2:30 – 3:45 PM
New York. Los Angeles. Austin. Wrong, wrong, and wrong. According to an independent analysis released in February 2026, the creative capital of America isn’t where you think it is. Measured not by hype or hotel bookings, but by per-capita concentration of working creatives, institutional depth and centuries of continuous artistic practice — Santa Fe leaves every other American city behind. Data scientist Peter Zandan, Ph.D. and founder of IQ2 Analytics and Insights, explores his findings with Santa Fe’s Mayor and New Mexico Innovation Hub founder, David Perez, and former Community Development Director for the City, Elisa Montoya.
4:00 – 5:15 PM
One of America’s most sought-after personal matchmakers, Julie Ferman, tackles Santa Fe’s crisis of loneliness head-on. After three decades and 1,400+ success stories, Julie brings her expertise to the Festival with an interactive exercise in which she will share how we can turn strangers into keepers — in friendship, business, community and romance.
4:15 – 5:15 PM
What does it mean to build a creative life — and a film — on your own terms in New Mexico? Director Kristin Goodman joins actors Cassidy Freeman (Righteous Gemstones, Longmire, Smallville) and Alexandra Renzo for a conversation about carving out space for women in the film industry, the realities of making work outside traditional power centers and the unique creative landscape of New Mexico.
Using Goodman’s latest project as a jumping-off point, the trio will explore how storytelling is evolving in an age where attention is currency and personal lives are increasingly public — and how women filmmakers are pushing back, reclaiming narrative and shaping what comes next.
SPONSORED BY BUNNY TERRY
4:15 – 5:15 PM
Writers like D. H. Lawrence and Willa Cather came to the Southwest searching for something they couldn’t find anywhere else — and found themselves transformed by it. In this landscape, each produced some of their most enduring work, drawn by a force that was at once creative, spiritual and deeply rooted in place.
Author Henry Shukman and historian Garrett Peck, in a conversation moderated by Owen Lipstein — who shares his own scholarly connection to Lawrence — explore how New Mexico sparked a sensibility that still shapes the region’s enduring creative force.
5:45 – 6:45 PM
Andrew Weil has spent six decades being loyal to his curiosity. That curiosity didn’t just make him a better doctor. It made him the doctor who invented a field. Integrative medicine, now practiced at over 70 academic health centers worldwide, exists because Weil had the creative nerve to question what medicine left out: the whole person. At the festival, he’ll trace the role creativity has played in that invention and what it means for how we heal.
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM ALL WEEKEND
The Santa Fe Magazine Festival and Vladem Contemporary are proud to announce the new immersive experience by Virgil Ortiz and Eric Garcia, Blindfall/First Strike, from the Revolt 1680/2180 series. Best to let Virgil describe it: We are activating the Vladem Contemporary Museum as a site of temporal collision. Clay becomes monument. Paintings become mirrors. Fashion becomes armor. Light fractures the space as 1680 and 2180 fold into an immersive reckoning of ancestral memory, resistance, and renewal. The immersive experience runs all three days at the Vladem and is open to all festivalgoers.
7:00 – 8:00 PM
Man Boy Brown is the solo project of Raul Pacheco — vocalist, guitarist and co-founder of the three-time Grammy-winning band Ozomatli — exploring a more intimate and reflective side of his artistry. Blending romantic Latin ballads, Mexican corridos, and spacious, emotionally driven arrangements, the music balances nostalgia with forward momentum, rooted in tradition while carving out a distinct creative voice.
10:00 – 10:45 AM
Acclaimed historians and authors Dan Flores and Hampton Sides engage in a spirited conversation about the lore and allure of New Mexico — and their love affair with the natural worlds of the American West.
10:00 – 10:45 AM
Roshi Joan Halifax and author, climate and human rights activist, Rebecca Solnit engage in a rich exploration of how we remain undefended, responsive, morally awake and compassionate in times of uncertainty, collapse and transformation. They want to explore how communities endure, how attention itself is ethical action, and why beauty, ritual, storytelling and silence matter during times of upheaval.
