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Author: Susan Viebrock

[click "Play" to hear Annie Pace's conversation with Susan]

Annie4 The Telluride Yoga Center leads from strength, launching its summer season with an Ashtanga Yoga Intensive for all levels of practitioners led by certified instructor Annie Pace. The workshop takes place Friday, June 4 – Sunday, June 6.


With over 30 years of experience, Annie Pace is one of the most adept practitioners of traditional Ashantga Yoga, having received her Advanced B teaching certification from Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in 1995, a rare honor. And she continues to study extensively in India.
02 June, 2010 /
[click "Play", Susie Billings speaks to Susan from Baja]

E1274393861 Susie X. Billings is a well established mixed media artist, who shows her work locally at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art. A protean talent (has to do with change, not meat), Susie is intent on proving all life is art, daily to herself, and on magical occasions, to her students.

Susie runs international workshops, but she returns to town this month to her regular stomping grounds, Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts, to teach a three-day intensive, Friday – Sunday, June 11 – June 13, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. The subject is Mixed Media Collage & Watercolor. The starting point for the workshop is a love of summer alpine landscapes. Duh. All levels of student are welcome, from never-evers to accomplished professionals.
02 June, 2010 /
[To hear Joanna Kanow speaking with Susan, click "Play"]

CIMG3690 In the Program Room of Telluride's Wilkinson Public Library, The New Community Coalition continues it's popular ( and FREE) Green Business Roundtables series this Friday, June 4, 8:30 – 9:30 a.m. The speakers are Joanna and Daniel Kanow of EcoSpaces on the subject of "Green Building Solutions."


The Kanows' talk should amount to a primer on the hows and whys of greening up your home and/or office, including strategies for new construction and remodels, readily available products, and the dollars and sense of it all. The morning closes with a discussion of a proposed Joint Purchasing Program for the region.

02 June, 2010 /

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Scott Doser, makin' smoke

We did not make up the lyric. It's Rodgers and Hammerstein from "Carousel." But it is no less for Telluride's 5-star Wilkinson Public Library. The action heats up on the grill, Tuesday, June 1, @ noon, when Books & Cooks host Chef Bud reveals the secrets of grilling.

On Friday, June 4, starting at 8:30 a.m., Telluride-based The New Community Coalition is back with Green Business Roundtable #5: “What Even You Can Do to Green Your Space.” 

31 May, 2010 /

Image003, cropped This weekend, Mountainfilm in Telluride and SquidShow Theatre present "War of the Words: A Murder Trial, Endangered Language vs. English. The dramatic event takes place Saturday, May 29, 9:15 p.m. @ The Masons.

After bringing Howard Zinn's Voices of a People's History to life last year, SquidShow Theatre is excited to pair up with Mountainfilm again, this time creating an original play based on the Festival's theme: extinction.

“Festival Director David Holbrooke approached us about creating an original play, because he wanted to incorporate theatre and live performance in this year’s Festival again," said Sasha Cucciniello. "After several conversations about what we might write about, David mentioned language extinction. After doing some research, the choice was made. Being a writer, I was blown away by the subject, the impact language extinction is having on our world and the implications for the future of language.”

29 May, 2010 /



"The moment when one thing turns into another is the most beautiful moment," Vik Muniz

Mountainfilm in Telluride selected director Lucy Walker's latest film to be included in its program line-up from among more than 600 submissions. "Waste Land," which has already garnered a small bucket of awards including World Cinema Documentary Audience Award at Sundance, will be screened over the long Memorial Day weekend, May 28 – May 30, at the 32nd annual gathering of the tribe.

The "Waste Land" in question is not that of poet T.S. Eliot. Eliot's "Wasteland" is a metaphor (for the disillusionment of the generation post WWI). Although poetic transformations happen there as a result of the film project, Walker's wasteland is a real place, Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest garbage dump, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.
28 May, 2010 /
[Anthony speaks to Susan about his art and being Anthony Holbrooke, click "Play"]

Anthony-3 The name "Holbrooke" is listed in the Telluride phone book. It is also gets top billing on the marquee of the world stage.

Dad is Ambassador, now Special Representative, Richard Holbrooke, appointed by President Obama to help his administration tackle the thorniest foreign policy challenges it faces: Afghanistan and Pakistan. Ambassador Holbrooke is also a regular at Mountainfilm in Telluride, the event son David, a talented documentary filmmaker, has programmed for the past three years as its Festival Director.

This year, Ambassador Holbrooke is unable to attend Mountainfilm in Telluride, but another Holbrooke, son Anthony, is on the schedule. His show at the Ah Haa School for the Arts is part of Mountainfilm's Gallery Walk, Friday, May 28, following the Symposium.
27 May, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear Erik Dalton talk about Jagged Edge and Mountainfilm]



Telluride's Jagged Edge is more than a store. It a gathering place for like-minded folks, from hardcore adrenaline junkies to weekend warriors with day jobs. It is the retail outlet those who support Mountainfilm in Telluride love to support.


Mountainfilm in Telluride is a local Festival with international clout. Ever year for the past 32, a cutting edge, Jagged Edge crowd of filmmakers, authors, scientists, environmentalists and adventurers, mountaineers and river runners alike, have gathered in town for a catchall celebration of mountain living and mountain arts.
26 May, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear director Louie Psyihoyos speaking with Susan]

Psihoyos Louie 0007 Mountainfilm in Telluride, May 28 – May 31, features about 75 extraordinary films about extraordinary people, places and things, among them, the 2009 Oscar winner for Best Feature Documentary, director Louie Psyihoyos' "The Cove."


We are on a first-name basis with these iconic creatures: Lassie, Bambi, Babe, and Flipper. We project all that is good and right with the world onto our animal friends – but are we doing them any favors.? Certainly not in the case of Flipper and his relatives. "Flipper" is the genesis of "The Cove," its raison d'etre.
26 May, 2010 /
[To hear Ken Haynes, green building consultant, click "Play"]

Next week, Wednesday, June 9 – Thursday, June 10, Telluride-based  The New Community Coalition and Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation International offer a comprehensive and engaging building science and green building training session featuring Justin Wilson of Building Performance Solutions, a nationally renowned green and building science speaker/trainer.

In just one day at the Building Science and Green Building Seminar, attendees should gain a wealth of knowledge about green building, make new industry contacts, and heighten awareness of the latest building advances.
26 May, 2010 /