Santa Fe Reporter, October 19, 2022

RE-ORDINANCE 8

Santa Fe County proposes to catch up with city on regulation of short-term rentals while limiting spec ulation from new buyers

HOUSING AGENDA 10

Protracted development review continues for former county open space

STORY 12

FULL INHERITANCE

Environmental ethicist Larry Rasmussen’s new book explores the human condition—for us and for those who come next—in the face of climate change

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WHOSE LEGACY?

It seems that one of the mayor’s enduring legacies will be the atrocious developments blanketing the entire south side of Santa Fe. To give a few examples: By the outlet mall you can get a tiny apartment with a luxury label, a color palette of a burned-out ten ement, and the allure of subsidized hous ing. At the corner of Governor Miles and Cerrillos there is a plague of townhouses, all exactly the same, all jammed in together, row after row, with views into neighbors’ windows and the promise of constant noise. This is happening also along Richards and behind the mall as well as along 599. The Zia development, pushed through by the mayor despite many valid protests, will be another example of visionless waste. No green space, no walking trails, no children’s playgrounds, and most shocking, no solar. There is a lack of future vision and the result is a backward thinking city.

Why? Why has a previously alive city become a model of poor design and sloppy building with no imagination and archi tectural merit? ..Furthermore, when the

new apartments start to fall apart, renters have no rights or protection. When tenants go to court about a grievance, most often judges side with landlords. Many of these new buildings will eventually go the way of Tres Santos, havens for crime and drugs. So much for Santa Fe.

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Re-ordinance

Santa Fe County proposes to catch up with city on regulation of short-term rentals while limiting speculation from new buyers

BY JORDAN UNGER tips@sfreporter.com

SantaFe County officials headed back to the drafting table to hammer out another try at a proposed short-term rental ordinance after hearing from residents during a pair of public meetings last month that their first attempt may have cast too wide a net.

The idea is to regulate short-term rent als such as Airbnbs in unincorporated Santa Fe County as lower- and middle-income residents continue struggling to afford plac es to live in and around the capital city. The County’s Growth Management Department published the first draft of the ordinance just prior to the meetings with county commis sioners on Sept. 13 and 27.

Much of the feedback was consistent: Locals want out-of-towners and speculators regulated, but those who, for example, rent out rooms in their primary residences say county officials should preserve their oppor tunities for income.

Officials seem to have gotten the message. A second draft released Oct. 14 heads to the County Commission and for public com ment during the 5 pm meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 25.

The new proposal would require busi ness liceneses for all such rentals, but draws at least a temporary line between owner-oc cupied dwellings and others by imposing a moratorium on permit applications for outof-town owners who buy property within one year after the March 2023 effective date. The effort, the draft reads, would “avoid growth impact and temporarily stabilize local hous ing” while officials study the “relevant issues.”

The county’s proposal comes on the heels of the City of Santa Fe’s evolving rules on short-term rentals. A cap of 350 permits was hiked to 1,000 in 2016 and rules were amend ed again in 2021 in an attempt to address a lack of affordable housing for locals and pre vent illegal rentals.

“The city has its own short-term rental ordinance, and I think we wanted to make sure we are likewise taking care of the coun

ty,” District 5 Commissioner Hank Hughes tells SFR. “And I think there is a need to know how many short-term rentals we have and what impact they may be having.”

Officially, the ordinance aims to “ensure the safety and welfare of short-term rent ers, protect the peace and enjoyment of sur rounding communities and neighborhoods, protect water resources and the environment and otherwise promote the health and gener al welfare of the county.”

The county suggests accomplishing this by, among other regulations, setting occu pancy limits, requiring renters to register and pay lodger’s tax, enacting quiet hours and re stricting parking and water use.

For Airbnb host Talia Pura, certain as pects of the draft ordinance seem unreason able, especially given her short-term rental situation.

Pura, who retired to the Santa Fe area in 2015 from Canada, runs an Airbnb inside her home, where she lives with her husband and their 4-year-old grandson. Located on over 2 acres between Santa Fe and Madrid, the home was built for a family of six or seven.

Pura rents out some of the additional rooms, and the extra income has been a life saver, accounting for more than 60% of their annual income.

“I always say Airbnb has absolutely saved our poor, Canadian asses,” she tells SFR. “I mean, if we couldn’t do Airbnb, we would have to consider moving back to Canada.”

One piece in the draft ordinance par ticularly irks Pura: the proposed water regulations.

“For us to put a meter on our well and to provide paperwork showing what our water usage has been for the last two years is com pletely and utterly impossible,” Pura says. “We are sharing our well with the neighbor. So, to even separate our use from the neigh bor’s has never been done.”

Similarly, Adam Johnson, director of the Old Santa Fe Association, supports regula tions on short-term rentals but testified that a one-size-fits-all ordinance won’t work.

“Short-term rentals are sometimes used to offset costs of homeowners who rent casi tas or rooms in their homes and yet still live in and contribute to local communities,” he told commissioners at the Sept. 27 hearing. “We support the right of primary residents to use their properties in such a way.”

“However, we do not support the removal of housing stock by speculators who are not a

part of communities in our county,” Johnson added.

A dearth of housing stock in and around Santa Fe came up repeatedly during last month’s hearings.

Santa Fe continues to grapple with an in creasingly urgent housing crisis, which has coincided with local tourism bouncing back in the wake of diminishing COVID-19-era restrictions.

In 2019 there was an estimated shortage of just over 7,300 rental units in the Santa Fe area, according to the Santa Fe Association of Realtors’ 2020 housing report, which also noted that average rental prices in Santa Fe County rose from $930 in 2017 to $1,038 in 2019.

Furthermore, a 2019 study published by Homewise, a nonprofit housing development

and mortgage provider, found that the wide spread conversion of apartments and hous es into short-term rentals in recent years has likely been responsible for about 20% of Santa Fe’s housing cost increases.

For District 2 Santa Fe County Commissioner Anna Hansen, the data is disheartening.

“It makes me feel like I want to put limits on the amount of short-term rentals that we can have because I want local people and our workforce to live in our city. I want the police, I want teachers, I want government work ers living in Santa Fe,” she says to SFR. “We already have a worker shortage. The shortterm rentals raise the price of the house be cause these investors can come in and bid it up. That hurts the entire community.”

The phenomenon is particularly notice able in traditional villages such as Tesuque and Madrid as an increase of short-term rent als outpace housing stock.

“The traditional families, longtime resi dent artists and cultivators who make those villages special are challenged by short-term rentals, which market the very thing the vil lage built and maintains as a community,” Johnson, of the Old Santa Fe Association, said.

For Caitlin Lord, who lives in Los Cerrillos, the need to address this issue is urgent.

“We need housing, not people who claim to love their communities but then look away as they turn people like veterans out on the street,” Lord told commissioners last month. “Twice in the last year, in Madrid, veterans have had to relocate or leave their communi ty entirely due to being evicted for the sake of starting an Airbnb.”

A residential area in Madrid, one of the communities popular for vacation rentals in Santa Fe County.

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The traditional families, longtime resident artists and cultivators who make those villages special are challenged by short-term rentals.

Adam Johnson, director of the Old Santa Fe Association

Housing Agenda

Protracted development review continues for former county open space

BY ANDY LYMAN andylyman@sfreporter.com

After months of delays, the Santa Fe City Planning Commission again intends to take up a proposal to al low Homewise, a local nonprofit homebuild er, to construct 161 housing units and a park on South Meadows Road.

The commission will consider rezoning and general plan requests from Homewise at its scheduled Nov. 3 meeting, according to a published agenda, after punting the matter several times. And while Homewise hopes for a quick recommendation for approval, many who live near the proposed site want officials to pump the brakes and seriously consider their concerns.

Tensions remain high as the popular housing nonprofit has labeled neighbors as opponents to development “not in my back yard.” But residents near the land that until recently was designated as public open space say they aren’t giving up in the face of pro posed condos, townhouses and a 6-acre park on the land wedged between Airport Road and Agua Fría Street.

Homewise CEO Mike Loftin says he’s try ing to help solve the city’s vexing affordable housing crisis, and the pushback indicates a pervasive sentiment in Santa Fe.

“It’s a huge problem in Santa Fe,” Loftin tells SFR. “It’s a huge problem in lots of the country. It’s the NIMBY problem.”

Marlow Morrison, president of the Tiempos Lindos Homeowners Association, a neighborhood that abuts the South Meadows land to the west, bristles at the suggestion, saying the label is neither fair, nor accurate.

“We just don’t fit the definition of NIMBYs,” she tells SFR. “We have Section 8 renters in our neighborhood, we have Homewise clients in our neighborhood. There is already civic housing that lines the corner” of the proposed site.

Neighbors have previously raised conc ers that they believed the fate of the land was settled back in 2001, when Santa Fe County used taxpayer money to buy the tract as part of its Open Space and Trails Program. Last summer, however, the county sold the parcel to Homewise. Many residents at the time ac

cused the county of disobeying its own rules by quietly closing the deal. But county officials dismissed the accusations and argued that a review by the County Open Lands, Trails and Parks Advisory Committee was not required to decide whether the parcel must be public.

Morrison says she and other residents are dissatisfied with all the entities involved in the current situation—particularly the county.

“It kind of brought up this feeling of be trayal that I think our community has felt from the county selling this property without really any public notice,” she says.

In February, the State Auditor’s office re ceived a complaint regarding the sale, and a spokeswoman for the office tells SFR “an ex amination” was still pending as of last week.

Morrison says she’s OK with the delayed city Planning Commission vote because it has given residents more time to be heard. Helen Wunnicke, a former resident of the area, says in an email to SFR that the slow progress is “just fine and dandy” and that she

believes the panel would likely recommend to deny Homewise’s request, “given enough information.”

Loftin says he respects and encourages the democratic process, but that he “would like to get this resolved,” citing the ongoing housing shortage. According to a report from the Santa Fe Housing Action Coalition, of which Homewise is listed as a partner, about 65% of Santa Fe residents can’t afford to buy a home in the city.

Homewise also acted on what Loftin says was the advice of its lawyers in recent weeks to lock gates to the property, cutting off access to neighbors who have walked there for de cades. Morrison speculates that many nearby homeowners chose the area, at least partially, because of the undeveloped land.

Loftin argues the combo of a park, 42 townhouses, 64 condos and 55 single-fami ly homes is a better outcome. Half the units would fall within the city’s guidelines for af fordable housing.

