Comtemplative Collage

FROM SYMBOL TO STORY: COMTEMPLATIVE COLLAGE with Dian Jericho

Sunday, March 18th 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm(may extend later)

Contemplative Collage is a creative as well as meditative process in which students make their own collage and then are introduced to techniques for drawing out stories and wisdom from that work. Continue reading

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The River Goddess & Other Stories

Saturday March 10 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Ages 11 yr old and up

Local author, artist, and healer Valentine McKay-Riddell introduces young people to communication with Nature, Spirit, and animals through the genre of magic realism in The River Goddess & Other Stories. Continue reading

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Open Space Visitor Center Volunteer Training

Saturday, March 3rd 10:00 am – 3:00 pm

Help Connect People to Place at the Open Space Visitor Center The City of Albuquerque Open Space Visitor Center is seeking volunteers to greet and educate guests. The Open Space Visitor Center is an interpretive hub for the Open Space program, lands, Continue reading

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Garden Volunteer Orientation

Saturday, March 3rd 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

How did early residents grow food in this arid climate? Visit the Open Space Visitor Center for an info session and find out this and more Continue reading

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Birding Hot Spots of NM

Come to the Open Space Visitor Center on Saturday, February 25that 2:00 p.m. to hear why readers are cooing about this locally pertinent must-have guide. Continue reading

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VermiComposting

 Composting with Worms

Saturday, January 21 10:00 am – 12:00 pm FREE Please pre-register to save a spot at 897-8831.

Worm composting is becoming more and more popular. It is the only way to recycle on-site, in your own home. You place food waste in your worm bin. The worms turn it into plant food. You use the plant food to grow vegetables or ornamentals in your garden. Fun for the whole family.

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Call for Entries

A Good Place to Stumble Upon

Due January 31, 2012

The City of Albuquerque Open Space Division is pleased to announce our second annual Haiku call for Entries. Poets are asked to interpret the Open Space lands and their interaction with the city environments in their unique ways.

For submission guidelines, see www.cabq.gov or email jrwillis@cabq.gov.

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EPC Hearing

January 19, 2012

The Environmental Planning Commission Meeting regarding the proposed Big Box adjacent to Bosque School will be January 19, 2012 3:00 PM at the Albuquerque Convention Center-San Miguel Room on the upper east level. 

http://www.cabq.gov/planning/epc/index.html

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Trees, Rocks & Dirt

La Cueva & Volcano Vista High School Students

January 5th – February 29th

These selected high school art students will use a variety of media to express the meaning of public lands and the connection they have developed with Open Space properties such as the Petroglyph Monument, views of the West Mesa, the Bosque and the Foothills.

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Meet & Greet with the Wanagi Wolf Fund

Meet a Friendly Wolf – Holiday Fundraiser for the Wanagi Wolf Fund

Sunday,  December 18th 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm

Stephanie Kaylan, the founder and president of the Wanagi Wolf Fund (Non-Profit 501(c)3),  will have up to three of her wolves Continue reading

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