Santa Fe Public Library

10/17/2026

10/16/2026

An afternoon with poet Leslie Zane

Main Library Community Room
Friday, October 23, 2026
3:00pm–4:30pm

Registration required; register at link in bio.

Join us for a reading of local poet Leslie Zane’s latest work, The Long View, along with a selection of her earlier works.

The Long View is a contemporary poetry collection that explores aging, memory, love, grief, anxiety, friendship, motherhood, and the quiet shocks of modern life with sharp honesty and wit. Moving through themed sections (from “Vanity” and “Distance Between Us” to “Seven Years” and “The Long View”), these poems blend intimate personal moments with social observation, capturing everything from family history and loss to illness, travel, and the strange humor found in everyday survival.

“With intelligence, humor, and formal invention, Leslie Zane celebrates connection, the natural world, and the human rites of passage we all share. I am so grateful that this book is in the world to remind us how it feels to be a solitary walker at the end of the day, and to sleep “under a protection of stars.” -- Carolina Goodwin, author of Old Snow, White Sun, and Matanuska.

Q&A session and book sale to follow.

10/16/2026

Friday Afternoon Art: Kids Make Día de los Mu***os Crafts and Play Lotería!

Southside Library Children's Room Puppet Area
Friday, October 23, 2026
2:30pm–4:30pm

Celebrate Día de los Mu***os, make special crafts to take home, and play lotería to win small prizes!

10/16/2026

Southside's Ofrenda is coming along beautifully!

10/15/2026

Create with O'Keeffe: Monster Masks

Main Library Children's Room
Thursday, October 22, 2026
3:30pm–4:30pm

Kids, get ready for the spooky season by creating your very own monster mask out of recycled materials!

Create with O’Keeffe is a free monthly drop-in program offered in partnership with the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, occurring on the second, third, and fourth Thursday of every month at libraries around Santa Fe. Create with O’Keeffe aims to bring fun art activities to kids and families while helping them learn how to express themselves through visual art! The program is free to attend and does not require advance registration.

10/15/2026

Sages for the Ages

Main Library Community Room
Thursday, November 5, 2026
3:00pm–4:00pm

Registration required; register at link in bio.

Winston Churchill once said: "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." An overview of the world today that failed to heed this advice.

Join Ana Pacheco, the former Santa Fe City Historian (2015 to 2017), for her monthly presentations as she delves into four centuries of Santa Fe history. Through her thirty-three years as a writer and historian Pacheco has created books, articles, blogs, videos, and five-star walking tours of her beloved hometown. In the last three decades she has pieced together the puzzle that makes Santa Fe the most historically significant city in the U. S.

10/15/2026

Paranormal Energy Clearing with Jane Phillips

Date: Thursday, October 29, 2026
Time: 5:00 PM
Location: Main Library
Address: 145 Washington Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501

Registration required; register at link in bio.

Ghosts, Spirits & Energies - Oh My!

Step into the mysterious world of the paranormal … just in time for Halloween! Certified Medical Intuitive and Paranormal Energy Clearing Specialist Jane Phillips returns to the Library for her fifth talk on ghosts, spirits, and unseen energies.

Jane has spent over 18 years clearing over 600 homes and businesses, and countless individuals, of lingering spirits, disruptive energies, and other "unseen guests." In this lively, eye-opening event, she will share true stories from her ghost-clearing work and answer your questions about the paranormal.

You will experience:
• Fascinating real-life ghost stories from Santa Fe and beyond
• Insights into how and why energies attach to places
• How Jane helps people reclaim peaceful, supportive homes
• Time for Q&A — bring your curiosities!

10/15/2026

After School Adventures in STEAM: Make Paper Rockets and Salt Watercolors

Main Library Community Room
Friday, October 16, 2026
2:30pm–4:30pm

Drop-in after school and visit with our friends from New Mexico MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievement) where you will get to make paper rockets and salt watercolors.

(Per library policy, children under 9 must be accompanied by a caregiver)