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Weekly Highlights in New Mexico

Every featured event of the week, past and present

Ghost Clearing Talk at Santa
Weekly Highlight Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026

Ghost Clearing Talk at Santa

Jane Phillips, a Santa Fe paranormal energy clearer who says she has cleared more than 600 properties, gives her fifth free Halloween-season talk at the Main Library on Oct. 29, 2026.

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Explora-ween at Explora
Weekly Highlight Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026

Explora-ween at Explora

Explora Science Center & Children's Museum hosts Explora-ween on Saturday, Oct. 31, 2026, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. — mad-scientist experiments, sweet treats, and a costume contest at 1701 Mountain Road NW.

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Fall Fest & Trunk-or-Treat at
Weekly Highlight Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026

Fall Fest & Trunk-or-Treat at

Mountain Moon Creations and Dances With Flames host a free Halloween festival with trunk-or-treating, local vendors, a car show and food trucks at Oasis Event Center in Albuquerque on Saturday, October 31, 2026.

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Haunted Trail at Pueblo Canyon
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Haunted Trail at Pueblo Canyon

Local teens turn the wooded path behind Pueblo Canyon Inn in Los Alamos into a free walk-through haunt on Friday, Oct. 23, 2026.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Canyon Road Paint & Sculpt Out

Santa Fe's historic Canyon Road hosts the Historic Canyon Road Paint & Sculpt Out, with more than 100 artists demonstrating their craft along the half-mile art district.

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American Pie Doc at Rio Grande
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

American Pie Doc at Rio Grande

New Mexico-raised producer Spencer Proffer brings his documentary "The Day the Music Died: The Story of Don McLean's 'American Pie'" to the Rio Grande Theatre in Las Cruces as part of the Las Cruces International Film Festival.

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Bard Crawl: Hamlet at Canteen
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Bard Crawl: Hamlet at Canteen

Duke City Repertory Theatre brings its no-director, one-rehearsal brewery Shakespeare to Canteen Brewhouse in Albuquerque on October 20, 2026, with free pay-what-it's-worth admission.

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Tracks & Tales: A NM Storyathon
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Tracks & Tales: A NM Storyathon

Tracks & Tales: A New Mexico Storyathon puts 18 writers aboard Amtrak's Southwest Chief from Albuquerque's Alvarado Transportation Center to Las Vegas, NM, October 23-25, 2026, for a weekend at the historic Castañeda Hotel.

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Dos Amigos at Pie Projects
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Dos Amigos at Pie Projects

Santa Fe artists Jerry West and Luis Tapia share a two-person exhibition at Pie Projects Contemporary Art from October 20 to November 21, 2026.

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Harry Potter Planetarium Show
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Harry Potter Planetarium Show

San Juan College Planetarium in Farmington, NM hosts "The Astronomy of Harry Potter," a free live AstroFriday show, followed by a free public stargaze.

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Nightlife of the Desert at
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Nightlife of the Desert at

Nightlife of the Desert, a free family evening of crafts and activities centered on native desert wildlife, comes to the Chihuahuan Desert Nature Park in Las Cruces on Friday, October 16, 2026.

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Chimayo Tapestry Workshop in
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Chimayo Tapestry Workshop in

Eighth-generation Chimayo weaver Emily Trujillo teaches a three-day Traditional Nuevo Mexico Chimayo Tapestry workshop at Fiber Arts on 4th in Los Ranchos, October 16-18, 2026.

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Cosmic Carnival & Star Party
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Cosmic Carnival & Star Party

The Albuquerque Astronomical Society hosts the free Cosmic Carnival and Star Party at the Open Space Visitor Center on Oct. 17, 2026, with hands-on science activities from 1 to 5 p.m. and telescope viewing of planets and stars from 6 to 10 p.m.

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Starlight Over Abó
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Starlight Over Abó

A free ranger-led night hike, telescope viewing, and dark-sky photography session returns to the ruins of an Ancestral Pueblo and Spanish mission town that has been watching the same sky for a thousand years.

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The Buzz on Saving Bees
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

The Buzz on Saving Bees

A free evening talk at Las Cruces's Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum brings an NMSU biologist's bumble bee research to a public audience.

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Where the Leaves Turn and So
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Where the Leaves Turn and So

A neo-burlesque variety show born in a converted Santa Fe bowling alley in 2018 returns this fall with a first-come, first-seated invitation into the heart of the House of Eternal Return.

