The Telluride Film Festival and Telluride's five-star Wilkinson Public Library have teamed up for another Cinematheque. A free series for the cinephile at heart, patrons are treated to food and lively discussion at each of the four Monday night screenings in the library’s Program Room. The...
Amy Irvine latest book, "Desert Cabal," a keening from the depths of her dust-covered soul – in the best sense – is a series of essays which conjure the ghost of Edward Abbey as the world celebrates the 50th anniversary of his iconic "Desert Solitaire." Irvine's...
A celebration of the life of Telluride's Wilkinson Public Library founder Larry Wilkinson will be held at the library on the east patio at 3 p.m. on Sunday, September 23. Light refreshments will be served. Please come share your memories of Larry and the library with Larry's family...
Michelle Bitting, Poet Laureate Emerita of Pacific Palisades, California, won the 21st Annual Fischer Prize in Poetry with her poem, “Everything Crumbling Becoming Something New.” Chosen by Judge Joan Logghe of Española, Bitting attended the awards ceremony and received her $1000 prize at the Telluride...
Father’s Day is a celebration honoring, well,...
Perusing the Internet for what more to say about Father’s Day, we came upon some interesting, though relatively obscure facts. During the 1920s and 1930s, a movement arose to scrap Mother’s Day and Father’s Day altogether in favor of a single holiday: Parents’ Day. Every...
As we post tributes for Father's Day, I hold word treasures like this from TIO regular contributor David Feela to my heart. We lost our father on Mothers’ Day, a cruel sleight of Nature since, in my family, we never celebrated Hallmark holidays. Love and...
Rosemerry Trommer and Art Goodtimes, co-directors of the Telluride Institute's Talking Gourds program, announce the winners of Fischer Prize and Cantor Prize, chosen by judge Joan Logghe of New Mexico and featured at the Telluride Literary Arts Festival. (Go here for more on Lit Fest...
Mother’s Day was first suggested in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe (who wrote the words to the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”) as a day dedicated to peace. In 1907, Philadelphian Ana Jarvis began a campaign to establish a national Mother’s Day. She persuaded her mother’s...
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...
