The Collective August 2026

Little Toad Creek

Rudy Boy

Saturday, Aug. 1, 8-11 p.m.

Swinging Dirty Blues with that True Rock n Roll feel.

Lottie

Sunday, Aug. 2, 1-4 p.m.

Three people - acoustic country and western swing dance band with a touch of rock and blues featuring female vocals, smooth, smoking guitar and Nashville fiddle.

Karaoke

Thursday, Aug. 6, 7-10 p.m.

Burt Ferguson

Friday Aug. 7, 8-11 p.m.

Country/classic rock/original music band. Burt Ferguson & Sierra County Line deliver soulful country - Americana, country and rock, with Ferguson on rhythm guitar/lead vocals, Tim Thompson on lead guitar/vocals, Eric Mowels on bass and Derrick Lee on drums.

Anna Maria and the Unfit Mothers

Saturday, Aug. 8, 8-11 p.m.

Singing and playing bass; with a guitar player and a drummer to round out the group. Original Americana/country/rock songs and throw in some tasty covers. Her voice has been compared to one of the greats, Linda Ronstadt.

Hunter Wainscott

Sunday, Aug. 9, 1-4 p.m.

Indiana native Hunter Wainscott began writing songs as a child and now performs as a full-time solo folk/rock/Americana artist, playing live music across the country.

Since 2018 Hunter has performed all over America, connecting with audiences everywhere through raw, honest music that reflects the everyday life, struggles and love experienced by everyday people. His live shows consist of guitar, harmonica, and vocals in a uniquely homegrown Indiana style all its own and include many different cover songs spanning several decades as well as his own original music.

Singo!

Thursday, Aug. 13, 7-10 p.m.

Win PRIZES! Bingo Singo is the best new party game! Based off the timeless game of bingo, Bingo Singo features the same card-based setup with the exciting twist of awesome music playlists. Filled with genre-based classics, players will have the time of their lives singing along, dancing along, and playing to win.

Znora

Friday, Aug. 14, 8-11 p.m.

Znora is an award-winning three-piece rock band out of the Arizona desert. Adrian Negrete writes the original tunes, sings lead and plays guitar with a mix of varied influences from Chuck Berry and Santana to SRV and Hendrix. Joshua Montano brings his fierce drum skills and passion for 90s rock drummer styles like Dave Grohl and Chad Smith. Johnathan Rohde fills out the low end on the bass and blends rich harmonies.

High Desert Playboys

Saturday, Aug. 15, 8-11 p.m.

The High Desert Playboys are one of Albuquerque's premier americana bands, garnering a reputation for upbeat, old school dance sets that feature soulful vocals, delicate harmonies and an exciting mixture of classic and original songs.

Pint and a Half

Sunday, Aug. 16, 1-4 p.m.

With the intimacy of a singer/songwriter performance and the sound and soul of a full band, Pint & a Half is currently touring in support of their second Howlin' Dog Records release, "Not to Forget." Catchy hooks, close harmonies, and hard-driving rhythms are the bedrock of Pint & a Half's brand of Americana/Alt. Country music.

Karaoke

Thursday, Aug. 20, 7-10 p.m.

SunDog

Friday, Aug. 21, 8-11 p.m.

SunDog, a popular cover band based in Tucson, Arizona. They play heavy rock, metal, and grunge from the 70s through the 2000s.

Rhythm Mystic

Saturday, Aug. 22, 8-11 p.m.

4/5 people - come and enjoy a wide variety of dance and original music including world, Latin, pop, reggae, funk, Motown and more.  

Tiff & Molly

Sunday, Aug. 23, 1-4 p.m.

Multi-instruments, loops, improv, harmonies…somewhere between folk/rock, hip-hop, and americana this duo is coming to move you.

Singo!

Thursday, Aug. 27, 7-10 p.m.

Dallas Burrows

Friday, Aug. 28, 8-11 p.m.

