You could say it all started with a pair of shoes — the most minimal of shoes, made of woven straw — in 1991. That’s when Denver-based artist Viviane Le Courtois strapped the first pair on her feet and ventured off on a series of foot-treks around the world, creating…
There will be a memorial for longtime Denver critic Holly Bartges at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 6 at Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Street in Boulder. “We will sing, hoist a glass and talk of all things Holly,” promises Colorado Theatre Guild director Gloria Shanstrom, who notes that there…
It’s so easy to get the blues in dreary, cruddy February. But there’s no excuse this weekend — the city is full of things to do. From Oscar parties to art openings, dance performances to absurd theater, we’ve got everything you could possibly want. And it all costs $10 or…
Koffi Toudji has been making a positive impact on Denver as a drummer, dancer and teacher of both for more than half a decade, and now he wants to take his energy full circle. Toudji is originally from Kpalimé in Togo, West Africa, and he’s putting on the Koffi Togo…
If you are kinky, want to be, or are just curious about sexuality and different lifestyles — check out KinkForAllDenver, a full-day conference taking place tomorrow at the Community College of Denver’s Auraria Campus. The conference will be a hands-on (crack a joke here, pervs) teach-in with presentations by sexual…
This isn’t Daniel Junge’s first trip to the Oscars. The Colorado-based filmmaker was nominated for an Academy Award in 2010 for his documentary The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner; this time he’s nominated in the Documentary Short category for Saving Face, a film that follows a Pakistani plastic surgeon…
It’s always a good Friday when Untitled rolls into the Denver Art Museum: The monthly last-Friday series, which makes looking at art fun and proactively unboring, turns your museum visit upside-down from the moment you walk in the front door. Tonight’s session, Untitled #44 (Road Trip), pays homage to the…
It was World War III last night onProject Runway All Stars as the designers competed to see who could create the best national flag-inspired outfit. Each contestant was to take on a nation that represented a “major world region,” but some of the countries wound up looking somewhat obscure…
Where was the art in Artopia? That was the question one reader asked after looking at a slide show of Westword’s entertainment extravaganza that filled five venues on Broadway with music, fashion, food, drinks…and yes, lots and lots of art. You couldn’t miss it…if you were there…
With his art, Phillip Potter investigations the correlation between interior design, home decoration and fine art. His current show, The DavenPort Collection , which runs through February 26 at Edge, is a subtle nod to the role of fine art in America’s consumer-minded society, a slight satire on how visual…
If you — or your kid — have been dreaming of making your own custom skateboard decks, don’t miss this week’s three-day Build Your Own Skateboard Workshop at Art Lab Fort Collins, 239 Linden Street, starting on Friday, February 24 at 4:30 p.m. The $60 workshop, which continues February 25…
Ellie Rusinova and Brandan Styles, the art duo Mad Tatters, want you to embrace your darker side. “Too many people are afraid to find their shadow side,” says Styles. “We both want to show ours, in our way, and we want to act upon and play in that dark area.”…
Red carpet appearances by designer gown-donning stars are just as much a part of the Academy Awards spectacle as the Oscars themselves. In advance of this coming weekend’s 84th annual ceremony, Denver FilmCenter’s Reel Social Club is celebrating this marriage of fashion and film with it’s Seam To Screen event…
The Mizel Arts and Culture Center will launch the sixteenth annual Jewish Film Festival today. “This is our most far-reaching event,” says Lisa Korsen, marketing director for MACC. “It’s where we get our most diverse audience, patrons who may not be Jewish but are interested in the culture. We have…
The lesser snow goose is an undependable fellow: Cruising the Western Central Flyway during migration, it makes one of its stopovers at John Martin Reservoir near Lamar. But, hey, some days the pickings might look better at Horse Creek Reservoir outside of Las Animas. And sometimes, when the weather gets…
Saturday night’s Artopia was an entertainment mashup of music, performance art, visual arts, fashion, food and other almost undefinable activities, fueled by alcohol and general high spirits. You can get a feel for the annual event in this slide show — which inspired Found Artist to cry foul:…
Dance performances usually have a beginning and an end, but the Fresh Blood Collective is planning something a little different. “Generally, audiences come at the beginning and leave at the end, and they’re essentially captive for the entire duration of one performance,” explains dance artist Ying Zhu. But she and…
Holly-Kai Hurd, art gallery curator at the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library, sees Black History Month as an opportunity. Her goal? First, to place the spotlight on a group of local black women who represent a spectrum of arts disciplines right here in our fine city. But — and perhaps…
Nobody knows what it’s like to be disabled more than the people who actually live with disabilities. That’s why a new production of Bernard Pomerance’s The Elephant Man, presented by the Physically Handicapped Actors and Musical Artists League, is certain to have added depth: The play is based on the…
As monikers go, Overcasters is a magnificent name for a rock-and-roll band, especially one as noisy, tempestuous and imposing as the outfit that Kurt Ottaway leads. It also happens to be an apt metaphor for the ominous pall that’s hung over the musician’s endeavors from the very beginning. Every significant…
I saw a reading of The Whale during the Denver Center Theatre Company’s New Play Summit last year, and it left a vivid impression. I remember a 600-pound man on a chair center stage — a composition teacher trapped and drowning in his own fat and yearning for reconciliation with…
Have you ever wondered what it feels like to hold an Oscar statue? You can find out tonight at the Denver Film Society’s Oscar Night America, the only Academy-sanctioned viewing of the 84th Academy Awards in Colorado. The night will include a red carpet, a predict-the-winners contest, and a photo…