“I think it would be a tragedy if at the end of all this, all we’re left with is 22 acres of va cant land that hardly anybody uses,” Loftin says. “We really should do something that could benefit the surrounding community and all of Santa Fe.”

Morrison says the surrounding communi ty is “really reasonable” and open to conver sations about planning. But Homewise, she says, has a different perspective “than what a community actually needs to discuss on a whole.”

“They have an agenda that is, rightfully, so narrow and it doesn’t really allow for genuine community engagement because the con versation with the applicant has always been based on their mission statement and their agenda, and it really is dictating our commu nity needs, through their eyes, through their perspective,” Morrison concludes.

The commission’s recommendation on the rezoning and development proposal would next be heard by the City Council.

This rendering, laid over a Google map, shows the Homewise proposal for a development off South Meadows road on land that was formerly publicly owned as a Santa Fe County open space.

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Full Inheritance

Epoch is not an official unit of geologic time; it’s been widely credited to atmo spheric chemist Paul Crutzen and biologist Eugene F. Stoermer, who popularized the term in 2000. They did not give it a definite start date but held that it encompasses the period of time when humans began to alter environmental systems and processes so fundamentally that we have the power to effect change on a planetary level.

BY ANNABELLA FARMER author@sfreporter.com

Noone wakes up and ponders the geologic time scale when mapping out the day’s mundanities: what to have for breakfast, which clothes to wear, how to get to school, work, the grocery store. Instead, we glance at our phones or, if we’re stuck on retro, an alarm clock.

Larry Rasmussen, the noted Santa Febased Christian social and environmen tal ethicist, suggests the former framing, the longer view, in his forthcoming book, The Planet You Inherit: Letters to My Grandchildren When Uncertainty’s a Sure Thing (Broadleaf Books, 2022).

That’s because there is, in fact, cause for alarm, though you won’t find it on an all-knowing, electronic rectangle or glow ing from an LED display on your bedside table.

As the climate crisis alters landscapes, sometimes beyond recognition, how must the moral compass change to navigate a transfigured earth?

Rasmussen grew up in rural Minnesota, studied and taught at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and moved to Santa Fe in 2004 with his wife, Nyla, where they’ve lived ever since.

The Planet You Inherit confronts the changing geological epochs that divide his and his wife’s lives from those of their grandchildren, Eduardo and Martín— namely, the shift between the Holocene and Anthropocene epochs.

The Holocene Epoch dates roughly to the past 11,700 years of earth’s history, be ginning at the close of the last major gla cial event, or “ice age.” The Anthropocene

For Rasmussen, the Anthropocene Epoch marks a profound shift in the con sequences of human action—and morality. Our decisions’ exponentially far-reaching impacts emphasize the effects of our hab its, for good and ill. And it guarantees one thing: a future of uncertainty.

That’s the future into which Rasmussen’s grandchildren were born. Love letters to 7-year-old Eduardo and 4-year-old Martín comprise The Planet You Inherit, weaving together the events of the children’s lives with the cataclysmic un folding of the climate crisis: the COVID-19 pandemic, the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol.

Rasmussen parallels these formative moments of our time with his early adult hood in the 1960s, but with one crucial difference: the future of the planet itself is now unsettled.

From that condition radiates a central question: With the very premise of a future for his grandkids and all the kids of their generation in question, has the human condition changed? Does the planetary emergency reshape the way we love, the definition of hope, the purpose we find in our lives?

SFR sat down with Rasmussen to learn more. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

SFR: When did you realize that your grandkids will live in a world irrevoca bly different from the one you grew up in?

LR: It wasn’t a single moment, but a grow ing fear. Even before the boys were born, it was very clear that my attention had to shift from present to future generations.

Environmental ethicist Larry Rasmussen’s new book explores the human condition—for us and for those who come next—in the face of climate change

Friends in academe were carefully assess ing the impact of a fossil fuel extractive econ omy. They were seeing that we were changing the systems of the earth itself, changing the chemistry of the atmosphere and the oceans. Scientists have been pretty good at playing out the scenarios of what happens when you change earth’s systems—they were only wrong in the timing.

By the time Eduardo was born, I was very concerned about what the future would be for him and any siblings he might have. Soon we had two grandsons entering this world when the basic planetary systems were un dergoing profound change.

Why did you write the book as love let ters to your grandchildren?

The reason is really twofold. The first is that [Nyla and I] are octogenarians, and they’re very young. We will not, in all likelihood, see them grow into their teen and young adult years, so I wanted to write them letters so that they know how we’ve been looking at the world they’re entering as we reflected on the one that we grew up in, and the planet we came to love.

I wrote them chronologically with a view to what’s been happening around us. There’s one called “Love in a Time of Plague,” about the onset of COVID when Eduardo couldn’t go back to his Pre-K because it had shut down. So I’m writing in response to what’s happening to them, and I’m remembering things that happened to us that they will have no knowledge of whatsoever except by way of history books. We were on Manhattan Island when the bombing of the World Trade Center happened. I was in Berlin with friends for a year when Kennedy was assassinated. So I’m thinking back on these major events in our lives that were formative for us, and thinking about what may well be formative for them.

The second one was this growing sense that this planet is a changed planet. The one that Nyla and I grew up on isn’t the one they’re growing up on. So I wanted to try to face what they face in a profoundly altered earth, and see how you communicate love, hope and justice under those conditions.

There’s a thread through the book about the importance of habits—how small, everyday actions make us who we are. How can we become more attentive to our habits, and better understand what they’re forming in ourselves and our communities?

I write in the very first letter to Eduardo that Anthropocene citizens who carry on Holocene habits doom their children. We live as if we can continue driving our fossil-fueled

cars and have a fossil-fueled extractive econ omy. We can’t—not without making things far worse for our children.

We have to attend to systemic racism and systemic inequality, which played out with COVID and vaccine rollouts. We’ve become much more aware of the systemic dimen sions attached to our habits. Our systems, structures, institutions and policies become a kind of autopilot for our behavior, and it’s hard when you’re on autopilot to look very deeply into what those habits are.

We have an opportunity now to be aware of our habits that just didn’t register with us when we weren’t paying so much attention to the systemic dimensions of white privi lege. I grew up in rural Minnesota, and I was always taught that if you work hard and get good grades, you can be and do anything you want. White privilege was deeply ingrained because systemically it was the way in which the economy was run, the way in which the politics and governance were carried out.

The yearning to return to what we regard

as normal ends up being a part of the pattern that played out with the pandemic and racial injustice and systemic inequality, wealth and power distribution. The same pattern played out in every single one of them, and we know that, but still, we yearn for normal. A lot of people don’t want to return to what was nor mal for them.

It’s amazing to me how we look at climate change in horror, then look away and carry on just as we did before. This morning I fixed breakfast the same way. I had bananas in my granola, and didn’t ask at what cost for the folks whose land produces bananas. So I’m talking more about the persistence of a way of life that is increasingly destructive, and we are increasingly aware of it, but we carry on much as before.

It’s critical to take action. People will slide into despair and depression in the face of climate volatility and mass uncertainty. The source of hope is taking action in response to hopeless situations.

CONTINUED

Larry Rasmussen writes a letter to his grandchildren.

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I t’s critical to take action. People will slide into despair and depression in the face of climate volatility and mass uncertainty.

-Larry Rasmussen

But as you point out in the book, the wealthiest 10% of earth’s population produce half of all carbon emissions, which can make individual action by the rest of us feel futile. How would you approach that reality?

What you can do is work at a sustainable community in the region where you live that addresses social and environmental justice. Shorten those global supply lines, and don’t become so dependent on people who live far away. We’re tied together.

In the late ‘80s I studied what makes for sustainable communities and looked at societies that had to make big transi tions. This was during the dissolution of the Soviet Union when the countries in Eastern Europe were becoming inde pendent. The ones that made the most successful transitions were the ones that already had lots of people asking ques tions like, ‘What kind of education do we want our kids to have, now that we don’t have Soviet-required education? What kind of economy? How are we going to govern ourselves?’ I think the same thing is going on right now. There are lots of communities trying to attend to what a viable, sustainable community would be.

What parameters have changed for creating, or reimagining, communities with the dawn of the Anthropocene?

The mark of the Holocene was climate sta bility, and the mark of the Anthropocene is climate volatility—and that’s because of the pervasive presence and power of hu man beings.

The key for the grandkids, and for fu ture generations as far as we can see, is this human power to change earth’s sys tems themselves. For example, we can re write the script in the book of life by way of what we can do with DNA. If you alter genomes, that change is a change forever. And if you get it wrong, it’s wrong forev

er. So there’s an evolutionary reset that comes with the Anthropocene that wasn’t present in the Holocene.

Hans Jonas put his finger on it in The Imperative of Responsibility by saying that we now, collectively and cumulatively, are exercising human powers to the point where we can’t take responsibility for them. What are the conditions that future generations need, and what will be the conditions in which they live? We’re cre ating those conditions, and they’ll have to live with them, but we don’t know what we’re doing.

Climate paleontologists say we’ve probably staved off the next ice age, which was due in 50,000 years, by warming the planet now. We’re creating the circum stances not just for future generations of human beings, but for flora and fauna, bacteria, and all those essential workers

upon which our lives depend. We’re creat ing those conditions without having any notion of what we’re doing, much less ca pacity to be responsible for them.

You write that your worldview is one of tragedy, which is in some way op posed to that slide into despair. What does that mean to you?

The very things from which we benefit in one generation are the source of oppres sion in a later generation. People contin ue to carry on with that destructive force, even when it becomes clear that we can not carry on in that way.

My parents lived in the postwar expand ing middle class. My dad had a service sta tion, my mom was a homemaker. We all benefited—I benefited—from the fossil fuel extractive economy. And now, that very source of what led me to get a college edu cation is the source of my grandchildren’s planetary emergency. So part of my tragic view is that good and evil are often twinned. What is good for some people in some cir cumstances is, at the same time, the source of oppression and injustice for others.

How do you see that playing out here in New Mexico?

We’re so dependent on gas and oil royal ties that even when we’ve committed to move to fully renewable sources of ener gy, the governor still says, “I gotta work with everybody because our budget is so dependent on it.”

I was at the Roundhouse for all of those hearings on the Energy Transition Act and it stunned me that Farmington schools were dependent upon the money they got from gas and oil. New Mexico is a kind of microcosm of commitment to renewables and the resources to do that— 320 days of sunshine—and at the same time being utterly dependent on fossil fu els, which create climate change.

