Datebook: July 2024
A KALEIDOSCOPE OF ART from around the world takes over the Santa Fe Railyard during the 20th annual International Folk Art Market (IFAM) July 11–14. Featuring more than 160 artists, including 41 first…
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Datebook: October 2023
LAST YEAR, THE SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (SFIFF) rebranded to recognize its global draw, with entries spanning more than 100 countries, including films from France, India, and Ukraine. What…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Watch Indigenous culture shine. The 101st Gallup Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial brings a slew of celebratory events to Gallup August 4–13, including an art market, dance performances, pow wows…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Celebrate a historic site. The land where Fort Selden Historic Site sits has had a remarkable past, first as farmland for Mogollon people as early as 400 AD, and much later as an 1860s military…
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Wool, Yarn, and Weaving, Oh My!
EVERY OCTOBER, the New Mexico Fiber Arts Center hosts an exploration of the role Navajo-Churro sheep play in the state’s weaving history. In addition to workshops on fiber processing and Río Grande…
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Datebook: October 2022
PEGGY KING UNDERSTANDS THE IMPORTANCE of the Día de los Muertos celebration and its return to the Mesilla Plaza after a two-year hiatus. An event coordinator at the Calavera Coalition, which oversees…
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Las Golondrinas Volunteers Get in Character
“WE COULDN'T DO IT without them,” says Laura Gonzales, Las Golondrinas’s director of education and volunteer services. She’s talking about the approximately 130 volunteers who bring the museum to life…
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Las Golondrinas Brings the Past to Life
THE REVEREND LARRY BRITO sprinkles holy water on the fields at El Rancho de las Golondrinas, the echoes of traditional hymns sung earlier by the Caballeros de Vargas still reverberating in the air on…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
Carve out your place in the Guinness World Record books this weekend at the Rio Rancho Fall Festival. Robert Linder/Unsplash. Set a pumpkin carving record. Can’t wait to get dressed up, pop some…
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Agro-Tourism And Hands-On Fun
Above: Horses at the Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum. THE BUSINESS OF BERRIES There’s a reason hordes of people are willing to pay to play farm laborer for the day: It’s pure bliss. Well, maybe not the…
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