Every time he steps on stage, Dallas Burrow dedicates a portion of his set to telling a story about his dad. The New Braunfels native has music in his blood, and he likes to share some of that history.

Higher Desert Outdoor DJ Set

Saturday, Aug. 29, 8-11 p.m.

Joee Corso

Sunday, Aug. 30, 1-4 p.m.

Joee Corso's roots are deeply embedded in the intimate and heartfelt music traditions of Americana, roots, blues, and country. Growing up in New Haven, Connecticut, he was captivated by his grandfather's band playing old Italian songs and his father's renditions of classics by Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Bob Seger, and the Eagles. These early influences, along with his love for artists like Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, The Doors, Santana, Elton John, and Billy Joel, have shaped his distinctive sound.

 

 

 

Deming Art Center

100 S. Gold St., Deming
10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday; 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday
www.demingarts.org

August 2026 at the Deming Art Center will feature three local artists — Jeff Cooper, Mary Jo Stenson and Jesse Kriegel. These talented artists will each bring their own unique works to the gallery for August exhibit.

Jeff Cooper is presenting various coil built pottery pieces and he has also built clay flutes with a Native American sound. Mary Jo Stenson loves painting water, whether it be clouds, rivers, mist, etc., and Jesse Kriegel, one of Deming’s High School Art teachers, will surprise us with his always interesting creations.

There will be a time to meet these talented student artists on Sunday, Aug. 2, from 1-2:30 p.m. at the Deming Art Center.

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.

 

WNMU Cultural Affairs

Tickets at www.wnmu.edu

For event info go to www.wnmu.edu

Welcome Back Bash featuring DJ Flipz and Nosotros. Aug. 22, Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Free

Food trucks and activities 

Regents Square on the WNMU Silver City campus. 

 

Light Art Space

209 West Broadway, Silver City

Gallery Hours: Thursday 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.- 5 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m.- 3 p.m. and by appointment. 

Lightartspace.com, 575-574-8444

Tides and Currents: Karen Hymer, July 2-Aug. 22.
Gallery talk, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2 p.m. 

Karen Hymer will talk about her installation, Tides and Currents. 

Free and open to the public.

Tides and Currents: a photographic installation by Karen Hymer.

Karen Hymer, a Silver City artist and owner of Light Art Space gallery, is featured in the Flash Gallery from July 2 through August 22. Tides and Currents is a photographic installation featuring images from the Galapagos Islands, presented on handmade paper, silk, and through projection. The ocean has long served as an ancient symbol of the unconscious. As a metaphor, tides and currents frame emotional shifts, life transitions, and the timing of opportunities. This installation invites viewers to contemplate humanity’s relationship with the earth and with animals, past and present.

Light Dreams

Continuing in the North Gallery is Light Dreams, a juried exhibition of alternative/historical photographic processes. Juror Jill Enfield chose 33 works by 19 artists from across the country. Congratulations to the accepted artists:

Paul Adams, Hallie Allred, Mohan Bhasker, Lisa Cohen, Sandi Daniel, Rick Finn, Steve Goff, Cynthia Hurayt, Ayumi Ishii, Trevor Jackson, Kathleen Koopman, Marek Matusz, Ginger Owen-Murakami, Brendan Quirk, TonSchless, Dennis Segers, Mark Timpany, Jalyn Turner, and Nathan Allen Wilkinson.

Exhibition Dates: July 2– Sept. 6

Backwards/Forwards: A Call for Handmade Prints

Juror: Terran Last Gun. Terran J. Last Gun, Saakwaynaamah’kaa (Last Gun), (b. 1989, Browning, MT) is an enrolled Piikani citizen and visual artist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Backwards/Forwards invites artists to submit handmade prints that consider time as material, memory, pressure, inheritance, repetition, rupture, and possibility. Time may be experienced as linear, circular, layered, transparent, opaque, fragmented, geological, ancestral, intimate, political, or otherworldly.

This exhibition asks artists to look both backward and forward: toward histories that shape us, futures we imagine or fear, and the present moment where those forces meet.

Submission deadline: Sept. 13, midnight mountain time

Submit at: https://opportunities.wearecreativewest.org/opportunity/17855/CAFE

Whiskey Creek Zócalo

11786 Hwy. 180 East, Arenas Valley
Tickets & Info: https://www.whiskeycreekzocalo.com/

Saturday, Aug. 1

Whiskey Creek Zócalo will be CLOSED for a Private Event

Open again the next day for Sunday Brunch.

Jono Manson In Concert

Friday, Aug. 7

Singer-Songwriter/Americana

Doors: 6 p.m.

$12/advance, $15/door

Jono Manson is a gifted singer songwriter who has collaborated with and played alongside Blues Traveler, KT Tunstall, Pete Seeger, T Bone Burnett, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Bo Diddley, Bruce Springsteen, Taj Mahal, Emmylou Harris, and Joan Baez (to name just a few). In 2024's Stars Enough to Guide Me, Manson started a brand-new chapter, continuing to forge his legacy one song at a time. The record featured collaborations with a slew of special guests, from GRAMMY-winner John Popper and American Idol finalist Crystal Bowersox to folk/Americana stalwart Eliza Gilkyson. Just released, his new album Family Dog continues this story, with no end in sight.

Danny and Steve

Sunday, Aug. 9

Americana Pickers

1 p.m.

by donation

Genre-Crossing, Finger-Pickin’, Croonin’ and Playin’

Danny and Steve know more tunes than you can count.

These Musicians know how to mix it up and keep the music flowing.

Josh Glen

Wednesday, Aug. 12

Indie Folk

Doors: 6 p.m.

by donation

Josh Glenn isn’t your typical solo singer-songwriter. Acoustic guitar strums, percussive guitar taps, and clever riffing braid into themselves as Glenn’s show usually involves him building his songs live using loop pedals, making for an engrossing experience.

Sometimes folky singer-songwriter, sometimes spontaneous mad-folk scientist, Josh takes you on a very personal musical journey. Blending classic singer-songwriter elements with a unique indie folk and using a looping pedal to braid clever riffs and atmospheric sounds into a cosmic folktronic dance party.

Performer’s Showcase /Open Mic

Thursday, Aug. 13

Sign Up: 6 p.m.

Musicians and Performers of all kinds welcome.

Step into the spotlight and showcase your talent. From music, comedy, to spoken word and performance art, this open mic is your stage.

Bring your voice, your story, and your energy.

All talents welcome. All voices heard.

15-minute spots.

Must sign up in person

Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears w/Purse Thief 

Friday, Aug. 14

Gritty Blues/ Soulful Post Punk

Doors: 6 p.m.

$20/advance, $25/door

Limited seating/standing show

Excited to welcome back Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears. Delivering a high-energy blend of gritty blues, soul and funk, characterized by raw, passionate vocals, overdriven guitar riffs, and a powerful horn section. Based in Austin, Texas, their sound recalls vintage soul shouters like James Brown mixed with gritty Texas blues. Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears have shared performances with Sharon Jones, Charles Bradley, Cedric Burnside and Lightnin’ Malcolm, The Dirtbombs, Detroit Cobras, the Strange Boys and more.

Purse Thief is where underground post punk meets old soul rock-n- roll. Formed under the rare skies of New Mexico. They are a fresh sound with an authentic old-world vibe.

Jazz Brunch with John Mitchell & Friends

Sunday, Aug. 16

1 p.m.

by donation

Come listen to the jazz stylings of the John Mitchell Trio.

Journeyman improvisational keyboardist, John Mitchell and Friends will be playing a variety of tunes from their vast repertoire. Playing professionally for over five decades, Mitchell has an innate ability to play and lead, an insatiable fire to innovate and grow his craft, and an intensely creative approach to his playing.

