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12th Annual ARTfeast Santa Fe
A Moveable Feast of Art & Cuisine

20-22 February 2009

A weekend of fine ART, FOOD, WINE, FASHION and HOMES
benefiting ART programs for the youth of Santa Fe

Contact, Sharon Peterson, 505.603.4643, info@artfeast.com
Reproduction quality digital images available upon request.

ARTsmart is a volunteer organization that believes the visual arts are critical to a child’s development. Through charitable donations and events, ARTsmart funds art programs for Santa Fe schoolchildren. Our annual fundraiser, ARTfeast, is a community project that also promotes economic development. ARTsmart is a 501c3 nonprofit corporation that works with the Santa Fe Gallery Association.

SANTA FE, NM. On the weekend of 20-22 February 2009, Santa Fe transforms into a moveable feast that takes place in cozy galleries and glorious banquet halls throughout the city. The marriage of fine art and fine food in the 12th Annual ARTfeast Santa Fe features the City Different’s world-class chefs and restaurants, an international array of vintners, wearable art, and unique homes, along with nationally and regionally prominent artists represented by members of the Santa Fe Gallery Association.

A Great Time for a Great Cause. Participation in ARTfeast weekend does more than offer a great time. Through ARTsmart, its nonprofit volunteer organizer, proceeds from the event provide young people with the skills, materials, and scholarships needed to creatively respond to life. In 2008, ARTsmart donated $100,000 to art programs and $60,000 to endowments that perpetuate a child’s opportunity to face the world imaginatively. Since its inception in 1993, ARTsmart has donated just under $650,000 to the City’s youth.

The Best of Santa Fe. Voted Top 3 Best Food Event in 2008 by the Santa Fe Reporter, ARTfeast weekend begins on Friday at noon with a sumptuous repast complemented by wines during the Fashion Show & Luncheon. Chic apparel designed for a wide spectrum of ages, bodies, and lifestyles by local and national designers will be accessorized in this “Putting it Together” event, which also includes an auction of travel, clothing, accessories, and stained-glass jewelry boxes made by Santa Fe high schoolers.

The popular Edible Art Tour follows on Friday evening from 5 to 8 pm. This odyssey of art, food, and drink is served by the city’s restaurateurs in the artful ambience of 30 galleries. Ticketholders amble through the most “walkable” art center in the country, or hop on buses shuttling between galleries on historic Canyon Road, the vital Downtown, and the exciting new Railyard District. On Saturday and Sunday, the Art of Home Tour showcases exceptional residences enhanced by artwork supplied by Santa Fe’s gallerists and ARTsmart projects by schoolchildren. Selected by the City’s premier real estate firm, Santa Fe Properties, these grand estates and intimate in-town properties are open from noon to 4 pm and admission is free.

At 6 pm on Saturday, the elegant Gourmet Dinner & Auction recognizes Honorary Artist Fran Larsen. A longtime resident of Santa Fe, Larsen is renowned for her exuberant acrylic paintings of New Mexico’s landscape. The epicurean multi-course dinner is a collaboration between five of Santa Fe’s top chefs and paired with perfect wines. The evening’s highlights include silent and live auctions of the winning plates created by sixth-graders in ARTsmart’s annual “I Made It!” competition.

ARTfeast weekend caps off with the Sunday Artist’s Champagne Brunch, which brings together art collectors, gallerists, and artists in an exciting auction atmosphere. Starting at noon, ticketholders sample champagne and mimosas as they preview both live and silent auctions of paintings, sculptures, and enticing packages that include returning to the Land of Enchantment for cooking classes, ballooning, rafting, skiing, and more. Metal sculptures created by Santa Fe high schoolers will also be on the auction block.

The Perfect Weekend Getaway. Ticketing and additional details are found at ARTfeast (artfeast.com), Santa Fe Gallery Association (santafegalleryassociation.org), and Tickets Santa Fe (ticketssantafe.org). Tastefully at the top of every traveler’s wish list, Santa Fe’s lodgers offer weekend specials, providing relaxing breaks between ARTfeast’s bountiful pleasures.

To plan additional adventures, go to the Santa Fe Convention and Visitors Bureau (santafe.org), Santa Fe Arts and Culture (santafeartsandculture.org), or New Mexico Tourism Department (newmexico.org).

ARTfeast
PO Box 32652,
Santa Fe, NM 87594
505.603.4643
artfeast.com
Offices at 102 East Water, El Centro Mall
Santa Fe, NM 87501

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Steve Lewis
1916 Camino Lumbre
Santa Fe, NM 87505
505-473-9002
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Tehmina Adaya
Hotelier and Entrepreneur
Reopens the Iconic
Hotel Shangri-La in October

Entrepreneur. Hotelier. Historian. As one of the top 50 businesswomen in Los Angeles, Tehmina Adaya brings her background in history and commercial and industrial real estate to her newest role as hotelier of Hotel Shangri-La – the 1939 landmark hotel located on the famed Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica.

The business and creative mind behind the new iconic destination, Tehmina applies her diverse skills and interests to guiding three other businesses: She manages a $150-million real estate portfolio, guides the good works of an international charitable foundation, and owns a successful independent record label.

In every way, Tehmina applies her forward-thinking philosophy to each of the companies: The Adaya Family Trust is a commercial and industrial real estate portfolio built around the longstanding belief in the strength of the California economy. “We identify and develop integral properties – so much so that our family has become part of the lifeblood of the California economy,” says Tehmina Adaya.

