Ten Things to Do in Denver for $10 and Under (Five Free)

The weekend is nigh, which can feel like either a blessing or a curse depending on the state of your pocketbook. So take heart, destitute Denverites, for Westword has scoured the local entertainment calendar for the best events in town that won’t break the bank.

Sneak a Peek at Breckenridge Brewery’s Artsy New Look

Breckenridge Brewery will unveil its new packaging designs at a special exhibition September 21 at the Farm House Restaurant at Breckenridge Brewery, 2920 Brewery Lane in Littleton. The labels were created by German graphic designer Florian Schommer, and commissioned through a partnership with Chicago-based VSA Partners.

Faiyaz Jafri on the Evolution of Digital Animation

Digital animator Faiyaz Jafri has been on top of his game for as long as the medium has even been around, beginning thirty years ago on an Apple computer with the most basic of programming tools available. It was a painstakingly different onscreen world back then, but Jafri, now an internationally known animation pioneer who produces his own cutting-edge, award-winning work while also co-directing Hong Kong’s Third Culture Film Festival, still represents the gold standard in his trade.

Axis Mundi Tackles Psychology and the Environmental Apocalypse

Axis Mundi: Environmental Melancholia, Collective Social Mania and Biophilia, a complicated three-part group exhibition facilitated and mounted by artist Regan Rosburg and PlatteForum, follows the convoluted paths of modern ecopsychology through layers of art, science and our delicate symbiosis with nature.

Eight Arty Things to Do This Week in Denver

Big events collide in a beautiful way this weekend in Denver, importing an international presence for the Biennial of the Americas, along with a hardworking community of street artists descending on Rino to paint murals for Crush 2017. In keeping, local galleries and businesses are getting in step with satellite exhibits and events — and then there’s a nice chunk of the regular stuff.

Beto Mojardin Has Gone From Homelessness to High Fashion

Norbeto “Beto” Mojardin is ready for Denver’s art community to know his name. While he has always been an artist, it was only in the last decade that Mojardin earned enough income from his hair salon to practice his art through fashion. And what makes Mojardin’s art unusual is that his wearable fashion is made of corn.

Eat, Drink and Do Yoga at the StapletOM Yoga Festival

When New York yoga teacher Jeannene Orofino moved to Denver and made Stapleton her home six years ago, the mother of two was attracted to the neighborhood’s health and wellness-oriented culture. As she began settling in, however, she started wondering why Founder’s Green Park, the sprawling public space near her home where farmers markets and other events took place, didn’t host an outdoor yoga festival.

Sie FilmCenter Boots DocuWest; Alamo Saves the Festival

Wade Gardner has been running the DocuWest Film Festival on a shoestring budget since 2008. For the past few years, the bootstrapping filmmaker, programmer and activist rented space in the Sie FilmCenter so that he could bring cutting-edge documentaries to the region. Not anymore.

Free for All: The Five Best Free Events in Denver This Week

Between the Biennial of the Americas, CRUSH and the city’s already vibrant cultural life, Denver is beset by so many festivals, concerts, screenings, openings and shows this week that it would be impossible for even the busiest bees to experience more than a fraction of the entertainments awaiting them.

Black Cube’s Avalanche Flushes Out Cold Facts About the Bottled-Water Industry

The Institute for New Feeling has joined forces with the Black Cube Nomadic Museum to poke fun at the exploding enhanced water industry. The end product is a bottled water called Avalanche, manufactured complete with its own vending machines, which they’ll market, taking an absurdist approach, as a recycled beverage made fresh again by human usage.