EVENTSSaturday, November 24 2012
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    This masterful collection includes everything from stunning landscapes to blended portraits, representing a wide variety of techniques. More than 20...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Feb
    Wednesday
    A century after the fateful sinking of the famous Titanic, Margaret "Molly" Brown is still considered "unsinkable." The Molly Brown House Museum is...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Mar
    Thursday
    Snapshots of heartbreak and struggle capture the essence of the last several years of economic disaster. Photographs supplied by the Library of...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    May
    Sunday
    After a year of painting in the barn, Theodore Waddell, finally shared his livestock and landscape abstract artwork at a livestock auction yard...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    May
    Sunday
    Designed specifically for the Denver Art Museum's Fuse Box, artist Laleh Mehran created this installation exhibit to be both meditative and seductive...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Jun
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    Whether it be the massive brewery by the stream, the "Howdy Folks!" arch at the edge of town, or the giant "M" on the hillside, there are plenty of...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Tuesday
    Long before silver prospectors arrived in Aspen, the Ute people—or Nuche—called eastern Utah and western Colorado home. Over time, their culture...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Saturday
    Whether you're a postmodern art connoisseur or think scribbles make a famous abstract piece, the Faux Show has something for everyone. The...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Sep
    Friday
    Witness the convergence of artistic interpretation with everyday objects. Showcasing 19th- and 20th- century paintings from more than 20 artists,...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Sep
    Friday
    Wildfires ravaged the Centennial State this summer. This emotional collection of aerial and ground photos captures the beauty beneath the destruction...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Sep
    Sunday
    El Anatsui is a Ghanaian sculptor who creates objects inspired by the beliefs and subjects of his home country. In the first retrospective of El...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Sep
    Friday
    What nature destroyed, it also preserved. Hundreds of artifacts offer an insider's glimpse into the daily life—and tragic end—of the ancient Roman...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Thursday
    The recipient of many prestigious grants and awards, this renowned artist creates two and three dimensional multimedia abstract art that uses...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Sep
    Friday
    Visit Dana Schutz’s “mythic universe,” an exhibit strewn with cannibals and other grotesque characters. Schutz harnesses her artistic vision to in...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Oct
    Friday
    For Taiwanese artist Marlene Tseng Yu, nature provides an infinite source of inspiration. She combines traditional Chinese and Western art techniques...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Oct
    Friday
    Reading and writing: Once mastered, these ordinary activities largely dictate our daily lives. Investigating the artistic facets of human language,...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Oct
    Thursday
    For 20 years, the Museo de las Americas has shown a light on the art from Latin America. The museum's new anniversary exhibit ties the past, present...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Oct
    Thursday
    Fort Collins-based artist Marius Lehene uses various dimensions to explore displacement in his latest exhibit. Originally from Romania, Lehene starts...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Oct
    Sunday
    Get a taste of Vincent van Gogh's journey to becoming one of the most recognizable artists in history at this world-exclusive exhibition at the DAM....
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Oct
    Friday
    When the leader of a political revolution and a gay window dresser find themselves caged together in a Latin American prison, an unlikely friendship...
    Performing Arts
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    Oct
    Saturday
    For four decades, Floyd D. Tunson's pop culture meets abstraction installations have been among the most highly regarded and influential in the...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Oct
    Saturday
    Walk among displays of graphic art and recycled-object sculptures in RedLine’s reinvented exhibition hall. Works by the gallery's resident...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Oct
    Sunday
    Laura Letinsky’s still life food photographs have appeared in Bon Appétit and Martha Stewart Living, but they depart from the perfectionist culinary...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Oct
    Wednesday
    Treating classic photography with painting techniques, this exhibit features photographs of the artist's mother. A former fashion designer, Aline...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Nov
    Thursday
    The objects presented in this exhibit depict the evolution of art using a multiple methods and materials. Heavily stylized, industrial, and graphic...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Nov
    Friday
    Leave the poses to the family photos. This exhibit displays photographs of the mundane, extraordinary, and ignored happenings of gritty,...
    Arts and Exhibits
  • 2
    Nov
    Friday
    Arthaus’s opening exhibit will feature Arthaus founder Michael Gadlin’s body of abstract paintings contemplating his upcoming residency at the La...
    Arts and Exhibits
  • 2
    Nov
    Friday
    Leave the posing for family photos. This exhibit displays photographs of mundane, extraordinary, and overlooked everyday occurrences. These are slice...
    Arts and Exhibits
  • 2
    Nov
    Friday
    Another name for this show could have been Life, Death, and Liposuction. In this quirky comedy, five women gather to talk about these three of life's...
