NMHM News:

The New Mexico History Museum (NMHM) is hosting a special opening event for the exhibition Zozobra: A Fire That Never Goes Out, in honor of the centennial burning of Zozobra.

The public is invited to an exhibition opening event featuring a performance by Moving Arts Española at 5:15 p.m., Friday Aug. 23, with welcome remarks at 5:45 p.m., and a screening of Zozobra: 100 Years of Fire and Redemption, a documentary produced by Hutton Broadcasting and the Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe in the NMHM auditorium at 6:15 p.m. Admission is free to New Mexico residents with ID, and to children 16 and younger.

Each Friday of Labor Day weekend in Santa Fe, the beloved Zozobra, a towering, monstrous 50-foot marionette, is stuffed with slips of paper onto which people have scribbled their pressing concerns. The crowd cheers as Zozobra goes up in flames. This fiery farewell to summer represents the release of the city’s pent-up anxieties and gloom and a renewal of hope.