Community Calendar

Open Mic headquarters - come see us and play/sing/dance the night away. Fun fun fun for all 🎸🎶🥁🎹 and if you don’t do any of those, no biggie, come anyway! #biggestlittlestageinnewmexico #bestofmesilla #experiencemesilla #musicatitsbest #theogs #churrachos #slushies

Sign ups @ 5pm FCFS
Music starts @ 6pm - 10pm

Food and beverages available for purchase. No outside food or drink allowed at anytime.

This is a small group meeting for people in our community who have been recently diagnosed with, or care for persons with, Parkinson’s Disease. The meeting is designed to answer questions about meds, doctors, symptoms etc. All members are invited to come, especially the long timers, as they have experience and wisdom to share. This meeting takes place on the fourth Tuesday of each month.

“Flowers, Flowers, Flowers,” is the theme for the August 2025 exhibit at the Deming Art Center. This will be a “scentsational,” bright and beautiful display of the exquisite nature of flowers.
There will be a time to meet the artists on Sunday, August 3, 2025, from 1-2:30PM. The exhibit will be up from August 2-29, 2025. Please see our Facebook page, call 575-546-3663 or check out our website at www.demingarts.org 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.

Encouraging Enlightened Dialogue on Current Events

Al-Anon is for family and friends who have been affected by another's drinking or drug addiction.

Drawing from the University Art Museum's extensive collection of over 2,200 Mexican retablos, Trinities of Heaven and Earth explores the spiritual and cultural importance of these sacred images. Retablos, small devotional paintings traditionally displayed in Mexican homes, served as vital expressions of Catholic faith and values within the household. The imagery of the Holy Family conveys blessings related to family life, while depictions of the Holy Trinity invoke divine guidance. Together, these themes explore the connection between sacred devotion and earthly life, bridging the divine and the domestic.

The exhibition will open on March 21, 2025, at 5:30 pm in the Margie and Bobby Rankin Retablo Gallery, and will be open until March 7, 2026.

Each year our area is visited by a group of small, beautiful, and otherwise fascinating birds called warblers. If you'd like to up your game on how to tell them apart from other birds and from each other, you won't want to miss this. Just in time for fall migration, Mesilla Valley Audubon Society member Jay Wilbur will teach a class on warbler identification. The class will focus on how to apply identification techniques to the warblers usually seen in Doña Ana County and nearby. The class will be held in the Creative Arts Room in the Social Center at Las Cruces Village (formerly Good Samaritan — Las Cruces Village). RSVP to mesillavalleyaudubon@gmail.com.

About the Film – A Bucket of Blood (1959):

In this razor-sharp black comedy, a hapless busboy in a bohemian café accidentally discovers that murder can make him a star in the avant-garde art world. Directed by Roger Corman and written by Charles B. Griffith, A Bucket of Blood skewers the pretensions of beatnik culture while delivering campy thrills and biting satire. Clocking in at just over an hour, it’s a brisk, bizarre ride into the dark side of artistic ambition.

Each CCC event includes:

• A curated pre-show starting at 6:00 PM, programmed by the Fountain Theatre’s head projectionist Austin Sothern-Wolf,

• A film introduction and post-screening discussion hosted by Julia Smith,

• Movie trivia, raffles, and themed giveaways to make each screening even more interactive and fun,

• $5 admission – no membership required, though film lovers are encouraged to join the mailing list for updates and bonus content.

Doors close promptly at 6:30 PM, when the screening begins. Attendees are encouraged to arrive early to enjoy the pre-show, grab their seats, and join in the movie-themed fun.

To join the Cult Cinema Club mailing list or learn more about upcoming screenings, email Julia Smith at CultCinemaClub@MesillaValleyFilm.org.

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

Fort Selden Historic Site offers weekly ranger-guided walking tours. Participants will explore 1400 years of history beginning with the Mogollon, foragers turned farmers, who lived on this land as early as 400 A.D. to the Spanish in the late 1500s to the American military in the mid-1800s. The tour is included as part of general admission of $5 per adult. Children 16 years old and younger are free. NM residents over the age of 60 are free on Wednesdays.