Kimmi Bitter/Full Band

Wednesday, Aug. 19

Country Western 

Doors: 6 p.m.

$12/advance, $15/door 

Dubbed "the future of classic country" by Saving Country Music, Kimmi Bitter has emerged as a leading voice of the New Countrypolitan sound.

By fusing the golden-era spirit with West Coast energy, her blend of 1960s Nashville grandeur, surf-soaked guitar tones, and mod aesthetics has earned her a devoted following across the country.

Performer’s Showcase/Open Mic

Thursday, Aug. 20

Sign Up: 6 p.m.

Max Gomez w/Howe Gelb & Slant Can

Friday, Aug. 21

Folk Americana/Alt Country

Doors: 6 p.m.

$15/advance, $20/door 

Doubleheader

Sharing stages with James McMurtry, Buddy Miller, John Hiatt, Patty Griffin, Jeff Beck and more, Max Gomez has become a fixture in the New Mexico music scene. His debut album, Rule the World (New West Records), earned critical acclaim and launched a touring career that has taken him coast to coast across the U.S., into Canada, and throughout Western Europe.

In three decades plus, Howe Gelb has managed to mash elements of erosion rock, de-composition, crunchy & western, something close to blues, punk snark, lo-fi hi-fi, pseudo jazz, gospel a-choir-ing, semi-standard piano standards and a side swipe of Andalusian gypsy flamenco.

Squid Pisser

Monday, Aug. 24

Punk Metal Legends

In ‘the Lodge’

Doors: 6 p.m.

$15 cover

SQUID PISSER eviscerates the ego and all things serene with their own vibrant form of vicious and mucky hardcore. SQUID PISSER has constructed a fresh and new alien craft powered by tightly controlled noise-guitar, savage primal drum work, and gooped up vocal deliveries that might sound like a gaggle of frogs thrown into a garbage disposal (although the Squid boys wouldn’t recommend doing this).

Hippie Death Cult 

Wednesday, Aug. 26

Psych Metal 

Doors: 6 p.m.

$15/advance, $20/door 

Hippie Death Cult have been described as “a journey through shameless and triumphant artistic expression, exploration and discovery” in the realms of psychedelia and riff-heavy rock n’ roll. The band is also known for its high energy and passionate stage performances, having performed to audiences across America, Canada and Europe. They are currently in production for their third studio album and are set to announce extensive tours to follow.

 

Pallbearer and SlowHole 

Thursday, Aug. 28

Shoe Gaze/Rock Metal 

Doors: 6 p.m.

$20/advance, $25/door

Pallbearer is an American doom metal band from Little Rock, Arkansas, celebrated for their emotive and progressive approach to heavy music. Their sound weaves crushing, sludgy guitar riffs with soaring, clean vocal harmonies, atmospheric post-rock textures, and melancholic melodies

Poetic Outlaws Open Mic

Friday, Aug. 28

5:30 p.m.

In ‘the Lodge’

Silver City Poetic Outlaws is a recurring open mic event focused on the spoken word.

Poetry, readings from stories and books, monologue, improv...all forms of spoken word are welcome.

Clownvis & Hank IV and the Strange Band 

Saturday, Aug. 29

Country Comedy Impersonation 

Doors: 6 p.m.

$20/advance, $25/door

IV and The Strange Band, fronted by Coleman Williams (great-grandson of Hank Williams), delivers a gritty blend of outlaw country, punk, and metal, focusing on original, high-energy southern storytelling. On tour with Clownvis Presley, a "crooning comedy sensation" who performs musical parodies and magic, frequently described as a mix of Elvis Presley and a classic variety act.

 

 

Mesilla Valley Film Society

July Films at the Fountain Theatre

2469 Calle de Guadalupe, Mesilla

All films are shown on Friday, Saturday, Wednesday & Thursday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, Sunday at 2 p.m. unless noted.

