By Virginia Volkman, Library DirectorSedona AZ (April 15, 2016) – During the week of April 10-16, Sedona Public Library joins libraries in schools, on campuses, and in communities nationwide in celebrating National Library Week. This year’s theme is “Libraries Transform.” First celebrated in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) each April.
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Chaz Ebert to be Keynote speaker for Conscious Film Convergence Sedona AZ (April 15, 2016) – The 2016 Illuminate Film Festival, which takes place June 1 – 5 in Sedona announced today the official line up of films for the 3rd annual event. The only film festival of its kind, the Illuminate Film Festival offers a collection of over 20 feature length and short films from around the world, exploring the year’s best in conscious cinema, as well as eye opening and thought provoking panels and conversations that will expand minds and inspire dialogue.
By Ted Grussing… photography tonight, fueled by music from American Authors after a search and sampling of music to fit my mood tonight … One seems to enjoy it too as she naps in front of the left desktop speakers … sub woofers on the floor in front of me and volume set to permit my neighbors to sleep … I think? Not in this house though!
Production from Canada’s renowned festival makes big-screen debut at Mary D. Fisher TheatreSedona AZ (April 14, 2016) – The Stratford Festival’s renowned new production of “Hamlet” makes its Sedona big-screen debut on Sunday, April 24. The Sedona International Film Festival hosts the high-definition premiere from its home in Canada’s prestigious festival. There will be one show at 3 p.m. at the festival’s Mary D. Fisher Theatre.A ghostly visitor with a shocking secret, a daughter devastated by loss, a deadly duel and the most famous question in all of drama: Shakespeare’s iconic tragedy will hold you spellbound.
Sedona AZ (April 14, 2016) – Sedona Recycles is hosting their second annual Earth Day Celebration, taking place at the recycling center at 2280 Shelby Dr. on April 23rd from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.Over twenty educators will have hands-on exhibits, including solar cooking, watersheds, hiking, composting, and organic gardening. Seedlings from Verde Valley School garden will be on sale. Herpetologist Russell Dunn will have live snakes for handling and teach how to recognize local species.
Sedona AZ (April 14, 2016) – Phase One of the Sedona Bike Skills Park located within Posse Grounds Park began on Monday, March 14. Following an extensive design phase of the Bike Skills Park, the city entered into a contract with Baniki Construction for the building of Phase One, which will be completed by Friday, April 29.
Prescott AZ (April 13, 2016) – On April 12, 2016, just after 9AM, a YCSO deputy saw a man, later identified as 28-year-old Theodore Acosta Jr. from Prescott Valley, standing near a blue passenger sedan on Marina Street at the west side of YCSO headquarters, 255 E. Gurley Street, Prescott. Acosta seemed unusually nervous as the marked Sheriff’s patrol car drove by. The deputy circled around and as he came by again, Acosta was now in the driver’s seat leaning over the steering wheel. The deputy circled one more time and pulled in behind the car to check on the driver.…
By Ted Grussing… a friend of mine gave me a photo of her horse, Kash, and after taking a look at him, images and possibilities started going through my mind … the apocalypse, end of time, headless horseman and you name it. Anyhow I kept part of the image she gave me and added a sunset and more of my own and came up with this image which if I do say so, I really like … hope you do too and what a magnificent animal.
By Ted Grussing… beautiful … terrific and joyful … regardless of what else happens on any given day and whilst breathing, we always have the privilege of witnessing the beauty that is found in the natural world. It is Iris season and for the next several weeks I plan on replacing much of my Iris portfolio with fresh 50MP raw images. I got this shot in the parking lot at Linda Wallace’s law office this afternoon and they are kinda growing wild. My Iris plants are not doing much right now, but am hopeful for them.
Verde Valley AZ (April 12, 2016) – April 23, 2016 will be observed as the third annual National Lost Dog Awareness Day. Lost Dogs of America celebrates this special event to shed light on the number of dogs that are lost each year and to bring attention to the many dogs in care of shelters and animal control facilities that have family looking for them. Lost Dogs of America, co-founded by Susan Taney (Lost Dogs Illinois) and Kathy Pobloskie (Lost Dogs of Wisconsin) is a coalition of individual state organizations, including Lost Dogs Arizona (LDAZ). Each state organization is an all-volunteer organization dedicated…
By Ted Grussing… and that is exactly what One is doing in this image … I love the way that felines run … it is a total commitment and if they can cross into other realms they will do it, just takes the extra energy and incentive as they go for the unseen and other worlds.
An Elephant, a Swan, a Dove and a Jaguar will join artists from around the world during the First Piano on the Rocks International FestivalSedona AZ (April 11, 2016) – This 2016 first Piano on the Rocks International Festival, “From Paris to Sedona” celebrates great music by French composers and composers who lived in Paris. It will take place this week on April 15,16, 17, 2016 in Sedona. Of special interest will be the opportunity for our audiences to taste the richness of Parisian artistic life during the 1830s when Paris was a center of the new Romanticism. Piano on…
Sedona AZ (April 11, 2016) – The Inspiration of Sedona is proud to present the Northern Arizona, encore premiere of Standing on Sacred Ground, a four-part documentary film series. See trailer: http://standingonsacredground.org/film-series/trailer. Part one will be shown during Earth Day weekend, on Sunday, April 24th, at 6:30 pm, at the Sedona Public Library, and will be followed by a Q&A and discussion with the director Toby McLeod.
By [Concerned Sedona Resident](April 11, 2016)A year ago, Sedona.biz courageously published a series of articles examining the selling of Sedona to the tourism world and the City’s funding of the Sedona Chamber of Commerce to do that. This three-part series looks back at the past year and what has – and has not – changed since “Selling Sedona” was first published. It examines new data about the results of expanded tourism marketing and a diminishing quality of life in Sedona for both residents and tourists alike. And, it looks forward to explore Sedona’s future and the consequences of having more…
Clarkdale AZ (April 11, 2016) – Land transfer or land grab? The controversy over control of Federal lands in the West is the subject of the the League of Women Voters Greater Verde Valley Education Program on Monday April 18. Presenter Susan Culp, Principal of NextWest Consulting, LLC, says, “Conflict between states in the Intermountain West and the federal government over the control and use of public land is nothing new, but efforts by western states to mount legal strategies to force the federal government to transfer public lands to state control have been gaining new momentum over the past few…