The 13th annual festival, Gathering the Gila will engage participants in an exploration of the bountiful native foods, plants, and medicines found throughout the Gila River and its watershed. Presented by the Gila Conservation Coalition, the Festival will feature dynamic ...   

For times, events, exhibits and other information see: https://www.grantcountyfairnm.com/   

"Kingsman: The Golden Circle" (R) 2:30 & 6:00pm   

This active participatory service will recognize the two High Holidays, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Since this is a time of charity, attendees are asked to bring non-perishable goods for the food donation basket. It will also be a Family ...   

Purchase Prize Art Show open to the public.   

Tickets are $50 and proceeds benefit the Gila Conservation Coalition’s mission. Roxanne Swentzell, Director of Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute and Santa Clara Pueblo member, has been researching and teaching permacultural practices since 1989. This brunch, featuring native and locally grown ...   

45.00, materials & refreshment included. Must Pre-Register! A deposit of ½ will hold your space, payable to Leyba & Ingalls ARTS. A monthly series, everyone paints their own version of the same painting. The artist (in this case, Diana Ingalls ...   

"Spider-Man: Homecoming" (PG-13)   

"Kingsman: The Golden Circle" (R) 6:00pm   

Al-Anon Family Groups are for family and friends of alcoholics. This is an Open Meeting of Al-Anon.   

The Open House is a casual opportunity to engage with Forest Service specialists about Forest Plan Revision. Stakeholders can arrive any time, stay as long as they like, and can talk with Forest Service specialists discussing various resources. There will ...   

Live music   

"Kingsman: The Golden Circle" (R) 6:00pm   

A new 6-class series with Dixie Dexter runs for six consecutive Tuesdays. Attend one, some, or all six classes. No experience necessary; everyone is welcome! $5 per class.   

In the Annex.   

1. CALL TO ORDER AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE2. CHANGES TO AGENDA3. CEREMONIES4. PROCLAMATIONS - "Southwest Festival of the Written Word Weekend" - Sept. 29 - Oct. 1, 2017 "Walk for the Heroes Day" - Sept. 30, 2017 "Fire Prevention Week" ...   

A pre-performance reception will take place on the Light Hall Patio at 6:30 p.m. Season passes to the five-performance series cost $60, and individual performances cost $15. Tickets can be purchased at WNMU Office of Cultural Affairs in Hunter Hall ...   

FREE! Help for non-profits or those considering one. Every Wednesday, by appointment only.    

"Kingsman: The Golden Circle" (R) 6:00pm   

Lost your library card? Replacement library cards will be free, in celebration of Library Card Sign-up Month. Come by the library to replace your card. Remember, if you haven’t had a library card before, your first card is always free!   

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!   

For more information on the class visit: http://www.lotuscentersc.org/classes-moving-arts/   

Fresh produce and other goodies.   

Join us for stories, songs and rhymes, movement, and simple crafts. Storytimes are designed for children ages 0-5 and their caregivers. Free, no registration necessary.   

Presented by Corrie Neighbor. This program is free and open to the public.   

Join us for stories, songs and rhymes, and movement for infants 0-24 months and their caregivers. Free, no registration necessary.   

Beginners welcome, experts challenged.   

Creative construction fun with LEGO® bricks, K'NEX®, and Strawbees! This activity is geared toward children ages 6-12. Free, no registration necessary.   

This is an open meeting.   

Live music.   

Performances by the Concert Band of the Southwest are free. The concert begins at 7:00 pm; doors open at 6:30 pm. Donations for our sheet music library and expenses are gratefully accepted. The performance will include “Miss Liberty March” by ...   

"Kingsman: The Golden Circle" (R) 6:00pm   

Melissa L. Sevigny grew up in Tucson, Arizona where she fell in love with the Sonoran Desert's ecology, geology and dark desert skies. Her lyrical nonfiction and poetry explores the intersections of science, politics, and history, with a focus on ...   

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!   

Creative fun for children ages 5 and under! Free, no registration necessary.   

Public welcome.   

