Mountainfilm has plenty of free programs on tap. [caption id="attachment_59125" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Mountainfilm offers free films beneath the stars at Base Camp Theatre in Telluride Town Park. [Photo courtesy of Mountainfilm][/caption] The 38th annual Telluride Mountainfilm festival will fill the box canyon with events of all shapes...
Telluride's Sheridan Arts Foundation’s Young People’s Theater wraps up its 2015-2016 season with “The Audition,” a one-act play by Don Zolidis, directed and adapted by Jennifer Julia When: Monday, May 23, 2016, 6 p.m., doors at 5:30 p.m. Where: Sheridan Opera House, Telluride, Colorado, 110 N. Oak Street Ticket...
Telluride Arts’ Twenty(by)Telluride is a fun, lively, fast-paced casual event that offers an intimate glimpse into the Telluride Art District's vast talent pool through very fast-paced slide presentations. Presenters are challenged to share what makes them tick—their inspiration, creative process, passions, muse. Each presenter has exactly 20 slides and...
Mountainfilm is screening “Mothering Inside” at the following venues: Wilkinson Public Library, Friday, May 27, 6:45 p.m.; The Nugget, Saturday May 28, 4 p.m.; The Nugget again on Sunday, May 29, 12 p.m. For a schedule of events, go here and click on the date in...
The point of it all is to break down the headlines, determine why an issue is important and reveal the best arguments on each side of the story The most recent debate on The Short Version was felon voting rights. Think the subject does not impact you? Really?...
“National Parks are the Declaration of Independence expressed on the landscape,” Ken Burns' partner Dayton Duncan says. “We were the first nation in the history of mankind to say that the most special places should be set aside not for royalty, not for the rich,...
Telluride Mountainfilm takes place over Memorial Weekend, starting Friday, May 27. For a full schedule, go here and click on the day for a roll out. [caption id="attachment_59102" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Conrad and Jenni Lowe-Anker with their boys, courtesy Telluride Mountainfilm.[/caption] On October 5, 1999, an avalanche on the...
Please scroll down to the bottom of this story to watch the time-lapse video of Telluride’s new mural, thanks to Mountainfilm and its artist-in-residence, Chip Thomas, a doctor, activist and street artist from Navajo reservation. Last week, the wall was a bare expanse of concrete on the...
Julie Shavin of Colorado Springs wins $1000 Mark Fischer Poetry Prize. The awards and number of contestants keep getting bigger in the run up to the 19th annual Mark Fischer Poetry Contest. This year’s judge, Southwest poet/provocateur Judith Hill, reviewed 330 poems from 130 poets living in 22 western states. In...
Telluride Mountainfilm 2016, like all Mountainfilms past, means Telluride's summer season of chockablock festivals is off and running. Established in 1979 Mountainfilm was named by Moviemaker in 2015 as one of the 25 Coolest Film Festivals. The one-of-a-kind weekend is dedicated to preserving and protecting endangered people, places, and ideas, using...
