SPARKy Productions is a Telluride-based non-profit that focuses on local social issues through a creative performing lens in a variety of mediums: theater, film, music and dance. Founder Jennie Franks believes engaging audiences through the arts creates a stronger community. On Wednesday, March 25, 5:30...
History.com offers up "6 Surprising Facts About Valentine's Day," including the fact that St. Valentine was likely more than one person and that a medieval English poet might have invented Cupid's Big Day. "The medieval English poet Geoffrey Chaucer often took liberties with history, placing his...
Cupid’s Day has evolved into the signature day of the year when a gift of any kind ought to express positive sentiments within a primary relationship of any kind: married or partnered, straight or gay – or the one with yourself. Yes, Valentine's Day seems...
Telluride's Word Woman and one of the region's most beloved and honored poets and teachers, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer was featured in The Colorado Sun. The focus of the interview was her latest book, "Naked for Tea," which is available at Between the Covers bookstore (where...
Ed Brummel of Salida and the student winners of the Retta Award are featured at the January Talking Gourds Poetry Club, a Telluride Institute initiative. Reading takes place Tuesday January 14., 6 p.m,. at Telluride Arts HQ. Free and open to all. For more info on the student...
It's around the corner. A new year approaching right on schedule. So we start making resolutions in the hope that life will be different (and better). Truth is nothing is guaranteed except change: for better – or for worse – new is the only given....
With her poem (below), Rosemerry Trommer transcends the canned rhetoric of the holidaze and goes straight to the the true reason for the season. For many, Xmas is a period for the renewal of faith, but it also also a time for personal reflection. What...
Creating holiday magic takes work - or in the case of Telluride's favorite Wordwoman, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer: words. Her marks on a page shine as brightly as any ornament on a sparkling Christmas tree. Find examples of Rosemerry's magical musings below – or at Telluride's...
Every Christmas is a palimpsest for the one that came before and the one before and so on back. Memories of Xmases past are as persistent as Santa myths– and as unavoidable as carols, “It’s A Wonderful Life,” and telemarketers. One of our favorite writer-poets...
On October 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln declared the final Thursday of November to be the national holiday of Thanksgiving, which evolved into a story of traditions old and new, a day of family, feasting, and football. And all that is good, but is it...
