7000 BC — Northern New Mexico's Comics Creators Collective
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)
7000 BC — Northern New Mexico's comics creators collective — holds monthly meetings in the Community Room at the Santa Fe Library Main Branch, 1:30–4:30, moving on to dinner after. This will be an opportunity for attendees to work on their projects, collaborate, and gather feedback; we welcome all those interested in creating and self-publishing comics. Contact for Date
Santa Fe will never look the same to you again after this downtown tour! Learn about some of the prominent and notorious women who made this town home and where they lived, loved and worked.
When: Thursdays or by arrangement 1:30 PM Reservations Required
Artists and Acequias: A Guided Experience of Canyon Rd/Eastside
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)
Would you like to find your way in one of the older and more scenic neighborhoods with a local historian? Learn about the artists and writers who made Santa Fe one of the largest art markets in the US. See the mother ditch and find out about unique community events.
When: Mondays or by arrangement reservations required
The literary landmarks of New Mexico’s storied capital are both familiar and unexpected. Santa Fe’s plaza and La Fonda Hotel have figured prominently in many books. However, one of the nineteenth century’s most enduring American novels, written in Santa Fe’s Palace of the Governors, never mentions the place, or the American West at all!
Explore the history and culture of
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Santa Fe through its famous stories, authors, and characters with local author Barbara Harrelson, a former docent at the Smithsonian's History Museum. Her literary walking tour, one of the few in the nation's is:
"A great way to absorb the unique character of Santa Fe," according to Frommer's guide to Santa Fe, Taos & Albuquerque.
Writers and artists have always come to Santa Fe to be energized, inspired and entertained. The city itself holds treasures yet to be told, stories that call out to the writer in us. You can hear them echoing from our mountains; see them shimmering in our light-soaked air, feel their truth under the vastness of our pure night skies. Here in “the City Different,”
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you stand a little taller, breathe a little easier, write a little better.
Whether you have a story in mind or simply want to capture the essence of your last family gathering, Books Bayou will help you find your voice and tell your story with joy and excitement! We put you in touch with the inspiration that is abundant in Santa Fe, through our guided exercises and story starters ranging from historical to fanciful.
At the end of each program, we arrange to have your stories published in a bound book that is sure to become a family keepsake. Just give us a call and we will work out a personal plan that fits your timeframe, interests, and goals.
Together, Books Bayou and Santa Fe will inspire you and your family to tell your own story and see it in print.
Classes can be arranged in our studio or to fit your travel needs.
Cost: $125.00 for 2 hour session and published story.
Offerings change frequently, please let us know the dates you will be visiting and we will let you know what is on the schedule.
The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum offers many educational opportunities for life-long learning. Programs include adult learning and lectures, Art and Leadership for Women, family, and youth.
Family Programs
Programs are for children age 4-12 accompanied by an adult and led by the education staff unless otherwise noted. Programs are offered monthly. Each program begins with a discussion
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in the galleries of the learning theme to develop critical thinking skills followed by a hands-on art experience. Reservations suggested: 505-946-1007
The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s education and public programs have won praise from parents, educators, and school administrators, as well as awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, New Mexico Arts, and Santa Fe Arts Commission. Since its opening in 1997, The Museum has served over 150,000 people through its education and public programs.
The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum offers many educational opportunities for life-long learning. Programs include adult learning and lectures, Art and Leadership for Women, family, and youth.
Ghost Ranch in Santa Fe is a place where the elements of community, culture, light and dialog form the basis of a special learning process.
Each year Ghost Ranch, with locations in Abiquiu and in Santa Fe, sponsors dozens of exhibits, performances, lectures and other special events.
Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu offers a Georgia O’Keeffe Landscape Tour, hiking trails,
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two internationally known Museums, the new Piedra Lumbre Education and Visitor Center with exhibits featuring the history and culture of northern New Mexico, an art gallery and gift shop. Guests may visit for the day and use hiking trails, walk the labyrinth or enjoy the body work program or they my take part in a full schedule of courses. Conference and meeting spaces with affordable overnight accommodations and meals packages are available. Individual and small group retreats may be held at the new Casa del Sol Retreat Center. Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu has been the location for several movies such as City Slickers, The Missing 3:10 to Yuma and Comanche Moon. It was also featured in the opening scenes of Spielberg's latest film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Both campuses provide opportunities for those who value learning and see education as a means for individual and social transformation. We believe that true education engages both head and heart. Our programs combine discussion and hands-on experiences to help participants expand their sense of self and world.
We introduce issues of local and regional significance into our programs in hopes of exposing participants to new cultural, historical and religious ideas. The community of Santa Fe and northern New Mexico help provide resources and atmosphere that makes learning through Ghost Ranch, at either campus, a truly unique experience. Our faculty comes from many disciplines and from many parts of the United States and the world to offer education intentionally grounded in the context of northern New Mexico.
New Mexico is known for its powerful writers because the spirit of New Mexico fills one's heart and soul and works well through the motion of a pen. Spirit here will not let you get away with anything less than a life-changing experience. To write about this you must listen deep into the silence. My ongoing writing groups will focus on the power of spirit in New Mexico.
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We will concentrate on how to write it through a moving first sentence, its impact on your life, how your five senses have received it. We will walk on the beautiful land and study nature and write it as it comes through our hearts. You cannot walk on land surrounded by the Sangre de Cristo, Santa Fe or Ortiz Mountains peeking at you over the tops of the Pinion and Juniper trees and not feel something move you. To write about the New Mexican silence you will have to pay attention to its tender and magical experience. New Mexico opens you and writing about it opens you deeper. Drop into the essence
of New Mexico.
Banish fear and perfectionism with this intensive, weekly craft class for writers of all stripes. For two hours a week we'll do exercises to develop character, narrative, and style. Whether you are a professional writer, southwestern historian, hobbyist, novelist, journaler, or would-be writer who has never put pen to paper, you will get your juices flowing and stay
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in practice with this down and dirty work out for writers.
Santa Fe has a rich history stemming from the oral traditions of the pueblo people to the memoirs of Georgia O'Keefe, the contributions of beat poets who made Santa Fe their home in the sixties, and the celebrated authors such as Natalie Goldberg, Tony Hillerman, Michael McGarrity, Cormack McCarthy, and others whose lives or spirits exist among us today. Let us become the next evolution of Santa Fe authors who bring the southwest into the forefront of the literary scene!
In this class, we first use oral exercises, derived from improvisational story-telling games, to warm up the creative mind. We'll explore using truth to create fiction, spontaneously generating stories, and telling lies as a form of good clean fun. Then the class will move on to short, guided writing exercises based on imagination and memory. We'll finish with a longer exercise that allows you to put into practice what you have developed so far.
The work we do is focused on learning techniques for developing narrative, character, and style. These three elements are essential for writers in every genre or experience level. You should come away from class feeling inspired and refreshed in your writing and eager to keep up the work throughout the week.
Bio:
Katie Mehrer studied writing with New York Times best selling author and MacArthur Genius Grant Recipient, the late David Foster Wallace. In New York City, she studied writing with the late William Packard, founder and editor of New York Quarterly. There, she also attended the acting school of Robert McCaskill, former actor/director with Chicago City Limits and award-winning screen writer. She has taught creative writing and drama to students of all ages and is published extensively in books, magazines, and literary journals. Katie ghostwrites and co-writes books with her clients in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Offerings change frequently, please let us know the dates you will be visiting and we will let you know what is on the schedule.
Would you like to deepen your experience of Santa Fe, taking home with you the beginning of a wonderful way to savor this and other travels? If so my workshop is a rich and fun way to enjoy our unique and beautiful city. We begin with a blank journal and a array of different mediums to explore - watercolors, pastels, markers, colored inks, rubber stamps as well as collage
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using my extensive collection of images and ephemera.
You can also bring in items collected from this trip such as postcards, receipts, brochures, tickets - or any scrap of paper that catches your eye. I will help you create pages that tell your story of visiting "The City Different". This is an easy process that anyone can master - artist or not.
