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Saturday, September 30, 2017
Saturday, September 30, 2017
  • Now Showing at the Silco Theatre  ::  Arts & Music

    "Kingsman: The Golden Circle" (R) 6:00pm   

    Location  Silco Theatre

    Contact  www.thesilco.com or 575-956-6185

  • 08:30am - 12:00pm  Southwest Festival of the Written Word: Megan Kimble  ::  Arts & Music

    Megan Kimble is the editor of Edible Baja Arizona, a local food magazine serving Tucson and the borderlands, and the author of Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food (William Morrow 2015). Megan has written for the Los Angeles Times, ...   

    Location  Silver City Farmers Market

    Contact  www.swwordfiesta.org

  • 10:00am - 04:00pm  32nd Annual Purchase Prize Art Exhibit  ::  Arts & Music

    Purchase Prize Art Show open to the public.   

    Location  Pinos Altos Art Gallery

  • 10:00am - 12:30pm  Festival of the Written Word  ::  Arts & Music

    The Southwest Festival of the Written Word presents authors and publishers who live and work in the southwest discussing their work and creative processes in eight festival sessions throughout downtown Silver City, NM. Saturday morning session topics include: Poetry, Fiction, ...   

    Location  Southwest Festival of the Written Word Headquarters

    Contact  www.swwordfiesta.org

  • 10:00am - 11:00am  Southwest Festival of the Written Word: Julie Iromuanya  ::  Arts & Music

    Julie Iromuanya is the author of Mr. and Mrs. Doctor (Coffee House Press), a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the Etisalat Prize for Literature, and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard ...   

    Location  Seedboat Center for the Arts

    Contact  www.swwordfiesta.org

  • 11:30am - 12:30pm  Southwest Festival of the Written Word: Adrienne Celt  ::  Arts & Music

    Adrienne Celt is the author of The Daughters, a novel, which won the 2015 PEN Southwest Book Award, and a book of comics, Apocalypse How? An Existential Bestiary. Her work has appeared in the 2016 PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, Ecotone, Esquire, ...   

    Location  Old Elk's Club

    Contact  www.swwordfiesta.org

  • 11:30am - 12:30pm  Southwest Festival of the Written Word: Jane Lindskold  ::  Arts & Music

    Jane Lindskold is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling, internationally published author of twenty-five novels, including the six volume Firekeeper Saga, the three volume Breaking the Wall series, and, most recently, Artemis Awakening and Artemis Invaded. Lindskold has also written ...   

    Location  El Sol Theater

    Contact  www.swwordfiesta.org

  • 11:30am - 12:30pm  Southwest Festival of the Written Word: Steve Havill  ::  Arts & Music

    Release of Easy Errors, the latest Posadas County mystery, marks the 28th novel for New Mexico novelist Steven F. Havill-and the 22st in that popular series. The author of four western novels, 22 contemporary mystery novels set in fictitious Posadas ...   

    Location  Seedboat Center for the Arts

    Contact  www.swwordfiesta.org

  • 01:30pm - 02:30pm  Southwest Festival of the Written Word Panel - "Writer's Life: Three Wise Women"  ::  Arts & Music

    Featuring Stella Pope Duarte.   

    Location  Seedboat Center for the Arts

    Contact  www.swwordfiesta.org

  • 01:30pm - 04:00pm  Southwest Festival of the Written Word Venues  ::  Arts & Music

    1:30-2:30pm and 3:00-4:00pm. Saturday afternoon session topics include: Fiction, Panels on The Writer’s Life, Panel on Establishing a Publishing Imprint, Narrative Non-fiction, Journalism, Poetry, and the production of “Blatant Attempts at Understanding” by Melanie Zipin and performed by the Virus ...   

    Location  Silver City, New Mexico

    Contact  www.swwordfiesta.org

  • 01:30pm - 02:30pm  Southwest Festival of the Written Word: Matt Bell  ::  Arts & Music

    Matt Bell is the author most recently of the novel Scrapper and the story collection A Tree or a Person or a Wall. His previous novel, In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods, was a finalist ...   

    Location  Old Elk's Club

    Contact  www.swwordfiesta.org

  • 03:00pm - 04:00pm  Southwest Festival of the Written Word: Algernon D'Ammassa  ::  Arts & Music

    "How is Journalism Changing?" Algernon D'Ammassa has been the author of the Deming Headlight's "Desert Sage" opinion column since 2013. He has been a reporter for the Headlight since April, and is an occasional contributor to the Las Cruces Sun ...   

    Location  Silver City Public Library

    Contact  www.swwordfiesta.org

  • 03:00pm - 04:00pm  Southwest Festival of the Written Word: How is Journalism Changing?"  ::  Arts & Music

     Algernon D'Ammassa and Kate Nelson   

    Location  Silver City Public Library

    Contact  www.swwordfiesta.org

  • 03:00pm - 04:00pm  Southwest Festival of the Written Word: Paul Andrew Hutton  ::  Arts & Music

    "Writer''s Life: Three Wise Men in Conversation about the Writing Life"Paul Andrew Hutton is an American cultural historian, an award-winning author, a documentary film writer, and a television personality. He holds the rank of Distinguished Professor at the University of ...   

    Location  Seedboat Center for the Arts

    Contact  www.swwordfiesta.org

  • 03:00pm - 04:00pm  Southwest Festival of the Written Word:Tim Z. Hernandez  ::  Arts & Music

    "Narrative Non-Fiction: Reading and Discussion from his new Book, 'All They Will Call You'"Tim Z. Hernandez is a writer and performance artist. He is the recipient of an American Book Award for poetry, the Colorado Book Award for poetry, and the ...   

    Location  Old Elk's Club

    Contact  www.swwordfiesta.org

  • 04:00pm - 05:00pm  Silver City Quarterly Review  ::  Arts & Music

    2nd Anniversary Celebration. Our authors will read poetry, short stories and excerpts from longer works.   

    Location  Tranquilbuzz

    Contact  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

  • 04:30pm - 06:00pm  Southwest Festival of the Written Word Open Mic  ::  Arts & Music

    Open mic/Poetry/Flash Fiction hosted by Damien Davies with Manuel Gonzalez. Open to the public free of charge.   

    Location  "A" Space Gallery

    Contact  www.swwordfiesta.org

  • 04:30pm - 06:00pm  Southwest Festival of the Written Word Roundtable  ::  Arts & Music

    Round Table with Writers plus The Great Book Giveaway Quiz. Algernon D’Ammassa, Matt Bell, Jane Lindskold, Andrea Cote-Botero, Steve Havill do “give and take” conversation among themselves and with the audience.    

    Location  Seedboat Center for the Arts

    Contact  www.swwordfiesta.org

  • 06:30pm  Barb Fila and Joe K  ::  Arts & Music

    Live music, Jazz duo, voice and guitar   

    Location  Buckhorn Saloon

  • 07:00pm  Movies at the Light Hall Theater  ::  Arts & Music

    "The Hitman's Bodyguard" (R)   

    Location  Light Hall Theatre

    Contact  movies.wnmu.edu

  • 07:30pm  Word Travels Fast: "I, Custer" Performed by Marissa Bond  ::  Arts & Music

    Free. Part of the Southwest Festival of the Written Word. Chosen for the 2016 Mark Medoff Directorial Project Award, a one-woman play that deconstructs Custer, his life, and his last stand. Marissa Bond is a regular on the theater stages in Las ...   

    Location  WNMU Parotti Recital Hall

    Contact  www.swwordfiesta.org

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