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Crestone Poetry Festival Feb. 23-25
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and Art Goodtimes will lead evening open mic sessions Friday and Saturday night at the Festival.
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and Art Goodtimes will lead evening open mic sessions Friday and Saturday night at the Festival.
Naturita Creek Duo Showcased At Talking Gourds
Crestone Poetry Festival Feb. 23-25
Aspen Poets Society
February Listings
Crestone Poetry Festival Feb. 23-25
Aspen Poets Society
February Listings
Dia de Los Muertos Call for Entry! CHAC in collaboration with The Armory Performing Arts Center presents El Dia de los Muertos at The Brighton Armory Performing Arts Center, 300 Strong St, Brighton 80601 from September 8 to November 2. The opening reception is on September 29 with Aztec dancers, traditional refreshments, face painting, and sugar skull painting.
Artwork drop off for artists is Saturday, September 2 from noon to 4 p.m. at CHAC, 774 Santa Fe Drive, Denver 80205. You may also drop off your work ahead of time during regular gallery hours the week prior. Work must be festive, fun, and based on the cultural theme of El Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Call 303-571-0440 for more information.Applications for This Year’s CAP Grants Available September 12The Colorado Arts Partnership Grants (CAP Grant) are funded by Think 360 Arts, Colorado Creative Industries, and the National Endowment for the Arts. CAP Grants will support Colorado schools in executing innovation and creativity surrounding their arts in education programs, and they will support Colorado artists and arts education organizations through collaboration with schools. CAP Grants provide Colorado public schools the exclusive opportunity to apply for funding that supplements and supports arts instruction for students during the school day. The CAP Grants will support innovative projects that demonstrate strong collaboration among community arts partners and teachers in order to provide arts instruction to students.
On September 12, 2017 the grant application becomes available. November 10 is the grant application deadline. On December 1, award notifications will be sent.
For more information and to apply, visit www.Think360Arts.org or contact Jason Diminich at 720-904-8890 x101.
Volunteer for the Jaipur Literature FestivalThe Jaipur Literature Festival takes place in Boulder from September 15 to September 17. Access the program and speaker biographies at jaipurliteraturefestival.org. To learn about volunteer opportunities, visit jlfboulder.volunteerlocal.com
/volunteer.
Stories on Stage Launches with A Little Help from My FriendsA Little Help from My Friends from Stories on Stage takes place on Sunday, September 17 at 1:30 and 6:30 p.m. at the Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center, 721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver 80204. “No matter how much things change, kindness and empathy never go out of style.” Kathy Brady, John Jurcheck and Gabriella Cavallero perform stories by Joe Donnelly, Allan Gurganus, Sarah Turcotte, and many others.
Readers of this newsletter receive $5 off per ticket. For tickets, call 303-494-0523 or go online at www.storiesonstage.org
and use the code "humanities". Tickets are $28; $15 for students. Discounted rate is $23.
Kent Haruf Literary CelebrationMark your calendars! The Kent Haruf Literary Celebration takes place September 22 to 24, 2017, at SteamPlant Event Center, Salida. Find out more and register here. The cost of celebration is $100, and space will be limited to 200 attendees.
Colorado Book Award Winners to Read at Lit CrawlJoin us for another wild night of literary debauchery on Friday, September 1 at 7 p.m. as Colorado Book Award winners read at the second annual Lit Crawl Denver. Colorado Book Award winners will read at Mermaid Fine Books, 4220 Tennyson Street, Denver 80212, and more than 30 Denver-area writers will perform at other Tennyson Street locations during the bustling street’s First Friday.Anthology
Mario Acevedo will read from Found: Short Stories by Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers and other work.
Creative Nonfiction
Tershia d’Elgin will read from The Man Who Thought He Owned Water: On the Brink with American Farms, Cities, and Food.
Mystery
Barbara Nickless will read from her novel Blood on the Tracks.
