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June 2009

by Jennie Franks

Tpf_logo_1 SPARKY PRODUCTIONS is pleased to announce the line up for the 3rd Annual TELLURIDE PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL from 6th – 14th July at the historic Sheridan Opera House.

As resident dramaturg for this year’s festival HEATHER HELLINSKY will work with playwrights TODD KREIDLER and JAN BUTTRAM.   Heather has worked extensively with up and coming playwrights from all over the country.   She received her MFA in Dramaturgy from ART/MXAT Institute for the Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard and is a member of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.    This past year she was Resident Dramaturg for the Pittsburgh Public Theater where she has just finished working on Rob Zeller’s world premiere play Harry’s Friendly Service.

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[click "Play" to hear Paul Hoffman's interview] Greensky Bluegrass is the world turned upside down. Winning the Telluride Bluegrass Festival band contest three years ago was a world-upside-down moment for...

12 June, 2009 /

The weather was cool and cloudy in Telluride on Friday for the first Farmers' Market of the season. That didn't stop locals and visitors from going from stall to stall, selecting the early season offerings, chatting with the producers, chatting with friends encountered along...

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June 11 to 18, 2009

Visible Planets: Morning: Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Mercury  Evening: Saturn

Collective Evolution, Planetary Healing, Inner and Outer Peace...

DSC00561 Planet Jupiter goes retrograde in the early morning hours of June 15th, joining asteroid Chiron and Neptune in their apparent backward motion through the late degrees of revolutionary Aquarius. This ongoing planetary convergence constellates an evolutionary shift of individual and collective consciousness, opening doors of heightened awareness and changing perception. For all of us, this is a time to see the forest for the trees, look at the bigger picture and open our hearts to the multi-faceted possibilities of our ever-expanding Universe.

Forgiveness, compassion and spiritual generosity are tools for crafting a new global reality, based on the principles of equanimity, equality and acceptance. We are all together on this planet as one family, one evolving force. We are interconnected, inter-related natural creations, affecting each other via our thoughts, words and deeds. We must detach from petty thinking, racial bias and economic or cultural exclusion, and instead recognize the common denominators of our existence, share common visions and take a leap of faith that we can heal each other and ourselves with acceptance and loving-kindness.

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[click "Play" for Kristin Holbrook interview]

Intro:

IMG_1550 Who needs Andre Leon Talley when Telluride has Kristin Holbrook, fashionista/co-owner of local fashion emporium Two Skirts?

Kristin is a New Jersey native and graduate of the University of Virginia in English and Art History. After college, she spent three years teaching skiing in Vail, where she met her future husband Kevin, a broker at Peaks Realty. A year later, she moved to town. Within two years, in 2001, Kristin and Joanne Corzine had opened their store on Main Street, 127 West Colorado Avenue.

Two Skirts features fashion classics and the latest and greatest from New York – but only trends immune to altitude sickness.

Kristin will be posting a regular column for "Telluride Inside...and Out," "Fashion Friday."

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[click to hear Beth Roberts interview] by Eileen BurnsCelebrate Telluride's colorful and storied past this Saturday and Sunday as the Telluride Historical Museum, Telluride Visitors Services and the Sheridan Arts Foundation sponsor the first ever, Telluride Heritage Festival.  This...

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[click "Play" to hear WPA interview]

Wpa Flashback: Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2000. Sugar Hill Records had several oldies but goodies in the lineup. John Cowan was appearing with his new group, Lonesome River Band. Also on the scene were Seldom Scene, Jesse Winchester and Sam Bush. With Nickel Creek, the label also featured strong Gen Zeta talent.

Nickel Creek proved that the youth brigade was not all about skin-flashing and razzmatazz.  Two of the musical whiz kids in the new group were a  brother and sister act, Sean Watkins (2/18/77), guitar, mandolin, and vocals, and Sara Watkins (6/8/81), fiddle and vocals. Sean and Sara are back in town 10 years later for their encore at the 36th annual Bluegrass Festival, June 18 – June 21.  (Star fiddler Luke Bulla was also in town that year with Ricky Skaggs, another-wet-behind- the-ears superstar in the making.)

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The Nugget Theatre in Telluride will show one movie, twice nightly Friday, June 12-Thursday, June 18. "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian" plays at 6:00 pm and 8:30 pm each night. The movie is rated PG.The original "Night at the Museum" was...

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