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The Animas Valley Grange will host a presentation on “How to Build a Bluebird House” at 6:30 pm, Monday, April 20, 2026. Chuck Eckenrode, a volunteer at the Durango Wildlife Museum, will demonstrate how to construct cedar bird houses. Kits and completed houses can be purchased in support of the Durango Wildlife Museum. This event will be held at the Animas Valley Grange Hall, 7271 County Road 203. The program is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served at 6:15 pm. For further information, please contact Deb at 970-317-8162.

WellPAC (Wellness Peer Advisory Council) Annual De-Stress Fest An event to allow students to de-stress before finals week. There will be a dunk tank for professors, Food, Community Partners, Crafts, Dogs, Music, and a Mobile Rage Room! Event is April 21st, from 11am-2pm Free for students wellpac email: wellpac@fortlewis.edu instagram: @flcwellpac

Great Decisions Durango discussion Facilitator Tamara Joslin will lead discussion of "Multilateral Institutions in a Changing World Order." April 21, 2026 - 11:45 a.m. to 01:45 p.m. Durango Public Library at 1900 E. 3rd. Ave. Free event open to the public Great Decisions Durango https://www.gddurango.org Lyle Hancock - lylehancock54@gmail.com

Non-traditional Book Club: Nature Writing Tuesday, April 21, 6-7:30pm: Join us at Bread Downtown (135 E 8th St) for a "nontraditional" book club, where the discussion is based on a genre/topic rather than a specific book! There's no required reading for these "non-traditional" book clubs, just a topic/genre to discuss and plenty of delicious snacks to enjoy! PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Durango Public Library 1900 E 3rd Avenue Durango, CO 81301 Phone: 970-375-3380 https://www.durangogov.org/library FREE

The League of Women Voters of La Plata County will be hosting La Plata County Clerk Tiffany Lee for a presentation entitled VOTING IS YOUR SUPERPOWER. Tiffany will give a talk about election security and voter access in Colorado and La Plata County. There will be time for questions and answers. Bring your friends - all are welcome! Tuesday April 21st from 6:00 - 8:00 PM at the Durango Public Library. Contact info@lwvlaplata.org or see LWVLaPlata.org for information.

"Diné Being + Seeing through Storytelling: An Artist Talk with Rapheal Begay" Hosted by the Center of Southwest Studies Wednesday, April 22, 2026 6:30-8:00 p.m. CSWS Lyceum (room 120) Free + Open to All Celebrating Earth Day & FLC Arts April! Contact: cmscott@fortlewis.edu, 970-247-7333 Join us at the Center of Southwest Studies for a special artist talk with Diné photographer, curator, and creative collaborator, Rapheal Begay. Rapheal is a “visual storyteller” based in Tségháhoodzání (Window Rock, Arizona), who uses cultural landscape photography, Indigenous storytelling traditions, and land-based knowledge to inform his creative practice, and to preserve memory and understanding found within the Diné way of life. Rapheal will share about his professional approach that have created successful include ALL REZ: Kéyah, Hooghan, K’é, Iiná | Land, Home, Kinship, Life (The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico and Axle Contemporary), the first traveling site-specific photography exhibition across the Navajo Nation. He was also co-curator of the highly acclaimed exhibition Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles (Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, 2023–2025). Named as one of 12 New Mexico Artists to Know in 2020 by Southwest Contemporary, Rapheal is also the recipient of the 2021-22 Goodman Aspiring Artist Fellowship from the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture. He holds a BFA in Photography with a minor in Arts Management and a Certificate in Museum Studies from the University of New Mexico. This artist talk is connected to our yearlong series of programming under the “Power of Place” initiative, made possible with generous support from the Belonging Colorado initiative of The Denver Foundation and the Greater Good Science Center.