{"id":70105,"date":"2016-09-27T21:55:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T03:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dream-machine-to-offer-music-art-classes-in-cortez\/"},"modified":"2016-09-28T03:55:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T03:55:39","slug":"dream-machine-to-offer-music-art-classes-in-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dream-machine-to-offer-music-art-classes-in-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream Machine to offer music, art classes in Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=8f091b14-2a87-4047-825b-d441596b18db&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1363\" alt=\"The Dream Machine is opening at 100 N. Pi\u00f1on Drive in Cortez. From left are Marinda Harrison, Simone Sanchez, Renita Conny, Shane Snyder and Sabrina Giesler.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Dream Machine is opening at 100 N. Pi\u00f1on Drive in Cortez. From left are Marinda Harrison, Simone Sanchez, Renita Conny, Shane Snyder and Sabrina Giesler.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Classes at the Dream Machine Education and Entertainment Center will start Oct. 10 in Cortez.<\/p>\n<p>The center, at 100 N. Pi\u00f1on Drive, will feature music and arts classes for kids and adults, led by a collective of professional artists and musicians, founder and director Simone Sanchez said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to be an artistic and creative hub,\u201d Sanchez said.<\/p>\n<p>The Dream Machine philosophy is influenced by the Arthur O\u2019Shaughnessy quote, \u201cWe are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams,\u201d Sanchez said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat statement is the driving force for everything we do,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>When she moved to the area, she realized there were limited options for after-school programs for kids, so she wanted to start offering more activities.<\/p>\n<p>Current class offerings may be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreammachinecortez.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dreammachinecortez.com<\/a>. There are classes for toddlers through adults, Sanchez said.<\/p>\n<p>People will be able to take classes in guitar and piano instruction, as well as in visual art subjects such as wire wrapping, Sanchez said. Other subjects that will be offered include flute, ukelele, rock band, drawing, painting and early childhood art, she said. All instructors are professional artists or musicians, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s about the joy of music and art,\u201d Sanchez said.<\/p>\n<p>The Dream Machine building formerly was a gas station, and Sanchez is revamping the interior with a steampunk theme, to emphasize the \u201cmachine\u201d part of the center\u2019s name. All the decorations in the building will be artistic in some way, she said. The space also will be available for rent, she said.<\/p>\n<p>People who need to book a band for a performance can do that at Dream Machine, too, Sanchez said.<\/p>\n<p>Cortez has a wealth of artists and creative people, Sanchez said, and she hopes to showcase them through Dream Machine. She welcomes collaboration from artists in the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to make artists welcome here,\u201d she said. \u201cWhatever makes you a creative person, please do it here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jklopfenstein@the-journal.com\">jklopfenstein@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018We want to be an artistic and creative hub,\u2019 Simone Sanchez says<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,60],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-70105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-montezuma-county"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70105"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=70105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}