WHEN: December 6 through 7
Find fabulous handcrafted holiday gifts at the 20th annual Winter Spanish Market, where more 100 artists offer one-of-a-kind pieces, including tinwork, jewelry, pottery, textiles, santos and other traditional Spanish Colonial works.
This year's market, held at the new Santa Fe Community Convention Center, also includes live music, art demonstrations, regional foods and other events celebrating New Mexico's rich Spanish culture.

Saturday - Dec. 6, 9am - 4pm
Sunday - Dec. 7, 9am - 4pm
Admission is free.
For more information, call 982-2226.

WHEN: Sneak Preview Show and Sale, 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, November 28; 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, November 29; 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, November 30
Meet more than 100 acclaimed Native American artists, including top award-winners of the Santa Fe Indian Market, at the third annual Santa Fe Indian Market Winter Showcase. This is the perfect place to find holiday gifts, including jewelry, bead work, pottery, kachinas, sculpture, glass, clothing and more during this two day extravaganza devoted to Native American art.

WHEN: Nov. 27, 2008 (tentative opening date) through April, 2009 Click here for the latest snow report.
Ski Santa Fe, the family-oriented winter paradise popular with downhill skiers and snowboarders alike, is scheduled to open Thanksgiving Day. Just 16 miles from downtown, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Ski Santa Fe has a base area elevation of 10,350 feet and a 12,075-foot summit. Enjoy gorgeous vistas and 67 groomed trails, including steep mogul runs as well as easier trails for novices. Ski Santa Fe and experience the perfect sun-kissed powder New Mexico is famous for.

WHEN: November through January 1, 2009
Climb aboard the historic Santa Fe Southern Railway for holiday fun, traveling the original high-desert route established in 1880 as the famous Atcheson, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
Holiday rides to the Galisteo Basin overlook and historic Lamy include the Post-Thanksgiving High-Desert Highball, a cocktail run with sunset views. Kids love the "Polar Express," featuring a reading of the popular book and film. Ring in 2009 with live music and a hearty barbecue on the New Year's Eve Party Train.

WHEN: 3 p.m. Fridays through December 18
Take a tour of the historic Randall Davey House, one of Santa Fe's oldest and most significant adobe properties. The beautiful home and gardens belonged to the acclaimed modernist painter, who donated his property to the National Audubon in 1983.
Tour the house and art studio with a knowledgeable docent to see his paintings, historic furnishing and personal items that remain in the house ~ almost as if Randall Davey himself had just left them there to run outdoors and paint the gorgeous sunset. Reservations strongly suggested

Each year, pueblo feast days and dances held at the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos near Santa Fe are open to visitors. Remember that these tribal ceremonies are sacred events and not all are open to visitors. You must observe all rules and regulations when you are a visitor to a pueblo, which means no talking, clapping or taking pictures. Generally dances begin early in the morning, unless they're sundown dances. Click on our Indian Pueblos section for pueblo phone numbers and more information about visiting the pueblos.

Many of the pueblo animal dances held during winter occur on the same date from year to year, regardless of the day of the week. Christmas remains the time of dances for pueblos near Santa Fe, including Jemez and its Buffalo, Eagle, or game animal dances on Christmas and ensuing days. Taos Pueblo alternates annual dances between the Deer dance and the Matachina dance, and the annual sundown torchlight processions of the Virgin take place n Christmas Eve for Picuris, Nambe and San Juan Pueblos. Matachina and other various dances are scheduled for Xmas day at Picuris, San Juan, Santa Clara, Taos, San Juan and San Ildefonso Pueblos. On 12/26, a Turtle Dance takes place at San Juan, Santa Clara and Picuris Pueblos, while Holy Innocents and children's dances take place 12/28.
New Year's day is always a time of dancing and the Transfer of the Canes ceremony celebrating the tribes' new leaders coming to power.

Dec. 11
Vespers and procession, about 6 p.m., Pojoaque Pueblo
Dec. 12
Our Lady of Guadalupe, Los Matachines dance, Jemez Pueblo
Our Lady of Guadalupe Annual Feast Day, 10 a.m. Mass followed by dances
Dec. 24
Sundown Torchlight Procession of the Virgin Vespers, Los Matachines Dance, Picuris Pueblo
Sundown Torchlight Procession, Los Matachines dance, Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo
Buffalo Dances following Mass, Nambe Pueblo
Various dances following Midnight Mass, San Felipe Pueblo, Santa Ana Pueblo and Tesuque Pueblo
Sundown procession, Children's Dance, Taos Pueblo
Dec. 25
Deer or Los Matachines dance, Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo
Deer or Los Matachines dance, Picuris Pueblo
Christmas celebration and Los Matachines dance, San Ildefonso Pueblo
Deer or Los Matachines dance, Taos Pueblo
Various dances, Tesuque Pueblo
Dec. 26
Turtle Dance, Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo
Dec. 28
Innocents Day Dance, Santa Clara Pueblo
Holy Innocence Day Children's Dance, Picuris Pueblo
Jan. 1
Los Matachines Dance, Jemez Pueblo
Turtle Dance, Taos Pueblo
Cloud or Basket Dance, Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo
Jan. 6, Kings Day Celebration
Buffalo, Deer and Antelope dances, Nambe Pueblo
Various dances, Picuris Pueblo
Deer or Buffalo Dance, Taos Pueblo
Jan. 22
Vespers with firelight procession, 6 p.m., San Ildefenso Pueblo
Jan. 23
Annual feast day, Buffalo, Comanche and Deer dances, San Ildefenso Pueblo
Jan. 25
St. Paul's Feast Day, various dances, Picuris Pueblo
Feb. 2
Candelaria Day Celebration, San Felipe Pueblo
Candelaria Day Celebration, Picuris Pueblo