    Performing Arts
  • 3
    Nov
    Saturday
    Appealing to more than just the peanut gallery, Buntport Theater's live comic book turns children's theater on its ear by playing to the tech-savvy...
    Kids and Family
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    Nov
    Saturday
    A photojournalist returns home to New York City after being injured while on assignment in Iraq. Her partner anxiously tries to nurse her back to...
    Performing Arts
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    Nov
    Tuesday
    Get in touch with the wild past. Johanna Mueller explores history, ancestry, and memory through a series of relief engravings which are then inked...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Nov
    Tuesday
    Get in touch with the wild past. Johanna Mueller explores history, ancestry, and memory through a series of relief engravings which are then inked...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Nov
    Wednesday
    What is it about tupperware that makes this show so hilarious? It's not the plastic dishes, it's the people who sell it. Dixie is a force of nature...
    Performing Arts
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    Nov
    Thursday
    For the last 50 years, viewers have had a special bond with Bond…James Bond, that is. To celebrate half a century’s worth of the film franchise, the...
    Special Events
  • 9
    Nov
    Friday
    Fuera de la Frontera reaches across genres to bring you a visual smorgasboard. Exhibits run the gamut from paintings and photography to sculpture and...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Nov
    Friday
    These synthetic art forms are sure to put you in a meditative state of mind, especially if you take them in at night. Designed to slow your thoughts...
    Arts and Exhibits
  • 9
    Nov
    Friday
    Experience these synthetic art forms and get into a meditative state of mind. Designed to slow your thoughts and create a sense of natural flow, this...
    Arts and Exhibits
  • 9
    Nov
    Friday
    Roxanne Rossi illuminates the art of conversation with her paintings and video projects. Each work of acrylic paints and cast paper attempts to...
    Arts and Exhibits
  • 9
    Nov
    Friday
    Jeanne Bessette's illustrations provide a simple, comforting message: We are all OK. She offers interpretations of the human subconscious with color...
    Arts and Exhibits
  • 9
    Nov
    Friday
    What happens when you bring a Jew-turned-atheist home to conservative, Catholic mom and pop for Christmas? A family explosion, quasi-miracle, and...
    Performing Arts
  • 10
    Nov
    Saturday
    If Denver Arts Week has piqued your interest in Colorado's cultural offerings, keep it soaring with Shane Fero's Mind Flight. The world-renowned...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Nov
    Sunday
    Combining multiple genres, the artist's 30 paintings and 12 drawings conceived over more than a decade, almost appear to overflow with expressionist...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Nov
    Tuesday
    From an art exhibit filled with more than 220 pieces, you are bound to find the perfect one to hang above your mantle. This art show brings together...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Nov
    Thursday
    Chairs, tables, and even skis get the Rocky Mountain treatment in this hometown exhibit. An extention of the showing at the Denver International...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Nov
    Friday
    Still looking for the perfect gift? Check out art from more than 75 Colorado artists, with mediums ranging from pottery and jewelry to photography...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Nov
    Friday
    Each piece sits, waiting to be uncovered in this architecture-inspired mixed-media exhibition. In "Heavy Dress," Gayla Lemke’s towers, tiles,...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Nov
    Friday
    You might recognize his work because you've seen it around the city. Jason Lee Gimbel is famous for his life-size figurtaive paintings and drawings...
    Arts and Exhibits
  • 16
    Nov
    Friday
    Like childhood art projects proudly affixed to the most prominent of kitchen appliances, 13 Metropolitan State University art students go Back to the...
    Arts and Exhibits
  • 16
    Nov
    Friday
    What if you found out 25 years after your wedding that you weren't ever legally married? Three couples celebrating their joint silver wedding...
    Performing Arts
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    Nov
    Friday
    Catch the world premiere of this original one-man drama—starring Jack Wefso—as he mans the faster-than-light Earth Ship Constantine through the...
    Performing Arts
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    Nov
    Saturday
    Radio personality Sheridan Whiteside is on bedrest after loosing his footing on a slippery doorway. He stays at the home of the eager, star-...
    Performing Arts
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    Nov
    Tuesday
    Topologies are the basic properties of space and connectedness—but Sharon Feder's exhibit is anything but basic. The Colorado native is exhibiting...
    Arts and Exhibits
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    Nov
    Wednesday
    Good thing 3-D doesn't really bring the on-screen elements to life; otherwise, we'd recommend hauling a parka with you to this wintry flick. Jack...
    Special Events
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    Nov
    Wednesday
    When everything that can go wrong does, Pat Solitano (played by Bradley Cooper) finds himself shacking up with his parents. Determined to rebuild his...
