SOMOS WEEKLIES/MONTHLY

For those folks who signed up for a copy of "Bless Me, Ultima" - the books have arrived!  Please stop by the Taos Public Library to pick one up.  There will be a list at the circulation desk with your name on it.  The library is open M-F 10-5, and on Saturday 10-6.  It is closed on Sunday.

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SOMOS BOOK CLUB Update

On Tuesday, December 1^st, 2009, we will be discussing Willa Cather’s epic classic, “Death Comes for the Archbishop” from 6:30 – 8 p.m. (note new time) at the Somos office.  Here’s a brief description of her novel:

“In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico.  What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos.  American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief.  In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows – gently, although he must contend with an unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness.  Out of these events Cather gives us an indelible vision of life unfolding in a place where time itself seems suspended.”

Book Club coordinate writes, "On a personal note, the book contains some of the most beautiful descriptions of New Mexico and pueblo culture I have ever read.  Cather writes in an understated, lyrical way about the sacredness of place and the people who inhabit its landscape."

A brief bio of Willa Cather and discussion questions will be available a week prior to the meeting.

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SOMOS BOOK SALE...

SATURDAY…. December 5…... from 11-2…..Lots and lots of new titles were donated this month!
"$5 Bags of Books".... "Bundles of CHOKECHERRIES, (the SOMOS Anthology) $5."

(Located next to the Enchanted Florist, across from Smith’s Food Market…..233 b Paseo del Pueblo Sur, Taos, NM)

For more information, call 575-758-0081.

******Please note new email address: somos@somostaos.org

Visit our website at www.somostaos.org

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SUPPORT SOMOS by cleaning out your closets!

Please help SOMOS by taking

clothing, furnishings and other

items to PIECES!!!!

1024 Paseo del Pueblo Sur

SOMOS' account is SO5
737-0500

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SOMOS USED BOOK SALE!!
Every weekday from 10-1
10 mass market books for $1!!!

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SOMOS Valentine Jewelry Fundraiser! Thanks to the wonderful efforts of volunteer coordinator Donna LeFurgey, SOMOS is planning a very fun FUNdraiser for February that will involve chocolate and jewelry, romance, and lots more. In the meantime, we need your 'oldies but goodies' jewelry!! Just bring it by the office weekdays between 10-1 or by appointment.
Please contact SOMOS by email somos@somostaos.org or by phone at 758-0081.  Donations are tax-deductible!!

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My Land is Me, held

over at the RANE Gallery

On December 2nd, 7pm, at the RANE Gallery, poet Veronica Golos will read from The Veil Poems, along with new poems from her upcoming book, Vocabulary of Silence, to be published by Red Hen Press. Music will be provided by Don Conoscenti.

The poems are part of the collaborative installation, My Land is Me: Four Artists Explore the Veil. This exciting and provocative exhibit is being held over through December 7th.  A book of the exhibit will also be available for purchase.

The reading on December 2nd is at 214 Ledoux Street.  Doors will open at 6:30, reading begins at 7pm.  Seating is limited and reservations are suggested.  Phone 575-758-0000.  Discussion and Q & A with all four artists will follow the reading. A five-dollar donation is suggested.

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Corn, Mud & Spiders

An Interactive, Literature in the Round,

Blessed and Blessing Event With

The First Gathering in a Series of Four

Join Pat McCabe

Navajo Poet

Artist, Activist, Joyous Co-Creator

For a half-day event at the beautiful and legendary

New Buffalo Center, Arroyo Hondo

Saturday, December 5th

10AM to 2PM

A unique gathering, blessing & literary frolic

The Global Youth Medicine Wheel of Mexico

Includes 20 minute personal consultation to be scheduled

Suggested Donation $35 - $50 to benefit work with

The Global Youth Medicine Wheel of Mexico

Includes 20 minute personal consultation to be scheduled

For Reservations and Information call

Stand in the Light Studio at 575-737-0482 or

email: smilingroq@yahoo.com Subject: CMS

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HAIKU SUBMISSIONS WANTED

Anyone interested in writing haiku about any aspect of Taos, and willing to let it be posted online, please email to janet@taoswebb.com or, if you have a Twitter account, submit at http://twitter.com/taoshaiku

These haiku will be part of a new website, TaosSacredPlaces.com, that will launch later this week. The site will be part of the town’s new marketing campaign.

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HOUSESIT OR ?
A very responsible writer/ professor and her partner,  are looking for a housesit/sublet or whatever situation for the weeks around December 13-27. They are coming here to write and want to hermit here for a bit. Email the SOMOS office if you know of something.

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THIS PROJECT IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY NEW MEXICO ARTS, A DIVISION OF THE DEPARTMENT  OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS, AND THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS, MAG DIMOND, THE VIRGINIA WELLINGTON CABOT FOUNDATION, THE PETER & MADELEINE MARTIN FOUNDATION FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS, HEALY FOUNDATION and the TAOS COUNTY LODGERS TAX.

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233 B Paseo del Pueblo Sur       P O Box 3225, Taos NM 87571
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