10:00 – 11:15 AM + 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM
Raul Pacheco has spent 30 years writing songs that make people move, think and feel things they didn’t expect. As co-founder of Ozomatli — the Grammy-winning Latin fusion band with a cult following and a reputation for electrifying live shows — he’s earned his place among the great American songwriters. Normally, you’d pay to watch him perform on stage. Today, we’re doing something way better than a concert. As a group, you’re going to write a song! No experience necessary. Just one of the great American musicians, an intimate room and the insights he’s been carrying since before most of us knew what Latin fusion was.
11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
This August, the Santa Fe Opera presents the American premiere of Grammy Award-winning composer Tobias Picker’s Lili Elbe — the astonishing true story of a Danish painter who, supported by the fierce devotion of her wife Gerda, became one of the first people in history to undergo gender-affirmation surgery. Chronicling a story popularized by the 2015 film The Danish Girl, the opera was named “Best World Premiere” at the 2024 OPER! Awards in Germany. Now it arrives in Santa Fe — and KHFM Executive Director Alexis Corbin will lead a conversation with director James Robinson about bringing Lili Elbe to the stage.
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM
In the May issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education, an article appeared entitled, “St. John’s College Is Weird. Maybe Yours Should Be More Like It.” St. John’s Santa Fe was voted “the most rigorous education in America” by Forbes Magazine, and in the New York Times, Frank Bruni called St. John’s “the most contrarian college in America.” What makes St. John’s so weird, rigorous and contrarian? This panel will provide participants with an opportunity to hear from and discuss with members of the St. John’s teaching faculty the nature of the St. John’s “Great Books” curriculum and its unique approach to higher education, while reflecting on the questions: “What is liberal education, and what role can it play in the American Republic today?”
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Across continents and millennia, ancient civilizations looked to the sky — and left behind maps of meaning etched in earth and stone. With three acclaimed PBS films that provide deep insights into Chaco Canyon, archaeoastronomer Anna Sofaer once again draws on her more than four decades of research to bring Chaco into conversation with some of the world’s most extraordinary ancient sites. With her new film-in-progress, From the Mind’s Eye, she explores striking parallels among Stonehenge, Palenque and the ancient Hopewell culture in Ohio to reveal fresh insights into Chaco’s singular brilliance and enduring significance in the American Southwest and in the heritage of descendant Puebloan cultures.
12:45 – 1:30 PM
Before the installations. Before the investors. Before Las Vegas and Denver and the lines around the block — there was a group of broke, brilliant misfits in Santa Fe who pulled two words out of a hat and decided to build a door into another world. Now, for the first time at the Santa Fe Magazine Festival, three of the original co-founders sit down together to tell the story the press releases never told. The grief inside the growth. The moment they almost lost everything. What it feels like to become the institution you once painted over. And whether the original fire — that beautiful, ungovernable, dumpster-diving, wall-stapling, sleeping-in-the-building fire — is still burning.
12:45 – 1:30 PM
Eve Cohen of Monday Monday and Tony Beck of Beck & Bulow sit down for a candid conversation about the role animals still play in keeping us connected to each other and to the ground beneath our feet. Tony went from vegetarian to building one of the Southwest’s most respected whole-animal butcher shops. Together, they dig into hospitality as real infrastructure and ask whether ancestral ways of raising, gathering and feeding each other are nostalgia — or the most practical answer we have to what comes next.
2:00 – 3:15 PM
Moderated by neuroscientist Ellen Petry Leanse, this conversation brings together award-winning screenwriter Bill Broyles, UNM researcher Larry Leeman, MD, MPH, psychedelic-assisted psychotherapist, Marisa L. C de Baca, LCSW and filmmaker Gay Dillingham to explore both personal experience and the real-world impact of psychedelics in Santa Fe – and beyond. From measurable changes in the brain to experiences people describe as sacred, the panel examines what happens when long-held patterns begin to loosen: trauma reframed, addiction softened, creativity unlocked, and identity itself questioned.
