Sedona AZ (November 4, 2021) – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of the acclaimed new drama “Mass” showing Nov. 12-18 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. Taut, gripping, and deeply insightful, “Mass” captures the emotionally freighted meeting of two couples whose lives have been sundered by the same tragic event. Years after an unspeakable tragedy tore their lives apart, two sets of parents (Reed Birney & Ann Dowd, Jason Isaacs & Martha Plimpton) agree to talk privately in an attempt to move forward. “Mass” thoughtfully examines their journey of grief, anger, and…
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Sedona News: The Sedona International City of Peace is heading into our 10th year in 2022! An amazing decade filled with connection, expansion, and accomplishment! The International Cities of Peace organization is restructuring, improving, and setting a goal to grow from 350 to 1000 Cities of Peace worldwide by 2025! Just within the last few months, several Arizona cities like Peoria, Prescott, Mesa, Cottonwood, and Flagstaff are at different stages of becoming International Cities of Peace. We are always striving to create ways to unify us, illuminate all perspectives, dissolve divides, and seek shared solutions that create peace within ourselves,…
Sedona AZ (November 4, 2021) – The Sedona Heritage Museum will feature a chair caning demonstration on November 15th, from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. Dale Compton will demonstrate the steps for hand caning a traditional chair seat, a hobby that requires time and patience, but very few tools. Dale has been hand caning chairs as a hobby for eighteen years and has caned nearly 50 chairs. He obtains the chairs from flea markets, garage sales and friends, often as derelicts in poor condition. He then repairs, rebuilds and refinishes the chairs prior to caning so that the final product…
Sedona AZ (November 4, 2021) – Argentine Tango Night with Dana on Mondays, Nov. 1 through Nov. 22, 7 to 8:30 p.m. In this beginner level series, Dana De Luz will teach the proper hold and energy of Argentine tango, as well as give you a small series of movements to practice with the music. Each class will be followed by a 30-minute practica (tango practice with other students). Dana will also teach the basics of etiquette for a Milonga (Argentine tango social dance). Because Argentine tango is such a close dance masks will be required, hand sanitizer is available, and vaccinations…
Sedona AZ (November 3, 2021) – The city of Sedona will conduct its 2022 primary election on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022, and its general election, if necessary, on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. If a candidate receives a majority of all the votes cast at the primary election, they will be elected to the office for which they are a candidate, effective the date of the general election. A general election is only required if the offices are not filled at the primary election. The new city council members will be seated between Nov. 22, 2022 and Dec. 13, 2022. The following seats…
Cottonwood AZ (November 2, 2021) – The Old Town Center for the Arts is pleased to present Four Shillings Short, the husband/wife duo of Aodh Og O’Tuama from Cork, Ireland and Christy Martin from California. Four Shillings Short will perform a special ‘Samhain Concert’ live at OTCA on Saturday, November 13th at 7:00 PM The duo performs Traditional and Original music from the Celtic lands, Medieval & Renaissance Europe, India and the Americas on a fantastic array of instruments (over 30) including Hammered & Mountain Dulcimer, Mandolin, Mandola, Bouzouki, Tinwhistles, Recorders, Medieval and Renaissance Woodwinds, North Indian Sitar, Charango, Bowed Psaltery, Banjo,…
By Amaya Gayle Gregory Writing about true nature is tricky. As best I can, realizing it’s not me writing words flow that are bound to fall short of the mark. They are arrows flying through appearances of time and space. I smile as my fingertips loose from the string of life and the arrows fly. Even a poor bowman, hits the mark occasionally and that’s worth however many shots I am compelled to take. I’ve also been known to write from the perspective of duality, the progressive paths where the appearances in time and space — you and me and…
