Best bets this weekend include the Garden Club of Durango plant sale and “shimmy mob” belly dancing performances on Saturday and Mother’s Day events on Sunday.
The Garden Club of Durango will hold its annual plant sale – “Perennials from our Garden” – at 9 a.m. Saturday, at Santa Rita Park, 149 South Camino del Rio.
The event is free, open to all and will occur regardless of the weather. Proceeds will help maintain the gardens at Santa Rita Park.
Local belly dancers will give “shimmy mob” performances Saturday in Durango to benefit Alternative Horizons and celebrate World Belly Dance Day.
Shimmy Mob is a worldwide belly-dance flash mob movement that raises money to support programs for victims of abuse.
This year’s Durango team includes 28 dancers, who will perform at:
10 a.m., Main Mall, 835 Main Ave.11 a.m., Durango Farmers Market in the parking lot of First National Bank of Durango, 259 W. Ninth St.Noon, Father’s Daughter Pizza, 600 Main Ave.1:30 p.m., Sunshine Gardens Senior Community, 25 Sunshine Court.2:30 p.m., Durango Mall near T.J. Maxx and Ross Dress for Less, 800 S. Camino del Rio.
Donations go to Alternative Horizons.
For more information about Alternative Horizons, visit www.alternativehorizons.org.
For more information about Shimmy Mob, visit www.shimmymob.com.
Mother’s Day is on Sunday and Durango residents will celebrate mothers and matriarchy with a train ride to Silverton, brunch events and a gnome painting party.
Durango will celebrate motherhood and maternity on Sunday with:
A special train ride from 8:45 a.m. to 6 p.m., from Durango to Silverton and back; passengers will depart from the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad depot, 479 Main Ave.Brunch events from 10 a.m. to noon at the Strater Hotel’s Mahogany Grille, 699 Main Ave., and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the DoubleTree Hotel, 501 Camino del Rio.A family gnome painting party from noon to 3 p.m. at AJ’s Greenhouse Nursery, located northeast of Durango off of Florida Road (County Road 240) at 60 E. Owen Road.For more information, visit www.durango.org.
Tim Walsworth birthday party, 6 p.m., Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Drive.
Community yard sale, 9 a.m., Southern Ute Multi Purpose, 256 Ute Road, Ignacio.
“Bogey Down” Hospice Golf Tournament, noon, $40, Conquistador Golf Course, 2018 N. Dolores Road, Cortez.
Trout Unlimited spring banquet, 5:30 p.m., $45-$80, Fort Lewis College, Student Union, Ballroom, 1000 Rim Drive, 247-7010.
Dan Levenson music workshop, 10:30 a.m., $25, Strater Hotel, 699 Main Ave.