2:15 – 3:15 PM
This conversation brings together visionary placemakers and changemakers Catherine Oppenheimer (National Dance Institute and New Mexico School for the Arts), Maggie Fine (Canyon Road Summer Walk), David Fresquez (Santa Fe Gloom) and City of Santa Fe’s Director of Economic Development, Johanna Nelson. From iconic stages to streets, schools and digital platforms, their work spans the physical and the virtual — rooted in local storytelling, community energy and access. Through community concerts, educational initiatives, inclusive programming and grassroots media, these innovators explore how intentional placemaking can build stronger, more connected communities — right here, and in ways that ripple far beyond.
2:15 – 3:15 PM
Garry Blackchild, Afro-Indigenous and son of a Honduran immigrant, came to New Mexico chasing folk music, landed in a Georgia jail, and wrote every song on his album Rebel Folk behind bars. Jiliann Spitzmiller produced a documentary, Shakespeare Behind Bars, an extraordinary story about the creative process and the power of art to heal and redeem in a place where the very act of participation in theatre is a human triumph and a means of personal liberation. In conversation with one another — and with us — they explore what prison takes, what it unexpectedly gives and what it means to come back changed.
2:15 – 3:15 PM
The standard climate conversation runs on dread. This one doesn’t. Jesse Roach — director of Santa Fe’s water department, hydrologist, PhD and former Colorado River guide — has spent years with the data and still calls himself a “Cornucopian.” Juliana Ciano has diverted over 1.5 million pounds of food waste annually at Reunity Farm, building a regenerative system from the ground up. Sara Dant, historian and author of Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West, brings deep context — from the region’s past to precedent-setting legal work on stream navigability. Together, they move beyond crisis talk to ask a sharper question: what’s actually working — and what isn’t — when it comes to water, soil and the systems that shape our future. Guided by Marc Barasch, who asks the questions others tend to avoid, this is a conversation grounded in reality, but alive with possibility.
3:45 – 4:45 PM
Here’s what nobody’s telling you about AI: the interesting part isn’t what it can do. It’s what it can see — about us. The Mythoscope, a new psychological tool built by a novelist, a data scientist and AI, maps the hidden tensions in our psyche using something harder to fake than data: our taste. What happens when artists and machines build something together that neither could create alone? This conversation with Creative Director Jace Mercer, Meow Wolf Co-Founder Vince Kadlubek, Nuclear Engineer Chantell Murphy and is led by Data Scientist Peter Zandan. It explores that collision where storytelling, technology and human contradiction meet — and what it uncovers about who we are in a culture eager to reduce us to categories.
3:45 – 4:45 PM
Jen Sincero was forty and broke in a converted garage. She wrote You Are a Badass, which has sold over five million copies. Tania Katan survived breast cancer twice, grabbed a theater degree everyone said was worthless, and turned rebellion into the award-winning Creative Trespassing. Julie Ferman walked into a dating service in St. Louis, asked out the guy who sold her the membership, married him and built a matchmaking empire responsible for more than 1,400 love stories. None followed the plan. All of them turned the thing that went sideways into the thing that worked. And every one of them did it laughing. This is a conversation about humor as a survival strategy — about the moment you realize the worst thing that happened to you is also the funniest, and that the distance between those two truths is where the best books, businesses and second acts get built.
3:45 – 4:45 PM
Santa Fe has been the hub of the contemporary Indigenous art market for close to sixty years, and Native art has finally been given a seat at the table in the larger art world. Get an insider’s look at this always-lively market from those who have been making it happen. Will Riding In, curator at the Wheelwright Museum, and Danyelle Means, Executive Director at MIAC, join Comanche artist Nocona Burgess and art appraiser and advisor Scott Hale moderating.
4:00 – 4:45 PM
After a devastating childhood injury that nearly ended his life — and his ability to play — Scott Christopher went on to become a professional baseball champion and record holder, defying nearly impossible odds. Blending personal story with powerful insight, this talk explores the mindset, resilience and imagination required to pursue one’s dreams. Featuring reflections from legends like three time teammate, the greatest shortstop in Major League Baseball history, Cal Ripken Jr. and four team World Series Champion coach, Jimmy “Skip” Williams, the session reveals how passion and purpose can transform setbacks into possibility — and how a life in sport can evolve into a life in art.
5:30 – 6:45 PM
WTF! Marc Maron — an in-depth conversation about his reflections on the beatniks, open roads and mesas of Albuquerque that shaped his voice. They’ll also discuss vulnerability and grief, and how parasocial relationships, cultural shallowness, fragmented media and charismatic moral grifters are eroding the art of storytelling.
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Gallery owner Pilar Law, photographer Tony Floyd and agent Maria Markus on the craft, patience and human connection behind capturing unforgettable images — along with stories from the life and legacy of the late Kurt Markus. Together, they’ll explore what it means to be present behind the lens, where instinct meets preparation and trust becomes essential. Through personal stories and hard-won insight, they’ll reveal how great photographs are shaped as much by relationship and timing as by technique.
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
The Education Director of the Santa Fe Raptor Center will introduce us to several magnificent birds — each with a story of injury or survival — and take us behind the remarkable work of healing, rehabilitation, and second chances that defines the Center’s mission. Meet the birds. Hear their stories. See wildness up close.
12:00 – 4:00 PM
Join artist and perfumer Ria Leigh Res Extensa of Calyx Armatura for an intimate exploration of the senses. Using scent as a catalyst for creative inquiry, each participant will receive a personalized aromatic composition drawn from the perfumer’s organ. From this olfactory point of departure, participants are invited to delve into the memories, imagery and ideas that arise and translate their sensory experience via the medium of their choice. Materials will be available on site for immediate exploration, or the scent may be taken home as a seed for continued creative unfolding.
12:45 – 1:30 PM
On a clear August day in 2022 — with no clouds and no warning — the ground erupted into a three-hundred-million-volt fireball, splitting trees, hurling stones and igniting rock in a moment that defied expectation. Scott Christopher and Elizabeth Hayes Christopher had experienced a rare phenomenon known as “blue sky lightning.” The Christophers, internationally recognized multidisciplinary artists, were outside their Santa Fe studios when it struck — an event that profoundly reshaped how they see the world and approach their art. Scott and Elizabeth invite you into an immersive experience blending live presentation, performance, and conversation around this extraordinary event. Through large-scale murals, paintings and photography, they explore the energy, beauty and mystery born from the lightning strike. The experience also features Elizabeth’s poetry from Lightning Seeds and a segment of their internationally performed performance art, presented in cities from Venice to London and beyond.
10:30 – 11:15 AM
Two renowned icons of longevity research sit down together. Andrew Weil, who invented integrative medicine and has written extensively on healthy aging, has spent decades arguing that the goal isn’t to stop aging but to do it well — that the rewards of growing older include depth, wisdom and what he calls “its own kind of power and grace.” Chip Conley, founder of the Modern Elder Academy and subject of a recent New York Times profile on reinventing how we live in later life, believes midlife is not a crisis but a chrysalis. Both now call Santa Fe home.
SPONSORED BY SANTA FE ART AUCTION
10:30 – 11:15 AM
Almost sixty years since it exploded onto American screens, Bonnie and Clyde still retains the power to shock, amaze and provoke — as fresh and (sadly) relevant today as when it was first released in 1967. In his latest book, writer Kirk Ellis situates the movie in the larger context of America’s predilection for armed violence and its enshrining of lawbreakers. He joins Miranda Viscoli, Executive Director of New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence, in what promises to be a provocative dialogue touching on the history of the Second Amendment and the ways in which popular culture — rather than history — has shaped the American myth.
