Calendar

Be a part of the 8th annual street art festival. This year’s program honors the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women movement. Experience the life, color, and power that graffiti art brings to communities and to Indigenous peoples around the world. Wednesday, May 5 12pm Opening Dance 12:30pm PictoGraff 101 Thursday, May 6 12-1:30pm Artist Features 5:30pm Dance Workshop: Reconnecting with our Creative Energy/Taller de Danza: Reconectando con Nuestra Energia Creativa with Energyal* Friday, May 7 12-1:30pm Artist Features 5:30pm MMIWG2S and Ni Una Más Roundtable/ Foro de MMIWG2S y Ni Una Más* Saturday, May 8 10am-1pm Youth PictoGraff Kit Pick-Up Grab a take-home kit with screen-printed tees and a kid’s activity. Kits will be available on first-come, first-served basis on Saturday outside the Branigan Cultural Center. 2-3pm ArrowSoul Art Workshop for Youth/Taller del Arte ArrowSoul* 3-4:30pm Artist Features 4:30pm Closing Words *These events are bilingual.

Culture of Empowerment is a series designed around the idea that people are powerful when learning together. Each quarter’s topics will revolve around a single theme, with chances to dig deeper, learn how to activate community impact, and connect with each other. Hear from LGBTQAI+ members of the Las Cruces community about their lived experiences in our community. Tune in at https://rebrand.ly/LGBTQAIExperience.

Be a part of the 8th annual street art festival. This year’s program honors the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women movement. Experience the life, color, and power that graffiti art brings to communities and to Indigenous peoples around the world. Wednesday, May 5 12pm Opening Dance 12:30pm PictoGraff 101 Thursday, May 6 12-1:30pm Artist Features 5:30pm Dance Workshop: Reconnecting with our Creative Energy/Taller de Danza: Reconectando con Nuestra Energia Creativa with Energyal* Friday, May 7 12-1:30pm Artist Features 5:30pm MMIWG2S and Ni Una Más Roundtable/ Foro de MMIWG2S y Ni Una Más* Saturday, May 8 10am-1pm Youth PictoGraff Kit Pick-Up Grab a take-home kit with screen-printed tees and a kid’s activity. Kits will be available on first-come, first-served basis on Saturday outside the Branigan Cultural Center. 2-3pm ArrowSoul Art Workshop for Youth/Taller del Arte ArrowSoul* 3-4:30pm Artist Features 4:30pm Closing Words *These events are bilingual.

Vicky Ramakka writes about the Four Corners region. Her publications have won awards from the New Mexico Press Women and South West Writers. “The Cactus Plot is an environmental mystery with a botanist heroine who uses knowledge of plant ecology to solve two murders.”

Be a part of the 8th annual street art festival. This year’s program honors the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women movement. Experience the life, color, and power that graffiti art brings to communities and to Indigenous peoples around the world. Wednesday, May 5 12pm Opening Dance 12:30pm PictoGraff 101 Thursday, May 6 12-1:30pm Artist Features 5:30pm Dance Workshop: Reconnecting with our Creative Energy/Taller de Danza: Reconectando con Nuestra Energia Creativa with Energyal* Friday, May 7 12-1:30pm Artist Features 5:30pm MMIWG2S and Ni Una Más Roundtable/ Foro de MMIWG2S y Ni Una Más* Saturday, May 8 10am-1pm Youth PictoGraff Kit Pick-Up Grab a take-home kit with screen-printed tees and a kid’s activity. Kits will be available on first-come, first-served basis on Saturday outside the Branigan Cultural Center. 2-3pm ArrowSoul Art Workshop for Youth/Taller del Arte ArrowSoul* 3-4:30pm Artist Features 4:30pm Closing Words *These events are bilingual.

The Virtual Death Café is an hourlong discussion where people talk about death and their relationships with death. The Death Café is a discussion group rather than a grief support, informational or counseling session. For more information, and a Zoom invite to the meeting, contact the Brita Sauer at (575) 528-4085 or bsauer@las-cruces.org.

Take a lunch break and enjoy a talk with an expert about topics related to the railroad or local and regional history. Lectures occur on the second Tuesday of the month at 12pm on Zoom.

Explore the connections between art and literature by reading and discussing new art-related books each month. Everyone is welcome – join the club even if you haven’t read the book!

Discover history and culture through a monthly informal discussion series on the theme “History of Agriculture.” Learn about the Nakayama Farm” with Peggy Swoveland. The legacy of the Nakayama farm in the Mesilla Valley from 1918 to the 1990s will be told by the granddaughter of the founder of the farm, Peggy Swoveland. You can tune in at: https://rebrand.ly/ Nakayama

Whether you want to learn Arabic as a new language, are practicing it as the language your ancestors spoke, or just want to have conversations in your first language, this is the program for you! These are not formal classes but provide opportunity for conversation between different levels of speakers for participants to practice language skills. Each session is inspired by a different Arabic-speaking country.

Porous polymers have a variety of applications that are dependent on material functionality and morphology. This presentation highlights applications using porous polymers produced through a templating approach. These fabricated ultrafiltration membranes have pore sizes in the range of 2-5 nanometers and exhibit both excellent resistance to deposit formation and high permeance of water, vastly outperforming conventional ultrafiltration membranes. They can be tailored to produce membranes for a wide range of applications including protein purification, water treatment, and food processing. Reza Foudazi, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at New Mexico State University. Dr. Foudazi’s research focuses on the use of porous polymers for water filtration.

From marching on picket lines, to feeding the community, to using art to make a statement, Latina women have been at the center of helping the community fight for change. Steve Velasquez, Curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, will use Smithsonian Institution collections to highlight different ways that Latina activists inspire people to build a better future. This online presentation is a teaser event for our newest exhibit “Salt of the Earth” opening July 16, 2021! “Salt of the Earth” highlights the work of women activists fighting for miner’s rights in Silver City in the 1950’s. Tune into “Celebrating Latinas: Stories from the Smithsonian” at https://rebrand.ly/CelebrateLatinas.

Readers of the Purple Sage Book Club (Sage branch of the TBML) invite you to join in a book discussion every Thursday at 12:30 PM using Zoom. For more information or to obtain the Zoom credentials, email sagelibrary@las-cruces.org.

The Museum of Art hosts its own lecture series featuring discussion of artists, art movements, or other art history topics.

Teen-organized science for…teens! Team up with STEM experts for monthly discussions, tours, and activities with our guest scientists. Recommended for ages 11-17. Programs begin at 6pm. Contact Stephanie at shawkins@las-cruces.org for links to the Zoom webinar.

"Maybe you should talk to someone: a therapist, HER therapist, and our lives revealed" by Lori Gottlieb. A hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us be hind the scenes of a therapist's world. Contact calee@las-cruces.org for the Zoom link or for more information.

Munson Book Club will be discussing William Wharton’s novel "Birdy".

Board meeting to discuss monthly updates, statistics, events, and shelter issues.

The City of Las Cruces recognizes the Memorial Day holiday.