Climate change has staved off the next ice age and created hotter, drier conditions that make for wildfires such as the one near Mora this summer.

WILLIAM MELHADO

T he very things from which we benefit in one generation are the source of oppression in a later generation .

-Larry Rasmussen

Book Excerpt

If you find your way in life it will be because of the meaning you found, and the meaning you gave, as you and your generation face down the single greatest collec tive challenge humankind has ever confronted.

Humans have long degraded their environments, sometimes to the point of exhaustion of their own living worlds or, more likely, the worlds of those they conquered and colonized. But if the stark warnings of the IPCC and the UN are as well-found ed as daily apocalypse reports and California fires now make obvious, then my ancestors and I have done something qualitatively different than what we had in the Holocene. Australia is aflame as I write. An area the size of Switzerland is charred and littered with millions of dead animals. The “trees of ashes wave goodbye to goodbye” as ecol ogists become coroners.

I don’t mean only that we’ve ravaged the natural world in the process of thinking we could build our way out of nature into a habitat of our own (the myth of separation). I mean we have re-engineered nature as a whole such that Earth has been set on a new course. Something like an “evolutionary reset” is the astonishing circumstance that falls to you and yours. That’s Anthropocene singularity.

Your vocation, your calling, your Great Work will be to remap the world on an altered Earth for a different way of life in an uncharted future. The relatively stable center of the Holocene no longer holds. You, then, are set ting out on a new age of discovery and a dangerous pilgrimage. Yet you may find the meaning of that journey strangely life-giving! You may find in it the why that

will not let you go even as you live into the unknown. You may even find unlimited enthusiasm for unprecedented challenges. I suspect you will find yourself “saying yes to life in spite of everything.”

I think of Greta Thunberg, the environmental activist. At six teen she began the school strikes for climate action that became a movement of world youth. This thrust her onto the world stage where, like a prophet, she has been unrelenting about a brave commitment for urgent action to Confront climate calamity. Since her campaign always bore bad news about a worsening real ity—a stark planetary emergency is upon us, she repeated over and over—peo ple thought she herself must suffer its message. Her re sponse? “People seem to think I am depressed, or angry, or worried, but that’s not true. It was like I got meaning in my life.”

Leading the charge in a great cause is exhilarating and gives her satisfaction and meaning. Still, I worry about the burden you and Eduardo will carry and how it will affect you. The Talmud is wise about this: “You are not obligated to complete the task. But neither are you free to desist from it.”

Your calling is to take a few steps for a new chapter, not put the old world back together or finish the new one. Just begin.

I so hope you and Eduardo make this adventure your life. It’s not often that the chance to create civilization comes calling.

From The Planet You Inherit: Letters to My Grandchildren

When Uncertainty’s a Sure Thing by Larry L. Rasmussen copy right © 2022 Broadleaf Books. Reproduced by permission.

So how should your grandkids’ gener ation fight hopelessness in the face of those cycles?

We’re in the sixth mass extinction, the first one effected by human beings. Our grand children will have words for it that Nyla and I never knew—eco-anxiety; eco-lament. These are psychological realities with which their generation will live in uncertainty. They’re growing up in a world where there will be an enormous amount of suffering—human suf fering, and suffering of the more-than-hu man world.

The question I always get is, ‘What gives you hope? How would you want your chil dren and grandchildren to live into this?’ When I think back to the ‘60s when there was a lot of danger and a lot of worry about society coming apart, but we were genuine ly hopeful. There was a sense of progress, a sense of optimism. That’s not what we’ve got now. When I think of that, I think what mat ters is what kind of meaning they find in their response to these overwhelming challenges.

In the letter called “You Finish the Story,” I pick up on something that came from Greta Thunberg. People responded to her pro phetic voice about the planetary emergency by saying, since she’s always the bearer of bad news, that she must be suffering. And Thunberg says, “No—in this cause, I found the meaning of my life.”

What’s the role of imagination, or faith, in shaping the planet’s future?

One of the themes in the literature about our present circumstances is that we need to actually reimagine our imagination. We need to be able to conceive of some thing different and see its possibilities, and that’s a task of mind as both intellect and imagination.

Human beings do that because we’re the kind of creature that not only responds to the immediacy of our environment, but lives on an arc that goes from what is, to what could be, to what ought to be. Moral imagination is natural for us.

But we’ve got conflicting stories about what our guiding narrative should be, so that adds another dimension to imagining a different world, when the stories that you have are themselves incompatible.

I don’t think we can’t make our way to where we ought to go apart from some spir itual vision and some values that are rooted in religion— and the word religion is really a reference to the ties that bind. Where are you rooted? What risks will you take be cause you are tied to certain values, visions, hopes and dreams?

I think we have to have a creed we would risk our lives for. You don’t have to make it so dramatic as if life were being risked in every moment, but what I mean to ask is, ‘What way of life would you want to be a part of?’ Because it’s so fundamentally im portant that you live in that way, and that your kids and grandkids have that opportu nity to choose their way of life, too.

Rasmussen holds a photo of two grandsons to whom he addressed the letters in his new book.

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MUSIC SAT/22

SISTERS ARE DOING IT FOR THE REST OF US

If you don’t know Albuquerque’s Lindy Vision by now, you’re missing out, friendo. No, but furreal, the sister duo of Dor othy and Natasha Culyear (not to mention former member Carla Culyear, who can still be found on earlier recordings) has steadily carved a niche through a combination of synthy dance jamz, experimental instrumentation and, thankfully, a healthy dose of weirdness. The Culyear sisters craft the kind of tunes that not only get the booties shaking, but inspire a pause to truly consider the expert composition at play. Find ‘em this weekend at the Santa Fe Institute’s Interplanetary Festival, wherein the theoretical research org dedicates brainpower to the mysteries of the universe. We’d make an “out of this world” joke, but we respect Lindy Vision’s vision too much to stoop to goofs. Instead, we suggest you educate yourself on the music. You won’t be sorry. (ADV) Lindy Vision @Interplanetary Festival: 8:30 pm Saturday, Oct. 22. Free. SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 989-1199

THEATER SAT/22

GOING VIRAL

It’s been a minute since local troubadour/theater-lover Joe West has been able to put on his once-annual Theater of Death program, but with the pandemic...well, not over, but relegated to the fringes of our collective consciousness, he’s back at it again. What, you ask, is Theater of Death? Well, West is famously a fan of the French Grand Guignol tradition and the theater of the grotesque—the tough things made light and theatrical for all to enjoy. For the return of West’s series of short plays and original tunes, the theme and title are Virus!, an apt undertaking at this point in human history that, one hopes, will help re-contextualize our troubles. Or, to put it another way, you laugh so you don’t cry, maybe?

Who knows, but the point is this: West’s a killer songwriter with a penchant for the dramatic. Plus, the whole thing’s goin’ down in a cool tent beside a brewery with great pizza. You can hardly ask for more. (ADV)

Joe West’s Theater of Death: Virus: 3 pm and 7 pm Saturday, Oct. 22 and Sunday, Oct. 23. $25 Beer Creek Brewing, 3810 Hwy. 14. (505) 471-9271

MUSIC TUE/25

GIVE IT UP

Folks from Santa Fe are likely already familiar with musi cian Nacha Mendez and her trademarked combination of folklorico-meets-contempo style. What some might not know, however, is that Mendez kicked off a music scholar ship program last year, and the good things that come from that are just starting to roll hard. Aptly dubbed the Nacha Mendez Music Scholarship for New Mexican Girls of Color, the goal is simple: Get musical and financial resources into the hands of young girls, who are so often dissuaded from careers in the arts, particularly music. Come Tuesday, Mendez herself performs in support of the scholarship, in celebration of the looming Day of the Dead and alongside recipients from last year’s first cohort and locals Carla Kontoupes and Melanie Monsour. At $75 a ticket, we know that sounds steep, but proceeds go to the next round of scholarships, and anyway—it sounds like a pretty fun proof of concept. (ADV)

Nacha Mendez Day of the Dead Concert: 6 pm Tuesday, Oct. 25. $75. Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, nachamendezscholarship.com

ART OPENING FRI/21

The Long and Winding Road

Artist Pascal Piermé celebrates long career with new book, retrospective exhibit

In another life, French-born/Santa Fe-based artist and sculptor Pascal Piermé could have easily gone into the dental field. For a time, in his native land, Piermé worked as an apprentice in a dental technician program, the type of lab where cosmetic pieces get crafted from plasters and resins, waxes, ep oxies, gold and so on. In retrospect, he tells SFR, that might have something to do with his becoming enamored with three-dimen sional art—though as an artist he’s perhaps best known for working in wood and steel. In any event, he left that field to pursue art, and all’s well that ends well: Piermé releases his new book, Origines+Life this week through Santa Fe’s GF Contemporary gallery, which also hosts a retrospective exhibition culled from gallery pieces, private collections and elsewhere. The show also includes new, never-before-seen works.

Of course, it wasn’t a smooth road get ting here. As a kid, Piermé learned the man he’d thought was his biological father was not. The real one, it turned out, lived in California, which spurred Piermé to visit and spend time in the states, which would lead him to New Mexico in 1996.

“I totally fell in love the first time I came here,” he tells SFR. “The reason I stayed here and didn’t go to New York or Los Angeles...I

loved the landscape, and I was seeing some pretty successful artists who were doing well without being in a bigger city.”

According to the new book, the year he decided to stay in Santa Fe was the same year his gallery at the time sold an entire shipping container worth of his work.

“I also decided between quality of life or being obsessed with success,” Piermé con tinues. “I don’t think my ego was big enough to give up Santa Fe.”

Success lingers, even if a retrospective show comes with complicated feelings. Piermé says he might start dabbling in oth er mediums once the new exhibit runs its course. He doesn’t want to speak in gener alities, though—he’s free to do work on his own time, and that’s how he likes it.

“It’s going to be very strange for me to have old pieces and [new pieces] mixed; a little bit like a retirement party,” he says with a laugh. “But Santa Fe is my mother. The egg. It’s where everything became possible to me.” (Alex De Vore)

PASCAL PIERMÉ: ORIGINES+LIFE BOOK LAUNCH AND RETROSPECTIVE 5 pm Friday, Oct. 21. Free. GF Contemporary 707 Canyon Road, (505) 983-3707

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A NEW MEXICAN BURIAL No Name Cinema

2013 Pinon St.

Photographer JC Gonzo pres ents a survey of cemeteries located throughout the state. During events or by appt., free

ALISON HIXON Susan Eddings Pérez Galley 717 Canyon Road (505) 477-4ART

New surrealist works from Hixon.