Robots, electronics, games, crafting, 3D drawing, photo editing and more will be available. During September we will experiment and explore with the "Architects Delight" (see link below). Ages 10+, free, no registration necessary."Architects Delight" STEM to Read Trunk from the ...   

Free. Presenter Naomi Natale is known as the Founder and Director of "One Million Bones," a large-scale installation project where one million handmade bones from individuals all over the world were created to spotlight the victims of genocide. The final ...   

Set in northern New Mexico, based on the novel by John Nichols, this is the story of the fight to preserve heritage and a way of life against the march of “progress”. The movie will be introduced by a member of the Society, ...   

"Kingsman: The Golden Circle" (R) 6:00pm   

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!   

Technical meetings are scheduled for an extended period during the day to encourage participation by interested local governments, state/federal agencies, non-governmental organizations, and members of the public with more time for discussion on topics and get into the details more. ...   

Purchase Prize Art Show open to the public.   

"Memoir: Readings from her new memoir, My Mother and I, We Talk Cat." Elise Stuart was Silver City's Poet Laureate from 2014 to 2017. During her term, she promoted expanding the power of the written word in our community, giving voice ...   

"Outdoor Writing" M. John Fayhee is the author of 12 books and has twice been a finalist in the Colorado Book Awards. He edited the Mountain Gazette for 13 years, was a contributing editor at Backpacker Magazine for 10 years. He ...   

"Delving into Others' Lives, a Conversation about Writing Biography"Ron Hamm began writing biography with obituaries (the genre in brief) as a copy boy on his Indiana home town newspaper. Following the Marine Corps, Hamm's United Press/Associated Press career allowed him ...   

Free. Part of the Southwest Festival of the Written Word. Legendary playwright and screenwriter Mark Medoff talks about how his career and how his words have traveled throughout the world. He received the Tony and Olivier Awards for "Children of a ...   

Join the Silver City Museum and partners for an afternoon presentation Voices of Counterculture in the Southwest, followed by an introduction for those participating in the digital storytelling workshop over the weekend. To apply to participate in the Silver City ...   

"Journalism and Theater" 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 News. ...   

Free. Part of the Southwest Festival of the Written Word.The virus Theater perfoms a series of scenes, monologues, and dramatic sketches that take the audience on an introspective journey, combining a sense of place (the high deserts of NM) with a ...   

2nd Anniversary Celebration. Our authors will read poetry, short stories and excerpts from longer works.   

Maricela Duarte, a Mexican-American author who lives in Las Cruces, will read and discuss her book, "Rehilete," an anthology of Hispanic poetry for children and adolescents. The book already has had two successful editions published in Chihuahua, Mexico. Duarte is ...   

Keynote Event: Stella Pope Duarte, award winning author and Pulitzer Prize nominee. Open to the public free of charge. She is described as a "magical weaver with a sure hand and a pure heart," and praised as an author who "will ...   

This meeting is limited to female Al-Anon members and prospective members. Park on Ridge Loop; walk around building to side entrance to lower level.   

Live music   

"The Hitman's Bodyguard" (R)   

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 ...   

Staff will be attending the Mimbres Valley Harvest Festival. Drop by and see us at our booth.   

"Kingsman: The Golden Circle" (R) 6:00pm   

Downtown Silver City every Saturday starting on May 6th.   

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, ...   

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 ...   

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 ...   

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!   

Purchase Prize Art Show open to the public.   

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, ...   

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 ...   

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, ...   

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 ...   

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 ...   

Featuring Stella Pope Duarte.   

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 ...   

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 ...   

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 ...   

"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 ...   

 Algernon D'Ammassa and Kate Nelson   

"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 ...   

"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 ...   

2nd Anniversary Celebration. Our authors will read poetry, short stories and excerpts from longer works.   

Open mic/Poetry/Flash Fiction hosted by Damien Davies with Manuel Gonzalez. Open to the public free of charge.   

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.    

Live music, Jazz duo, voice and guitar   

"The Hitman's Bodyguard" (R)   

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 ...