In addition to supporting the growth and prosperity of local businesses, Tehmina is involved in continuing to fulfill the vision of the Al-Ameen foundation of providing education, empowerment and safe havens to those less fortunate. Among other efforts, Tehmina has continued to establish schools, hospitals, shelters and foster care to underprivileged and disenfranchised people in the United States and across the globe. At the same time, Tehmina’s So Sweet records label has a niche focus and an international connection: The business has evolved into a sought after lifestyle brand dedicated to promoting American and British independent music to the American, British and Japanese markets.

As the youngest daughter of an international family, Tehmina moved to Los Angeles at the age of twelve. She was educated at the prestigious Harvard-Westlake School before heading on to UC Berkeley and UCLA to major in history. Together with her formal education and love of family, travel, music, cultural and philanthropy, Tehmina perfected her business acumen with her late father, the distinguished Ahmad Adaya.

On purchasing Hotel Shangri-La in the 1980s, Mr. Adaya immediately recognized the cultural and historic relevance of the property, embracing its far-reaching popularity with guests ranging from presidents and luminaries to movie stars, artists, tastemakers, insiders, urbanites, and citizens of the world. At the time with few resort destinations in Santa Monica, Hotel Shangri-La was a beacon of Art Deco beauty and Hollywood allure with ocean views from every room. It is as if Hotel Shangri-La had been poised for greatness from the beginning. Perhaps so. After all, Hotel Shangri-La is one of the flagships of the Adaya family portfolio – a rare jewel to share with the world.

In 2008, with its renovation currently underway, Tehmina is carrying a solid yet highly inspired vision of Hotel Shangri-La into the future.

“While the new hotel and restaurant brand will retain the historical integrity and intrigue of Hotel Shangri-La, it will respond to an entirely new era of highly discerning guests. It will invite- and demand- unforgettable experiences and a healthy dose of excess,” says Tehmina Adaya. “Imagine what was when this charmed apartment hotel by the sea re-emerges as Hotel Shangri-La, Hollywood’s oceanfront hotel – and enjoy all that comes with such tempting contrasts,” she adds.

After traveling the world conducting research and gathering impressions of what she and the audience expect from a luxury boutique hotel, Tehmina will help set Hotel Shangri-La apart with exemplary amenities, experiences and surprises at every turn.

“With excellent service, lifestyle branding and innovative guest experiences, Hotel Shangri-La will challenge the boundaries of industry expectations,” says Tehmina Adaya.

In other words, Hotel Shangri-La will redefine “luxury boutique hotel,” and Tehmina Adaya will continue to make a positive impact on others through a sense of purpose and place.

Contact: Cara Morrissey cara@ballantinespr.com Tel: 310 454 3080 cell: 310 499 3033 http://www.ballantinespr.com

2008 Ulam Memorial Lecture Series

A Cooperative Species

How We Got to Be Both Nasty and Nice

The Santa Fe Institute cordially invites you to a series of three lectures by

Samuel Bowles

Professor, Santa Fe Institute and Univesity of Siena

September 16, 17, and 18, 2008

All Lectures at 7:30 p.m.
James A Little Theater
1060 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe, NM 87505

James A Little Theater1060 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe, NM 87505

James A Little Theater1060 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe, NM 87505

James A Little Theater1060 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe, NM 87505

This series of lectures explores the human tendency to cooperate, often in surprising ways. We are cooperative animals and frequently engage in joint projects for the common benefit on a scale extending beyond the family to include total strangers. We do this even when contributions to the project are costly and yield little private benefit. Examples are upholding social norms even when a transgression would not be noticed, warfare, and actions to preserve the natural environment.

Lecture 1 September 16: A Cooperative Species (or Are we Just Afraid Someone May be Looking?)

Lecture 2 September 17: Altruism, Parochialism, and War: Rambo meets Mother Teresa

Lecture 3 September 18: Machiavelli’s Mistake: Why Policies Designed for “Wicked Men” Fail

For more information about the Santa Fe Institute please visit: www.santafe.edu.

The Santa Fe Institute is a private, not-for-profit, independent research and education center founded in 1984, for multidisciplinary collaborations in the physical, biological, computational, and social sciences. Understanding of complex adaptive systems is critical to addressing key environmental, technological, biological, economic, and political challenges.

Renowned scientists and researchers come to Santa Fe Institute from universities, government agencies, research institutes, and private industry to collaborate in attempts to uncover the mechanisms that underlie the deep simplicity present in our complex world.

SAMUEL BOWLES, (PhD, Economics, Harvard University) is Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute where he heads the Behavioral Sciences Program. He is also Professor of Economics at the University of Siena. He taught economics at Harvard from 1965 to 1973 and at the University of Massachusetts, where he is now emeritus professor. His recent studies on cultural evolution have challenged the conventional economic assumption that people are motivated entirely by self-interest. These have included the mathematical modeling and agent-based computer simulations of the evolution of altruistic behaviors by means of multi-level selection and behavioral experiments in 15 huntergather and other small-scale societies. Bowles’ current research also includes both theoretical and empirical studies of the role of incomplete contracts in labor markets and financial markets in explaining income inequality.

His scholarly papers have appeared in Science, Nature, American Economic Review, Theoretical Population Biology, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Behavioral and Brain Science, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Perspectives, and the Economic Journal.

Maya Benyehuda
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