Courtesy Photo: Rosalie Baker and Oneida artisan Bob Atzchiguette
Friday, October 7, 5-8 pm
The Silver City Museum continues to host First Friday events in conjunction with Silver City MainStreet and other downtown businesses and organizations. On Friday, October 7, 2011 the Museum's galleries and Store, located in the H.B. Ailman house at 312 West Broadway, will be open until 8 pm. The Museum will host Storytelling and Outdoor Games and Activities in the Museum Courtyard from 5-7 pm, and at 7 pm there will be a Staged Play Reading at the Museum Annex, two doors down at 302 West Broadway. From 9 am-8 pm Weekend at the Galleries guest artisans Many Nations will have a Trunk Show inside the Museum, featuring Native American jewelry and crafts; the Trunk Show will continue Saturday and Sunday 10 am - 4 pm.
Outside in the Museum Courtyard from 5-7 pm, visitors of all ages can enjoy stories around the Museum's "campfire" - a prop from the Centennial interactive exhibit. There will be a visiting storyteller in the oral tradition, and books read aloud. There will also be other outdoor games and activities for young and old!
The Museum presents the third in a monthly series of staged play readings inside the Museum Annex at 7 pm. The New Mexico Ghost Play Cycle by Victoria Tester is a chronology of fifteen one-act plays that offer haunting portraits of thirty women of southern New Mexico as they struggle to win joy on their journeys. This Friday's staged reading is River Girl, set five years after the U.S. invasion of New Mexico. In River Girl, a Mexican girl who has married a river hides the fate of her twin brothers from her distraught mother, who hopes in vain for their return from the war. The performance is recommended for mature audiences only, and the space is limited to forty seats. For more information about The New Mexico Ghost Play Cycle, please visit www.nmghostplaycycle.com.
Many Nations will have a featured Trunk Show inside the Museum Friday 9 am-8 pm, and Saturday and Sunday 10 am-4pm. Many Nations was founded in 1984 to support the wholesale and retail trade of quality Native American Arts and Crafts by Rosalie Baker. One of the main objectives of the operation is to offer true Native pieces, from the several Indian Nations in North America. This grew from a quest to learn more of her native heritage as a half blood Oneida, while dealing with some of the native traders and craftspeople. Rosalie's husband, Robert, who is a quarter blood Cherokee, has supported Rosalie in her efforts. Together, they have traveled the 50 states and Canada, looking for quality merchandise and visiting with some of the 500 Native Nations in our great land. The items they carry are of as good a quality as can be found outside of a museum.
The Silver City Museum creates opportunities for residents and visitors to explore, understand and celebrate the rich and diverse cultural heritage of southwestern New Mexico by collecting, preserving, researching and interpreting the region's unique history. For more information about the Museum's programming, please contact staff at (575) 538-5921 or
