Community Calendar

On our home page, in the sidebar under Research Assistance, you'll find the link to our Resource Center. This is a grouping of websites & databases for your use-great if you need last minute help with a research paper, or copies of legal forms, even investment advice. But did you know you can also connect to many local sites of interest, from the Albuquerque Journal to New Mexico Magazine? Did you know you can find out local events from New Mexico CultureNet & other resources? New Mexico CultureNet lists events for Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Taos, & surrounding areas. You can search the calendar, check out just this weekend's happenings, & limit your search by category. Adult & children's events are included.

Here are some events highlighted by CultureNet for this weekend:

• 19th Annual National Pastel Painting Exhibition AND Small Works Exhibition, Saturday, Nov 06 2010 to Sunday, Nov 28 2010, 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM, at EXPO NM-Hispanic Arts Center
• Words Afire Festival of New Plays Directed Readings: Words Afire Fall Reading Series, an exciting “first look” at new plays in development for the 2011 Words Afire Festival by Georgina Escobar, Nic Wehrwein, Riti Sachdeva, and Law Chavez, with guest directors and special guest adjudicator Megan Monaghan.
  UNM Department of Theatre and Dance Experimental Theatre, November 5-7
• Scandinavian Festival: The festival features Norwegian and Swedish folk art, books, Christmas ornaments, cards, jewelry, t-shirts & cookbooks. The women will be dressed in ethnic costumes and the Scandinavian Club will serve Old World cookies and coffee. Live fiddle music and Scandinavian dancing at 11 am, 12 noon and 1 pm. There will also be a kids' craft corner. Saturday November 6th, 10 am - 4 pm, at Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 114 Carlisle SE
• Festival de Cine: El Bola (2000) at National Hispanic Cultural Center, Wells Fargo Auditorium, Saturday, November 6th at 6:30 pm. El Bola is a Spanish film (shown with subtitles), directed by Achero Mañas. It won the Mejor Película (Best Film) Goya Award in 2001.
  

&, just out of interest, here's a literaryevent a bit further down the road:

• Sylvia Browne at Route 66 Casino: Friday, May 15th at 8:00PM