Eleven More Things to Do in Denver Today

Don’t let the change in the weather deter you from getting out and enjoying Denver. This weekend is full of female-bonding events, film festivals and fun.

Don’t miss our list of free events here, as well as our big art roundup here. Keep reading for more ways to fill your time this weekend, all events worth the price of admission:

Boulder International Film Festival
Through March 6
Various locations in Boulder
The Boulder International Film Festival is back, and 2022, its eighteenth year, is a big one. The four-day festival includes screenings of films from around the globe, parties and other special events. See the full schedule, as well as ticket prices and packages, here.

Colorado Dragon Boat Film Festival
Through March 6
Sie FilmCenter, 2510 East Colfax Avenue
The Colorado Dragon Boat Film Festival is back, live at the Sie FilmCenter, after two years in cyberspace. In 2022, the returning in-person fest boasts more than ten screenings, interspersed with community conversations and special events over four days, ending with the documentary Free Chol Soo Lee, about a Korean man wrongly convicted of murder in San Francisco, who inspires a successful pan-Asian movement for his freedom. Find out what happens in between and check ticket options here.

Colorado Environmental Film Festival
Through March 6, online
The Colorado Environmental Film Festival includes more than 95 feature-length and short films by filmmakers from 22 countries – all available to watch on demand, some with representatives from local and national organizations. Get the schedule, ticket prices and all other details here.

Stories on Stage: Wildest Women
Sunday, March 6, 2 p.m., Su Teatro Cultural & Performing Arts Center, 721 Santa Fe Drive
Virtual show: Friday, March 11, 7 p.m. and anytime thereafter
Fans of Stories on Stage’s Wild Women Trilogy will be sorry to hear that 2022’s Wildest Women is the last stop for this crazy, unapologetically female-run stagecoach ride. But with Rhonda Lee Brown, Lauren Dennis and Betty Hart driving the last installment home, letting these literary tales for BFFs with big imaginations come to life in staged dramatic readings, the audience will be in good hands. Get ready for a program of girlfriend adventures; tickets are $22 for both live and virtual events. Find out more here.

Catamounts, One Way-Back Day
Through March 19, Thursdays through Sundays; industry night: Monday, March 14, 8 p.m.
Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut Street, Boulder
The Catamounts, Boulder’s adventurous, foodie-friendly and community-minded theater troupe, is getting comfortable working under a roof these days – not that its work has suffered during outdoor ventures. Come welcome the group to the Dairy for its latest: One Way-Back Day, a down-home story sourced by director Tresha Farris from a stew of African, Black and South Carolinian Gullah and GeeChee American fairy tales and folklore. Kept in line by director Lisa Young and a well-picked cast, this is an unforgettable kind of front-stoop play that will take audiences far away from the usual grind, guided by a matriarchal, 101-year-old storyteller named Lettice Boyer. Get tickets, $20 to $50, and information at the Dairy’s website.

Curious Theatre Company, Refuge
Through April 9, select dates
Curious Theatre, 1080 Acoma Street
Curious Theatre Company addresses the border situation in folkloric fashion with Refuge, a play by Satya Jnani Chávez and Andrew Rosendorf that tells the bilingual story of a young Honduran immigrant heading north into Texas. The production has a lilt of magic realism, traditional music and puppetry; Curious commissioned and developed the work, an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award recipient, with help from transcreator Mari Meza-Burgos, who helped mold the script’s shifting languages to make sense between two cultures. Reserve tickets, ranging from $20 for previews on March 3 and 4 to $35 to $50 during the regular run, here.

INbox, Theatre Artibus
Through March 27, select dates
Savoy Denver, 2700 Arapahoe Street
The Savoy in Curtis Park, now owned by physical-theater specialists Meghan Frank and Buba Basishvili of Theatre Artibus, went quiet during the pandemic and then closed for renovations. Now the Savoy’s new improvements are being unveiled with a side of INbox, a droll sci-fi comedy played out silent-movie-style, right down to the overstated movements and framed titles used in the silver-screen era. The work is tied to a true story of an unlikely project in Tasmania; to learn more, go see it. Tickets are $19 to $48 at Eventbrite.

Airness
Through March 13, select dates
University Theatre Building 261, University of Colorado Boulder
CU Boulder theater students aren’t just stringing along audiences with Airness, a play that glorifies the art of air guitar. It’s got a feel-good plot with a message about a girl finding nirvana while flailing an invisible instrument at a competition between fellow fake headbangers. Have a laugh during the show’s eight-night run; tickets are $22 here.

Rattlesnake Kate
Through March 13, daily (except Monday)
Wolf Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex
Cellist Neyla Pekarek was studying at the University of Northern Colorado in 2008 when she came across the story of Rattlesnake Kate, a farmer who killed over 100 rattlesnakes one day in 1925. She became determined to tell Kate Slaughterback’s story – first in song, and now in a new musical that chronicles sixty years in the life of this Colorado legend. Read more about the show here; tickets are $30 to $74 at denvercenter.org.

Immersive Frida Kahlo
Daily, tentatively through June 5
Lighthouse ArtSpace Denver, 3900 Elati Street
Frida Kahlo has continued to inspire artists and art lovers alike since her death nearly seventy years ago, thanks to her appeal as a strong-willed woman and enormously talented creative being, not to mention her quirks, devotion to traditional Mexican fashion and love for both animals and famous men. Now Frida’s fans can walk through her life and oeuvre at Immersive Frida Kahlo, complete with larger-than-life projections of her most iconic artworks. It’s not quite like sitting in a Coyoacán courtyard with Frida, but it’s fun; learn more and get tickets, $40 to $70, here.

and an ongoing film bonus:

Repertory/Special Features Format
Sie FilmCenter, 2510 East Colfax Avenue
Now that the Sie is up and running every day, FilmCenter director Keith Garcia is making a dream come true: He’s introducing repertory programming this month with a dedicated screen, opening up a new avenue of entertainment for movie-goers – especially those who like genre films, restorations, cult classics, double features and tributes to directors and actors. In March alone, you can choose from a Sidney Poitier series (March 7-9) or a nod to Peter Bogdanovich (March 10-11), as well as a week of 2022 Oscar snubs. See what’s coming up or happening daily here, and start checking off your favorites.

Know of a great event in Denver? We’ll be updating this list through the weekend; send information to editorial@westword.com.