Since 1996, the Doña Ana Arts Council (DAAC) and the Las Cruces Public Schools have been members of the Kennedy Center Partners in Education (KCPE). The Las Cruces KCPE Team focuses on Arts Integration, an approach to teaching that leads students to demonstrate understanding through an art form. This year, the team recognized the potential for creating […]
Join us for live events during the 2021 Virtual Las Cruces Space Festival. Sign ups are live here- https://forms.gle/bpCUGwZRriTNmNj58 Sessions/Times/Descriptions: Friday – 4/9/21, 4:30pm: Teen Space Cafe with Spaceport America and Virgin Galactic. Learn more about the missions of Spaceport America (New Mexico Space Authority) and Virgin Galactic. Geared towards teen but open to the […]
The fourth annual Las Cruces Space Festival will be running April 9-12 online. The Festival will feature virtual tours of space-related business and facilities, missions with the Challenger Learning Center of Las Cruces, live presentations and Q&As with New Mexico aerospace industry representatives, a live space quiz, Yuri’s Night celebrations and a presentation from retired […]
The Challenger Learning Center of Las Cruces is offering six free virtual missions during the 2021 Virtual Las Cruces Space Festival. Register here for a 45-minute mission. The Challenger Learning Center of Las Cruces (CLCLC) is New Mexico’s sole full-scale space simulator, operated by Las Cruces Public Schools (LCPS). In celebration of the Las Cruces […]
We are excited to include a presentation by retired NASA astronaut Mike Mullane for the 2021 Virtual Las Cruces Space Festival. Join us at 5pm on Yuri’s Night (April 12) for the live stream of Mike’s presentation and we will set a question to be answered at the end of the talk for a chance […]
“PASSPORT TO SPACE” IS AN INTERACTIVE WAY TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 2021 LAS CRUCES SPACE FESTIVAL The Las Cruces Space Festival (LCSF) comes to you for its fourth year, April 9th-12th 2021, with a wide variety of virtual events, talks, tours, virtual missions with the Challenger Learning Center of Las Cruces and even a space […]
The Doña Ana Arts Council (DAAC) will feature artwork from the Las Cruces Space Festival online art show, Dawn of Discovery March through May on the Staszewski Library and Gallery wall. The Arts Council recently dedicated this space to Eugenia and Wanda Staszewki for their support of the arts in our region. The sisters, in […]
2020 has been an unforgettable year, and many things have changed for all of us, including planned events. The 2020 Las Cruces Space Festival was canceled due to restrictions enforced to slow down the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. So, although we would prefer to hold in-person activities, the organizing team have made the decision […]
The Las Cruces Space Festival is bringing virtual art shows to audiences starting Saturday, May 23rd at 2pm MST with the film premiere of “We Choose To Go To The Moon” followed by the opening of the “Dawn of Discovery” online art exhibition. “We choose to go to the Moon” is the result of a unique, […]
The third-annual Las Cruces Space Festival, due to return March 30- April 4, has been postponed. The Festival Executive Team met with City officials this morning to discuss possible dates for rescheduling the Festival later in the year. “We held off until we were given the order from the Governor’s office to postpone the Festival” said […]