Poetry
Wayne Miller will read from his book of poetry Post-.
Thriller
Carter Wilson will read from his novel Revelation.
The Denver Veterans War Stories Program Will Conduct Ten Free Writing WorkshopsThe Denver Veterans War Stories (DVWS) program will conduct ten monthly free writing workshops with local veterans, including homeless vets, and then publish a collection of their work. The workshops will be led by literary artists who are also veterans, including workshop leader Jason Arment, a USMC veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and a published author. Workshop participants will be invited to submit work for publication in an anthology to be published in the fall of 2018. After the anthology is released, contributing writers and workshop leaders will present public readings of DVWS work and participate in metrowide, facilitated community conversations inspired by the anthology.
Workshops start on September 17, 2017 and end on May 20, 2018. Supported by a two-year, $30,000 Arts in Society Program grant funded by Bonfils-Stanton Foundation, Colorado Creative Industries, and Hemera Foundation, and in partnership with RedLine Contemporary Art Center, Colorado Humanities is pleased to offer this opportunity to veterans and the metro community. For more information, please contact Josephine Jones at [email protected], call 303.894.7951 x15, or email Jason Arment at [email protected].
Submit to the 2018 Colorado Book AwardsThe 2018 Colorado Book Awards opens for submissions on September 15, 2017! View submission information at www.coloradohumanities.org/content/colorado-book-awards. Current categories are also listed on our website at www.coloradohumanities.org/content/colorado-book-awards-categories.
The Colorado Book Awards is an annual program that celebrates the accomplishments of Colorado's outstanding authors, editors, illustrators, and photographers. Awards are presented in at least ten categories, including Anthology/Collection, Children's Literature, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, History, Nonfiction, Pictorial, Poetry, and Young Adult Literature.
See the full list of 2017 winners at www.coloradohumanities.org. Sponsored by Outskirts Press and First Western Trust, the Colorado Book Awards recognize outstanding contributions by Colorado authors, editors, illustrators and photographers in multiple categories.
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Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The Company of Players begins a new phase in its eight years of development with the production
Herstories: A Journey Through Time
As one player called it, a "fantastically ambitious" event. The multi-gendered, multi-generational, female driven show will include theatrical pieces, storytelling monologues, dance, music, fancy costumes and sets, and even a shadow puppet show. It promises to be a true offering to the company's devoted audience.
The show plays June 10th and 11th at the Crestone Charter School with an evening performance
(7pm) on Saturday and a matinee (2pm) on Sunday.
The players and artists will take us from ancient Ireland, to Greece, Japan, China, Bolivia, Mexico and into modern times, exploring the experience of herstory. With director/producer Kelly Hosner Crowley, coproducer/writer Cristina Cabeza Kinney, and hugely inspired art director, Allison Wonderland, the amazing cast of players includes Lili Zohar, Malana Ramadei, Rasalas Wickett, Sandia Belgrade, Richard Collier, Ammi Kohn, Matthew Crowley, Arthur Crowley, Naiya Cabeza Kinney, Serena Wickett and more! Also featuring The Crestone Songbirds, the dance of local performers, music by David Nelson, Art by Jane Kuan, Posey Nelson and Noah Baen, and local youth.
This one of a kind production is not to be missed! You are invited to enter a world of magic,
explore the richness of humoon herstory and support your community theatre!
$10 admission
Refreshments for purchase
FACEBOOK EVENT:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1708762799424163/
Herstories: A Journey Through Time
As one player called it, a "fantastically ambitious" event. The multi-gendered, multi-generational, female driven show will include theatrical pieces, storytelling monologues, dance, music, fancy costumes and sets, and even a shadow puppet show. It promises to be a true offering to the company's devoted audience.
The show plays June 10th and 11th at the Crestone Charter School with an evening performance
(7pm) on Saturday and a matinee (2pm) on Sunday.
