Things to Do in Denver This Weekend

The Denver Museum of Nature & Science’s newest exhibit, The World’s Largest Dinosaurs, opens on Friday, March 20. Meanwhile, Joshua Emerson is bringing his Bad Indian comedy showcase back to Bug Theatre on Saturday, Petals & Pages is hosting a Writing With Tarot & Oracle Cards workshop on Sunday, and more.

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

The World’s Largest Dinosaurs
Friday, March 20, through Monday, September 7
Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Boulevard
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science’s newest exhibit, The World’s Largest Dinosaurs, opens Friday, exploring “the biology and anatomy of sauropods — the largest land animals to ever walk the Earth.” The exhibit used to tell the story of sauropods includes a towering, life-sized model of a 60-foot-long Mamenchisauru. A special ticket is required in addition to general museum admission.

Cindy Cohn at Tattered Cover Colfax
Friday, March 20, 6 to 8 p.m.
Tattered Cover Colfax, 2526 East Colfax Avenue
Electronic Frontier Foundation Executive Director Cindy Cohn will talk about her new book, Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance. Registration includes a signed hardcover copy of the book.

Family Day at the Opera
Saturday, March 21, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1385 Curtis Street
Families are welcome to enjoy a day at the opera, including abridged performances of The Pirates of Penzance at 10:30 a.m. and Romeo & Juliet at 1 p.m., with interactive activities between shows. Tickets are pay-what-you-wish, including a $0 option, and families can stay the entire day or come and go.

Celtic Creature Festival
Saturday, March 21, 3 to 6 p.m.
Van Helsing Society Headquarters, 1343 Grant Street
Celebrate Irish Heritage Month with an afternoon inspired by the creatures of Celtic folklore. Festivities include a screening a screening of the animated film Wolfwalkers, plus performers, puppetry and themed refreshments. Tickets are $16 for children under 12, $20 for adults, or $60 for a family pack of four.

Bad Indian: A Native American Comedy Showcase
Saturday, March 21, 7 to 11:30 p.m.
The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo Street
Joshua Emerson’s Bad Indian returns to Denver, bringing together some of the sharpest Indigenous voices in stand-up, featuring headliner Sam Malcolm, alongside a lineup of Native American comics redefining what Indigenous comedy looks like on stage. The showcase is dedicated to uplifting Native talent and expanding mainstream recognition of Native humor and storytelling. “Indigenous humor isn’t niche — it’s universal. We laugh because we’ve survived, and we laugh because our stories matter,” Emerson says. Tickets start at $9.85.

Writing With Tarot & Oracle Cards
Sunday, March 22, 11 a.m.
Petals & Pages, 956 Santa Fe Drive
Guided by archetypes, imagery, and intuition, writers and diviners of all levels can learn how divination can empower the creative and writing process at this workshop. Tickets start at $35.

Plan Ahead

Bowl of ‘Zole 
Thursday, March 26, 5 to 9 p.m.
Skylight, 833 Santa Fe Drive
This celebration of agave spirits and pozole returns for its fourth year in the Mile High. Expect to taste your way through over 300 variations of tequila, mezcal, raicilla, sotol and bacanora, many from small producers that can’t be found elsewhere in town. You can also fill up on pozole from chefs such as Dana Rodriguez of Work & Class and Carne, David Lopez from El Chingon and Oscar Padilla from Chulo Tacos and Agave Blue Cantina. Tickets start at $55. 

Ongoing

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.

Sunday Night Swing Dance Class
Sunday, March 22, 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.

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.

Glowing Wild
Select dates through Sunday, May 10
Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance, 2300 Steele Street
Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance’s after-hours spring lantern event is back on select nights, showcasing sixty illuminated scenes of more than 175 larger-than-life lantern displays on its 80-acre campus. Enjoy food, beverages and live music as you stroll through the glowing lights. Tickets are available here.

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.

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