Santa Cruz County residents have been discovering and savoring performances at the Benderly-Kendall Opera House in Patagonia since it opened in 2016, and young musicians have found it to be a great place to showcase their musical abilities. Daniel Karger-Penalosa performed at the Opera House on March 1, 2020, as part of the U of […]
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Making Your Own Stage – As a Teenage Playwright
Emma Young (left) and Liam Young (right) pose like statues in a museum as Chesed Chap talks to the audience during the show, “A Catcher in the Rye: A Gluten Free Tale” on March 6, 2020. Photo by Rocky Baier Patagonia’s Tin Shed Theater is an intimate space with no stage, black foam squares covering […]
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Murder and Mayhem Make for a Good Read
Local author Bob Kimball has spun a good tale in “News to Die For.” It’s a mystery, a love story, and perhaps most of all, a window into the newspaper business. The Lafferty family owns and manages The Tucson Independent, a daily paper with a proud history and a fragile present. The heroic protagonist, publisher […]
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KPUP Airs SCFPA Concerts
Given the current limitations on gathering, the Santa Cruz Foundation for the Performing Arts hopes to help the community feel less isolated by partnering with KPUP to broadcast a new classical music program every Sunday evening at 5 p.m. for the foreseeable future. The series features performers who have played at the Benderly-Kendall Opera House […]
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Distancing – a poem by Patra Kelly
If the Psyche has no known boundaries, then in times of crisis and duress, threat of deadly disease with the need of more s p a c e b e t w e e n— the Mind must move a w a y, sometimes outrun thoughts everywhere erupting, mutating and seizing facts fading and reshaping— […]
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The Power to Move Stones – a poem by Juanita Havill
The wash after the storm Soggy Runnels, ruts, and caves Where the bubbly brown Instant river ran The smell of mud and death A thousand corpses Washing to lower ground Butterflies, grasshoppers, wasps Bees, horse flies, spiders Stones rearranged in new patterns Like dead butterflies in the wind Stones large and stable landmarks Disappeared Beneath […]
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SCFPA’s New Show on KPUP 100.5
Santa Cruz Foundation for Performing Arts and KPUP 100.5 Present New Classical Hour on Sundays at 5. Evan Kory and Christina Wilhelm. Contributed Photo Given the current limitations on gathering, the Santa Cruz Foundation for the Performing Arts hopes to help the community feel less isolated by partnering with KPUP to broadcast a new Classical […]
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Musicians Bernice Pomeroy and Sonia Johnson Retire
From left: Sonya Johnson and Bernice Pomeroy after their last performance at the Patagonia Methodist Church . Bernice Pomeroy, organist and accompanist at the Patagonia Community Methodist Church since 1984, retired at the end of February. Sonia Johnson, pianist at the Church since 2001, also resigned at the end of February. They practiced together every week, […]
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‘Leaving Home’ Exhibit Feature s Art by Young Asylum Seekers
A five-year-old Guatemalan child drew this picture of a bloody gunfight, depicting the conditions from which his family had fled. Photo by Chuck Klingenstein COVID19 concerns curtailed some of the activities of the Hope and Healing series focused on seeing migration through the eyes of children. Others went forward, including a short run of the […]
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Lost Lives Memorialized by Tucson Artist
This roadside cross in Elgin is one of more than 600 crosses that Alvaro Enciso has erected in Southern AZ. Photo by Pat McNamara Five crosses that have recently appeared on both sides of Hwy 82 two miles east of Sonoita and one cross on the east side of Upper Elgin Rd have a story to tell. […]