WHEN: 7 a.m. to noon Saturdays and Tuesdays
Visit the famous Santa Fe Farmers Market, now in its brand new building, for a celebration of northern New Mexico's unique culture, history and food. You'll find delicious locally grown fruits and vegetables, organic chicken, lamb and beef, handmade jams, herbal products, and other items. Enjoy live music, kids activities and special events throughout the year. Savor a hot cup of coffee, breakfast burrito and pastries at our concession stand as you experience this 40-year-old local institution.

WHEN: Now through December, 2008
For an amazing gastronomical adventure, take a restaurant walking tour with the acclaimed Santa Fe School of Cooking. You'll visit some of Santa Fe's most celebrated restaurants, meet the talented chefs and sample their world-famous cuisine.

WHEN: November 21, 2008 through October 25, 2009
This exhibit, honoring Santa Fe's 400th anniversary, celebrates the many photographers who have focused their lenses on Santa Fe, contributing to a visual record of Santa Fe history and adding to Santa Fe's world-famous mystique.
Through the Lens showcases dozens of photographs taken since 1850. And while the works reveal that acclaimed photographers across the decades have captured Santa Fe on film from many fascinating viewpoints, they also illustrate just how powerful a pull Santa Fe has exerted on the imaginations of photographers.
A series of public lectures related to Through the Lens are planned throughout the exhibit's duration.

WHEN: October 18, 2008 through January 18, 2009
With New Mexico's emergence as an international film production center, it makes perfect sense to bring an exhibit to Santa Fe highlighting 36 original costumes made for acclaimed period film productions including Sense and Sensibility, Out of Africa, Gosford Park and Titanic. The evening wear, wedding dresses and other magnificent couture in this exhibit, representing fashion from the 16th through the 20th centuries, are on loan from Cosprop, London's renowned costume house.

WHEN: May 11, 2008 through January 4, 2009
This exhibit explores how storytelling through comics and comic-inspired art expresses the contemporary Native American experience. Examples of rock art, ledger art and ceramics link early Native American narrative art forms to 20th-century comic strips and comic books. This early work is paired with contemporary Native American work to reveal new ways in which native artists are working with comic art to express life in the 21st century.

WHEN: May 18, 2008 through April 19, 2009
When the railroad began serving New Mexico in 1880, it brought a steady stream of tourists eager to purchase an array of items invented purely for them by Pueblo and Navajo artisans collaborating with non-Indian dealers. Thus did the curio trade begin, expanding to include a network of cottage industries, retail venues and a booming mail order business that all had far-reaching consequences into the 20th century. This exhibit examines the artists and their artifacts, as well as the innovations and traditions that contributed to New Mexico's complex and controversial curio trade.

WHEN: June 29 through January 4, 2009
100 chairs, benches and stools made around the world are displayed in this exhibit, celebrating the genius of Alexander Girard's designs and the Girard 25th Anniversary Year. This homage to the many ways we sit includes an African throne, a pair of German wedding chairs and a Mirra office chair designed by Herman Miller. This show should enthrall even the most avid couch potatoes.

WHEN: September 26 through February 1, 2009
Georgia O'Keeffe captivated the art world with her iconic paintings, and she had an equally powerful pull on leading photographers of her day, including her husband, Alfred Stieglitz as well as Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, Laura Gilpin, Irving Penn and Andy Warhol. The photographs they took of O'Keeffe contributed to the public's perception of her as one of the world's most famous women artists. Through paintings, architectural studies and photographs, this exhibit explores how the camera helped shape O'Keefe's artistic reputation and celebrity.

WHEN: December 16, 2007 through June 7, 2009
Native Couture explores the history of Santa Fe style, showcasing jewelry and clothing made during the 1880s through today. Built around the collection of Santa Fe style-setter Dicky Pfaelzer, whose children donated her collection to the museum in 2005, Native Couture explores how Native American, Hispano and Western Frontier aesthetic traditions influenced the evolution of Santa Fe style in fashion and jewelry design.

WHEN: October 19 through June 6, 2010
Cochiti and Santo Domingo pueblos may be separated by the Rio Grande, but for centuries they shared ceramic traditions. Influences from the outside world, however, brought major changes that resulted in the pueblos pursuing markedly different paths in their pottery styles. With 250 pieces from the museum's collection, this exhibit illustrates those differences, and provides a fascinating look at the history and communities of these pueblos.

WHEN: Now through January 4, 2009
The city's cutting-edge contemporary art space hosts its seventh international biennial, Lucky Number Seven, curated by Lance Fung. More than 20 artists from across the globe created work for this biennial that is exhibited at SITE as well at off-site venues around the city.

The 21th Annual Contemporary Winter Market will return to EL Museo Cultural in the heart of the Railyard District. With over 140 artists participating in the 2006 Market, more than double its size five years ago.

Saturday - Nov. 29, 9am - 5pm
Sunday - Nov. 30, 9am - 4pm
Admission is free.
For more information, call 424-6996.