See a unique collaborative performance.  

Ideas of belonging and cultural identity permeate Illustration, Songs, and Memory: Until There’s Nothing Left to Give, a performance by visual artist Zahra Marwan and singer Tara Khozein, happening at the Harwood Art Center in Albuquerque twice on Saturday. 

Marwan, whose children’s book, Where Butterflies Fill the Sky, was praised by the New York Times and NPR, and Khozein, a soprano and composer who shares Iranian heritage along with Marwan, contemplate identity through memory in the performance. “We started talking and sharing memories,” Marwan says. “We met in New York in a little tea shop.” Tying that moment in, attendees can sip tea brewed in a samovar during the show.

In Until There’s Nothing Left to Give, eight of Marwan’s paintings are paired with eight of Khozein’s songs. “To see how she took my memories, it was like seeing something new,” Marwan says. “It was beautiful and moving.” Marwan’s watercolor and ink on paper works are for sale, and buyers will receive a recording of their paired song. See it Saturday at 11 a.m., 12:30 p.m., and 1:30 p.m. With limited capacity, make sure to reserve your spot.

Kick the winter blues at Winterbrew, a beer-focused shindig at the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market Pavilion, where you can sip beers from 16 New Mexico breweries. Photograph courtesy of Max Otwell.

2 Sip a cold one.

Kick the winter blues with a brew at the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market Pavilion during Winterbrew, a beer-focused annual shindig that highlights New Mexico’s flourishing craft brew industry. From 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday, attendees can sip beers from 16 breweries hailing from throughout the Land of Enchantment including Nuckolls Brewing Co., Taos Mesa Brewing, La Cumbre Brewing Company, Beer Creek Brewing Company, and Rowley Farmhouse Ales. The beer party is hosted by the New Mexico Brewers’ Guild. Grab a ticket here.

Catch the KiMo Theatre concert in Albuquerque with Grammy-nominated Cimafunk, Willajay, Hooks and the Huckleberries, and Dust City Opera, previewing Bands of Enchantment season 4. Photograph courtesy of Rusty Rutherford.

3 Hang with the bands.

Hit the KiMo Theatre in Albuquerque on Thursday and enjoy a concert previewing some of the musicians featured in season 4 of Bands of Enchantment, an award-winning PBS live music performance TV show. Grammy-nominated Cimafunk, Willajay, Hooks and the Huckleberries, and a special acoustic set by Dust City Opera will take over the concert stage. Music starts at 7 p.m. Get tickets here.

Celebrate the Year of the Snake at the Albuquerque Museum with a Family Art Workshop or head to the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe for a full day of lion dancers, drumming parades, art activities, and movie screenings. Photograph courtesy of the Museum of International Folk Art.

4 Ring in the Year of the Snake.

Albuquerque Museum

The Lunar New Year starts on January 29, ushering in the Year of the Snake. Celebrate with some hands-on fun for all ages at the Albuquerque Museum during a Family Art Workshop on Saturday at 1 p.m. Using foil and permanent markers, instructor Haley Kirschner teaches attendees to make an embossed snake to ring in the new year.

Museum of International Folk Art 

Lion dancers, drumming parades, art activities, and a short movie screening make this Lunar New Year party in Santa Fe a full-day affair at the Museum of International Folk Art. The Quang Minh Lion Dance Group from Albuquerque performs at 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.; a taiko drumming performance by Santa Fe Wadaiko happens at 1 and 3 p.m.; and the party goes from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

Join friends of Luchita Hurtado, including Ron Cooper, Cynthia Patterson, Happy Price, and Hank Sax, for a conversation about her life and art. Photograph courtesy of the Harwood Museum of Art.

5 Remember an influential artist. 

Sundays with Luchita is a conversation series in Taos and part of Channeling Luchita: A Community Response to the Life and Work of Luchita Hurtado. On view at the Millicent Rogers Museum through February 2, the exhibition features work from members of the Taos Abstract Artist Collective that is inspired by Hurtado’s prolific creative legacy, including fashion designer Josh Tafoya and painter Rick Romancito. 

Channeling Luchita was created in response to Luchita Hurtado: Earth and Sky Interjected, which remains on view at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos through February 23, and the conversation series is a collaborative effort between the Taos Abstract Artists Collective, the Harwood Museum of Art, and the Millicent Rogers Museum. 

This Sunday, the conversation features friends of Hurtado who knew her during her life in Taos. Hear from Ron Cooper, Cynthia Patterson, Happy Price, and Hank Sax as they share memories, stories, and impressions about Hurtado as an artist and a friend. The event happens at the Harwood Museum of Art on Sunday at 2 p.m.

For more things to do, check out our online calendar of events.