Community Calendar

Families & Youth Innovations Plus (FYI+) will launch its six-week Summer Food Service Program on Monday, June 5th at over 30 locations throughout Las Cruces and the surrounding area. Children and youth ages 1 to 18 and adults with disabilities are eligible to visit any of the designated sites for free meals through July 14th.

The Summer Food Service Program is managed by the State of New Mexico and is funded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The State works with multiple agencies like FYI Plus to ensure children across the state do not go hungry while school is out for summer break. FYI Plus has been facilitating the program in Las Cruces since 1993.

A full list of meal site locations can be found at www.summerfoodnm.org. Some sites serve breakfast and lunch, while others only serve lunch or dinner. The program will not provide meals on the national holidays of Juneteenth (6/19) or Independence Day (7/4).

La Academia Dolores Huerta Charter Middle School is now accepting registration for grades 6-8 for the 2023-2024 school year. You may complete your registration online @ www.ladh.org or come by the campus to pick up a registration packet. For more info call (575) 526-2984.

Photos capturing the people and places along New Mexico Highway 28 are on display at the Branigan Cultural Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico. NMSU photojournalism students of Associate professor and professional photographer Bruce Berman have traveled the highway documenting rural communities.

For over a decade, the “Small Village New Mexico Project” has provided Berman’s advanced photography students the opportunity to use their talents to capture the unique villages and scenery of southern New Mexico and even some parts of west Texas.

The “Small Village New Mexico Project” will be on display at the Branigan Cultural Center at 501 N. Main Street, Las Cruces New Mexico 88001 from April 14th through June 24th, 2023.

Berman will give a lecture on the project at the Branigan Cultural Center on Thursday, April 20th, 2023 at noon.

The center will also host an opening reception and gallery talk featuring students who contributed to the project will take place on May 5th, 2023 from 5 pm to 6:30 pm.

The Branigan Cultural Center is located in downtown Las Cruces and is open from Tuesday through Friday from 10 am to 4:30 pm and Saturday 9 am to 4:30 pm. Admission is free.

June 2023 at the Deming Art Center will feature metal artists Ray Turner and Frank Holguin. Come by and be amazed at what these two men have designed and created for our enjoyment. Ray has been doing metal art on and off for quite some time, but Frank got started welding for art’s sake about 6 years ago. It was a way of spending time with his son along with teaching him how to weld. The exhibit will be up from June 2-29, 2023. There will be a time to meet the artists on Sunday, June 4, 2023, from 1PM- 3PM. The Deming Art Center is located at 100 S. Gold, Deming, NM, and regular hours are Mon-Fri 10AM-4PM and Saturday from 10AM – 1PM. Please call 575-546-3663, check our website at www.demingarts.org or our FB page for more information. This project is supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts.

GYPSY the musical opens June 2 and runs three weekends through June 18.
Friday & Saturdays 7:30 pm, Sundays, 2:00 pm. Las Cruces Community Theatre.

Al-Anon is for family and friends affected by someone else's drinking or drug use.

Families & Youth Innovations Plus (FYI+) will launch its six-week Summer Food Service Program on Monday, June 5th at over 30 locations throughout Las Cruces and the surrounding area. Children and youth ages 1 to 18 and adults with disabilities are eligible to visit any of the designated sites for free meals through July 14th.

The Summer Food Service Program is managed by the State of New Mexico and is funded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The State works with multiple agencies like FYI Plus to ensure children across the state do not go hungry while school is out for summer break. FYI Plus has been facilitating the program in Las Cruces since 1993.

A full list of meal site locations can be found at www.summerfoodnm.org. Some sites serve breakfast and lunch, while others only serve lunch or dinner. The program will not provide meals on the national holidays of Juneteenth (6/19) or Independence Day (7/4).

La Academia Dolores Huerta Charter Middle School is now accepting registration for grades 6-8 for the 2023-2024 school year. You may complete your registration online @ www.ladh.org or come by the campus to pick up a registration packet. For more info call (575) 526-2984.

Photos capturing the people and places along New Mexico Highway 28 are on display at the Branigan Cultural Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico. NMSU photojournalism students of Associate professor and professional photographer Bruce Berman have traveled the highway documenting rural communities.

For over a decade, the “Small Village New Mexico Project” has provided Berman’s advanced photography students the opportunity to use their talents to capture the unique villages and scenery of southern New Mexico and even some parts of west Texas.

The “Small Village New Mexico Project” will be on display at the Branigan Cultural Center at 501 N. Main Street, Las Cruces New Mexico 88001 from April 14th through June 24th, 2023.

Berman will give a lecture on the project at the Branigan Cultural Center on Thursday, April 20th, 2023 at noon.

The center will also host an opening reception and gallery talk featuring students who contributed to the project will take place on May 5th, 2023 from 5 pm to 6:30 pm.

The Branigan Cultural Center is located in downtown Las Cruces and is open from Tuesday through Friday from 10 am to 4:30 pm and Saturday 9 am to 4:30 pm. Admission is free.

June 2023 at the Deming Art Center will feature metal artists Ray Turner and Frank Holguin. Come by and be amazed at what these two men have designed and created for our enjoyment. Ray has been doing metal art on and off for quite some time, but Frank got started welding for art’s sake about 6 years ago. It was a way of spending time with his son along with teaching him how to weld. The exhibit will be up from June 2-29, 2023. There will be a time to meet the artists on Sunday, June 4, 2023, from 1PM- 3PM. The Deming Art Center is located at 100 S. Gold, Deming, NM, and regular hours are Mon-Fri 10AM-4PM and Saturday from 10AM – 1PM. Please call 575-546-3663, check our website at www.demingarts.org or our FB page for more information. This project is supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts.