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Local Events
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The Tempest opens Friday, February 7, 2025 at 7:30pm, with tickets available at the door of the El Sol Theater a half an hour before show time and are $12 for adults and $6 for students. On the night of Thursday, February 13, tickets are by donation.
The Tempest weaves a tale of betrayal, revenge, and redemption set on a mysterious island. Prospero, the exiled Duchess of Milan, has become a powerful magician who conjures up a tempest to shipwreck those who have wronged her in the past. The stranded passengers encounter Ariel a spirit of air and music, and Caliban, a monster with a poetic soul.
- Category: Local Events
Chocolate Fantasia Menu for special event February 7, 2025
Chocolate-Themed Appetizer - Candied Bacon-Wrapped White Figs Stuffed with a dark chocolate cream cheese filling.
Coffee-Inspired Savory Entrée - Smoky Espresso-Rubbed Baseball Cut Steaks Pan-seared and served with root vegetables and red roasted potato wedges. Espresso roast: Abbey Roast.
Coffee and Chocolate Dessert - High-Stacked Layered Tiramisu Homemade dark chocolate ladyfinger cookies
soaked in Abbey Roast coffee, layered with mascarpone cream filling, and topped with cocoa powder.
All meals will be made with decaf if possible.
Special Event Friday Night Community Music Event Featuring the band Baracutanga! This exciting performance is sponsored in part by The Little Toad Creek and MRAC/Chocolate Fantasia
See flyer below
- Category: Local Events
Virus Theater presents a production of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, a production of the Virus Theater Youth Workshop, with huge thanks to Producing Sponsors The Town of Silver City and Frost McGahey
Tickets: $12 adults / $6 students / Thursday Feb.13th by donation
Tickets will be available at the door of El Sol Theater
El Sol Theater, 406 N. Bullard St., Silver City, NM Contact
See poster below
- Category: Local Events
The New Mexico Potters and Clay Artists (NMPCA) announces their annual member show, "Celebration of Clay: Of Mind and Matter," April 4th to April 27th, 2025 at the Light Art Space, 209 West Broadway, Silver City, New Mexico. All are invited to the opening reception on Friday, April 4th, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. Regular gallery hours are Thursday thru Saturday 11 am to 5 pm, Sunday 10 am to 2 pm. Closed Monday - Wednesday.
Working from clay to the cosmos,
potters and ceramic artists craft a close personal relationship with their materials and their infinite expressive possibilities. Through works and artist statements, this exhibition explores the relationship between inspiration, process and material.
- Category: Local Events
Grant County Farm and Livestock Bureau is hosting a Home and Garden Expo! We are in need of vendors to set up at the event. It's a 2-day event and the charge is $100/per booth space (roughly 10x10 or 1 table and 2 chairs). If you would like to set up, contact one of the numbers listed on the poster. See below
- Category: Local Events
Virus Theater will gratefully accept cash & check donations at the door, for our youth and community programming, if you wish.
This event is FREE and OPEN to the community - donations absolutely not required.
See flyer below
- Category: Local Events
Bachelors of Broadway
The Grant County Community Concert Association presents Bachelors of Broadway a rousing interpretation of much-loved songs from stage and screen on Thursday, January 16th in the WNMU Fine Arts Theater at 7 PM.
A trio of men who sing their hearts out to bring you songs from Wicked, The Phantom of the Opera, Jersey Boys, Hamilton, Les Misérables, South Pacific, Aladdin and more. They share songs that have thrilled millions worldwide.
Captivating voices and new arrangements of classic and contemporary songs bring a fresh look at theatrical music for all ages.
- Category: Local Events
Virus Theater welcomes sponsors for our production of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, to be performed at El Sol Theater in downtown Silver City February 6-16, 2025.
The cast and crew will be made up primarily of talented area teens, who are receiving training in Virus Theater’s highly physical style of theater, the language of Shakespeare, voice, movement, and costume and set design elements of a full-blown theatrical production. This is Virus Theater’s third year producing a teen workshop and performance. Our community has been blown away by the creativity of our community’s youth, and this teen program is back by popular demand.
Upcoming Events
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| Tue Mar 18 @ 9:00AM - 12:00PM Starlight Theatre Announces Spring Break Drama Camps for Kids and Teens! - SC Starlight Theatre |
| Tue Mar 18 @12:00PM - 01:00PM DA Norm Wheeler to Speak at Rotary Meeting - WNMU Sunset Room, 2nd Floor Cafeteria |
| Tue Mar 18 @ 3:00PM - 05:00PM Bayard Public Library Free Spring Break Programming - Bayard Public Library |
| Tue Mar 18 @ 4:00PM - Silver City Public Library Therapy Dogs - Silver City Public Library |
| Tue Mar 18 @ 6:00PM - 08:00PM Starlight Theatre Announces Spring Break Drama Camps for Kids and Teens! - SC Starlight Theatre |
| Tue Mar 18 @ 7:00PM - 09:00PM Positive Choices in Cooking event - Silver City Annex Building |
| Wed Mar 19 Free inperson Tax Preparation in Bayard - |
| Wed Mar 19 @ 9:00AM - 12:00PM Starlight Theatre Announces Spring Break Drama Camps for Kids and Teens! - SC Starlight Theatre |
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