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A Park Reclaimed by Music
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

A Park Reclaimed by Music

A free Levitt AMP concert in Ralph Edwards Park continues a small New Mexico town's long habit of reinventing itself through celebration.

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Plus Ultra in the Four
Weekly Highlight Sep 14–21, 2026

Plus Ultra in the Four

The anime's first-ever American concert experience kicks off its coast-to-coast tour not in Los Angeles or New York, but at the Farmington Civic Center in northwestern New Mexico.

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Two Friends, 750 Miles, and
Weekly Highlight Sep 14–21, 2026

Two Friends, 750 Miles, and

National Geographic photographer Pete McBride and New York Times bestselling author Kevin Fedarko bring their epic, harrowing, and hilarious Grand Canyon traverse to the Jack Maddox Distinguished Speaker Series on September 15.

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Country Camp Comes to the Duke
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

Country Camp Comes to the Duke

The Season 18 fan favorite brings her Peg Bundy hair and Midwestern charm to Albuquerque's Effex NightClub for a night of drag, community, and homecoming.

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A New Chapter on the Pajarito
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

A New Chapter on the Pajarito

After a $6.6 million transformation that restored a 1947 Atomic Energy Commission gem, the Los Alamos County Golf Course celebrates its Re-Grand Opening with a community-wide celebration on Sept. 12.

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From Fleece to Fashion: The
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

From Fleece to Fashion: The

At the New Mexico State Fair, a daily demonstration turns a sheep's fleece into a finished shawl, preserving a traditional craft.

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Where the Milky Way Still
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

Where the Milky Way Still

At Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, a monthly dark-sky program invites visitors to see the Milky Way from a 17th-century mission site.

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Grumpy Ambassadors, Good
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

Grumpy Ambassadors, Good

A quirky New Mexico tradition born in 1969 gets a spirited revival at a historic wine bar, as nine nominees compete to become Aztec's next Six Old Soreheads.

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Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

A Century on the Mother Road

As the New Mexico State Fair celebrates 100 years of Route 66, the 11-day gathering in Albuquerque honors a history that stretches back to 1881.

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The Body as Archive
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

The Body as Archive

An evening of screenings, readings, and dialogue at CCA Santa Fe honors the late performance artist whose body became a living critique of how museums display Native America.

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Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Where Ancient Sound Meets

Every first Monday, a musician with over 30 years of orchestral experience transforms a historic downtown cathedral into a sanctuary of crystal bowls and gongs — and everyone is welcome, free of charge.

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Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Cocktails and Conservation

On Sept. 3, the Albuquerque BioPark Zoo opens its gates to adults for an inaugural evening of reptile feedings and training demos, with every dollar going to save the endangered Grand Cayman blue iguana.

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The Heat of the Harvest
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

The Heat of the Harvest

For more than half a century, a tiny New Mexico village has drawn tens of thousands of visitors each Labor Day weekend to celebrate the world's most famous chile pepper.

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In Santa Fe, a Hundred Years
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

In Santa Fe, a Hundred Years

Each Labor Day weekend, tens of thousands gather at Fort Marcy Park to watch a towering effigy of anxieties go up in flame—a ritual born from a painter's Christmas Eve bonfire a century ago.

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Six Nations, One Land: A
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Six Nations, One Land: A

The Branigan Cultural Center's 'Land of the People' brings together six Indigenous nations to share their histories and contemporary lives in their own words, in an exhibit running through May 2027.

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A King in the Mall: ZozoFest 2026 Offers a First Glimpse of Old Man Gloom
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

A King in the Mall: ZozoFest 2026 Offers a First Glimpse of Old Man Gloom

The free, family-friendly preview to Santa Fe's 102nd Burning of Zozobra lets visitors meet the 50-foot marionette, stuff their glooms, and see the revolutionary-themed artwork before the big night.

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The Mother Road Returns to
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

The Mother Road Returns to

A free three-day traveling exhibit brings the stories, art, and hard histories of America's most iconic highway to the New Mexico History Museum.

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The Atomic City's Mightiest
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

The Atomic City's Mightiest

Los Alamos celebrates its fifth annual free, all-ages comic-con-style festival at Mesa Public Library and historic Fuller Lodge, a town-wide tribute to imagination, creativity, and the joy of dressing up.

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A King in the Mall: ZozoFest
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

A King in the Mall: ZozoFest

The free, family-friendly preview to Santa Fe's 102nd Burning of Zozobra lets visitors meet the 50-foot marionette, stuff their glooms, and see the revolutionary-themed artwork before the big night.

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