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Get out & about!
Beer and bicycles are natural brothers, according to Outside Magazine and Cycle Santa Fe, which have created the inaugural
Bike & Brew Festival (May 16-18), a celebration of craft beer and cycling on or off road. Bicyclists of all levels are invited to sample anything from the challenging
Santa Fe Century Ride (with 20- and 50-mile routes) to an easy cruise to the brewpub.
Spring brings an abundance of eye-catching produce to the twice-weekly
Farmers’ Market at the Railyard. Vegetables, arts and crafts, and live music and events give you plenty of incentives to check out the
Railyard and its surrounding galleries, shops, and pubs, with free entertainment like the
Wise Fool circus performing their show
Flexion (May 16-17).
Learn about the local flora and fauna on two easy
hikes in Santa Fe Canyon led by a naturalist from The Nature Conservancy (April 23, May 15). This thriving river valley only a few miles from the Plaza has been preserved for the enjoyment of birds, beavers, and other wildlife.
Here’s something you probably didn’t expect to do in Santa Fe: Cheer on the city’s own professional baseball team! The
Santa Fe Fuego play other New Mexico teams starting May 12 at Fort Marcy Park, complete with hot dogs and McGee the mascot.
Trace New Mexico textiles from sheep to loom at the annual
Fiber Arts Festival at El Rancho de las Golondrinas living history museum (May 24-25), with demonstrations of herding and shearing, dyeing and weaving. Add costumed villagers, bread baking, and other non-sheep activities for the annual Spring Festival and Children’s Fair (June 7-8).
Estrella del Norte Vineyard offers cooking classes, wine dinners, regular tastings, and a low-cost
beginning photography workshop (May 16), with tasting included.
Art events
Hurry on over to Canyon Road for this year’s
Passport to the Arts (May 9-11), the perfect outing for Mother’s Day. Pick up an instant masterpiece in the Artist’s Quick Draw auction, or bid less impulsively in a silent auction. The famous arts district will feature exhibits, demonstrations, live music, and trunk shows all weekend for strolling, sipping, and shopping.
Join the local community for the quirky
Fantase Dome Fest (May 9), a multimedia interactive festival composed of four lighted domes, art happenings, live music, and a beer garden. It’s billed as a demonstration of how downtown can be transformed into a global magnet for the young and young at heart.
One of the largest art studio tours in New Mexico takes place in
Eldorado (May 17-18), just north of Santa Fe, featuring the work of 90 artists in all media and a preview show at the La Tienda exhibition space.
Indian art collectors set aside Memorial Day weekend for the annual
Native Treasures Indian Arts Festival (May 24-25), selling museum-quality Native art from 200+ invited artists. The event benefits the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.
Coming up in June is the fifth annual
Currents New Media Festival (June 13-29), presenting emerging artists in new media in venues around the city.
At the museums
The New Mexico Museum of Art looks at the development of the
Santa Fe Art Colony (through July 27).
Filigree and Finery at the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art (through May 31) exhibits some of the luxurious adornments worn in New Spain, from silk and filigree to shawls and
rebozos. Also from New Spain, a menagerie of
Hispano wood animal carvings has taken up residence at the Museum of International Folk Art, featuring early 20
th-century examples of this whimsical art form. The feminist artist
Judy Chicago who is associated with her namesake city actually has lived for three decades in New Mexico. An exhibit of her recent work opens June 6 at the New Mexico Museum of Art, including collaborations with husband
Donald Woodman, whose photographs are currently on display at the New Mexico History Museum (through Oct. 12).
Be sure to catch the final weeks of
Feast: Radical Hospitality at SITE Santa Fe (closing May 18), including the free exhibit
Ice Cream Social (May 10), a response by high school students to a curatorial assignment.
Music
Fascinating opera prodigy, Spanish guitarist, and intelligence officer
AnnaMaria Cardinalli performs
Legado y Leyenda, stories about the people of Northern New Mexico, every Friday night through June 20 in a
benefit for San Miguel Mission to restore its historic bell tower.
Jazz legend, composer, and part-time Santa Fe resident
Dave Grusin plays a benefit show (May 22) for the Santa Fe Waldorf School with some jazzy friends. Catch the rootsy folk trio
Cave Singers (May 13) with Todd and the Fox at Santa Fe Sol. And there’s still classical music to be heard from the
Santa Fe Symphony as Tom Hall conducts
Beethoven’s Ninth (May 17-8), with renowned soloists and the Symphony Chorus.
