Tag: indian

Creative Corner – Deity & Divine Art

Create your own art using materials found around your home! Can’t make the in-person workshop? Watch a video replay on our YouTube channel. Supply kits are available at OFPL on a first-come, first-served basis using the Supply Request Form below.

Octavia Fellin Public Library
115 West Hill Ave.

March 31st at 4:00 PM

Celebrate and Honor Women’s History Month by reflecting on the important role of women and create your own deity art.

Supply Request Form

Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Gallup’s Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial: A Photo Retrospective

– Grand Opening Weekend –

August 12th
10:00 AM to 7:00 PM

August 13th
12:00 PM to 8:00 PM

The city of Gallup invites you to celebrate the centennial of Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial through images and objects, an exhibition curated by the Octavia Fellin Public Library at the Rex Museum located on the corner of Historic Highway 66 and 3rd Street.

Rex Museum
301 West Historic Highway 66

The exhibit will run through September 2022. Email tmoe@gallupnm.gov for more information.

Roger Zimmerman: Son of an Indian Trader

Join us LIVE on Facebook, @galluplibrary on May 19th at 4:00 p.m. for a talk featuring historian Roger Zimmerman.

Chronicling his personal life at the Mariano Lake Trading Post, Zimmerman discusses his experiences and what he learned about the cultures and life of those living in and around Gallup. This represents the first two chapters from his memoir.

Roger Zimmerman spent much of his life working for Sandia National Labs. Upon his retirement, he decided to take up history and wrote his first book, Kitchen’s Opera House, Gallup NM. He soon became active in the Albuquerque Historical Society and began speaking on various historical topics about NM and the Gallup Area.

Email mdchavez@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information

Mandala Drawing

Create your own art using materials found around your home! Courses are geared towards individuals approximately 15-years of age and older. Supply kits are available at OFPL on a first-come, first-serve basis using the Supply Request Form. Videos are posted weekly on Mondays at 4:00 p.m.

Tune in on Monday, February 8th at 4:00 p.m. for a workshop to learn how to create your own mandala drawings then color them.

Mandala Definition:

Mandala, (Sanskrit: “circle”) in Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism, a symbolic diagram used in the performance of sacred rites and as an instrument of meditation. The mandala is basically a representation of the universe, a consecrated area that serves as a receptacle for the gods and as a collection point of universal forces. 

CREATIVE CORNER EPISODES ARE AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING, VISIT YOUTUBE, @GALLUPLIBRARY.

Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Native Speaker Series

Visit YouTube, @galluplibrary to view episodes of the OFPL Native Speakers Series.  Introductions to the Zuni and Navajo Languages during the month of November.  Videos are posted Wednesdays and Fridays at 11:00 a.m.

Zuni (A:shiwi)

November 4th
Greetings

November 11th
Colors

November 6th
Counting

November 13th
Animals

Navajo (Diné)

November 18th
Greetings

November 25th
Colors

November 20th
Counting

November 27th
Animals

We READ, We TALK Book Club

Register below for a copy of Heart Berries by Therese Marie Mailhot now through October 9th.

A powerful, poetic memoir of a woman’s coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder…MORE.

Read the full synopsis HERE

Register for Book Club HERE

Get ready for some great conversations and tons of fun as we meet virtually! Zoom discussions will be held:

Thursday, October 22nd
at 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 31st
at 2:00 p.m.

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

November Film Series – Drunktown’s Finest

Wednesday, November 13th at 5:30 p.m.

Join us at the Main Library for a FREE film screening. Free popcorn and drinks are provided.

Synopsis:

Three young Native Americans – an adopted Christian girl, a rebellious father-to-be, and a promiscuous transsexual – strive to escape the hardships of life on an Indian reservation.

About the Film:
  • Year Released: 2014
  • Rating: NR
  • Duration: 1 hr. 35 mins.
  • Genre: Drama
OFPL does not own the rights to this video. Courtesy of YouTube.