We have a tendency to think of the homeless as a “problem,” a social gray area that has people wringing their hands over the lack of solutions. But Not Exactly: Between Home and Where I Find Myself, a comprehensive exhibition opening today at RedLine Gallery, is aimed at looking for…

Assemblage artist and activist Jimmy Descant — better known as the Rocketman, for the shiny retro missiles he builds from pieces of old junk — is a fixture in the high-country art colony of Salida who represents the freer side of art-making, politics and living life. That’s a reputation he’d…

Running is the perfect metaphor for independence, when you think about it: It’s the sport of loosening up everything and getting into a rhythm and going as far as you body can take you — like five kilometers, or whatever comes first. That must be why Independence Day week is…

In his efforts to rebrand the Aurora Cultural Art District on East Colfax Avenue, ACAD managing director Tracy Weil is hoping to interest both the adjacent community and the metro-area arts community at large in taking a second look at the close-knit district where, he notes, affordable spaces can still…

Editor’s note: The July dates are sold out. Additional performances are scheduled for August 2-3. An unusual collaboration has been brewing between choreographer Candess Giyan of Daughter Cells and Denver artist/gallerist Sabin Aell for more than a year, and it’s been an intense process of personal bonding. The level of…

There’s already a deafening buzz around the Denver Art Museum’s Untitled #58 — Getup: This installment of the monthly last-Friday art soiree will be like the gift wrap around the long-awaited live Soundsuit performance, a ticketed event for which dancers will don the fabulous art-to-wear artworks of Nick Cave, whose…

Sometimes things come full circle in a telling way: The first local production of The Gospel at Colonus, a retelling of Greek mythology’s Oedipus saga reset in a black Pentecostal church with a gospel-music soundtrack, was staged by the long-gone Eulipions, once Denver’s primary African-American theater troupe. That ensemble gave…

Boulder-based artist Jen Lewin’s switched-on interactive works have been seen across the nation and on city streets, underfoot and overhead, lighting up parks and imaginations, singing Walt Whitman’s “body electric” to viewers who are compelled to touch and experience a kind of wonder. Whitman’s poetic phrase is the inspiration for…

Create Denver has a new home in the city-run McNichols Building in Civic Center Park, and to show it off, the group is hosting City Beautiful 2.0: A Modern Interpretation of the Built Environment, a four-part exhibition and experiment in integrating modern environments. It all begins with the City Beautiful…

The Lighthouse Lit Fest Book Fair began last year on a whim, says Lighthouse Writers Workshop director Michael Henry of the annual festival’s culminating event. “We thought maybe we could sell some books by partnering with the Tattered Cover and highlight the authors we have teaching here at Lit Fest,…

Create Denver Week is dead. Long live Create Denver — all year long! Last week, while generating buzz for a new event called Come Play in the Park in Civic Center Park, the folks at the city’s Arts & Venues department announced the demise of Create Denver Week, which managed…

Huzzah! Glad tidings! And all that nonsense! The Colorado Renaissance Fest is back in Larkspur this weekend, in time to lace up your overflowing summer with jousting matches, turkey legs, fools and wenches. And so much more! See also: – The Costumes of the Colorado Renaissance Festival 2012 – 50…

Susan Lyles, founder and director of the woman-centric And Toto too Theatre company, confirms it: This Play Crawl thing seems to be working. Entering its third year of entertaining and fundraising along Tennyson Street, the And Toto too Theatre Company Play Crawl will hit the road this evening from 6…