ShareTaos PrideHome Annual Events Page 3 Taos Pride creates community events to celebrate diversity, increase awareness, and provide a safe place to be exactly who you are! Community events for equality and self-expression: Taos Pride’s mission is to build a diverse, inclusive community through interactive events, programming, and services promoting equality and self-expression.
ShareTaos Opera InstituteHome Annual Events Page 3 TOI has been designed as a highly intensive program for the serious singer, held annually in the beautiful Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico. The Taos Opera Institute invites promising young artists, emerging professionals, and an esteemed faculty to the beautiful Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico. During the program, the students are given an entire semester’s worth of lessons in one month! Cantos de Taos Each year 4 singers are chosen to attend Taos Opera Insitute as members of the elite Cantos de Taos singers. These performers are usually alumni of the TOI program and/or are already singing professionally. This group performs solos and ensembles all over the Taos region in many diverse venues. Though they perform separately from the TOI participants, they also take part in the classes offered, the trip to Santa Fe Opera, and the Gala Finale Evening.
ShareMovies on the GreenHome Annual Events Page 3 We are excited to welcome back our families, friends, neighbors and youth to the Historic Kit Carson Park for the annual MOVIES ON THE GREEN 2023 Summer Series! This FREE family-focused event is scheduled on Wednesday nights starting June 7, 2023, through August 19, 2023. The fun-filled evening begins when the doors open at 5:00 PM and the movies start at 6:00 PM. We’ll have local food vendors, the latest and greatest family-oriented movies, and a wonderful evening enjoying great weather, good company, and a movie! You are welcome to bring a picnic and to set up your chairs and blankets to make yourself comfortable.
ShareDennis Hopper DayHome Annual Events Page 3 Taos celebrates the life and times of Hollywood’s rebel icon, Dennis Hopper, with the annual Dennis Hopper Day in Taos, New Mexico. The event includes Dennis’ Birthday Commemoration, the Rebel Film FestivaL, the Easy Rider Rally & Ride, a Buffalo BBQ, and the Village Market. Register now for the Easy Rider Rally & Motorcycle Ride at: https://www.robbyromero.com/easy-rider-ride-registration Dennis Hopper Day is an official proclamation of Taos Pueblo, the Town and County of Taos, and the State of New Mexico. Easy Rider stars Peter Fonda and director Dennis Hopper as two biker buddies — Wyatt, aka Captain America (Fonda) and Billy (Hopper) — who travel through the Southwest and South with the money they made from their last cocaine deal. Famous scenes from Hopper’s iconic counter-culture classic were shot in Taos, including Taos Pueblo, Taos Old County Jail, Stagecoach Hot Springs, and the fields of sagebrush behind the Dennis Hopper Day host hotel, the Sagebrush Inn & Suites. In the rebel spirit of Dennis Hopper, you never know what special guests will show up at Dennis Hopper Day.
ShareMother’s Day Rio Grande Whitewater RacesHome Annual Events Page 3 If you’re looking to make a splash this Mother’s Day, look no further than the Mother’s Day Rio Grande Whitewater Races! The event that brings rafters, canoers, campers and spectators together for a weekend of races, community and fun! Join us in beautiful Pilar, New Mexico!
ShareTaos Spring ArtsHome Annual Events Page 3 Artistry and inspiration are in the air during springtime in Taos! Taos Spring Arts shows off the best of Taos’ creativity with a season full of local exhibitions and events! Taos Spring Arts: celebrating art, culture and music, showing off the best of Taos’ creativity with a week of exhibitions, art shows, art walks, projections, poetry, performance art, film and music. Art Walk – Friday, April 19th, 2024, 2-6pm Take a stroll through downtown Taos and drive to local outposts for a celebration of our local creative businesses, galleries, organizations and more! Download the Art Walk map here: HISTORY The Taos Spring Arts Celebration had its inaugural year in the spring of 1984, the brainchild of Feeny (Anna Rose) Lipscomb. Feeny was the uber-energetic owner of the Historic Taos Inn at the time, envisioning a Taos full of visitors during the typically “Slow Time”, every April. Note: Feeny had zero concept of “starting slowly”, on anything. Her unwavering outlook was “go big or go home”, long before that saying took popular root. Feeny, along with her superior staff, and bevy of artist friends, created a literal whirlwind of arts-related events for the 1st Taos Spring Arts Celebration. The Taos Inn welcomed famous person after famous person, all month long. The town was alive with warmth and color. Nearly every gallery opened its doors with special openings; the streets were teeming with people from all over the world, almost all of whom had come to our little town due to Feeny’s dauntless marketing abilities.
