What can we do as a community to make education accessible and effective for everyone? Students at the Working Classroom in Albuquerque have spent the last year looking for answers to that question -- through interviews, research and discussions. The result is Solving for X , an original bilingual theater piece on stage February 16-26 at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. As part of their research, the students spoke with teachers, parents, administrators, fellow students and, according to

Heavy Metal is the story of one very difficult week in the life of Danny, a 15-year-old growing up in a Midwestern town. Author Andrew Bourelle has published 20 short stories in literary journals and anthologies, but this is his first novel. And it's the winner of the 2016 Autumn House Press Fiction Prize, offering publication to young writers Autumn House believes will become the important voices of their generation. Bourelle teaches creative writing at the University of New Mexico. He wanted

Containing 10,000 photographs covering the complete 175-year history of the art form and representing its most important artists, the photography collection is the dominant element in the art holdings of the University of New Mexico. A small portion of it is now on display in Stories From The Camera at the UNM Art Museum. The exhibit was put together by Michele M. Penhall, from 2004 to 2014 the Museum's curator of prints and photography. Her idea for the exhibit, and for the accompanying book

He was born in Albuquerque's Old Town in 1938 and passed away in January 2015, after a lifetime as a writer, historian, educator and activist. Teatro Paraguas pays tribute to the beloved New Mexico poet Tony Mares with Rio del Corazon, dramatic readings of poems selected from his books. Performances are later this month at Teatro Paraguas in Santa Fe and at Albuquerque's National Hispanic Cultural Center. Argos MacCallum, Executive Director of Teatro Paraguas, says that Mares was a pivotal

The Santa Fe Symphony will welcome a new Principal Conductor in 2017, and filling the position will be one of the best known musicians in the area. Conductor and violinist Guillermo Figueroa was for twelve seasons the popular Music Director of the now-departed New Mexico Symphony Orchestra. His new role in Santa Fe begins with a concert on January 22 at the Lensic Center. Through cooperation with local arts organizations, such as dance and theater companies, as well as fine artists, Guillermo

Saturday nights this month, Albuquerque's Indian Pueblo Cultural Center will recreate a wintertime tradition of New Mexico's pueblo communities. Visitors of all ages will gather around a bonfire outside in the Center's courtyard to hear tales from pueblo storytellers. Bettina Sandoval from the Center's Education Department has organized Stories by the Fireside . She describes how her experiences growing up at Taos Pueblo inspired the series.

Among the Spanish traditions brought north from Mexico along the Camino Real was Las Pastorelas , musical plays of the Nativity. Told from the shepherds' point of view, the plays have been performed in the New Mexico Territory since the 17th Century. One popular version, La Gran Pastorela , continues to tour local communities during the holidays. Socorro teacher Sheri Armijo has helped organize the Spanish-language production for the past nine years. She describes La Gran Pastorela as "living

In 1929, from the open cockpit of their biplane, newlyweds Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh took some of the first aerial photographs of the terrain and ruins of the Southwest. Eighty years later, another high-flying photographer, Adriel Heisey, took the exact same shots. Seventeen pairs of these magnificent photographs are on display in Oblique Views: Archaeology, Photography, and Time at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe. The exhibit's curator, archeologist Maxine McBrinn,

Twenty-four young pianists will travel to Albuquerque this month to compete against each other for prize money, concert engagements and professional recognition. The first-ever Olga Kern International Piano Competition has attracted contestants from, among other countries, China, South Korea, the Czech Republic, Brazil and Japan. One of the Americans taking part is 23-year-old Joshua Rupley , born and raised in Albuquerque. Josh now lives and studies in Germany. From his home in Wurzberg, he

The Big Room at Carlsbad Caverns in southeastern New Mexico is 4,000 feet long, 600 feet wide and, at its highest point, 255 feet high; it comprises 8 acres of natural formations and is located 750 feet beneath the surface of the earth. On November 4, and for the first time since 1933, the National Park Service will welcome the public into the Big Room for an evening of music. A string quartet from the New Mexico Philharmonic will perform works by Haydn, Grieg, Bach and Dvorak. The one-time-only