Farmers and Crafts Market
o Wednesday, Sept. 14, Evening Farmers Market, 6 – 10 p.m.
o Saturday Sept. 17, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
· Plaza De Las Cruces
o Saturday, Sept. 17, Downtown Plaza Dedication, noon to 9 p.m.
- Museums and Cultural Center: The city of Las Cruces Museum System consists of the Branigan Cultural Center, the Las Cruces Museum of Art, the Las Cruces Museum of Nature & science and the Las Cruces Railroad Museum Free Admission
- Branigan Cultural Center
o Exhibit Thru Oct. 15- black & white photographs of women in Ecuador, Mexico & Cuba.
o Thru Oct. 12 – “Wireless Wizardry.” A History of Radio in the Mesilla Valley - The Mesilla Valley Radio Club celebrates the unique history of wireless radio in our area with vintage & modern radio equipment.
o Thru Oct. 22 – “36 Views of Baylor Canyon” by Thom Sawyer, featuring graphite & color pencil drawings of Baylor Canyon.
o Saturday, Sept. 17, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Baylor Canyon Workshop
· Museum of Art
o The Las Cruces Museum of Art hosts changing contemporary art exhibits, including national, international, juried, traveling and invitational exhibits. The museum runs an extensive art studio class program for all ages.
o Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Gordon Brodfuehrer Collection” An engaging interdisciplinary look at contemporary Japanese Ceramics paired with nature photographs. Continues through Oct. 15, 2016.
o Wednesday, Sept. 14 at 2:30 p.m. Reading Art Book Club – Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World By Timothy Beck.
· Museum of Nature & Science
o Saturday, Sept. 17 at 1 p.m. Today in Space.
o Saturday, Sept. 17 at 11 a.m. “SNAP” - Merging Artistic Creativity with Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics – “Welcome Fall.”
o Saturday, Sept. 17, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Building with Biology Family Event
o Saturday Sept. 17 at 2 p.m. – Fall Studio Programs Review
- Thomas Branigan Library
o Toddler Time –Wednesday & Thursday at 10 a.m. in the Children’s Kiva
o Read to me - Every Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. Story time for ages 1-3.
o Mother Goose Time – Every Wednesday at 11 a.m. Activities for infants & their adults. Located in the children’s Kiva.
o Rhythm Round-Up. Fridays at 10:30 a.m. in the Roadrunner Room. Music & motion for ages 2-5.
o Library Lab – Fridays at 3:30 p.m. in the children’s crafts room. Activities & stories for ages 6-10.
o Branigan Book Club – 3rd Tuesday of every month at 6:30 p.m. in the staff conference room.
o Tuesday, Sept. 13 at 2 p.m. in the computer training lab, Introduction to Computers – File Management.
o Saturday, Sept. 17 at 1 p.m. Family Game Day
Live Theater
· Black Box Theatre http://www.no-strings.org
o “Outside Mullingar” by John Patrick Shanley, directed by Ceil Herman – A softhearted comedy freckled with dark reflections on the unsatisfactory nature of life and the thorns of love extended thru Sept. 18.
o Prices have changed for the 2016-2017 season, call 523-1223 for information.
· Las Cruces Community Theatre – lcctnm.org
o MASH star Loretta Swit returns to Las Cruces Sept. 16 & 17 at 8 p.m. to appear in two benefit performances. A feature of Me & Jezebel by Elizabeth Fuller. Event tickets call 523-1200.
· Rio Grande Theatre – riograndetheatre.com
o Tuesday, Sept. 13 from 7-9 p.m., “Coyote America,” a lecture by Dan Flores. His latest book, Coyote America, has been widely praised as both an environmental and a deep natural history of a true American original, the coyote. Mr. Flores’ talk is free and open to the public. He will be available to sign copies of his book immediately after the talk.
o Wednesday Sept. 14 from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Every 2nd Wednesday with Jazzman Ross & Friends of the Jazz and Blues Society.
o Saturday, Sept. 17 from 7:30-9:15 p.m. National Tour Series #1 presents a Selena Tribute with Karla Perez – Enjoy the Music and sounds from Latin singer “Selena”