Welcome to the beginning of another week in the Roaring Fork Valley! Monday, the Wheeler Opera House ’s Sunset Sessions continues with Writ Large, a spoken-word story event told in front of a live audience. That starts at 8 p.m. Showings of Theatre Aspen’s production of “Hairspray” will take place Monday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., July 4 at 6:30 p.m. and Saturday July 8 at 3 and 8 p.m. For more information, visit theatreaspen.org . Monday and Tuesday, Thievery Corporation will be playing Belly Up, Aspen with Late Night Radio at 9:30 p.m. Starting Wednesday, the Aspen Art Museum will have Tibetan monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery in South India creating mandala sand paintings. An artist’s reception with Dinah Worman will take place at the Ann Korologos Gallery in Basalt for her exhibition America at Heart: From Above at 5 p.m. Thursday. Also on Thursday, the Snowmass Free Concert Series continues with bluegrass band Head for the Hills beginning at 5:30 p.m. Friday, the
Week in the Arts - July 3, 2017
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Week in the Arts - June 10, 2017
Welcome to the beginning of another week in the Roaring Fork Valley! Monday, Theatre Aspen’s production of the musical “Hairspray” will continue its run in the Hurst Theatre at 7:30 p.m. this week, with additional performances at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday. For more information, visit theatreaspen.org . Monday and Tuesday, comedian Dave Chappelle has four stand-up gigs at the Belly Up. One starts at 7 p.m. and the other at 9:30 p.m. each evening. For more information, check out bellyupaspen.com . Tuesday, The Ann Korologos Gallery Art & Lecture Program presents author Alan Day for an author talk and book signing, starting at 4 p.m. in Basalt. Visit korologosgallery.com for further details. Running in repertory with “Hairspray” is Theatre Aspen’s production of the play “Sex with Strangers” in the Hurst Theatre. It will be on Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. More details at theatreaspen.org . On Wednesday, the Belly Up presents internationally renowned recording artist, film and tv
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Week in the Arts - June 17, 2017
Welcome to the beginning of another week in the Roaring Fork Valley! Monday, the 14th annual opera gala will feature an exclusive dinner at the Caribou Club and a full performance the Aspen Music Festival and School ’s production of Verdi’s La Traviata. This event starts at 5 p.m. with the performance beginning at 8 p.m. at The Wheeler Opera House. La traviata will also run the 18th at 7 p.m. at The Wheeler Opera House . Tuesday, Aspen Words ’ Writer in Residence Grant Faulkner speaks at 5:30 p.m. at Hooch Craft Cocktail Bar. Doors open at 5 p.m. Theatre Aspen ’s mainstage production of “Hairspray” continues its run Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Hurst Theatre, with additional performances Friday and Saturday at that same time. Wednesday, there will be a screening of the documentary film “Time Travelers” based on the U.S. Men’s Rafting Team’s Grand Canyon endeavor at the Carbondale Fire Department at noon. Theatre Aspen ’s production of the play “Sex with Strangers” continues its run
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Week in the Arts - July 24, 2017
Welcome to the beginning of another week in the Roaring Fork Valley! Monday, The Aspen Institute and Aspen Film presents the documentary “Step,” at 7:00 p.m. in the Paepcke Auditorium, as part of the New Views Documentaries and Dialogue series. Also Monday night, singer and composer Rufus Wainwright will showcase new arrangements for string orchestra at the Harris Concert Hall at 8 p.m. For more information, visit aspenmusicfestival.com . Nina Gabianelli will perform her one woman cabaret act “Here I Am” Tuesday, as part of The Wheeler Opera House ’s Sunset Sessions summer series tomorrow at 8 p.m. On Tuesday, mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung will give a performance at the Harris Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m. For more information, visit aspenmusicfestival.com . Theatre Aspen’s run of the play “Sex with Strangers” continues Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. For more information, visit theatreaspen.org . Local group The Black Lillies will play the Summer of Music concert #5 at Two Rivers Park
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Week in the Arts - July 31, 2017
Welcome to the beginning of another week in the Roaring Fork Valley! Theatre Aspen’s productions of “Hairspray,” “Sex with Strangers” and “The World According to Snoopy” continue this week. For show dates and times, visit theatreaspen.org . Tonight, Thunder River Theatre Company ’s Divo Cabaret presents Henry Award-winning performer Bob Moore. He brings his one-man cabaret show, “A Man of Many Hats, a Lifetime of Musical Theatre and Song” to the stage at 7:30 p.m. in Carbondale. Tuesday, conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner will be giving an Artist Talk at 6 p.m. at the Aspen Art Museum . Wednesday the Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra will perform in the Benedict Music Tent at 6 p.m. Also on Wednesday, the final Summer of Music concert in Glenwood Springs will feature Peter Rowan at Two Rivers Park starting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Explore Booksellers presents The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman in conversation with Loren Jenkins about “Truth in Journalism in the Era of Fake News” in
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Week in the Arts - August 7, 2017
Welcome to the beginning of another week in the Roaring Fork Valley! Monday, photographer Wyatt Gallery presents the series “Jewish Treasures of the Caribbean” at the Aspen Jewish Community Center . That show opening starts at 5 p.m.
