WomenFest will feature visual art and dwell new music

SOCORRO – Socorro is identified for its scientific analysis and for the Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge and its superb birding possibilities.

But the county also is residence to an remarkable quantity of artists, both visual and musical (not to mention the great Doing Arts Series run through the college.)

NM Tech’s Women’s Month is highlighting some of that now, both equally in the thirty day period-prolonged art exhibit at Macey Centre and for the afternoon WomenFest on Saturday, March 26 from 1-7 p.m. outside the house Macey Middle.

A reception for the artists at the Macey Center show is slated for Friday, March 25 at 6 p.m., prior to the PAS concert. The art exhibit,  open up for viewing all thirty day period for the duration of normal organization hours, capabilities some well-identified artists like Skeeter Leard and Sharon Fullingim, some experienced artists who have lately moved to the location and some rising artists, some from the PAS-sponsored paint parties, as perfectly as some well-recognized Socorroans whom a single doesn’t commonly feel of as artistically inclined.

The no cost Saturday afternoon party will element a assortment of arts and crafts. Go to a demonstration on the south lawn:1 p.m, Yoga with Marisa Wolfe 2 p.m. Self-Defense with Dug Corpolongo, NMTech Tai Chi Teacher 3 p.m., Yoga and Power Tactics with Melissa Begay, NMT Recreation director. Or find out mandala painting with Nicole in the Macey Center lobby at 1:30 or 3 p.m.

In the upper foyer, short demonstrations on a variety of topics will be performed including theater online games with Theresa Apodaca, NM Tech’s theater professor, 1 p.m. “Freeing the Writer Within…Fast Writing” with Karin Williams, 2:30 p.m. (carry paper and pencil or pen) and  Purposeful Journey with Vannettta Perry, licensed vacation director, 3:30 p.m. For a full timetable, check out the PAS web site: nmt.edu/pas.

A huge selection of “inspiration stations,” distributors and exhibitors will be outside the house, north of Macey Centre all afternoon including Socorro Typical Medical center, the NM Division of Health, NRAO, NM Tech Females in STEM, Favourable Outcomes, Town of Socorro and SCOPE.

Even though viewing demonstrations and displays, individuals will be entertained by neighborhood musicians such as Julie Ford, whose working day job is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at NM Tech Shelbi Etscorn, a Socorro native who most not too long ago has been playing with Flat Be aware Culture and Terri Sunflower, previous nurse turned singer-songwriter, who will accomplish with Malcolm Moore in a duo they are calling Heartsleeve.

Also carrying out will be Crystal Gutierrez, a Socorro indigenous acknowledged to numerous in her function as information anchor with KRQE News 13 Val and Ben, a few who generate audio and explore a variety of audio genres a group contacting by themselves Colleen Gino’s Horror Chick and Lunatics, who will conduct excerpts from an first rock opera.

Also on the phase will be Socorro Large University Dance Group Aditi Natesa – NMT Stomach Dance Troupe, a Tech club led by very well-recognised stomach dance instructor Julie Johnson and Zumba with Studio Z, a new organization in the town.

The afternoon finishes with Tuesdays @ 2, a Magdalena group and the well-liked Tori Murillo Band.