Tempo’s picks for the week
Census pop-ups around town
If we can’t find you, you can find us: fill out your census! There are myriad pop-up places over the next weeks to get those forms in or New Mexico loses millions of federal dollars for kids, schools, health care, infrastructure, you name it. Here are some of the pop-up location tables: Questa Visitor Center, 1 State Road 38, Questa, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m., until the end of the month; Taos Fire Department (across from St. James Church), 208 Camino de Santiago, on Thursday (Sept. 24) from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.; Taos High School on Friday (Sept. 25) from 10 a.m.-noon; Questa Farmers Market on Sunday (Sept. 27) from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.; Red River Visitor Center, 101 River S, Red River, on Tuesday (Sept. 29) from 9 a.m.-1 p.m.; and Midtown Market & Lounge, 680 State Road 522, Arroyo Hondo, on Wednesday (Sept. 30), 3-6 p.m. Visit my2020census.gov or call to complete at (844) 330-2020 or (844)468-2020 for Spanish.
Meet the artist Dean Pulver
Curator Nicole Dial-Kay will be hosting a series of short interviews with the artists featured in the Harwood Museum of Art’s newest exhibition, “Contemporary Art/Taos.” Tune in live to learn about artist Dean Pulver on Facebook on Wednesday (Sept. 30) from 4-4:30 p.m. “I am creating simple but rich forms to reference man and nature, engineering and design, creation and invention, time and transition, growth and change,” notes the artist. This is a free event. Go to harwoodmuseum.org/calendar.
Hey girls, let’s build some robots!
Girl Scouts of New Mexico Trails is hosting a Girl Scouts Robot Building Party via Zoom from now until the end of November. There are multiple dates available throughout September, October and November so you can pick the best time to fit in your schedule. The virtual event is free and open to all local girls in kindergarten through third grade – bring your friends. Get more information and RSVP at bit.ly/ GirlScoutsRobotParty or call Carrie Gutierrez at (505) 274-2573.
Who would like a pen pal?
John August Moon is 8 years old, in second grade and a student at Enos Garcia Elementary School. He has created art cards as a communication outreach project for families with loved ones who have been negatively affected by social isolation during the pandemic. If you have a loved one or friend who would benefit from receiving letters of encouragement and joy from a pen pal, contact August Moon of Aug-Art artcards at johnaugmoon@ gmail.com for details on how to mail self-addressed stamped envelopes for the recipient.