How about we just have fun on First Friday? This month Denver’s galleries are featuring fresh takes on pop stars, T-shirts and things that go bump in the night — and in our hearts? Here are a few suggestions for what to see tonight. Bjork’s BFF: New Works by Allison…
There’s a new game in town starting Saturday: That’s when Denver’s civic health club, Warm Cookies of the Revolution, takes to the streets for the Stompin’ Ground Games, a yearlong series designed to celebrate cultural richness in the city’s thriving and sometimes lesser-known neighborhoods. First up is a love song…
Interesting surroundings link new plays and performances in Denver this weekend, from Cherry Creek Theater Company’s stage in a carpet store and Theatre Or’s run in a concert venue to Lemon Sponge Cake’s public-art dance commission in a park. Where there’s a will, there’s a way: Here are the specifics…
#10: Jennifer Garner A printmaker and dedicated faculty member at Metropolitan State University of Denver, Jennifer Garner honed her curating chops over ten years at Auraria’s Emmanuel Gallery and Metro’s Center for Visual Art. Now she’s on board at Denver International Airport, curating changing exhibits that give thousands of travelers…
This week in local literary events, you can not only read a book but also make one, or throw your support to a fledging Denver-centric art magazine. ’Tis the season to be bookish! Mizel Arts and Culture Center JAAMM Fest Charles Belfoure, The Paris Architect Starts September 30 Wolf Theatre,…
This weekend, you can see art and be art at the Denver Art Museum, immerse yourself in work from a top-notch trio at Robischon Gallery or find out what happens when artists and poets collaborate at Valkarie Gallery in Lakewood. Kahn + Selesnick, Dreams of the Drowning World Kim Dickey…
Need a passport, but you can’t afford one? Jason Coates wants to help, but you’ll have to work fast. The local videographer, humanitarian and world traveler has launched a quickie 24-hour challenge and if you can follow directions, you might be one of four lucky trekker-wannabes who will receive checks to…
Dance takes center stage — and even the silver screen — this week in Denver, with a performing-arts calendar that includes a stopover by Twyla Tharp’s golden-anniversary tour, a celebration of dance on film, and a fall premiere from Denver’s own Cleo Parker Robinson Dance. Twyla Tharp Dance: 50th Anniversary…
Poetry is big in Denver literary circles this week, as 100 Thousand Poets for Change takes over the city with a series of weekend events and the local slam community sends off its 2015 contender for the Individual World Poetry Slam. And then there’s also a side-trip to literary Iceland…
It’s a banner week for art in Denver, headlined by the September 18 opening of Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty at MCA Denver. But there’s so much more — layers and layers of it — as galleries and local artists celebrate image and process with challenging installations and variations of mixed media…
Despite September temps that felt like the height of summer, pro snowboarders hit the rail yard — built on 35 tons of manmade snow shipped in to the streets of RiNo for the occasion — at last weekend’s Vans Pro Jam at Snowboard on the Block. The event also included…
How do you Fringe? Do you pick names out of a hat, or consult a Ouija board? Part of the fun at any fringe festival is deciding what you’re going to see, and at the Boulder International Fringe Festival, that means picking and choosing from theatrical fare on display everywhere…
#11: Jerry De La Cruz Artist Jerry De La Cruz, who nows splits his time between studios in Denver and Miami, has been a force in the local Chicano art movement for more than forty years. His signature magic realism is all his own, sometimes tapping into cultural roots and…
Fall brings variety to Denver galleries: From abstract visions and incisive figurative worlds to contemporary folk pieces, there’s art for every taste this weekend. Here’s where to find it. New Works: Heather Patterson and Barbara Sorensen, with Mark Penner Howell, Patricia Finley and Mel Rea in the back gallery Walker…
This season Denver stages offer theatrical fare from our own back yard and across the nation on levels both intimate and brashly big-budget. Here’s a sneak peek at some of the best local openings this weekend. Colorado Theatre Festival Robert and Judi Newman Center for Theatre Education 1101 13th Street…
Tacti-con is a fan convention that focuses on games — from old-fashioned board games to the vast universe of the gaming cyberworld. And for those who tired of sitting around tables and staring at screens, Tacti-con also offered zombie-hunting and cosplay diversions. Photographer Danielle Lirette got into the game this…
#12: Kent Thompson In his ten years of working magic as director of the Denver Center Theatre Company, Kent Thompson, who came here after years with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, has seen — and exacted — change in how the DCTC and regional theater in general present work both immediately…
First Friday kicks off the holiday weekend with new exhibits big and small, including Jokes of Nature, an ambitious group show showcasing the art of the grotesque at RedLine, and Denver culture jammer Peter Miles Bergman’s retrospective at Dateline. And then there are these one-of-a-kind gems, lighting up arts districts…
The art of the grotesque has staying power, as RedLine development director Geoffrey Shamos, a scholar of Renaissance art from northern Europe, and local contemporary artist Donald Fodness, who has an affinity for the style in modern times, will both tell you. In the present, the genre in all its…
Theater is back on track, with many fall season offerings debuting on Labor Day Weekend. From Aurora’s Vintage Theatre to Lakewood’s acclaimed Edge Theater and the Bug in Denver, the pickings are suddenly looking good. Any Given Monday Vintage Theatre Friday, September 4 through October 25 7:30 p.m. Fridays and…
#13: Peter Miles Bergman Peter Miles Bergman is well schooled in both art activism and the craftsmanship of modern communication arts, and when he’s not teaching at Metropolitan State University Denver, he’s printing books and zines and creating art pranks in cahoots with the Institute of Sociometry, a guerrilla art…
Women artists are in the spotlight this weekend as an international star in performance art gets a major survey down south in Colorado Springs, while here in Denver, you’ll find new work at the Spark co-op and and art party in the boutique gallery, Super Ordinary. Be dazzled and have…
