Events on this Day

 Wednesday, May 8th
12th Annual Southwest Colorado Small Business Conference
8:00am / Sky Ute Casino Resort
Exciting times ahead! Join us at the 12th Annual Southwest Colorado Small Business Conference for a day of inspiration, networking, and growth.
Wine, Liquor, Beer tasting and pairing
4:00pm / Wagon Wheel Liquors
Come and joins us for a tasting of Wine, Liquor, or Beer every Wednesday during happy hour. Come taste our crews favorite products!   Wine 15% off, Spirits 10% off, and Beer 5% off during happy hour.
Great Garden Series - The SOIL Outdoor Learning Lab
4:30pm / Durango Public Library
The SOIL Outdoor Learning Lab is on a mission to cultivate a public outdoor growing facility rooted in community engagement, educational and economic opportunity, multigenerational collaboration, cultural and ecological stewardship, and healthy living practices. SOIL aspires to realize this mission by designing and developing an innovative horticulture and education facility to benefit the entire community of Southwest Colorado.     The first phase, a community and education garden, was opened to the public with programming for students across the region beginning June 1, 2023.  The next phase will deliver a 42' grow dome greenhouse!  To learn more, join us for this talk or visit SoilLab.org. 
Durango Trailwork
5:00pm / Skyline Trail
Trailwork events take place on the Skyline Trail. Please sign up today. Thank you for volunteering and giving back to the trails.
Understanding Wildfires
5:30pm / Durango Recreation Center
Free workshop understanding our wildfire risk, how mitigation can affect the outcome of a wildfire and what to expect during a wildfire.
Path to RURAL Property Ownership
5:30pm / The Wells Group
Snapshot of Financing Options for Vacant Land, Lots, Homes and New Construction
Writers & Scribblers
6:00pm / Durango Public Library
W&S is a group for writers of all kinds to learn, practice, and share the art and craft of writing.
Open Mic led by ShadowTrapp
6:30pm / EsoTerra Ciderworks
Bring your talent! Play alone, or with friends. This open mic is run up by the phenomenally talented musicians of ShadowTrapp! So, you are always guaranteed a great show! The floor is open to all varieties of music, and levels of expertise. Come show off, or simply enjoy the music. Sign-ups begin at 6:30pm at the bar, show is 7-9pm.
San Juan Basin Archaeological Society Presentation
7:00pm / Fort Lewis Collage Lyceum
The San Juan Basin Archaeological Society invites the public to a presentation. At 6:30 we will have social time, then after a brief business meeting, Jeff Pigati and Kathleen Sringer with the U.S. Geological Survey will discuss " Evidence of humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum (Dating of White Sands footprints) " For log-in information go to SJBAS.ORG.    Archaeologists and researchers in allied fields have long sought to understand human colonization of North America. Questions remain about when and how people migrated, where they originated, and how their arrival affected the established fauna and landscape. Here, we present evidence from excavated surfaces in White Sands National Park (New Mexico, United States), where multiple in situ human footprints are stratigraphically constrained and bracketed by seed layers that yield calibrated radiocarbon ages between ~23 and 21 thousand years ago. Independent chronologic controls have recently confirmed these ages. This timing coincided with a Northern Hemispheric abrupt warming event, Dansgaard-Oeschger event 2, which drew down lake levels and allowed humans and megafauna to walk on newly exposed surfaces, creating tracks that became preserved in the geologic record. These findings confirm the presence of humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, adding evidence to the antiquity of human colonization of the Americas and providing a temporal range extension for the coexistence of early inhabitants and Pleistocene megafauna.   Kathleen Springer is a research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver, Colorado. She specializes in deciphering complex stratigraphic sequences and reconstructing paleoenvironmental conditions, and studies how springs and other hydrologic systems responded to climate change in the recent geologic past.   Jeff Pigati is a research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver, Colorado. His research is focused on understanding the response of hydrologic systems in arid environments to past episodes of abrupt climate change. He is also an expert in radiocarbon dating.
Karaoke Roulette
8:00pm / Starlight Lounge
Sing a song get a free shot!
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