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In This Issue
Executive Director, Brian Shields
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Upcoming Events
March 18
Amigos Bravos
"Water Matters"
Lecture
"Plastic Ocean: An Interactive Installation"
Lee Lee
5:30pm, Tuesday
Santa Fe Community Foundation
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March 18
WIPP Information
Meeting
Dan Hancock, Rey Garu�o, and Lucille Cordova
5:30-7:30pm
Southwest Organizing Project Office
10th & Gold, SW
Albuquerque
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March 19
U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board
Public Meeting
DOE Research & Development activities related to salt as geologic medium for disposal of spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste
8:00am
Public Comment
4:45pm
Marriott Hotel
2101 Louisiana Blvd, NE
Albuquerque
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March 26
Taos Health Council Meeting
1:30-3:30pm
Don Fernando Hotel
Taos
contact: Kyra Ryan
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March 27
WIPP Information
Meeting
Dan Hancock, Rey Garu�o, and Lucille Cordova
6-8pm
Albuquerque Peace & Justic Center
202 Harvard, SE
Albuquerque
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March 29
21st Annual
C�sar Ch�vez Day Celebration
10:30
March for Justice
National Hispanic Cultural Center
Community Festival
12noon-3pm
food, live art, speakers, kid's corner, free concert
by Baracutanga, Mala M�na,
and Reviva!
Day of Service and Learning
La Pazita Gardens/Sanchez Farm
South Valley
Albuquerque
March 31
WIPP Information
Meeting
Dan Hancock, Scott Kovac
5:30-7pm
Santa Fe Community Foundation
corner of Paseo de Peralta and Halona Street
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Linda Gomez, Amigos Bravos, Volunteer & Member
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Are you a member
of Amigos Bravos?
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The Southwest Rural Policy Network
is comprised
of fourteen organizations from Arizona,
New Mexico and Colorado, each working on
a variety of social issues that affect the people
and communities of the rural Southwest.
Amigos Bravos has been a member
of the Network for 5 years.
To learn more, please visit;
southwestruralpolicynetwork.org
We value your feedback
regarding all aspects of our work!
Would you like to support
the preservation of the cultural
and
ecological richness
of New Mexico's waters?
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Join our efforts today
by becoming a member
or making a contribution
toAmigos Bravos at
shop.amigosbravos.org
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and help grow the community
that truly cares about water!
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DEAR FRIENDS OF NM'S WATERS ~
The Amigos Bravos March "Water Matters" Lecture is scheduled for this Tuesday, March 18, at 5:30pm at the Santa Fe Community Foundation and will feature visual artist, Lee Lee, making a presentation on "Plastic Ocean: An Interactive Installation."
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Three long-time members of Amigos Bravos are hosting an information session on Legacy Giving this Friday evening, March 21st, at 5pm, in Taos. Anyone who is interested in knowing more about how to leave a gift of any amount to Amigos Bravos, in their will or estate plan, is welcome to attend. There will be no pressure to sign on -- this is strictly an information session set up by three people who have been through the process and would like to make that option easier to understand for others. Bring your curiosity! For more information, call Brian Shields at 575-758-3874.
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Southwest Research and Information Center, Citizens for Alternatives to Radioactive Dumping, and Nuclear Watch New Mexico are sponsoring 3
Public Information Meetings in Albuquerque and Santa Fe about the recent fire and plutonium release at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). Public input into the decision-making process is essential, now. Updated information about the accidents and proposals to expand WIPP's mission will be presented. See side bar for meeting dates and places.
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The Amigos Bravos Beautiful Midden project has been selected as a Finalist for the ArtPlace America Innovative Grant Award! To learn more,
STUDENTS FROM VISTA GRANDE HIGH SCHOOL PRESENT POEMS & ARTWORK INSPIRED BY BEAUTIFUL MIDDEN
Students from Vista Grande High School, in Taos, will present poems and artwork inspired by the Amigos Bravos Beautiful Midden project and student learning about the effect of trash and toxins on the local environment. A presentation by the students to County Commissioner, Gabe Romero, will be made on Tuesday, March 18, at 9am. Romero is part of a unified effort to address trash in Taos County. This is just one of a number of events being initiated by the Amigos Bravos
Beautiful Midden project in the coming months -- events meant to offer solutions through civil discourse and the art making process. For more information, contact Scott Moore: 575-613-2557.
