Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Sedona premiere of “Firebrand” showing July 5-11 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “Firebrand” stars Academy Award-winner Alicia Vikander and Academy Award-nominee Jude Law. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyAK_isFwbU In blood-soaked Tudor England, Katherine Parr, the sixth and last wife of King Henry VIII, is named Regent while tyrant Henry is fighting overseas. Katherine has done everything she can to push for a new future based on her radical Protestant beliefs. When an increasingly ailing and paranoid King returns, he turns his fury on the radicals, charging Katherine’s childhood friend with…
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Sedona News – The Sedona Renegades Artist Group is pleased to announce that its Summer 2024 Art Exhibit is returning to the Sedona Arts Center! Running from July 2 – July 31, 2024, this show features some of the area’s most original and gifted artists displaying a remarkable range of their works. The public is cordially invited to meet the artists at their First Friday Artists Reception on July 5 from 5:00 PM to 7:30 PM. And the sales from this exhibit will benefit the Verde Valley Humane Society, helping that fine organization care for unwanted, lost and abused animals…
Sedona News – Filmmaker Randall Nickerson shares his decades-long passion to capture a remarkable close encounter experienced by over sixty schoolchildren in Zimbabwe, outside their schoolyard. Decades later, the incident remains vivid in the students’ memories, who are still on a quest for answers and the courage to share their truths. The documentary follows a young woman returning to her school in rural Zimbabwe, revisiting the place that shattered her reality at the tender age of nine. The film also highlights the involvement of a respected BBC war reporter who reluctantly covered the 1994 event, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard psychiatrist Dr. John Mack who validated the witnesses, and witness Emily…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer” showing July 5-11 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. “How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer” explores the rollercoaster life of America’s most controversial and bestselling author of the 20th Century, Norman Mailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUEHquSB5kM Propelled by his tremendous ego and contrarian spirit, Mailer’s ceaseless visibility in the public eye lasted 6 decades, during which he had 6 tumultuous marriages, 9 beloved children, 11 bestsellers, 3 arrests, and 2 Pulitzer Prizes. Prophet, hedonist, violent criminal, literary outlaw, and…
By Rabbi Alicia Magal The JCSVV offers services and classes which are life-affirming and soul enriching. All are listed on the synagogue website, jcsvv.org. Visitors are welcome to attend services after a security check. People who cannot attend or who live far away can access the service through zoom. Erev Shabbat services begin on Friday evening, July 5, 2024, beginning at 5:30 pm in person and on Zoom led by Rabbi Alicia Magal. The Rabbi will chant a selection from the Torah portion Korach, Numbers 16:1 – 18:32, telling of the uprising against Moses, this time by his cousin Korach…
Sedona,Az — Allen D. Elfman of Visit Sedona TV, Sedona.biz and Sedona’s Best Visitor’s Guide, recently conducted an in-depth interview with Mayor Scott Jablow, who is presently running for re-election. The interview is conducted in four parts. Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W19sOoKnVNs In this video interview Jablow emphasizes his experience and accessibility as key reasons why he believes he’s the right candidate to continue as mayor of Sedona. Citing a decade of experience on the city council and a term as mayor under his belt, he highlights his dedication to community outreach and his willingness to be available to constituents as a…
Sedona, AZ — Dear Editor: I am writing to express my concern over the troubling behavior exhibited by the Democrats of the Red Rocks (DORR) in the ongoing Democratic primary election for Yavapai County Supervisor in District 3. I am disappointed that DORR is engaging in the primary election based on influence from a select few members, driven by political reasons without official support of its membership, rather than the best interests of Yavapai County voters. This behavior undermines the democratic process and raises serious questions about their motives. It certainly is not the democratic principles that guide most election…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Sedona premiere of “The Dead Don’t’ Hurt” showing July 5-11 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “The Dead Don’t Hurt” stars Viggo Mortensen (who also directed the film), Vicky Krieps, Danny Huston, Garrett Dillahunt and Solly McLeod. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgv25Ni_jv0 “The Dead Don’t Hurt” is a story of star-crossed lovers on the western U.S. frontier in the 1860s. Vivienne Le Coudy (Vicky Krieps) is a fiercely independent woman who embarks on a relationship with Danish immigrant Holger Olsen (Viggo Mortensen). After meeting Olsen in San Francisco, she agrees to…
By Lisa Rhine and Erika Liodice Verde Valley News – At Yavapai College, students in career and technical education programs try out virtual reality tools. America’s community and technical colleges have long been perceived as no-frills institutions that offer specific skill sets, two-year degrees, and a cost-effective path to a four-year college or university. But this image is rapidly changing as more of these colleges are becoming centers of innovation, adapting new technologies to enhance their educational offerings and to provide students with experiences previously thought to be reserved for elite universities. Virtual reality (VR), in particular, offers expansive possibilities,…
Sedona News – Organizations serving residents of Sedona and the Verde Valley are invited to apply for grant funding from the Arizona Community Foundation of Sedona. Applicants must be nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status or be a public school, tribal entity, municipality, or government agency. The grant cycle will open on Friday, July 26 at 9:00 a.m. and applications must be submitted by 4:00 p.m. on Friday, August 16. ACF will conduct three grant application workshops to explain eligibility, how to apply, and general application tips. Attendance at a grant application workshop is NOT required to apply to the ACF…
Arizona News – Due to the amount of rain the forest has received over the last several days that reduced the criteria for meeting Stage 2, Coconino National Forest will move back to Stage 1 fire restrictions Friday (June 28) at 8 a.m. Stage 1 restrictions prohibit fires, campfires, charcoal, coal, wood stoves, and smudge pots, except within a developed recreation site. Smoking is also prohibited, except within an enclosed vehicle, building or an official developed recreation site. Fireworks are always prohibited on all national forests. Using a device that is solely fueled by pressurized liquid petroleum, propane, or LPG fuels that can be turned on and…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “America” showing July 5-11 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. Eli is an Israeli swimming coach living in the United States. A phone call notifies him that his father, who he has not been in touch with, passed away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1oO9fG86b0 Eli reluctantly travels to Tel Aviv for the first time in 10 years to deal with the estate. On his short trip, he decides to visit his childhood friend, Yotam, who used to swim with Eli when they were young. However, Yotam has left…
… into the trees and the occupants of the branches … a place of rest and a place to be camouflaged whilst looking for prey … mostly a place for birds but also a place where others are found … squirrels, bobcats, mountain lions and more. In the photo above a Yellow Rump Warbler is flaring for a landing on a branch … if you like to photograph birds in action, they will always come into their perch from below as they can dissipate speed as they head up and brake with extended wings … if you see one going…
Sedona News – The Sedona Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (SUUF) invites you to a series of programs at their Sunday morning services during July and August on the theme of “Building Community” (especially with neighbors who may feel marginalized). At the first session on Sunday, July 7, at 10:00 a.m.—held in the sanctuary of the JCSVV Synagogue at 100 Meadowlark Drive, on Route 179, in Sedona (next to the Fire Station)–they will host a panel of local Hispanic residents, some recent immigrants and some first-generation youth, who will share stories about the joys and challenges of their life in our community. Host will be…
Sedona News – Join us for an Evening of Aliveness with Emilia at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre on July 2nd for a night of poetry, music, film, movement, and storytelling from the heart. This event is the culmination of five years of devotional creativity — and the incredible transformation that occurs when we commit to something beyond ourselves. In this time, Emilia has written hundreds of poems and short stories and has books in the works. She has danced, sang, learned the piano and the guitar, started songwriting and composing music, recorded an EP, created short films (one of which…