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2008 - Hudson Vagabond Puppets
February 7, 2008

"Jemina Puddle-Duck" is a delightful "puppet ballet" featuring the stories of Jemina Puddle-Duck and Fierce Bad Rabbit with the dancing characters wearing full body costumes and masks.
2008 - Ailey II Masterclass
January 29, 2008

2007-08
2005-06

THEATRE

  • GLBT Comedy Night. Vickie Shaw and Ron Romanovsky, hilarious evening of gay and lesbian comedy for all. November 10, 2007.

EDUCATIONAL / YOUTH PROGRAMS

  • Children's Art Show at the Stables Gallery, Spring 2008. Date TBA.
  • Missoula Children's Theatre musical show - July 2008.
  • Madcap Variety Show, vaudeville performers combine for an action-packed show of hilarity, dexterity and live music. Feb. 28, 2008.
  • Hudson Vagabond Puppets "Jemina Puddle-Duck". Puppet ballet featuring the stories of Jemina Puddle Duck and Fierce Bad Rabbit. Feb. 7, 2008.
  • Theatreworks/USA - Henry and Mudge, a musical based on the best-selling series of books by Cynthia Rylant. April 7, 2008.

MUSIC

  • Buille with Karen Casey, Evening of the best of Irish music. May 3, 2008
  • Ricardo Lemvo and Makina Loca - Latin and African innovative music. Oct. 11, 2007.

DANCE

  • Ailey II Dance theatre. January 29, 2008.

FILM

  • Movies at the TCA film series - political documentaries, indie-arthouse dramas, outdoor action flicks, and family films

COMMUNITY EVENTS

ART

  • Quick draw, local artists have three hours to create pieces for live auction. Benefit for TCA. Silent auction also. September 23, 2007.

THEATRE

  • Golden Dragon Acrobats of China, acrobatics, traditional dance, spectacular costumes, and ancient and contemporary theatrical techniques

EDUCATIONAL / YOUTH PROGRAMS

  • Celebrando Art Show at the Stables Gallery
  • Children's Art Show at the Stables Gallery
  • Missoula Children's Theatre - musical show
  • Viver Brasil Dance Company lecture demonstration at the Taos High School
  • Hudson Vagabond Puppets "Under the Seas with Silly Jellyfish" for Taos County school students and evening performance for the general public.
  • Theatreworks/USA - two perforamnces of "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie & Other Stories," for Taos elementary students.

MUSIC

  • The Guthrie Family Legacy Tour, multi-media concert with Arlo Guthrie and family
  • Dervish, tradional Irish music group.

DANCE

  • Viver Brasil Dance Company, Afro-Brazilian dance

FILM

  • Movies at the TCA film series - political documentaries, indie-arthouse dramas, outdoor action flicks, and family films

ART

  • Quick draw, local artists have three hours to create pieces for live auction. Benefit for TCA. Silent auction also.


Slide show - Scenes from the 2007 TCA Benefit Awards Party

Photos by Paula Valentine

2002 - 2003
2003 - 04

THEATRE

  • The Vagina Monologues
  • Beckett Cabaret

EDUCATIONAL / YOUTH PROGRAMS

  • Taos Day School film screening: "The Santa Clause 2"
  • Taos High School Drama Department Presents "Dark of the Moon"
  • TCA and Theatreworks/USA Present "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"
  • Taos High School Choir Concert
  • Taos Middle School film screening: "Off the Map"

MUSIC

  • Rehearsal for Robert Mirabal's Road Tour: "Music From a Painted Cave"
  • Celebration of Trees with Julia Butterfly-Hill and Jenny Bird
  • Solas
  • Robert Mirabal and the Rare Tribal Mob Benefit for Rulan Tangen
  • Rehearsal for Michael Martin Murphy's Road Tour
  • Taos Chamber Music Group Presents "Bach to Bach"
  • Taos Community Orchestra and Chorus Presents the Messiah Singalong and Winter Concerts
  • Robert Mirabal Solo Presents "Mira-Rhythms"
  • Living Legends
  • Eileen Meyer in Concert
  • Lisanne Presents "In Full Bloom"
  • Latif Bolat
  • Bonnie Prince Billy