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Week in the Arts - August 14, 2017
Welcome to the beginning of another week of summer in the Roaring Fork Valley!
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Week in the Arts - August 21, 2017
Welcome to the beginning of another sunny week in the Roaring Fork Valley! Tuesday, essayist Tyler Dunning will give a talk at Explore Booksellers in conjunction with his Mountainfilm presentation later this week. That event begins at 5:30 p.m. Also Tuesday, Aspen Public Radio has its event “Resurgent Russia in the Time of Trump” with NPR’s former bureau chief in Moscow Corey Flintoff in Paepcke Auditorium at 6 p.m. Wednesday, the documentary film festival Mountainfilm returns to Aspen at The Wheeler Opera House , with events lasting through Sunday. Also Wednesday, Aspen Art Museum presents a screening of the 2017 film “Landline” at 8 p.m. Friday, TACAW ’s The Temporary presents Denver psych-blues band Dragondeer at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, the Glenwood Vaudeville Revue presents its recurring dinner theatre at 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dance Initiative presents a live performance of the outdoor dance film “Letter to Congress: A WILD Sanity” at Sustainable Settings Ranch in
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Week in the Arts: August 28, 2017
Welcome to the beginning of another sunny week in the Roaring Fork Valley! Wednesday, the Aspen Chapel Gallery opens a new photography exhibition called “What’s Your Color?,” with an artists reception starting at 5 p.m. The Glenwood Vaudeville Revue will host its dinner theatre Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 6 p.m. Friday, Carbondale Clay Center celebrates its 20th anniversary with “A Visual History: 20 years of Clay and Community.” The event is co-hosted by Marble Distilling Company and begins at 6 p.m. Globally renowned shadow sculptor Randy Cooper will share his work at the Aspen Art Gallery Friday and Saturday at 6 p.m., and additionally Saturday at 2 p.m. This weekend at the JAS Labor Day Experience : Friday, Lake Street Dive will open for Hall & Oates in Snowmass Town Park. Lake Street begins at 6 p.m. with Hall & Oates at 8 p.m. Darling Din will perform at the Outside Music Lounge at 5 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, St. Paul and the Broken Bones starts at 3 p.m., with Nathaniel
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Week in the Arts: Sept. 4, 2017
Welcome to the beginning of September! Here's a list of some events for the week: Wednesday, Bonobo returns to play Belly Up, Aspen . The show starts at 9:30 p.m. The annual Snowmass Balloon Festival begins at 7 a.m. on Friday, with events happening throughout the weekend. For the full list, visit gosnowmass.com . Friday, there will be an opening reception for exhibition titled “Pattern Recognition & Homecoming” at the Launchpad in Carbondale. That reception begins at 6 p.m. Saturday in Aspen, the 7th annual Mac and Cheese Festival kicks off at 2 p.m. Saturday in Basalt, the Ann Korologos Gallery presents the opening reception of the exhibition “America at Heart: Behind the Shutter.” That reception starts at 5 p.m. Saturday in Carbondale, the Carbondale Clay Center celebrates its 20th Anniversary Fete with dinner. “Settings” starts at 6 p.m. Saturday in Glenwood Springs, the Glenwood Vaudeville Revue welcomes, for the first time, Thunder River Theatre Company ’s Consensual Improv.