Power Ballad

July 31-Aug. 6

Director: John Carney

98 minutes, Comedy/Drama/Musical, R

Starring Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas

Rick (Paul Rudd), a washed-up wedding singer, and Danny (Nick Jonas), a fading boy band star, bond over music and a late-night jam session. 

Notorious

Aug. 4

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

103 minutes, Mystery & Thriller, NR (1946)

In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin (Cary Grant) recruits Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman), the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy.

Our Hero Balthazar

Aug. 7-13

Director: Oscar Boyson

96 minutes, Comedy/Drama/Mystery & Thriller, R

A wealthy New York City teenager who, eager to impress his activist crush, goes to Texas where he believes he can stop an act of extreme violence.

Yes 

Aug. 14-20

Director: Nadav Lapid

150 minutes, Hebrew w/subtitles, Comedy/Drama/Music, NR

Comic farse about a musician who writes a new national anthem for Israel. The ambitious Y and his wife, Jasmine, are entertainers so eager to get ahead that they cozy up to the country’s power elite as war rages in Gaza. 

Stalker 

Aug. 18

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

163 minutes, Russian w/subtitles, Sci-Fi/Adventure, NR (1979)

A metaphorical fable on religion, a guide takes a writer and a professor through a post-apocalyptic wilderness left behind by aliens (known only as The Zone).

Kontinental 25 

Aug. 21-27 (no screening Wednesday, Aug. 26)

Thursday, August 27 – 2 p.m. matinee; no evening show

Director: Radu Jude

109 minutes, Romanian w/subtitles, Comedy/Drama, Not rated

When Orsolya oversees the eviction of a local elderly man in Cluj, Transylvania, the unintended consequences come to shatter her and her understanding of her place in society.

Faust

Wednesday, Aug. 26

Showtime and ticket prices to be announced.

Director: F.W. Murnau

107 min, NR (1926)

An elderly alchemist named Faust (Gösta Ekman) makes a pact with the demon Mephisto (Emil Jannings) to gain the power to protect his village from plague. 

Featuring the Invincible Czars, a cinematic "arts-rock" band currently focused on live performances of original modern soundtracks for silent horror films. 

  

Night School: All films Saturday nights at 10:30 p.m.

Aug. 1: Messiah of Evil (1975)

Aug. 8: Hunting Humans VHS (2002)

Aug. 15: Anguish (1987)

Aug. 22: Donnie Darko (2001)

Aug. 29: Demons (1985)

Mesilla Valley Fine Arts Gallery

2470-A Calle de Guadalupe, Mesilla

Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

For more information, call 575-522-2933 or visit www.mesillavalleyfinearts.com

The Mesilla Valley Fine Arts Gallery will feature two artists for the month of August: Sue Ann Glenn and Frank Rimbach.

Sue Ann, a unique watercolorist, brings to life ordinary objects and scenes.  She holds an art education course from Central Michigan University. She taught elementary art for 15 years in a large Michigan school system. After 32 years of teaching, she retired to focus full time on her watercolors.

Frank earned his Master of Fine Arts from New Mexico State University.  He has taught at Central Texas College and at El Paso Community College. His work can be found at Mesilla Valley Fine Arts Gallery and in private collections.

In addition, the 30 artists of the gallery offer art in various media, which include original paintings of: oil, acrylics, pastels, watercolor, fused glass art jewelry, unique one-of-a-kind woodturnings, stained glass, photography, ceramics, mixed media, unusual decorated gourds, handmade textile weavings, art tile, fiber art, affordable lampwork glass beads and ceramic components also antique African trade beads, gemstones, recycled components, felt and Czech glass, colored pencil, charcoal, pen and ink drawings, prints, cards, and miniature paintings.

Otero Artspace

1118 Indiana Avenue, Alamogordo

oteroarts.org

Thursday through Sunday from 1-4 p.m. 

The show closes Saturday, Aug. 29

The Light of La Luz

Paintings and stained glass by Sue Nichols

Otero Artspace will present “The Light of La Luz”, an exhibition of paintings and stained glass by New Mexico artist Sue Nichols, with an opening reception from August 7 from 5-7 p.m.  

