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November 2009

2010_Calendar_FrontPage The Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities is one of the oldest nonprofits in the Telluride region, dating back to the town's bad old days, 1971, when hippies and miners made strange bedfellows. TCAH is and has always been an arts advocacy organization designed to support grassroots artists and initiatives, and public participation in local arts. The nonprofit hosts numerous free-to-public artist seminars, "First Thursdays" Art Walk, and runs the Stronghouse Studios to name just a few of the ways TCAH helps local artists help themselves.

Now its our turn to help TCAH. But the opportunity is a win-win: The Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities' 2010 Art Desktop Calendar, its signature fundraiser, is now available at locations around town and at Stronghouse Studios. Specifically, calendars,$12 each ($15 each for mail orders) plus tax, can be purchased at TCAH ( 283 South Fir Street, Tuesday-Friday, 12noon-4pm), or at Between the Covers bookstore, Bootdoctors in Mountain Village, and during Noel Night at Cashmere Red, and the Holiday Bazaar at the High School (December 4-6th, the first weekend in December).  Income from calendar sales provides critical support for the commission's ongoing programs.

09 November, 2009 /
[click "Play" to hear Baerbel speak about living in divided Germany]

11-9 Berlin Wall On Monday, November 9, starting at 6 p.m., Telluride's Wilkinson Public Library celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Beloved long- time local/director of the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, Baerbel Hacke grew up in a divided Germany. She plans to share her experiences escaping from behind the Iron Curtain. Also on the FREE program, the film "Leipzig In the Fall," directed by Andreas Voigt and Gerd Kroske. "Leipzig in the Fall"  is a comprehensive documentation of demonstrations and other events in Leipzig from October 16 - November 7, 1989,  and includes interviews with demonstrators, members of the citizens' rights movement, officials, and bystanders.


In 1958, Baerbel's parents decided the family had to escape East Germany, because of the rise of Communism. They told their seven-year-old daughter she was going to an equestrian show for a day. Baerbel left her relatives, her friends, her toys without the chance to say goodbye. Once in West Germany, she ate her first orange. It was the taste of freedom. And not a moment too soon.
08 November, 2009 /
IMG_1194 The Telluride region's Second Chance Humane Society is in the business of finding rescued dogs (and cats) a family, where our furry friends can give and get the unconditional love everyone involved deserves. Telluride Inside... and Out's dog expert, Ted Hoff of Cottonwood Ranch & Kennel, believes there are no bad dogs, just bad owners. Bad owners create bad, but not unfixable, problems – at least not for Ted. Enter Lulu.

Allison Dooley of Second Chance (pictured with Ted and Lulu) tells the story of Lulu and Ted, happy ending and all. However, for a true Hollywood finale, Lulu still needs an adopter.
07 November, 2009 /
ILC_0563.4 Telluride’s Inn at Lost Creek is launching a Proximity Promotion with exclusive rates for its neighbors in the Colorado counties of Alamosa, Archuleta, Delta, Garfield, Gunnison, La Plata, Montrose, Mesa, Montezuma and Pitkin.
 
“In the current economy more people are staying closer to home and taking mini-vacations or weekend getaways,” explains John Volponi, General Manager at the Inn at Lost Creek.  “Our Proximity Promotion makes it a little easier to take a well deserved break with special rates offered to people who are within driving distance of Telluride.”
07 November, 2009 /

November 5 to 12, 2009

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

Venus, Pluto and the Four Gates of Avataric Descent

ScorpioEagle Voluptuous Venus enters seductive Scorpio on Nov. 7th and proceeds to sextile powerful Pluto in ambitious Capricorn Nov. 8th. These celestial events take place as the Earth reaches the halfway mark between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, one of the four cross-quarter points of the annual tropical year. Cross-quarter points occur at 15º Scorpio, Aquarius, Taurus and Leo, when the Earth’s polar axis is at a 45º angle to the Sun and magnetic pulls are at a maximum. In esoteric circles, these points are referred to as the Four Gates of Avataric Descent and represent particular types of cosmic energetic release.

WheelFortune Symbolized by the Eagle (Scorpio), Angel (Aquarius), Bull (Taurus) and Lion (Leo), the approximate dates for cross-quarter days fall on Nov. 8th, Feb. 5th, May 6th and Aug. 8th. At these times the energies or realizations gathered at the equinoxes and solstices are released and made effective. The Bull and the Lion express individuating power – power rooted in the planet via concrete selfhood - while the Eagle and the Angel express collectivating power – power that expands the individual toward the collective and universal.

The entrance of Venus into Scorpio and its sextile to Pluto in Capricorn at the time of one of these electromagnetically charged points – Nov. 8th is the Gate of the Eagle – indicate the opening of an omniscient cosmic door, a door to transformational, metamorphic individual and collective change. Venus in Scorpio represents our passions, obsessions and addictions - especially those regarding romance and finance, love and money. It is where we feel intense desires and demonstrate compulsive behaviors. It’s also our attraction to secrets, magic, clandestine activity, the mysterious and metaphysical.

06 November, 2009 /

KOTO, Telluride's radio station, hosted the Halloween bash at the Sheridan Opera House on October 31. KOTO's  Janice Zink (seen below blowing a kiss) sent along photos of the costume contest winners for the evening.First place went to Amy and Darrall Huber, as the swine...

06 November, 2009 /