Community Calendar

Necessary Futures features NM artists using color, irony & joy to confront mass incarceration, capitalism & colonialism. Exhibitions in Albuquerque & Las Cruces.

NMSU Art Museum presents Jennifer Ling Datchuk: RIPENING, a multidisciplinary exhibition on women’s labor, identity & resilience. Sept 19, 2025–Mar 7, 2026

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.

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

September Contra Dance with Carol Ann Fugagli and the Mesilla Valley String Band. Mesilla Community Center 2251 Calle de Santiago in Old Mesilla.

Meet new people, no partner needed. Dance from 7:30-10:30pm with free lesson included.

$10, under 21, $8; More info. (575) 636-5509. All ages welcome!

This event takes place on the second Saturday of even numbered months.

2025 Friends of the CDNP Days Schedule:
· April 12: Arroyo Trail
· June 14: Yucca Trail
· August 9: Gateway to the Desert Trail
· October 11: Vista Trail
· December 13: Desert Experience Mini-Trail (ADA-accessible)

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.

Browse over a dozen vintage typewriters that have been revived and are ready to gift to the writer in your life. Or buy one for yourself! Take an off-ramp from the Digital Highway and join the Typewriter Revolution!

Many classic portable typewriters with carrying cases as well as standard desk models are available.

Have a typewriter that needs "reviving"? Bring it by! Though on-the-spot repairs will not be offered at this event, the drop-off of typewriters for repair will be available.

Brought to you by COAS Books on Main Street, Las Cruces Type Writers, and Typewriter Revival.

With the fall time classic looming around the corner, join Ranger Mike as he talks about America’s pastime, baseball. Soldiers at Fort Selden even took part, on special occasions, playing a game on the parade grounds. This was a common form of recreation for soldiers stationed out west in the latter part of the 1800s.

What goes better with baseball than a hotdog? Ranger Mike will also be firing up the firepit and grilling hot dogs for visitors. Cooking outdoors is contingent on weather and fire restrictions.

Admission $5/adult. Free for children 16 and under. Please call 575-526-8911 for more information. NM I-25, Exit 19, Radium Springs – Follow the signs

September 2025 at the Deming Art Center will feature an exhibit of fiber arts, that could include paper, wood, leather, fiber clay and small fabric items (no quilts). There is a talented group of Fiber Artists in the area and we look forward to what they will bring to this exhibit.
There will be a time to meet the artists on Sunday, September 7, 2025, from 1-2:30PM. The exhibit will be up from September 2-29, 2025 – closed Labor Day. 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.