The show gathers 33 works in oil, watercolor and stained glass, drawn from across a career spent looking closely at one corner of the world. 

Nichols did not come to the land by birth. Born in Carlsbad and raised in Alamogordo, she was a young woman working at the Ruidoso Downs racetrack when she married her high school sweetheart and moved to his family’s orchard ranch in the Sacramento Mountains near La Luz. She has been there ever since and for decades that ground has been her great subject.

The exhibition ranges widely while holding to a single sensibility. Paintings of the working land, among them “Way of Life” and “Hell or High Water,” share the room with wildlife studies such as “Late Summer Meadows,” quiet still lives drawn from her own rooms and gardens, and figurative work that catch ordinary people in unguarded moments. 

Also on view are works in stained glass, the discipline Nichols has practiced for decades through her studio, Canyon Glassworks, including the three-panel Spirit Dancers screen and the Peace panel.   

Nichols earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts at New Mexico State University. She has completed more than 70 commissioned stained glass works and is a trusted source for stained glass restoration throughout southern New Mexico. Her work is held in private collections and shown in galleries across the state. 

Call for Plein Air Artists for an exhibition at Otero Arts

Otero Arts is hosting a Plein Air Exhibition at the Otero Artspace for the month of September. Artwork in the following media are eligible: oil, acrylic, watercolor, and gauche.   

For a detailed application send your inquiry to oteroartsinc@gmail.com with Plein Air in the title. The deadline for entering the show is Aug. 20. 

Exhibition opens Sept. 4 and continues through the 26th.

 

 

The Mad Hatter Gallery

221 N. Main St., Suite C, Las Cruces

Wed.-Fri., 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Sat., 10 a.m.-2 p.m., with extended hours on First Fridays and for other events

Dear Democracy/Dear America

July 1-Aug. 15

As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, The Mad Hatter Gallery announces the opening of “Dear Democracy / Dear America,” a thought-provoking multi-disciplinary art exhibit.

Inspired by media theorist Marshall McLuhan’s observation that art functions as a “distant early warning system,” participating artists were asked “If democracy were a relationship, what kind of greeting card would they send?”
Would it be a birthday card celebrating the founding of the United States?  A condolence card mourning what feels lost? A “Get Well Soon” card offering hope for a speedy recovery? Or perhaps a “Dear John” card expressing disappointment, or disillusionment?
For more information about the gallery, contact Penny Peace at 575-528-9297 or Themadhattergallery@gmail.com

Silver City and Bayard Lions Club

Bayard Community Center

209 Hurley Ave, Bayard

Bingo

2nd Sunday Every month

1:30 p.m.: food by the Divas

3 p.m.: Bingo sales start at 1:30 p.m.

Silver City Tye Dyes

211A N. Texas, Silver City

Details available at info@silvercitytyedyes.com

Friday, Aug. 7

Join us to celebrate August First Friday with guest artists, live demonstrations and Fire & Ice Pizza at Silver City Tye Dye Studio & Gallery from 4-7 p.m.

Friday Aug. 21st

CLASS: Ice-dying with Shibori Folds, 9 a.m.-noon. You will learn to combine the ice-dyeing process with traditional shibori resist folding techniques to create your own tea towel and foldable tote bag. 

We will use dyes curated especially for the ice-dyeing process. Class cost including all supplies is $41. 

Advance registration required. 

Silver City Community Film Festival

2026 Call for Entries

Submission Deadline: Aug. 15

Festival: Oct. 1-4

The Silver City MainStreet Project and Silco Theater are excited to announce the Third Annual Silver City Community Film Festival,

taking place Oct. 1-4 at the Silco Theater in downtown Silver City. 

