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Cherry Festival
Help celebrate the more than 100-year history of cherry growing in the Sacramento Mountains with cherry picking, cherry pie and cherry cider, as well as food, live music, a petting zoo and more than 80 arts and crafts vendors.
Pick your own 12-5 p.m., Friday, June 13; 9 a.m.-7 p.m., Saturday, June 14; and 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday, June 15, at Nichols Ranch and Orchards, 236 Cottonwood Canyon Rd., La Luz. Info: 575-224-2023
Endgame
Samuel Beckett’s absurdist, tragicomic one-act play concerns a blind, paralyzed, domineering elderly man, his geriatric parents, and his servile companion in an abandoned house in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Contemplate the end at 8 p.m. & 2:30 p.m., June 13-29, at the Black Box Theatre, 430 N. Main St., Las Cruces. Info: 575-523-1223
Anime El Paso
A community-based pop culture experience for all ages focusing on the Anime/Manga genre, featuring panels and workshops hosted by creative pros, autograph and photo ops with creators, and more.
Tune in at 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Saturday, June 14; and 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday, June 15, at the El Paso Convention Center, One Civic Center Plaza, El Paso. Info: AnimeElPaso.com
St. Anthony Fiesta
Fiesta Time! Come join in the annual St. Anthony’s Catholic Church Fiesta. Enjoy the music, Matachines, DJ music, agua frescas, gorditas, burgers, bingo, games, face painting, cake walk, country store, and more. Live music with West Texas Band, Los Nobles, Redemption Rock, Los Aviadores de la Sierra, and La Original Sonora.
Opens with the blessing of the booths at 3 p.m.-11 p.m., Saturday, June 14; and 1:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m., Sunday, June 15, at 424 Lincoln St., Anthony, NM.
Juneteenth Jazz Arts Festival
The Branigan Cultural Center hosts a celebration to educate, create community, and raise awareness around the newly recognized holiday through vendors, food trucks, art, dance and a headlining performance by Joe Dunn’s Big Band.
Jazz it up 4-9 p.m., Sunday, June 15 at Plaza de Las Cruces, 100 N. Main St., Las Cruces. Info: 575-541-2160
Author Talk: Bailey Herrington
The local author, whose latest book “The Girl in the Orange Maillot” was nominated for The 2022 Dashiell Hammett Prize for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing, gives a talk on writing fictional versions of true crime stories.
Make crime pay at 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 17, in the Roadrunner Room, Thomas Branigan Memorial Library, 200 E. Picacho Ave., Las Cruces. Info: 575-649-8786
