Community Calendar

The Parkinson's Support Group Monthly Meeting is open to the public and provides information to people in our community who have been diagnosed with, or care for persons with Parkinson's Disease. We start at 9:00 a.m. with Social time, and the meeting begins at 9:45 a.m. We usually have a guest speaker. This meeting takes place the third Tuesday of each month.

The Parkinson's Support Group Monthly Meeting is open to the public and provides information to people in our community who have been diagnosed with, or care for persons with Parkinson's Disease. We start at 9:00 a.m. with Social time, and the meeting begins at 9:45 a.m. We usually have a guest speaker.

This meeting takes place the third Tuesday of each month.
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Social time with coffee and goodies followed by a speaker on a topic of interest to the Parkinson's community. Caregivers as well as those diagnosed with Parkinson's are cordially invited.

October 2025, at the Deming Art Center will feature the annual DAC Membership exhibit. Anyone who is a member is eligible to participate and there will be a diverse body of work on display. The show will run from October 2-30, 2025. There will be a time to meet the artists on Sunday, October 5, 2025, from 1PM – 2:30PM and the public is invited.

The center is located at 100 S. Gold St., in Deming, NM and is open from 10AM – 4PM, Mon – Fri, and 10 – 1PM on Saturday.

For more information about this event, please call 575-546-3663, check our website at www.demingarts.org or visit us on Facebook.

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.

The Academy for Learning in Retirement's four-part series in October 2025 will discuss "Museums of Dona Ana County." The dates, topics, and presenters are:
Tuesday, October 7: "When the Walls Talk: Taylor-Mesilla Historic Site", Emily Wilson
Thursday, October 9: "The University Museum at Kent Hall", Dr. Kelly Jenks
Tuesday, October 14: "The New Mexico Farm and Ranch Museum", Dr. Steve Loring
Thursday, October 16: "The NMSU Art Museum", Marisa Sage

Audience members may register for the Academy for Learning in Retirement's four October series or for all 10 presentations either at the ALR website or with cash or check at the door. The presentations will also be available by Zoom. ALR will send announcements and Zoom links to the registrants on the evening before each presentation. Registrants may attend at the auditorium or may log in on Zoom after 10:00 am and each presentation with begin at 10:30 am. Free coffee and cookies will be available in the nearby DACC Student Resources Building from 9:40 am to 10:20 am.

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.

Professors Dr. Cynthia Bejarano and Dr. Maria Cristina Morales read a chapter of their book, Frontera Madre(hood) followed by a discussion and audience Q& A. October 21 at 5:30 PM, free and open to the public.

Thirty contributors discuss their lived experiences, research, or community work challenging multiple layers of oppression, including militarization of the border, border security propaganda, feminicides, drug war and colonial violence, grieving and loss of a child, challenges and forms of resistance by Indigenous mothers, working mothers in maquiladoras, queer mothering, academia and motherhood, and institutional barriers by government systems to access affordable health care and environmental justice. Fronter Madre(hood) encapsulates how mothering is shaped by the geopolitics of border zones, which also transcends biological, sociological, or cultural and gendered tropes regarding ideas of motherhood, who can mother, and what mothering personifies.

Cynthia Bejarano is a Regents Professor in gender and sexuality studies and the College of Arts and Sciences Stan Fulton Chair at New Mexico State University. Her scholarship and advocacy center on the U.S.-Mexico border. She authored Qué Onda: Urban Youth Culture and Border Identity (2005), and co-edited with Rosa Linda Fregoso, Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas (2010), Frontera Madre(hood): Brown Mothers Challenging Transborder Violence and Oppression at the U.S.-Mexico Border with Cristina Morales (2024), and recently co-edited with Margo Tamez and Jeffrey Shepherd as second editor, Gathering Together, We Decide Archives of Dispossession, Resistance, and Memory in Ndé Homelands (2025). Since 2002, Bejarano has served as the founding principal investigator for the NMSU College Assistance Migrant Program, where 675 farm working students have been recruited to study at NMSU.

Maria Cristina Morales is a native of the El Paso del Norte region and a professor of sociology at the University of Texas at El Paso. Her work focuses on structural violence and inequalities of Latina/o/x/e people and the U.S.-Mexico border. She is the co-author of the first and second editions of Latina/os in the U.S.: Diversity and Change (with Rogelio Sáenz and Coda Rayo-Garza) and Frontera Madre(hood): Brown Mothers Challenging Transborder Violence and Oppression at the U.S.-Mexico Border, co-authored with Cynthia Bejarano. She is currently examining patterns of structural violence at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Cult Cinema Club returns just in time for spooky season 👻
We’re screening William Castle’s House on Haunted Hill (1959) — a gleefully macabre classic that helped define the art of cinematic showmanship (and Vincent Price at his most deliciously wicked).

📅 Monday, October 21
🕕 Doors 5:45 | Preshow 6:00 | Screening 6:30

As always, we’ll have a short intro, giveaways, and a post-screening discussion for anyone who wants to linger and talk about it. Free and open to the public.

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