Can you keep your cool under pressure? Join in on the fun as you try to escape from the wicked clutches of the nefarious Dentist M.D. You have 60 minutes to solve all the clues. Stop by the Main Library on Saturday, September 21st between 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
*Registration highly encouraged.*
Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.
Can you keep your cool under pressure? Join in on the fun as you try to escape from the wicked clutches of the nefarious Dentist M.D. You have 60 minutes to solve all the clues. Stop by the Main Library on Friday, September 20th between 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
*Registration highly encouraged.*
Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.
Join us at the Main Library for a FREE film screening. Free popcorn and drinks are provided.
Six strangers find themselves in a maze of deadly mystery rooms and must use their wits to survive.
Interested in leaning how to do basic coding? Attend a workshop to create code based programs such as art, games, interactive environments, and more! Join us at the Main Library on Wednesday, September 11th at 4:00 p.m.
Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.
Are you a master builder? Join us at the Children’s Branch on Wednesday, September 11th at 4:00 p.m. to make boats that float, cars that go, marble mazes, and more!
Email childlib@gallupnm.gov or call 505-726-6120 for more information
Join us at the Main Library for a FREE film screening. Free popcorn and drinks are provided.
A shy teenager falls for a spirit who wakes up in the body of a different person every morning.
Join us on Tuesday, September 10th at 6:30 p.m., Main Library for a book signing of: Navajo Scouts During the Apache Wars.
John Lewis Taylor explores the question of why, so soon after the Navajo War, the Long Walk and imprisonment at Fort Sumner, young Navajos volunteered to join the United States military? The relationship between the Navajo Nation and the United States military in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries will be presented along with a book signing.
John Lewis Taylor featured in the Farmington Daily Times, online edition
Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.
In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies, transforming the weekend into a farewell doubleheader. Among the guests is Big Angel’s half brother, known as Little Angel, who must reckon with the truth that although he shares a father with his siblings, he has not, as a half gringo, shared a life. Across two bittersweet days in their San Diego neighborhood, the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recounting the many inspiring tales that have passed into family lore, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought these citizens to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home. Teeming with brilliance and humor, authentic at every turn, The House of Broken Angels is Luis Alberto Urrea at his best and cements his reputation as a storyteller of the first rank.
Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon will be at the Octavia Fellin Public Library on Saturday, September 7 at 4:00 p.m. for a discussion of their new edited book, Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement, with two of the contributors, Will Parrish and Lewis Grassrope.
Amid the Standing Rock movement to protect the land and the water that millions depend on for life, the Oceti Sakowin (the Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota people) reunited. Through poetry and prose, essays, photography, interviews, and polemical interventions, the contributors reflect on Indigenous history and politics and on the movement’s significance. Their work challenges our understanding of colonial history not simply as “lessons learned” but as essential guideposts for activism.
“As our songs and prayers echo across the prairie, we need the public to see that in standing up for our rights, we do so on behalf of the millions of Americans who will be affected by this pipeline.” —David Archambault II, from the interior
“There is no alternative to water. There is no alternative to this Earth. This fight has become my life, and it’s not over. I think this is only the beginning for me, for all of us. Do you want a future for your children and grandchildren? If you want them to have a future then stand with Standing Rock because this is just the beginning of a revolution.” —Zaysha Grinnell, from the interior
“We will put our best warriors in the front. We are the vanguard. We are the Hunkpapa Lakota. That means the horn of the buffalo. That’s who we are. We are protectors of our nation of Oceti Sakowin, the Seven Council Fires. Know who we are.” —Phyllis Young, from the interior
Read more about the book here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/standing-with-standing-rock.
OFPL, El Morro Theatre, and Bombshelltoe proudly presents on Friday, September 6th at El Morro Events Center from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. A Navajo Nuclear Histories Project with Sunny Dooley, Tina Garnanez, Tommy Rock, Janene Yazzie, Bobby Leonard Mason, and Arnold Clifford. Ways of Knowing is a multimedia project about Navajo Nation’s health and tradition through its enduring and traumatic encounter with uranium mining.
This history began in the 1940s, as the U.S. government’s need to sustain its nascent nuclear weapons program became a top national security priority. After perfecting nuclear weapons technology under the Manhattan Project, the United States could no longer depend on the Belgian Congo and Canada for uranium; the supply had to be closer to home.
Uranium mining for weapons production started in the western region of Navajo Country – in the stunning crimson sandstones of the Colorado Plateau – under the auspices of the Vanadium Corporation of America as “sale of carnotite and other related materials” to preserve secrecy.
Produced by: Lovely Umayam, Adriel Luis & Sunny Dooley
Directed, shot, and edited by: Kayla Briët
Still photography by: Carmille Garcia
Navajo Nation, USA
Year Release: 2019
Duration: 17 min 03 sec
Format: 360 film, color