recital & meeting reminder + community garden update

…today is the recital, followed by a meeting (alas, no agenda available). The Garden Party is coming soon. Invite a friend. The Garden Party  Potluck is next Saturday is Saturday, October 13, 4:30 pm at MAoB's Community Garden area, concurrent with the Mountainair art council's Outdoor Art Sculpture Project Day


Lenora Romero writes,

#iCreate Music Outreach up date

Kay Stillion writes,

iCreate has two new music classes. On Tuesdays in Mountainair, we now offer ukulele and voice at 3:00pm, right before guitar at 4:00pm. Ukulele classes are also available at OffCenter Fridays at 3:30pm, right after guitar at 2:30pm. The guitar classes at the Shaffer have grown quite large, so we now have three guitar teachers. Pegeen Mouser is our new teacher.  

We had a recital at OffCenter, April 13th for Rick Gutierrez. A first for iCreate, this was Rick's second recital, and he did songs left handed. The guitar he had earned earlier was stolen, so he asked to do the program again but left handed. He also performed a right handed song at the recital  that he had written, It was very moving and well received.

Updates, news & a call to action

Catch the quick iCreate update just published on Mountainair Arts (for being of broad community interest): recital (a hit), exciting news about our future and a call to action.

Monday, Lenora and Kay return to Santa Fe to bundle the iCreate Capital Outlay request with one on behalf of the Town of Mountainair for the community park and safe playground equipment.

All Mountainair ~ town, arts council, other local service organizations, schools, the entire community ~ has a part to play too. Call, email, fax state legislators urging their support. Tell your friends and family to do the same.

Here are legislator names and basic contact information:

• Speaker of the House, Ben Lujan. Capitol phone, (505) 986-4782; home phone,(505) 455-3354; e-mail, ben.lujan@nmlegis.gov
• Senator Pete Campos. Capitol phone, (505) 986-4311, office phone, (505) 454-2501; home phone, (505) 425-0508; e-mail: petecampos@newmexico.com
• Representative Rhonda King. Capitol phone, (505) 986-4438; Office Phone, (505) 832-5050; home phone, (505) 832-4603
• Senator Phil Griego. Capitol Phone, (505) 986-4861, office phone, (505) 469-9470; home phone, (575) 421-2863; e-mail: senatorgriego@yahoo.com
• Representative Larry Larrañaga. Capitol phone, (505) 986-4215; home phone,(505) 821-4948; e-mail, larry@larranaga.com

Ask them to welcome Lenora and Kay and support the Capital Outlay requests they will be delivering on behalf of iCreate and all Mountainair 

We've been busy. In addition to our new iCreate Facebook page ~ please visit, like and leave a message ~ we just started publishing a weekly newsletter, iCreate Weekly, on Paper.li that will cover various aspects of the iCreate mission: creativity. music, arts, education, sustainability, environment, community service and more. 

next #Mountainair iCreate recital & meeting

Update from Kay Stillion, who writes, 

Our next Mountainair recital is all violin students, Estrella Griego, Samantha Torrez and Jaiden Martinez, who will perform Saturday January 21, 2:30 pm at Pack's Cafe at the Shaffer.  Interested in our community based music outreach program and trying out violin or guitar lessons yourself? Call 847-2301 for more information. iCreate welcomes guests at meetings and activities. If you have a guitar or violin not being used, we can always use more musical instruments too as well as volunteer instructors.

 

The next iCreate returns to the 4th Saturday schedule interrupted by holidays and will be January 28, 2:30 pm at Lenora Romero's. We hope to be announcing exciting news about iCreate funding and development very soon. Look for our finding a new home and expanding music outreach, youth programs, community garden/sustainability mission, and developing new educational and creative projects.  

Sat Oct 29, Music in Mountainair: iCreate Recital

Pueblo Art-Deco Ceiling, Shaffer Hotel Dining Room, Packs Cafe

RMJ Photography 2008, on Flickriver

iCreate's Music Outreach program will hold its first #Mountainair recital Saturday October 29, 4 pm at Packs Cafe in the Shaffer Hotel. Performing in public is the final program completion requirement. Performances by students completing certificates include a solo by Wyatt Greene and a trio of five songs by students from the adult class. Depending on yesterday afternoon's lesson, additional students may join the recital playbill.

iCreate thanks Alita Garcia at Pete's Carpet Thrift Story on Broadway for donating lesson space and would like to recommend supporting this new business (or rebirth of an old one made over ~ Pete's Carpets + Thrift Store) to our iCreate friends and supports. Shop local and support Music Outreach's program and free guitar and violin lessons in Mountainair

Kay working with a Music Outreach student at Off-Center

(cross-posted to Mountainair Announcements and iCreate NM)

iCreate Student Recital

We invite you to join us for a special event at Off Center Arts Friday, March 11 at 3:30 pm. Each student completing iCreate's Music Outreach Program performs at a recital at which the student is awarded the musical instrument earned by completing the program. 

iCreate is honored to award Jaen Emanuel Ugalde a guitar for completing the program criteria, which include this recital. Jaen is a 21 yr old student at UNM and CNM whose favorite band is Hill Song United.

Program:

Elephant Walk

A Minor Waltz

A Minor Dream

Spring Blossom

Legato To Staccato

Congratulations Jaen! Enjoy your guitar and keep making beautiful music

iCreate appreciates and thanks the McCune Foundation for making this guitar and celebration possible. We also thank Off Center for hosting Music Outreach. Learn more about Off Center online, download and read the current issue of Gleaners, follow Off Center on Facebook.