The players and artists will take us from ancient Ireland, to Greece, Japan, China, Bolivia, Mexico and into modern times, exploring the experience of herstory. With director/producer Kelly Hosner Crowley, coproducer/writer Cristina Cabeza Kinney, and hugely inspired art director, Allison Wonderland, the amazing cast of players includes Lili Zohar, Malana Ramadei, Rasalas Wickett, Sandia Belgrade, Richard Collier, Ammi Kohn, Matthew Crowley, Arthur Crowley, Naiya Cabeza Kinney, Serena Wickett and more! Also featuring The Crestone Songbirds, the dance of local performers, music by David Nelson, Art by Jane Kuan, Posey Nelson and Noah Baen, and local youth.
This one of a kind production is not to be missed! You are invited to enter a world of magic,
explore the richness of humoon herstory and support your community theatre!
$10 admission
Refreshments for purchase
FACEBOOK EVENT:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1708762799424163/
Aspen Poets’ Society, Ink
Poetry Night is as much for the audience
as it is for the poets!
Sunday, March 26 @ 6:30
Live Poetry Night featuring
Kim & Valerie Nuzzo
perform "MULTITUDES"
in a staged reading of their original
play about Walt Whitman
PLUS OPEN MIC FOR POETS
Victoria's Cafe
510 E. Durant Ave. · 1/2 block from Rubey Park, Aspen
PLUS…SAVE THE DATE!
April 30 · 6:30 pm
Spotlight on Student Poets
Aspen Poets' Society thanks the Thrift Shop of Aspen for its support through past years enabling some of our activities that we all enjoy, as well as for all it does in the community.
www.aspenpoetsociety.comP.O. Box 7956 • Aspen, Colorado 81612
Aspen Poets' Society | P.O. Box 7956 | Aspen, CO 81612
Poetry Night is as much for the audience
as it is for the poets!
Sunday, March 26 @ 6:30
Live Poetry Night featuring
Kim & Valerie Nuzzo
perform "MULTITUDES"
in a staged reading of their original
play about Walt Whitman
PLUS OPEN MIC FOR POETS
Victoria's Cafe
510 E. Durant Ave. · 1/2 block from Rubey Park, Aspen
PLUS…SAVE THE DATE!
April 30 · 6:30 pm
Spotlight on Student Poets
Aspen Poets' Society thanks the Thrift Shop of Aspen for its support through past years enabling some of our activities that we all enjoy, as well as for all it does in the community.
www.aspenpoetsociety.comP.O. Box 7956 • Aspen, Colorado 81612
Aspen Poets' Society | P.O. Box 7956 | Aspen, CO 81612
Columbine Poets of Colorado events
Ziggies:
Joe Fleenor will be the featured reader at Ziggies this coming Wednesday night, March 22nd. Sign up starts when the door opens at 6:00 pm. Joe begins reading at
6:35 pm.
Columbine Poets on Saturday:
The Columbine Poets will meet for the monthly Critique session on Saturday, March 25th. Bring 14 or so copies of a poem you would like to work on. The workshop begins at 10 am and ends at noon.
*Most Saturday mornings Columbine Poets of Colorado, Inc. meet at Ziggies Live Music 4923 West 38th Ave. in Denver. This is 2 blocks east of Sheridan and located on the bus line. Meetings are from 10 am until 12 pm.
Joe Fleenor will be the featured reader at Ziggies this coming Wednesday night, March 22nd. Sign up starts when the door opens at 6:00 pm. Joe begins reading at
6:35 pm.
Columbine Poets on Saturday:
The Columbine Poets will meet for the monthly Critique session on Saturday, March 25th. Bring 14 or so copies of a poem you would like to work on. The workshop begins at 10 am and ends at noon.
*Most Saturday mornings Columbine Poets of Colorado, Inc. meet at Ziggies Live Music 4923 West 38th Ave. in Denver. This is 2 blocks east of Sheridan and located on the bus line. Meetings are from 10 am until 12 pm.