Free Dia de los Muertos Art Expo
If you love Day of the Dead art, this is the expo for you.
Why celebrate Día de los Muertos only once a year when you can celebrate it all year long? That’s the philosophy behind the Arté de Muertos Expo, held three times a year.
If you’re a Day of the Dead aficionado, check out the expo this Saturday and Sunday, November 7 and 8 (2009), from 9:00am – 5:00pm both days. Admission and parking are FREE!
The expo features all manner of Day of the Dead folk and fine art, but they have a bunch of other stuff, too, like shadow boxes, jewelry, wood carvings, ceramics, and wind chimes. Most of the art is exhibited by the maker, so you can chat directly with the artists as you browse. Also on hand will be paranormal metaphysical experts willing to share their knowledge. Artist demonstrations, live music, and a book signing by Antonio Garcez round out the event.
The Arté de Muertos Expo will be held at Santa Ana Star Casino, Santa Ana Pueblo, NM. Take I-25 north to US 550 and head west. You’ll see it. More info: (505) 771-3307.
–Elizabeth Hanes
Free Dia de los Muertos Art Expo
If you love Day of the Dead art, this is the expo for you.
Why celebrate Día de los Muertos only once a year when you can celebrate it all year long? That’s the philosophy behind the Arté de Muertos Expo, held three times a year.
If you’re a Day of the Dead aficionado, check out the expo this Saturday and Sunday, July 18 and 19 (2009), from 9:00am – 5:00pm both days. Admission and parking are FREE!
The expo features all manner of Day of the Dead folk and fine art, but they have a bunch of other stuff, too, like shadow boxes, jewelry, wood carvings, ceramics, and wind chimes. Most of the art is exhibited by the maker, so you can chat directly with the artists as you browse. Also on hand will be paranormal metaphysical experts willing to share their knowledge. Artist demonstrations, live music, and a book signing by Antonio Garcez round out the event.
The Arté de Muertos Expo will be held at Santa Ana Star Casino, Santa Ana Pueblo, NM. Take I-25 north to US 550 and head west. You’ll see it. More info: (505) 771-3307.
–Elizabeth Hanes
Author Event: Creative Ways to be with the Dying
With all the recent celebrity deaths (not to mention the four teens who died in Santa Fe; our hearts go out to their families), the subject of dying seems to be on everyone’s mind lately.
The message of author Jillian Brasch’s book, The Last Gifts: Creative Ways to be with the Dying, is simply this: caring for a dying person is awe-inspiring, not depressing.
If you’d like to learn how this can be, head over to Bookworks tonight (Tuesday, June 30, 2009) at 7:00pm to meet the author and hear how she, an occupational therapist and hospice worker, learned to “get past the physical unpleasantness” of working with the terminally ill in order to “see the blossoming of a soul as it sheds its earthly limitations.” We should all be so lucky as to be able to characterize death like this. Should be an enlightening event.
Bookworks is located in the north valley at 4022 Rio Grande NW, Albuquerque.
–Elizabeth Hanes
Booksigning with Alan Furst
Cheap Central is stuffed with books. And few of them are dusty.
If you’re a reader, too, chances are you know who Alan Furst is. The New York Times dubbed him “America’s preeminent spy novelist.” Well, you can meet him on Sunday, June 14 (2009) because he’s coming to Bookworks to sign his novel, The Spies of Warsaw, at 3:00pm!
This novel is set in 1937 and follows the covert activities of French and German intelligence operatives “locked in a life-and-death struggle on the espionage battlefield.” Who can resist that?!
Bookworks is located in the north valley at 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Albuquerque.
–Elizabeth Hanes
