The Telluride Gallery of Fine Art opens the holiday season with a show of new work by internationally celebrated painter Susan Sales. Sales's canvasses mark the nexus of two major movements in contemporary art history: Abstract Expressionism or muscular "action painting." (Think Jackson...
Friday, December 18 – Tuesday, December 22, 8 p.m., Telluride Second Stage presents "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged." at the Sheridan Opera House. The production is directed by Jeb Berrier and stars the unholy trinity of the Telluride stage: Berrier, Ashley Boling and Buff Hooper. Fair warning: Hooper will be wearing tights.
For the week of Friday, December 18 to Thursday, December 24, Telluride's Nugget Theatre is showing "Fantastic Mr. Fox" and "New Moon" with a FREE screening of "That's It, That's All" on December 18.
"That's It, That's All" is high octane snowboard porn, shot over two winter seasons in New Zealand, Utah, Wyoming and Alaska. It shows Friday, December 18 at 8:30 pm.
"Fantastic Mr. Fox" is an animated feature by Wes Anderson based on the book by Roald Dahl. Rather than computer animation this film accomplishes its magic using stop-action. Voices are by George Clooney, Meryl Streep and other recognizable stars. (Rated PG)
Missing out on the supernatural lately? Been a while since you spent an exciting weekend in Forks, Washington? Catch "New Moon" this week. This sequel to "Twilight" is rated PG-13.
For showtimes, see below. For reviews and trailers, see the Nugget website.
Last year, in 2008, Telluride's The New Community Coalition applied for and received a grant from the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment for $145,000 for two pieces of equipment to further our Zero Waste goals and promote recycling in the region. One request was for a baler (a compacter for recyclable materials), the other was for an in-vessel composting system. After much research and some logistical delays, Eureka! the composter is now operating with a little help from a technician from Green Mountain Technologies. Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts knows that it's not just you: kids also experience bah! humbug! moments over the holidays. One antidote to too much tinsel may well be Ah Haa's Holiday Break Art Camps 5+, Monday – Wednesday, December 21 –...
The Golden Globe Award nominations were announced this morning and Telluride Film Festival organizers get to feel very smart about their picks. Film Fest attendees get to feel privileged and TIO founders Susan and Clint Viebrock get to feel both smart and privileged because so many of the nominations are for films that premiered this fall in Telluride.
A show of new work by painter Susan Sales goes on display at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art on Thursday, December 17. The opening artist's reception is 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
In Telluride, around the world, certain songs make-up the soundtrack of December, evoking images of Jack Frost nipping at your nose. The chestnut about the reindeer named Rudolph with the red nose is on the Telluride Choral Society's WinterSing program, which also includes "Tambourine Carol," "Go Tell It On the Mountain," Vivaldi's "Laudamus Te" from the "Gloria," and an original composition by singer/songwriter Peter Yarrow, "Light One Candle," the theme of this year's concerts."We Skied It" premier at Sheridan Opera House, December 17, 6:00 PM & 8:00 PM
In the 1970s, Telluride was just finding its ski legs, a baby ski resort beginning to pulse thanks very much to a chap from Beverly Hills called Joe Zoline. At the time, half of Main Street was still boarded up and lots of folks were beating a path out of town muttering darkly because Idarado had just closed for business. The historic Sheridan Opera House, now nearly restored to its full Victorian splendor, was a wreck, a camping ground for derelicts with broken glass and upturned mattresses everywhere. But what of life before Zoline, See Forever, Spiral Stairs, and Milk Run helped put Telluride on the map?
The fourth and final program of the film noir series presented by the Telluride Film Festival and The Wilkinson Public LIbrary, part of the film club TFF Cinematheque, includes two classics of the genre: "Out of the Past" (1947, 97 minutes) and "Double Indemnity" (1944, 106 minutes). This double bill starts at 6:00 pm, Monday, December 14, at the Wilkinson Library in Telluride.
