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Now Showing at the Silco Theatre :: Arts & Music
"Kingsman: The Golden Circle" (R) 6:00pm
Location Silco Theatre
Contact www.thesilco.com or 575-956-6185
Mimbres Culture Heritage Site Closed for Harvest Festival :: Social Events
Staff will be attending the Mimbres Valley Harvest Festival. Drop by and see us at our booth.
Location San Lorenzo Elementary School
Contact 307-640-3012
08:30am - 12:00pm Silver City Farmer's Market :: Social Events
Downtown Silver City every Saturday starting on May 6th.
Location Silver City Farmers Market
08:30am - 12:00pm Southwest Festival of the Written Word: Megan Kimble :: Arts & Music
Megan Kimble is the editor of Edible Baja Arizona, a local food magazine serving Tucson and the borderlands, and the author of Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food (William Morrow 2015). Megan has written for the Los Angeles Times, ...
Location Silver City Farmers Market
Contact www.swwordfiesta.org
09:00am 7th Annual James H. Pirtle Walk for Heroes :: Fundraiser
Registration starts at 9:00 a.m. on the day of the event and costs $25 per person or $30 per couple. Registered participants will get a T-shirt and lunch. The remaining funds go to local charities. This year’s participants will walk ...
Location WNMU Old James Stadium
09:00am - 04:00pm Mimbres Valley Harvest Festival :: Social Events
2017 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE9:00 - Health Fair opens9:30 - Pies must be delivered to the pie tent10:00 - Festival Opens10:15 - The Rivers Bend Band - Gospel music (on stage)11:00 - Sign up for the horseshoe tournament11:00 - Wiebke-Fresian Horse Demonstration ...
Location San Lorenzo Elementary School
Contact http://mimbresharvestfest.com/
09:00am - 12:00pm Silver City Blood Drive :: Health & Wellness
Every 2 seconds someone needs a blood transfusion. Patients suffering from trauma, cancer, leukemia, and more all require lifesaving blood transfusions. You can help make sure blood is available when it’s needed. Every donor will receive a cool T-Shirt!
Location Wal-Mart
Contact 575-527-1322
10:00am - 04:00pm 32nd Annual Purchase Prize Art Exhibit :: Arts & Music
Purchase Prize Art Show open to the public.
Location Pinos Altos Art Gallery
10:00am - 12:30pm Festival of the Written Word :: Arts & Music
The Southwest Festival of the Written Word presents authors and publishers who live and work in the southwest discussing their work and creative processes in eight festival sessions throughout downtown Silver City, NM. Saturday morning session topics include: Poetry, Fiction, ...
Location Southwest Festival of the Written Word Headquarters
Contact www.swwordfiesta.org
10:00am - 04:00pm Mimbres Harvest Festival :: Social Events
Location San Lorenzo Elementary School
10:00am - 11:00am Southwest Festival of the Written Word: Julie Iromuanya :: Arts & Music
Julie Iromuanya is the author of Mr. and Mrs. Doctor (Coffee House Press), a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the Etisalat Prize for Literature, and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard ...
Location Seedboat Center for the Arts
Contact www.swwordfiesta.org
11:30am - 12:30pm Southwest Festival of the Written Word: Adrienne Celt :: Arts & Music
Adrienne Celt is the author of The Daughters, a novel, which won the 2015 PEN Southwest Book Award, and a book of comics, Apocalypse How? An Existential Bestiary. Her work has appeared in the 2016 PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, Ecotone, Esquire, ...
Location Old Elk's Club
Contact www.swwordfiesta.org
11:30am - 12:30pm Southwest Festival of the Written Word: Jane Lindskold :: Arts & Music
Jane Lindskold is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling, internationally published author of twenty-five novels, including the six volume Firekeeper Saga, the three volume Breaking the Wall series, and, most recently, Artemis Awakening and Artemis Invaded. Lindskold has also written ...
Location El Sol Theater
Contact www.swwordfiesta.org
11:30am - 12:30pm Southwest Festival of the Written Word: Steve Havill :: Arts & Music
Release of Easy Errors, the latest Posadas County mystery, marks the 28th novel for New Mexico novelist Steven F. Havill-and the 22st in that popular series. The author of four western novels, 22 contemporary mystery novels set in fictitious Posadas ...
Location Seedboat Center for the Arts
Contact www.swwordfiesta.org
01:30pm - 02:30pm Southwest Festival of the Written Word Panel - "Writer's Life: Three Wise Women" :: Arts & Music
Featuring Stella Pope Duarte.
