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We’re pleased to announce that Nuevomexicana writer and biologist Leeanna Torres will be this year’s Gila River Festival keynote speaker.

Established in 2005, the Gila River Festival is an annual event that celebrates New Mexico's last free-flowing river and its important role as the centerpiece in our region’s natural and cultural heritage. The Gila Conservation Coalition invites you to the 18th annual Gila River Festival - One Water, Many Currents - September 22 - 25, 2022 in Silver City, the Gila National Forest and along the Gil

a River. The festival will explore the many ways in which water connects us and is the common thread weaving together the Gila River watershed's human and ecological communities of the past, present and into the future. The hybrid (in-person and virtual) event will examine how the Gila River brings us together, investigate human relationships with the Gila River through our many uses of water and cultural perspectives related to water, and facilitate understanding of the ecological systems of the Gila River watershed and human dependence on these systems. The festival will also offer guided hikes and field trips on birding, archaeology, geology, riparian restoration, butterflies, and fishing, as well as the Dance of the Mountain Spirits with the Fort Sill Apache Fire Dancers with the Gooday Family. The full schedule and registration will be available August 1, 2022.

08/05/2025

The Gila River Festival has always been about bringing our community together to celebrate New Mexico’s last wild river. That’s why the decision to place the festival on hiatus for the foreseeable future was made with great care. We’re exploring new ways to engage, connect, and celebrate with you in the months and years ahead. Your voice and participation have shaped this event over the past two decades, and we hope to carry that forward in new and meaningful ways. We're committed to finding new paths to gather and celebrate the Gila River in the future. Thank you for being part of this incredible journey that has provided a diversity of opportunities for our community to experience and learn about the natural and cultural history of the Gila through the arts, humanities and natural sciences.

11/08/2024

The 2024 Gila River Festival panel duscussion, "Community Voices: Blueprints for the Future of the Gila River," is now available to view at https://vimeo.com/1021937156. Once again, thank you for your support!

11/06/2024

If you missed the keynote speaker, Dr. Wendsler Nosie, at this year's Gila River Festival in September, don't worry! It is now available to view online at https://vimeo.com/1021925678. Thank you for your support!

10/16/2024

Thank you again for joining us at this year's Gila River Festival! We had such a great turnout and time with you all. If you missed it, here's a great summary, https://www.scdailypress.com/2024/10/01/festival-speakers-gila-belongs/.

10/01/2024

Thank you for an amazing festival this year! Your attendance, participation, and support made this year another successful year!

09/30/2024

We want to give a huge thank you to all of the 2024 Gila River Festival Sponsors! We would not be able to organize such a successful event year after year without your suppport and partnership! Thank you!

09/29/2024

It's Day 4 of the Gila River Festival. Join us today from 9 am-10:30 am at the Silver City Museum for the closing event of the festival! We gather devotees of the Gila River for an informal conversation about what loving a river means, and how to think about the future of the Gila watershed in a time of global crisis. Sharman Apt Russell and Philip Connors will join moderator Mónica Ortiz Uribe in sharing stories, visions, hopes, fears, and dreams of the wild Gila River in the 100th anniversary year of the wilderness that gives birth to it. $10 suggested donation at the door. No one turned away for lack of funds! This session will not be offered online. We hope to see you then.

09/28/2024

Gila River Festival Day 3 - Check out the presentations at the Silco Theater today, starting at 1 pm! Cha'Bii''Tu Crown Dance Group from the White Mountain Apache Tribe will be with us from 5:30 - 7:30 pm at Gough Park. Social dances are 5:30 - 6pm. Bring your lawn chair. Head to our website for additional details. Hope to see you there!

09/27/2024

It's Day 2 of the Gila River Festival! Don't forget to join us at WNMU Global Resource Center starting at 4 pm for the "Recuerdos De Nuestra Gila" photo exhibit with The Semilla Project and our "Community Voices:
Blueprints for the Future of the Gila River" panel at 6:30 pm. We're looking forward to seeing you there! Head over to our website for additional details and for upcoming events this weekend, www.gilariverfestival.org.

09/26/2024

This year's Gila River Festival starts today! We'll kick off the festivities with the opening reception for The Gila River Project: Water is Power from noon to 5:30 at the Seedboat Center for the Arts with Open Space Brewing and tunes by C**t Stragoon starting at 3pm. Tours of the exhibit start at 1pm. San Carlos Apache leader Dr. Wendsler Nosie Sr. delivers the keynote presentation tonight at 6pm at 's Light Hall Theater. And then enjoy the rhythms of Sidy Samb and Afroflamenco in the Light Hall Gardens starting at 7pm. Please head over to www.gilariverfestival.org for the full weekend schedule and for additional information on all our upcoming events. We can't wait to see you!

09/25/2024

Join Stanley King, Mike Hasson, and Leia Barnett on Saturday September 28th, 2:15 pm at the Silco Theater to discuss protection of the western slope of the Gila bioregion. Protecting all the watersheds that flow from the western slope of the Gila Bioregion is crucial to any conservation effort made for this unique and profoundly important landscape that supports a broad spectrum of wildlife, including multiple threatened and endangered species of flora and fauna. Our speakers will review the watersheds and the threats to them, the essential factors that make them invaluable, and what the conservation community and other concerned citizens can do to protect their future. There is $10 suggested donation at the door but no one turned away for lack of funds.

09/24/2024

Did you know jaguars are the third-largest cat species in the world and they evolved in North America eons ago before expanding their distribution to Central and South America? At present, just two male jaguars born in Mexico are known to live in the wild in the U.S., in southeastern Arizona’s sky island mountain ranges. Reintroduction of jaguars to the best remaining habitat in the U.S. – the Gila National Forest – would begin the process of jaguar recovery on the continent where these remarkable felids originated, and would also provide a genetic lifeline to jaguars in northwestern Mexico to which the future U.S. jaguar population could be connected. Join us Saturday, Sept. 28th, 1:00 pm at the Silco Theater, 311 N. Bullard St. to hear from with Michael J. Robinson of the Center for Biological Diversity on this topic. There is a $10 suggested donation at the door but no one turned away for lack of funds. This session will not be offered online.

Address

305A North Cooper Street
Silver City, NM
88061

Telephone

+15755388078

Website

https://www.gilariverfestival.org/

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