Snowdown event deadline approaching
Snowdown organizers are accepting entry forms from all event coordinators for the 2014 Snowdown Safari So Good celebration.
Anyone wishing to create a new Snowdown event is required to complete and submit the 2014 Event Coordinators Form by Oct. 31.
Event coordinators who plan to continue a previously established event may complete and submit the 2014 Event Coordinators Short Form. The 2014 Event Coordinators Short Form also must be completed and submitted by Oct. 31.
Both forms are available at www.snowdown.org.
‘God Loves Uganda’ to be screened at FLC
Four Corners Gay & Lesbian Alliance for Diversity (4cGLAD), PRISM and Safe Zone will host a screening of the documentary “God Loves Uganda” at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Vallecito Room of the Student Union at Fort Lewis College. The screening is free and open to the public.
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams explores Uganda’s turn toward biblical law and the proposed penalties for homosexuality.
Recently, the Ugandan “Kill the Gays” bill has been making international headlines. The bill seeks to harshen the punishment and criminalization of homosexuality.
With charismatic religious leaders and a well-financed campaign, new laws such as this one and the politicians who peddle them are winning over the Ugandan public. But these policies and the money that fuels them aren’t coming only from Africa; they’re also being imported from some of America’s largest megachurches.
The film allows Ugandan and American religious leaders and their young missionaries to explain their positions in their own words.
After the film, Durango Herald News Editor Amy Maestas will speak to the audience about her recent time to Uganda. Maestas spent three weeks in the country working with foreign journalists and interviewing LGBT activists, Parliamentary members and allies. She will provide the latest information about the country’s proposed anti-gay legislation and talk about how the international community can get involved.
For more information, call 903-0831, or email stoffer_n@fortlewis.edu.
Members exhibit to spotlight drought
The Durango Arts Center’s members’ exhibit, “Sentinels of Change: Drought in the West,” will open Oct. 25 with an artists’ reception and remain on display through Nov. 16. Denise Rue-Pastin from the Water Information Program with the Southwestern Water Conservation District will introduce the exhibit.
Member artists may drop off work from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday. Visit DAC’s website for more information and to download the prospectus.
As part of the exhibit, DAC will team with the Mountain Studies Institute to host “An Evening of Art, Science and Conversation,” an environmental lecture series from 5 to 8 p.m. Nov. 1 in the DAC Theater. Tickets are $5 for adults and $2 for students.
Visit www.DurangoArts.org for more information about the exhibit and lecture schedule and presenters.
Artists invited to remember Day of the Dead
Studio & invites artists to submit works for its annual Day of the Dead art show.
The event is a chance to honor the people, events, places, pets, victories and failures, loves and losses that make us who we are, to call the past present and celebrate its effect on our lives. In remembering we revive those parts of our past, while through our processes and rituals of creation we give those memories life. But we must ultimately put them back to rest in their place of the past, then thank them for their annual visit.
All media, installations and performance are welcome and should be representative of the theme. Please notify Studio & if space or time accommodations are needed. There again will be a shrine on display during the week leading up to the show, so please contribute any items or memorabilia you wish to be included.
Drop off work between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Oct. 23 at 1027 Main Ave. All work should be delivered to Studio & ready to hang. There is a $20 entrance fee per artist, up to two pieces. Make checks payable to ‘Studio &.’ Credit cards also are accepted.
Studio & will take a 30 percent commission on all sold items. The show will hang for one week. Artists will be notified at the drop-off time when they can pick up their work.
Visit anddurango.com for more information or email artideasprogress@gmail.com.
Maureen May to judge Farmington exhibit
People’s Choice, an art exhibit in Farmington, will accept entries for the March 2014 event from Dec. 1 to Feb. 1. The entry fee is $25.
The exhibit is sponsored by the Farmington Downtown Association and the nonprofit Three Rivers Art Center. It merges artists of the Four Corners, downtown Farmington businesses and the public.
Artists will be accepted on a first-entered basis until venues are full. The event culminates at the April 4 Downtown Art Walk when the public will vote for its favorite piece. Winners will receive cash awards of up to $1,000. Durango artist Maureen May will select a Juried Award of $500.
Pick up a prospectus at Three Rivers Art Center, 109 N. Allen, Farmington, or email skinnyartist@hotmail.com or jburnsart@hotmail.com. For more information, call (505) 360-0147 or (505) 320-4001.
College to hold stage fighting workshop
The Fort Lewis College Department of Theatre will offer a week-long hand-to-hand combat certification from Sunday through Oct. 27. There will be 30 hours of instruction, including the certification exam. The instructor will be Geoff Kent, (www.thefightguy.com), one of the top instructors and fight directors in the country.
The schedule:
Sunday: Theatre Building Gallery, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.; 6 p.m.-10 p.m.
Monday: theatre Building Main Stage, 6 p.m.-10 p.m.
Tuesday: no workshop
Wednesday: Main Stage, 6 p.m.-10 p.m.
Thursday: no workshop
Oct. 25: Gallery, 3 p.m.-6 p.m.
Oct. 26: Gallery, 10 a.m.-noon; 3-5 p.m.; 6-9 p.m.
Oct. 27: Gallery, 10 a.m.-noon; 1-4 p.m.
Non-FLC students can take the class for $200 (inclusive of the exam fee). For registration and more information, call 247-7647.
Herald Staff
