Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “Breaking” showing Oct. 21-Oct. 27 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “Breaking” features a stellar ensemble cast, including John Boyega, Nicole Beharie, Michael Kenneth Williams, Connie Britton, Jeffrey Donovan and Olivia Washington. When Marine Veteran Brian Brown-Easley is denied support from Veterans Affairs, financially desperate and running out of options, he takes a bank and several of its employees hostage, setting the stage for a tense confrontation with the police. “Breaking” is based on a true story. “A deeply moving performance by John…
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Sedona News – The Democrats of the Red Rocks (DORR) Breakfast will host “A Behind the Scenes Look at What Makes Indivisible Such a Progressive Powerhouse,” in person on Friday, October 21 at 9:30 am at the Sedona Community Center, 2615 Melody Lane in West Sedona and on zoom. Leah Greenberg, Indivisible Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director, and Trisha Sauer, Indivisible’s Arizona Statewide Coordinator, will discuss how Indivisible has grown and how they frame the upcoming election. Leah Goldberg is the co-founder of Indivisible and co-author of We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump, (Simon & Schuster’s One Signal Publishers, 2019). Leah has been featured as…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “The Silent Twins” showing Oct. 21-Oct. 27 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “The Silent Twins” is the astounding true story of twin sisters who only communicated with one another. As a result, they created a rich, fascinating world to escape the reality of their own lives. Based on the best-selling book “The Silent Twins”, the film stars Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance. June and Jennifer Gibbons were not always silent. Born in 1963, their early childhood involved following wherever the RAF work…
Verde Valley News – The Coconino National Forest will host a Women in Wildland Fire boot camp in April 2023 for individuals interested in exploring a career in wildfire. Boot camp participants will gain a greater understanding of the challenges and responsibilities of wildland firefighting through sessions conducted both in the classroom and in the field. Class work will consist of online training modules, where participants will learn about wildland firefighting strategy and safety. During field training, participants will follow guidelines set by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group to explore firefighting as a career in a hands-on way. Participants will…
Verde Valley News – Camp Verde Community Library recently received grants for two unique collections for the Children’s Library, from the AZ State Library, Archives, & Public Records. One is a Welcoming Libraries grant and the other is a Checkout Learning 2022 grant. Both collections are available now for checkout when you visit the Children’s Library. About Welcoming Libraries: The Welcoming Library, a collection of 30 picture books from I’m Your Neighbor Books, is designed to promote conversation on immigration and new-generation communities. That conversation gets started through a collection of acclaimed picture books featuring new arrival and new-generation families. Readers of all…
By Amaya Gayle Gregory You want a little more abundance, a little less discomfort, a bit more of the green stuff to pay the bills and a few dollars left over to fill that empty space in your wallet. It doesn’t really matter if it is something you’ve never had, or had and lost, something within aches for it, knows you deserve it. You want a sweet relationship, one that hugs your heart, someone to snuggle with you and fill up your big empty bed and hold you when you don’t want to be alone, someone to light you up,…
Sedona News – Sedona Toys for Tots is accepting family requests starting October 15 for toys for the holiday season. Toys for Tots provides toys, books and stocking stuffers to children newborn to 14 years old living in the Sedona area. Families may register at the Sedona Community Food Bank, St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry or at West Sedona School. Registration is also available at http://sedona-az.toysfortots.org. Sedona Toys for Tots provides one bag of toys for each family. Families who request toys are pre-screened to assure there are no double requests. Sedona toys for Tots is sponsored by the…
By Rabbi Alicia Magal Shalom and greetings from the Rabbi, Board of Directors, and congregation of the Jewish Community of Sedona and the Verde Valley. All the services, classes, and programs are listed on the synagogue website, jcsvv.org. Visitors are welcome to attend services. On Friday, October 21 a Friday evening Erev Shabbat service, led by Rabbi Alicia Magal, begins at 5:30 pm both in person and on Zoom, and live-streamed for members and their invitees. Congregants participate by lighting candles, doing a reading, or having an Aliyah for the Torah service. Verses from the Torah portion will be chanted from the…
… leaving for the lake in four hours so this will be a wee bit short. I’ve spent the last while browsing through flower shots I have taken over the years and these two spoke to me and insisted that they be chosen … the first is a Hollyhock that was in a planter outside a beauty shop in West Sedona where I used to take Corky … it was raining, so I held back, skipped my walk and shot the Hollyhocks and other flowers … the last from a shoot of Indian Blanket flowers along SR 179 … beauty…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the flashback encore return of “Carnage” showing Oct. 21-26 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon and Mary D. Fisher Theatres. “Carnage” features an award-winning ensemble cast, including Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly. Foster and Winslet both received Golden Globe nominations for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical for their performances in the film. “Carnage” is a razor sharp, biting comedy centered on parental differences. After two boys duke it out on a playground, the parents of the “victim”…
… and what a day it was … I was in the number 2 lane on I-17 heading into Phoenix, when BANG and some very weird noises. I was thinking blown tire, but I had full control and after pulling over and finding all tires in good shape, I looked up and whoops … the sunroof glass had exploded and although it is safety glass there was still a huge mess. So I continued on to my appointments and after them I used 200 mph duck tape (often used in aviation temporary repairs) to tape around the large hole and…
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 will officially kick off with Luigi Cherubini’s “Medea” live via simulcast on Saturday, Oct. 22 at 10 a.m. and the encore presentation on Wednesday, Oct. 26 at 3 p.m. Plan to come early as Russell Fox will lead a pre-opera talk one hour before the LIVE production on Saturday. Having triumphed at the Met in some of the repertory’s fiercest soprano roles, Sondra Radvanovsky stars…
Verde Valley News – NAMI Yavapai will be sponsoring a FREE NAMI Family-to-Family 4-session education program for family, friends and significant others of adults with mental health conditions. NAMI Family-to-Family provides information about anxiety, depressive disorders, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other mental health conditions. Other topics covered include communication, problem solving, treatment and recovery. The program is designed to increase understanding and advocacy skills while helping participants maintain their own well-being. The class is taught by trained family members who have a loved one with a mental health condition. When: This class is four sessions long and will begin October…
Sedona News – After a two-year hiatus due to Covid-19, Hālau Hula Nāpuaokaleiʻilima resumes their only fundraising event, the 17th annual Hoʻike (hula exhibition show). Kumu Hula Kēhau Chrisman invites you to join her students (haumana) on Saturday, November 5, 2022 at the Phillip England Center for the Performing Arts at 280 Camp Lincoln Road in Camp Verde. Doors open at 1:15 PM, and the show starts at 1:30 PM. At the show, Haumana (students) will demonstrate hula they have learned over the years from Kumu Hula Kēhau Chrisman. You can also take advantage of purchasing reasonably priced Hawaiʻi themed items for sale as well as several unique Hawaiian artifacts…
By Amaya Gayle Gregory I’m going to tell you something you don’t want to hear. You already know it, but many of you have yet to fully accept it. Life isn’t fair. It will never be all roses and no thorns. Some people will appear to win in spite of seeming unworthy of any good fortune. Others will appear to lose even though they seem worthy of much more. It isn’t, nor will this dimensional life ever be, golden light and the absence of shadow. No matter how much inner work you do, how much knowledge you accumulate, how enlightened…