Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “Armageddon Time” showing Dec. 9-15 at the Mary D. Fisher and Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatres. “Armageddon Time” features an all-star cast including Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong. The end of an era. The beginning of everything. From acclaimed filmmaker James Gray, “Armageddon Time” is a deeply personal story on the strength of family, the complexity of friendship and the generational pursuit of the American Dream. Based on Gray’s own upbringing in Queens, New York, circa 1980, “Armageddon Time” tells the story Paul…
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Sedona News – If you have a piece of wood and a wood carving knife, come to Monday at the Museum at Sedona Heritage Museum on Monday, December 12, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and join the Verde Valley Woodcarvers. Hundreds of people have tried their hand at carving with this group since its founding in 1997 by Norm Knight. The group consists of carvers ranging from beginners to master carvers. Come by with your own equipment or just come to watch these artisans do relief carving, chip carving, and bark carving. There is no fee for this demonstration.…
Sedona News – On Wednesday December 7 at 5:00 pm, Dr. Jeffrey Hall, Director of Lowell Observatory, will be speaking about “Telescopes Around (And Out Of) This World.” This event will be live in person at the KSB Pushmataha Center on 360 Brewer Road in Sedona. Dr. Hall will take us on a tour of the most exciting telescopes in use today, under construction and being planned. The tour will cover the modern tools of the trade, a brief review of the spectacular results being realized by the new James Webb space telescope and the exciting plans for new ground-based telescopes like the…
Sedona News – Just in time for the holidays, the Sedona Renegades Artist Group and the Sedona Center for Harmony and Enrichment are pleased to announce a new alliance to bring fine art exhibits to the community. Beginning in December 2022 at the Hozho Shopping Center, the partnership will feature ongoing exhibits by the talented artists of the Sedona Renegades plus an esteemed guest artist each month. And to inaugurate things most exceptionally, the featured guest artist for December is John Oakes, whose works and career will be celebrated at the venue’s First Friday reception on December 2, 5-7:30 PM. …
By Amaya Gayle Gregory I could form the words, parse the phrases and tell you how it happens or at least how it appears to have happened here. I could even tell you in plain prose what this that happens is – well, mostly – but you cannot hear me until you are ready, and then you will hear my words in your own perfect way, through the breaks in the hardened castle walls that still stand. Your experience might be similar to mine, or universes apart. That makes neither wrong nor right. The words used to speak of them…
… a favorite volcanic cone in the San Francisco Volcanic Field is Red Mountain … it is a beautiful cone and the east facing side of the cone was blasted out a very long time ago. One possibility is that water was trapped in the side of the cone leading to a massive explosion when the trapped water was super heated to steam. It is also easy to access being just a mile or so off to the west side of SR 180 going north out of Flagstaff and twenty or so miles beyond Snow Bowl. Click on the link…
Sedona News – The Mary D. Fisher Theatre is honored to continue to be the home for the Met Live Opera programs for the 2022-2023 season, presented by the Sedona International Film Festival. The season continues with the world premiere of Kevin Puts’s “The Hours” live via simulcast on Saturday, Dec. 10 at 11 a.m. and the encore presentation on Wednesday, Dec. 14 at 3 p.m. Plan to come early as John Steinbrunner will lead a pre-opera talk one hour before the LIVE production on Saturday. Soprano Reneìe Fleming makes her highly anticipated return to the Met in the world-premiere…
Verde Valley News – Join Yavapai Community Health Services from 10:00 am -12:00 pm on Thursday, December 8th in the library’s Terracotta Room for their Coffee with the County program. This month’s highlight is diabetes awareness. YCCHS will provide diabetes screening, information about prevention, diabetes management, and the upcoming National Diabetes Prevention Program. For more information contact Lindsay Plas from Yavapai Community Health Services at Lindsay.plas@yavapai.az.gov. Camp Verde Community Library is located at 130 N Black Bridge Road just off Montezuma Castle Highway in Camp Verde. The library is open Monday-Thursday 8:00a-7:00p and Friday-Saturday 9:00a-5:00p. For more information about this or any other…
Sedona News – The Sedona Chamber of Commerce & Tourism Bureau will host Strategies for Success: Boost Your Winter Business with Marketing on December 7. Presenters from the various media will showcase their companies and they will have time at the end of the presentations to meet with individual businesses. This event was created to help support our local businesses by giving these marketing experts an opportunity to explain the benefits of advertising their medium, whether its radio, newspaper, magazine or television — and discover programs the Arizona Small Business Development Center offers. “Winter is historically a slow tourism season…
Sedona News – Words like freedom and liberty—what do they mean to you? To gallery owner and artist, Sahar Paydar, these are powerful notions of a place and time in which no one hears the words “You can’t.” A place where there are no restrictions on you—from how you dress to what you choose to believe. In her native Persian language, this liberty, this place, is expressed in the word AZADI. Paydar’s Rumi Tree Art Gallery (40 Soldiers Pass Road, Suite 12, Sedona, AZ 86336) presents its winter show titled THE AZADI EXHIBITION: Art, Women, and Liberty running December 3,…
… there are few things more pleasing than to be in the air when the air is absolutely crystalline and you can see forever … there is a kind of magical beauty in the twilight created by the USFS when the air is inundated with smoke from prescribed burns … healthy? No! Beautiful? in a strange kinda way. The photo above was taken from just S of Grand Falls looking towards the WSW. Roden Crater, the art project of James Turrell is in the foreground and above it just under its own special cloud are the San Francisco Peaks, to…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present “The Life After Death Project” – a three-part documentary series by filmmaker Paul Davids – showing at 4 p.m. on Dec. 3, 7 and 10 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. Following each screening, there will be Q&A panel discussions. “The Life After Death Projects 1, 2 and 3” present some of the best evidence for life after death, survival of consciousness, and credible scientific evidence of communication with those who have passed on to “The Other Side”. Three universities were involved in studying the evidence, including a…
Arizona News – To better reflect its efforts to utilize the Title X (Ten) grant to coordinate sexual and reproductive health services, Arizona Family Health Partnership (AFHP) is now Affirm™️ Sexual and Reproductive Health for All. Or, just Affirm. “After extensive rebranding research, we chose the name Affirm because it speaks to our vision and how we execute it. We affirm the right of every Arizonan to access sexual and reproductive healthcare without reservation,” said Affirm CEO Bré Thomas. “To affirm means to uphold something and assert it strongly and to offer emotional support and encouragement. Both concepts are core to our vision of the future, where everyone…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona encore of “The Man Who Invented Christmas” showing Dec. 3-8 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. Based on the inspiring true story, “The Man Who Invented Christmas” — a delightful and heartwarming family film and holiday favorite — returns to theaters to spread the joy of the season. The film features an all-star, award-winning ensemble cast including Christopher Plummer, Dan Stevens and Jonathan Pryce. “The Man Who Invented Christmas” tells the magical journey that led to the creation of Ebenezer Scrooge (Christopher Plummer), Tiny Tim…
Verde Valley News – The Friends of Camp Verde Library will be holding a quilt raffle starting November 29th and ending on December 20th with the drawing at 10 a.m. The tickets are $5 each. The quilt has been donated by Peg Miller. Peg did the design and the piece work, while her daughter, Victoria Norman did the machine quilting. The community is invited to participate in the Friends quilt raffle during library open hours, which are from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Monday through Thursday, and from 9 a.m. to to 5 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. The…