Prescott News – Discover the dynamic and creative spirit of Prescott at the 4th Friday Art Walk on July 26, 2024. This much-anticipated monthly event highlights the area’s artistic diversity and innovation, as over 16 galleries extend their hours and open their doors to celebrate the arts. The July 2024 featured galleries: Bella Light Studios Location: 514 East Sheldon Street Phone: (808) 226-4061 Specializing in custom stained glass, dichroic glass sculptures, and immersive light installations, Bella Light Studios, led by Siobhan Wisdom, transforms both homes and commercial spaces into visual spectacles. The studio will extend its hours for the Art…
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Arizona News – The Arizona Community Foundation is pleased to announce two key promotions in its regional offices. Both regional directors will focus on sustainable asset development, donor and community engagement, professional advisor outreach, and volunteer development across their region. In the ACF of Sedona office, Sheri Denny, MBA, CNP, has been promoted to Regional Director. Sheri has been with ACF since 2021, serving as a Regional Philanthropic Advisor in both Yavapai County and Sedona, and is a key community partner in building assets to enhance grantmaking and scholarships and facilitating grant cycles. Sheri has over 20 years of business development experience…
Arizona News – Arizona’s highways have existed almost since statehood in 1912, but the agency overseeing them, the Arizona Department of Transportation, is marking its 50th anniversary this month. It’s all because state lawmakers, facing a booming population and accelerating transportation needs, decided to consolidate the Arizona Highway Department and Arizona Aeronautics Department as of July 1974. Since then, ADOT employees throughout the state have expanded the state’s transportation infrastructure, implemented new technologies and innovations, and provided safer and more efficient ways to keep travelers moving safely. Governor Katie Hobbs marked this month’s milestone with a letter to ADOT staff…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to join theaters around the world to present the global premiere of “Disciples in the Moonlight” showing July 17-21 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0CYZRDFGcI In the not-too-distant future the Bible has been outlawed in the United States of America and replaced with a government approved bible. A group of seven Christians from Indiana are asked to smuggle the true Word of God to underground churches in Kentucky, Illinois, and Ohio. With Homeland Security hot on their trail, the smugglers must be willing to risk it all for the Word…
… in a bit of a mood as I am a week into the summer project of organizing and trimming my photo portfolio down. For the past eight years I have cataloged new photo shoots into a folder named Photo – Camera uploads not cataloged … my year, month and date … it has become unwieldly, so my summer project is cataloging the uncatalogued. A good summer project and staying cool whilst so engaged! Both of tonight’s shots discovered while so engaged! Above is a pair of Haris’s Hawks that were hunting together down at Lake Pleasant … with the…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to partner with award-winning surround sound composer and producer Koz Mraz for a Surround Sound Music Experience, featuring Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here on Wednesday and Thursday, July 17 and 18 at 7 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. You will be blown away by this limited dark room 5.1 Surround Sound Music Experience in Sedona’s best sound system, the Mary D. Fisher Theater. This is a no-visuals sonic experience, reminiscent of lost art of listening to music in the dark with…
Sedona News – Sedona Great Decisions will present the topic Science Across Borders on July 15th from 10 am to noon at the Sedona Public Library, 3250 White Bear Road. This presentation is open to the public and admission is free. Member Carla Williams will explain the history of sharing information between international scientists in a variety of areas, such as medicine, nuclear power, AI, and climate. She will discuss when sharing information between countries began, why it occurred and how difficult it is to maintain in today’s environment. Guest speaker, Darcee Adam, P.Eng., M.Sc., PMP will discuss the Direct…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival and Anger Management Comedy present a Saturday night filled with laughter and good vibes with professional stand-up comedian Daniel Eachus — as seen on Comedy Central, FOX and HULU — onstage at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre on Saturday, July 13 at 7 p.m. The show will also feature opening acts JC Anderson and Matt Santos. DANIEL EACHUS Daniel Eachus is a rising star in the comedy world. Even at such a young age, Eachus has the chops of a comedy veteran, and the world is beginning to take notice. Born and…
By David Stephen Sedona, AZ — Where is human consciousness based? If human anatomy and physiology were explored, the nervous system would be the choice. The brain is the principal organ in the nervous system. The brain is correlated with several functions—from studies in neuroscience—such that, if parts of the brain were lost, some functions could be lost. If there are problems with the brain, regular functions may become problematic. This indicates that whatever an individual is conscious about is mechanized, largely, by the brain. So, what, in the brain, sets consciousness? How does it work to make consciousness viable?…
By Amaya Gayle Gregory To have seen through the ruse leaves one in the fascinating position of not being easily understood. Most everything said or written to one extent or another is believed to be one way or the other and not at all as it is experienced here. Seems that’s the nature of expression. It is a good thing that the one who cared is no longer in charge because being misunderstood always felt like pouring acid in an open wound. What’s funny now is whether I am understood or not, the writing continues, the story rolls on, the…
Sedona News – Sedona International Film Festival presents the Great Art on Screen series with “Picasso: A Rebel in Paris”. The film will premiere in Sedona on Tuesday and Sunday, July 16 and 21 at 3:30 p.m. at the festival’s Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5sLQ4NOCfo Great Art on Screen is a series of documentaries featuring an in-depth look at the most extraordinary and groundbreaking art masters of their time. Fifty years after his passing, we embark on a journey through Pablo Picasso’s Paris, amidst sunshine and shadow, convictions and contradictions, from a young, impoverished foreigner to one of the most important…
Verde Valley News – On June 6, 2024, Northern Arizona Healthcare (NAH) performed 222 sports physicals in Camp Verde for students from 12 Verde Valley area schools. For the cost of $10, student athletes were able to complete their required physicals before the start of the fall sports season. All proceeds collected from each physical will be donated to the athletic departments of those students’ schools. Including donations, this event raised over $2,220 for Verde Valley youth athletic department programs. Providers from all five NAH Primary Care clinics, Immediate Care and the Orthopedic & Spine Institute helped complete the students’ physicals, and support staff from NAH Primary Care…
… once again, a celebration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence … and again I tried to put myself in the mind set of those who committed everything including their lives to pursue and attain freedom for the approximately 2,400,000 people who lived in the colonies at the time. The signers of the Declaration of Independence … lots of other links on these pages that are worth reading … I doubt if they would recognize the country we have become, but thanks to the genius in how they framed the Declaration and later the Constitution, they set in motion and established what is still the…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “June Zero” showing July 12-18 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. The 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, a principal architect of the Holocaust, is revisited in a gripping and surprising new vision from American filmmaker Jake Paltrow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YexAXiB_g6U Based on true accounts, “June Zero” is told from the unique perspectives of three distinct figures: Eichmann’s Jewish Moroccan prison guard; an Israeli police investigator who also happens to be a Holocaust survivor and a precocious and clever 13-year-old Libyan immigrant. Entirely shot on 16mm…
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 12, 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 Chukat, Numbers 19:1 – 22:1, mentioning the deaths of Miriam and Aaron and how the Children of…