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July 2010

July 8 to 15, 2010

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

Cancer New Moon Solar Eclipse reminds us to "Honor thy Mother"

Mom&GM This week, on July 11th, the Sun and Moon come together @ 19º24’ Cancer in the exact planetary aspect of a total solar eclipse. Although visibility occurs only in the Southern Pacific Ocean and lower South America, the cosmological effects take place all over the entire globe.

Cancer is the quintessential sign of Mother and mothering, home and family, childhood innocence and childlike vulnerability. It’s also where and when we feel dependent and scared, seek comfort and court security. It’s the part of us that fiercely protects and nurtures life, our primal instinct to care take and be taken care of - the unified field of mother and child. The suckling baby and the loving mother, the parent who stays home rather than pursue a career and the parent who works hard to put food on the table and provide for the family are all manifestations of this very strong and powerful, yet gentle and sensitive cardinal water sign.
09 July, 2010 /
[click "Play" for Jumpin Jan's conversation with Susan]

14th Annual KOTO Doo Dah 2010-FINAL Telluride is big on parties this summer. First there was our local fire department's all-day celebration for the Fourth of July. On July 6, the Wilkinson Public Library set the stage for another day-long bash to honor the 75th birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. On July 10, starting at 1 p.m., Telluride Town Park, KOTO FM celebrates its 35th birthday with the 14th annual KOTO  Doo Dah. The headliner is Boulder-based The Motet.

Founded and led by drummer Dave Watts over a decade ago, The Motet has roots in jazz, Afrobeat, funk, salsa and samba layered with house and techno rhythms. The result is a complex tapestry of shoe-shaking melodies and syncopated rhythms that push the sonic envelope and defy categorization. Also on the bill: The Rockadiles, Salt Fire Circus, and Joint Point.

08 July, 2010 /

by Tracy Shaffer

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Tracy with Paul Page

This is the question slated for the Telluride Playwrights Festival Open House on Thursday, and a conversation that circulates through the theatre community like a five dollar bill. I've popped this and a few other questions to some of the TPF participants. Grabbing a post-rehearsal snack at Smugglers with director/playwright William Missouri Downs, in from Wyoming to direct Telluride Rep actors in Phillip Gerson's This Isn't What It Looks Like.  A prolific author and playwright, Bill has eight upcoming productions around the country and just closed the Denver hit, Books on Tape.

08 July, 2010 /
[For Wah! click "Play"]

2008_hug1_thumb One singular sensation: "Her Wahness" is featured at the third annual Telluride Yoga Festival."Kirtan with Wah! Sean Johnson & the Wild Lotus Band" takes place Friday night, 7:30 – 10 p.m. at the Telluride Conference Center in the Mountain Village.

Sound as a means of healing is a technique –  or a variety of techniques –  recorded in the ancient Americas, Africa, Greece, China, and Rome, and dates back at least to 5,000 B.C. The Yoga tradition has known for centuries that sound is the new apple a day –  only more so. Chanting mantras has physiological benefits such as increasing circulation to the different parts of the body, balancing heart rhythm, deepening exhalation; emotional benefits, such as inducing relaxation and mood elevation; intellectual benefits such as improving memory function and recharging brain cells.
07 July, 2010 /

For those of you who enjoy "stargazing" and star watching, mark your calendars for a week of lovely stellar viewing. A graceful waning Moon cups the delicate Pleiades star cluster in the predawn sky the morning of July 8th. On the 9th,...

07 July, 2010 /

Theateam_smallteaser Grownups_smallteaser Telluride's Nugget Theatre is screening two films for the week of Friday, July 9 through Thursday, July 15, both rated PG13.

"Grown Ups" concerns a group of school friends who won a basketball championship getting together 30 years later. Kids, wives and a lake house all figure. Not the kind of movie likely to garner a lot of favorable critical review, but a lot of movie goers enjoyed it. Give it a shot for some easy laughs.

"The A Team" is back, and they've been framed, convicted for a crime they didn't commit. Jailed, they bust out, rejoin, and mayhem follows. Critics weren't too impressed, but "The A Team" seems to be an audience hit. Lots of action, violence; don't search too hard for the message.

See below for movietimes, the Nugget website for reviews and trailers.

07 July, 2010 /
[click "Play" to listen to Scott Rhea's interview with Susan]

Mstrcopy_w_RoJune 26_for web copy I have covered Telluride cultural life over a career of 18 years and counting, and found that the parade of interesting people who gravitate to our Shangri-La never ends. You may not know the names of many of these people, not because they are not abundantly talented and widely accomplished, but because Telluride is their sanctuary, a place to get away from the faces they meet in the real world. Case in point: Scott Rhea.


Scott, who divides his time between Tinseltown and the Ski Ranches just outside the Town of Telluride, has had a very successful career shooting fashion print and editorial fashion. But it is book of unique underwater images released in 2009 that triggered his coming out party in Telluride.

06 July, 2010 /

by Lauren Metzger, Marketing & Exhibition Manager
Ah Haa School for the Arts

[click "Play for Lauren's interview with Julee Hutchison]


Julee_hutchison_web For the last two years, July has also brought a crazy overload of excitement and energy for me in the form of...the Ah Haa Art Auction. Now in it's 18th year, this local extravaganza is part of my job description.

As the Ah Haa School's largest and most important fundraiser, I am in charge of securing art for the live and silent portions of this one day event, as well as marketing, of course. This year I am once again amazed by the tremendous amount of support our community has for the Ah Haa School. The money raised in this one evening keeps our doors open for another year by covering operational costs that allow us to offer a wide variety programs and workshops.

06 July, 2010 /