Community Calendar

Celebrate Bold Optimism during the Women's Leadership Luncheon & Summit returns with a bold full-day conference. Featuring inspiring keynotes, insightful breakout sessions, and valuable networking, this event is an unparalleled opportunity for entrepreneurs, professionals, creatives, and changemakers to learn and connect directly with Women Leaders from throughout New Mexico and beyond.

Whether you're scaling a business, driving change in your community, or just looking for your next spark—this event is your space to grow, lead, and belong.

Libros of Enchantment: The 2026 SouthWest Writers Book Fiesta is a first-ever book fair from SouthWest Writers uniting readers and authors. Readers may meet local authors, buy their books, and get a behind-the-scenes look at how a book comes to life. Authors may meet readers and other authors, sell their books, and learn more about their craft. The keynote speaker is local author and Tony Hillerman biographer James McGrath Morris. Panel discussions featuring other local authors will look at the genres of science fiction/fantasy, romance, crime/true crime, paranormal/horror, poetry, and memoir/biography.
Author tables in the bookstore are still available, as are sponsorship and supporter opportunities. Current sponsors are Silverleaf Farm & Farm Stand in Corrales, freelance artist Rebeccah Swanson, The Music of Creation by Paul J. Knight and Chris Allen, and the Author’s Guild.
SWW is a 40-plus year-old regional nonprofit organization for published and aspiring authors and has more than 400 members from across New Mexico and the southwest.

On 1 December 2026 the LOOKS campaign opens with a free online meeting, 18:00 to 20:00 CET (10:00 to 12:00 Mountain Time). There is no ticket and no registration.

LOOKS treats appearance as a subject worth examining rather than a market to be served. Roughly a third of the visual material is animation and mixed technique, combining 3D and 2D work with drawing, painting and sculptural styles - not as decoration, but because it is the only way to show the slow internal processes that shape a face across years.

The factual foundation of the project is oral health: the mouth, the smile and the way a face is built around them.

The opening meeting presents the project, its educational mission and the material it makes public. The campaign includes a feature documentary and an online series, alongside a free educational section written for readers with no medical training.

Produced by Pawel Lipka, whose earlier work includes animation for The Garfield Show and visual effects for the feature film Suicide Room. https://looksphilosophy.com/education