AMIGOS BRAVOS MARCH "WATER MATTERS" LECTURE: ARTIST LEE LEE
PLASTIC OCEAN: AN INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION
On the evening of Tuesday, March 18, at 5:30pm, at the Santa Fe Community Foundation, the Amigos Bravos "Water Matters" lecture will feature visual artist, Lee Lee, making a presentation on "Plastic Ocean: An Interactive Installation." The "Water Matters" Lectures are held on the third Tuesday of every month at 5:30pm, are free to our members and the public, and feature some of the most knowledgeable and dynamic speakers in the region, including writers, scientists, poets, environmental activists, and scholars.
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Lee Lee attained her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and has since spent time making art and exhibiting in over 40 countries. These experiences have led her to develop a wide range of painting styles in response to the diverse conditions of our world. Her work is informed by several movements through art history, from the feminist expressionist drawings of Kathe Kollwitz to the actions of the 1970s, which embraced processes using shotgun or fire. Strong environmental themes have entered into Lee Lee's repertoire in recognition that social and political stress is driven by scarcity of resources.
Lee Lee will speak on Tuesday about "Plastic Ocean," an interactive installation, which is being created as a response to the problems presented by single-use plastic. The work reflects the literal problem of plastic in the ocean, while offering a symbolic representation of the chemical body burdens carried by wildlife and humans alike. In presenting these issues, we are asked to consider misplaced notions of "disposability" and to question consumer driven waste, which has devalued what, Lee Lees explains, "is in fact a very important material." This presentation will cover the ecological and health issues surrounding single-use plastics, drawing connections from the ocean through inland waterways and up into our high desert ecologies, in order to demonstrate how New Mexico communities are tied to the issue. It will also serve as an introduction to the international arts collaboration currently unfolding in regard to plastic.
The lecture will open with a short reading from "Elegy for the BabyAlbatross of MidwayAtoll, " a collage poem assembled and performed by Sawnie Morris, winner of the Poetry Society of America's George Bogin Memorial Award (2010) and co-winner of the New Mexico Book Award (2007).
Morris was the founding executive director of Amigos Bravos and is currently Curator of Art & Activism for the organization.
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To catch up on previous lectures or gain a preview of upcoming ones, tune in to the fabulous Mary-Charlotte Domandi's Santa Fe Radio Cafe, every weekday morning from 8:05am to 9am, on KSFR radio, 101.1FM - or google Santa Fe Radio Cafe and type the name of the lecturer,
whose interview you wish to hear, into the search box.
The Santa Fe Community Foundation is located between Old Santa Fe Trail and Acequia Madre, at the corner of Paseo de Peralta and Halona. For more information, call 575-758-3874.
SELECTED FINALIST FOR ARTPLACE AMERICA AWARD
ArtPlace America has chosen Amigos Bravos'
Beautiful Midden as a finalist for a 2014 ArtPlace America Innovative Grant Award. In it's announcement, ArtPlace America states:
Beautiful Midden is an artist-driven initiative that will transform the community of Taos through the creation and experience of art that confronts systemic societal issues that underlie environmental degradation in Northern New Mexico, activating stewardship for place, and providing a model for other arts-based environmental-restoration projects.
ArtPlace America is a collaboration among 14 foundations, 8 federal agencies, and 6 financial institutions dedicated to strengthening the field of creative platemaking. Beautiful Midden is one of 97 finalists out of 1,270 applicants.
Scott Moore, Lead Artist for the
Beautiful Midden project, states: "Beautiful Midden is using art to expose pertinent questions and bring light to divisive issues by shifting perspectives. Engaging the community in dialogue and sharing in imaginative acts that honor human culture and wilderness is inspiring creative empowerment, with trickle down effects for the community's emotional and economic
health."
AMIGOS BRAVOS IS CELEBRATING
26 YEARS OF PROTECTING & RESTORING NEW MEXICO'S WATERS
Please celebrate with us and help to make sure Amigos Bravos remains strong for the
DONATE NOW!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ENTHUSIASTIC SUPPORT OF AMIGOS BRAVOS AND NEW MEXICO'S RIVERS & WATERWAYS!!!
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