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SILVER CITY: The Silver City Museum will host an interactive workshop for families and about families. Participants will create their own family tree and a unique family portrait.
With a focus on family stories and origins, museum staff will guide participants through the current exhibit Contemporary Casta Portraiture: Nuestra "Calidad" to use the artist Delilah Montoya's exploration of modern genetics and family ethnic diversity to reflect on their own families. Participating youngsters and their families will learn reliable and easily accessible ways to research their own family roots and will create an artistic and accurate depiction of their family tree.
Take a bite out of downtown Silver City on Labor Day weekend, as chefs serve up their culinary delights for the 18th annual Taste of Downtown! Walk around downtown on Saturday, September 1 from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and get delicious tastes from seventeen eateries. Restaurants, eateries, and coffee houses are offering sweet and savory tastes for only $20 a ticket.
L-R Becky Carr, Sherry Wooton, Bryce Wooton, Wendy Spurgeon, and Thomas Leeper rehearse for "Relationships in Revue." They may be on the verge of doing a tango.Theater goers attending the Friday or Saturday performances of "Relationships in Revue," August 17 and 18, at the Silver City Woman's Club, 411 Silver Heights Blvd, will receive a sampling of the best of theatre, of the human heart, and of musical expression, according to director Wendy Spurgeon.
Wendy Spurgeon (left) and Sherry Wooton (right) are caught mid-song
over the prone figure of Thomas Leeper."Relationships in Revue," a funny and thoughtful production of music and drama, will enliven audiences at the Silver City Woman's Club, 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday, August 17 and 18, according to the Silver City Community Theatre.
Enjoy the beauty of nature in air-conditioned comfort this Labor Day Weekend as the Grant County Rolling Stones Gem and Mineral Society will hold their 35th Annual Gem & Mineral Show in the Grant County Veterans' Memorial Conference Center, 3031 Highway 180 East in Silver City, New Mexico. Come inside the spacious Center and walk through 4 large rooms of amazing vendor displays and enjoy the club's Wheel of Fortune and Silent Auction.
Hours are 9 to 5 Saturday, September 1, 10 to 5 Sunday, September 2, and 10 to 4 Monday, September 3. Admission is free! This is a great family event. This 3 day event includes several additional opportunities. There will be daily off-site collecting Field Trips leaving the front door of the Convention Center at 9 a.m.
Silver City, NM — The Gila National Forest Supervisor's office is hosting a birthday party for Smokey Bear on Thursday, August 9 from 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
You are cordially invited to come to the Supervisor's Office at 3005 E Camino del Bosque, Silver City, NM anytime between 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. and help us celebrate Smokey's 74th birthday. Come get a mini-cupcake, party favor bags for children, and take a picture with our favorite bear.
For information on the Gila National Forest, check out our website at http://www.fs.usda.gov/gila or join the conversation on Facebook at www.facebook.com/GilaNForest/ or follow us on Twitter @GilaNForest.
Join us for the 2018 Murray Ryan Invitational Golf Tournament on Saturday, August 18, 2018 at University Course at Scott Park.
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Upcoming Events
| Sat Aug 18 @12:00AM Now Showing at the Silco Theatre - Silco Theatre |
| Sat Aug 18 @ 9:00AM - Fort Bayard 152nd Birthday Celebration - Old Fort Bayard |
| Sat Aug 18 @ 9:00AM - 06:00PM Glenwood Street Market - Glenwood, New Mexico |
| Sat Aug 18 @10:00AM - 04:00PM Meet the Featured Artists of the Grant County Art Guild - Hearst Church Gallery |
| Sat Aug 18 @ 1:00PM - 01:45PM Gila Cliff Dwellings Interpretive Ranger Guided Tours - Gila Cliff Dwellings |
| Sat Aug 18 @ 2:00PM - "Just Words" - Tranquil Buzz Coffee House |
| Sat Aug 18 @ 6:00PM - "The West: Singing its Story" A Fort Bayard Birthday Celebration - Fort Bayard New Deal Theater |
| Sat Aug 18 @ 7:00PM - 04:00PM "Relationships in Revue" a Production of Music and Drama, - Silver City Woman's Club |
| Sat Aug 18 @ 7:00PM - 04:00PM Movies at the Light Hall Theater - Light Hall Theatre |
| Sun Aug 19 @10:00AM - 04:00PM Meet the Featured Artists of the Grant County Art Guild - Hearst Church Gallery |