{"id":74250,"date":"2019-09-06T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-cultural-center-announces-september-events\/"},"modified":"2019-09-06T16:43:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T16:43:00","slug":"cortez-cultural-center-announces-september-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-cultural-center-announces-september-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez Cultural center announces September events"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=33f062e5-8bbe-4d88-beff-1e290bd0e0a0&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" alt=\"Cortez Cultural Center announces September events, including an art exhibition by Benton Yazzie.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Cortez Cultural Center announces September events, including an art exhibition by Benton Yazzie.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Collage of the Past by Benton Yazzie.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cortez Cultural Center will hold following events in September:<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet_rr\">Benton Yazzie exhibition: A solo exhibition of acrylic and mixed-media paintings by Navajo painter and illustrator Benton Yazzie will run from Sept. 3 through October. <\/em>Yazzie is a self-taught artist based in the Four Corners. His work often explores tensions between the traditional ways of this people, the Din\u00c3\u00a9, and the fast-paced, technological features of contemporary life.<\/p>\n<p>An artist reception with live music will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Sept. 20. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet_rr\">Cocktail Culture: The informal monthly happy hour, will take place at 5 p.m. on the first Thursday of the month, beginning Thursday,  Sept. 5.<\/em>Take a break from the usual happy hour while supporting the Cultural Center. Sip a featured cocktail and mingle. A $15 suggested donation includes appetizers and nonalcoholic beverages.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet_rr\">Critical Conversations series: The free discussion series will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. every third Wednesday at the Cultural Center. Suicide prevention will be the topic on Sept. 18.<\/em>Diverse ideas and opinions are welcome; civility is required. A moderator and refreshments will be provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cultural Center announces September events, including an art exhibition by Benton Yazzie.Collage of the Past by Benton Yazzie. Cortez Cultural Center will hold following events in September: Benton Yazzie exhibition: A solo exhibition of acrylic and mixed-media paintings by Navajo painter and illustrator Benton Yazzie will run from Sept. 3 through October. Yazzie is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[202],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-74250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-briefs"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74250","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=74250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74250"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=74250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}