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September 2009

September 3 to 10, 2009

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

The Virgo/Pisces Full Moon Polarity: Working to Make Dreams Come True


1 The Virgo/Pisces axis of the September 4th Full Moon illuminates the polarity between what we dream about and what we do. Hopes, dreams and visions, fantasy and imagination are all subjects in the Pisces kingdom. And across the deep, shining sea lies the land of Virgo – terra firma upon which the workers work to build the dream and manifest the vision, one day and one step at a time. 

 Pisces listens to celestial music, floats on clouds and swims in oceans of emotion while Virgo hears the hustle and bustle of progress, critiques the process and improves the product. Virgo is the sign of analysis and logic; Pisces is the sign of intuition and mysticism. Virgo corresponds to physical embodiment; Pisces relates to spiritual transcendence.

Throughout the Virgo zodiac month, we are called upon to focus, simplify and consolidate. We are asked to discern and sacrifice, take responsibility, cut the fluff and eliminate excess. It’s all about cleanliness and organization, self-esteem and self-improvement, good deeds and nutritious diets. Health is wealth. It’s a time to show up and get the proverbial job done.

04 September, 2009 /

Thursday, September 3, the Telluride Council on Arts & Humanities' First Thursday Telluride Art Walk continues.  Venues in downtown Telluride join forces for a cultural celebration, staying open “late ‘til 8”. The joint is jumping with stills from "Welcome Back," by Jeffrey Schers at Schilling...

03 September, 2009 /
[click "Play" to hear Corinne on her work]

CorinneScheman The Stronghouse Studios/Gallery is home base for the Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities, which sponsors the First Thursday Art Walk, when galleries, studios, and shops stay open late until 8 p.m. to strut their stuff. Many venues, Stronghouse among them, hold artists' receptions, 5 – 8 p.m. The event was designed to deepen ties between Telluride’s business and cultural economies by exposing locals and visitors to emerging and established artists and the town’s vibrant retail scene.

Stronghouse is featuring new works Corinne Scheman, landscapes, what the artist showed last year in the same venue only different. Because Corrine has changed, grown, moved on. And art is made from dreams and visions and things not known that come from within.

03 September, 2009 /
[click "Play" to hear Shawna talking with Nicole Finger]


By Shawna Hartley

Little India SM Telluride painter Nicole Finger shows her newest work at Honga’s Lotus Petal restaurant, Main Street, Telluride, starting September 3. The artist's reception is 3 - 5p.m.

Finger's portraits include local children as well as young innocents from around the globe: India, Africa and Nepal. These faces express the total lack of guile and inhibition and the complete confidence we tend to lose all to soon with the passing of years, once we learn our place in society.

03 September, 2009 /

As previously noted, the Nugget Theatre is closed Wednesday and Thursday, September 2-3 to set up for Telluride Film Festival. The Nugget is one of the venues for Film Fest from Friday, September 4 through Monday, September 7. The theatre will be closed Tuesday...

03 September, 2009 /

Telluride's summer cultural season is winding to a close as the 36th annual Telluride Film Festival officially opens for business Labor Day weekend, Friday, September 4 and runs through Monday, September 7.

Thanks to Ralph and Ricky Lauren, however, the Telluride Film Festival  kicks off unofficially for passholders and nonpassholders alike today, Wednesday, September 2, and Thursday, September 3, with two free al fresco screenings at the Abel Gance Open Air Cinema in Elks Park, beginning at sunset, around 8:30 p.m.

MV5BMTM3NzgyMzIzMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTYyMTYyMQ@@._V1._CR0,0,216,216_SS80_ Wednesday's film is "Hidalgo," a 2004 film made by director Joe Johnston, based on a story from 1890 about an American cowboy, Frank T. Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen), the first outsider or infidel to be invited by a wealthy Sheik (Omar Sharif) to race in the greatest long-distance horse race ever run, the "Ocean of Fire," a grueling 3,000-mile survival horse race across the Arabian Desert with the winner receiving $100,000 as prize money and the honor of being the best in the world. When the sheik's emissary approaches him, Hopkins, once a dispatch rider in the U.S. Cavalry, is working Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. The race itself, held every year for the last thousand years, has only been open to the purest line of Arabian horses ever bred. Hopkins' horse, Hidalgo, a small mixed-breed mustang, was regarded as impure, and therefore not fit to run wth purebred Arabian stallions.

02 September, 2009 /

Kris Holstrom The Governor’s Energy Office (GEO) recently named Kris Holstrom, director of The New Community Coalition, the newest member of the Colorado Carbon Fund Advisory Committee. The committee, comprised of six Colorado stakeholders appointed by Tom Plant, GEO Director, oversees operations of the Colorado Carbon Fund (CCF). CCFAC makes important financial decisions, including approval of spending on carbon offset projects and community “re-investment” activities.

“I'm particularly pleased that 20% of funds raised goes directly to the region of origin for local projects,” says Holstrom. "Once again," she adds, "Colorado stands out as a leader in the 'New Energy Economy,' a phrase Governor Ritter coined.    Launched a year ago,  the Colorado Carbon Fund is the first state-run voluntary carbon offset program in the country. The fund provides high quality carbon offsets to individuals and organizations as a way to support new clean energy and greenhouse gas reduction projects in Colorado. As of June 2009, the program has over 400 donors and has raised enough money to support a first project, to be announced soon.

02 September, 2009 /

Painting_within Did you know you had an artist living next door? Robert Weatherford is a Telluride local, an Ah Haa board member, and a painter with an international reputation. The course he teaches, "Painting from Within" is all about helping students bring their inner Picasso or Matisse to the surface. The class echos one of the founding premises of the school itself: Everyone is an artist.

Focusing on expressing what's hidden or unspoken, rather than technique,  Robert believes what makes a painting speak to the painter –  and the viewer –  is honesty. The work should come from the soul, not the intellect. The end result are interior landscapes expressing the movement of the spirit that are still aesthetically appealing and accessible.

02 September, 2009 /