This year celebrate our 297th Santa Fe Fiesta through a pinhole! We will use this unique and joyous time as a catalyst for great imagery and memories.
Join the town as we gather to cast away our troubles and burn "Old Man Gloom" better known as "Will Shuster's Zozobra",
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we won't let him burn before our exclusive shoots!
See our families take the town in "Desfiles de la Gentiles", our local pet parade. Experiencing the camera obscura first hand we will gain an intimate understanding of the way light moves and images are revealed all while enjoying marching bands go by upside down and backwards!
Camp is held at the historic home of Olive Rush, currently the Friends Meeting House. The space is a beautiful adobe home with a rambling back yard situated about half way up Canyon Road.
In this beautiful small group setting we will build our 4x5 super wide pinhole cameras and get a hands on approach to the geometry of photography.
We will expose and develop images with photographic film and paper. Negatives will be digitally scanned for quick viewing while our printing will be done in the alternative process of Cyanotype and Van Dyke.
Enjoy a harvest of wonderful pinhole imagery and green chili and explore the history, art and techniques of this beautiful and intuitive process in its simplest and most rewarding form.
This time of year is the most beautiful in our beloved Santa Fe and we hope that you join camp obscura for adventures in pinhole photography
Located south of Santa Fe, this beautiful 35-acre nature preserve hosts a bountiful diversity of plants and wildlife, a shaded nature trail leading to a pond, trails abounding in cactus and gorgeous views, and docents who love to answer questions. The preserve is also home to a number of towering cottonwoods. Leonora Curtin is open May through October, every Saturday morning
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from 9:00am to noon and on Sunday afternoon from 1:00pm to 4:00pm. Guided tours every Saturday at 10am. For information and a schedule of activities visit www.santafebotanicalgarden.org or call 505-471-9103.
Discovering the Joys of Learning, Play and Community
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)
Adults aren’t the only ones who enjoy the pulsing innovation of one of the world’s most creative cities. The Santa Fe Children’s Museum is one of America’s top-rated children’s museums, and is consistently voted as a don’t-miss for kids in Santa Fe. One vision underlies everything the Museum does: children learn by creating! The Museum’s indoor exhibit space offers unlimited
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opportunities for children to discover the world around them; explore art, experiment with science, and just play! Our one-acre outdoor “learning landscape” gives kids a beautiful setting to run and hide, dig and climb, play and imagine, all while discovering the natural world around them. Adults love the Museum for all the same reasons kids do, and frequently enjoy a quiet moment to themselves in the flower fields or stop to write a poem in the butterfly garden.
On top of our exhibits and learning spaces, the Museum offers an unbelievable variety of daily programs, including: painting, sculpting, lasers, robots, wood working, chemistry, origami, paper making, doll design, gardening, song writing, drum making, reptiles, dinosaurs, gyro painting, geology, mural making, snakes, birds, mobiles, meteorites, and recycled art... These programs are free with admission and change every day.
Environmental Education
Daily programs outdoors and in our greenhouse invite museum visitors to explore the natural world around us.
Preschool Prime Time
Every Friday from 9:00 AM to noon
This is a special time for children under five to enjoy museum exhibits and hands-on art activities.
Artists in the Museum
Professional artists guide children through hands-on activities in the visual or performing arts, often incorporating recycled and found objects into their work. From cooks to books: special projects engage young hands and minds.
Sunday Science
Children learn, create, and experiment with visiting scientists on SundaysFamily PerformancesMusicians, puppeteers, magicians, storytellers,or actors offer live performances for the entire family on special occasions.
Offerings change frequently, please let us know the dates you will be visiting and we will let you know what is on the schedule.
When: Wednesday, Friday, Saturday -10 to 5 pm, Thursday 12-8, Sunday, 12-5 pm, Open Tuesday during summer (June -August) 10 to 5 pm
Time: As long as you’re having fun!
Cost: $9/person; NM residents receive discounted admission at $5/person (Only $2 on Sundays
Frito Friday is less than one year old and it's already a tradition at the Complex. It's an informal networking opportunity with Santa Fe's famous Frito pies and occasional programs in music, complexity science or a talk by a visiting scholar. Like much of what happens at the Complex, Frito Friday is quirky, unusual and the place to be on Friday nights from 5:30 on, depending
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on the evening's program.
When: Fridays 5-8 pm
Time: 2-3 hours
Cost: Free
Offerings change frequently, please let us know the dates you will be visiting and we will let you know what is on the schedule.
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)
