EQUUS Mustang Matinee

This event features local color talks: "The Wild Mare Series," art showing and sales and the "The Western Horse: A Popular History of the Wild and Working Animal," book sales and book signings with a Historian Panel and special appearance with Wildlife Protection Program; VIP Social 1 to 2:30 pm with Award Winning author, Randi Samuelson-Brown and artist, Jodie Brenner. Local authors, Barb Kiipper and Michele Bell will be there with their new book, "Why A Mustang."

11-film teasers and shorts, 3 to 6:30 pm and social following. Doors close at 7 pm. Intermissions 2:45 and 4:45 with Wines of the San Juan cash bar, lemonade or tea. Create your own schedule or attend all afternoon into the evening! Dine out at Farmington's Mainstreet restaurants!

• VIP Artist, Author & Historians Social 1 to 2:30 pm
• Movies 3 to 6:30 pm
• Doors close 7 pm

Movies include 11-film shorts and teasers.

• The EQUUS film block 3 - 3:50 pm features the veterans healing program, H.O.O.V.E.S, Horses for Mental Health, "Breath," Get the Mind and the Hooves Will Follow, Horsepower, A Mustang Story and The Mustang: An American Story.
• Local New Mexico film block 3:55-6:30 pm.
• Student Film: Bailey Cloer's, "Heart of Trust," is a story of trust between a broken-down horse named Thor and a healing girl. 3:55 pm
• SJCHS film: "CARRIZO: The Inspiration," is an oral interview with the author of CARRIZO: Portrait of a New Mexican Family, Victor A. Abeyta that captures life in the Largo Canyon tributary circa 1915 to 1937, featuring the forty-four pioneer families that homesteaded the tributary canyon. 4:30 pm. Book CARRIZO is available on sale in both English and Spanish.
• The "The Mustangs and the Mustangers:" Episode 2," by Laura Harper is a 28-minute history of the homesteaders of Middle Mesa, Carracas, Laguna Seca, Carrizo, and Gobernador, NM: the legend of Andy, for whom the Canyon of Navajo Lake was named is revealed. And includes the historical accounts of the Long Walk of 1680 and WWI. 5:30 pm.
• The 15-minute film short by German-Santa Fe filmmaker, Ati Maier, features the Lakota tribe. of South Dakota!

This event is funded by Commissioner John Beckstead. Venue: San Juan County Historical Society. Proceeds donated to the San Juan Basin Mustang sanctuary! Tickets on sale at the Farmington Civic Center