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Week in the Arts: Sept. 11, 2017
Tuesday at 7 p.m., act 1 of The Mad Show runs at The Wheeler Opera House . Tuesday writer Andrea Thome will sign copies of her second book in her Hesse Creek romance series, Seeds of Intention, set partially in Aspen at 5:30 p.m. at Explore Booksellers . Wednesday Marble Distilling Co . presents “vodka and Van Gogh" with the Carbondale Creative District starting at 7 p.m. Also Wednesday, Act II of the Mad Show starts at 7 p.m. at The Wheeler Opera House . Thursday in Carbondale, the No Man’s Land Flagship adventure film festival at the Crystal Theatre in Carbondale starts. It continues throughout town over the weekend. The third annual Flagship Festival is an all-female adventure film festival based out of the Rocky Mountains running through Sunday. Also Thursday at The Wheeler Opera House , "The Mad Show" presents a team discussion on the creation of the musical. This event starts at 5:30 p.m. Then Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Theatre Aspen and The Wheeler Opera House present the
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Week in the Arts: Sept. 18, 2017
Welcome to the beginning of the first official week of fall in the Roaring Fork Valley! Tuesday at Hooch Cocktail Bar, this month’s Aspen Words writer-in-residence Tatjana Soli, a L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist and New York Times Notable Author, will be giving a talk and reading at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in Carbondale, the annual Business Conference and Expo takes place at The Orchard’s Gathering Center, starting at 11:30 a.m. Also Wednesday, the artists displaying work in the Aspen Chapel Gallery 's current show "What's Your Color" will be discussing their paintings at 5:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday at The Temporary , Palace Productions presents evening performances of “Love, Loss, and What I Wore,” a intimate collection of stories by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron, based on the book by Ilene Beckerman. These shows begin at 7:30 p.m. Starting this Friday, the Glenwood Vaudeville Revue presents its fall musical, “Little Shop of Horrors” at 7:30 p.m. There will also be showings this weekend
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Week in the Arts: Sept. 25, 2017
Welcome to the beginning of a new fall in the Roaring Fork Valley! Wednesday, blues funk band Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears will play Belly Up, Aspen with Lightnin Malcolm at 8:30 p.m. Thursday in Carbondale, Studio for Arts and Works or SAW will have an open house starting at 5 p.m. Also Thursday, is there such thing as bad art? The Aspen Art Museum seeks to find out with The Great Debate, starting at 5 p.m. Thursday at the Carbondale Branch Public Library , CU Boulder Assistant Professor Ricarose Roque will present on inclusive learning and new media as part of the CU Carbondale Lecture series. That talk begins at 6 p.m. And Thunder River Theatre Company ’s production of the play “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” starts at 7:30 p.m., running Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Friday, the Spectrum Dance Festival, as brought forth by Dance Initiative , kicks off Friday at 6 p.m. and will run through Sunday. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the Glenwood Vaudeville Revue ’s fall musical “Little
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Week in the Arts: Oct. 2, 2017
Welcome to the beginning of the first week of snow in the Roaring Fork Valley! The 39th annual Aspen Filmfest kicks off Tuesday at The Wheeler Opera House, with screenings and panel discussions also occurring at the ISIS Theatre in Aspen and the Crystal Theatre in Carbondale through Sunday. For the complete schedule, visit aspenfilm.org . Thursday, there will be a reception for The Ann Korologos Gallery ’s latest exhibition “Out of the West: Landscapes” starting at 5 p.m. in Basalt. Friday as part of its 20th Anniversary Celebration, the Carbondale Clay Center presents the exhibition “Past Is Prologue” featuring the work of the organization’s founder Diane Kenney. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the Glenwood Vaudeville Revue presents the production of its fall musical “Little Shop of Horrors.” Each showing begins at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Thunder River Theatre Company presents its production of the play “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” at 7:30 p.m., with a matinee performance Sunday at 2 p
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Week in the Arts: Oct. 9, 2017
Welcome to the beginning of another colorful fall week in the Roaring Fork Valley! Tuesday through Friday, The Wheeler Opera House will be hosting a series of events in commemoration of John Denver. For a complete events schedule, visit wheeleroperahouse.com . Thursday at The Launchpad, Carbondale Arts presents the two-person exhibition “Line of Totality” with Chris Hassig and Elliot Norquist. That opening reception begins at 6 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Thunder River Theatre Company presents the last weekend of its production “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” at 7:30 p.m., with a post show conversation with the cast and director following Thursday’s performance. Friday at The Art Base in Basalt, the exhibit “Chromosphere” from Aspen artist and landscape architect Lisa Caplan opens, with the kickoff reception beginning at 5 p.m. in the Charles J. Wyly Gallery. Friday and Saturday the Glenwood Vaudeville Revue presents the production of its fall musical “Little Shop of Horrors.” Each
