SESSIONS

Life and Longevity

Chip Conley in conversation with Andrew Weil

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.

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Creativity and Integrative Health

Andrew Weil

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.

Writing from the Western Wilds

Hampton Sides in conversation with Dan Flores

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.

D.H. Lawrence and Willa Cather's New Mexico

Henry Shukman and Garrett Peck in conversation with Owen Lipstein

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.

Staging the First Trans Opera

Director James Robinson and Alexis Corbin

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.

Auteur Wizard

Jacques Paisner in conversation with Godfrey Reggio

Godfrey Reggio is a visionary, a saint, a sinner and a cinematic kamikaze. The auteur behind Koyaanisqatsi and Once Upon a Time in the West, 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.

They Kill People

Kirk Ellis in Conversation with Miranda Viscoli

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.

Rewilding the Earth

A Conversation with Dan Flores and Sara Dant

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.

UFOs: They’re Here, They’re Real, Get Used to It?

Marc Barasch in conversation with Donald Schmitt

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. Lately, Congressional leaders, military whistleblowers and executive branch officials — from the CIA Chief to the Secretary of State to the President — have publicly suggested actual Disclosure could be imminent. New Mexico’s garland of high security facilities — Sandia, White Sands, Kirtland, Los Alamos — have been sites of UFO incursions, with Roswell the grandaddy of them all. Marc Barasch, bestselling author and writer/producer of the breakthrough documentary The Phenomenon, talks to Donald Schmitt, former lead investigator for the late J. Alan Hynek (of Close Encounters and Project Blue Book fame). Schmitt, a founder of the International UFO Museum and Research Center at Roswell, spent over 30 years interviewing hundreds of local military personnel and civilians stitching together a compelling picture of the apparent crash and retrieval of a nonhuman craft and bodies over the course of seven books. This will be a colloquy about cover-ups of paradigm-shifting secrets and the implications for the whole of society if they were revealed.

Beyond the Trip: New Mexico's Psychedelic Future

Ellen Petry Leanse in Conversation with Bill Broyles, Marisa C de Baca, Larry Leeman, and Gay Dillingham

Moderated by neuroscientist Ellen Petry Leanse, this conversation brings together award-winning screenwriter Bill Broyles, UNM researcher Larry Leeman, MD, MPH, psychedelic-assisted therapy advocate Marisa C de Baca, 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.

Leading Ladies: Making an Indie Feature in New Mexico

Gay Dillingham in conversation with director Kristin Goodman and actors Cassidy Freeman and Alexandra Renzo

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.

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The Creative Capital of the U.S.

Peter Zandan in conversation with Mayor Garcia, Elisa Montoya and David Perez

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.

New Light on Chaco: Sacred Sites Across Time and Space

A conversation with Anna Sofaer and Cecile Lipworth

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.

The Sun Dagger Site: Ancient Complexity Seen Through New Technology

A Conversation with Anna Sofaer, Richard Friedman and Elena Ortiz

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, along with Richard Friedman and Elena Ortiz, 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.

The Machine That Reads Your Soul

Peter Zandan in conversation with Jace Mercer and Vince Kadlubek

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 and led by Data Scientist Peter Zandan, 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.

Living a Regenerative Life

Chip Conley and Jeff Hamaoui in Conversation

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.

Doing Time: Redeeming Outlaws

Owen Lipstein in conversation with John Paul Granillo and Garry Blackchild

JP Granillo spent his entire twenties in federal maximum security prison — including eighteen months in solitary — after orchestrating one of the largest bank robberies in New Mexico history. He came home to Santa Fe a muralist, a community builder, a man whose work now hangs in the Museum of International Folk Art. 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. Two men, radically different backgrounds, the same crucible. In conversation with each other — and with us — they explore what prison takes, what it unexpectedly gives, and what it means to come back changed.

The Art of Neurological Acupuncture: Healing with the Grand Master

Dr. Jason Hao presentation and conversation

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.

Behind the Lens: What it Takes to Get the Perfect Shot

Pilar Law in conversation with Tony Floyd and Maria Markus

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.

Environmental Systems. Are We Screwed?

Marc Barasch in conversation with Jesse Roach, Juliana Ciano and Sara Dant

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.

Songwriting with Raul Pacheco

A Workshop with Raul Pacheco

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.

How Three Hilarious Women Used Humor to Break Through Life's Curveballs

A Conversation with Jen Sincero, Tania Katan and Julie Ferman

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.

Indigenous Art’s Time is Now (Finally)

A Conversation with Nocona Burgess, Will Riding In and Scott Hale

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, joins Comanche artist Nocona Burgess, with art appraiser and advisor Scott Hale moderating.

Revolt at the Vladem

Virgil Ortiz’s New Immersive Experience

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.