The geographic boundaries for film submissions include El Paso to Tucson, from east to west, and Albuquerque to Chihuahua, from north to south. The Silver City Community Film Festival welcomes the diversity of this Southwest Crossroads region in an intimate yet powerful festival, highlighting the talented filmmakers of this area and providing opportunities for valuable connections and collaborations. 

The Silver City Community Film Festival accepts submissions in all genres and forms of filmmaking and encourages the spirit of the wild frontier. Awards will be granted in submission categories, as well as an audience choice award.

Films may be individual projects or group collaborations, and multiple entries may be submitted by one person. The deadline for submissions is Aug. 15. To learn more about the festival or to submit an entry, please visit silvercityfilmfest.org. For questions or assistance submitting a film please contact the Silco Theater at c.coordinator@silvercitymainstreet.com or call 575-956-6198.

Songs of Saigon

SWAG Bookstore

409 W. Bullard

New book launch

Ed Teja, a Silver City author, will be signing copies of his new historical crime suspense novel, Songs of Saigon, at SWAG bookstore in Silver City from noon to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 10.

The novel is the story of a young Chinese-American OSS officer in Japanese-controlled Saigon in 1943 who gets embroiled in a love affair, murder, terrorism, and treason.

Feral Femmes

Grant County Art Guild Studio

Opening Reception: Aug. 7, 4–8 p/m.

On View: Aug. 8-9, 15-16 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Contact: JessicaLaurelReese@gmail.com

Feral Femmes presents welded steel wall sculptures by Jessica Laurel Reese, exploring the intuitive and untamed dimensions of femininity. Through hand‑bent steel and fire‑forged linework, Reese distills the female form into essential contours that balance vulnerability and strength. Treating steel as both medium and metaphor, her work reflects transformation, instinct, and emotional clarity. The exhibition invites viewers to encounter the feminine as wild, wise, and powerfully uncontained.

Feral Femmes offers audiences a chance to encounter the feminine form not as an object, but as a living force — wild, wise, and wholly uncontained.

The Seedboat Collective

214 W. Yankie St.

Artificial Intelligence for Silver City Businesses Event

Thursday, July 30, 6 p.m.

Free workshop teaches entrepreneurs how to reclaim 10 hours a week using AI.

Local business owners, shop managers, and nonprofit leaders buried in daily administrative tasks can learn how to leverage artificial intelligence — without the technical jargon — at a free upcoming workshop.

Unlike typical AI events designed for software developers, this 90-minute session focuses entirely on practical, real-world applications for everyday business operations. Attendees will learn how to treat AI like a capable assistant to automate email triage, draft replies, surface missed follow-ups and generate a Friday "owner brief" to ensure Mondays start with clarity instead of chaos.

The workshop features a live demonstration of Claude Cowork, a powerful AI collaboration tool, showing exactly how small businesses can implement it immediately. No coding experience or technical background is required.

The session will be led by John Vishnesky, founder of the AI marketing and automation agency Nimble Fox Marketing.

Bringing a laptop is optional. Advance registration is required. Attendees will go home with simple, ready-to-use prompts they can copy directly into their own workflows.

To reserve a seat, visit the registration page at luma.com/vnyqt2rw.  

No Strings Theatre Company

430 North Main Street, Las Cruces

Performances are:

Fridays, July 31 and Aug. 7 at 8 p.m.

Saturdays, Aug. 1 and 8 at 8 p.m.

Sundays, Aug. 2 and 9 at 2:30 p.m.

Tickets are $18 regular admission and $15 seniors over 65 and students.

Clown Bar by Adam Szymkowicz, directed by Joshua Taulbee, is a fast-paced comedy that blends hard-boiled crime noir with clowns.

When former clown, now cop, Happy, returns to the seedy underworld after his brother's murder, he must navigate a bar filled with clown gangsters, femme fatales, and old friends in search of the truth. Clown Bar is a wildly original theatrical experience that balances absurd humor with a gripping detective story.

This play is a Special Summer production.

