OFFCenter Community Arts Project blog

Check out our Albuquerque's music outreach partner's blog for pictures and more. The blog is mostly pictures, which is welcome because I complain a lot about not getting enough of those. The first picture is Kay teaching a Friday mandolin class at OFFCenter CommunityArts


Below is Rick's famous 2nd iCreate recital, played left handed. I added the blog to my overflowing feed reader and will post pictures of last Friday's mandolin concert as soon as they appear...beats waiting for Ron at OFFCenter not to send them.

OFFCenter Community Arts Project

Listening to World Music

…learn the ideas & vocabulary for listening to world music. Examine the music of several world music cultures & how they have entered into mainstream popular culture. There is still time to join Listening to World Music taught by Carol Muller, Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania.

About the Course

With the click of a mouse, now more than ever we are able to access sounds made by people from all around the world. And yet, most of us don't listen to the wide diversity of music available to us, probably because it sounds so strange. This class will open up the world of music to you. We begin with a brief history of recording technology, the music industry and the place of world music in that narrative; you are introduced to keywords for talking about music cross-culturally; and then proceed to half a dozen musical cultures around the world. In each of these musical cultures, we examine the ways in which music works in those distant cultures, how it sounds, what it means, who may perform it; and then we ask ourselves where this music has traveled and entered into the Western popular culture as entertainment, political discourse, or artistic purpose.

Listening to World Music | Coursera

Ripen Tomatoes & more summer gardening tips

…just out on Praxxus' YouTube channel of gardening videos, heavy on the tomatoes.There is a "Tomato Channel" on YouTube too as well as a "Pepper Growing Channel"

Garden Maintenance

…and a call from garden manager for volunteers to weed and water, plus video  just for lagniappe. NB: video (obviously) not of the Mountainair Community Garden, but at least about desert gardening. 

 Joan Embree writes,

OFFCenter July Event Schedule

…iCreate's Albuquerque Music Outreach partner offers studio space, workshops, free and at cost arts, crafts, music and other classes

OFFCenter will be open during a special time JUST FOR KIDS! Kids' Open Studio Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:00 am - 12:00 pm June 19th - July 26th OFFCenter will be open just for kids during the above times. Kids 15 and under can have full rein of the studio and its materials to create artwork in the medium of their choice! No need to make a reservation, just show up any or all of the days starting June 19th through July 26th.

Listen to the Higgs Boson

While waiting for pictures from the Saturday concert: here's a different kind of music story. We've been neglecting music stories for the  garden beat, which is only one of our iCreate projects, and have our editorial eye out for interesting music and other personal creativity related stories. You can also follow iCreate on Facebook.


Researchers say they have "sonified" the data from the Atlas experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland, making it possible to "hear" the newly discovered Higgs Boson-like particle, dubbed the "God particle" by Nobel-prize winning physicist Leon Lederman.

The result is a melody which resembles the dotted rhythm of the habanera, a Cuban dance which became popular in Spain in the early 19th century.

Read the rest at UTNE Altwire – Listen to the Higgs Boson : Discovery New and much more on Utne Altwire

‘The# FarmersMarket Guide’ a handy book for shoppers

The #Mountainair Farm & Garden Market is in its second year, surviving and thriving. In additions to Mountainair Community Garden,, local home gardeners and permaculturists and, recently noted, a small community garden at St Vincent de Paul's. Farmers markets supported by local producers, artisans and shoppers are central to local sustainability, central to iCreate's mission.

Farmers markets can carry an amazing abundance of products. At this time of year shoppers might find fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs, salad greens, cut flowers, baked goods, eggs, meats, honey, jams, preserves and soaps. 

Saturday July7, pre-Jubilee gardening

Community Garden manager Joan Embree writes, 

Dear all,

     Saturday morning, before the parade and all the other town events, I will be at the Community Garden to plant up the new plants I got with the last of our Bingo money.  If any of you can be there to join in the actions, it will be great.

     I have followed Lenora's example and replanted some beans in our struggling bean row.  Don't know whether we'll get much, but we'll keep trying.  Also, I'd like to transplant a few of the smaller sunflowers from random places into the sunflower row behind the beans.  We'd like them to be spectacular by the time of the Sunflower Festival, no?

     We have some open beds still, and though it's late, I think we could plant them up just to see what we can get.  We have lots of seeds in the shed.

     How about these rains?  THEY ought to make our plants feel better!
     

Thanks for all you do, Joan
    

July14: #Mountainair NM: iCreate & CWA Western Music Festival

from the NM Tourism Calendar 

iCreate is a non profit community service group offering music, creativity and gardening outreach programs for youth in Mountainair, NM. They will have a fiddle group featuring Karisa, Jayden & Samantha and a guitar group featuring Anthony. 


Western Music Association performers include multipe award winnering singer songwriters Syd Masters and Jim Jones; Albuquerque Western Swing Band, the Tumbleweeds; local singer-songwriters. James Michael and Doug Muchmore. Event at the gazebo in the historic Shaffer Hotel's garden.  


Call Joe 505-503-1724, Elma 505-847-0228 or Doug 575-849-1270.

Saturday, 14 July, 2012

03:00 PM - 08:00 PM

Cost: $10.00

Categories: 

Youth, Western, Music. Performance

Location:   Map 

Shaffer Hotel

103 Main

Mountainair, NM 87036

Event Contact Info

Doug Muchmore
Email: dmuch17202@aol.com
Phone: 575-849-1270