10 am-5 pm daily, free

JACKS MCNAMARA: ANCESTRAL IMAGINATION form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256

McNamara creates cosmic, meditative unique works on wood.

10 am-5 pm, Tue-Sat, free

CIPX: CRITICAL INDIGENOUS PHOTOGRAPHIC EXCHANGE Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta (505) 470-2582

Tintypes from photographer Will Wilson, who, we hear, sometimes snaps new shots in the space.

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CAMILLE HOFFMAN: MOTHERLANDS form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 780-8312

Hoffman transforms the down town space into an immersive landscape.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

Ellsworth Gallery 215 E Palace Ave. (505) 989-7900

New mixed-media works. 5-7 pm, free

DAVID T. ALEXANDER: INFINITE TO INFINITISMAL:

Evoke Contemporary 550 S. Guadalupe St. (505) 995-9902

Paintings that capture reflective pools, ripples and reeds, and subtle shifts of light across water surfaces.

10 am-5 pm, Mon-Sat, free FIRE + RENEWAL

Susan Eddings Pérez Galley 717 Canyon Road (505) 477-4ART

New work from ceramic sculp tor Bob Brady and fine art photographer Rob Lang.

10 am-5 pm daily, free

FRITZ SCHOLDER: 85TH BIRTHDAY COMMEMORATIVE EXHIBITION (OPENING)

LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250

Honoring Scholder for the art ist’s posthumous 85th birthday. 10am-6, Mon-Fri; 10am-6pm, free INNER AND OUTER EXPRESSIONS

Nüart Gallery 670 Canyon Road (505) 988-3888

New work by painters Michael Bergt and Guillaume Seff. 5 pm, free

JOOMI CHUNG, (IN)VISIBLE Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road, Suite 1C (505) 780-5403

Video installation and gouache paintings. All Day, free

JUN KANEKO: SOLO

Gerald Peters Contemporary 1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700

Key pieces of Kaneko’s lesser-known study. Muted tones, copper surface effects and geometric compositions punctuate the show. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

LINDA STOJAK: AS OF NOW

LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250

Nuanced, evocative representa tion of the female figure. 10am–6pm, Mon–Fri; 10–5, Sat, free

MAGNUM OPUS

LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250

Stunning still lifes achieved through the power of graphite, perspective and skill. Have you seen this yet?

10am–6pm, Mon–Fri; 10–5, Sat, free

MAX COLE: ENDLESS JOURNEY SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

Paintings and works on paper.

10 am-5 pm, Thurs-Mon, free

MILAGRO PAINTERS PAINTED STORIES SHOW

Abiquiú Inn 21120 Hwy. 84, Abiquiú (505) 685-4378

Award-winning arts show. 7 am-9 pm daily, free

RASHOD TAYLOR: MY AMERICA Obscura Gallery 1405 Paseo De Peralta (505) 577-6708

A solo photography exhibition. 11 am-5 pm, Tue-Sat, free

RESPONSE

Pie Projects 924 Shoofly St., Ste. B (505) 372-7681

Four New Mexico artists go tradish and non-tradish.

11 am–5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

SELF-DETERMINED Center For Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 216-0672

Notable Native artists come together.

11 am-5 pm, Fri-Sun $10

SHIRIN NESHAT: LAND OF DREAMS

SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

Iranian-American artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat. The show was created here in New Mexico and gives a sur real view into contemporary America during the Trump era. Lots and lots of photo graphs.

10am-5pm, Thurs-Mon, free

New Mexico’s Premier Cannabis Dispensary

From Nicole Finger’s Bloom, opening at Victory Contemporary. Frosted.

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Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307 (505) 983-0134

A sad day! This might be the last bingo time. Bingo to the death, bingo till the cows come home. $2 per round! Halloween themed so costumes are encouraged. 7 pm, $2

KARAOKE WITH MCCLAIN: A BENEFIT FOR THE MADRID FOOD BANK

Engine House Theater 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

Show up and do the karaoke thing. 7 pm, free

OUTRIDERS: LEGACY OF THE BLACK COWBOY Harwood Museum of Art 238 Ledoux St., Taos (575) 758-9826

3D PRINTING BADGE MAKE Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502

If you can imagine a shape there is a good chance you can create it with the push of a button using 3D printing. 4 pm, $90

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Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

Mindful movement for health and vitality.

10 am, free

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GUERRERO: THE PERMANENCE OF FORGETTING Smoke the Moon

616 1/2 Canyon Road smokethemoon.com

Los Angeles-based Chicana artist Guerrero unveils new mixed-media paintings. 12-4 pm, Thurs-Sun, free TACK ROOM

Gerald Peters Gallery 1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700

Art as equine equipment. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

TODD WHITE: DESERT SOLITAIRE

Hecho Gallery 129 W Palace Ave. (505) 455-6882

A new series of watercolors. 10 am-5 pm, Mon-Tue, free WILD PIGMENT PROJECT form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 780-8312

Artists create with foraged pigments.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

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CHANGING CLIMATE: CHANGING…WELL…

EVERYTHING (AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT) WITH TERRY L. ROOT

Unitarian Universalist Santa Fe 107 N. Barcelona Road (410) 458-6694

The League of Women Voters of Santa Fe County host a presentation about climate change.

7-8 pm, free

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El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave Flamenco. 6:15 pm, $25-$45

An exercise in unearthing imag es of the drovers, fiddlers, cow punchers, cattle rustlers, cooks, singers, bulldogers, and bronc busters with African heritage. 11 am-5 pm, free

SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OPENING NIGHT GALA

SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

Join the stellar Opening Night Gala at Site Santa Fe catered by Walter Burke. Libations provid ed by Chawar and Lescombres; music by Daniel Murphy Trio and DJ Dynamite Sol. 8:30 pm, $55

WAYWARD COMEDY Chile Line Brewery 204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Laugh with local comics. 8pm, free

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SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Various locations snatafe.film

The 14th iteration of the fest formerly known as the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival kicks off its run (See Movies, page 27). All Day, $0-$325

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DR. HALL Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Americana, blues and rock. 4 pm, free

KARAOKE NIGHT Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St. (505) 988-7222 Classic karaoke. 10 pm, free

NEIGHBOR LADY Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Country-kissed indie rock. 8 pm, $13-$15

El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. Flamenco. 6:15 pm, $25-$45

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CRASH KARAOKE

Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307 (505) 983-0134

Sing-a-ling-a-ding-ding-dong. 8 pm, free

SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: INDUSTRY PARTY Horno 95 W Marcy St. (505) 303-3469

Filmmakers descend on the city. 9 pm, $25

REUNITY QUEER NIGHT Reunity Resources 1829 San Ysidro Crossing

A social hour/dance party with a set with Santa Fe DJ, The Muse. 6-10 pm, free

THURSDAY NIGHT SOCIAL Santa Fe Public Library LaFarge Branch 1730 Llano St. (505) 820-0292

Board games, chess and more. 4 pm, free

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REZ METAL DOCUMENTARY FILM SCREENING

Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

We love that the library is playing a movie about metal. In this instance, it’s the story of Indigenous metal act, I Don’t Konform.

6 pm, free

SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Various locations santafe.film

The fest continues with all of its crazy movies and talks and panels and parties and hangs and being buds. Find it in numerous venues and don’t forget to tell a filmmaker you love ‘em.

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MY BODY NO CHOICE A FR EE Reading

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2 PM

A response to the overturning of Roe v Wade by eight leading American women playwrights commissioned by the Washington Arena Stage. At the Lab Theater, 1213 Parkway. Free to the first 90 persons who RSVP at nmal.publicity@gmail.com.

Gather ’round, children, and we’ll tell you the tale of Elfego Baca—or, to be more specific, filmmaker Antonio Márquez will tell you the tale. See, Baca was a lesser-known folk herostyle New Mexican/Mexican-American, an infamous gunman, soldier, lawyer, private investigator and all-around legend-maker from the time of Billy the Kid. In Márquez’s ¡Baca the Kid! short, which plays as part of the Santa Fe International Film Festival’s New Mexico Shorts program (9 pm Saturday, Oct. 22. $15. Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 Montezuma Ave., (505) 466-5528), we learn the true story of how Baca found himself trapped in a shack in a remote area of New Mexico during a 30-hour standoff against white supremacist cowboy types circa 1833— and walked away unscathed. Márquez’s film is equal parts informative, funny and thrilling, a notable feat given its roughly 14-minute runtime. We spoke with Márquez, who wrote, directed, produced and starred in the movie, to learn more. You, meanwhile, can learn even more when Márquez takes part in the festival’s upcoming Short Filmmaker Panel (11 am Sunday, Oct. 23. Free. form & concept, 435 S Guadalupe St., (505) 780-8312). In fact, see the movie and do the talk. Win/win. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. (Alex De Vore)

I understand there was a Disney show in the ‘60s about Elfego Baca (with Robert Loggia, even), but I’m not sure he’s a wellknown figure. Why do you think that is? I think there are a few contributing factors— and that ’60s show with Robert Loggia is pretty bad—but he’s known to old Chicanos and old New Mexicans, people like that; but mostly on the older side; a lot of old-timers. Y’know, I think he’s just not known. For the Old West kind of thing, you could make the argument that because he didn’t die, like Billy the Kid, there’s not this romantic legacy. But Wyatt Earp didn’t die until he was well into old age, so I think it comes back to how he was a New Mexican who stood up to white supremacy. He stood up for New Mexicans, and I don’t think that was a legend that fell nicely and neatly into the image of the Old West.

Your film is based on a true story about a protracted standoff. How did you come to learn about this event and how did you know you wanted to make it the basis of a movie?

I grew up with my family doing cowboy shit, and I was always enamored with the West and Old West stories. And this guy was New Mexican—I latched onto him pretty young; he was in these books called Classic Gunfights, and I was like, ‘This guy’s awesome!’ Plus, I had a friend who’s a Baca and her dad would tell stories.

But I was always fascinated, and during the pandemic, my cousin Daniel Marquez and I had all this time, so I did all this reading about Baca. I tracked down...there are only 300 copies of his autobiography, which was hand-pressed in the 1930s in the South Valley of Albuquerque. And I read this biography he did with another guy, one from a lawyer’s point of view. I read firsthand accounts from newspapers—and two guys who were [at that standoff] recounted the story in their memoirs, too. It’s actually a pretty well-documented event. So I wrote a feature script and kind of got the bug planted, and I eventually realized it could be a short, too.

