Meetings and Events
Flapjack Fundraiser, by Durango Instrumental Music Booster Club and the Durango High School Red Pride Marching Band, 7:30-9:30 a.m., Applebee’s, 800 Camino del Rio, dimbcinc@gmail.com.
Bayfield Farmers Market, 8:30 a.m.-noon, Bayfield Roadside Park, U.S. Highway 160.
Durango Farmers Market, 9 a.m.-noon, First National Bank parking lot, www.durangofarmersmarket.com.
Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering Parade, 10 a.m., Main Avenue, www.durangocowboygathering.org.
Puppies and adult dogs will be available for adoption, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Petsense, 1185 South Camino del Rio, No. 100, 259-3355.
Durango Nature Studies’ Nature Center open, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Durango Learning Center in Bondad. Visit www.durangonaturestudies.org.
Fort Lewis College Homecoming Tailgate Party, 11 a.m., Dennison Field parking lot, www.fortlewis.edu/homecoming.
Free wine tasting, 2-5 p.m., The Wine Merchant, 1514 Main Ave., 375-0076.
Bikes, Bands and Brews fundraiser, 2-6 p.m., Ska Brewing Co., 225 Girard St.
La Plata West Water Authority hosts open house and celebration, 3 p.m.; free meal, 5:30 p.m.; bands, 7 p.m., Breen Community Building, 15300 Colorado Highway 140, Hesperus, 247-7956.
Zia Taqueria hosts benefit weekend for the iAM Music Institute, all day, 3101 Main Ave., 400 South Camino del Rio, www.ZiaTaqueria.com, www.iammusic.us.
Arts and Entertainment
Saturday Series: “Fun with Shakespeare” with Mona Wood Patterson, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Durango Arts Center Theater, 802 East Second Ave., www.durangoarts.org.
The Met: Live in HD featuring Il Trovatore, 10:55 a.m., $23/$21, Vallecito Room, Fort Lewis College Student Union, www.metopera.org/Season/2015-16-Season.
Local poetry show featuring poet Ramona Cugnini and fiddler Red Greer, 2-3:30 p.m., Rochester Hotel Garden, 726 East Second Ave.
Cellist Inbal Segev performs with the San Juan Symphony, 7:30 p.m., $50-$16, Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College, 247-7657, www.durangoconcerts.com.
Merely Players present “Dead Man’s Cell Phone,” 7:30 p.m., $22, VFW Hall, 1550 Main Ave., www.durangoconcerts.com, 247-7657.
Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering, various events and locations, www.durangocowboypoetrygathering.org.
Karaoke, 8 p.m., 8th Avenue Tavern, 509 East Eighth Ave., 259-8801.
First Saturdays event featuring DJs I-Cite and Kid Consume, 8 p.m., Moe’s, 937 Main Ave., 259-9018.
Sports
Durango High School softball vs. Montrose, doubleheader, 10 a.m., Aspen Field.
Bayfield High School boys soccer vs. Crested Butte, 11 a.m., Wolverine Country Stadium, BHS.
Fort Lewis College football vs. Western New Mexico, noon, Ray Dennison Memorial Field.
Durango High School boys soccer vs. Aztec, 1 p.m., Riverview Sports Complex.
Durango High School volleyball vs. Bayfield, 2:30 p.m., DHS.
Fort Lewis College volleyball vs. Colorado Christian, 5 p.m., Whalen Gymnasium, FLC.
