Sep 26 Friday
William Inge's uproarious comedy. On a snowy, stormy, night in rural Kansas, Missouri, about 25 miles west of Kansas City, a diner can be an oasis, a prison, a place to hide, or a place to discover yourself. The sheriff has closed the road, forcing the driver and passengers to spend the night at the diner. A mismatched group of dreamers and cowboys, waitresses and outcasts find unexpected warmth in one another. Portraying these characters on stage at The Adobe Theater are Jessica Alden, Mario Cabrera, Scott Claunch, Bryan Hertweck, Nicholas Johnson, Catalina Lehner, Castalia Mayerhofer, and Joel D. Miller, directed by Georgia Athearn.
If you've seen films like "Pride and Prejudice," you've seen English Country Dancing. Similar to contra dance, it is generally more stately and elegant. The music is gorgeous, and mostly based on very old Celtic folk tunes.
Sep 27 Saturday
Celebrating 29 years, the Downtown Growers' Market is Albuquerque's longest running farmers' market. Join us at historic Robinson Park in the heart of Albuquerque for the largest selection of local farmers providing fresh produce, eggs, honey, and meats. Browse local goods from Albuquerque's micro-business community including bakeries, packaged foods and beverages, hot prepared foods on site, and hand-made art, crafts and body care products. Every Saturday from April – mid November enjoy live music from a local band starting at 10am, donation-based yoga at 8am and a variety of other community minded programming, informational booths, services and events. The Downtown Growers' Market brings the farm to the city while connecting locals and visitors alike.
“Sentient Structures: The Art of Skye Tafoya + SABA,” on view through November 2, 2025, showcases the work of two artists creating architecturally-inspired expressions in materials that respond to the senses. Skye Tafoya (Eastern Band Cherokee/Santa Clara Pueblo) weaves paper structures and embeds knowledge in them through her printmaking processes. SABA (Diné/Jemez Pueblo) makes paintings and prints that anchor Pueblo architecture as evolving sites of home. This exhibition offers innovative approaches to printmaking, painting, and book arts and blurs the lines between two and three-dimensional mediums.
Free for museum members, or with admission.
Arrowsoul Art Collective’s mural installation fuses concepts of the beginning, present, and future of Indigenous pictographic arts. Based in the Southwest region, Arrowsoul Art Collective creates graffiti walls and mural paintings inspired by the evolving meanings of “Future Old School” and “Indigenous Freeways.” The artists create new visions of the Southwest landscape through blending letter structures, illustrative architecture, and textured palettes of places of home. Arrowsoul Art Collective’s projects reunite communities along the Rio Grande through creative participation. Located in the Art Through Struggle Gallery, their newest mural will be on display through June 28, 2026.
Carrizozo Community Festival. Saturday, September 27. 9:00 am to 7:00 pm. 12th Street and McDonald Park, Carrizozo, New Mexico. Arts and crafts, parade, food trucks, live music, classic cars, butterfly flutterby, kids’ activities, street dance. Disc golf tournament at Disc-O-Zozo in Carrizozo Community Park. For more information, go to https://www.carrizozoworks.org/carrizozo-community-festival/carrizozo-community-festival/ or call 575 973-3239. Made possible by a collaborative effort by Carrizozo not-for-profits.
Curated by the Indigenous Design + Planning Institute at The University of New Mexico, “Restorying Our HeartPlaces: Contemporary Pueblo Architecture” showcases a near-present history of the architectural sovereignty that emerged after the 1975 Indian Self-Determination Act. This exhibition focuses on the work of Pueblo architects while representing design concepts from regional ancestral sites that continue to influence 20th and 21st century Pueblo architecture. It will be on view in the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center’s South Gallery from March 25 through December 7, 2025
ART FLEA MARKET! Saturday, September 27, 10 am to 3 pm, St. John’s UMC, 1200 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM. Santa Fe Book Arts Group annual multi-vendor art flea market featuring:
Paper! handmade ~ decorative ~ marbled ~ painted ~ vintage ~ more
Books! coffee sleeve ~ notebooks ~ handbound blank ~ mini ~ journals ~ zines ~ carved/sculpted ~ sketchbooks ~ artist’s ~ books and magazines about art
Art Supplies! paint and brushes ~ pens ~ bookbinding tools and equipment ~ book kits ~ collage packs ~ ephemera packs ~ scrapbook paper packs ~ stickers ~ buttons ~ beads ~ baubles ~ charms ~ antique, vintage, and rusty items ~ hand-dyed cloth ~ fabric ~ yarn ~ bookcloth ~ leather ~ origami paper ~ vintage magazines ~ boxes ~ frames
Décor and Gifts! throw pillows ~ collages and other original artwork ~ framed art photography ~ steampunk ~ jewelry ~ fiber art ~ bookmarks ~ notecards ~ greeting cards
Plenty of free parking! Come browse & discover your treasures!
100 Years of Collecting|100 Years of Connecting is on view through December 13, 2025 at the Nuevo Mexicano Heritage Arts Museum, located at 750 Camino Lejo on Museum Hill in Santa Fe. Admission is free. Hours are noon to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. For more information, visit nmheritagearts.org.
The exhibition marks the Spanish Colonial Arts Society's centennial by telling its century-long story of creating and caring for an extraordinary trove of nearly 4,000 objects representing the distinctive Hispano heritage of New Mexico. This provides a unique lens on the Society’s legacy of connecting to a community of artists and supporters of Hispano arts in New Mexico and beyond.