This just in from Erik Dalton at Jagged Edge in Telluride: Anyone interested in Kayaking the San Miguel from Town Park to the Conoco at the end of the Valley Floor and helping us with a river clean up as we travel downstream can...
At Telluride Inside... and Out we mostly have our gaze fixed on "the now" or on the future. Before we move on to Bluegrass and the rest of the Summer schedule, I'd like to share my take on Mountainfilm in Telluride, now a week and a half in the rear-view mirror. This is not meant to be a review, but one person's impression of a weekend of inspiration, cautionary tales, beauty, and calls to action.
The tribute to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke was a standout, with intimate images of life with a famous father by sons David (Festival Director) and Anthony, juxtaposed with reminiscences by commentators on the world stage who knew Richard Holbrooke both on a personal and a professional level. The conversation among Roger Cohen, David Rohde and Vali Nasr particularly put the Holbrooke we in Telluride knew as a neighbor in a global perspective.
Langhorne Slim returns to Telluride for an encore performance on Friday, June, 10, 8 p.m. at Telluride's historic Sheridan Opera House. The concert is a benefit for the Sheridan Arts Foundation's Wild West Fest, which includes the Chip Allen Mentorship Program (C.A.M.P.), special programs...
This spring, Telluride Mountain School's high school traveled to Peru. Each student selected a topic to investigate such as water, nutrition and public health and produced four videos. Check out their amazing work. Branford Walker and Tucker Hensen ...
Please join your fellow community nonprofit executive directors and the Telluride Foundation for our first Executive Director Breakfast on Thursday, June 9th at 8:30am. This Breakfast will feature Jennifer Johnson, a consultant with JVA Consulting, who will be talking about connecting with your donors, text giving and more. Please email me if you plan to come (and haven't already) by Wednesday at noon.
Each breakfast will begin around a specific topic or theme, but will allow plenty of time for Q&A, general discussion and networking.
Poet and author Judyth Hill is scheduled to be a guest instructor at Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts. Her workshop take place Friday – Sunday, July 29 – July 31, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. The subject is WildWriting.
WildWriting is an innovative process that encourages us to coax our minds into a Zen-like state of deep listening and at the same time remain open to the sensuous stuff we know, see, feel, hear, remember, forget, taste, and ponder. Weaving together what we understand with what we experience generates WildWriting.
Beginning to seasoned writers are encouraged to attend and develop a supple, supportive community. Judyth also provides a wealth of hand-outs with this class, lively, inspiring offerings of the Dharma Lineage of great poetry: Rilke, Rumi, Mirabai, Neruda, Dylan Thomas as well as reading lists of fabulous anthologies, and resources for making, performing, and publishing your own poems.
By Dan Collins
Art Goodtimes, Mushfest
The Telluride Institute is on a roll! We are offering a menu of fabulous summer events you don't want to miss—from an outdoor eco-classroom, to our annual Ideas Festival; from an art exhibition, to the infamous Mushroom Festival. Mark your calendars!
The watershed education program will bring back its bi-annual Bridal Veil Living Classroom, led by Alessandra Jacobson and a host of guest teachers. It starts with two weeks of intensive fieldwork in the beautiful and ecologically rich headwaters of Bridal Veil Basin, and continues through the fall; it’s open to future scientists and ecologists!
Green Infrastructure – Environments that Sustain
Date: Fri. June 10, 2011 Time: 8:30 - 9:30 am @ Wilkinson Public Library
Speaker: Angela Dye, FASLA, LEED AP - A DYE DESIGN
Come Learn: What Sustainable Design looks like in the landscape; the principles and features involved and examples of projects.…..
• Learn what is being designed to help our urbanized environments be sustainable and regenerative;
• See national and local examples of green infrastructure in practice;
• Discuss what techniques work in our climate and setting – and what may not;
• Learn about SITES – The Sustainable SITES Initiative, a LEED-like rating system for landscapes
Peter Sterios presents Gravity & Grace
Ashtanga, Iyengar, Anusara, Viniyoga, Hot Yoga or Jiva Mukti. Whatever your practice – or if you are just a beginner with no regular practice at all – the weekend workshop at the Telluride Yoga Center provides foundational insights about ways to sharpen our attention and learn to listen to subtle body sensations that apply across disciplines.
June 10 – June 12, 2011, Peter Sterios, a licensed architect, founder of Manduka, a leading eco-yoga products company, and an inspiring yoga instructor, presents "Gravity and Grace: The Power of Surrender & Intuitive Response," a three-day immersion with live music and a special concert (open to all) on Saturday night. (Look for a related post about the performers.)
kicker: at Telluride's Steaming Bean Wednesday, June 8, 2011, 8 pm
Is gossip good or bad for the soul? Does it lengthen your life or shorten it? The Telluride Playwrights Festival explores what exactly is the nature of gossip and why do we so like to gossip? Where does gossip end and propaganda begin?
A group of local actors explore the subject, taking their clue from the Bible to Shakespeare to Star Magazine. In addition, local writers such as Bob Rubadeau, Jeff Price, Rob Schultheis, Devin McCarthy, John Sutcliffe all have something interesting to say on the subject.
The Telluride Playwrights Festival brings playwrights and actors to town once a year to explore and workshop new plays by acclaimed playwrights from all over the country. This year, the Playwrights Festival has decided to expand the spirit of the Festival, which starts mid-July, to an early beginning on Wednesday, June 8.
