Sedona AZ (November 24, 2021) – Between Monday, Nov. 29, 2021 and Dec. 30, 2021 at the Sedona Public Library, the city of Sedona seeks the public’s help in voting for which art pieces to select for three roundabouts along State Route 179 as part of its ongoing Art in Public Places Program. The artwork will be placed in the roundabouts at Canyon Drive, Morgan Road, Chapel Road and Back O’ Beyond Road. The city was already offered a donated sculpture for one roundabout. The past few months, the Roundabout Art Selection Work Group, a group of citizen volunteers, were…
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By Carson Ralston Camp Verde AZ (November 24, 2021) – Join us in the Fireside Room at Camp Verde Community Library at 5:30 pm on Thursday, December 2nd for the return of Donna Hazlewood, the winner of Verde Valley’s Got Talent. Donna Hazlewood was born and raised in the South and has been living in Arizona over the past 30 years. She has been a nurse for 10 years and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree as a nurse practitioner. She has always enjoyed singing, and over the past several years competed in singing competitions reaching a plateau. It was then…
Sedona AZ (November 24, 2021) – Many painters will tell you color and light play big roles in their artwork, but for sculptors and jewelers, it’s all about form. Rowe Fine Art Gallery celebrates all shapes and sizes in December with Good Form: Sculpture and Wearable Art. The show opens Friday, December 3, at 4 p.m., and continues through the month, giving you ample time to finish – or start! – your holiday shopping. What can art lovers expect to discover in December? The latest pendant in always-popular jeweler Liam Herbert’s Peace collection features a figure holding a peace symbol with…
By Ted Grussing … and he is leaving his perch and on his way to pick off the creature that he has target acquisition on … eagles have incredible eyesight and because they have two foveae or centers of focus this allows them to see forward and to the side at the same time and their eyesight is such that they can likely see a rabbit moving from a distance of a mile … and like all birds, they have color vision. An eagles eye is nearly the same size as the human eye. The photo below is a reminder that we…
Sedona AZ (November 23, 2021) – The Mary D. Fisher Theatre is honored to be the home for the Met Live Opera programs for the 2021-2022 season, presented by the Sedona International Film Festival. The season will continue with Matthew Aucoin’s “Eurydice” on Saturday, Dec. 4. There will be one show at 11 a.m. — a live simulcast as it is happening at the Met! Plan to come early as Ed Ingraham will lead a pre-opera talk one hour before the production. The ancient Greek myth of Orpheus, who attempts to harness the power of music to rescue his beloved…
Sedona AZ (November 23, 2021) – The Sedona Heritage Museum will host “Throwback Thursdays-Pioneers at the Museum”, on Thursday, December 2, at 3:30 p.m. at the Museum. Visitors will enjoy a glimpse at parts of the Museum through encounters with costumed reenactors. These impersonators will breathe life into eight Sedona area pioneers and share a bit of that person’s life story and adventures in the Sedona of 70-120 years ago. Guests will rotate through the Museum buildings, delighting in parts of a “day-in-the life” of our early settlers and community-builders, and getting a peek at some of the hopes, dreams,…
Sedona AZ (November 23, 2021) – The Sedona Arts Academy is pleased to announce the third in its ongoing series of art shows celebrating the visual artists of the Verde Valley. Building on the great success of the inaugural exhibit in March, the current show features an extraordinary range of fine pieces from gifted local artists, including several whose work has not previously been shown in the area. Many of these works are the perfect gift for loved ones. The show runs until January 18th 2022 and is open week days from noon to 6:00 PM and 11am to 6pm…
Camp Verde AZ (November 23, 2021) – Starting Wednesday, December 8 from 3:00-4:00p Lynn Sweitzer will present in-person or virtually a series of five hands-on classes on how to successfully and safely do online banking. The class, part of the Community Connect: Digital Access at Home project, will meet weekly through January 5 on Wednesday in the Key Lime Room at Camp Verde Community Library or at the same time via Zoom. Ready, Set, Bank is an online and in-person, blended learning program designed to help seniors learn about online and mobile banking. Technology is rapidly changing the financial industry…
By Ted Grussing … when our family first moved into our home on Diamond Lake in Minneapolis the refrigeration for our food was provided by an ice delivery truck which brought blocks of ice to be used in the fridge to keep things cool … I checked with my brother and he remembers it too. Fast forward to November of 2021 and my beautiful GE Monogram built in refrigerator decided it was time to return to the “good old days” and died. Friends are storing my frozen food (thank you) and for about a week I have returned to the…
Sedona AZ (November 22, 2021) – The Mary D. Fisher Theatre is proud to present the acclaimed new drama “The Power of the Dog” showing for a limited time: Dec. 3-5. “The Power of the Dog” stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst, and is written and directed by Academy Award-winner Jane Campion. Set in Montana in the 1920s, Campion’s hotly anticipated new film is an enthralling revisionist western awash in sublime expanses and nuance, capturing a landscape and a people driven by the fantasy and folly of western expansion. Adapted from Thomas Savage’s novel of the same name, “The Power…
Cottonwood AZ (November 22, 2021) – The Old Town Center for the Arts is pleased to present Grace Field, performing “A Broadway Holiday” Saturday, December 4th at 7:00 PM. Grace has been featured on NBC’s the Today Show performing with Hugh Jackman, is a proud member of Tony Award Winning Broadway Inspirational Voices and has been in multiple musical theatre productions across the globe. She most recently performed on Broadway in “Disney on Broadway 25th Anniversary Special” with Whoopi Goldberg at the New Amsterdam Theatre. Grace was born in the little town of Austin, Texas. From the get-go, everyone knew she was an artist; before she could ever…
By Amaya Gayle Gregory Experience is the path to the Holy Grail, the finger pointing to the moon, a Zen koan, the sweet sound of a dharma bell. Experience, just as it is in this moment is the perfect prefect, the sacred enforcer, the blackboard on which life with its pieces of chalk writes, “Look carefully and see what’s real.” Experience, whether entered into fully, with righteous hesitancy, or as many are wont to do, kicking and screaming; engaged in its slippery slidey messy entirety or scrubbed and polished to within an inch of life itself; lived with authentic aplomb…
Prescott AZ (November 22, 2021) – Holiday stress will be the topic of the next Mental Health Monday on November 29th, 10-11:30 AM, via Zoom. Holidays and stress seem to go together, especially with the added stress of the Covid-19 pandemic which may make this time of year more challenging. Join us for this presentation to find out how holiday stress affects different populations and ways to reduce that stress. Three speakers will be featured: Michael King — Licensed Professional Counselor who holds a master’s degree in counseling and a bachelor’s degree in youth and human service administration. His counseling experiences have included…
By Tommy Acosta Sedona, AZ – One could say that Kyle Rittenhouse should never have gone to Kenosha, Wisconsin with a Smith & Wesson, AR-style, semi-automatic rifle slung around his neck. That he had no business being there. That in bringing the weapon to the streets, he, and his mother who drove him there should have known that in trying to protect the community against the rioters, that he might have actually had to discharge the weapon in defending what he said he went there to defend. Somewhere in the back of his mind did he realize that he might…
Sedona AZ (November 21, 2021) – The Sedona International Film Festival presents Ballet in Cinema on Sunday, Nov. 28 when it hosts the big screen premiere of “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” from Ballet Zürich in Switzerland. There will be one show at 1:00 p.m. at the festival’s Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” is a spectacular holiday ballet par excellence, like you’ve never seen it before in a revisited version by visionary choreographer Christian Spuck. His mise en scène, poetic and precise, plunges more deeply than most versions into the source text by macabre…