PREVIOUS ISSUES : CULTURE : Performing Arts / Books Last Updated: May 7, 2008 - 9:06 AM   Perfoming Arts/Books: April 2-8 By Daniel McNichol Published: April 2, 2008   Email this article   Printer friendly page   Items for calendar consideration may be submitted via mail, fax, e-mail (culture@sfreporter.com) or online and must be received two weeks before publication. >>> Designates items highlighted in this week�s issue. BOOKS/LECTURES | DANCE | EVENTS | MUSIC | THEATER BOOKS/LECTURES Mary Solourner preps readers for her Southwest adventures at Santa Fe Prepatory School. RUMBLE, YOUNG MAN, RUMBLE Oops! It's not that Muhammad Ali. It's Taha Muhammad Ali, an Arabic author and poet whose work emerges directly from the Israeli-Arab conflict. The Lannan Foundation's 2007-2008 Readings and Conversations brings Ali together with Peter Cole, Hebrew scholar and poet, to discuss their work and the political climate that surrounds it. 7 pm Wednesday, April 2. $3-$6. Lensic, 211 W. San Francisco St., 986-8160 HUMANS AND THEIR WORLD The School for Advanced Research presents its lecture series, Humans in a Changing Landscape. This week brings anthropologist Julie Cruikshank's "Do Glaciers Listen? Remembering the Little Ice Age," and UNM professor Larry Torres' "Devotional Art in New Mexico." Glaciers: 7:30 pm Thursday, April 3 Devotional Art:  Tuesday, April 8. Free. James A Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf 1060 Cerrillos Road, 954-7230 LIFE, A FATAL CONDITION Santa Fe resident and author Lisa Tucker has made a name for herself writing books that present complex issues and ask evocative questions of readers. Her latest book, The Cure for Modern Life, explores the various coping mechanisms, which more often than not, have a chemical basis, that we turn to when modern living gets the better of us. Tucker discusses her book and signs copies. 5:30 pm Friday, April 4. Free. Collected Works Bookstore, 208-B W. San Francisco St., 988-4226 RIVERS AND BEES Southwest Seminars continues its Anthropology/Archaeology Lecture Series with Dr. Sarah Schlanger's "The Same River Twice: Archaeology in a Changing Landscape" and Dr. Steve Lekson's "Yellow Jacket, Pinnacle Ruin and Migration from Mesa Verde." The Same River Twice: 6 pm Friday, April 4 Yellow Jacket: 6 pm Monday, April 7. $10. Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo De Peralta, 466-2775 DESERT WOMAN SPEAKS Author, NPR commentator and desert-dwelling wild woman Mary Solourner reads selections from her recent works, including the memoirs Bonelight: Ruin and Grace in the New Southwest and Solace: Rituals of Loss and Desire. 7:30 pm Friday, April 4. Free. Driscoll Auditorium, Santa Fe Preparatory School 1101 Camino de Cruz Blanca, 989-7019 WAR, CARTOONS AND PULITZERS Bill Maudlin was an acclaimed editorial cartoonist, WWII vet, progressive, self-proclaimed troublemaker and two-time Pulitzer Prize recipient. His is no ordinary story, and has now been relayed by an extraordinary scholar. Waynesburg College professor Todd DePastino's last book, Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America, explored the rise and fall of the American hobo experience. He's now launching two books on his new subject: Bill Maudlin: A Life Up Front and The Complete Cartoons of Bill Maudlin. 3:30 pm Saturday, April 5. Free. Garcia Street Books, 376 Garcia St., 986-0151 HAVING CAKE, EATING IT The second installment of the Lensic's Election Year: A Festival of Optimistic Voices brings together biologist Rupert Sheldrake, economist Hazel Henderson and restaurateur Judy Wicks to discuss "Life in a Win-Win World," where sustainable, viable solutions to environmental and biological perils are as tasty as they are necessary to our survival. 7 pm Saturday, April 5. $10. Lensic, 211 W. San Francisco St., 988-1234 DIARY PEEPING Five locals invade their forebearers' privacy in Journals from the Past, a benefit for the Santa Fe Film Festival. Journals and love letters spanning from the Civil War to WWII are read by descendents of the writers, offering a personalized glimpse into times past and no shortage of historical gossip. 2 pm Sunday, April 6. $15. Santa Fe Film Center, 1616 St. Michael's Drive, 577-8686 EVENTS Passionate poetry from Taha Muhammad Ali fills the Lensic. return to top ST. JOHN'S LECTURES St. John's College presents the Dean's Lecture Series. Included are Emily Rena-Dozier's "The Ethics of Laughter in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice," Kenneth Haynes' "Kant and Hamann," The Gilbert and Sullivan Society's production of The Mikado and Tiina Nunnally's "The Art of the Literary Translator." The Ethics of Laughter: 3 pm Wednesday, April 2 Kant and Hamann: 8 pm Friday, April 4 The Mikado: 7 pm Saturday and Sunday, April 5 and 6 "The Art of the Literary Translator": 7 pm Tuesday, April 8. Free. Peterson Student Center, St. John's College 1160 Camino de Cruz Blanca, 984-6104 GREAT FRIDAY First Presbyterian Church presents Music and Drama for Good Friday, a program including "The Passion Narrative According to John" by Raymond Raney and "Stabat Mater" by Dean Roush. 5:30 pm Friday, April 4. Free. First Presbyterian Church, 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 VIOLENCE AND THE LAW Ray Lopez is back with another installment in his Creative Nonviolence Project: A Series of Workshops for Men. The project takes a creative approach to the epidemic of violence by engaging men in a collaborative process intended explore the roots and nature of violence. Facilitators work with participants to forge creative answers to this stubborn, age-old predicament. This week's workshop explores the dynamics of domestic violence through a legal lens with Busted: The Legal Ramifications of Violence. Specific New Mexico statutes concerning domestic violence are explained and a law enforcement officer will be on hand to give the perspective of a trained professional. 7 pm Wednesday, April 2. $10. Santa Fe Rape Crisis and Trauma Center, 6601 Valentine Way, 471-7501 >>> PASS THE NITROUS BALLOON Psyche! Despite its title, the College of Santa Fe's fourth annual Poem-Palooza is not to be tailgated. This is a good thing: Santa Fe denizens don't really need another excuse to break out the tie-dye and hacky sacks. Instead, they can gather for a multi-media poetry extravaganza featuring award-winning spoken- and written-word poet Tyehimba Jess as well as writers, singers, dancers, musicians and artists from CSF, the Santa Fe Indian School, Santa Fe and Capital high schools and the University of New Mexico Slam Team. Leave the oversized beach ball and the nitrous tank at home (See SFR Picks). 7 pm Thursday, April 3. Free. Greer Garson Theater, College of Santa Fe 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 473-5243 >>> COMEDIC CROSSDRESSER Eddie Izzard carries on the tradition of his great comedic countrymen, such as Peter Sellers, Monty Python and Margaret Thatcher. British people are funnier that other people for reasons that may never be fully understood. Izzard is the first of that tradition, however, to make transvestism a regular and enthusiastic - as opposed to casual - part of his routine. He brings his extemporaneous, historical and cultural comedic stylings to the Lensic two nights in row, offering little chance to claim that tickets were unavailable (See SFR Picks). 8 pm Thursday and Friday, April 3 and 4. $30-$40. Lensic, 211 W. San Francisco St., 988-1234 SOS Teatre Petit hosts the second in its Series of Soirees, a time and place to come together to enjoy one another's stories, sounds and performances. Each performer is welcome to present 10-15 minutes of anything that can fit on a small stage: comedy, poetry, improv, theater, music, dance and any of a number of infinitely more frightening possibilities. The soiree lasts about two hours and ends properly with wine, cheese and grape consumption. 4 pm Sunday, April 6. $5-$10. Eldorado Community Center corner of Avenida Amistad and Monte Alto 505-216-0882 ESSENTIAL INGREDIENTS OF SALSA Salsa music is a uniquely Nuyorican (that's New York-Puerto Rican) sound emanating from Spanish Harlem over the course of generations of immigrants, says Jose Obando, musician and possibly the United States' only salsa musicologist. Obando is joined by three musicians from the Harlem Salsa Orchestra for a lecture and demonstration of this spicy transcultural phenomenon. The demonstration is part of the Santa Fe Art Institute's 2008 series, Outsider: Tourism, Migration, and Exile. 6 pm Monday, April 7. $2.50-$5. Tipton Hall, College of Santa Fe, 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 424-5050 CROSS CULTURAL CONVERSATION Is Santa Fe a happy melting pot of multicultural equity or a layered cake of privileges and marginalizations? El Museo Cultural offers a chance to learn and listen across the barriers and divisions that separate us. Tom Romero, Maria Martinez and Robert Sinn facilitate a discussion en Espanol y en Ingles, tambien. 7 pm Tuesday, April 8. Free. El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, 1615 Paseo de Peralta, 922-0591 MUSIC return to top LIVE JAZZ The Southwest Jazz Orchestra presents an opportunity to be present at a live recording session to benefit the College of Santa Fe's Contemporary Music Program. 4 pm Sunday, April 6. $10-$15. O'Shaugnessy Performance Space, College of Santa Fe 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 995-8475 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY The 19th century Bohemian subculture of France offers a backdrop for Puccini's opera of - what else - love and loss. La boheme is conducted by Nicola Luisotti and directed by Franco Zeffirelli. 11:30 am Saturday, April 5. $15-$22. Lensic, 211 W. San Francisco St., 988-1234 THEATER return to top ART POETRY THEATER The Chado Contemporary Art Gallery celebrates National Poetry Month and draws attention to an ostensible lack of poetry venues in Santa Fe by hosting three poetry events in April. First up, playwright, poet and screenwriter Lisa Rowan introduces her dark humor with a reading and performance of her "Santa Fe(esque)"� epic, The Ballad of Wanking Crow. 7 pm Friday, April 4. Free. Chado Contemporary Art Gallery, 112 W. San Francisco St., 699-1562 © Copyright 2000-2008 by the Santa Fe Reporter Save This Page to del.icio.us Top of Page