Winter Traditions A Community Holiday Celebration
A special community holiday celebration featuring Native American storytelling, dance performance, and hands-on activities. Free admission for New Mexico residents on Sundays with ID.
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Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, United States
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Winter Celebration Fun for all ages
Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM, United StatesThe public is cordially invited to celebrate winter with hands on art making for ages 3 to 103! Make festival headdresses inspired by objects and videos in Brasil & Arte Popular; get inspired in Wooden Menagerie: Made in New Mexico and make beaded animal ornaments. Enjoy live music by Jazz Brasileiro and complementary refreshments. All […]
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Opening event for Setting the Standard: The Fred Harvey Company and Its Legacy Exhibit opening
New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United StatesBe among the first to see this Mezzanine-area addition to the museum’s main exhibit, Telling New Mexico: Stories from Then and Now. Curated by Meredith Davidson, Setting the Standard: The Fred Harvey Company and Its Legacy focuses on the rise of the Fred Harvey Company as a family business and events that transpired specifically in the […]
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Christmas at Kuaua
Coronado Historic Site 485 Kuaua Road, Bernalillo, NM, United StatesFree admission. Get into the holiday spirit with an evening of family fun! The grounds of Coronado Historic Site will be decorated with hundreds of flickering luminarias and thousands of Christmas lights. Activities start at 5:00 pm with Santa’s Workshop: children, assisted by a few kindly elves, will have an opportunity to make their own […]
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Christmas at the Palace
New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United StatesSanta Fe’s beloved Christmas at the Palace brings the community together for a 30th-anniversary evening of hot cider, cookies, live music, piñatas, craft-making activities, a chance to operate an antique printing press and the visit of Mr. and Mrs. Claus -- all in the legendary magic of the Palace of the Governors. A free, family […]
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Young Native Artists Holiday Show and Sale A free family event
New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United StatesChildren and grandchildren of the Palace Portal artisans will display their own creations at the Young Native Artists Holiday Show and Sale in the Meem Community Room and History Museum classroom. Pick up some nifty Christmas presents and support the next generation of Native American artisans. Enter for free through the museum’s Washington Avenue doors, […]
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Luminaria Tour at Fort Selden
Fort Selden Historic Site 1280 Fort Selden Road, Radium Springs, NM, United StatesFt. Selden Historic Site will be celebrating the season again this year with its annual “Luminaria Tour”. 1,000 Luminarias will be placed along the Monument trails to light the path of visitors as they experience this night-time wonder.Living history re-enactors will be on hand to add an historic flavor to the event with skits and […]
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Light Among the Ruins: Christmas Celebration
Jemez Historic Site 18160 NM-4, Jemez Springs, NM, United StatesFree admission. The ruins of Giusewa Pueblo and San José de los Jemez Mission will be decorated with hundreds of traditional luminarias. The evening’s program will include traditional Native American flute music and Jemez Pueblo dancers’ performance between two illuminating bon-fires. Enjoy free horse-drawn wagon rides from Jemez Springs Park to the Historic Site and holiday […]
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“Wearable Art” Jewelry Lecture Keri Ataumbi Discusses Her Work
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, United StatesA multiple award winner at Indian Market and the Heard Museum Show, Keri Ataumbi will discuss her "wearable art" of silver and gold, often enhanced with precious and semi-precious gems, including turquoise. Keri is of Kiowa and Italian heritage, and her work is steeped in both traditional and contemporary art streams. She creates jewelry based […]
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Las Posadas
New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United StatesThe annual candle-lit procession of Las Posadas travels around the Santa Fe Plaza and concludes in the Palace Courtyard. This version of an old Hispanic tradition with Holy Cross Church members and Coro de Agua Fria recreates Mary and Joseph’s search for a place to give birth to the Baby Jesus – and throws in a few […]
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Why Money is Better than Barter: Trade in 18th-Century Northern New Mexico A Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture
New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United StatesLinda Tigges, a longtime urban planner, speaks on "Why Money is Better than Barter: Trade in 18th-Century Northern New Mexico.” The Brainpower & Brownbags Lectures are free and open to the public. Enter the Meem Community Room through the museum’s Washington Avenue doors.
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Let’s Take A Look Curators Look at Your Treasures
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, United StatesThe third Wednesday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 pm. During this time, curators from The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and The Laboratory of Anthropology are in the lobby of MIAC to look at your treasures. These curators will attempt to identify and explain any artifact or historic object presented to […]