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Fireworks don't end on the Fourth of July in Telluride. There's dynamite on the silver screen when Mountainfilm in Telluride hosts its annual July fundraiser. The fun begins July 5,  6 p.m., at the historic Sheridan Opera House with cocktails and light eats and continues with the main event, three short films, starting at 7 p.m.

"Prayer for Peace" is a short animation by Dustin Grella that delivers an important and universal message through a very personal narrative. Dustin’s tale, elegiac and sparely told, is perfectly complemented by the simple haunting beauty of his drawings. (8 minutes.)

04 July, 2011 /
[click "Play" to listen to Darrell Scott's conversation with Susan]

 

Sunset Concert series continues with Darrell Scott & Brothers in performance

Darrell Scott, TBF,6-19-2011 Guess you could call it his encore, a well deserved tribute to a man whose knock-out performances on the Main Stage bookended Sunday, June 19, at the recent 38th annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival. The day started with Darrell's Father's Day Gospel Hour, during which he was the main performer, supported by the likes of Buddy Miller, Patty Griffin and Abigail Washburn. It ended with a bang with Robert's Plant's Band of Joy, including Darrell on guitar and vocals.

If you were not one of the lucky ones with a Sunday ticket to Telluride Bluegrass, now you are in luck. Darrell Scott, a songwriter's songwriter and musician's musician, returns, this time with his brothers, to the Telluride region and the spotlight to headline the 12th annual Sunset Concert Series in Mountain Village, Wednesday, July 6, starting at 6 p.m.

03 July, 2011 /

East Valley Icon Getting a jump on Telluride Art's upcoming First Thursday Art Walk, July 7, and at the tail end of the Sheridan Arts Foundation's Telluride Plein Air, an outdoor art show featuring American Impressionists that ends at 4 p.m. July 3, Lustre Gallery presents the work of Marshall Noice. The artist's reception is Sunday, July 3, 4 – 6 p.m., 171 South Pine Street, a great excuse for those who can't get enough light in their lives to continue to wave their plein air banner high.

Marshall Noice never met a sky or a tree he did not like. For 36 years, the artist has been obsessed by landscapes. What we see in his work resembles the outside world the artist depicts much in the way a guitar case resembles a guitar: Noice is not painting a grove of trees for instance. He is depicting his emotional response to a grove of trees, which makes him an Expressionist for those who require an "ist" or an "ism." Noice is an Expressionist with Impressionistic flourishes and a Fauve sense of color.

02 July, 2011 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Julie Shelton Smith]

 

Portraits Her work suggests an affinity with British painter Lucien Freud. Julie Shelton Smith appears to scrutinize her subject matter deeply and then has that "Freudian" ability to render the hard truths of what she has taken in. Her portraits are intense and raw.

Julie Shelton Smith is a guest instructor in August at Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts, teaching "Painting Portraits," Wednesday – Friday, August 3 – August 5, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

02 July, 2011 /

 

The 8th annual Sheridan Arts Foundation's Telluride Plein Air is a robust weekend of fine art and music, culminating over the Fourth of July weekend.

The action begins  July 1 along Colorado Avenue with a Quick Draw and Sale, 5:30 – 7 p.m.: 30 artists paint for 90 minutes in this judged competition. On July 2nd the historic Sheridan Opera House hosts the Plein Air gala and silent auction, 5 – 8:30 p.m.: artists display and auction a favorite piece. (Free entry, free appetizers, and cash bar). The same evening Plein Air presents Jason D. Williams in concert. Show time for this family concert of rockabilly, blues and Americana sounds is 8 p.m.

29 June, 2011 /
[click "Play", Susan speaks with Barbara Heinrich]

 

Barbara Heinrich, #3 Telluride Gallery of Fine Art jeweler Barbara Heinrich grew up on a farm in Heilbronn, Germany, the daughter of winemakers. Her designs reflect her roots. The award-winning gold bling is inspired by the natural world, but anchored in German precision engineering: Milky Way, lotus flower, aspen leaves are among the shapes that have inspired her lines – and legions of collectors – over the years, but this year's motif takes the cake. The spiral is a pan-sectarian shape that belongs to us all and excludes no one.

Our tiny planet whirls around in a galaxy that is the shape of a spiral. In ancient myths, the spiral emerges as positive symbol of the cosmic force. The shape is associated with the cycles of time, the seasons, birth, life and death and rebirth. The path of life is a spiral, because it is non-linear: we pass ourselves time and again, but each time from a different perspective.

28 June, 2011 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Manoj]

 

Manoj The fourth annual Telluride Yoga Festival takes place July 14 – July 17. Among the illustrious cast of presenters is Manoj Chalam, who is scheduled to talk about the symbolism of Yogic deities and their relevance today, plus mythology, Vedanta and Tantra and awakening the slumbering goddess within.

Manoj is a scientist with a doctorate in chemical physics from Cornell University. His life's work is focused on teaching a spiritual practice and philosophy through the symbolism inherent in Yogic Hindu art. Manoj compiled a book on Hindu and Buddhist symbology and he frequently tours and lectures with John Friend, founder of Anusara Yoga.

Manoj's workshops conjure the spirit of Carl Jung. He focuses on archetypes, universally understood symbols and patterns of behavior or prototypes.

27 June, 2011 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Josh Aronson and Adam Neiman]

 

Playinfg for Real poster Now in its 9th season, the Telluride Musicfest adds two new events to its 2011 lineup, a wine and dessert concert for all subscribers and sponsors to thank everyone for helping to ensure the Musicfest tradition of chamber music concerts in a private home continues – and a movie night.

Movie night takes place Wednesday, June 29, 6:00 at the five-star Wilkinson Public Library. The event features a screening of producer/director Josh Aronson's inspiring one-hour documentary, "Playing for Real," (2000), an intimate look at building careers in big-time classical music. The film showcases the extraordinary talents of 14-year-old Japanese violin prodigy Mayuko Kamio and 2011 Musicfest guest pianist Adam Neiman – when he was 22 and already one of the finest pianists in the world.

26 June, 2011 /
[click"Play" to hear Erik Dalton's description of River Festival]

 

RwayRiverFest11.jpg. Ridgway, Colorado, is so much more than a bedroom community for Telluride. The town is famous – or infamous – as the location for several movies, including "How the West Was Won," and one of actor John Wayne's latest and greatest, "True Grit," (1969), in which Wayne stars as Rooster Cogburn. Ridgway's True Grit Cafe is filled with John Wayne memorabilia, but as far as we know, no drunken, one-eyed federal marshals. And the Uncompaghre is a great source for trout fishing and the focus of Ridgway's fourth annual River Festival.

 

25 June, 2011 /