This weekend has a clear theme: get outdoors and enjoy the natural world. Sunday is Arbor Day! Enjoy your weekend.
Gathering of Nations Powwow
The huge fest brings everything together: food, dance, music, shopping at the trader's market, and so much more. If you've never experienced this event, make this the year. At the Pit (UNM Arena) Friday and Saturday, April 27 and 28.
You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
The Box Performance Space presents the story of an average day in the life of Charlie Brown. Friday April 27 through Sunday, April 29. Runs next weekend as well, May 4 - 6.
Opera Southwest: A Way Home
The contemporary opera for middle and high school students and families explores the roots of cultural identity. In English and Spanish, the opera will be showing Friday, April 27 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, April 28 at 2 p.m. at the National Hispanic Culutral Center.
Introduction to Beekeeping
Les Crowder has been keeping bees and teaching about them for decades. If you'd like to get in on the popular pastime, this is the person to learn from. He's having an introductory class on Saturday, April 28 at the Open Space Center on Coors, from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., or on Sunday, April 29 at Skarsgard Farm (for the hobbyist).
Wildlife Day at Rio Grande Community Farm
Take a bird walk, hayride, plant wildflower seeds, go geocaching. It's all happening at the farm that's right in the heart of the city. From 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 28.
Storytime: When I Grow Up
Weird Al Yankovic may be a funny musician, but he's also the author of a children's book. Weird Al will be in town on Monday for a concert, so Bookworks is celebrating with a reading of Al's book and some great Weird Al giveaways. Saturday, April 28 from 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Dia de los Ninos
The Loma Colorado Library will have storytelling, children's book authors, crafts, face painting and more fun at this celebration of young children and books. From 10:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m. on Saturday, April 28. And it's free!
Food and Life
The fourth annual Food & Life series takes place Saturday, April 28 at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology on UNM campus. Special presentations will take place on the theme of the "three sisters" and a talk by native foods historian Lois Ellen Frank on corn, beans and squash (the three sisters.) From 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Skarsgard Farms Spring Plant Sale
For the gardeners out there, this plant sale is just the ticket. Support local farms by buying heirloom and hybrid tomato plants, along with other specialties, such as Nadia eggplant and Gala melon. Skarsgard Farms is run by the fellow who used to farm Los Pobalanos, but who now has his own spread in the south valley. The sale runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 28. Tour the farm at 10 a.m., or go later and learn about drip irrigation, composting and more.
Arbor Day
Celebrate Arbor Day at a free event put on by the Bernalillo County Open Space. There will be different stations led by local experts. Learn about trees, their care and enjoy the live birds from Wildlife Rescue. From 10 a.m. - noon on Sunday, April 29 at the Bachechi Open Space near Alameda and Rio Grande.
Cause of the Week
Girls Night Out
The annual event for women 21 and over features a night of indulgences. There will be shopping, fashion and pampering galore. More than 100 vendors will be at the Hard Rock Hotel on Friday, April 27 from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Proceeds support the Ronald McDonald House in New Mexico.
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