10:30 – 11:30 AM
After rediscovering the Sun Dagger on Fajada Butte in Chaco Canyon in 1977, archaeoastronomer Anna Sofaer and the Solstice Project launched four decades of groundbreaking research. Their film The Sun Dagger — narrated by Robert Redford and broadcast on PBS — illuminates the ancestral Puebloan creation of a sacred shrine uniting sun, moon and landscape. Sofaer and Richard Friedman will discuss the team’s latest innovation: the interactive Sun Dagger Explorer. This digital model preserves the site while bringing its extraordinary engineering and astronomical insight into vivid focus. A half-hour version of the film will be screened.
11:45 AM – 1:15 PM
As the lead actress on Dark Winds, Jessica Matten is committed to elevating Indigenous storytelling through performance, producing and long-term industry access. Her work extends beyond the screen, focusing on building sustainable pathways for Indigenous talent to enter and thrive within the global film and television landscape.
Her work reflects a broader mission: to create infrastructure, ownership and opportunity — ensuring Indigenous voices are not only represented, but positioned to lead. In this session, the conversation will explore Matten’s vision for the Indigenous Film Academy and the future of Indigenous storytelling across film and television in collaboration with IAIA.
Jessica Matten, Deanna Allison and Tina Elmo discuss the making of one of New Mexico’s iconic series, Dark Winds. This critically acclaimed psychological thriller television series on AMC was created by Graham Roland and executive produced by George R.R. Martin and Robert Redford. Featuring a deeply authentic, predominantly Indigenous cast of Native American, First Nations and Indigenous actors is a Southwestern noir based on Tony Hillerman’s Leaphorn & Chee book series.
*Santa Fe Magazine Festival is proud to support the development of Jessica Matten’s Indigenous Film Academy, an initiative designed to train and employ the next generation of Indigenous creators. We invite our community to support students in attending the Indigenous Film Academy. Your donation is tax-deductible, and 100% of donations will be contributed. Donors supporting the initiative will also receive producer credits on an upcoming television series Matten is producing for the AMC network, creating a direct bridge between philanthropy and professional industry experience.
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Creativity: what, actually, is it? Something some people are born with and others wish for? A practice that can be learned? Or maybe a mindset that anyone can activate when they understand what’s really going on in creative thought? Ellen Petry Leanse, educator, entrepreneur and online community pioneer — who has explained this to the leaders of Apple, Google and Facebook — will, in this session, dive deep into the creative process with renowned multidisciplinary artist, Angela Ellsworth, and offer glimpses into the neuroscience behind the creative fluency we all seek. Best of all, it will leave you with insights into your own mental processes that will spark more creativity in everything you do.
12:00 – 12:45 PM
Godfrey Reggio is a visionary, a saint, a sinner and a cinematic kamikaze. The auteur behind Koyaanisqatsi and “Once Within a Time” joins the Santa Fe International Film Festival founder to reckon with cinema’s troubled present, revisit his predictions that proved eerily accurate and look to the future. What he has to say may unsettle you.
1:30 – 2:15 PM
The co-founders of MEA, the world’s first midlife wisdom school, have spent years rethinking everything we assume about the second half of life. Their answer isn’t a graceful retreat — it’s a radical reframe. That means building regenerative friendships that actively fuel your growth and choosing regenerative living over the quiet fade of traditional retirement. This means building an intentional community designed, as they put it, to feel “nothing like a commune or kibbutz.” This session isn’t about aging gracefully. It’s about aging ambitiously.
1:30 – 2:15 PM
Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid ended one world and began another. Since then, North America has been slowly, painstakingly filling with life — until one species arrived and began undoing it. Historian and naturalist Dan Flores has spent his career tracing that arc: the long, magnificent story of animals on this continent and the accelerating human forces that are unraveling it. But this isn’t a eulogy. Flores believes we can still change the ending — through rewilding, ecosystem restoration and a radical recommitment to biodiversity, including on the pieces of ground where we live. Sara Dant, Professor Emeritus of History and Environmental Politics, will make the scientific and moral case for a different kind of future. One that still has wolves in it. And bison. And room for everything we almost lost.
