Poets’ Corner: Gordon for Father’s Day
Father’s Day is a celebration honoring, well,...
16 June, 2018
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Poets’ Corner: Rosemerry for Father’s Day – and His Birthday!
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...
16 June, 2018
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Poet’s Corner: Feela for Father’s Day, Legends of My Fall
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...
15 June, 2018
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Telluride Lit Fest: Fischer Prize Winners Announced
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...
14 May, 2018
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Poets’ Corner: Rosemerry for Mother’s Day
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...
11 May, 2018
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Zia Leader/Artist Peter Pino: Petroglyph-Making Class
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...
05 May, 2018
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Lit Fest Adds Cantor Award
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...
29 April, 2018
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Trommer’s “Naked for Tea”: Now Available!
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...
28 March, 2018
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Telluride Film Fest Cinematheque: “Taste of Tea,” 4/9
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...
26 March, 2018
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Friends of Library Book Sale, 3/23 -3/25
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:...
19 March, 2018
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