With the world premiere of Resolutions, Josh Hartwell and the Edge have delivered a swift, funny, clever, 85-minute holiday treat, skillfully acted and well-paced and directed by Missy Moore.
Is any present greater than a book? Perhaps one written here in Colorado.
Mile High culture lovers are spoiled for choice in the days ahead as bookstores, concert venues, and even a cannabis church open their doors to the public for free events.
Grab an eggnog latte and enjoy flipping a few pages, listening to some readings, or just plain toasting Colorado’s literary culture at this five literary events December 11 through December 16, 2017.
Cooper, which first debuted as Cooper Hill in 1942, opened for the 2017-2018 season on December 9; it will celebrate its 75th birthday on New Year’s Eve. The publicly owned ski area has some of the most affordable lift tickets in the state. If you’re looking to avoid crowds, lift lines, man-made snow and mega-resort vibes, this is your spot.
Westword’s most-read arts stories of 2017.
Being inclusive of non-Christians at Christmas time is a perilous task, but Cleo Parker Robinson Dance pulls it off in Granny Dances to a Holiday Drum.
Rick Griffith, the design maven and letterpress wizard of MATTER Studio, has a whole different way of approaching commerce as a community-based social action. In his world, every person — rich or poor, black or white, unschooled or highly overeducated — is a cog in the wheel of fair and equal commerce, and no one gets left out.
TGIF — and it’s time to hit the barre. The roundup of this weekend’s workouts include a donation cycling class, holiday bootcamps and all-location open houses at OrangeTheory Fitness. Get ready to sweat.
Looking for free and cheap things to do this weekend? We’ve got you covered.
Think you can get through the next few weeks without hitting the mall or setting foot inside a big box store? It isn’t necessary to empty your pockets soullessly on plastic junk and electronics just to make that space under the ChristmaHanuKwanzaa bush look as good as the one over at the Joneses. You’ve got this, and we’re here to help.
Idris Goodwin—poet, writer, playwright, director and educator— arrived in Colorado Springs after a series of lives spent in various American cities five years ago, bringing a big, facile, culturally divergent voice to the Front Range. Now he’s making inroads down the I-25 corridor into Denver’s theater scene, with his director’s cap on at Curious Theatre and as a playwright at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts this spring.
Last call for listings for the Westword New Year’s Eve Guide.
When same-sex marriage became legal in Finland this past March, the government celebrated by releasing an official emoji — a leather-clad man with a drooping mustache and a police-style cap emblazoned with the word “Tom.” No explanation was necessary, for “Tom” was clearly a nod to Tom of Finland —…
As Ginny and her life unravel, Allen’s sympathy for her seems to dry up, and she becomes something like the villain of the piece
Pirate Contemporary Art, the city’s flagship artists’ cooperative, found a new home outside of Denver, in Lakewood. These are the wages of gentrification: The city’s alternative art infrastructure is being off-shored to the inner suburbs.
Group and small-works shows abound at co-ops, studio enclaves and commercial galleries, too, making December an opportunity to scope out the breadth of Denver’s many-faceted art scene. Have a holiday-season lark and get to know every kind of artist better at these ten events.
It’s not too early to start thinking about the biggest arty party of 2018. Artopia, Westword’s annual celebration of art, culture and fashion, will be livelier than ever next year, on a new night, in a new location and with a new emphasis on art created before your eyes.
Vero Tshanda Beya, the Congolese singer turned actress making her screen debut in Alain Gomis’s tough-minded life-in-Kinshasa character study Felicite, can pierce your heart with her croon, rouse your soul with her shout, move you with her mien of cussed indomitability, cut you with her look of wary, weary appraisal…
The youth of La Alma and local artists collaborated on The Heart, the Soul, an immersive theatrical experience that debuts December 7 with free performances.
With all the hurly burly of construction in the Golden Triangle (including the dismantling of “Lao Tzu” outside the Denver Art Museum), it’s a relief to see the new shows at the nearby Goodwin Fine Art and the new display by Linda Herritt at Rule on Santa Fe Drive.
A year and a few days after the Ghost Ship fire burned down an Oakland warehouse, killing 36 people at a party, Denver Arts & Venues announced it would be offering up $300,000 in need-based grants that groups that are a part of the Safe Occupancy Program for building modifications and safety compliance can apply for.
