Things to Do in Denver This Weekend

There’s plenty to do around Denver this week, whether you want to strip down to your panties for Cupid’s Undie Run or bundle up for Cosmic Winterwonderfest in Jamestown.

On a budget? Check out our list of free things to do. But for now, stick around for events worth the price of admission in and around Denver:

This Week

Golden Comfort and Comedy Festival
Through March 8
Golden
Golden’s first annual Comfort and Comedy Festival brings two weeks of national comedic acts, local improv, stand-up, workshops and more to downtown Golden. See all the events and get tickets here.

2026 Opera Colorado Grand Gala
Friday, February 27, 5 p.m.
Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1400 Curtis Street
The Ellie Caulkins Opera House is celebrating twenty years! A gala will honor two decades of music and culture with cocktails, dinner and arias. The celebration continues at 8 p.m. with a concert featuring Grammy award-winning baritone Will Liverman. Tickets to the gala start at $400; tickets for the 8 p.m. concert are pay-what-you-wish. Learn more here.

Lumonics Immersed
Fridays and Saturdays, 8 p.m.
Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery, 800 East 73 Avenue
Lumonics is a multi-sensory environment intended to bring guests into a state of comfort and expanded awareness. It features interactive art, such as light sculptures, painting, music, water fountains and projection. General admission tickets are $25.

Rainforest Yoga
Saturdays and Sundays, 7:45 to 8:45 a.m.
Butterfly Pavilion, 6252 West 104th Avenue, Westminster
Get your yoga mat and a towel and head to the Butterfly Pavilion for rejuvenating yoga surrounded by butterflies and exotic plants. Registration, which is $18, is required before the class. Register here.

Puzzles and Poetry
Saturday, February 28, 9:30 a.m. to noon
Art from Ashes, 1310 West 10th Avenue
Art from Ashes, an organization that empowers “under-resourced youth by providing creative programs that facilitate health and hope through poetry and spoken word” hosts Puzzles and Poetry, where participants can swap puzzles, participate in a timed 500-piece puzzle competition for awards and hear a youth poetry performance. Tickets are $40 and available here.

Cupid’s Undie Run
Saturday, February 28, noon to 4 p.m.
Stoney’s Bar & Grill, 1111 Lincoln Street
Strip down to your undies and go on a run supporting those affected by NF, a group of genetic conditions that cause tumors to grow on nerves throughout the body. The event kicks off with drinking and dancing, then a mile run that ends with an epic dance party. Register here.

Cosmic Winterwonderfest
Saturday, February 28, 3 to 11 p.m.
Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main Street, Jamestown
Head up to Jamestown for this year’s Cosmic Winterwonderfest, featuring a day of live music, psychic readings, food and beverages. Tickets are $20.

Sound / Sight / Space
Saturday, February 28, 7 to 11 p.m.
Location TBA
Denver bands Bluebook and Packaging will activate a vacant 30th-floor downtown office space for an immersive concert in a secret location. The event responds to downtown Denver’s high-rise vacancy “by transforming an empty commercial floor into a temporary site of collective presence, sound and light.” Tickets are $39.19.

Rite & Rach
Saturday, February 28, 7:30 p.m.
Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Gates Concert Hall
Symphony of the Rockies partners with the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame for a concert celebrating Women’s History Month. It’ll feature “Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3” performed by Jiarui Cheng and “Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring.” Get tickets here.

Purim Drag Queen Bingo: The Garden of Eden
Saturday, February 28, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.
Phillips Social Hall, 350 South Dahlia Street
The Mizel Arts and Culture Center hosts its annual Purim Drag Queen Bingo event, where guests can enjoy performances by a cast of local drag queens for an evening of bingo, libations, a costume contest, and plenty of jokes about Adam and (St)Eve. Heavy appetizers are included with tickets, and a cash bar will be available. Tickets start at $50 and are available here.

