ESO UNITES FOR GOOD- 9/11 Remeberance Event @ Bernalillo Ranchito Galeria
Friday, September 11 · 3:00–6:00 PM · Ranchito Galería, 848 S Camino del Pueblo, Bernalillo
Twenty-five years on, September 11 has become something more than a day of grief. It has become a day of service — a day when people who were children then, and people who weren't born yet, do something useful for someone else. That's the idea behind UNIITE for Good, and it's the reason we're opening our doors on Friday afternoon.
Emergency Services Outreach is marking the day the way we know how: with art, with the people who answer the call, and with a room full of neighbors.
About 9/11 Day
9/11 Day is the national movement that turned September 11 into the country's largest annual day of charitable service. Its 2026 campaign, UNIITE for Good — two I's, for the towers — asks people to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary by doing something for someone else.
Friday's event is a registered 9/11 Day of Service event. Across the country this week, tens of thousands of people are packing meals, cleaning parks, giving blood, and showing up for their neighbors. In Bernalillo, it looks like a room full of art, a silent auction, and the people who answer the call. Remembering those we lost, honoring those who serve, caring for the future — that's the whole assignment.
Pete Davidson, whose father Scott Davidson was an FDNY firefighter killed on 9/11, for the UNIITE for Good campaign. Film courtesy of 9/11 Day.
What's happening
Ranchito Galería is hosting the New Mexico Street Pet Project's 9/11 Day of Service event. From 3 to 6 PM, admission is $15 and includes:
- A silent auction — original work donated by New Mexico artists, open for bidding the full three hours
- Local artist sales on the gallery floor
- Live entertainment
- Two door prize tickets
Admission and door prizes support the New Mexico Street Pet Project, who do the patient, unglamorous work of caring for animals nobody else is looking for. Silent auction bids and gallery art sales support Emergency Services Outreach.
Bidding closes at 6:00. Come early if there's something you want.
Hosted by Our Friends at NM Street Pet Project
If you haven't been to Ranchito Galería yet
Some of you are hearing about the gallery for the first time. Here's the short version.
Ranchito Galería opened this fall on the pre-1937 alignment of Route 66 in Bernalillo, in a storefront on South Camino del Pueblo. It's an arts education and cultural preservation program of Emergency Services Outreach — which means the work on the walls isn't inventory to us. It's the living arts, crafts, and cultural traditions of New Mexico and of the Native American, Indigenous, Hispanic, and Latin American peoples whose traditions shape this place. We exhibit it, we interpret it, and yes, we sell it — because artisan communities survive when their work finds buyers, and because a piece that hangs in someone's home does more teaching than a piece in storage.
Every work is labeled truthfully. Works by enrolled members of federally or state-recognized tribes are identified as such, with the artist's name and tribal affiliation. Works by Indigenous artisans of other nations are identified by people and place. We don't blur that line, and we won't.
Regular hours are Thursday through Sunday. On Fridays during farmers market season we stay open late.
Why a gallery, from an EMS nonprofit
It's a fair question and we get it a lot.
Emergency Services Outreach started as a 501(c)(3) bringing high-quality clinical training to volunteer and smaller public-safety agencies around New Mexico. We still do that — AHA and ASHI courses run out of this same building most weeks. But the longer you work in emergency services, the more obvious it becomes that the people running the calls need somewhere to put it all down. That's Ranchito de la Redención, our 23-acre retreat in Torrance County. And the more time you spend in a New Mexico community, the more obvious it becomes that its artists are carrying something worth protecting. That's the gallery.
Skills that save lives. Art that saves lives. Same building, same organization, same idea.
Come Friday
Bring someone. Bring the neighbor who's never been in the building. If you're a first responder, come in uniform if you're on your way to or from a shift — you'll know half the room.
Also this weekend: Come From Away
Musical Theatre Southwest is staging Come From Away through Sunday, September 13
at Keshet Dance and Center for the Arts in Albuquerque. It's the true story of
Gander, Newfoundland — a town of about 10,000 that took in nearly 7,000 stranded
air passengers when U.S. airspace closed on September 11, 2001, and fed, housed,
and cared for them for days.
It's the same idea from a different direction: ordinary people deciding to show
up. Come to the gallery Friday afternoon, see the show that evening. Tickets are
$33 general, $30 for seniors, military, and students. Runs 100 minutes.
Ranchito Galería · 848 S Camino del Pueblo, Bernalillo, NM 87004 · A program of Emergency Services Outreach, Inc., a New Mexico 501(c)(3). Ticketing is hosted by the New Mexico Street Pet Project.