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Chihuahuan Desert Wildlife Rescue —
The nonprofit organization offers resources for
those who find a wild bird or mammal in need
of help. Information: 772-6011, (575) 882-2910
or cdwr.org.
Community Tool Sheds — Keep El Paso
Beautiful, in partnership with Paso del Norte
Health Foundation, Home Depot and El Paso
Fire Department, offers community tool sheds
available at area fire stations. The sheds are
stocked with push brooms, shovels, rakes, a
gas weed eater, gloves and trash bags for use
for cleanup or beautification projects. The
items may be borrowed for no charge to the
public for community cleanup projects.
Information: 546-6742.
Memorial Tree Program — The City
Parks and Recreation Department offers its
Memorial Tree Program to honor a loved one.
Trees will be planted in a public park or other
public area. Donations range from $75 for
seedlings to $600 for a grove. Information:
541-4331 or elpasotexas.gov/parks.
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Centennial Museum — University at
Wiggins, UTEP. Hours: 10 a.m. to 4:30
Tuesday through Saturday. Admission is free.
Information: 747-8994, 747-6669 or
museum.utep.edu.
Showing Feb. 12-May 16: “Authentic Texas:
People of the Big Bend,” photography of Bill
Wright and stories by Wright and Marcia
Hatfield Daudistel based on the book of the
same name. Wright and Daudistel spent more
than two years interviewing and photographing
residents of the Big Bend region (one of the
most sparsely settled areas in the United
States) to see what drew people to these rural
areas in the vast Chihuahuan Desert, and what
kept them there. Copies of the book will be
available for purchase in the Museum’s Gift
Shop. Opening reception is 5 to 7 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 12, with remarks at 6 p.m.
Permanent exhibits on the Third Floor focus
on the history of the Chihuahuan Desert. The
Chihuahuan Desert Gardens on the museum
grounds have more than 800 species of plants
native to the region.
The museum hosts ‘Discovery Science’ morning workshops for children are Feb. 7-March
14. The six one-hour classes in this series are
designed to explore Earth Science concepts.
Times are 8:30 a.m. for grades kindergarten
and first; 10 a.m. for grades second and third;
and 11:30 a.m. for grades fourth through sixth.
Each class limited to 11 students. Registration:
$35; covers class materials for all six classes.
El Paso Exploreum — The city’s first “living laboratory” museum for children is at 300
W. San Antonio (south of Convention Center).
Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through
Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday. Last
admission is one hour before closing time.
Information: 533-4330, elpasoexploreum.org or
on the museum’s Facebook page. Admission:
$8 ($6 seniors over 60, and military and educators with ID; free for infants).
The Exploreum includes multiple interactive
exhibits in four theme areas: construction, aviation, role-play and high tech.
The Exploreum Spring Break Camp
Kaleidoscope for kids is 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Monday through Friday, March 9-13, for
Junior Explorers (age 4-6), and Senior
Explorers (age 7 and older). Cost: $180; $20
discount for military families. Space is limited.
Daily and half-day rates available; extended
care offered at 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. for an additional fee.
El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study
Center — 715 N. Oregon. Hours are 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 1 to 5 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday. Closed Monday.
Admission is free unless listed otherwise.
Information: 351-0048 or elpasoholocaustmuseum.org.
El Paso Museum of Archaeology —
4301 Transmountain in Northeast El Paso
(west of U.S. 54). Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tuesday through Saturday. Closed Sundays,
Mondays and city holidays. Admission is free.
Information: 755-4332 or
elpasotexas.gov/arch_museum/.
A nature trail takes visitors through 17 acres
of Chihuahuan Desert with 200 varieties of
desert plants. The trail also offers a local pithouse, pueblo ruin and an Apache brush hut.
Weekly Archery and Atl-Atl demonstrations
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are 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays. The atl-atl
(spear thrower) was used by the Archaic
Period hunters who lived in the El Paso area
8,000 years ago.
El Paso Museum of Art — One Arts
Festival Plaza, downtown El Paso. For exhibit
information, see “Southwest Art Scene.”
El Paso Museum of History — 510 N.
Santa Fe. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday
through Saturday (open until 9 p.m.
Thursdays), and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. Closed
Mondays. Museum admission is free, except for
Julius Caesar: $12; $8 students with ID; seniors
62 and older; $6 per person for groups of 10
or more (free for museum members and age 5
and younger). Information: 351-3588 or elpasotexas.gov/history.
Grand opening for the museum’s new DIGIE
(Digital Information Gateway in El Paso), is 11
a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 14, with live
mariachi, salsa and country, music, dance, and
family activities. DIGIE is a first-in-the-nation
interactive digital wall that examines El Paso’s
people and cultures on giant 3-D touch-sensitive TV screens. Guests can upload photos at
digie.org and share their culture, history, heritage, family and more.
The new History ‘Scapes family workshops
are 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. the second Saturday of
the month. The program gives families with
children an opportunity to interact with
exhibits by creating related art. Fee: $5 for
child or activity maker, $2 per child with a family membership. Parents or guardian admitted
free. Maximum of $15 per family.
Extended through Feb. 15 for the first time
in the United States: Julius Caesar: Military
Genius, Mighty Machines.” This interactive
exhibition features war machines, transportation machines and civil machines, recreated
scaled artifacts and computer animations. It
covers the epic period from the triumphant
victory of Julius Caesar over the Gauls in 52 BC
to the transformation of Rome from a republic
into the Roman Empire. The interactive replica
machines described by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
in the first century BC in his famous work De
Architectura were built by the Teknoart specialists under the auspices of La Sapienza,
University of Rome.
Showing through February is “Fifth Wall of
Giants: UTEP Centennial Celebration, From
Mines to Minds.”
Continuing exhibits:
• “Neighborhoods and Shared Memories,”
composed of cherished photographs, special
mementos and keepsakes from past and present residents of Chihuahuita and El Segundo
Barrio.
Also showing is “The Missions and Their
People Wall” which honors the Mission Valley
of the Southwestern United States and
Northern Mexico.
Museum’s Winter 2015 classes are now in
session $20 per session ($10 museum members), unless listed otherwise. Registration
offered in the museum’s gift store. Information:
Miss Jaime Knoedler, 351-3588 or [email protected].
• Flamenco Dance: 6 to 7 p.m. Thursdays
through Feb. 26, for ages 9-adult.
• Conversational Spanish: 10 to 11 a.m.
Saturdays through Feb. 28, for ages 9 to adult
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February 2015