1:30 – 2:15 PM
From the desert transcendentalists to artists working today, New Mexico has long inspired art shaped by land, light, myth and contradiction. Executive Director of the New Mexico Museum of Art, Marisa Sage, joins Editor-in-Chief of Southwest Contemporary, Jordan Eddy, and artist Diego Medina to explore the creative ecosystems that have emerged here and what the future of art in the desert might ask of us now.
1:30 – 3:15 PM
One of only eight grandmasters of scalp acupuncture in the world practices in Santa Fe. For 32 years, Jason Hao has been doing what many in Western medicine would call impossible: treating neurological conditions through the precision art of scalp acupuncture, and producing recoveries that have to be witnessed to be believed. And he’s here, in Santa Fe, seeing patients and changing lives. In this session, he’ll walk us through the cases, the science and the moments that even he still finds miraculous. Following the presentation, Dr. Hao will offer neural acupuncture to a limited number of participants.
2:00 – 3:30 PM
Before Jeffrey Epstein’s name became synonymous with elite impunity, sex trafficking and blackmail, there was William H. Spector. A jilted Cadillac dealer from upstate New York and a former World War II intelligence officer who created a top-secret dossier that threatened to rewrite the history of Watergate — and nobody wanted to hear it. In this electrifying conversation, Santa Fe Magazine Co-Owner and Producer Maggie Fine joins acclaimed investigative journalist Sally Denton, New Mexico State Representative Andrea Romero, and Santa Fe New Mexican journalist Clara Bates to trace the chilling through-line from Nixon’s White House to the dark economies of power, sex and silence that define our present moment. Because the machinery was always there — the billionaires, the trafficked women, the buried files — and the only thing that ever changed was who (never) got caught. Moderated by feminist activist Cecile Lipworth.
4:00 – 5:15 PM
Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster Disclosure Day depicts what would happen if the world were presented with undeniable proof that UFOs are an alien intelligence long interacting with humanity. Congressional leaders, military whistleblowers and executive branch officials — from the CIA chief to the Secretary of State to the President — have now publicly called for a process to disclose previously top secret evidence. Our state’s garland of high-security facilities — Sandia, White Sands, Kirtland, Los Alamos — have long been sites of UFO incursions, with Roswell the most notorious. Marc Barasch, bestselling author and writer/producer of the hit documentary The Phenomenon, talks to Donald Schmitt, former Director of Investigations for the Center for UFO Studies founded by the late J. Alan Hynek (of Close Encounters fame). Schmitt spent years in New Mexico tracking down — over the course of three decades — surviving Roswell base personnel and their relatives, local officials and residents, writing a series of bestselling books based on testimony of over 30 first-hand witnesses and hundreds of others connected to the alleged crash and retrieval of an alien spacecraft. This will be a colloquy that ranges beyond history to explore the current bleeding edge: the emergence of paradigm-shifting secrets about what insiders call Nonhuman Intelligence (NHI) and its implications for the course of human civilization.
9:00 – 10:00 AM
Angela Ellsworth, co-founder of the Museum of Walking, has built an entire artist-led institution around this deceptively simple idea — that walking, done right, is one of the most profound things a human being can do. As she says, “Walking is very different than running. It’s not about a goal. It’s not about a race. It’s just about being in the world. And it’s analog, no technology needed.” This is not really meditation. Nor pilgrimage. Nor exercise. It’s something harder to name and more valuable than any of those things. Join Angela Ellsworth and KB Thomason for a walk in the arroyos behind St. John’s campus — under the sky, among the birds and critters, and the particular quiet of this place — and discover what you’ve been walking past your entire life, or maybe in your imagination.
