Main Library to celebrate 50th anniversary on Feb. 22

GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY

The Main Library is celebrating its 50th anniversary with an open house from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22. The event will feature a community resource fair, interactive activities for all ages, a visit from the Book Van, a live concert, exhibits and displays.

In addition, at 11 a.m. architects Edie Cherry and Erik Mease will give a talk highlighting the library’s architectural significance and historical impact.

The Albuquerque and Bernalillo County Main Library is located at 501 Copper Ave. NW.

AT TREASURE HOUSE BOOKS & GIFTS

Treasure House Books & Gifts hosts two author events this week.

Cindy Sloan Butts signs her latest Holocaust-related historical novel “Versailles, Vichy and le Vélodrome d’Hiver: France and the Holocaust” from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16. In the novel, a family is victimized by the Nazis and the complicit Vichy government. Thanks to their determined oldest son and an anonymous ally, the family prevails.

From 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, Baker H. Morrow will read from and sign his recent group of short stories about coming-of-age in Albuquerque titled “The Horse on the Sidewalk.” The horse in the title refers to a motorcycle that teenager Gil Wheeler so desperately wants.

Treasure House is located at 2012 South Plaza St. NW, Old Town.

AT COLLECTED WORKS

Deborah Smith Douglas will discuss and sign her book “Pilgrim Life: Finding God Along the Way” at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20, at Collected Works, 202 Galisteo St., Santa Fe. The book invites readers to find God in surprising places — “in the dark, in the deep and in the silence.”

Douglas introduces readers to poems, saints, the lost and the lonely, the fearful and the faithful.

Douglas is also the author of the book “The Praying Life: Seeing God in All Things” and is co-author with her husband, David Douglas, of “Pilgrims in the Kingdom: Travels in Christian Britain.” The Douglases live in Santa Fe.

AT TEATRO PARAGUAS

Four New Mexico poets will read from their work at 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, at Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie, Santa Fe. The poets are Alan Abrams, whose poem “Aleinu” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize; Argo MacCallum, co-founder and artistic director of Teatro Paraguas; Stephen Jules Rubin, founder of Julesworks, an ongoing presentation of music, poetry and theater; and Bill Nevins, who will read from his poetry collection “Light Bending.” Nevins said that the poem “Silence of the Messengers,” which is in the collection, was made into a short film that is an official selection of the 2025 Santa Fe Film Festival. The film, by Albuquerque’s Justin R. Romine, is a visual interpretation of the poem, according to Nevins.

AT GERONIMO’S BOOKS

Judy Natal will discuss her books “EarthWords” and “Neon Boneyard Las Vegas A-Z” at 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, at Geronimo’s Books, 3018 Cielo Court, Santa Fe. Natal is a Chicago-based artist and professor emeritus of photography at Columbia College Chicago.