Santa Fe New Mexican - CONNECT
MAJOR 2020 EVENTS
JANUARY
Pueblo Feast Days and Dances
FEBRUARY
Santa Fe Chamber Legislative Reception Santa Fe Film Festival
Santa Fe Restaurant Week
MARCH/APRIL
Santa Fe Chamber Business & Job Expo Santa Fe Pro Musica Baroque Holy Week
MAY
Canyon Road Spring Art Festival
Santa Fe Japanese Cultural Festival
Santa Fe Century
Eldorado Studio Tour
NM Cocktails & Culture Culinary Festival
JUNE
Santa Fe Chamber Business Awards Gala ARTsmart Edible Art Tour
Currents News Media Festival
Santa Fe Bandstand
Rodeo de Santa Fe
JULY
Santa Fe Opera season
Pancakes on the Plaza
Santa Fe International Folk Art Market HIPICO
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Traditional Spanish Market Contempory Hispanic Market
AUGUST
Indian Market
Santa Fe Chamber Banking on Birdies Fiestas de Santa Fe
Feb. 3
Feb. 12-16
Feb. 23-March 1
April 2 April 9-11
May8-9 May 9 May 17 May 29 May 29-31
June 4
June 12-13 June 12-21 June 16-Aug. 8 June 24-27
July 3-Aug. 29 July 4
July 10-13
July 15-Aug. 9 July 19-Aug. 24 July 25-26
July 25-26
Aug. 15-16
Aug. 17
Aug. 29- Sept. 6
SEPTEMBER
Santa Fe Chamber Senior Lifestyle Expo Zozobra
Santa Fe Pride
Santa Fe Wine and Chile Fiesta
OCTOBER
Harvest Festival
Santa Fe Studio Tours
Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta Santa Fe Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration
Santa Fe Independent Film Festival Santa Fe Chamber Women’s Leadership
NOVEMBER
Recycle Santa Fe Art Festival Holiday Tree Lighting on The Plaza Ski Santa Fe opening
DECEMBER
Christmas at the Palace (Las Posadas) Santa Fe Indian Winter Market
Christmas Eve Canyon Road Farolito Walk City Different New Year’s Eve on the Plaza
ONGOING
Aspen Ballet
Margarita Trial
Meow Wolf
Santa Fe Artist in Residence Santa Fe Desert Chorale Santa Fe Farmers Market Santa Fe Playhouse
Santa Fe Railyard
Santa Fe Symphony
Santa Fe Youth Symphony
Sept. 1
Sept. 4 Sept. 12-13 Sept. 20-27
Oct. 3-4 Oct. 3-4 Oct. 3-11 Oct. 3-11 Oct. 12 Oct. 14-18 Oct. 27
Nov. 13-15 Nov. 27 Nov. 27
Dec. 11 Dec. 12-13 Dec. 24 Dec. 31
PRIVATE SCHOOLS*
Adventist Academy of Santa Fe ............................... 505-954-1845 Desert Academy (6-12) ............................................... 505-992-8284 Desert Montessori School (PK-7) ............................. 505-983-8212 Fayette Street Academy ............................................. 505-982-3396 La Mariposa Montessori School (PK-7) .................. 505-995-9659 Little Earth School (PK-7) ........................................... 505-988-1968 Río Grande School (PK-6) ........................................... 505-983-1621 Santa Fe Girls School (6-8) ......................................... 505-820-3188 Santa Fe Preparatory School (7-12) ........................ 505-982-1829 Santa Fe School for the Arts and Sciences ........... 505-438-8585 Santa Fe Secondary Learning Center (PK-8) ....... 505-982-2240 Santa Fe Waldorf School (PK-12) ............................. 505-983-9727 Santo Niño Regional Catholic School (PK-6) ........ 505-424-1766 St. Michael’s High School ........................................... 505-983-7353 Temple Baptist Christian Church and School ...... 505-471-1434 The Tutorial School (3-12) .......................................... 505-988-1859
*For a complete listing, visit greatschools.org
OTHER SCHOOLS
Camino de Paz School and Farm (7-9) ................... 505-747-9717 New Mexico School for the Deaf (birth-age 21).505-476-6300 Santa Fe Indian School (7-12) ................................... 505-989-6330 NM Connections Academy ........................................ 505-428-2150
UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES
Institute of American Indian Arts ............................ 505-424-2325 New Mexico Highlands University, Santa Fe ....... 505-424-7511 New Mexico State University, Santa Fe ................. 575-646-0111 Northern New Mexico College, Española ............. 505-747-2111 Santa Fe Community College ................................... 505-428-1000
(offers four-year degrees in partnership with state-wide universities) Santa Fe Higher Education Center .......................... 505-428-1725 Southwest Acupuncture College ........................... 505-438-8884 Southwestern College ................................................ 505-471-5756 Santa Fe Institute .......................................................... 505-984-8800 St. John’s College .......................................................... 505-984-6000 University of New Mexico, Santa Fe ....................... 505-277-0111 Eastern NM University ................................................ 800-367-3668 Western NM University ............................................... 800-872-9668
Education
Santa Fe’s education system comprises a variety of public and private primary and secondary schools, as well as a range of colleges and universities.
Public Schools Benefit from Community Support
Our public schools are the foundation of Santa Fe’s economic development and our future as a community. Our schools educate and train tomorrow’s workforce. They offer families free supports for children with help for learning disabilities, enriched education, counseling, mental wellness and more. Our public schools make so much success possible in Santa Fe, and we can, and should, all contribute to this crucial investment. Take a look into the daily operations of the Santa Fe Public Schools. Each day, more than 12,000 kids are welcomed into dozens of public facilities staffed by almost 2,000 professionals. They are carried on hundreds of buses, fed, and given medical care; they learn language, math, science, civics, art, as well as social and life skills. SFPS operations are like a small city, a system that provides a huge range of services, but with the added complexity of the key stakeholders being young, stilldeveloping humans.
In my role on the Board of Education and also as the parent of a child in public school, I am awed by the professionals who take on the challenges of teaching, driving, feeding, exercising, cleaning up after, and caring for Santa Fe’s kids in so many ways. I am increasingly aware of the urgency to better support these professionals to enhance what SFPS can provide, because public education makes a healthy and productive society possible.
Santa Fe’s incredible community partners – businesses, nonprofit organizations, individual volunteers and crucially, voters who support funding for public education – already provide and enhance valuable services. Many schools would have more difficulties without the generosity of community partners. The value of that help is incalculable. The return on investment of providing more for our children is lifelong, and the gratification of a child’s smile is immediate. Nonetheless, more support is needed.