9:00 – 9:45 AM
Some spaces hold silence differently than others. The chapel of Santa Fe’s historic Carmelite Monastery is one of them — a place where stillness has been practiced, accumulated, and deepened for generations. Join us when MEA presents an intimate soundbath in the historic chapel — a rare chance to let the oldest form of healing unfold in one of Santa Fe’s most sacred spaces. Come with nothing to do and nowhere to be. Leave changed in ways you may not be able to explain.
THURSDAY, JUNE 11
4:30 – 7:00 PM
Thursday night, the Santa Fe Magazine Festival opens its doors at St. John’s College’s breathtaking Great Hall — one of the most stunning rooms in the city — for an evening designed around the most important thing a festival can offer: genuine connection. Drinks in hand. Bites from High Mountain Cuisine circulating. And in the room with you: the speakers, thinkers, and editors who will shape the days ahead. Meet them before the ideas start flying. It makes everything that follows richer.
PRESENTED BY CENTURY BANK
FRIDAY, JUNE 12
7:00 – 9:00 PM
Few events this season carry the weight — or the electricity — of what Virgil Ortiz has created.
Revolt 1680/2180 is an immersive exhibition that collapses five centuries into a single, stunning visual confrontation: the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. This new, salient chapter explores the collision of Indigenous and Spanish cultures. It opens with an exclusive VIP cocktail reception on Friday night on the breathtaking Vladem Terrace — and Virgil himself will be there, pulling back the curtain on the heart of the work: the violent, complicated, endlessly generative collision that still echoes in New Mexico today. And you have a front row seat.
SPONSORED BY THE VLADEM CONTEMPORARY
SATURDAY, JUNE 13
7:00 – 9:00 PM
Mark Miller didn’t just cook Southwestern food. He reinvented it. The legendary founder of Coyote Café and the architect of modern Southwestern cuisine, Miller has spent decades doing something most chefs never attempt: understanding why food tastes the way it does. Not just the recipe — the neuroscience. The way flavor, memory, and sensation collide on the palate in ways that are anything but accidental. In this session, he takes you on that journey himself. Expect your assumptions about taste — and about the food of this region — to be permanently rewired. It all unfolds on the local secret spot: Sunset Terrace. And just wait until you taste his guac.
SPONSORED BY COYOTE CAFE
SUNDAY, JUNE 14
12:00 – 2:00 PM
As part of the Santa Fe Magazine Festival, we invite you into a special Sacred Sunday gathering at Sukhmani — an experience designed to restore, ground and reconnect. Led by Sat Gurumukh Khalsa, founder of Sukhmani, this intimate meditation offering weaves together breathwork, stillness and subtle guidance to gently bring you into a state of presence, clarity and inner ease. Following the meditation, guests will be welcomed into an elevated atmosphere with a Mediterranean brunch by Mata G’s vegetarian kitchen — offering a warm and nourishing transition from ritual into connection. Guests will also have the opportunity to explore Sukhmani’s showroom in a more intimate, private setting — experiencing a curated collection of handcrafted furnishings, jewelry and apothecary that embody beauty, intention and story. Join us for a gathering that invites you to slow down, reconnect and experience the art of living well.
SUNDAY, JUNE 14
6:30 – 8:30 PM
Andrew Weil has spent 65 years reshaping how America thinks about healing. His latest obsession may surprise you: a small bowl of green tea. Matcha, as Weil has come to believe after a relationship with it stretching back to 1959, is one of the most quietly powerful substances he’s found in a long career of studying what actually makes us well. Zen and the Art of Matcha, filmmaker Scott Garen’s stunning new film, traces matcha’s deep roots in Japanese culture and Zen tradition, its extraordinary health profile, and the personal journey of a physician who has spent a lifetime looking for healing in unexpected places — and found it, again and again, in the ones the Western world overlooked. This is not a trend. This is a 700-year-old practice that modern science is only beginning to catch up to.
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