Was there anything you wish you could have fit into the film but didn’t, or is it more like you hope people will try to learn about Elfego Baca?

Writing the feature was enormously helpful, and that was kind of the challenge, too. So much of it goes into the backstory of [Baca’s] brother getting lynched, his cousin getting killed in jail—he broke his dad out of jail. When I had to strip it all away, it was liberating, without making it a history lesson, to just get into the primal survival theme of the story. Even when we were doing sound design, we wanted the sound of the guys outside coming through, the chaotic nature. If I wanted to put anything else in, I think it would take a feature. I’d love to show his journey leading up to this. He has some stories about hanging about with Billy the Kid, which may or may not be true, for example.

When you’re reading his biographies, it’s some pretty harrowing shit he went through, but I think we captured the tone of the story. I’d love to…flesh out the tone of that story. I think it’s a traumatic survival story—he stood up to white supremacy—but it’s also a fun adventure. I hope those heavy things resonate almost on a subconscious level. I hope people read more about him, though, because he was really fascinating: He was a lawyer, he got involved with the Mexican revolution, he was a private investigator. One of the funniest things I read was that, late in life, he started wearing a cape and hired a bodyguard. He’d wear the cape in Old Town and walk around handing out his business card.

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Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

Experiment with a variety of mediums and make your mark.

3:30 pm, free

WOODSHOP BADGE MAKE Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502

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Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch

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Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

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QUARTETINHO

Lensic Performing Arts Center

211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234

Award-winning jazz from NYC by way of Tel Aviv.

7:30 pm, $35-$115

HIGH DESERT TRIO

Altar Spirits

545 Camino de la Familia (505) 916-8596 Americana.

7:30-9:30 pm, free

JOHNNY LLOYD Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

The man's music is as amazing as his facial hair. Americana, country and beard.

4 pm, free

YEISON LANDERO

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808

Do you want to dance la cumbia from a dang accordion master? This is how you do that.

8 pm, $13

THEATER

LOLA'S LAST DANCE & ASTONISHING LIGHT: CONVERSATIONS I NEVER HAD WITH PATROCIÑO BARELA

Teatro Paraguas

3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601

A couple of works by playwright Tony Mares, including a full-on play and a short.

7:30 pm, $12-$25

THE CHILDREN New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive (505) 466-3533

The New Mexico Actors Lab's Robert Benedetti directs the Tony-nominated Lucy Kirkwood play about retired scientists in the midst of a Fukushima-like apocalyptic event.

7:30 pm, $15

They are bendy already, being young, but its still good for them to learn this stuff.

10:30 am, free

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ART OPENINGS

BOUCHRA BELGHALI (OPENING)

art is gallery santa fe 419 Canyon Road (505) 629-2332

Abstract Fine Art. 5 pm, free

KIRSTIN MITCHELL: IN PAPER & PAINT: BIRDS & BUGS (OPENING)

Prism Arts & Other Fine Things 418 Cerrillos Road (248) 763-9642

Mitchell finds the intersection between abstraction and realism while taking inspiration from origami.

5 pm, free

NICOLE FINGER: BLOOM (OPENING)

Victory Contemporary 124 W Palace Ave. (505) 983-8589

Finger’s figurative works deal with love, loss, groundedness, vulnerability, and phases of life. Same goes for her floralscapes, which evoke introspection. 5-7 pm, free

THE OFFERING (OPENING)

Keep Contemporary 142 Lincoln Ave. (505) 557-9574

Art show by Milka Lolo. There will be a DJ, drinks and more. 5 pm, free

PASCAL PIERMÉ: ORIGINES+LIFE BOOK LAUNCH AND RETROSPECTIVE (OPENING)

GF Contemporary 707 Canyon Road (505) 983-3707

You might call Piermé a sculptor, but there’s a whole lot more going on. Catch notable works at this retrospective, plus new piec es never seen before. (See SFR Picks, page 17) 5 pm, free

El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave Antonio Granjero and Estefania Ramirez. There is dinner too. 6:15 pm, $25-$45

HOLLY MAIZ AND DAVID FORLANO : SITE-SPECIFIC MOVEMENT IMPROVISATION Ellsworth Gallery 215 E Palace Ave. (505) 989-7900

Holly Maiz and David Forlano perform a site-specific move ment improvisation during the exhibition of Un-Known Paths by Christy Hengst. 5 pm, free

EVENTS

SUNSET SERENADE Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759

Ride the rails, listen to music and enjoy.

6:05 pm, $99

FILM

MONSTERS MARATHON No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St.

It's like The Twilight Zone or Black Mirror but with mon sters. Total late-’80s early ’90s perfection. Bad acting, amazing(ly bad) special effects and the occasion al boom mic. It’s free and the popcorn is, too. Masks required.

7 pm, free

SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Various locations santafe.film

The 14th iteration of the fest formerly known as the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival. All Day, $0-$325

SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: DISTRIBUTION PANEL form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256

Film distro pros talk gettin’ that film out there, which can be a daunting thing for n00bs and up-and comers.

2:30 pm, free

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Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307 (505) 983-0134

The classic punk/emo DJ returns so we can all scream things like, “It’s just the way you look at MAY-HAY!” 7-8 pm, free

MARTHA REDBONE Lensic Performing Arts Center (505) 988-1234

An American roots sing er-songwriter operating on this whole other level.

7:30 pm, $35-$115

MOBY DICK AND THE INAPPROPRIATE AUTHORITIES

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808

THE CHILDREN New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive (505) 466-3533

Tony-nominated Lucy Kirkwood play about retired scientists in the midst of a Fukushima-like apocalyptic event.

7:30 pm, $15

THEATER OF DEATH: VIRUS!!!

Beer Creek Brewing Company 3810 Hwy. 14 (505) 471-9271

Joe West invites audiences to experience terror, taboo and titillation! Staged in a circus tent next to the Beer Creek Brewing seating is limited. Not recommended for children under 12. (See SFR Picks, page 17)

DANCE

ENTREFLAMENCO

El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. Flamenco.

6:15 pm, $25-$45

CONTRA DANCE

Oddfellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road Dance the night away. Requires two vacs and a booster.

9 am-2 pm, free

EVENTS

CARS FOR KIDS TRUNK OR TREAT CAR SHOW

State Employees Credit Union 813 St. Michael’s Drive (505) 983-7328

SANTA FE SPIRITS OF NEW MEXICO

El Rancho de las Golondrinas 334 Los Pinos Road (505) 471-2261

Las Golondrinas celebrates All Hallow's Eve.

5-9 pm, $6-$8

THE RING OF CAIRNS AND THE ZIA COMPASS

Fort Marcy Park 490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2501

Two-dozen stone masons cre ate different structures, includ ing 12 cairns and a compass. 10 am, free

FILM

SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

CANDY BOMBER Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

A father son duo! Psychedelic funky blues rock. Yeah it’s pretty rad.

1 pm, free

CHATTER

SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

Traditional and contempo chamber music plus poetry.

10:30 am, free

CRAZY BIRD Evangelo’s 200 W San Francisco St. evangeloscocktaillounge.com

MUSIC

BOB MAUS

Cava Lounge 309 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-4455

Blues and soul. 7 pm, free

DEAR DOCTOR

Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

Folk and Americana. 5 pm, free

EARTH DANCE

BODY of Santa Fe 333 W Cordova Road (505) 986-0362

Immersive dance experience with proceeds going to the Tessa Foundation. 8 pm, free

ELEVATED ROOTS

Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

Reggae. 8 pm, free THE GUY IN THE GROOVE La Fonda Hotel 100 E San Francisco St. (505) 982-5511

Speaker Dick Rosemont lec tures on rock music of the ’60s. 2 pm, free

Led Zeppelin and The Police cover bands are ready to rock your face off. Let them do it. You don't need your face that bad if you think about it. Don’t send out an SOS. God, Sting is the worst.

8 pm, $10-$15

ROBIN OXLEY Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

A great voice doing acoustic Americana, country and blues. Her Patsy Cline covers are on-point.

4 pm, free

VACATIONS, JACKIE HAYES Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

Pop/rock for fans of bands like Joy Division and Weezer. Tickets are sold out but you might find some online. 10 pm, sold out

THEATER

LOLA'S LAST DANCE & ASTONISHING LIGHT: CONVERSATIONS I NEVER HAD WITH PATROCIÑO BARELA Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601

Paraguas performs works by writer Tony Mares.

7:30 pm, $12-$25

7-9 pm, $25

WORKSHOP

MAKE SANTA FE TOUR

MAKE Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road, (505) 819-3502

Every Friday night starting at 6 pm, tours of the makerspace along with a Q&A session. 5 pm, free

SAT/22

ART

MICHAEL DIAZ: DRESSED IN WATER. 5. Gallery 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700

Multi-disciplinary works. Noon-5 pm, free

SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET In the West Casitas, north of the water tower 1612 Alcaldesa St. Weekly outdoor art market. 9 am-2 pm, free

THE ROAD TAKEN: A 45-YEAR JOURNEY BY CAROLE BELLIVEAU Mesa Public Library 2400 Central Ave. Los Alamos (505) 662-8250

Mixed-media artist Belliveau with focuses on the female form and gives a talk at 3 pm. 2:30 pm, free

A classic car show with food trucks, live music, pumpkins, trick or treating, games and more.

10 am-3 pm

COMEDY NIGHT

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808

Get your standup yuks in with Santa Fe’s burgeoning comedy scene.

8:30 pm, $10

HERE, NOW AND ALWAYS: COMMUNITY, ART AND STORYTELLING THROUGH LARGE-SCALE PUPPETRY Museum of Indian Arts & Culture 710 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1250

The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture joins with students from the Institute of American Indian Arts to teach folks a thing or two about the power of puppets.

1-3 pm, free

INTERPLANETARY FESTIVAL DAY 1 SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

The Santa Fe Institute con siders the cosmos at its InterPlanetary Festival, live from SITE Santa Fe. Free to attend, seating is very limited. Stay after for a legendary per formance by Lindy Vision. 11 am, free

Various locations

santafe.film

The 14th iteration of the fest formerly known as the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival. All Day, $0-$325

SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: GODFREY REGGIO LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234

The legendary director swings by the festival to pick up his lifetime achievement award and to present the world pre miere of his new movie, Once Within a Time 6:30 pm, $30

FOOD

PLANTITA VEGAN BAKERY POP UP

Plantita Vegan Bakery 1704 Lena St. Unit B4 (505) 603-0897

Stop by the kitchen and pick up some vegan fall-inspired treats. 10 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC

BOB MAUS Inn & Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 988-5531

Blues and soul that’ll make you go, “Ooooh!” Maybe. We bet. 7 pm, free

The way we hear it, this Albuquerque-based act is all about “righteous grooves for dancing and good.” We like that. The world needs more of all of that.