Location Seedboat Center for the Arts
Contact www.swwordfiesta.org
01:30pm - 04:00pm Southwest Festival of the Written Word Venues :: Arts & Music
1:30-2:30pm and 3:00-4:00pm. Saturday afternoon session topics include: Fiction, Panels on The Writer’s Life, Panel on Establishing a Publishing Imprint, Narrative Non-fiction, Journalism, Poetry, and the production of “Blatant Attempts at Understanding” by Melanie Zipin and performed by the Virus ...
Location Silver City, New Mexico
Contact www.swwordfiesta.org
01:30pm - 02:30pm Southwest Festival of the Written Word: Matt Bell :: Arts & Music
Matt Bell is the author most recently of the novel Scrapper and the story collection A Tree or a Person or a Wall. His previous novel, In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods, was a finalist ...
Location Old Elk's Club
Contact www.swwordfiesta.org
02:00pm - 04:00pm Monsoon Puppet Workshop for Dias de los Muertos :: Kids' Activity
Please Pre-register, donation $5. This workshop is for kids to make small puppets and/or masks that can be used to participate in the Dia de los Muertos Parade on October 29th. The first class will be cardboard construction for those ...
Location Leyba and Ingalls Arts
Contact 575-388-5725
03:00pm - 04:00pm Southwest Festival of the Written Word: Algernon D'Ammassa :: Arts & Music
"How is Journalism Changing?" Algernon D'Ammassa has been the author of the Deming Headlight's "Desert Sage" opinion column since 2013. He has been a reporter for the Headlight since April, and is an occasional contributor to the Las Cruces Sun ...
Location Silver City Public Library
Contact www.swwordfiesta.org
03:00pm - 04:00pm Southwest Festival of the Written Word: How is Journalism Changing?" :: Arts & Music
Algernon D'Ammassa and Kate Nelson
Location Silver City Public Library
Contact www.swwordfiesta.org
03:00pm - 04:00pm Southwest Festival of the Written Word: Paul Andrew Hutton :: Arts & Music
"Writer''s Life: Three Wise Men in Conversation about the Writing Life"Paul Andrew Hutton is an American cultural historian, an award-winning author, a documentary film writer, and a television personality. He holds the rank of Distinguished Professor at the University of ...
Location Seedboat Center for the Arts
Contact www.swwordfiesta.org
03:00pm - 04:00pm Southwest Festival of the Written Word:Tim Z. Hernandez :: Arts & Music
"Narrative Non-Fiction: Reading and Discussion from his new Book, 'All They Will Call You'"Tim Z. Hernandez is a writer and performance artist. He is the recipient of an American Book Award for poetry, the Colorado Book Award for poetry, and the ...
Location Old Elk's Club
Contact www.swwordfiesta.org
04:00pm - 05:00pm Silver City Quarterly Review :: Arts & Music
2nd Anniversary Celebration. Our authors will read poetry, short stories and excerpts from longer works.
Location Tranquilbuzz
Contact
04:30pm - 06:00pm Southwest Festival of the Written Word Open Mic :: Arts & Music
Open mic/Poetry/Flash Fiction hosted by Damien Davies with Manuel Gonzalez. Open to the public free of charge.
Location "A" Space Gallery
Contact www.swwordfiesta.org
04:30pm - 06:00pm Southwest Festival of the Written Word Roundtable :: Arts & Music
Round Table with Writers plus The Great Book Giveaway Quiz. Algernon D’Ammassa, Matt Bell, Jane Lindskold, Andrea Cote-Botero, Steve Havill do “give and take” conversation among themselves and with the audience.
Location Seedboat Center for the Arts
Contact www.swwordfiesta.org
06:30pm Barb Fila and Joe K :: Arts & Music
Live music, Jazz duo, voice and guitar
Location Buckhorn Saloon
07:00pm Movies at the Light Hall Theater :: Arts & Music
"The Hitman's Bodyguard" (R)
Location Light Hall Theatre
Contact movies.wnmu.edu
07:30pm Word Travels Fast: "I, Custer" Performed by Marissa Bond :: Arts & Music
Free. Part of the Southwest Festival of the Written Word. Chosen for the 2016 Mark Medoff Directorial Project Award, a one-woman play that deconstructs Custer, his life, and his last stand. Marissa Bond is a regular on the theater stages in Las ...
Location WNMU Parotti Recital Hall
Contact www.swwordfiesta.org
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