Santa Fe Convention and Visitors Bureau

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Delicious New Mexico
Sun, Jun 2 11:59 PM thru Mon, Jun 3 2013, 11:59 PM
Delicious New Mexico, a homegrown non-profit dedicated to creating a strong and sustainable regional food economy, has joined with New World Cuisine, on view at the Museum of International Folk Art, to celebrate New Mexican flavor. The two will combine efforts Sunday, June 2, 2013 on Museum Hill, with an event featuring New Mexico businesses, demonstrations, books, and, of course, food.

While the exhibition has drawn crowds delighted with the historical focus on chocolate, mate, and more, Delicious New Mexico will bring today's local food community into the mix with a host of members who have prospered through network building, innovation, and best practices. Their success can be seen—and tasted—at the celebration.

In the museum atrium, locally owned New Mexico business will have booths with food for sample and sale.

Rocky Durham of Santa Fe Culinary Academy will demonstrate cooking techniques and offer tasty tidbits.

A book fair will feature New Mexico cookbooks and authors reading about their favorite food.

The outdoor horno will be fired up for baking demonstrations.

Museum Hill Café's menu will reflect New World cuisine made with ingredients from New Mexico food growers and suppliers.

And, under Museum Hill Café's portal will be a tasting of locally brewed beers and wines from both New Mexico and South America. Enjoy tasty passed foods inspired by New World Cuisine prepared by Chef and café proprietor Weldon Fulton. Tasting commences at 1 p.m., ends at 4 p.m., and costs $20.

Admission to the Sunday event at the Museum of International Folk Art is free for New Mexico residents with ID, children sixteen and younger, and members of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation.

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Savor the Flavor
Sun, Jun 2 2013, 10:00 - 5:00 PM
WHEN: June 2, 2013
The Museum of International Folk Art and Delicious Santa Fe are teaming up for Savor the Flavor, an event featuring food sampling, baking demonstrations and a book fair. Cookbook authors will be in attendance discussing some of their favorite recipes.

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Tako Kichi: Kite Crazy in Japan
Sun, Jun 9 2013, 1:00 - 4:00 PM
Taking flight this summer at the Museum of International Folk Art is Tako Kichi: Kite Crazy in Japan, an exhibition of more than 200 Japanese kites. The exhibition opens June 9, 2013 and runs through March 23, 2014.

Stilled though these handcrafted kites may be, hanging from the wall or the ceiling, imaginations will soar during kite-flying events and kite-making workshops at the museum’s Milner Plaza location.

Traditional Japanese kites are made from a split bamboo framework and sheets of handmade washi paper (made from Mulberry tree bark).  The paper is often brightly painted with colorful narrative illustrations in the ukiyo-e style representing legendary heroes and other design elements referencing Japanese folklore.

Originally kites were flown for religious purposes or to ward off evil spirits—promoting, among other things, prosperity and good fortune. An abundance of kite festivals and celebrations around Japan celebrate traditions such as the birth of a son, the New Year, or a good harvest with stalks of rice being sent aloft.

There are even huge fighting kites handled by teams of strong, experienced men. Dramatic airborne battles rage with the intent of downing the opposing kite. Kite fights may have developed from their use during wartime reconnaissance in times past.

Kites in the show range in size from a diminutive 1 inch in height to a huge 12 feet, and most date from the 1960s to the present, with the exception of a few dating to the 19th to early 20th century.

Felicia Katz-Harris, the museum’s Curator of Asian and Middle Eastern Collections said, “The exhibit explores kite-flying and kite-making in Japan and presents cultural and artistic contexts of this living tradition.  Tako Kichi roughly translates to ‘kite crazy,’ but the word kichi can also refer to joy and enthusiasm.  In that sense, tako kichi is a saying that refers to people who are fantastically passionate about kites -- perhaps a little more than the average population!”

Museum Director Marsha Bol said of the show, “That we are having an exhibition about kites may come as a surprise.  People don’t usually think of kites as folk art, but, in Japan, the kites are an extraordinary merger of the visual, the literary, and the performing folk arts.”

The majority of the kites on view will be on loan from David M. Kahn, an erudite kite collector and avid connoisseur.  For the past 25 years Kahn has amassed a stunning collection of over 700 Japanese kites, of which those in Tako Kichi represent only a small fraction.

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