Discovery Museum announces events
The Durango Discovery Museum, 1333 Camino del Rio, will host these programs:
Trivia takes place at 6 p.m. every Thursday.
Snowdown Showdowns: “World’s Greatest Zit Cream” (Rated F for Family) will take place Friday . Doors will open at 3:30 p.m., and the show will start at 4 p.m. Tickets are $5 per person, children 3 and younger are free. To reserve a seat, call 259-9234.
“MacGyver on Safari” (Rated M for Mature) will take place Saturday. Doors will open at 6 p.m.; the show will start at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 per person.
Pub Science will take place Feb. 7. Laura Peticolas – physicist at University of California, Berkeley’s Space Physics Laboratory – will shed light on the aurora borealis. Her presentation will focus on her studies of the aurora and provide a better understanding of its relationship between Earth and the sun. Doors will open at 6 p.m.
Totally Inappropriate Date Night will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. Feb. 14. The cost is $20 per couple.
For more information, call 403-1740 or visit www.DurangoDiscovery.org.
Bayfield Library to host movie series
The Pine River Library, 395 Bayfield Center Drive, will offer a “Great Books, Great Films” movie series through March.
Classic literature made into classic films will include “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” “Of Mice and Men” and “Mutiny on the Bounty.” The movies will be shown at 1 p.m. every Monday in the library’s Community Room.
For more information, call 884-2222.
Archaeology society will be meeting Feb. 4
The Hisatsinom Chapter of the Colorado Archaeology Society will present Jonathan Till at 7 p.m. Feb. 4 at the Methodist Church, 515 Park St., Cortez, to discuss the “Results of the Hovenweep Pottery Analysis Project, Year 2.”
Till’s presentation will focus on Abajo Archaeology’s year of work with the Hovenweep pottery analysis project, including typological, temper, rim arc and design-style analyses of sherds from particular sites in the Hovenweep landscape. He has lived and worked as an archaeologist in the Four Corners for more than 20 years.
For more information, call Kari Schleher (505) 269-4475.
For the Birds’ walk to be held Saturday
A bird walk will be hosted by the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory at 9 a.m. Saturday at For the Birds, 1560 East Second Ave.
The walks last about one hour and 15 minutes. Bring binoculars. The walks are free, but donations to the hosting group are welcome.
For more information, call 382-9396.
Beekeeping class to take place Feb. 4
The Pine River Library, 395 Bayfield Center Drive, Bayfield, will offer a free “Beekeeping Basics” class at 6 p.m. Feb. 4.
Local beekeeper, Jacob Sack, will teach participants how to get started with their own beehives, how to maintain them and more.
For more information, call 884-2222.
Herald Staff
