El Rancho de las Golondrinas

Spring Festival & Children's Fair
Costumed villagers shearing sheep, baking bread and more, plus animals,
games and hands-on activities for kids!
Saturday & Sunday, June 1st & 2nd, 2013
10AM - 4PM

Admission:
Adults: $8
Seniors (62+), teens (13-18): $5
12 and under: FREE!
Download the Schedule of Events here


Herb & Lavender Fair
Herb garden tours, lavender and herb product vendors, lectures on cultivating lavender
and hands-on activities.
Saturday & Sunday, June 22nd & 23rd, 2013 NEW DATE
10AM - 4PM

Admission:
Adults: $8
Seniors (62+), teens (13-18): $5
12 and under: FREE!
Download the Vendor Application here!
Download the Schedule of Events here!

Santa Fe Wine Festival
Sample delicious New Mexico wines, buy directly from the vintners and enjoy food,
music and arts & crafts.
Santa Fe Wine Festival Site
Saturday & Sunday, July 6th & 7th, 2013
12PM - 6PM

Admission:
Adults 21+: $13 includes wine glass
Teens 13-20: $5
12 and under: FREE!
Download the Vendor Application here!



*¡Viva Mexico! Celebration
Enjoy música, arte and más at this celebration of the culture, cuisine and crafts
of our colorful neighbor. Featuring music, arts and food from Mexico. Cultural
events rarely experienced outside of Mexico!
Saturday & Sunday, July 20th & 21st, 2013
10AM - 5PM


In cooperation with the Mexican Consulate in Albuquerque

Admission:
Adults: $8
Seniors (62+), teens (13-18): $5
12 and under: FREE!

Summer Festival and Territorial Law & Order
Mountain men and women demonstrating their skills and spinning tales of the past;
Peruvian Paso horses from La Estancia Alegre.
Saturday & Sunday, August 3rd & 4th, 2013
10AM - 4PM

Admission:
Adults: $8
Seniors (62+), teens (13-18): $5
12 and under: FREE!


Survival: New Mexico
Practice such outdoors skills as building shelters, starting fires, using
bows and arrows and more.
Saturday & Sunday, August 24th & 25th, 2013
10AM - 4PM

Admission:
Adults: $8
Seniors (62+), teens (13-18): $5
12 and under: FREE!


*Fiesta de los Niños: A Children’s Celebration
¡Ven a jugar con nosotros! Come out and play with us! Games, crafts and entertainment for the whole family.
All children 12 and under are admitted free.
Saturday & Sunday, August 31st & September 1st, 2013
10AM - 4PM

Admission:
Adults: $8
Seniors (62+), teens (13-18): $5
12 and under: FREE!

*Santa Fe Renaissance Fair
Clan Tynker and medieval combat, jugglers, live entertainment and dancers... also
vendors, kids' games and delicious food, drinks & mead!
Saturday & Sunday, September 21st & 22nd, 2013
10AM - 6PM
Santa Fe Renaissance Fair Website

Admission:
Adults: $10
Seniors (62+) & Teens (13-17): $7
Under 13: FREE!!
Download the Food Vendor Application here!
Download the Vendor Application here!

*Harvest Festival
Bring in the harvest with villagers as they crush grapes for wine by foot, string chile ristras,
make tortillas, bake fresh bread and much more! Our most popular community celebration!
Saturday & Sunday, October 5th & 6th, 2013
10AM - 4PM

Admission:
Adults: $8
Seniors (62+), teens (13-18): $5
12 and under: FREE!

The Taos Uprising of January 1847
Speaking of Traditions: New Perspectives on Old Traditions
In the summer of 1846 America's Army of the West occupied New Mexico, but Mexican patriots begged to differ with that move. Secretly expressing their opposition, they eventually organized and executed a bold plan to expel the gringo interlopers.

Winter Lecture Series at the Santuario de Guadalupe, downtown Santa Fe.
Thursday, January 31st 7PM
Speaker: Robert Torrez, retired New Mexico State Historian
Admission: FREE!

Merchandise and Wares and How They Came to New Mexico 1825-1880
Speaking of Traditions: New Perspectives on Old Traditions
Isolated from commercial centers far to the south and east, New Mexico was forced to import all the things that helped make life tolerable to its European newcomers.

Winter Lecture Series at the Santuario de Guadalupe, downtown Santa Fe.
Thursday, February 28th. 7PM
Speaker: Susan Boyle - historian with the National Park Service
Admission: FREE!
Download the Speaker's Handout!

Manuel Armijo: Fact and Misperceptions
Speaking of Traditions: New Perspectives on Old Traditions
The last Mexican governor before the American army arrived in1846, Armijo may or may not have been bribed to disband his Mexican militia thus avoiding a battle with invading U.S. dragoons.

Winter Lecture Series at the Santuario de Guadalupe, downtown Santa Fe.
Thursday, March 21st. 7PM
Speaker: John Barham - lecturer and historian
Admission: FREE!

*Battlefield New Mexico: The Civil War and More
2012 is the 150th anniversary of Civil War battles fought in New Mexico.
Experience military drills, camp life, lectures, demonstrations and reenactments
of those battles.
Saturday & Sunday, May 4th & 5th, 2013
10AM - 4PM

Admission:
Adults: $8
Seniors (62+), teens (13-18): $5
12 and under: FREE!
Schedule of Events



*Santa Fe Fiber Arts Festival
From fuzzy sheep to fancy embroidered blankets! Learn how New Mexico
textiles are made. Buy fiber arts and supplies, learn about weaving from experts. Enjoy sheep herding demonstrations, sheep shearing, presentations on topics such as dyeing with cochineal, weaving demonstrations on upright looms (Navajo) and back strap looms, as well as horizontal weaving. Featuring the best of New Mexico's fiber artisans!
Saturday & Sunday, May18th & 19th, 2013 NEW DATE
10AM - 4PM

Admission:
Adults: $8
Seniors (62+), teens (13-18): $5
12 and under: FREE!
Download the Vendor Application here!
Download the Schedule of Events here!