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Week in the Arts: Oct.16, 2017
Welcome to the beginning of another colorful week in the Roaring Fork Valley! On Monday, Carbondale Arts ’ Rosybelle Mobile Maker Space presents a Beyond the Street Sew Class: Creations, Costumes and Accessories, at 3:30 p.m. on 4th Street in town. Wednesday, the Aspen Chapel Gallery will present the 4 Rivers Biennial Exhibition, juried by local artists James Surls and Charmaine Locke. The reception for this 29-artist exhibition begins at 5 p.m. Thursday at 8 a.m., Anderson Ranch Arts Center hosts the “Circle of Fire” Kiln Firings, where local artists and potters can fire work with the ranch’s wood kilns. Friday and Saturday, the Sopris Theatre Company presents its production of ‘Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead’ at 7 p.m. at Colorado Mountain College’s New Space Theatre. There will also be a matinee of this show at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the Glenwood Vaudeville Revue presents the production of its fall musical “Little Shop of Horrors.” Each showing
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Week in the Arts: Oct. 30, 2017
Welcome to an especially spooky week in the Roaring Fork Valley! Tuesday, in celebration of Halloween, the Red Brick Center for the Arts and Aspen Recreation Center present Boo Bash! Food, games and art at the Aspen Fire Station start at 3 p.m. Then, on Tuesday night, there will be a Halloween Dance Party with partner dancing in the Round Room at the Third Street Center in Carbondale. It all starts at 7 p.m. Thursday at The Temporary , there will be a screening of Colorado filmmaker David Quint’s documentary “Father Unknown,” starting at 6:30 p.m. in Basalt. Later on Thursday night, blues rockers The Stone Foxes will play the Belly Up , starting at 10 p.m. As part of First Friday in Carbondale, Thunder River Theatre Company and Carbondale Arts presents the 13th annual Dia De Los Muertos, or Day of the Dead festivities, starting at 5 p.m. at the Third Street Center. Friday at the Glenwood Vaudeville Revue , stand-up comedian Josh Blue from NBC’s Last Comic Standing will perform. That
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Week in the Arts: November 6, 2017
Welcome to the beginning of another week in the Roaring Fork Valley! Monday in Carbondale, Nikki Boxer will perform her diva cabaret “Colored Lights” at Thunder River Theatre Company . That event begins at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Snowmass Village, Anderson Ranch Arts Center ’s latest exhibition “Markings” will feature works from artists Carl Reed, Kate Leonard and Jean Gumpper at 5 p.m. Friday in Aspen, The Wheeler Opera House presents a screening of the documentary film “The Farthest,” beginning at 6:00 p.m. Friday in Basalt, Boulder’s pop rock trio Whiskey Autumn makes their valley debut at The Temporary . That show begins at 8 p.m. Then Friday in Aspen, the Rocky Mountain bluegrass band Whitewater Ramble will take the stage at the Belly Up . That show begins at 10 p.m. Saturday afternoon in Basalt, The Temporary will host “Best of the New York International Children’s Film Fest” beginning at 3 p.m. Saturday evening in Aspen, The Wheeler Opera House has the band Front Country performing
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Week in the Arts: Nov. 13, 2017
Welcome to the beginning of another week in the Roaring Fork Valley! Wednesday at the Aspen Art Museum , local National Geographic photographer Pete McBride will discuss the art of travel photography. That discussion begins at 5 p.m. Wednesday at the Aspen Chapel Gallery , artists and jurors of the current 4 Rivers Biennial Exhibition James Surls and Charmaine Locke will lead a talk with participating artists at 5:30 p.m. On Thursday, Jimmy's Bodega will be the site of a regional Bartender Shootout, starting at 5 p.m. in Aspen. Friday in Carbondale, the opening reception for Deck The Walls Holiday Market starts in the R2 Gallery in The Launchpad at 6 p.m. Friday in Basalt, Thunder River Theatre Company’s Consensual Improv makes its debut performance at The Temporary . The show starts at 8 p.m. Saturday in Aspen, The Wheeler Opera House presents a performance from the Fort Collins based folk/pop band SHEL. That show starts at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Glenwood Springs, The Glenwood
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Week in the Arts: Nov. 20, 2017
Welcome to the beginning of a holiday week in the Roaring Fork Valley! Tuesday, the 10th annual Aspen TREE farm to table community meal starts at 5 p.m. at the Hotel Jerome. Also Tuesday at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, there will be a screening of the documentary film “My Kid Could Paint That” beginning at 7:30 p.m. in Schermer Meeting Hall on campus. On Thanksgiving morning, the annual Huffin’ For Some Stuffin’ 5K Turkey Trot, Fun Run & Cyclo Cross begins at the Roaring Fork High School in Carbondale at 8 a.m. Friday evening in Glenwood Springs, there will be a Holiday Lighting at the Hotel Colorado and a Wine Walk along the downtown strip. Festivities begin at 6 p.m. Also on Friday in Basalt, Aspen rock group Jes Grew will take the stage at The Temporary. That show starts at 8 p.m. Saturday night at Belly Up Aspen, the Australian indie folk pop sibling duo Angus and Julia Stone will perform at 10 p.m. And Sunday at the Mountain Chalet, Aspen Poets’ Society will present a Live
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