Event Type : Adult Programs

Join Taos Housing Partnership to learn about “Housing Economics 101: Why housing is so expensive and what we can do about it” with Carlos Gemora, Senior Planner with Sites Southwest.  Taos Housing Partnership will also premiere a short film series titled “Why Housing Matters,” produced in collaboration with True Kids 1 and featuring the Taos community.

Free. RSVP encouraged.

This event is supported in part by the LOR Foundation.

Author of the celebrated biography Aldo Leopold, His LIfe and Work, Curt Meine, presents a contemporary view of the book many consider the foundational text undergirding our ambition to live on land without destroying it, and ourselves. Learn why the Almanac continues to entertain, warn, and lead us toward a tomorrow filled with the “natural, wild, and free.”

This event is FREE and open to the public.

Doors at 2:45 pm.

Sponsored by the Friends of Mi Casita and their non-profit fund at the Taos Community Foundation for support of the U.S. Forest Service educational mission at the historic Aldo and Estella Leopold house in Tres Piedras.

A new book in honor of the Almanac’s 75th anniversary and Friends of Mi Casita, A New Mexico Land Ethic Handbook, will be presented at the SOMOS Salon Friday Oct 25 4:00-5:30 by the authors Richard Rubin, Andrew Gulliford, and Leeanna Torres.

Taos Jazz Bebop Society & the Harwood Museum of Art present

The 2024 Frank Morgan Taos Jazz Festival 

Tadataka Unno is one of Japan’s most acclaimed jazz pianists. From early childhood and into his twenties, he focused on the piano, and the roots and culture of jazz. Eventually he landed in NY City and his jazz future exploded. Quickly embraced by the jazz community, he met and was mentored by George Cables. His path to international prominence was furthered by a second mentor, piano legend Hank Jones. Soon after, he joined the famed Jimmy Cobb Quartet and performed, recorded and toured the world with the master drummer. That led to associations with more great names in jazz including trumpeter Roy Hargrove, with whom he worked for the last two years of Mr. Hargrove’s life.

Then a terrible thing happened. Early in the pandemic shutdown, when Asian hate crimes were on the rise, Unno was brutally attacked by a group of eight teenagers in a NY city subway station. He almost lost his life. Physically and emotionally broken, and fearing for the future, he took his wife and newborn son back to Japan. Back at home and gradually feeling stronger, he recorded “Get My Mojo Back” to critical acclaim. Finally in 2023, thanks to music colleagues George Cables, Doug Lawrence and Jerome Jennings, Tada performed with the Taos Festival Allstars in last year’s Taos Jazz Festival. The music was joyful and life affirming. Now Tadataka Unno returns to the US– direct to Taos– for the 2024 Taos Jazz Fest. He’s still on his journey back, as he says, “I keep fighting for love…with music.”

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Bring the family out for this beloved holiday tradition!

Harwood Museum and our Ledoux Street neighbors invite you to kick off the holiday season with our annual Winter celebration Lighting Ledoux. Enjoy bonfires and farolitos, performances up and down this historic street, free museum admission, holiday art making, an open-air art market and lots of festive cheer.

Brought to you by Harwood Museum of Art and our neighbors Omni Hum, Barro Vino, The Valley, Blumenschein Home & Museum, Stella’s Italian Restaurant, Inger Jirby Gallery and Guest Houses.

Detailed to schedule to come.