10 a.m. Tuesday, October 6 and October 13 at Sky Midtown
The history of jazz can be understood by listening to how musicians have played their instruments over the years. Listeners can appreciate different jazz styles—swing, bop, hard bop, cool, and modal—by listening to the great tenor improvisers.
10 a.m. Wednesday, October 7 at Sky Midtown
The fall migration is underway, and our feathered friends are heading south for the winter. Why do they migrate and what can we do in our own backyards to help them? What birds might you see now and in the coming months in Santa Fe?
10 a.m. Thursday, October 8 at Sky Midtown
The “Guy in the Groove” Dick Rosemont takes us on a trip down memory lane as we review the evolution of 1960s rock music. We’ll see (and hear) how it evolved musically, culturally, and commercially from pre-Beatles pop to “acid rock” later in the decade.
2 p.m. on Tuesday, October 13 at St. John’s United Methodist Church, 1200 Old Pecos Trail
Randy Perazzini leads a monthly discussion focusing on short fiction by one of the great writers from Russia’s Golden Age, setting the stage with a brief description of the historical and biographical contexts. Alexander Pushkin
2 p.m. on Thursday, October 15, 22, and 29 at St. John’s United Methodist Church, 1200 Old Pecos Trail (3 sessions)
“Is man no more than this?” In separate plays and different scenarios, Lear and Antigone reveal their tragic vision by essentially asking this question.
2 p.m. Tuesday, October 20 and 27 and November 3 and 10 at St. John’s United Methodist Church, 1200 Old Pecos Trail (4 sessions)
Frost was a New England poet whose works transcended regionalism. For Frost, nature is “dark and deep,” and humans may not be able to illuminate those depths.
10 a.m. Thursday, October 22 at Sky Midtown
I’m No Angel is widely considered Mae West’s best film. She plays a lion tamer and also tames every male admirer she meets, which is a lot, until she falls for Cary Grant.
10 a.m. Friday, October 23 and 30 at Sky Midtown
Orphaned at the age of 10, mother of 6, betrayed by her husband FDR’s affair with her secretary, Eleanor went on to become one of the most active first ladies in history.
10 a.m. Tuesday, October 29 at Sky Midtown
The current El Niño—warming of waters in the Pacific Ocean—threatens to bring global temperatures to new record levels and create extreme weather events such as flooding and drought.
10 a.m. Wednesday, November 4 at Sky Midtown
What if the women closest to Elizabeth I were among the most powerful people in England? History casts the queen’s ladies-in-waiting as decorative attendants—beautiful, passive, peripheral.