Community Calendar

Calling all folks 50 and better! From NOON to 1PM CT, please come enjoy a hot, sit-down lunch while making new friends. This is a partnership with High Plains Food Bank, WT AmeriCorps, and the Mary E. Bivins Foundation. If you have questions, reach out to Kari at Warford Community Center: (806) 803-9785.

***THIS EVENT IS ONLY MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY — NOT WEEKENDS!***

The Garden City Community Mexican Fiesta will take place for the 100th year on Sept. 11-12, and a temporary exhibit in the Finney County Historical Museum’s Front Door Gallery is marking that milestone. The exhibit, “Centennial Fiesta,” is based on the theme of the 2026 event, “Then, Now and Always.” The display will remain in place until mid-September, spanning the dates of the 100th anniversary fiesta itself, which is acknowledged as Garden City’s longest-running annual community event. The exhibit features three dozen early-day and recent photographs, colorful folkloric dresses and additional items, as well as information tracing the community’s fiesta back to its origins in 1926. The museum is located at 403 S. Fourth Street, adjacent to Garden City’s Lee Richardson Zoo, and admission is free. Fall exhibit hours are 1 to 5 p.m. seven days weekly.

Featured artist Carol Salm's watercolors and collages will be on display at the Carnegie Art Center until Sept. 19 so don't miss your chance to check out her work!

This southwest Kansas resident creates beautiful montages, greeting cards, calendars and journals. Much of her work is for sale at the gallery.

The Carnegie Art Center is open from 1 to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays.

Join us in an informal poetry circle to read, share, or just listen to some local poets.

Join us for the opening of the Catrina Dress Exhibit at Arts in the Sunset at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4.

This FREE exhibition brings together a collection of Catrina dresses and costumes from the Adult and Kids Catrina Costume Contests featured during the past three years of the Día de Muertos Festival of Amarillo.

See up close the creativity, craftsmanship, and tradition behind some of the Catrinas that have taken the stage at the festival, from elaborate adult designs to imaginative creations worn by our youngest Catrinas.

The exhibit opens Friday, September 4 and will remain on display through Friday, October 9.

Come celebrate the artistry of La Catrina and revisit three years of Día de Muertos Festival memories.

WT Great Book Series to Set Sail for New Academic Year with ‘Odyssey’ Discussion
 
CANYON, Texas — The hottest 3,000-year-old epic poem in pop culture will get its turn in the spotlight in the first meeting of West Texas A&M University’s Great Books series for the semester.
Dr. Bonnie Roos, WT professor of English, will lead the discussion of Homer’s “The Odyssey” at 7 p.m. Sept. 8 at Burrowing Owl Books’s Amarillo location, 2461 W. Interstate 40 in Wolflin Square.
Roos said filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s massively successful film adaptation of the poem “means people are thinking about (‘The Odyssey’) right now.”
“And it’s worth thinking about, because it’s a structured way to explore issues related to war, immigration, storytelling, leadership, nationalism—relevant to our lives today,” Roos said. “The story’s importance to people over the centuries means it has been taken up by some of the greatest writers we know: Dante Alighieri, James Joyce, Derek Walcott to name a few.”
Roos said she would love to see the movie’s fans attend the meeting.
“I hope people who are curious about the text might drop by for some of the general conversations about how the book and the movie differ, maybe get inspired to read it, and that people who know the text well will be excited to share their views about some of the philosophical and political questions the text invites,” she said.
 The discussion series—sponsored by the Department of Englsh, Philosophy and Modern Languages in the Sybil B. Harrington College of Fine Arts and Humanities—is open to those who either have or haven’t read the story, said organizer Dr. Daniel Bloom.
WT professors and guest lecturers lead the monthly Great Books discussions.
For information, email Bloom at dbloom@wtamu.edu.
Readers and writers also may be interested in the monthly meeting of the Burrowing Owl Poetry Circle, led by Dr. Pat Tyrer, retired WT professor of English.
At this monthly gathering, attendees can share their own works or those by others, or they can simply listen. The September meeting is set for 6 p.m. Sept. 24 at Burrowing Owl Books, 400 15th St. in Canyon.
 

Calling all folks 50 and better! From NOON to 1PM CT, please come enjoy a hot, sit-down lunch while making new friends. This is a partnership with High Plains Food Bank, WT AmeriCorps, and the Mary E. Bivins Foundation. If you have questions, reach out to Kari at Warford Community Center: (806) 803-9785.

***THIS EVENT IS ONLY MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY — NOT WEEKENDS!***

The Garden City Community Mexican Fiesta will take place for the 100th year on Sept. 11-12, and a temporary exhibit in the Finney County Historical Museum’s Front Door Gallery is marking that milestone. The exhibit, “Centennial Fiesta,” is based on the theme of the 2026 event, “Then, Now and Always.” The display will remain in place until mid-September, spanning the dates of the 100th anniversary fiesta itself, which is acknowledged as Garden City’s longest-running annual community event. The exhibit features three dozen early-day and recent photographs, colorful folkloric dresses and additional items, as well as information tracing the community’s fiesta back to its origins in 1926. The museum is located at 403 S. Fourth Street, adjacent to Garden City’s Lee Richardson Zoo, and admission is free. Fall exhibit hours are 1 to 5 p.m. seven days weekly.

BYO book (any format) to our Silent Book Club for one or two reading sessions the second Wednesday of every month! They start at 4:30 and 5:30 p.m.

It's a great way to chat about what you're currently reading, learn what others are reading, and discover new books and friends who read!

We encourage participants to choose a colored tag to indicate how much (or little) they'd prefer to talk with others:

Green = talk to me anytime
Yellow = talk to me during breaks
Red = don't talk to me, I'm here to read!

We'll read silently together for 45 minutes and then break for discussion and snacks for 15 minutes. There will be 2 rounds of reading starting at 4:30 and 5:30. Come for one or stay for both!

Light snacks and beverages available for purchase, and our free tea and water station is always available.

📍 Silent Book Club
Every 2nd Wednesday | 4:30 - 6:30pm
Chapterhouse Bookstore
3317 SW 6th Ave
Amarillo, TX 79106

Join us for the opening of the Catrina Dress Exhibit at Arts in the Sunset at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4.

This FREE exhibition brings together a collection of Catrina dresses and costumes from the Adult and Kids Catrina Costume Contests featured during the past three years of the Día de Muertos Festival of Amarillo.

See up close the creativity, craftsmanship, and tradition behind some of the Catrinas that have taken the stage at the festival, from elaborate adult designs to imaginative creations worn by our youngest Catrinas.

The exhibit opens Friday, September 4 and will remain on display through Friday, October 9.

Come celebrate the artistry of La Catrina and revisit three years of Día de Muertos Festival memories.