Culture

Fens are minerotrophic peatlands, usually fed by mineral-rich surface water or groundwater or put simply, one of the main types of wetland. The Telluride Institute’s newly formed Fen Advisory Project, Sheep Mountain Alliance and the San Migu.el Watershed Coalition have teamed up with Ah Haa School for the...

Tickets to the 2017 Telluride Wine Festival here. Please scroll down towards the bottom of the story to watch a video interview with the somm to the stars, Christopher Sawyer. Note: the interview was done in 2016. Near the end, Chris talks about two 2016 events – which are not being repeated...

To support SPARK Latina Scholarship Fund, send donations to the Telluride Foundation, the fund manager. Mail to The Telluride Foundation, P.O. Box 4222. Last July, SPARKy Productions/Telluride Playwrights Festival made an announcement – which was really a promise. In celebration of its 10th anniversary, the Telluride Playwrights Festival would mount an original production devised and...

The Mountain Village comes alive this summer with the Sunset Concert Series every Wednesday night through mid-August as the Telluride Mountain Village Owners Association presents live music for its 18th annual Sunset Concert Series, June 21 – August 16. Attendance is free to all. Scroll down to listen...

Arts-based community development investment for Telluride, Colorado: Telluride Arts is one of 89 National Endowment for the Arts "Our Town" projects selected nationwide. National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Jane Chu announced 89 awards totaling $6.89 million supporting projects across the nation through the NEA’s Our...

Telluride’s Pinhead Institute offers range of STEM camps throughout the summer season.   [caption id="attachment_66602" align="aligncenter" width="450"] A student engrossed in (This Is Not) Math Camp.[/caption]   Summer is upon us and things are heating up at the Pinhead Institute. This season, the nonprofit is offering exciting new and tried-and-true STEM camps...

Father's Day is a celebration honoring, well, fathers. The holiday also celebrates fatherhood in general, paternal bonds, and the influence of dads in society. For some, however, Father’s Day is shorthand for pulling out a wallet. Again. Gifts of watches and Fitbits, beard trimmers and bespoke home distilleries and grills, tickets...

T’is the season. That is the season of bright sunshine, river music, and tourists wandering through our streets, jaws agape. Summer also means Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts is fully geared up to launch 10 weeks of youth summer art camps and Fabulous Fridays for ages 4 – 18. To...

To honor the memory of his father - and friend who was a father who just past – on Father’s Day, David Feela choose to continue a tradition scholars say might have emerged from Babylonian ruins, where upon a 4,000 years ago, a boy named Elmesu...