    Special Events
  • 23
    Nov
    Friday
    The idea of avoiding lengthy lines and bad moods during a holiday shopping excursion may sound more like a Christmas miracle than reality. But you...
    Special Events
  • 23
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    Friday
    Vintage meets contemporary as Denver's top artists and designers share their eclectic mix of work from screenprints to house-made soaps and custom...
    Arts and Exhibits
  • 23
    Nov
    Friday
    During the four weeks of Advent, the German tradition is to welcome the Christmas month with a Christkindl Market. Dating back to Munich Germany, the...
    Special Events
  • 23
    Nov
    Friday
    Southwest Airlines and Downtown Denver Partnership invite you to embrace the cold and skate at Skyline Park. Look out for regularly scheduled...
    Kids and Family
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    Friday
    For the average, healthy person, climbing Mt. Everest is an almost insurmountable challenge. In this film from Academy Award-winning director Michael...
    Special Events
  • 23
    Nov
    Friday
    Knuckleballers are few and far between in Major League Baseball—just two played in the pros in 2011, Tim Wakefield and R.A. Dickey. Knuckeball!...
    Special Events
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    Nov
    Friday
    Not all is well on America's favorite street. Super Grover has fallen into a funk and five of his friends—led by Elmo—undertake a mission to get his...
    Kids and Family
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    Nov
    Friday
    James Balong is a man on a mission: to document the environmental changes occurring as a result of global climate change. In his dogged quest to...
    Special Events
  • 23
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    Friday
    Everyone wishes for a white Christmas, especially if they have a ski pass. In this classic song-turned-movie-turned Broadway musical, two...
    Performing Arts
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    Friday
    Kickoff the holiday season with this classic ballet. Experience the magic of music and toy soldiers with students from the Boulder Ballet School and...
    Performing Arts
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    Friday
    Get into the Christmas spirit with this classic tale of giving and forgiving. The ghosts of past, present, and future show miserly Ebenezer Scrooge...
    Performing Arts
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    Friday
    When Santa shows up at the local police station bearing gifts, no one is suspicious. After all, even the police chief has been known to dress up as...
    Performing Arts
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    Friday
    One great thing about living in Colorado: The start of the holiday season means the start of the ski season. Celebrate both with the whole family at...
    Kids and Family
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    Nov
    Friday
    When you buy tickets to a music festival, you typically don’t assume you'll be onstage playing, too. At the Trance Blues Jam Festival, everyone is...
    Music
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    Nov
    Friday
    Suspend your disbelief at this genuinely funny Christmas show from Denver’s masters of improv. This original, seasonal production features local...
    Performing Arts
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    Nov
    Friday
    When a band member from Salmon Heads asked members of Left Hand String Band to fill in, the result was Leftover Salmon. The Boulder band calls their...
    Music
  • 24
    Nov
    Saturday
    The military training-inspired adventure challenge is like no other. You will endure up to 10 hours of hick hauling, army crawling, and fireman...
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    Nov
    Saturday
    Shake off that super-stuffed post-turkey dinner feeling and check out a rail jam. Skiers and snowboarders of all skill levels are welcome to compete...
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    Saturday
    The fastest female skiers in the world will slice down the icy Rockies. Look for Lindsey Vonn and Julia Mancuso in the giant slalom and slalom events...
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    Saturday
    Feeling a little guilty about that extra slice of pie? Work off the over-stuffed feeling lingering from Thanksgiving by throwing on some snowshoes...
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    Saturday
    There’s gold in ‘dem hills young prospector! So grab your pick ax, a rock hammer, and get ready to crack some rocks open. In this interactive lesson...
    Kids and Family
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    Nov
    Saturday
    Frank Bonanno, one of Denver's most acclaimed restaurateurs, is letting you in on a few of his secrets—for free—during this live demo of some of his...
    Culinary
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    Nov
    Saturday
    We'll bet you've never used a turkey as a bowling ball. But that's the premise of this fun event with a holiday twist: Toss a frozen turkey down a...
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    Nov
    Saturday
    Bowling, bands, food, and drinks; what more could you want? Head to the highly-anticipated new Punch Bowl Social Club and enjoy a night full of fun...
    Music
  • 24
    Nov
    Saturday
    It's post-Thanksgiving and the family is still in town. There's one thing we think everyone will be able to enjoy: the Beatles! Canadian tribute band...
    Music
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    Nov
    Saturday
    Join the Colorado Ballet, accompanied by its live orchestra, for a fresh romp through this nostalgic holiday production. Dazzling dance numbers and...
    Performing Arts
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    Nov
    Saturday
    Hip-hoppers are often trying to impart a message to their audience. Politically minded group The Coup is no exception. Known for bass-drive,...
    Music
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