Author Archives: alysha

Santa Fe tells a lot of lies about itself. Back in the 1930s it came up with a twisted marketing scheme that covered numerous gorgeous brick buildings of varied western architectural styles in taupe stucco to attract tourists with a “pueblo revival” form that has persisted in horrifying zoning regimes and restrictive historic districts toContinue reading “The Times In Santa Fe”

From 2013-2018, I worked on Lifesongs, an intergenerational arts program that was founded in 2007 by The Santa Fe Opera and Littleglobe under the leadership of Acushla Bastible, Andrea Fellows Walters, and Molly Sturges. Christine Sandoval from the Santa Fe Care Center was the program’s founding partner. In 2011, Lifesongs became a program of the AcademyContinue reading “Lifesongs”

Over the years, I have organized folk song singalongs in bars and other community spaces. These singalongs were inspired in part by the traditions I saw in Ireland, where people just stand up in the bar, and lead everyone present in singing folk songs that they all know. I believe in the powers of musicContinue reading “Social Singalongs”

In 2015, I decided to start a DIY space. The process was more mundane than you might think it was—I wanted a studio to play music in, and I quickly realized how difficult it was to find one in Santa Fe. Through some happenstance a friend was moving out of a 700 square foot warehouseContinue reading “Zephyr Community Art Studio”

Around the new year of 2012, I finished reading Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, and it struck me. It was his first novel, written in the 1920s about the expat community he was a part of in Europe. It reminded me so much of my friends and me. I started to write vignettes about fictionalContinue reading “Excerpts from an unfinished novel”