Space available for Christmas bazaar
The Animas Museum’s annual Old Fashioned Christmas Bazaar will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Dec. 6 and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dec. 7.
Vendor space is available for artists and crafters selling hand-made creations. Vendor applications must be received before Nov. 7.
The museum is at 3065 West Second Ave.
For more information, call 247-5348.
Snowdown art exhibit deadline nears
The deadline to enter art for the 20th annual Snowdown Fine Art Exhibition is Nov. 19, and artists need to submit a letter of intent by Nov. 14.
Elected artwork will be auctioned at the 2014 Snowdown event to raise funds for land conservation in Southwest Colorado.
Artists receive 50 percent of proceeds from the sale of their work.
Information and submission requirements are available by calling La Plata Open Space Conservancy at 259-3425 or online at www.lposc.org.
Opening reception tonight for new exhibit at DAC
Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., will host an opening reception for Durango artist Louise Grunewald from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday.
Grunewald will be showing a new series of solarplate prints and handmade books based on her travels in Germany in October 2012. She is known nationally as a calligraphy artist, but her work always is a new slant on the calligraphic line.
For more information, visit www.durangoarts.org and choose the Art Library tab under “Exhibits.”
Maria’s Bookshop donates proceeds to Hundred Club
To raise awareness about the daily challenges local law-enforcement officials face, Maria’s Bookshop is hosting a fundraiser for the Hundred Club of Durango. Maria’s will donate $5 from each sale of 100 specially signed copies of Dan Schultz’s Dead Run: The Murder Of A Lawman and The Greatest Manhunt of the Modern American West.
Set in Cortez and the Utah wilderness, Dead Run details the 1998 story of three survivalists, the murder of a Cortez police officer and the manhunt that followed, which involved 75 local, state and federal police agencies and more than 500 officers, SWAT teams and members of the U.S. Army’s Special Forces unit.
The Durango Hundred Club provides financial, advisory and moral support to the families of servicepeople injured or killed in the line of duty, through donations to the family and a scholarship program for the dependents of local servicepeople. To learn more, visit www.durango100club.com.
Ice cream shop to hold Day of the Dead event
Cream Bean Berry Artisan Ice Cream will hold a Day of the Dead celebration from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday at its shop on the first floor of the Smiley Building, 1309 East Third Ave.
The event will include crafts for kids, free tarot card readings, best costume prizes, free samples and special treats. There is no charge for entry.
Day of the Dead is a festive Mexican holiday during which people gather to remember deceased loved ones. Remembrances can include constructing altars covered with offerings at the grave sites of the departed.
For more information, visit www.creambeanberry.com or call 903-1300.
Snowdown welcomes new ideas for Follies
Bent Urban Sports Bar, 42 East Animas Road (County Road 250), will host a brainstorming session for the 2014 Snowdown Follies at 6 p.m. Wednesday.
If you have wanted to be a part of the Snowdown Follies, have an idea for an act or want to float your act idea, be sure to show up for this jovial gathering where new and old Snowdown Follies performers will share their no-holds-barred Follies act concepts and ideas. Snacks and a cash bar will be provided.
For more information, visit www.snowdownfollies.org.
Arts Center to stage children’s theater
Durango Arts Center’s performing arts program DAC Applause! will present the musical “Pickle-Chiffon Pie,” based on the award-winning children’s book written by Jolly Roger Bradfield. Show times are 7 p.m. Nov. 8, 9 and 15 with special fundraiser shows at 1 and 7 p.m. Nov. 16
“Pickle-Chiffon Pie” was written by local artist Wendy Ludgewait. It’s a tale that stretches the imagination; the audience gets to meet a juggling lion, a 16-foot Gazoo and a mouse that paints like Picasso.
Families and children are invited for special hugs, handshakes and autographs with the three princes and the princess for the special fundraiser shows. There also will be locally made artisan pies for auction.
Tickets are $10 general admission and $7 for children 7 and under, available online at www.DurangoArts.Tix.com.
For more information, call 259-2606 or visit www.DurangoArts.org.
Herald Staff
