What’s Better Than Listening to Live Guitar Music?
Listening with Dessert–and a Membership Discount!
Guitars and Gâteaux! The Los Alamos Arts Council invites you to join the festivities as we begin our 2008 Guitar Concert Series, Guitars and Gâteaux, at Fuller Lodge January 24, 7:00 p.m., featuring guitarist Richard Hannemann and yummy catered desserts. Admission is $15 at the door–unless you’re a member. Members, only $10.

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March  27
Benjamin Silva
Guitarist Benjamin Silva comes from a musical family. He is the grandson of the renowned cellist Luigi Silva, and a laureate of numerous guitar competitions including the MTNA, Sholin, and Stotsenberg among others.

Silva has performed for audiences across the United States and Spain. Recent appearances include concert series in New Mexico, Arizona, California, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Utah, Washington, D.C., and Santiago de Compostela.

Silva’s most influential teachers include Thomas Patterson, Michael Chapdelaine, Richard Hermann, the Indian sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, and Jose Luis Rodrigo (a former student of Andres Segovia).

He is currently on the music faculties of the Public Academy for Performing Arts, the New Mexico School of Music, and the University of New Mexico Music Prep School. Artistic quality and craftsmanship are attributes that Silva strives for in his teaching and as a result his students have garnered prizes in several contests including, most recently, the “Hey, Mozart” competition for young composers under 12 years old.

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April  24 
Albuquerque Academy Guitar Honors Quartet

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May 22   
New Mexico Guitar Duo
Jeremy Mayne & Mickey Jones

LOS ALAMOS FILM SOCIETY
Los Alamos Film Society and UNM-LA collaborate to present films with original points of view that did not receive wide theatrical distribution. Films are shown at 7:00 p.m. in the Lecture Hall at the UNM-LA Student Center. Admission is $5 ($3 with UNM-LA ID). Los Alamos Film Society is a program of the Los Alamos Arts Council.

April 17
Paris, Je T’Aime
Paris, jet’aime is about the plurality of cinema in one mythic location: Paris, the City of Love. Twenty filmmakers will bring their own personal touch, underlining the wide variety of styles, genres, encounters and the various atmospheres and lifestyles that prevail in the neighborhoods of Paris.

May 15
The Van
The third installment of Irish author Roddy Doyle’s ‘Barrytown Trilogy’ depicts the hilarious yet poignant adventures of Bimbo. Upon being fired from his job at the bakery, Bimbo an his best mate go into business for themselves and purchase a chipper (a fish and chips van); but will the pressures of financial success sour their friendship forever? Written by Dawn M. Barclift.

June 19
The Three Burials of Mequiades Estrada
As the title implies, Three Burials is a movie about death, but, more than that, it’s a movie about friendship, grace, justice, and above all redemption. Tommy Lee Jones directs and stars as Pete, a rugged Texas cowboy who’s hard up for a new hand to help him with his daily chores. Help comes in the form of Melquiades (Julio Cedillo), a Mexican alien looking for work to help support his wife and three kids. Mel promises to work hard, Pete promises not to turn him in to border patrol, and the two become intimate friends. Jones took the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for his performance, and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga (Amores Perros, 21 Grams) also won for his screenplay.

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