Community Calendar

Feral Femmes presents Jessica Laurel Reese’s welded steel sculptures that distill the female form into raw, intuitive line work, revealing femininity as wild, resilient, and powerfully uncontained. The opening reception is 4-8pm, Aug 7, during Silver City’s First Friday art walk.

Eventing Derby @ Isaacks Ranch August 8-9!
Dressage, Show Jumping, Cross Country offered- Ride a dressage test, jump a stadium round, then head out and play on our cross country course! Wonderful venue for new riders or green horses. Come join us for a fun weekend! Spectators welcome- check Isaacksranch.com for details. Click on QR code for entry forms.

The Gila Native Plant Society is calling all gardeners to come to its annual native plant sale on Saturday, August 8, 2026, from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm in the parking lot across from Gough Park in Silver City. Native plant vendors from New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado will be selling a wide variety of native trees, shrubs, perennial flowers and cacti. Some vendors can take cash or checks only, so please come prepared. The sale is open to all. For more information, check the Gila Native Plant Society website: (https://gilanps.org/native-plant-sale-2026/).

Feral Femmes presents Jessica Laurel Reese’s welded steel sculptures that distill the female form into raw, intuitive line work, revealing femininity as wild, resilient, and powerfully uncontainable. Show location is the Grant County Art Guild Studio, 307 N Texas, Silver City. Exhibition dates are Aug 8-9 & 15-16, 10am-4pm. For more information, visit gcag.org.

Mesilla Valley Film Society is launching Night School, a new late-night screening series celebrating cult classics, horror landmarks, obscure oddities, and underrated gems. The first set of shows will run Saturday nights at 10:30pm throughout July and August. Conceived by self-proclaimed Professor Austin Wolf-Sothern, and hosted by Austin with fellow film scholars Rian Gonzales and Jeff Bennett. Each show will begin with a PowerPoint presentation pertaining to that week’s film, offering production history, cultural context, and behind-the-scenes trivia.

More than just a screening series, Night School embraces the communal spirit of repertory cinema, where audiences gather to experience movies the way they were meant to be seen: on the big screen, with fellow fans. To honor that, we felt it was important to dedicate our first semester to highlighting the cinematic experience with “Movies at the Movies!” Eight films that take place in, or memorably feature, a movie theater.

The inaugural lineup includes:
• July 11: Popcorn (1991) – A loving celebration of horror gimmicks and movie theater mayhem.
• July 18: Taxi Driver (1976) – A defining portrait of urban alienation and one of American cinema's most influential character studies, celebrating its 50th Anniversary.
• July 25: The Blob (1988) – The gloriously gooey remake that deserves its place among the greatest practical-effects horror remakes ever made.
• August 1: Messiah of Evil (1974) – Or is it MESILLA OF EVIL? A dreamlike descent into cosmic dread and one of horror's most haunting cult discoveries.
• August 8: Hunting Humans (2002) – Presented on VHS, preserving the analog grit and underground spirit of this independent cult oddity. Preceded by a cartoon on 16mm.
• August 15: Anguish (1987) – A mind-bending psychological horror experience that blurs the line between audience and screen.
• August 22: Donnie Darko (2001) – A generation-defining genre blend of science fiction, mystery, comedy, and drama, celebrating its 25th Anniversary.
• August 29: Demons (1985) – An explosive Italian horror classic where the movie theater itself becomes a nightmare.
Each presentation is brief, entertaining, and designed for casual moviegoers and die-hard film buffs alike. Whether you're seeing a favorite for the fiftieth time or discovering it for the first, Night School is designed to make every screening a little more rewarding—and a lot more fun!

Eventing Derby @ Isaacks Ranch August 8-9!
Dressage, Show Jumping, Cross Country offered- Ride a dressage test, jump a stadium round, then head out and play on our cross country course! Wonderful venue for new riders or green horses. Come join us for a fun weekend! Spectators welcome- check Isaacksranch.com for details. Click on QR code for entry forms.

Feral Femmes presents Jessica Laurel Reese’s welded steel sculptures that distill the female form into raw, intuitive line work, revealing femininity as wild, resilient, and powerfully uncontainable. Show location is the Grant County Art Guild Studio, 307 N Texas, Silver City. Exhibition dates are Aug 8-9 & 15-16, 10am-4pm. For more information, visit gcag.org.

The Share the Road Visibility Ride helps build awareness that bicyclists and motorists can share the road safely and that commuting to work on a bicycle is a viable transportation choice. Commuting by bicycle has multiple benefits. Save money by riding just one day a week and cut 20% of your weekly fuel cost and save automobile maintenance expenses. Fight pollution by using emission free transportation. Stay fit and use your commute time as your workout instead of paying to go to a gym. Enjoy your commute and arrive at work refreshed and full of energy; ride off work stress on the way home.

The Visibility Ride is a real-life, real-time demonstration of how bicyclists can ride with traffic safely. We bicycle together on the second Monday once a month to help raise awareness among motorists of the presence of bicyclists, of motorists' ability to share the road safely with bicyclists, and of how bicyclists behave while driving in traffic. The Ride is led by League of American Bicyclists Certified Instructors, and bicyclists that wish to learn tips for better commuting skills are invited to participate.

The Ride leaves the Las Cruces Railroad Museum at the west end of Las Cruces Avenue at 7:15am. The ride goes up Las Cruces to Espina, across to Kansas, up to Solano, continues to University, then back on Espina to Las Cruces and ends at Grounded on the corner of Main and Las Cruces at about 8:00am. We ask that all bicyclists wear helmets and follow the rules of the road. Join us for coffee at Grounded if you can't make the ride.

Feral Femmes presents Jessica Laurel Reese’s welded steel sculptures that distill the female form into raw, intuitive line work, revealing femininity as wild, resilient, and powerfully uncontainable. Show location is the Grant County Art Guild Studio, 307 N Texas, Silver City. Exhibition dates are Aug 8-9 & 15-16, 10am-4pm. For more information, visit gcag.org.

Feral Femmes presents Jessica Laurel Reese’s welded steel sculptures that distill the female form into raw, intuitive line work, revealing femininity as wild, resilient, and powerfully uncontainable. Show location is the Grant County Art Guild Studio, 307 N Texas, Silver City. Exhibition dates are Aug 8-9 & 15-16, 10am-4pm. For more information, visit gcag.org.