Sedona News – On Sunday, September 11 at 4pm, a House Concert celebrating rhythm and rhyme with Cheryl Good, Cassie Mavis, and the Zoot Suit Zebras featuring Gary Scott and Gary Every. This show will feature song, story, dance, laughter, and ceremony. This eclectic collective of artists are seeking an enthusiastic audience to share a musical evening in an intimate setting. Set inside a beautiful West Sedona home the show will feature jazz, classical, classic rock, classic rock with a twist, motion, movement and humor. There will be sing alongs and hopefully some laugh out loud moments as well. In…
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Sedona News – The city of Sedona seeks applicants for three seats on the Planning and Zoning Commission as two current member terms approach expiration and one will be resigning. This voluntary body, established by city council, consists of seven citizens appointed to play a critical role in the city’s planning process. The commission serves as city council’s advisors on land use, growth and development issues. Commission duties include making recommendations to the city council on Community Plan updates, Land Development Code amendments, property zone changes and subdivision applications. In addition, the commission makes the final decision on conditional use…
Sedona News – If you have a piece of wood and a wood carving knife, come to Monday at the Museum at Sedona Heritage Museum on Monday, September 12, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and join the Verde Valley Woodcarvers. Hundreds of people have tried their hand at carving with this group since its founding in 1997 by Norm Knight. The group consists of carvers ranging from beginners to master carvers. Come by with your own equipment or just come to watch these artisans do relief carving, chip carving, and bark carving. There is no fee for this demonstration. “Monday…
By Amaya Gayle Gregory We can be hungry for connection and not lonely, not hurting, not a hot mess. We can want to play with others and not be at a loss, feel worthless, or see ourselves as broken. We can be ready for a change in how we interact, can see the end of our hermitage stage, and not be a subject of pity, not be someone who seems suicidal, who would benefit from doing more inner work. We can be who we are, ask if others want to play, be honest about what is flowing through us, and…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “The Good Boss” showing Sept. 9-15 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “The Good Boss” takes place in and around the Básculas Blanco factory, where all things must be in balance at all times. After all, they manufacture scales of all shapes and sizes. There, the seemingly benevolent boss, Blanco (Academy Award-winner Javier Bardem), is preparing his workforce for an upcoming inspection by a group visiting local businesses to select one for a prestigious prize – the Business Excellence Award. Everything has to…
Sedona News – The League of Women Voters of Northern Arizona will host a forum featuring Samaire Armstrong and Scott Jablow, the two runoff candidates for Sedona Mayor in the November 8th general election. The mayoral forum is co-sponsored by the Sedona Chamber of Commerce. The forum will be held Wednesday, October 12, 2022, from 6:30-8:00 pm at the Sedona Performing Arts Center. The forum is free and open to the voting public. Questions will not be provided to the candidates in advance of the forum. The forum will be videotaped, posted to YouTube, and publicized when available. The last…
… September is here, summer is winding down, the harvest season is here and cooler weather is in the offing. Migration of birds is about to begin and transition is everywhere and in everything. Planet earth is wobbling and the northern hemisphere receives less energy from the sun … that beautiful out of control nuclear and thermonuclear mass that provides us with around 99 percent of our energy. Those few hours of less sun every day is the difference between the heat of summer and the snows of winter … so I absolutely love September … and I was born…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present “Cirque du Soleil™ Journey of Man” showing Sept. 9-14 on the big screen at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. “Cirque du Soleil™ Journey of Man” is a celebration of the human spirit that combines the unique artistry and music of Cirque du Soleil™ with the power of film. Filmed on location at various natural and historical landmarks around the world, “Cirque du Soleil™ Journey of Man” follows the stages of human development from birth to maturity, with each stage introduced by a Cirque du Soleil™ act. Lavishly costumed performers…
Sedona News – Red Earth Theatre brings ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’ to the stone arches of Tlaquepaque, the Patio de las Companas, on September 15th-16th and 21st-22nd A classic, written by Edmond Rostand in 1897, this lean production (barely 2 hours) for 8 actors is adapted by Kate Hawkes and Scott Coopwood from the translation by Sean Patrick Taylor. Hawkes and Coopwood also co-direct. The stellar cast is led by special guest Scott Coopwood (AEA) as Cyrano, a role he has played several times, most recently in 2019 at Colorado Shakespeare Festival. He also serves as the fight choreographer in this production.…
… I’ve spent a lot of today trying different techniques on images of Katie in an effort to find a way I want to emphasize her beauty and personality. Since she is strictly an indoor feline, depictions of her will be different than any of her predecessors … I can get the occasional composite out, but I am trying to come up with images more in line with the environs in which she lives. The photo above pretty much sums up her after dinner energy level whilst I worked on her image. Prior to settling on this, I had her…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “A Love Song” showing Sept. 9-14 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “A Love Song” was an audience hit at prestigious film festivals around the world, including Sundance, Berlin and Tribeca, and has screened at more film festivals than any other movie this year. Faye (Dale Dickey) is a lone traveler biding her time fishing, birding and stargazing at a rural Colorado campground as she awaits the arrival of Lito (Academy Award-winner Wes Studi), a figure from her past who is navigating his…
Sedona News – SAVCO will be hosting its annual charity golfing event on Saturday, October 15, 2022, at the Oakcreek Country Club (OCC), 690 Bell Rock Blvd. Sedona, AZ 86351. This fun scramble event will include putting and chipping contests, straightest drive and closest to the pin contests as well as top team awards and a $10,000 prize for a hole in one! All proceeds of this event enable SAVCO to continue its patriotic missions of conducting the annual Memorial Day Ceremony, manning the 89 Flags on 89a & uptown, providing scholarships to Sedona High School graduates, aiding veterans via…
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. Visitors are welcome to attend services. Special uplifting weekly messages for the Hebrew month of Elul recorded by Rabbi Magal are posted on the synagogue website. On Friday, September 9, a Friday evening Erev Shabbat service, led by Rabbi Alicia Magal, begins at 5:30 pm both in person and on Zoom, and livestreamed for members and their invitees. Congregants participate by lighting candles, doing a…
By Amaya Gayle Gregory It’s confusing for the seeker. There is only absolute awareness. All the great gurus point to that truth, therefore it must be so. As awareness there is no goal, but in this goallessness of the spiritual world, awareness itself unwittingly becomes the goal, the certainty within uncertainty, the known at the heart of unknowing and the manifestation slips into obscurity. Tricky little bastard. A mind wants to name it, claim it, tame it. Doing so, defames it. The law of awareness is but one aspect of an infinite, eternal puzzle. While true, it is not the…
… so this morning it was exercises, grab a large coffee and hit the road to drive down to Prescott and take advantage of an offer to get a ride in and fly an Icon A-5 land/amphibian based airplane. The top photo shows this luxury ship parked in the front lot at Cutter Aviation at Prescott Regional Airport … it is one very cool airplane! The second shot I shot through the open canopy and framed a Gulfstream V that had just come in a little while before I took the shot. The shot below I took from the Prescott…