publicly share insights from her personal experience of autism, Temple Grandin presents encouraging and important messages about this disorder and “differently-labelled brains.”  Thurs, Jun 6 at 7 p.m. The Lensic Performing Arts Center, tickets available at www.lensic.org
• Mark Your Calendars for the upcoming Women to Women Luncheons: Wed. June 19, noon at Cowgirl, $25 at the door with Connie Knudson, Feng Shui Specialist & Author of the best-selling book The Feng Shui of Personal Transformation (RSVP here) AND Wed. July 10 at noon, location TBD, with Valerie Plame, former career covert CIA operations officer, international speaker, author & advocate for the elimination of nuclear weapons. We’ll be selling tickets in advance for the luncheon with Valerie Plame and will send out an announcement. If you know you’d like to attend email me and I’ll send you an advance notice so you can sign up.

Upcoming Cool Stuff

• Saturday Writers’ Sanctuary with Joanne Fay Brown
  Jumpstart your writing, Juice up your creativity in the company of other writers Sat, June 29, 10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
  We begin at 10:00 am with timed writing exercises. Our work is based on the internationally acclaimed Amherst Writers & Artists method.  After lunch you’ll spend the afternoon in silent communion with other writers, working on whatever project is preoccupying you as a writer these days. Joanne will have prompts ready if you feel stuck. You are also welcome to walk in the peaceful arroyo just behind her house. Writing ends at 3:30 pm but you can stay a while, share some of what you’ve been working on, discuss issues of craft, etc. The day is completed by 4:30. p.m. All are welcome! Space is limited — reserve yours! COST: $99. Lunch is included! We meet in a comfortable home less than a mile from the Santa Fe Plaza. Joanne Fay Brown has been leading Amherst Writers & Artists Workshops since 2012. She worked as a writer in the corporate world for 25 years and now devotes herself to poetry, and to the magic of writing with others. www.joannebrown.com 

  Questions? / Register: 510-381-1205 or joanne@joannebrown.com
  * Additional Writers’ Sanctuaries on Aug 3 and Aug 24!

   

• FENG SHUI FOR FINANCIAL ABUNDANCE
  How are you doing with your 2019 Goals?
  Have you made a Vision Board for 2019?
  Would you love to create a better energy flow in your home or office?
  Would you love to attract your financial goals & dreams more quickly and easily?
  Diamond Feng Shui can help you do just that!
  Instructor, Connie Knudson, Feng Shui consultant, author and coach, will show you how to align your environment with your goals and dreams. Connie was trained by world-renowned Marie Diamond, who was one of the key stars featured in the hit movie “The Secret.” Connie’s website is: www.connieknudson.com. Register Early! This will fill up soon! Sat, June 29 from 1-4 pm, $128 REGISTER HERE or Email Connie Knudson at  cgk999@gmail.com

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