Creativity in Action

Ellen Petry Leanse Panel

Creativity: what, actually, is it? Something some people are born with and others wish for? A practice, one that can be learned? Or maybe a mindset that anyone can activate when they understand what’s really going on in creative thought? Neurologist Ellen Petry Leanse — who has explained this to the leaders of Apple, Google, and Facebook — will, in this session, dive deep into the process of three acclaimed Santa Fe creatives 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.

Learn from Birds

An Avian Demonstration from a Raptor Whisperer, Mario Garcia

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.

The $71 Billion Question

State Investment Officer Jon Clark

New Mexico holds $71 billion in sovereign wealth, which is expected to reach $100 billion by 2030. Most New Mexicans have never heard of it. A constitutional framework from 1912 functions as a spendthrift trust: citizens are beneficiaries who receive an allowance from wealth they theoretically own but cannot direct, question, or deploy. Singapore started with less and built a nation. Ireland unlocked a passive fund in one legislative act. Alaska got a check and changed nothing. This session asks who decided New Mexicans shouldn’t have a voice in what their $71 billion builds, and what it takes to change that.

Finding Your People

Professional Matchmaker Julie Ferman

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.

Marc Maron Comes Home

Owen Lipstein in conversation with Marc Maron

Marc Maron Comes Home — 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.

The Indigenous Film Academy

Jessica Matten in conversation with Dr. Shelly C. Lowe

As the lead actress on the series Dark Winds, Jessica Matten’s mission is to restore balance and dignity to Indigenous narratives through storytelling, visibility, and community empowerment. Her work extends beyond entertainment — it’s a holistic effort to heal generational trauma by creating tangible opportunities in film, education, and economic access, allowing Indigenous youth to see themselves as creators, leaders, and innovators. Known as a Water Keeper, Matten champions clean water access — both literally, through advocacy, and on-the-ground initiatives, and symbolically, through mental and emotional renewal. Her focus on mental health within the film industry is deeply intentional: a reflection of her belief that wellness, art, and identity are inseparable. In this session, she talks about her new film academy for Indigenous youth.

How We Invented Meow Wolf

Maggie Fine in conversation with Meow Wolf co-founders Benji Geary, Caity Kennedy and Vince Kadlubek

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.

The Web that Epstein Wove: Zorro Ranch and the Reckoning in New Mexico

Cecile Lipworth in conversation with Andrea Romero, Sally Denton and Clara Bates

As new details continue to surface about Jeffrey Epstein’s vast network of sexual exploitation, trafficking, and political entanglement, the scale of silence and complicity hits closer to home — at Zorro Ranch, within systems that failed to see or chose not to act. Now, that silence is being challenged. Representative Andrea Romero, who spearheaded the state’s new bipartisan truth commission, joins investigative reporters Sally Denton and Clara Bates to follow the threads others have left hanging. What happened. Who knew. Why has accountability been so elusive? And, what does it mean for New Mexico to confront not just one case, but a pattern of sexual violence ignored, of missing and murdered Indigenous people overlooked, of power operating without consequence? The questions aren’t just what’s hidden. It’s who is finally willing to look.

Creative Trespassing: It Never Was A Dress

Tania Katan

She walked into a tech company as a transformational speaker and immediately knew two things: she had no idea how the software worked, and the women around her were being quietly, systematically underestimated. Most people would have stayed in their lane. Tania picked up a marker. By turning the iconic restroom symbol’s dress into a superhero cape, she sparked #ItWasNeverADress — a social impact campaign that spread around the world and permanently changed how we see women in the workplace. That instinct — finding the precise, unexpected gesture that shifts everything — is exactly what she brings to startups, arts & culture orgs and  Fortune 500s, turning the status quo into social change. She’s authored the award-winning book about how everyone can see unlimited possibilities: Creative Trespassing: How to Put the Joy & Spark Back Into Your Life & Work. In this interactive session, be forewarned: you might experience laughter, collaboration and joy.

Creativity. Community. Connection.

Catherine Oppenheimer, Maggie Fine, Jamie Lenfestey and Tim Franke

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), Jamie Lenfestey and Tim Franke (Lensic 360) and the collective 505omatic. 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.

Morning Blessing

JP Granillo

Begin the day with a reflective morning blessing led by JP Granillo, rooted in Santa Fe’s spirit of place, community and renewal. This intimate gathering offers a moment to step into the day with intention.

Soundbath in the Chapel

Modern Elder

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.

The Way We Walk...

A Walk with Angela Ellsworth & KB Soundscapes

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 Soundscapes 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.

The Scent of Creation

Ria Leigh Res Extensa of Calyx Armatura

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.

Raul Pacheco

Man Boy Brown

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.

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Backstage with the Interviewees and the Magazine’s Editors

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.

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Virgil Ortiz Art Opening

Renowned Artist Virgil Ortiz Launches His New Show

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.

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Coyote Café’s Mark Miller Chile Tasting

What You Don’t Know About Green Chile

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.

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Sacred Sunday

A Breath & Ritual Experience

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.

Andrew Weil Film Screening

The Father of Integrative Medicine’s New Film

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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