FILM

  • Taos Productions, LLC film screening: "Challenger: An Exploration in Art and Spirit" by Taos Pueblo Filmmaker James Lujan
  • Taos Productions, LLC film screening: "High Strange New Mexico" by Taos Pueblo Filmmaker James Lujan
  • Taos Mountain Film Festival 2002
  • Taos Filmmaker's Initiative Student Film Screenings
  • Kiawanis Club Benefit: Film Screening of "The Milagro Beanfiled War"
  • Taos Talking Pictures Film Festival 2003
  • Filmmaker's Special Screening: "Off the Map"

COMMUNITY EVENTS

  • Taos Talking Pictures/Taos Center for the Arts Free Membership Movie Night
  • One Year Later...Taos Remembers September 11
  • SOMOS Presents the 2002
  • Taos Storytelling Festival
  • SOMOS Speaker Greg Palast
  • County Commission Candidate Forum
  • The Force of Peace in Action: Video of Congressman Dennis Kucinich on Creating a U.S. Department of Peace
  • Lecture by Justice Franchini
  • Benefit for Northern New Mexico Pueblos: "The Vagina Monolouges"
  • YouthBuild Benefit

DANCE

  • Flamenco Entre Famililia
  • Bill Evans Dance Company Presents "Remembering"
  • Khecari Dance Theatre Presents: "Lorca"
  • Yjastros American Flamenco Company

Action Coalition of Taos, Rocky Mountain Youthcorps, University of New Mexico

Ray McGovern Honoring MLK, Courtney Johnson

Scott Ritter, Summer Camp Film Screening, World Poetry Bout Association

Becky Whiteman, Debate with Town of Taos, NMHS Invitational Poetry Slam

Speaker Juan Melendez, Santa Fe Opera

Bill Evans Dance Company, SF Opera Apprentice Singer Tour, Movies at the TCA

Thirty, Sheva Café, Country Day School, Yair Dalal Ensemble,

Robert Mirabal, SMU Fort Burgwin, Creede Reperatory Theatre, Il Palpitu Chamber Orchestra

Pan and Boone, Sustain Taos, Ellie Blair, Kenny Ausubel Lecture, Dervish Sylvia Lazo

Flamenco Nuevo Mexico, Brazilian Music, Genevieve Robinson Taos Community Orch. and Chorus

Genevieve for President, Jack Leustig Imaging, Tales of the Super G-Men,

Taos Day School, Jillana Ballet, Justine Moore, Taos Film Festival of the Arts,

Karla Eoff Film: Weather Underground,

David Phillips and Freedance, Taos High School Choir, khecari dance theatre,

Taos High School Drama Department, Immanuel THS Tech Class

Nexus, THS Drama Skits, Kids Unleashed, Hamlet, Cha, cha, cha!, Latif Bolat,

Taos High School Mariachi, Maggie Wolf, Taos High School Pathways Program,

Rock N' Roll Soiree, THS Medley, MC Productions, Taos Institute of Arts,

Somei Yoshino Taiko Ensemble, Flook, Billy Collins, Celebrate the Stars,

MC Productions, Taos Middle School, Wallowich and Ross/Photo Exhibition,

Fan Man Productions, Golden Dragon Acrobats, Arlo Guthrie, Taos Mountain Film Festival,

Natalie MacMaster, Taos School of Music, What's Funny About Climate Change?,

Music from Angel Fire, Taos Storytelling Festival,

One Horse Productions, Taos Vision Quest Int. Film Fest., Missoula Children's Theatre,

The Shape of Things Film, Opera Tazza, The Old Taos Players, King Tut, Ramona Quimby

Hansel and Gretel, Ooma's Ladder, Peace Action New Mexico, The Taos Picture Show,

Dancing on Common Ground, Thunder Mesa Taiko, Poor as Sin, Wadiko Tokara Taiko,

Living Treasures, Adagio for Strays, Tierra Lucero, Readymade Dance Theatre Co., Rahim Al Haj, Blood

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