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Pirate Party & Summer Reading Program Kickoff
Celebrate the start of 2024’s Summer Reading Program with a Pirate Party at the International District Library! Enjoy activity & craft stations, Pirate Picture Portraits, and a scavenger hunt. Sign up for your reading log and start earning prizes just by reading.
And this Summer Reading Program isn’t just for kids – all ages are welcome to participate. So put on your best pirate swagger and head on down!
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FLAME Employability Skills Workshop
Check out this series of innovative, free workshops hosted by Bernalillo County, designed to empower folks who may face challenges in finding a permanent job. Successful completion of the 20-hour employability workshop, which covers skills from building a personal brand to mastering job interviews, opens up new opportunities through the FLAME job rotation program.
Workshops are space-limited and first come, first served. Register HERE to reserve your seat and receive location details.
*FLAME was developed with the intention to serve those residents that either never got a first chance or need a second chance.
This includes but is not limited to recently released inmates, those in rehabilitation, aging-out foster youth, disabled individuals, housing voucher clients, veterans, women recovering from domestic violence, those living in temporary housing, and other individuals wanting a new beginning or second chance.
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FLAME Employability Skills Workshop
Check out this series of innovative, free workshops hosted by Bernalillo County, designed to empower folks who may face challenges in finding a permanent job. Successful completion of the 20-hour employability workshop, which covers skills from building a personal brand to mastering job interviews, opens up new opportunities through the FLAME job rotation program.
Workshops are space-limited and first come, first served. Register HERE to reserve your seat and receive location details.
*FLAME was developed with the intention to serve those residents that either never got a first chance or need a second chance.
This includes but is not limited to recently released inmates, those in rehabilitation, aging-out foster youth, disabled individuals, housing voucher clients, veterans, women recovering from domestic violence, those living in temporary housing, and other individuals wanting a new beginning or second chance.
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Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Virtual Informational
Join the MIGHTY Western Region of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc, to learn about their sisterhood and community impact as servant leaders, and how you can become a part!
Open to women of good character who are currently pursuing or hold a Bachelor’s degree or higher. Registration is required at www.westernsgrho.org.
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River Cleanup Day
Celebrate the National River Cleanup in the Bosque! Meet in the dirt parking lot on the north side of Central, just west of the river (map) to enjoy morning snacks – then head out to pick up trash along the shoreline and trails. There will be raffles and a prize for the WEIRDEST piece of trash!
Wear sturdy footwear and bring work gloves, water, sunglasses, and sunscreen, and a hat if you’ve got one! Parking is very limited, so please carpool (or bike!) if you can.
To sign up, visit One Albuquerque Volunteers or contact Volunteer Program Coordinator Jenny Blackmore at jblackmore@cabq.gov or 505-768-3072.
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Brothers Working It Out: Barbershop Talks
Join the conversation! Every other Monday at All Eyes On Me. Free food, and free haircuts for the first 15 attendees!
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Cultivating Wakandan Resilience: Afrofuturism & Gardening
Join the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture for an exciting webinar exploring the connection between Afrofuturism and gardening. Get a fresh perspective on resilience and African American gardening – as well as have some fun with Wakandan botany trivia!
Register HERE for connection information.
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First Annual B L O O M Fiesta
Join us for FUN at NMBLC’s first annual BLOOM fiesta!
Outside the building, we’ll have carnival fun for the kid in all of us – cotton candy, a bouncy house, tie-dye, a videogame bus, silent disco, and lots more!
The fun continues inside: eat finger food, meet the acting superintendent of APS, learn about the library’s kaleidoscope of free opportunities, and get to know the NMBLC and local caregivers like yourself.
This event is free and open to all! Sign up on our form HERE!
Parking details:
(Tram will consistently cycle each lot to bring individuals to event)
Limited handicap parking at NMBLC
1314 Madeira Dr SE
Albuquerque, NM 87108Cesar Chavez Community School
1325 Palomas Dr SE
Albuquerque, NM 87108Gateway Center at Gibson Health Hub
5400 Gibson Blvd SE
Albuquerque, NM 87108999 Seafood Supermarket
5325 Gibson Blvd SEEastern Child Development Center
Eastern Ave SE
Albuquerque, NM 87108Note: Street parking is of course an option, but won’t be monitored like the other parking options.
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NMBLC Open House and Building Dedication
This house is your house! RSVP HERE for an open house and celebration of our updated digs. We want to see you there!
We are so proud and excited to share them with you. Join us to celebrate all that we (all of us, including you!) are becoming. There’ll be finger food and cake, a participatory building dedication, and a chance to get to know each other as we build this community together.
Let us know you’re coming (and invite a friend if you want) at our RSVP form HERE. It’ll help us know how much cake to buy. Can’t wait to see you!
Park at Cesar Chavez Community School, 1325 Palomas Dr SE, and we’ll have a tram coming by every few minutes to bring you on over!
Note: Street parking is of course an option, but won’t be monitored like the other parking options. VERY limited handicap parking at the building.