All Black Everything Cabaret and Burlesque Revue
Saturday, February 28, 8 to 10 p.m.
Sexploratorium, 1800 South Broadway
Celebrate Black History Month with this bold, unapologetic celebration of Black creativity, pleasure, and performance. This show is produced by Black artists and weaves burlesque, cabaret, movement, and music into a single night. Tickets start at $20.

2026 Denver Polar Plunge & 5K Presented by Spectrum
Sunday, March 1, 8 to 11 a.m.
Washington Park, 701 South Franklin Street
Support Special Olympics Colorado with an icy plunge and/or 5K at Wash Park. And no, you don’t have to worry about diving into the questionable waters of Smith Lake. The plunge will instead take place in a pool set up by Mount Vernon Gardens in the park. Learn more and register here.

Sunday Night Swing Dance Class
Sunday, March 1, 6:30 p.m.
The Pearl, 2199 California Street
Swing out every Sunday at The Pearl (formerly the Mercury Cafe) for live music and swing dance lessons. Each week, swing dance basics and a few other tricks are taught, and drop-ins, singles, couples, families and groups of all sizes are welcome. Tickets are $18.

Plan Ahead

Freaky Weeky
Tuesday, March 3, through Saturday, March 7
Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan Street
Come see Denver’s DIY artists, clowns, comedians and performers test out new work in front of a live audience. The five-night festival focuses on the spontaneity of new work, where mistakes are part of the fun and the next big thing is born. Get tickets and see the lineup here.

Chaotic Singles Party
Friday, March 6, 8 to 11 p.m.
Improper City, 3201 Walnut Street, #107
If you’re single, chaotic and 21 or older, here’s an event for you. Come meet other local singles IRL (or invite your random dating app matches) at this party that will include games, drinks and more. Get tickets here.

What Is Wrong With This Picture?
Saturday, March 7, 2 to 4 p.m.
Petals & Pages, 956 Santa Fe Drive
Head to Petals & Pages for a protest poetry writing workshop led by Grace E. Kelley. Participants will learn “various methods of creative composition in order to pull together words that ring true for the grief and horror of this present moment.” Get tickets here.

Ongoing

Dinos Alive Immersive Experience
Through Sunday, March 29
Exhibition Hub, 3900 Elati Street
Taking up the space previously occupied by Titanic: An Immersive Voyage is Dinos Alive, a prehistoric playground with 35 life-sized animatronic dinosaurs and a VR experience. “With Dinos Alive, from the time you first enter all the way to the time you leave, the space is completely consumed by this feeling of being in a sort of Mesozoic-era Jungle,” says executive producer John Zaller. “We’ve got theatrical lighting throughout that’s creating this scene that’s transitioning from day to night, as though you’re going through the whole day with the dinosaurs.” Tickets are $18.90 to $34.90.

Brick Planet
Through Sunday, May 3
Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Boulevard
Brick Planet: A Magical Journey Made with LEGO Bricks is a massive display of LEGO artistry at the DMNS. The new traveling exhibition by acclaimed LEGO artist Sean Kenney transforms ecosystems from around the globe into vivid, playful environments made from more than 1.5 million colorful bricks. The exhibit is included with general admission to the museum.

Conversation Pieces
Through October 11
Denver Art Museum, 100 West 14th Ave Parkway
Conversation Pieces is a new fashion exhibition at the Denver Art Museum made up of never-before-seen garments from the museum’s fashion archive. It’s also an interesting window into Denver fashion history. “Designers across time utilize a shared lexicon and a shared history,” says Director and Curator of Avenir Institute of Textile Arts and Fashion at the DAM Jill D’Alessandro. “They’re in constant communication with each other, whether they’re contemporaries or separated by eras. There’s a functionality to fashion that means they have the same root problem to work from. They’re responding to the body, to cultural shifts.” Conversation Pieces is included in general museum admission.

Do you know of a great event in Denver? We’ll update this list throughout the week; send information to editorial@westword.com.