9 pm, no cover

DJ D-MONIC WITH MR. P. CHILL

Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

D-Monic blends every genre while Sacramento rapper Mr. P. Chill spits rhymes. Good for those who need to dance.

6:30 pm, free

GARRY BLACKCHILD Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

Blackchild does the Americana/folk thing.

2 pm, free

LINDY VISION

SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

The Albuquerque-based sister act joins the InterPlanetary Festival with super-sweet and superdancey jamz. (See SFR Picks, page 17)

8:30 pm, free

THE MET LIVE IN HD: MEDEA Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234

Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky stars in the witchy vengeance opera, broadcast in high-def. 11 am, $22-$28

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PETER VIGIL AND THE ALLSTAR BAND

VFW Post 2951 307 Montezuma Ave. (505) 983-9045

Bluesy-rock kinda stuff. 7 pm, $10

OPERA MAKES SENSE

Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

Created to help kids aged 3-5 learn more about opera through readings, music and conversation. 11 am, free

THEATER

LOLA'S LAST DANCE & ASTONISHING LIGHT: CONVERSATIONS I NEVER HAD WITH PATROCIÑO BARELA Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601

Paraguas produces works by Tony Mares.

7:30 pm, $12-$25

THE CHILDREN New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive (505) 466-3533

Tony-nominated Lucy Kirkwood play.

7:30 pm, $15

MY BODY NO CHOICE

New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive (505) 466-3533

A staged reading of eight mono logues from American women in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Open to the first 90 persons to RSVP to nmal.publicity@gmail.com.

2 pm, free

THEATER OF DEATH: VIRUS!!!

Beer Creek Brewing Company 3810 Hwy. 14 (505) 471-9271

Musician Joe West invites audi ences to experience terror, taboo and titillation. Not recommended for children under 12. (See SFR Picks, page 17) 3 pm and 7 pm, $25

WORKSHOP

SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ACTORS AND DIRECTORS WORKSHOP WITH CATHERINE HARDWICKE

Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262

Director Catherine Hardwicke writes short scripts based on the works of three local painters.

2:30 pm, $15

COOKING CLASS: VEGAN SICHUAN CHINESE Open Kitchen 227 Don Gaspar Ave. (202) 285-9840

A culinary journey through the wonders of Sichuan. 10 am-1 pm, $115

LASER CUTTER BADGE MAKE Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502

“Get your laser cutting badge,” is a cool sentence. And a thing you can do, too.

12:30-4:30 pm, $90

SUN/23

EVENTS

CRASH KARAOKE FOR KIDS Social Kitchen + Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, Suit A (505) 982-5952

Like the regular thing but for kids.

4pm, free

INTERPLANETARY FESTIVAL DAY 2

SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

The Santa Fe Institute continues to consider the cosmos at its InterPlanetary Festival, live from SITE Santa Fe. Free to attend, seating is very limited.

11 am, free

SHAP ZOMBIE RUN SANTA FE 2022

Railyard Park 740 Cerrillos Road nmshap.org/2022-zombie-run A fundraiser run for Street Homeless Animal Project. 8 am-12 pm, free SUNSET SERENADE Sky Railway (844) 743-3759

Jazz, cocktails, trains. 5 pm, $99

FILM

SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Various locations Santa Fe, NM

The 14th iteration of the fest formerly known as the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival hits its last day. All Day, $0-$325

SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: CATHERINE HARDWICKE AWARD PRESENTATION

Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

Award-winning filmmaker Hardwicke (Twilight) discuss es her career and picks up an award while she’s at it. 5:30 pm, $15

SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: NON-FICTION FILMMAKING PANEL form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256

Documentary filmmakers dis cuss their craft, how to raise funds, and how to gain trust from their subjects.

12:30 pm, free

SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: PRODUCTION PANEL form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256

Learn about film production with Jhane Myers (Prey), Tony Mark (Hurtlocker), Cheryl Nichols and Arron Shiver. Did you see Prey, though? It was so sick. Predator punches a bear in the face. IN THE FACE!

2 pm, free

SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: NEW MEXICO FILM SALON form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256

Filmmakers in the local film pro gram discuss their connections to the state and what it is like to be from New Mexico and/or film here.

3:30 pm, free

MUSIC

HONDO COYOTE Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

Country 3 pm, free

THE HILL STOMPERS Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

An award winning Jazzy street band.

4 pm, free

QUARTETTO DI CREMONA St. Francis Auditorium at NM Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072

Music of Boccherini, Verdi, Puccini, and Respighi. 3 pm, $22-$92

THE WESTERNHERS Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Country duo.

12 pm, free

THEATER

LOLA'S LAST DANCE & ASTONISHING LIGHT: CONVERSATIONS I NEVER HAD WITH PATROCIÑO BARELA

Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601

Paraguas produces the Tony Mares play. One about a retired prostitute remember ing her past the other about an imagined conversation with a woodcarver.

2 pm, $12-$25

THE CHILDREN New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive (505) 466-3533

Tony-nominated Lucy Kirkwood play about retired scientists in the midst of a Fukushima-like apocalyptic event.

2:30 pm, $15

THEATER OF DEATH: VIRUS!!!

Beer Creek Brewing Company 3810 Hwy. 14 (505) 471-9271

Musician Joe West invites audiences to experience terror, taboo and titillation. Staged in a circus tent next to the Beer Creek Brewing seating is limited. Get your tickets in advance. Not recommended for children under 12. (See SFR Picks, page 17) 3 pm and 7 pm, $25

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DANCE

SANTA FE SWING

Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road (505) 690-4165

Old fashioned swing to big band and blues DJs. $8 for the class and for the dance, $3 for just the open dance (which starts at 8 pm). 7 pm, $3-$8

MUSIC

BILL HEARNE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

The honky-tonkin’, flat-pickin’ bonafide country legend returns to make us feel things. 4 pm, free

MUSEUMS

IAIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900

Athena LaTocha: Mesabi Redux. Matrilineal: Legacies of Our Mothers. Art of Indigenous Fashion.

10 am-4 pm, Wed-Sat, Mon 11 am-4 pm, Sun, $5-$10

MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART 18 County Road 55A (505) 424-6487

Global Warming is Real Juried Exhibition.

11 am-4 pm, Fri-Sun, $10 (18 and under free)

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200

Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery. ReVOlution. Here, Now and Always. Painted Reflections.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$9

MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200

Dressing with Purpose: Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia. Fashioning Identities. Yokai: Ghosts & Demons of Japan.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$12

NEW MEXICO HISTORY

MUSEUM

113 Lincoln Ave. (505) 476-5200

Setting the Standard. The First World War. WORDS on the Edge. The Palace Seen and Unseen.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-$12, NM residents free 5-7 pm first Fri of the month

EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS

334 Los Pinos Road (505) 471-2261

Colonial living history ranch.

10 am-4 pm, Wed-Sun, $4-$6

TUE/25

EVENTS

CENTER WEBINARS Online visitcenter.org (505) 292-5293

An incredible nonprofit for pho tographers. Noon, free MODERN KADAMPA BUDDHIST MEDITATION Zoetic 230 St. Francis Drive (505) 292-5293

Meditate. It’s good for you. 6-7:30 pm, $10

THE GRAND OPENING OF STRETCHLAB StretchLab 1001 S St. Francis Drive, Ste. 103 (505) 510-7403

An assisted stretching boutique. 8 am, free

MUSIC

FLOR DE TOLOACHE St. Francis Auditorium at NM Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072

Mariachi from NYC. 7:30 pm, $32-$43

KRYSTAL KUEHL Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Folky singer-songwriter. 4 pm, free

NACHA MENDEZ: DAY OF THE DEAD CONCERT Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo (505) 467-1200

Mendez raises a few bucks for her Nacha Mendez Scholarship, which seeks to provide financial and musi cal resources to young New Mexico girls of color. (See SFR Picks, page 17) 6 pm, $75

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART

750 Camino Lejo (505) 982-2226

Pueblo-Spanish Revival Style: The Director’s Residence. Trails, Rails, and Highways.

1-4 pm, Wed-Fri, $5-$12

NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5063

Selections from the 20th Century Collection. Western Eyes. Transgressions and Amplifications: Mixed Media

Photographs of the ’60s, ’70s.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-12

POEH CULTURAL CENTER

78 Cities of Gold Road (505) 455-5041

Di Wae Powa. Nah Poeh Meng: The Continuous Path. 9 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-$10

WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 704 Camino Lejo (505) 982-4636

Center for the Study of Southwestern Jewelry. Abeyta | To’Hajiilee K’é. The Mary Morez Style.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, $8

From Yōkai: Ghosts & Demons of Japan at the Museum of International Folk Art. Tengu Toy Figures (Kokeshi), Tohoku District, Japan, ca. 1960. Wood, paint

ADDISON

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Santa Fe International Film Festival: The Host

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

What everyday folks might not understand about film festi vals is their power of connec tion. Yes, filmmakers are strutting their stuff, seeking distribution and looking to network at such events, but for casual film fans, there’s much to learn. Take the Santa Fe International Film Festival (FKA Independent Film Festival), which hits its fourteenth year this week and runs from Oct. 19-23. Somewhere betwixt its screenings and parties, you’ll find pan els and discussions ranging across various cinematic topics that not only connect filmmakers, but offer opportunities for fans and newcomers to gain a deeper in sight into how movies get made and wend their way to theaters and/or stream ing services. Moderating the upcoming panels is Siena Sofia Bergt, a graduate of Columbia University’s film program and the director of OPIA, an entry that played at the 2019 Santa Fe International Film Festival—while Bergt was at school, which also happens to make her the first-ever Columbia undergrad to complete a fea ture while still enrolled.

We caught up with Bergt to get a little more info about her qualifications, her take on filmmaking and what makes indie film festivals so vital to the modern cine matic landscape. This interview has been edited for clarity and space.

SFR: Talk about your background in film and what makes you appreciate them on a level that makes you a good candidate for panel moderation.

