The 42nd Annual Zia Marching Band Fiesta 2019 Results

The Zia Marching Band Fiesta 2019 was held on Saturday, October 19, with more than 15,000 in attendance on a perfect fall day at the Dreamstyle Stadium. This is one of the most prestigious marching band events in the Southwest. It featured 26 high school bands from around the southwest in competition plus the UNM Spirit Marching Band.

Chad Simons, Associate Director of Bands and also the Director of the Zia Marching Band Fiesta, said “The energy of the participants and crowd was very special. There was a great deal of camaraderie at the event and we had PERFECT weather the entire day.”

The Grand Champion for the 8th straight year was Clovis High school; Onate High School was second and Eldorado High school was third.

Congrats to all the students and staff!

19aug5:30 PM6:30 PMFeaturedIn Place: The Ecologies of Sound in the Southwest (SciArt Santa Fe LASER talk)UNM alums in conversation on sound as place-based knowledge, featuring artists Jennifer Diaz and Dylan McLaughlin with Dr. Steven Feld, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology.

Event Details

“In Place: The Ecologies of Sound in the Southwest” will feature Nev-Diaz, a new media artist who blends photography, programming languages, video, and sound, to create unique viewer experiences focusing on themes of memory, trauma, nature, and curated spaces; and sound and video artist, storyteller, and educator Dylan McLaughlin whose multi-media installations explores sites of extraction, and forms of witness and implication, engaging the poetics and politics of landscape formation and human affect. They will speak with Dr. Steven Feld, anthropologist, filmmaker, musician, sound artist, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at the University of New Mexico, and Senior Scholar at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fé, New Mexico, US.

Exploring sound as placed-based knowledge, they will share their work and discuss how sonic and visual art combined can convey the spirit or psyche of place; how technology, community, and ethics shape their work in the Southwest; and how sound can forge emotional, cultural, and physical connections to place.

This is the last webinar in the series, “In Place: Recentering Ecocritical Knowledge of the Natural World.” For previous webinars, visit http://www.sciartsantafe.org. This webinar is free and will be held in English with Spanish interpretation.

Time

aug 19 (thursday) 5:30pm - aug 19 (thursday) 6:30pm

Location

Zoom

Tickets

http://www.sciartsantafe.org

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