Pueblo Activities for this Dreary Weekend

Pueblo will be experiencing unusually cold and dreary weather this weekend. Here are some suggestions for things to do:

***Visit the Robert Hoag Rawlings Public Library to view entertainer Cheech Marin's "The Chicano Collection" exhibition of works that depict urban life and the Chicano experience today. The exhibit is free and open to the public starting Saturday October 10 through Sunday November 22, 2009, Monday-Thursday, 9am to 9pm; Friday and Saturday, 9am to 6pm; and Sunday, 1pm to 5pm.

***Visit the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center to see the following exhibitions:

White Gallery - "Representing the West" Art Exhibition and Sale

King Gallery - International Watermedia XVI: Pikes Peak Watercolor Society

Hoag Gallery - Faces & Places: Selections from the Francis King Collection of Western Art

Regional Gallery - Gene Kloss Print Collection

3 rd Floor Foyer Gallery - Peter Marchand Photography

Boardroom - Susan Askey: Four Corners, Four Seasons, Four Directions

Hours: Tue-Sat , 11am to 4pm. Admission to the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center and Buell Children's Museum is $4 for adults and $3 for children. Members of the military and their families receive a $1 discount off of the admission price with a military ID. A discount of $5 off of a family membership is also available to military members. Members of the Arts Center to include Studio 210 members are admitted free. Free adjacent parking.

***Read a book, specifically join other Puebloans in reading "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros and "Sun, Stone and Shadows: 20 Great Mexican Short Stories" as part of The Big Read: All Pueblo Reads. Kick-off events at Rawlings Public Library begin on Saturday, October 10 and include a Neighborhood Craft Project, contributing/learning about the Community Offrenda, hearing mystery writer Manuel Ramos speak at 12:30 p.m., participating in Art for Everyone: A Family Mexican Mural Workshop at 1:30 p.m. Many more events are scheduled between October 10 and November 13. Visit www.pueblolibrary.org or call 562-5600 for more information.

*** Take a walk, a GHOST walk! The 5th annual Ghost Walk through the Historic Union Avenue District finishes up October 9 th and 10th. Walking tours leave every 15 minutes from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. starting at La Placita of El Pueblo History Museum. In case of bad weather, the event will move indoors. The stories for this year's Ghost Walk are: Christmas Day Massacre Fort El Pueblo, Charles Goodnight, James Beckwourth, Theatre in the Old West, Pueblo's Hanging Tree, Cathay Williams - Buffalo Soldier, Dad's Flood Story, Telephone Operators' Heroics in the 1921 Flood, Baxter Bridge Shoot-Out, and La Llorona. Proceeds from the ticket sales will benefit the Hospitality Networks' support of homeless families, and the Domestic Violence Task Force's efforts to provide training for those who work with victims, and for anti-violence advertising in the community. The cost for tickets is $7 in advance and $8 at the event. Children ages five and younger are admitted free when accompanied by an adult. Advance tickets may be purchased at the Y.W.C.A., 801 N. Santa Fe Ave., and at El Pueblo History Museum.

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