Siena Sofia Bergt: I think there are kind of two things that led to me enjoying mod erating. One is my first mentor. I was a New Mexico School for the Arts kid back when it was across the street from the [St. Francis] cathedral, and acting was what I

thought I wanted to do with my life. But my dad was friends with this cult film maker named Ted Flicker, who lived in Santa Fe until his death in 2014. My dad took me [to visit], and Ted kind of sat me down and told me, ‘I’m going to make it my project for the next year to convince you that you want to be a director—I know you too well to think you’d be satisfied as an actor. You need a puzzle.’ At the time, he had this amazing film library, and he would take me in every Saturday and we’d talk for hours about how films were made. So when I went to [college at Columbia], that’s what I started taking—classes in directing.

The second thing is, the undergrad film department at Columbia is run by Annette Insdorf, and she’s the main moderator for the Telluride Film Festival. I became kind of obsessed with Annette and took every class she offered; she got me a film gig after I’d come back to New Mexico to shoot my feature, and then, when I went back to school, she got me another screen ing features for Telluride. I knew I wanted to watch the films, but the thing I was excited about was watching how she’d moderate panels; how she could take five dif ferent directors and find the through lines between doc umentaries, features, things they’d been working on for years. I was amazed by how much she was able to illumi nate about the films them selves, but also the ways she was able to create connec tions between panelists.

How many panels are you moderating this year?

I’m doing six or seven Q&A’s and four panels: The shorts panel, New Mexico Filmmakers, the distribution panel and one on the indus

try, which is, among other things, about what film commissions are and what they can do to support filmmakers.

Right. Information on how to go about it, since filmmaking has such a high bar of entry.

The model we’re shown in film school is that you make your film short, which hopefully screens at festivals; you make five more shorts and hopefully one gets into Sundance—then maybe someday down the line, you can make your first

feature. So many features that people are passionate about don’t get made because people don’t know what to do.

So that’s an important part of moderat ing these panels for you? Highlighting ways of getting into the industry?

Exactly. Something I love to ask filmmakers about is, not only what are the projects you’re hoping to make next, but what kind of support do you need to make that happen? When you’re talking about a fest like the Santa Fe International Film Festival, too, with an amazing Indigenous program, environmental films...we want to see projects getting made in less exploitive ways, and we want things on the screen. We want to say, ‘Here’s how that happens.’

It’s about breaking down barriers, too, then?

A thousand percent. A lot of how I try to craft questions is to spark a discussion that will get filmmakers talking about the opportuni ties they’re excited about. All of us have found these little nooks and crannies where we’re finding ways to make films. All of us are looking at it slightly differently. When you get those options laid out on the table together, you can see the commonal ity, pick out the threads and trends in indie films we can all use and that are easy to benefit from.

Would you say there’s any thing you’ve learned as a moderator that you’ll carry with you as a filmmaker?

I feel like I have an immedi ate rush of things that come to mind. One of the things that’s really stuck with me is the sense that filmmak ers don’t want to be in com petition with each other. I think particularly in the indie sphere, so often, we’re told there’s this one tiny pie, and a slice you get is a slice I don’t get. The vast major ity of filmmakers don’t feel that way, don’t buy into that, don’t want to buy into that. I hope that’s what the panels open up—not competition, but instead, collaboration.

Find a full schedule of panels, screenings and events at santafe.film

If you’re attending a panel during the Santa Fe International Film Festival, it will likely be filmmaker Siena Sofia Bergt moderating it.

ALEX DE VORE

Filmmaker Siena Sofia Bergt presides over numerous panels at preeminent Santa Fe film fest

OFFICIAL PROGRAM GUIDE INSIDE

Directed by Sarah Polley and starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Ben Whishaw, and Frances McDormand. Based on the best-selling novel by Miriam Toews, Women Talking follows a group of women in an isolated religious colony as they struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony's men.

RETURN TO SEOUL CLOSING NIGHT

OCTOBER 23

Directed by Davy Chou. A twenty-five-year-old French woman returns to Korea—the country where she was born before being adopted by a French couple - for the very first time. She decides to track down her biological parents, but her journey takes a surprising turn.

SANTAFE FILM

RATINGS BEST MOVIE EVER WORST MOVIE EVER

+ WELL-SHOT, ACTED AND WRITTEN PERFORMANCES TAKE A LITTLE TIME TO WARM UP

While most folks might know Sarah Carter from her acting, including from the CW series, The Flash, she proves a real knack for writing and directing with In Her Name, her first feature-length film and a fine piece of work. In Name, we follow estranged sisters Freya (Erin Hammond) and Fiona (Ciera Danielle), who have somehow gone a decade without seeing each other; at least until their formerly famous artist father Marv (a quiet but powerful Phillipe Caland) contends with a terminal diagnosis by filling his days with salon-style artists’ gatherings and prep work for his final show with some big-wig gallery.

Freya feels betrayed by Fiona, who got married, had a kid and moved from Los Angeles to Minnesota to live a traditional lifestyle. Fiona, meanwhile, feels that her sister’s judgmental take on the nuclear family thing is too harsh—which is tragic, we learn through flashbacks, because the siblings used to be close. Muddying the goings-on is the old family house, still in the sisters’ dead mother’s name, though technically left to Fiona in the will. It seems neither Freya nor Marv has bothered to pay property tax in some time, and Fiona wants to sell. What follows is a quick but important tour through inherited trauma, personal evolution, the importance (and frustrations) of family and the intensity of deciding what, if anything, to leave unsaid.

Shot in crisp black and white, Carter’s opus wends through anything and everything from sexual hang-ups, familial obligations and the destructive possibilities of pride. Hammond and Danielle suss out the rare type of chemistry that makes an onscreen sibling relationship feel believable and relatable. Hammond’s take on the second-generation artist desperately seeking her father’s approval hurts so good, and Danielle hits some notable heights in particular as her character’s development starts someplace akin to worried and uptight, then ultimately transforms into self-assured and confident.

Kudos go to Carter as well, not just for her writing and directing, which are both top-notch, but for crafting some of the most subtly delicious digs at the gallery system and what sort of artists it fosters ever captured

on film. In Her Name is thus darkly funny at times— especially if you’ve spent any time in the art world—and its family dynamics hit so close to home it’s laughable in that verging-on-tears way. (Alex De Vore)

Violet Crown Cinema, NR, 100 min.

IMAGINING THE INDIAN

10 + MOVING, SUCCINCT AND POWERFUL SHOULD BE MANDATORY VIEWING FOR EVERY AMERICAN

A plethora of articulate Native scholars and activists deliver powerful narratives in Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting—their diversity of tribal affiliation and backgrounds as strong as their more homogeneous message about the damage of stereotypical images.

Co-directed by Aviva Kempner and Ben West, the documentary focuses on the story of the Washington Commanders, a historical NFL franchise that bitterly fought in the courts and the culture to keep its racial euphemism of a team name until an about-face in July 2020.

That victory for advocates, and the one that resulted

in the Cleveland Guardians replacing that city’s baseball team’s name the next summer, however, doesn’t sweep away the rest of corporate and college sports teams that still poorly defend their use of Native images. We’re looking at you Chicago Blackhawks, Kansas City Chiefs and Atlanta Braves—plus a staggering more than 1,800 public school teams across the country.

We love this film’s who’s-who on the subject matter, including psychologists, professors and government leaders, plus Ho-Chunk NBA player Bronson Koenig and gold medal winner Billy Mills (Oglala Lakota) and others. And we can’t get enough of Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee), a lifelong activist who in some ways is the real star of this production.

She appears in clips from ‘60s radio journalism to ‘80s TV talk shows and recent interviews from a wheelchair with the US Capitol in the background. New Mexico’s Deb Haaland (Laguna) also makes the cut, along with footage of Sasheen Littlefeather, the actress and activist who famously declined Marlon Brandon’s 1973 Oscar— now more poignant in the face of her death on Oct. 2.

The storytelling effectively works in the usual collection of cringey Western cinema footage and Bugs Bunny horrors as well as European painters, advertisements and news reels that should elicit their own facepalms.

Imagining the Indian

What’s it going to take to correct the record and direct the future? To see the real Native America? A whole team. (Julie Ann Grimm) Center for Contemporary Arts, NR, 95 min.

THIEF COLLECTOR

+ FASCINATING AND EXCITING SPECULATION FEELS POINTLESS

On the day after Thanksgiving in 1985, a couple walked into the University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson and absconded shortly thereafter with painter Willem de Kooning’s 1955 medium-busting work, “Woman-Ochre.”

The painting didn’t see the light of day for the next 32 years, flummoxing local law enforcement, university cops and the FBI alike. Cut to 2015, when employees of a small Silver City, New Mexico, antiques shop hired to handle the estate of Jerry and Rita Alter unearthed that de Kooning hidden in plain sight behind a bedroom door. What a wild turn of events.

In Love Bugs director Allison Otto’s new work, The Thief Collector, audiences will learn there might have been more to the story than that of a couple who just wanted to appreciate an art work. They’ll get to know the Alters better, discover how the theft came to pass, how an entire family failed to notice one of the most famously stolen paintings in the world and how a pair of world travelers lived a double life while evading capture or even suspicion.

In a way, it’s kind of romantic. At least at first. Through narration from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia alum Glenn Howerton (who also plays Jerry Alter in dramatic recreations throughout the film), we learn the couple traveled extensively, several times a year, in fact, though no one knows how they funded those sojourns. Otto and company even dig through a purported fiction collection written by Jerry Alter that indicates a shared superiority complex between the couple, as well as a profound misunderstanding about how to meaningfully engage with disparate cultures. We even get insight into why that specific de Kooning is so important, and how it went from being valued at roughly $60,000 to well over $100 million during its absence. The story likely doesn’t hurt its value.

The Thief Collector stumbles only briefly by giving in to speculative hearsay spurred by Jerry’s writing (no spoilers, but it’s kind of a letdown), but you’ve gotta feel for the surviving family members

and friends who never knew the Alters harbored such levels of deceit.

As one of the talking heads says in an interview, there are those rare thieves who steal just to have the object they so badly desire. Of course, while it’s fun to think the Alters didn’t do it for the money, they did keep the painting from the world at large— and that’s the real tragedy. Still, The Thief Collector paints a portrait of its own, one where sharing is caring and real-life people do the right thing. Museums remain imperfect, fucked up, even, but that’s a story for another day. (ADV)

Jean Cocteau Cinema, NR, 93 min.

