[click "Play" to listen to Aubrey's conversation with Susan] Think of it as an amuse bouche for the original Telluride Yoga Festival, a taste of what is to come this summer. Thursday, March 10 – Sunday, March 13, the Telluride Yoga...
Museum Mine Hike, 2009
kicker: The Telluride Historical Museum aims to collect reviews and $5,000 for programs and exhibits.
Tick tock. Tick tock. We're halfway through the deadline.
Here's the big idea: The Telluride Historical Museum has an opportunity to win $5,000. But it is going to need your help. And fast.
Starting February 1, the Telluride Museum began competing with non-profits all over the country for prize money awarded to the organization that garners the most reviews throughout the month.
Thanks to its Reverend, Pat Bailey, Telluride's Christ Church is becoming much more than a house of worship in the conventional sense of sheep gathering around a shepherd to pray and heal. Christ Church is becoming a change-maker in the Telluride community, from a place to study world religion to how to live a more sustainable life in concert with the environment. Next up: altering our internal landscape through meditation.
Thursday evening, February 17, 7:30 p.m., Reverend Doug Bottorff teaches a class on meditation. The evening is part of Christ Church's ongoing silent meditation program held every Thursday night.
Love is no laughing matter, except in Telluride, where comedy follows the BIg Day for the kid in diapers with the quiver of arrows.
The 12th annual Telluride Comedy Fest begins at the Sheridan Opera House with a Locals' Night on Thursday, February 17 and continues through the weekend, closing Sunday, February 20. Shows, 8 p.m. nightly, are all hosted by Telluride actor/director/producer Jeb Berrier.
When is a "Squid" a Cupid? The answer has nothing to less to do with more arms to hold you and more to do with ties that bind.
Have you been married forever, but it feels like yesterday? Is your crush new and fresh or still hidden? Is your best friend down in the mouth and needing a quicker pick me up? Have Telluride's Squids deliver the perfect Valentine's Day tribute: a Squid Cupidgram. (The nonviolent troupe replaces arrows with wit.)
It's tired but true to say Telluride is a unique corner of our Blue Marble. It follows that it's local institutions are just as unusual. The five-star Wilkinson Public Library acts as a community center and regularly shows documentary and feature films. The Telluride Historical Museum regularly produces special events, including theatrical, on-mountain (Monday morning's Ski Into History), and bar crawls. Christ Church, focuses on sustainability, world religion, and meditation. And now St. Patrick's Church is turning itself into a concert hall for a world-class operatic tenor/musical theatre performer and concert singer.
On Thursday, February 24, 6 p.m., cocktails, and 7 p.m.,concert, tenor Dennis McNeil returns to Telluride for an encore performance at St. Pat's. The evening is a fundraiser for the 115-year-old house of worship in need of restoration. The program includes Broadway tunes, spirituals, and Irish tunes.
[click "Play", Joni Gotthelf talks about amethysts]
A companion post to our weekly astrology column, Cynthia Zehm's Alacazem, Telluride Inside... and Out's monthly birthstone post from Telluride's Dolce Jewels. February's birthstone is amethyst.
Amethysts are the crown jewels of the quartz family, occurring naturally as crystals within rocks.
The purple gemstone owes its name to the ancient Greek: "a" equals "not" when affixed to a noun and the noun "methustos" means "to intoxicate." So amethysts, meaning "sober," are what to wear when bar crawling Friday nights. Back in the day gods hobnobbed with fellow Greeks, this gemstone was not too surprisingly associated with Dionysus, god of wine. It was common practice to serve the grape from goblets made of amethyst in the belief the container would prevent overindulgence. (We refer you to stories about Dionysian rituals to understand just how well that turned out. Not.)
[click "Play" to hear this week's conversation with Ashley Deppen] Color associations may vary within a culture at different periods and between cultures across the globe. But the facts are indisputable: colors convey emotions. Telluride is a colorful town. So and so is...
Minor White was a major American photographer. Just how good, how influential is evidenced in the work of one of his former students. Jeff Elliott's moving show, "Another Face of Islam," is on display in the Daniel Tucker Gallery at Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts.
In Minor White's perspective one does not photograph something simply for "what it is", but "for what else it is." In creating his series of images of the Islamic world, Telluride local Jeff Elliott claims to have abandoned any notions of photo-documentation, choosing instead to use his eye to capture the "depth and serenity of the Islamic faith." Not what Islam is, but all that it is in form, spirit, light and the influence of the Muslim world.
Put another way, like White's images, Elliott's photographs are not about record keeping. Not about a "Kodak moment." They are as interpretative, magical and powerful as any abstract painting. And just as capable of delivering a gut punch – albeit with a velvet glove.
The world of dreams is as mysterious as it is fascinating, a place mundane rules of reality do not apply. Hmm... Sounds a bit like Telluride, a decidedly dreamy place. Day and night, in winter in Telluride we dream of powder. But what other thoughts run through our subconscious minds when we turn off the lights? And what do our dreams mean?
Other individuals may share elements of our backgrounds, but their experiences are never exactly the same. No one else feels exactly as we feel or reacts as we react. Our dreams are connected to our unique reality, and have the power to unite body, mind, and spirit. But do my chase dreams mean the same thing as yours? What abut falling dreams? Flying dreams? Naked dreams? Dreams about murder and mayhem? What about recurring themes in dreams?
Like backcountry trails, these constellations of archetypal images trying to speak through us are best explored with a guide.
