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For Peter Pino’s petroglyph  workshop, the  Telluride Institute is partnering with the Ah Haa School for the Arts, the Wilkinson Public Library, and the Telluride Historical Museum. For more information on the Pino course, contact Ah Haa’s Kristin Kwasniewski at 970-728-3886 or go on-line at www.ahhaa.org...

Thanks to a generous donation from Elaine Cantor’s family, this year the Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds Program will add a $500 Cantor Award to its national Fischer Prize contest for the best poem by a Colorado poet. The Cantor Award will be presented at the...

Telluride's Word Woman Rosemerry Trommer will be reading from her book, “Naked for Tea," and signing copies at Telluride Arts, April 3, 6 p.m. as part of a special event co-sponsored by Telluride Arts, Between the Covers, Talking Gourds Poetry Club, Telluride Institute and the...

The Telluride Film Festival's Cinematheque at the Telluride Library presents another installment of its Contemporary Japanese Cinema series. The feature on Monday, April 9, 6 p.m., is THE TASTE OF TEA/CHA NO AJI, (2004, unrated, 143 minutes).  Please scroll down to watch the trailer.   From Hayao Miyazaki...

Telluride’s Wilkinson Public Library is nationally recognized with a “Star Ranking." And it is the only Colorado five-star library. Some of that star power is thanks to the Friends of the Library, which announces its next used book sale for Friday-Sunday, March 23-25. Call Nancy for info:...

Telluride author Susan Dalton captures Mountainfilm's best memories in "Mountainfilm: 40 Years." The beautiful coffee table book costs just $49 (tax included) and can be pre-ordered now here. Go here for information on Mountain's symposium on Migration. Go here to order tickets/passes for the 40th annual Mountainfilm...

Atz Kilcher is the eldest son of Yule and Ruth Kilcher, who emigrated from Switzerland to Alaska in the late-1930s, joining some of the town of Homer's earliest homesteaders. Today, Kilcher appears regularly along with family members on the Discovery Channel's popular "Alaska: The Last...

In the face of climate change, building resilience in mountain towns is a subject near and dear to the hearts of Telluride locals. Author and dean of the School of Environment & Sustainability at Western State Colorado University in Gunnison, John Hausdoerffer will address ‘The Future of...

On Wednesday, February 28, 6 p.m., meet author Bill Matson and Floyd Clown, a member of Crazy Horse's family at Telluride’s Wilkinson Public Library. The program is hosted by the Telluride Library and Between the Covers Bookstore. Scroll down to listen to a podcast featuring Matson...

The Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds Poetry Program continues its 20-year tradition of offering a national Fischer Prize contest in honor of attorney/poet Mark Fischer, who died in 1987, and his wife politician/painter Elaine Cantor Fischer, who passed away just three years ago. “Both were beloved members...