Please Note: The Taos Salon, Inner Passage and Workshops are offered as an optional experience. Renting our guest houses does not obligate you to participate in these services. Conversely, you may participate in a Salon, Passage or Workshop if you have made other arrangements for your lodging.

ARTS & CULTURE:

The following suggestions are made to provide some insight into perhaps the best events for wayfarers to experience the finest of New Mexico arts and culture:

The Taos Salon Inner Passages into Taos and New Mexico Taos Pueblo Buffalo and Deer Dances Santa Fe Indian Market Taos Spring and Fall Arts Festivals Santa Fe Spanish Market Taos Invites Taos International Folk Art Festival A Taste of Taos Maria Benitez Teatro Flamenco The Annual Dixon Studio Tour Easter Week Penitente Processions The Taos Wool Festival

San Geronimo Feast Days Puye Cliff Dwellings Hacienda Martinez Trade Fair Bandelier National Monument Taos Film Festivals Petroglyph sites Pueblo Indian Corn Dances Santa Fe Opera The Taos Poetry Bout The Burning of Zozobra The Taos Fiestas The Santa Fe Fiestas The Shalako Dances of the Zuni Multi-cultural Traditions last two weeks of December Driving the old villages

During the Salons and Inner Passages, some of my favorite dead people to talk about are: Nicolai Fechin, D.H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, Georgia O’Keeffee, Antonio Jose (Padre) Martinez, Frank Waters, Charles Lumis, Maria Martinez, Millicent Rogers, The Honorable Lady Brett, Helene Wurlitzer, Rebecca James, Paul Strand, Patrocinio Barela, Bill Rane, RC Gorman, Carl Jung, Tony Luhan, and Mabel Dodge. Some of my favorite living people to talk about or and take you to, are: Carmen Velarde, Lydia Garcia, Luis Barela, John Suazo, Juanita DuBrey, Ed Sandoval, Julian Romero, Felicia Ferguson, Ouray Meyers, Richard Collignon, Claudia Kleefeld, Bill Davis, John Staple, John Nichols, and Veronica Golos.

Some of my favorite topics to elaborate upon are: The Pueblo Revolts of 1680 and 1847; The Penitente; El Camino Real from Mexico City, The Spanish Missionary and Colonial Periods; The Mexican Occupation; The Taos Society of Artists; The Russians in Taos; Native American pottery, weaving, fetish carvings, kachinas, jewelry, and dwellings; Spanish folk art, weaving, early devotional art forms, tin works, furniture building, and architectural forms; The Anasazi Cultures; and, Contemporary New Mexico.
               
For those who love exercise of the body as well the brain, Taos offers:

Hot Air Balloon Rides over the Rio Grande
River Rafting and Kayaking the Rio Grande
Skiing: Taos Ski Valley, Angel Fire, Red River
Hiking and Cross-Country Ski Trails
Excellent climbs and flats for Bicycling
Fly Fishing
Mineral Hot Springs
Pounding earth into tires to build Earthship homes!

Please contact your personal assistant in Taos, Tony Marvin, for specific information and dates for the above annual events, to arrange an Inner Passage during these events, and lodging at Casa de los Pasajeros. Advanced booking is highly recommended!

All rates for lodging, workshops, classes, seminars, and Inner Passages are determined by the number of participants. Individual cost decrease as numbers increase. Bring others!

 

For the Experience: 505.758.3809 or InnerPassagesNM@taosnet.com