ROBE OF GEMS

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+ OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD SOUND MIXING; UNEXPECTED FOLLOW-SHOTS POORLY EDITED; NARRATIVE TOO THIN

All too often in New Mexico, we are confronted with another brutal missing persons case. In certain swaths of Mexico, the populace would thank the old gods and the new for such few cases. And so it is, someone gone missing, that offers the scene-setter and, alas, one of the final concrete pieces of story in well-known Mexican film editor

Natalia López Gallardo’s directorial debut, Robe of Gems

We learn of this unaccounted-for after Isabel (Nailea Norvind) moves with her husband and children into a dilapidated Mexican countryside villa once occupied by her mother. We learn of little else thereafter. That’s because, in Gems, López Gallardo makes clear with the quickness that she favors mood, vibe, ambience over plot. Sure, at times it feels like the tale may drift into one focused on cartel-driven kidnapping, showing it as oddly commonplace, un-shocking. (Everyone in Gems is either cartel-employed or cartel-adjacent, and López Gallardo by no means apologizes for gang bloodlust—there’s even a devastating scene in a government office in which families are called up to bureaucrats’ desks to briefly discuss their missing loved ones, depicting the ritual almost like a trip to pick up food stamps.)

The film never goes all the way there, though, or anywhere else, for that matter. Instead, the dedicated viewer is treated to an incessant, but luxurious soundscape of cicadas, police sirens, wood-chopping and house music. It is a masterclass in mixing. And damned if López Gallardo can’t keep your eyes glued with a follow-shot or a half-tight zoom on two women’s hands and their salad plates—never faces, never eyes—as they discuss how parents invariably destroy their children.

To confess, reader, we were lost 15 minutes in, at least in terms of trying to sort the whos, the whens, the whys. But that’s likely the point, and the scene in which the Mexican town’s police chief (Eugenia Salazar) searches for her cartel-aspiring son in a landfill—only to discover a different corpse—won’t likely leave us soon.

The boy’s not there, but he’ll get his soon enough. (Jeff Proctor)

Center for Contemporary Arts, NR, 118 min.

ACTING LIKE NOTHING IS WRONG

7 + ILLUMINATING AND SENSITIVELY TOLD SOME FLUFF; TOO MUCH DANCING, WEIRDLY

You know those actors you recognize from a million little side roles and bit parts, but you never quite learn or remember their names? You see ‘em hit the screen and think, “Oh, that’s that guy!” and move on. Turns out, though, that they’re very much real people with real lives, real motivations, real problems. Who knew?

Jim Hoffmaster is definitely one of those people. With more than two-dozen credits under his belt—not to mention the recurring role of Kermit on the recently concluded Showtime series Shameless—it would seem to the untrained eye that Hoffmaster is doing pretty OK, but a new documentary from Santa Fe-based filmmaker Jane Rosemont aims to not only delve into the particulars of the man’s career, but explore how he came to be who he is. Acting Like Nothing is Wrong is a tough watch in some respects, but one that thankfully emerges to a place of sincerity and hope.

Hoffmaster’s early life was, in a word, tragic. Relinquished by his birth mother as a toddler, he journeyed through a hellish gantlet of foster homes and temporary families; and it almost always ended up the same: The foster families claimed they couldn’t care for him, and back into the system he’d go. He’d face sexual and physical abuse and a sort of nightmarish impermanence. Throughout the film, we learn he’s not even quite sure who his father was, though he does reunite with his birth mother just in time for her to die. You wouldn’t wish it on anyone, and yet, Hoffmaster seems to take it all in stride.

Of course, that’s relative—he’s still got lot of trauma to unpack and address, but if Rosemont’s film proves anything about the guy, it’s that he’s got heart and Olympic-level fortitude. Hoffmaster generously gives viewers a glimpse into his early life, into his ongoing vulnerabilities, as well as his present. Rosemont deftly interweaves a tale of mental health and family drama within a story of perseverance. Sure, it stings to see the man struggle with cleaning his spartan apartment, or to observe callbacks for roles that don’t work out. It stings worse to learn about how Hoffmaster still occasionally self-harms, or how he’s astutely aware of his aging and unusual looks. Yet, he talks about these things openly and shamelessly, and it’s cool that he’s pals with Santa Fe actor Wes Studi and chef Paddy Rawa of Raaga Go.

In the end, acting evens Hoffmaster out, it seems, and helps him feel seen—and you’ll absolutely root for him. If nothing else, Rosemont’s film might bring him some of the notoriety he so richly deserves. Even if the guy’s a weirdo, and he is indeed a weirdo, he’s a lovable one with talent to spare. (ADV)

Center For Contemporary Arts, NR, 90 min. Find a full schedule of events and screenings at santafe.film

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Robe of Gems

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “We must be willing to let go of the life we panned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” Aries mythologist Joseph Campbell said that, and now I’m passing it on to you just in time for the Sacred Surrender Phase of your astrological cycle. Make sage use of Campbell’s wisdom, Aries! You will generate good fortune for yourself as you work to release expectations that may be interfering with the arrival of new stories and adventures. Be brave, my dear, as you relinquish outdated attachments and shed defunct hopes.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Plastic bags are used for an average of 12 minutes before being discarded. Then they languish in our soil or oceans, degrading slowly as they cause mayhem for animals and ecosystems. In alignment with current cosmic rhythms, I’m encouraging you to be extra discerning in your relationship with plastic bags—as well as with all other unproductive, impractical, wasteful things and people. In the coming weeks, you will thrive by focusing on what will serve you with high integrity for a long time.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Achilleas Frangakis is a professor of electron microscopy. He studies the biochemistry of cells. In one of his research projects, he investigated how cells interact with the outside world. He didn’t learn much about that question, but as he experimented, he inadvertently uncovered fascinating new information about another subject: how cells interact with each other when they heal a wound. His “successful failure” was an example of what scientists sometimes do: They miss what they looked for, but find unexpected data and make serendipitous discoveries. I suspect you will experience comparable luck sometime soon, Gemini. Be alert for goodies you weren’t in quest of.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Renowned Brazilian novelist Osman Lins was born under the sign of Cancer the Crab. He wrote, “I will now live my life with the inventiveness of an engineer who drives his locomotive off the tracks. No more beaten paths: improvisation is the rule.” In the coming weeks, I am all in favor of you, my fellow Cancerian, being an inventive adventurer who improvises liberally and departs from well-worn routes. However, I don’t recommend you do the equivalent of running your train off the tracks. Let’s instead imagine you as piloting a four-wheel-drive, all-terrain vehicle. Go offroad to explore. Improvise enthusiastically as you reconnoiter the unknown. But do so with scrupulous attention to what’s healthy and inspiring.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In recent years, art historians have recovered numerous masterpieces that had been missing for years. They include a sculpture by Bernini, a sketch by Picasso, a drawing by Albrecht Dürer, and a painting by Titian. I’m a big fan of efforts like these: searching for and finding lost treasures. And I think you should make that a fun project in the coming weeks. Are there any beautiful creations that have been lost or forgotten? Useful resources that have been neglected? Wild truths that have been buried or underestimated? In accordance with astrological potentials, I hope you will explore such possibilities.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The most important experience for you to seek in the coming months is to be seen and respected for who you really are. Who are the allies best able to give you that blessing? Make vigorous efforts to keep them close and treat them well. To inspire your mission, I offer you three quotes. 1. Franz Kafka said, “All the love in the world is useless if there is a total lack of understanding.” 2. Anais Nin wrote, “I don’t want worship. I want understanding.” 3. George Orwell: “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libra poet Wallace Stevens said that the great poems of heaven and hell have already been written, and now it is time to generate the

great poems of earth. I’d love to invite all Libras, including non-writers, to apply that perspective in their own sphere. Just forget about heaven and hell for now. Turn your attention away from perfection and fantasylands and lofty heights. Disregard pathologies and muck and misery. Instead, explore and celebrate the precious mysteries of the world as it is. Be a connoisseur of the beauty and small miracles embedded in life’s little details. Find glory in the routine.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Here are two top Scorpio pastimes: 1. exploring and deploying your intense, fertile creativity; 2. spiraling gleefully down into deep dark voids in pursuit of deep dark riches. Sometimes those two hobbies dovetail quite well; you can satisfy both pursuits simultaneously. One of my favorite variations on this scenario is when the deep dark void you leap into turns out to actually be a lush wonderland that stimulates your intense, fertile creativity. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, that’s likely to happen soon.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I don’t want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.” Sagittarian filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow said that. With the help of this attitude, she became the first woman ever to win an Academy Award for Best Director. Her film was The Hurt Locker, about American soldiers in Iraq who dispose of unexploded bombs while being harassed by enemies. Anyway, Bigelow’s approach is usually too hard-ass for me. I’m a sensitive Cancer the Crab, not a bold Sagittarius the Centaur like Bigelow and you. But I don’t want to assume you’re in the mood for her approach. If you are, though, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to deploy it. Some marvelous epiphanies and healing changes will be available if you forswear stuff that makes you pacified or comfortable.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Author Jan Richardson tells us we can’t return home by taking the same route we used when we departed. This will be wise advice for you to keep in mind during the next nine months. I expect you will be attempting at least two kinds of homecomings. For best results, plan to travel by different routes than those that might seem natural and obvious. The most direct path—the successful passage— may be circuitous.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In the coming days, maintain strict boundaries between yourself and anyone or anything that’s not healthy for you. Be ultra-discerning as you decide which influences you will allow to affect you and which you won’t. And rather than getting sour and tense as you do this, I recommend you proceed with wicked humor and sly irony. Here are three saucy self-protective statements you can use to ward off threats and remain inviolable. 1. “The current ambiance does not align sweetly with my vital soul energy; I must go track down some more harmonious karma.” 2. “This atmosphere is out of sync with my deep precious selfness; I am compelled to take my deep precious selfness elsewhere.” 3. “The undertones here are agitating my undercurrents; it behooves me to track down groovier overtones.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): While asleep, have you ever dreamt of discovering new rooms in a house or other building you know well? I bet you will have at least one such dream soon. What does it mean? It suggests you want and need to get in touch with parts of yourself that have been dormant or unavailable. You may uncover evocative secrets about your past and present that had been unknown to you. You will learn about new resources you can access and provocative possibilities you had never imagined.

Homework: What do you pretty well that you could ulti mately learn to do with brilliance and mastery? Newsletter. FreeWillAstrology.com

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