By Ted Grussing … do not take it personally, but when you get too close to wildlife they leave … just an instinct that helps them survive throughout the ages. I do tend to get close, for instance the great egret above let us get within ten feet before he flew … actually we bumped into the tree he was in, so make it about six feet, because he left when we bumped into the tree. In this shot you can see that he is spreading his wings to take the first stroke of those fabulous white wings and his…
Sedona AZ (November 2, 2021) – The Mary D. Fisher Theatre is proud to present the acclaimed new drama “Passing” showing Nov. 12-18. “Passing” stars Tessa Thompson, Academy Award-nominee Ruth Negga, André Holland and Alexander Skarsgård, and is written and directed by Rebecca Hall. Adapted from the celebrated 1929 novel of the same name by Nella Larsen, “Passing” tells the story of two Black women, Irene Redfield (Tessa Thompson) and Clare Kendry (Academy Award-nominee Ruth Negga), who can “pass” as white but choose to live on opposite sides of the color line during the height of the Harlem Renaissance in…
Sedona AZ (November 1, 2021) – Keep Sedona Beautiful will host Ted Grussing, photographer, pilot, author and so much more on Wednesday, November 10, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. for its monthly Preserving the Wonder™ Speaker Series. This will be the first in-person Speaker Series presentation in over a year. To accommodate more spaciousness for attendees, it will be held at The Hub located at 525-B Posse Ground Road in Sedona. Masks will be required, and seating will be limited to provide social distancing for those who desire it. Please visit the KSB website, www.keepsedonabeautiful.org for details. The presentation is free…
By Ted Grussing … I’m starting to get used to my new camera gear and like the results I am getting with it. I am supposed to get my new RF 100-500mm lens by the end of the upcoming week and expect that to give me a quantum advance in wildlife shooting. Currently, and in these shots I am using my EF 70-200 lens with a 2X extender to get me to a 140-400 mm equivalent lens. Even though the lens was designed for the mirrored cameras, with the extender and adapter to the mirrorless camera I am getting results…
Sedona AZ (November 1, 2021) – After the successful return of slam poetry to Sedona in October, the Sedona Poetry Slam proudly welcomes New Mexico slam poetry icon Damien Flores to the stage on Saturday, Nov. 13. Performance poets will bring high-energy, competitive spoken word to the Mary D. Fisher Theatre starting at 7:30 p.m. with Flores performing between rounds. Damien Flores Flores is an award-winning poet, comedian, author, actor, educator and radio broadcaster from Albuquerque, N.M. A two-time National Poetry Slam Champion and two-time College Unions Poetry Slam Champion, he has published three books: “Junkyard Dogs,” “El Cuento de…
Sedona AZ (October 30, 2021) – The Sedona International Film Festival, in partnership with two nonprofits, Plan B to Save Wolves and Wolf Dogs and Apex Protection Project, will be the venue for this year’s Sedona Wolf Week at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre on November 10-11 from 9:00 am-8:30 pm each day. Attendees will be able to enjoy Sedona Wolf Week on the big screen in the theatre. This special pass provides two days of live-streamed programming, in and out theatre privileges, plus the added benefit of a virtual pass for all wolf week events and a ticket to…
Sedona AZ (October 30, 2021) – The Sedona Heritage Museum’s annual Veterans Day tribute will be on Thursday, November 11 beginning at 11:00 a.m. at the Museum. All veterans of all U.S. service branches, active military, family, friends, and residents who want to show their appreciation to those who have served and are now serving are invited to be guests of the Museum at Sedona’s annual memorial and program of appreciation. This year’s program will be overseen by emcee Shondra Jepperson. She and Tom Jepperson will provide patriotic and inspirational music. Singer Jeanie Carroll will be highlighted in a musical…
By Carson Ralston Camp Verde Community Library Camp Verde AZ (October 30, 2021) – Join us on Tuesday, November 9th from 5:30-7:00 pm in Camp Verde Community Library’s Fireside Room for a special performance by The Gina Machovina Trio. The Gina Machovina Trio band members are Gina Machovina (guitar, vocals), Alberto Hinojoza (bass, vocals) and Claudia Tulip (flutes, vocals). Gina is a classically trained guitarist, who loves nothing more than writing music and performing her favorite tunes. As a young southern Californian, Gina fervently studied the instrument, all the while writing and performing tunes for her original R&R group Rising. Gina went on to earn…