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…
These days, most peoples’ wallets are on a diet — which can make going out to the theater a financial gluttony to be regretted the next morning. Not so with An Absurd Evening of Absurd Theatre. “We will not produce a show with a budget of more than $1,000,” says…
With the forced sentiments of love looming in the air before Valentine’s Day inevitably descends upon us, some may choose to escape the cheesy romantic comedies and societal pressures by examining l’amour from an artistic standpoint. You can do this at Zip 37 Gallery’s Lovesick, a multimedia exhibit that showcases…
I count myself among the lucky moms whose daughters haven’t been sucked into the princess syndrome that plagues so many young girls growing up in this day and age. Mine had her Disney movies and her Barbie dolls, but she thankfully put them away on her own when it was…
The Banff Mountain Film Festival in Canada is an annual tribute to mountain culture, the mountain environment, and mountain sports and adventure, says REI Boulder spokeswoman Sarah Leone. And the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour is the best way to see it without going abroad. “Each year we bring…
Charles Ballas is the kind of record nerd a lot of people wish they were but could never be. He’s probably heard most things you’d throw his way, but he’s too good-natured and smart to be a jerk about it. While attending the University of Colorado in Boulder, he was…
Despite boasting a higher-than-average number of museums, parks, bands, venues, theater companies and designers, as well as the nation’s fifth-highest concentration of artists, Denver is still depicted by the mainstream media as a flyover city filled with rednecks and burnouts, equally ready to take a knee or a toke. Blame…
Photographer Lisa Law is the real deal, a hippie from the Sixties who’s still flying the freak flag down in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she now resides. Back in the day, Law was on the front lines at Woodstock, where she shot images behind the scenes while also serving…
Elena Stonaker seems to come from a long line of secret fairies and sprites. Or maybe it just appears that way from her symbol-specked, organic drawings and soft sculptures. The latter — hand-embroidered dolls and creatures decorated with seed beads, sequins and something else (dream dust?) — will be the…
If you’re one of those punk-rock aficionados with a bedroom full of obscure vinyl and a heart that beats to the rhythm of “White Minority,” then you’ll feel right at home at Growler Records’ Mid-Winter Punk Film Festival. Featuring an impressive collection of underground punk films, the festival runs on…
In January, the Denver branch of the national TED think tank staged its first-ever salon (and second-ever event). The evening’s three hours of discussions and performances featured seven area personalities sharing their Ideas Worth Spreading — with a couple even marking return performances with progress updates. The low-key evening, styled…
