Admission: Yes
Credit Cards: Accepted
Concessions: Yes
Miles To Airport: 1

Total Meeting Space (Sq. Ft.): 1000

October2-4 & 9-11, 2009--21st Annual Rio Grande Arts & Crafts Festival Balloon Fiesta Show. Under the BigTent at the SW corner of I-25 & Paseo del Norte. Ranked #1 juried art show in the Southwest. 200 fine artists & craftsmen, entertainment, artists' demonstrations, food & fun.

November 27-29, 2009--10th Annual Rio Grande Arts & Crafts Festival Holiday Show. Ranked the #1 juried art show in the Southwest. 200 fine artists & craftsmen, artists' demonstrations, entertainment. Kids Holiday Creation Station & Holiday Cookie Walk. EXPO NM Fairgrounds.

Admission: Ages: 3 & under Free; 4-11 $3.00; 12 & Older $7.00

Open to public weekends and holidays; weekdays by appointment. Navigate a community farm corn maze. Our website lists special-event weekends.

Fall Weekends: Aug. 29 - Nov. 1, 2009

Maize Maze: Outdoor Family & Dating Fun

Spend time outdoors as you explore this seven-acre corn maze in the shape of a Monarch butterfly. Use your skills to find the checkpoints and correctly answer the riddles to discover your way out. Hours of fun!

Groups can visit weekdays with a reservation. Bring your class, homeschoolers, club, scout troop, adult day care, family reunion, and company outing or team-building group. Reservations are required for weekday visits. Visit: www.riograndefarm.org for a reservation form or more info. Special weekend events are also on the website.

Credit Cards: Accepted

Santa Fe International Folk Art Market

The Santa Fe International Folk Market is the largest event of its kind. It is an unparalleled gathering of the world's finest folk artists in which market goers will have a rare opportunity to purchase one-of-a-kind pieces from 110-juried artists from 40 countries. Other festivities include colorful & lively entertainment by musicians & dancers from dozens of cultures. A wide variety of international foods will be served, & a multitude of activities including mask-and-headdress making will be open to visitors of all ages.

With the generous support of charitable foundations and private donors, an artists' training program, the Market's Trade buyers Showcase, and the profits earned through art sales during market weekend help the participating artists achieve economic sustainability while sharing and preserving their traditional cultures.

WHERE & WHEN:

Saturday, July 11-12, 2009

Milner Plaza on Museum Hill, outside the Museum of International Folk Art

Camino Lejo off Old Santa Fe Trail

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Time: 9 am-5 pm MT

Price: See www.folkartmarket.org for details

Info: 505-476-1166; www.folkartmarket.org

FOR INTERVIEWS OR PHOTOGRAH REQUESTS PLEASE CONTACT:

Joanna Hurley at Hurley Media, 505.982.4006, jth@hurleymedia.com

Admission: Yes
Credit Cards: Accepted
Concessions: Yes
Miles To Airport: 5

Admission: Yes
Credit Cards: Accepted
Concessions: Yes
Miles To Airport: 9

Join us for our 34th GLBT Pride Celebration - "One Heart, One World, One Pride"

Thursday June 10, 7:30 p.m. - Candlelight Vigil at Morningside Park.

Friday June 11, 5:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. - Pet Parade, Art Show, Pride Idol Competition, Ventor Booths, Mainstage Entertainment at EXPO NM.

Saturday June 12, 10:30 a.m. - Pride Day Kick Off. Pride parade travels up Central Avenue to EXPO NM for another fun-filled day of Entertainment, Food and Friends

Official Host Hotel: Radisson Hotel & Water Park, 2500 Carlisle NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110 (505) 888-3311, www.radison.com/albuquerquenm

Admission: Yes
Motorcoach/RV Parking: Yes
Concessions: Yes

8 non-stop hours of performances, jam sessions, workshops, and demonstrations, plus 3 evening dances featuring contra, square, western swing and African dance.

More Info:

A unique participatory exposition of the Folk Arts of the southwest held on tree-shaded grounds and amid historic old adobe buildings.

Day Events - The best in southwestern regional and national Main Stage folk acts plus 17 venues offering hourly instruction, demonstrations, exhibits, and jam sessions on a vast array of folk arts, at all levels from beginner to expert.

Evening Dances - Live music and instruction.

In ten years this Festival has become a destination for professional and amateur musicians, dancers, storytellers and crafts people as well as the uninitiated, to experience first hand the culture and traditions of the southwest. Info - abqfolkfest.org

Admission: Yes
Credit Cards: Accepted
Motorcoach/RV Parking: Yes
Concessions: Yes
Miles To Airport: 12

Welcome to the wonderful world of ballooning! From a modest beginning in 1972 of 13 balloons launching from a shopping mall parking lot, Balloon Fiesta has grown to 700 balloons & hundreds of thousands of guests, all on the lush, 365-acre Balloon Fiesta Park. Balloon Fiesta is the largest ballooning event on earth, the most photographed event on earth & the largest annual international event held in North America. In an era of overblown hype, Balloon Fiesta is the genuine article: unique, inimitable, lastingly memorable.