Author: Susan Viebrock

Last summer, the Telluride Playwright Festival featured a new work by the nonprofit's artistic director Jennie Franks. Jennie's play,"Ayn/Sister," is about the Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter Ayn Rand, whose sister pays her a surprise visit from the Soviet Union of the 1970s. The goal of the Telluride Playwrights Festival is...

The first-ever annual Telluride Fire Festival was a blazing success. As expected, the five-day event drew attendees from Telluride, Mountain Village and the Four Corners, but also crowds from addresses as far away as New York, Texas, Illinois, and California. The Wednesday night Festival kick-off featuring fire-themed art took...

More compelling reasons to meditate by Leigh Weingus in the Huffington Post. Which should give you more compelling reasons to attend the 8th annual Telluride Yoga Festival, which is offering over 100 classes, including meditation. If you're one of those people who "just can't meditate," you may...

Namaste passes $285 and Guru passes $385. Purchase tickets here. The 8th annual Telluride Yoga Festival, July 9 – July 12, plans to offer over 100 classes, meditation sessions, hikes, music, dinners, social gatherings and more. Headliners include: Sianna Sherman, Tias Little, Christina Sell, Peter Sterios, Micheline Berry and...

True to form an impressive number of films on Oscars’ hit list found the limelight at the Telluride Film Festival, among them, “Birdman,” “The Imitation Game,””Foxcatcher,””Wild,” Salt of the Earth,” “Virunga,” “Wild Tales,” "Leviathan,” and “Mr. Turner.” Here’s the full list from HuffPost Entertainment assembled by Matthew Jacobs. Take that Toronto! "Birdman" and "The Grand...

[caption id="attachment_47882" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Entry, La Posada[/caption] What does a giant crater in Arizona’s painted desert have to do with a grande dame of a hotel? Not much. Yet. Sooner or later the Winslow Arts Trust will establish a major museum that will include a Sky Space by iconic...

Beyond the Groove is pleased to announce Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers live at Club Red. Doors Saturday Jan 17, 2015, 8:00 p.m., with The Harmaleighs opening at 8.30 p.m. Show, all ages. Tickets, $20, here. Club Red debuted with a sold-out show earlier this year and transforms the Telluride Mountain Village Conference...

When the first ever Telluride Fire Festival ignites Wednesday, January 14, the guest list of founders Erin Ries and Christ Myers includes a number of very hot kinetic artists: Duane Flatmo, who brings his now legendary fiery beast “El Pulpo” to town ( see related story here); metal sculptor and...

Philanthropist, idealist, humanist, architect by training and a globe-trotting heavyweight champion of photojournalism – he is a National Geographic fellow whose images have graced many covers –  the man known simply as Reza was an honored guest of Mountainfilm in Telluride last May. His subject, ironically in the...

Telluride Historical Museum & Pinhead Institute unveil local contribution to groundbreaking, collaborative Smithsonian exhibition [caption id="attachment_47780" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Pinheads on Hydroelectric Generator at Ames Power Plant. THM 2005-01-189.[/caption] If you’ve been in the area for a while, you have undoubtedly heard the names L.L. Nunn, George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla...