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Wednesday, Sept. 12Passion Pit7:30 pm at the Santa Fe Convention Center

Thursday, Sept. 13Art of the Brew: the Santa Fe Reporter Beer Festival5 pm-9 pm at the Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion

Saturday, Sept. 15Heartless Bastards and Bob Log III*6 pm at the Santa Fe Railyard Plaza

Sunday, Sept. 16AHA Fest*11 am-9 pm at the Santa Fe Railyard Plaza Tuesday, Sept. 18Wilco with special guest Jonathan Richman7 pm at the Santa Fe Opera

Wednesday, Sept. 19Rodney Crowell7:30 pm at Santa Fe Sol

Wednesday, Sept. 19Mike Birbiglia’s“My Girlfriend’sBoyfriend”8 pm at The Lensic

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Friday, Sept. 21A Hawk and A Hacksaw’s “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors”*7 pm at CinemaCafé, 1616 St. Michael’s Drive

Friday & Saturday, Sept. 21–22Fusion Theatre’s “Other Desert Cities”8 pm Friday; 2 pm and 8 pm Saturday at The Lensic

Saturday, Sept. 22Henry Rollins’ “Capitalism” 7 pm at Santa Fe Sol

Saturday, Sept. 22Big Freedia10 pm at Stats Sports Bar & NightLife

Sunday, Sept. 23An Evening with Nils Frahm7 pm at O’Shaughnessy Performance Space, Benildus Hall, Santa Fe University of Art & Design

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Schedule of EventsGet psyched for the amazing lineup of events at the 2012 Santa Fe Reporter Arts Festival! For tickets and additional information, visit santafearts.com.

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Santa Fe’s second annual AHA Fest is a celebration of local, pro-gressive artists and musicians. Last year’s festival drew more than 2,000; this year, the folks at the After Hours Alliance are working hard to make it bigger, better and more exciting all around.

The festival is free to the pub-lic and will run from 11 am until 9 pm, with five stages of music including stages curated by Team Everything, High Mayhem and Warehouse 21. Additional partici-pants include Meow Wolf, Squirrel Mart, Axle Contemporary and

Meow Wolf Publishing, in addi-tion to more than 50 artists and musicians. Artists and performers were selected through an appli-cation process that took place in early July.

“We were really excited because this year we got a huge

increase in applications over last year,” festival organizer Shannon Murphy says. “It’s clear that we’ll need to be prepared to expand the festival every year in order to accommodate all of the talented people that want to participate.”

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about the festival’s generous co-producers as well as the many tal-ented artists and performers who provide the creative muscle and innovation behind this event. For more information, visit ahafesti-val.com or santafearts.com.


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Axle Contemporary is showing We Are Experiencing Some Turbulence, a site-spe-cific installation by Michael Schippling that consists of a truck filled with small objects that move in what may or may not be random order.

High Mayhem Emerging Arts produces a stage of improvisational and experi-mental music from noon to 6 pm near the entrance to the Farmers Market building at Paseo de Peralta. Performers will include the experimen-tal future-folk act Black Iron Trio, the QT (a project by Mike Rowland of The Late Severa Wires), a solo set by Johnny Bell of Cloacas, a rare solo performance by JA Dino Deane, the drum/bass/elec-tronics duo iNK oN pAPER and The Proxemics (returning after their appearance at the 2011 festival).

Meow Wolf Publishing dis-plays works by Nick Chiarella, Winter Riddle, Zevin Polzin, Winston Riley, Megan Burns, Kirstiann Bushman, Sarah Bradley, Akira Watts and Christoper Johnson, as well as host readings by Akira Watts, Nick DePascal, Joanne Dwyer and Christopher Johnson.

SquirrelMart sets up a

full-service pop-up shop just east of SITE Santa Fe fea-turing art, crafts and per-formance by artists includ-ing Amy Westphal, Amy Buetens, Kelley Plymesser, Gen Hayashida, Kate Russell, Michael Lujan, Marquee Reno, Erika Wanenmacher, Ann Fulater and Tuscany Wenger.

SITE Santa Fe offers free admission to their celebrated MO/RE/AL: Art in The Age of Truthiness exhibition from noon until 5 pm.

Team Everything produces an electronica stage in the Railyard Park from 2 pm-9 pm. When the main stage ends at 8 pm, head across the street to finish off the night with a good, old-fash-ioned dance party! The party features DJs Melanie Moore, Erin E. and Feathericci; origi-nal sets by Sattva Ananda and Brian Mayhall; and the world premier of Public Address, a new original electronica duo composed of Ben Wright and Andrew Bowen.

Warehouse 21 hosts an open house from noon until 3 pm featuring DJ Mickey Paws, a live abstract spray-paint mural by Matthew Rivera and a forum on the future of art and music in the Railyard.

AHA Fest Co-ProducersThe following groups, galleries and organizations played an integral role in putting together this year’s AHA Festival.

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Andrew Kastner designs an interac-tive, kinetic video installation that encour-ages participants to run through a small “course” while being captured and viewed on video.

Brandon Soder sets up a photobooth for his YearBook project, taking portraits of festival attendees that will later be bound in a volume designed to look like a high school yearbook.

Cannupa Hanska sets up a “carnie game” with original works of art—stuffed toys with ceramic faces—as prizes.

Chris Collins displays modular, sculp-tural works of art that can be purchased as

individual pieces or as a whole.

Dani Katz creates a massive Shrinky Dink installation with twigs, string and “fig-urative and landscape-dappled” Shrinky Dinks.

Damon and Sabrina Griffith of Flying Wall Studios display 100 of their breathtak-ing, handmade puppets and perform peri-odic, short puppet shows.

SCUBA, the brain trust behind the Baca-Street gallery space Caldera, returns to the festival after an appearance in 2011 to display new works.

Kat Dison and Julia Cizeski display an

installation created from discarded objects and unwanted materials that will “give filth a new meaning” and “remind the view-er that nothing can ever truly be thrown away.”

Luke Dorman (top left) returns after his 2011 grocery-store installation to dis-play new drawings in a large group.

Molly Wagoner will set up a photo booth and invite attendees to have an object of personal significance photographed in order to capture patterns of wear and other signs of “the life of an object in relation to its owner.”

PumpTrolley Art Toy Atelier will

manufacture kits and parts for 100 simple pull toys and distribute them to children attending the festival on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Robin D Williams creates a “pop-up gallery/salon” to display work and teach visitors the simple, fluid technique of con-tour line drawing, using musicians and dancers as models.

Erin Mankins and Ernest W.X. Bell display SHADOW MESSENGERS, three-dimensional silhouette fabric sculptures surrounded by large mixed-media works.

TC McGee shows new works that explore form (human and architectural) through the photographic image.

Lara Nickel and Brianna Fristoe cre-ate a “Faux-to Studi-aux,” a pop-up photo studio styled in textiles and geometrics, and invite attendees to have their instant photograph taken for a low price.

Ruchell Alexander (bottom right)shows larger, multi-figured acrylic paint-ings inspired by the early Cubist painters.

Todd Ryan White returns after an appearance in 2011 to display new draw-ings, posters and skateboards.

Tim Jag displays new work and allow attendees to play a “Spin the Wheel” game to win prizes of original works of art.

12 Tons of Letterpress (bottom left)will display, sell, and take orders for custom posters made on an antique letterpress, including a limited-edition poster for the 2012 AHA Fest.

Cyrus McCray follows up his 2011 This Is Performance installation with a carefully designed interactive piece that will thrill and startle.

Benji Geary creates a fully immersive environment to provide a multi-dimen-sional experience of “commercials from the future.”

Esteban Bojorquez (top right) will install “Mr. Bends,” who is nearly 10 feet tall and, if not bulletproof, at least bullet-resistant.

Linda Wiener displays interactive sculptures that explore the behavior of and interactions between “human and non-human animals.”

At 7000 Films shows five locally produced music videos of local artists Flamingo Pink and iNK oN pAPER, Pillars and Tongues of Chicago, Ezza Rose of Portland, and Accordion Crimes of Denver.


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Anthony Leon & The Chain, one of the edgiest and most creative bands with-in Santa Fe’s well established the Indie-Americana set, performs their potent, pow-erful alt-country songs.

As In We (center, p. 9), also following up a summer tour, performs a set of their soar-ing, visceral instrumental post-rock. Often compared to Explosions in The Sky, the band recently became a quartet with the addition of Eliza Lutz (formerly of Prolly).

Nikesha Breeze (top center) performs “Searching for Shams: The Blood of The Beloved,” a solo movement/performance art piece drawn from butoh dance, modern dance and physical theater.

Flamingo Pink (top left), Santa Fe’s favorite lullaby-folk songstress, performs a set of new acoustic pieces on guitar.

The Free Range Ramblers (bottom right) bring their fresh, sophisticated take on the classic string band, playing tradi-tional fiddle tunes, bluegrass, Americana, and original songs.

GoGoSnapRadio performs new songs hot on the heels of a month-long summer tour and new album release. The duo is known for their quirky pop songs of non-traditional meter and instrumentation, the latter including glockenspiel, trash can lid, metals, bells and found objects.

Ross Hamlin performs his Dubstep Puppet Show, an “evolving, time-traveling story involving ‘hipsters’ from both today and circa 1943.”

Karrie Hopper (top right), an up-and-comer in the Santa Fe music scene by way of

Austin, Tex., performs a set of her earnest, ’60s-reminiscent mountain-folk songs.

Keyboard brings his uniquely misan-thropic brand of electronic pop music to the festival with a set inspired by “science fiction authors, Batman comic books and Twilight Zone episodes.”

Emilee Lord positions performers throughout the festival, each with a differ-ent verb printed on their shirts to dictate the choreography they will be performing.

Marimba Fantasticos, the children’s marimba band from the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, inspires with a pop-up set of acoustic marimba madness.

Deirdre Morris contributes a pop-up, interdisciplinary performance art piece.

Pitch & Bark (bottom, p. 9) brings a unique blend of post-punk and art-rock to the festival. With guitar and vocals like Page Hamilton reborn, Pitch & Bark is one of the most active bands performing in Santa Fe today.

Santa Fe Disco Brawlers provides pop-up demonstrations of their Roller Derby moves, both cruising and bruising.

The Sticky brings their singular brand of infectious, dirty funk music to the festi-val. One of the newest bands on the scene in Santa Fe, The Sticky is re-inventing funk music for the high desert and the new mil-lennium.

Treemotel (top, p. 9) takes the stage after a summer tour and new album release. This indie-rock five-piece born of the SFUAD music scene is one of the most


PerformersThese performers offer a range of musical work, installation art and other awesome creations that defy definition at the second annual AHA Fest.

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prolific musical acts in Santa Fe, having recently released three studio records in just under a year.

We Drew Lightning, with their roots firmly in Santa Fe’s underground experi-mental music scene, performs new songs that combine epic, echoey melodies with

freak-out moments of chaotic writhing.

Young Lungs, Albuquerque’s up-and-coming indie-rock quintet, performs songs from their debut album, whose uncontained vocals and soaring trumpet parts evoke an angrier, grungier Neutral Milk Hotel.

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Summer is coming to an end, and with it comes the 2012 Santa Fe Reporter Arts Festival, a full week of—get this—arts and music presented in various locations throughout the city. Part of this artsy week is the 2nd Annual AHA Fest, a sort of festi-val within a festival going down on Sunday, Sept. 16 in and around the Railyard Plaza, Warehouse 21, Site Santa Fe, etc. This is one of the few times that such a high vol-ume of local talent will come together, and it’s absolutely free. What more do you need? An interview with local culture enthusiasts Shannon Murphy and Red Cell? Fine. You got it.

SFR: Last year’s fest was pretty huge. What can we expect this time around?Shannon Murphy: We’re growing this year by inviting collectives and organiza-tions to get involved, whereas last year we offered booths and space to individual artists. So even though they only count as one artist technically, Team Everything and High Mayhem and Squirrel Mart each have many members, so our artist count is actually very high…At first we were con-cerned that we’d included so many artists last year that it would be hard to fill space this time, last year we received something like 60 applications, and this year brought around 90, which was very exciting. Red Cell: The best way to put it is that we looked into underrepresented areas of local culture and tried to bring them out into the open.

Anything you’re particularly excited for?RC: I’m really excited for local artist Cyrus McKay’s piece. We can’t say what it is, but it’s supposed to be absolutely amazing.SM: There is a collective called At 7,000 that produces amazing music videos of local and non-local acts, and we’ll see some stuff from Flamingo Pink and—RC: I think there’s one from [Chicago trio] Pillars & Tongues…? SM: Yeah. FLAME Multi-Media Arts Collective will have art based on local social commentary…I’m always excited to

see anything from Cannupa Hanska. RC: The idea is to get all these great art-ists together and sort of cross-breed, so to speak. I can’t wait to see what High Mayhem does. I think the community might think of them as sort of insular, so this will give them a chance to reach out and do something experimental for an audience that might not be exposed to the experimental that often.

And music is also obviously a big part…SM: I don’t know that I’ve heard it said this way, but Santa Fe does have a hard time staying current with music…We’ll have performances from really great bands like…Pitch & Bark and GoGo Snap Radio, and there is this totally awesome all-kid marimba band called Marimbas Fantasticos that I’m so excited about. Anthony Leon and the Chain will also be there.RC: I can’t wait for The Sticky. That is a band that is just plain lots of fun. We’ll also have what we’re calling “Cabaret” perfor-mances throughout the day, and these will provide more intimate access to the artists and musicians.

So would you say the main statement is kind of to show younger people their town doesn’t suck entertainment-wise?SM: (Laughs) Last year was sort of like that. Really, we are just people advocating for youthful things.RC: It kind of shows that we’re serious about providing more to do for those who want it.SM: Yes. It’s a small town, and people can really make a bigger difference than they might realize if they’d just get out and get involved.

Author’s note: Donations can be made to the After Hours Alliance on fundraising site indiegogo.com until Friday, Sept. 14. All profits made will go directly back into improving Santa Fe for young people—so be cool and donate a couple bucks!

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This year, the Santa Fe Reporter presents its first-ever beer festival, Art of the Brew. As one of the 2012 Santa Fe Reporter Arts Festival’s kickoff events, Art of the Brew focuses on the tal-ent, innovation and artistry employed by New Mexico’s local brewers and distillers. At Art of the Brew, each brewer/distiller will offer a new, unique or special concoction for your tasting

pleasure. Some highlights: Second Street Brewery’s pre-industrial Rauchbier; La Cumbre’s award-winning IPA; a green chile brew from Rio Grande Brewing Co.; beer barrel-aged whis-key from Santa Fe Spirits; and a first-ever appearance in Santa Fe by newcomer Taos Mesa Brewing Co. Read more about their offerings below.

Art of the BrewThursday, Sept. 13

Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion5-9 pm

Each ticket ($15 advance, $20 regular price) includes two hours of unlimited tasting (5-7 pm) and a complementary pint glass. Buy tickets now

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Marble BreweryCask-Conditioned Double India Pale AleCask-conditioned or “real” ales are naturally carbonat-

ed by initiating a secondary fermentation in a cask (firkin). Traditionally served lightly chilled and lightly carbonated, cask-conditioned ales allow a broad range of complex malt flavors and hop aromatics to come through. Our British friends chose Marble Double IPA as the best American beer at the 2012 Great British Beer Festival. We think you’ll agree.

Rio Grande Brewing Co./Sierra Blanca Brewing Co.Pancho Verde Chile CervezaThis brew is truly a labor of love for our brewer, Rich.

Whole, roasted Hatch green chiles are steeped in our American lager post-fermentation. Pancho Verde Chile Cerveza has the aroma of fall in New Mexico. This beer is not about heat; it’s about New Mexico’s famous green chile. Fans of this beer describe its “beautiful, roasted green chile flavor,” which they say is “refreshing,” “tastes like fall in New Mexico” and “calls me back for more.” This beer won a gold medal at the New Mexico State Fair in 2012.

Santa Fe Brewing Co.Yorkie Pale Ale Brewers Gabe and Tony are fans of English-style beers.

This “Fuggle Hop Only” IPA uses West Yorkshire yeast, which creates a striking balance of sweet, bitter and spicy flavors. We dropped this unfiltered beer into a cask and naturally conditioned it to achieve the peak of “real” ale.

Art of the Brew will be the only place you can try this beer, so put on your bowler cap and enjoy what northern England has to offer.

Second Street BreweryBamberger Style RauchbierBefore the modern industrial age, most beer had

some smoky character imparted by the wood fires over which the malt was kilned. Our Rauchbier is an homage to these old world, pre-industrial era beers. It is made with “Rauchmalz,” smoked over beechwood fires, that we sourced directly from the home of this style of beer: Bamberg, Germany. A true lager, this beer has a surprising and challenging flavor profile coupled with great drinkabil-ity. We invite you to sample this hard-to-find lager, which is also our entry for the 2012 Great American Beer Festival.

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La Cumbre Brewing Co.Elevated IPALast year’s Great American Beer Festival saw the

American IPA category as its largest category ever—and our Elevated IPA took home the gold medal. This past April, the American IPA category was the largest category ever at the World Beer Cup, and we took home a bronze. Needless to say, we’re pretty proud of our hoppy little gem and are very excited to now be offering it in cans as well as on draft in Santa Fe. From our opening, Elevated IPA has been our flagship, and it now accounts for 70 percent of our production. It starts with a robust British base malt with just enough biscuit and caramel to balance the overload of hop intensity that follows. The nose is brimming with tropical fruit and pine. The finish is bone-dry and excep-tionally bitter. At La Cumbre Brewing Co., we make beer. It’s all we’re any good at. We love what we do and gladly produce the most uncompromising ales and lagers avail-able anywhere.

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Santa Fe SpiritsLambic Beer Barrel-Finished Single Malt WhiskeyNick Jones, the head distiller of Santa Fe Spirits, teamed

up with Leif Rotsaert, the cellermaster of the Santa Fe Brewing Company, to create this unprecedented whiskey. This whiskey was first brewed like a beer, then distilled twice, then aged in two barrels: a bourbon barrel followed by Leif’s sour beer barrel. Santa Fe Spirits has chosen

the Art of the Brew to be the first public sampling of this extremely special barrel. Please visit our website at santaf-espirits.com, or better yet, visit our distillery in Santa Fe and Colin, Nick or Sean will be happy to show you around!

Taos Mesa Brewing Co.Lunch Pale AleA dry-tasting draft with a subtle floral character, bronze

hue and nutty body, Taos Mesa Brewing Co.’s Lunch Pale Ale is a session beer at heart. Art of the Brew also marks the debut of this newly minted brewery, hailing from the north side of Taos, in Santa Fe. At 4.5 percent alcohol by volume, this true English-style pale ale goes down smooth.

Abbey Beverage Co., LLC Monks’ Ale Monks’ Ale is a Belgian Abbey Enkel (Single) style

brewed by the monks of the Benedictine Monastery of Christ in the Desert in Abiquiu since 2005. To our knowl-edge, less than five breweries in the US brew this style. In the European monasteries brewing this style, most is con-sumed within the monastery and none is exported to the US. Monks’ Ale, brewed with imported hops and malt and “made with care and prayer” by the monks, is 5.2 percent ABV with a clear, light copper color and 27 IBU. In sum-mary, this is “real beer from real monks.”

Blue Corn Brewing Co.Road Runner IPARoad Runner is our house IPA that newcomer John

Bullard has recently reformulated. With new hop variet-ies, this IPA now has almost twice the amount of hops as before. This beer can proudly be called one of John’s signa-ture beers. If you haven’t tried Blue Corn lately, it’s time to give this beer a taste.

If we at SFR are going to call the brewing and consump-tion of beer an art form (see title: we already did), it makes sense to at least know what you’re dealing with before enter-ing the wide world that is this locally brewed beer and this year’s Art of the Brew. With that in mind, SFR purchased a dozen of the more readily available varieties of local beer—a mere fraction of the many brews available at Art of the Brew—and held our own enthusiastic tasting event. The tast-ers consisted mostly of experienced and eager beer drinkers, with varied palates and preferences. To read our honest (if not wholly expert) reviews, visit SFReporter.com.


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It’s hardly surprising that local arts col-lective Meow Wolf will take part in the 2012 Santa Fe Reporter Arts Festival. After all, the cadre is responsible for a sizeable chunk of our fair city’s more worthwhile events. We were curious to see what these fine folks might have in store for the upcoming fest, so we ruined Vince Kadlubek’s day and had ourselves a little chat. “This is a great start for more cultural events in Santa Fe,” Kadlubek tells SFR. Indeed. At any rate, push forth, dear readers! Get thee pumped for four Meow Wolf-sanctioned events that will surely make you glad you haven’t moved to Portland just yet.

Passion Pit“We just couldn’t pass on a band of

this size and caliber,” Kadlubek says of the upcoming Meow Wolf/T-Cubed Productions/SFR joint venture. “It’ll be a good thing for Santa Fe, and it will help Meow Wolf reach out to a certain part of the population that maybe we haven’t reached just yet.” Indeed, the Boston quintet speaks to a wide array of music fans despite its relative youth. Formed in 2009 following the self-recorded Chunk of Change EP (a piece of work written, per-formed and recorded entirely by frontman Michael Angelakos as a Valentine’s gift for his girlfriend), Passion Pit is not unlike synth master Girogio Moroder gaining access to a time machine and returning to his own era with an intimate knowledge of today’s indie rock instrumentation and style. It would be easy to simply dismiss Passion Pit as little more than a pop act, but the fact is that there is complex music at work here, a layered and challenging sound that skirts its own influences by simultaneously adding depth and tran-scending electro-pop.

A Wonderful WalkaboutAccording to Kadlubek, Meow Wolf’s

outdoor installation titled A Wonderful Walkabout will be downright psychedelic. “It’s basically transforming the east side of the park into a fantastic, illuminated, magical place,” he says. “There will be countless colorful lights and off habitats…various other details that will bring the

Railyard to life in a very strange way.” Funded in part by the Santa Fe Arts Commission, A Wonderful Walkabout will be available for viewing during the day, but nighttime is when the installation will really—forgive us—shine. “Oh, it’ll look cool during the day,” Kadlubek says. “But the nightly activation will be just plain amazing.”

Big FreediaFans of dancing, movement and all-

around booty-shakin’ will be pleased to know that a New Orleans-based trans-gender purveyor of a genre known as New Orleans bounce is on the way. We’re talk-ing high-energy tunes chock-full of infec-tious beats that lie somewhere between electronic music and hip-hop. “She calls herself the ‘Queen of New Orleans bounce,’” Kadlubek says. “Freedia and her backup dancers put on a show that can only be described as 45 minutes of pure energy.” Though DJs like Maynard Del Mar have blasted New Orleans bounce here and there, this marks the first time a real-live performer will hit Santa Fe. “It’s the type of show that I don’t even think would be booked in Albuquerque,” Kadlubek tells SFR. “It’s the perfect exam-ple of how Santa Fe can work out these amazing, one-of-a-kind shows.”

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors and A Hawk and a Hacksaw

Everybody’s favorite Gypsy-meets-indie act, A Hawk and a Hacksaw will be performing a live score to Russian direc-tor Sergei Paradjanov’s 1964 film, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. According to the band’s website, “The idea is not to accom-pany a silent film, but to work with the existing dialogue and score to create a new blend of live music and prerecorded sound.” According to Kadlubek, “This is awesome because it’s part of the fest and it’s free, and also because it overlaps with RE:MIKE…it will be a wonderful oppor-tunity to see what the Cinema Café might be like as a music venue.” RE:MIKE, by the way, is that current project working to make the St. Michael’s Drive corridor a culturally viable area. At any rate, this show is not to be missed.

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The Saint Michael’s Drive Corridor is the heart of central Santa Fe and the intersection point for all four of Santa Fe’s city council districts. It’s a vital area anchored by the Santa Fe University of Art & Design and the CHRISTUS Saint Vincent Regional Medical Center. In between are important neighborhoods, dozens of crucial businesses and great community organizations. The RE:MIKE event is a continuation of existing and previous efforts to encourage residents, citizens, business owners, students, commuters and everyone who has a stake in the area to lend their voices to its future.

VISIT THE RE:MIKE CENTER AT 1636 SAINT MICHAEL’S DRIVEto see an historic timeline of the area and help identify what’s important, what’s missing and what should happen in the future.

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