Season tickets (PPPs) for 2026-2027 are now on sale. The six plays in the season are listed on our website (www.no-strings.org). Season Tickets are $90 regular/$80 for seniors over 65 and students, and can be purchased by a check made out to No Strings Theater Company.

Native Plant Sale

Aug. 8 in Silver City

The Gila Native Plant Society is calling on gardeners to come to its annual native plant sale on Saturday, Aug. 8. It will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the parking lot on the corner of 12th and Pope Streets 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. Purchasers can select the plants they want and discuss their placement and care with native plant growers. Cash and checks only. The sale is open to all.

Why plant native plants? They are adapted to the conditions of our area‒ its soils, sunshine, and moisture levels‒and are more drought-tolerant than most non-natives. Native plants have long-standing relationships with native pollinators, birds, and other wildlife, providing food and shelter. And they are beautiful. To see what some mature native plants look like, take a stroll through the Silva Creek Botanical Garden, developed and maintained by GNPS, on Virginia Street, two blocks north of Highway 180 in Silver City.

In the Southwest, the monsoon season is a good time to plant, when the ground is moist and the sun is moderated. The aim of the Gila Native Plant Society is to get as many native plants in as many gardens as possible and to support the nurseries that propagate them – a rare species.

The Gila Native Plant Society invites the community to come to the parking lot next to Gough Park on Saturday, Aug. 8, to talk about native plants and acquire some for the garden. For more information check the Gila Native Plant Society website: (https://gilanps.org/native-plant-sale-2026/).

4Suicides Looking For a Place to Happen

Premieres Sept. 18 in Alamogordo

Sponsored by Fiddlers Green, Inc. a non-profit Veterans Service and Advocacy, and Sacramento Mountains Foundation.

A four-act play 4SUICIDES LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO HAPPEN will premier on Sept. 18 at 6 p.m. at the Flickinger Center for Performing Arts, 1110 New York Avenue, Alamogordo.

Author and Director is Pablo Jasso.  The play is made possible by Fiddlers Green, a 501C3 organization established to support veterans and by Sacramento Mountains Foundation.

Jasso, who is both an Air Force and Army Veteran and playwright, from 2020 to 2024 worked as a Museum History Specialist for the U.S. Army Center of Military History at Fort Bliss, Texas. While under that contract he wrote the script for 4Suicides as an urgent response to the excessively high rates of suicides happening at that time throughout the Department of Defense. Suicide rates among veterans, both active duty and retired, are still far above civilian rates.

All performances of 4SUICIDES are relevant and appreciated by both civilian and military audiences.  The performances incorporate an approach that encourages military-civilian engagement, current information about risk factors and signs of suicide risk, and ways that lay people can help prevent suicides, military and non-military. 
The play is designed to share information with the public about this continuing crisis, its causes, and things everyone can do to help curb the suicide epidemic.

There is no admission charge.

Please contact Pablo Jasso, director and author for information,

575-551-8510 or pablojasso61@gmail.com

San Lorenzo Mission Fiesta

Monday, Aug. 10  in the Mimbres Valley

Join us for Mass, food and music. Procession at 9:30 a.m., Mass 10 a.m., Pit BBQ w/sides served after Mass

Fun and music

2026 Taos Studio Tour

Labor Day Weekend

Saturday, Sunday, Monday

Sept. 5, 6 & 7

Art lovers are invited to the Taos Studio Tour for a self-guided experience. Forty-two artists, including sculptors, potters, painters, photographers, fiber artists, and jewelers are participating in the 2026 Tour. 

Visitors will enjoy viewing artwork up close and can purchase directly from the creators they encounter. Visitors are encouraged to make a day or two of it with their friends and family.

Taos Studio Tour schedule includes:

Preview Show Party at the Taos Valley Lodge & Espresso Bar, Thursday, Sept. 3, 5-7 p.m.

Preview Gallery Show at the Taos Valley Lodge & Espresso Bar, Friday, Sept. 4 to Monday, Sept. 7, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.