Community Calendar

The "Battle of the Bands" fundraiser for Stillwater Music takes place at Miller Middle School on Friday, April 10th, featuring 11 local youth groups. Doors open at 6:30. Details are at stillwatermusic.org.

Bands are competing for three prizes - “Local Love” for raising the most funds, “Fan Favorite” for winning over the crowd, and “Stage Stars” for most creative costumes and stage presence!

It’s like an escape room only you don’t escape, and we have drinks! Follow the clues and beat the clock to find the treasure. Most Fridays. Must register online in advance.

The San Juan College School of business and the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program will provide free income tax preparation to the community Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, through April 13th. More information and appointments are available at 505-566-3314 and at 970-553-9150.
Also by email: 4cornerstaxhelp@gmail.com.

The Jicarilla Mustang Heritage Alliance will host a Tack Sale & Fundraiser from 9 until 3 on Saturday, April 11th at 595 South Bloomfield Boulevard.
Proceeds go to their work with Wild horses, doing fertility control and rehoming mustangs.

Items include Western and English, Saddles, blankets, fly sheets, fly masks, halters, and much more.

Community Family Yoga

Community Family Yoga

Maria’s Literary Foundation's Second Annual Read-a-Thon Fundraiser takes place from April 10th through 20th. Details and sign up are available at mariasbookshop.com.

During the Read-a-Thon, volunteer readers sit and read in the front window of Maria’s Bookshop to raise money for the Literary Foundation’s Reading Room.

• Readers log their time read over the course of the Read-a-Thon, including their window shift.
• Readers are encouraged to secure ‘sponsorships’ to raise money for The Reading Room.
• Donors may sponsor individual readers or donate in support of all readers
• Maria’s Bookshop will match all donations
• Special prizes (a Year of Books!) for our biggest fundraisers and top

Funds from the Maria’s Literary Foundation Read-a-Thon will support:
• The Reading Room (our FREE youth bookshop and reading nook)-- stocking it with great books for kids in Durango and hosting free programming there like writing workshops, book clubs, and more.

The 2026 Gourd Dance & Intertribal Powwow takes place from 10AM until 10PM on Saturday, April 11th at the Health and Human Performance Center at San Juan College in Farmington.
More information is at sajuancollege.edu.

Pine River Shares provides FREE food distribution on the second Saturday of each month from 11 until noon at the ELHI Community Center in Ignacio.

Equality Pagosa hosts a "Stand Up Saturday" event from noon until 2PM every week in the public parking lot next to the Ruby Sisson Library.

Everyone is invited to exercise their 1st Amendment rights at these gatherings.

Bring your family, your friends, your other neighbors, your chair, your pet, your favorite sign or borrow one of ours. Let’s make some noise!

It’s Your First Amendment Right,
Use it or Lose it!