The Sunflower Festival has been scheduled for:
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Dr. Saul Community Center & around Mountainair
ARTISTS & CRAFTSPERSONS:
Show and sell your artistic creations at the 2010 Sunflower Festival. The Festival registration form will be posted as soon as it is available.
Make a weekend of it!
Come for the Sunflower Festival and stay for the weekend! Mountainair is the launching off spot for visiting 17th century pueblo ruins at Abo, Quarai, and Gran Quivira. Mountainair has several lovely accomodations to make your visit comfortable:
Turner Inn & RV Park. Successor to the well-beloved Tillie's Inn. Kevin & Ruth Turner are maintaining the friendly 50s ambiance. 1-888-847-0170; local 505-847-0248.
The Rock Motel. Dave & Pam Pettingill have redone the old El Rancho, and made it into a comfortable and welcoming place to stay. 505-847-2577.
The Shaffer Hotel. Mountainair’s historic, and haunted, Pueblo Deco inn. 888-595-2888.
Stonehouse B & B. Kristine Lauritsen has outfitted a small & sweet Mountainair home ("the Casita at Limit") with art and antiques, available short or long term. 707-342-6014.
Two Ponyz Ranch. Owner Karen Smith can arrange for horses to ride, or provide boarding for your horses, and she has a beautiful guest casita. Remote! A few miles down rather bumpy roads. But the payoff is worth it, we think. 505-847-0245.
Casa Manzano Bed & Breakfast. In the foothills of the Manzano Mountains near Tajique, with forest views and a relaxing ambiance. Owner Bert Herrmann will happily welcome you to his lovely retreat. 505-384-9767.
The 2009 Festival featured the following events; check back later in the spring for what will be in 2010!
Artists and craftpersons had booths in the Community Center, and a silent auction to benefit the programs of the Art Council occurred there as well, closing at 4 pm. Vendors, a flea market and a library book sale took place during the Festival on the Mountainair “town square”, outside the Community Center.
The Museum of New Mexico’s Van of Enchantment was in town for the Sunflower Festival, at the headquarters of the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument. There was a ranger–guided tour (Voices in the Wind) at Gran Quivira, one of the Salinas Pueblo Missions, that day.
2009 was the 12th Annual Poets & Writers Picnic, all day at the Shaffer Hotel Garden during the Sunflower Festival. The “headliner” Gary Mex Glazner was also guest faculty at the writing workshop that preceded the Picnic.
There was a new Sunflower Mosaic, created by members of the Manzano Mountain Art Council. Tickets were $1 each, or 6 tickets for $5, and were available at B Street Market and at Cibola Arts. Tickets were of course available at the Festival as well, at the Art Council booth in the Dr. Saul Community Center. Raffle drawing was at 2:30 pm at the Community Center.
The Sunflower Hat Contest took place at 2 pm at the Community Center.
Cibola Arts Gallery hosted “Flowers of Summer”, a group show, from 10 am to 5 pm.
Music at the 2009 Festival
Ten Cats Laughing
El Mariachi Nacional
Amauta