June 2016

Tickets for Mountainfilm’s July 5 event are $15 for adults, $10 for children online at mountainfilm.org or $20/$15 at the door.  The staff at Telluride Mountainfilm knows it is impossible to catch every film during the jam-packed Memorial Day weekend. For that reason and more, Mountainfilm presents...

“Cameras don’t take great pictures. Artists take great pictures. And no two artists see the same things the same way,” photographer and social critic Nan Goldin. Win $1,000 in a snap by entering your best shot in the 7th annual Telluride Hot Shot July 4th Photo...

Start-Up Accelerator Graduates 4th class on July 1, 2016. To register, please visit www.tellurideva.com. The Telluride Venture Accelerator (TVA), an initiative of the Telluride Foundation, invites the community to come to the final presentations of four start-up ventures from the 2016 class and two returning TVA 2014 companies at...

Dear Pet Column, My dog disappears every 4th of July and usually ends up at the shelter a few days later. Why is this? Do you think I have an unusually patriotic dog that really enjoys the celebrations? Sincerely, Perplexed By Patriotic Pooch [caption id="attachment_59941" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Razzle[/caption] Sorry...

The Telluride Film Festival, presented by National Film Preserve LTD., is proud to announce its 2016 Guest Director, Volker Schlöndorff. The globally acclaimed German filmmaker, producer, writer, and actor is set to select a series of films to present at the 43rd Telluride Film Festival...

Join Telluride Arts and our non-profit partners for a week of events, June 28 – July 3, 2016 in the Telluride Transfer Warehouse under our big beautiful tent. All events will happen rain or shine. Tickets to the July 3rd party are available online here.  [caption id="attachment_59865" align="aligncenter"...

Graham Feingold speaks at the Telluride Conference Center  starting at 6:00 p.m., Tuesday, June 21,  part of Telluride Science Research Center’s (TSRC) Town Talks in Mountain Village. Admission is free; cash bar opens at 5:30 p.m. [caption id="attachment_59883" align="aligncenter" width="250"] Graham Feingol, a research scientist at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...

The point of it all is to break down the headlines, determine why an issue is important, and reveal the best arguments on each side of the story. Last week, the debate was about Orlando and the many political leaders are pushing for legislation to prevent people on "no fly" lists...

We all wore them. We had to. Without exception, every single kid employed at the amusement park by the lake was obliged to wear the same uniform, red and blue striped collared jerseys, khaki shorts. The teenagers who served cotton candy, the ones that squeezed families into rollercoaster...

The Sheridan Arts Foundation’s 10th annual Telluride Plein Air event begins this week through the Fourth of July. New this year are two mini paint-outs in Mountain Village, Wednesday, June 29, to coincide with the Farmers’ Market, 1-3 p.m. and with the Sunset Concert Series, 5-7 p.m., with the...