NMWS Member Show Reception
The New Mexico Watercolor Society Southern Chapter Member Show will have a reception for the artists working in still life, landscape, portrait, flowers, animals, and abstracts in a range of sizes to accommodate all budgets and tastes.
See the beauty and vibrancy of watercolor from 5-7 p.m., Friday, March 7, at the Tombaugh Art Gallery in the Unitarian Universalist Church, 2000 S. Solano St., Las Cruces. Info: NMWatercolorSociety.org
I’m Still Here
The Mesilla Valley Film Society presents this year’s Academy Award-winner for Best International Feature, set against the backdrop of the military dictatorship and recounting the true story of a mother of five whose husband disappears.
The tale of loss and resilience can be seen at 7:30 p.m., March 7-13, at the Fountain Theatre, 2469 Calle de Guadalupe, Mesilla. Info: MesillaValleyFilm.org
2025 Chalk Walk
Las Cruces Public Art presents the annual street art exhibition, in which 6’x6’ pavement squares in the museum courtyard are turned into colorful pieces of temporary art, accompanied by free activities for all ages during the event.
The sidewalks will be filled with color from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Saturday, March 8, in the Las Cruces Museum of Art courtyard, 491 N. Main St., Las Cruces. Info: LasCruces.gov/arts-and-leisure/public-art
Super Secret Improv Show
Get ready for “spontaneous ensemble theatre” at its most fast-paced and unexpected, with a blend of short form improv games, followed by a full-length, one-act play, all entirely based on audience suggestions
Comedy is turned on its ear at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, March 8, at the Black Box Theater, 430 N. Main Street, Las Cruces. Info: 575-523-1223 or SuperSecretImprovShow@gmail.com
Oddities & Curiosities Expo
The largest international traveling oddities event showcasing hand selected vendors, artists, and small businesses hawking all things weird, from original artwork, jewelry, and antiques, to animal bones and funeral collectibles.
The weirdly wonderful will be on display at 10 a.m., March 8 & 9, at the El Paso Convention Center, 5 Civic Center Plaza, El Paso. Info: OdditiesAndCuriositiesExpo.com
Peter and the Starcatcher
Learn more about Peter Pan and his backstory when El Paso’s SOMOS Performance Group stages the family friendly story based on the popular children’s book by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, which explores the bonds of friendship, duty and love.
Find out how Peter became an unlikely hero at 2:30 p.m., Sunday, March 9, at the Philanthropy Theatre, One Civic Center Plaza, El Paso. Info: 915-533-4020
Marches, Marches, Marches
The Mesilla Valley Concert Band presents widely differing styles of march music, including John Phillip Sousa’s “Nobles of the Mystic Shrine March,” Richard Strauss’ “Konigsmarsh,” Edvard Grieg’s dramatic “Funeral March,” and several others.
March to a different drum at 3 p.m., Sunday, March 9, at the Atkinson Recital Hall, 1075 N. Horseshoe St, NMSU. Info: MesillaValleyConcertBand.org
Cool Hand Luke
The Historic Fort Bayard Winter/Spring Film Series presents the 1967 prison drama starring Paul Newman as a decorated World War II veteran who becomes an inmate in a Florida prison camp, but refuses to submit to the system.
The Oscar-nominated look at prison life screens at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, March 13, at Santa Clara National Guard Armory, 11990 US-180, Santa Clara. Info: 575-388-4862