Visual Journals combine both the written word and images. It can be a profound way of experiencing a sense of place. Rich background textures and vibrant colors create a backdrop for your thoughts and experiences.
As my studio is a few blocks from the plaza the workshop might include sketching or painting in your journal at one of the beautiful local sites or even a trip to the Nature Conservancy trail a short drive from my studio. I can tailor the workshop to suit your interests.
The travel journal will quickly become your favorite way of recording your travel experience, something that can be done in a cafe, hotel room or on a park bench. I will show you how to assemble a simple art kit to take anywhere.
Your travel visual journal will be something you can add to for year. Your journal is also an interesting and meaningful way to share your travels with your friends and family.
When: Weekday mornings 10-12.30. Monday - Saturday afternoons 2 - 4.30pm
Time: 2.5 hours
Cost: $99 per person plus small material fee for a journal of their choice
Creating a Travel Journal with Words, Images & Memorabilia
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)
Santa Fe is rich with visual images, history and experiences that make for a compelling travel journal. This class is for those who enjoy raveling and delight in taking their trips home with them. We will write stories and jot down impressions for future stories, as well as take photographs in the downtown area, Guadalupe District and on Canyon Road. Participants will need
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a journal of their choice, a camera, (preferably digital), and may bring items such as photographs they have already taken, markers, watercolors, oranything else they might like to incorporate into their personal journals.
Natasha has lived in Santa Fe since 1974; has worked as a fiber artist and as a conceptual and performance artist. She has been a freelance writer for the past 10 years. Before that she hosted a radio talk show and a jazz program. She has also produced stories for KUNM, Albuquerque’s NPR station.
Offerings change frequently, please let us know the dates you will be visiting and we will let you know what is on the schedule.
Have You Dreamed of Writing and Performing a One Person Theater Show but don't know where to begin? Project Life Stories Theater is a Santa Fe based organization that specializes in solo performance, one of the only organizations of it's kind in the country. The spiritual and creative openness of Santa Fe fosters this kind of innovative, deep work. Come write, improvise
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and create the basis for your one person show with one of the coutry's foremost experts in the monologue/solo performance process; Tanya Taylor Rubinstein. Her work has been featured in the Santa Fean, New Mexico Magazine, Spirituality and Health, "O"...The Oprah Magazine which calls it "...a gift and a necessity...." Leave Santa Fe with an extraordinary gift;your own show to perform back in your hometown.
Where: Santa Fe, NM Local Santa Fe Book Stores / Amazon
Creative Tourism: A Global Conversation
This book tells how to provide unique creative experiences for travelers worldwide. But what is Creative Tourism, how is it different from other types of tourism, why is it needed, and how do you go about developing it? You'll find answers to these questions and more in this book which is based on and draws from the proceedings of the 2008 Santa Fe & UNESCO International
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Conference on Creative Tourism. Held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, from September 28 to October 2, 2008, this first-of-a-kind conference brought together delegates from 16 countries around the world to engage in a global conversation about how best to leverage the tourism sector for community and economic development. In other words, how can tourism be best organized and practiced to enhance economic benefits to cities, provinces, and countries globally?
* Paperback: 226 pages
* Publisher: Sunstone Press; Full-color First Edition edition (August 1, 2009)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0865347247
* ISBN-13: 978-0865347243
* Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.8 inches
* Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Taos....clean air, blue sky, creative interesting people, scenic vistas, beautiful rainbows and sunsets.Taos has more creative and cultural activities per capita than any place in the world.
Check out our workshop schedule at www.XperienceTaos.com.
Workshop categories include: VISUAL ART (Fiber art, Fine Art, Photography), CREATIVITY (Culinary, Literary
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Arts, Song Writing), HISTORY, ENVIRONMENT, NATIVE CULTURE, SELF IMPROVEMENT, SACRED and HEALING ARTS, ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLES (EarthShip and Straw Bale Houses, Grow Your Own Food, Solar Power).