ShareNot Forgotten Military Appreciation Ski WeekHome Annual Events Page 3 Not Forgotten Outreach (NFO) brings Military Families together from all over the US for an experience filled with fun activities on & off the Ski Mountains. Hit the slopes for a guaranteed good time with loved ones and friends surrounding you. It’s a perfect opportunity to improve relationships and at the same time enhance personal well-being. It’s family fun for everyone! Military members and families get discounts on lift tickets, rentals, lessons, hot cocoa, snacks and more! Visit the website link below to learn more about other discounts offered during the week.
ShareTaos Winter Wine FestivalHome Annual Events Page 3 A multi-day celebration of food and wine. Every year in Taos visitors and locals alike savor the ability to combine world class skiing with fine wines and great cuisine. The event includes seminars, wine tastings, wine dinners hosted by vintners paired with Taos chefs. At a Reserve Tasting a dozen of Taos’ best restaurants serve signature appetizers alongside tastes of reserve wines from the owners of the 40 participating wineries. This year’s Reserve Tasting will be held at Sagebrush Inn in Taos. A silent auction adds to the fun. Plus don’t forget the Grand Tasting. This grand event will feature more than 150 different wines paired with tastes from a dozen of Taos and Taos Ski Valley’s finest restaurants. The Grand Tasting will be held as the Taos Ski Valley Resort Center.
ShareThe PASEOHome Annual Events Page 3 Transforming community with art and art with community Local and national artists will come together in Taos this fall to participate in The PASEO 2023 festival on September 15 and 17. The festival will feature works, ranging from low-tech to new media, united by their active engagement with the public and with place, whether projecting on Taos’s adobe walls or lighting up Kit Carson Park. The Paseo Project’s mission is to transform art through community and community through art. In addition to The Paseo Project’s annual outdoor art festival in Historic Downtown Taos, they also host several collaborative community projects each year, and a socially-engaged artist in residence program. Since 2014, artists from all over the world have brought projection, installation, and performance art to the streets of Taos for this free two-night event. A few highlighted artists from The PASEO 2022 were: Christopher Schardt, CA: ParalunaChristopher Schardt is an artist, programmer, and engineer who has turned his focus to LED art in recent years. Paraluna is a giant, spinning disc of LEDs. Live classical music is amplified through speakers on the ground while choreographed animated patterns are displayed on the disc above. The disc is held up by a boom lift, allowing the disc to be raised, lowered, and tilted, to dramatic effect. The animated display includes images from space, videos of the natural world, motifs from cultures worldwide, and dazzling computer-generated patterns. Paraluna will be presented with live music from Taos artists. Nina Lutz, AZ/MA: Ofrenda DigitalNina M. Lutz is Phoenix born computer scientist and designer. As the world rapidly changes and various instabilities threaten traditions that rely on public space, Ofrenda Digital seeks to serve as an artistic, educational, and archival piece. Originally started as a research project regarding different artistic archival methods for cultural traditions, this artwork uses dynamic projection mapping to immerse the user in Día de Muertos and imagery of its celebrations. Furthermore, the piece shows the diversity of the communities that celebrate this tradition with original media from their celebrations, along with providing the ability for users to interact with the ofrenda. EarthSeed Black Arts Alliance New Mexico: Tales Of An AfrofutureEarthseed Black Arts Alliance New Mexico focuses on centering and amplifying Black voices in Northern New Mexico as well as collaborating with Indigenous artists, artists of color, and the city’s artist community. This multimedia and multidimensional installation and performance will combine site-specific ritual action, mixed-media sculpture, film, and live DJ performance by the founding cohort of Earthseed Black Arts Alliance to create an immersive experience that spans the expanse of Black grief, celebration, healing, and transcendence. Christian Ristow, Taos NM: Face ForwardChristian Ristow is well known to Taos audiences — a beloved local artist, and a regular co-conspirator with The Paseo Project since the very first festival. His large-scale interactive sculptures are influenced by the underground robot performance-art scene in the San Francisco Bay Area, and a decade of creating special effects for the film industry in Southern California. Face Forward is a large metal representation of the front of an androgynous human face, in which each of the major fascia muscles which are responsible for conveying some fragment of the totality of a facial expression is individually controlled by one of a series of levers which are arrayed in an arc, mounted on the ground, approximately 30 feet in front of the face. Individual members of the festival-going public may operate individual levers and play their part in the orchestration of an ongoing “river” of facial expressions.