HumANist society of New Mexico
You have a head full of ideas, and we want to hear them. Join us for an open discussion that's exciting, respectful and wide-ranging.
Join the Unholy Rollers this month at Silva Lanes on Eubank. Show up at the front desk and look human. A bowling angel will find you and direct you to Bowling Salvation! Approximate cost: $10-13. No skill required. IT'S BOWLING!
We play Codenames every Thursday. To join in, email David at gstelle@gmail.com to be invited via email with a link.
Join us to discuss a topic chosen the month prior. You don't have to research the topic ahead of time, but some members like to stretch their awareness of the topic ahead of time. And feel free to suggest a topic for the following month.
Tell us about the books that changed your life! Terry Sloan will lead this special discussion session. While fourth Saturdays are usually reserved for speaker meetings, we're switching it up this time to encourage members to attend the American Humanist Association conference in Chicago (and online). NOTE: This meeting is at the International District Library, our typical discussion meeting venue.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: Jay Newton-Small is the executive editor of the Albuquerque Journal. More about her topic later, but you can bet it will include the state of journalism today, what's happening at the Journal and the overhaul of the Journal's opinion pages.
Read more about Jay here.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: Keif Henley owns and operates The Guild Cinema, Albuquerque's art house cinema and an indispensable part of the city's culture. He'll talk about film, culture and his favorite films.
Watch an interview with Keif here.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: Her topic is "Mind. Body. Fire." She'll talk about this unique stress reduction program designed for firefighters, but there's something for in it for everyone. If 2025 has you feeling on edge, learn how firefighters are coping and you can too.
Carmen has years of experience providing MI Training and teaching the Brief Negotiated Interview in an SBIRT grant at the University of New Mexico. She has experience teaching MI to a broad range of providers in various tribal communities in the state of New Mexico. In conjunction with Fire Departments in several communities in New Mexico, she's led the development of a stress reduction program for firefighters, and provided MI Training to firefighters and police officers. She continues to work as a community partner with the College of Nursing and the Department of Interdisciplinary Practice at the University of New Mexico. As a leader in student development in an independent school in Albuquerque, NM, she works with the structure of the system to move toward more Motivational Interviewing Philosophy as they work with families and children. She lives on a small farm in Corrales, New Mexico, and grows flowers and vegetables in her communal garden with her four granddaughters.
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New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently In Old Sky (Grand Canyon Conservancy, 2024), which grew out of her experience as Astronomer-in-Residence at Grand Canyon National Park. She is the founder of the New Mexico Epic Poem Project.
Camp was awarded fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and Black Earth Institute. Other honors include a Dorset Prize and finalist citations for the Arab American Book Award, Housatonic Book Award, Big Other Book Award and Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry. She was artist-in-residence at Lowell Observatory, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Hedgebrook, Denver Botanic Gardens, Storyknife and The Taft-Nicholson Center for Environmental Humanities, and a visiting writer at the Mayo Clinic.
Her poems and essays have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Orion, Missouri Review, and Poem-a-Day. Her work has been translated into Turkish, Mandarin, Serbian, Arabic, French and Spanish.
She has pivoted from a successful career as a visual artist (1996-2008). Her portrait series, “The Fabric of Jazz,” traveled to museums in ten cities. More artwork can be found in cultural centers, hospitals, museums, U.S. embassies and other organizations around the world. For 15 years, she was a producer and host for Santa Fe Public Radio.
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