[click "Play", Jennie Franks speaks with Susan about the Festival]
Shut out in London. Smash hit in Laramie. Coming soon to your local theatre in Telluride.
"Forgiving John Lennon," a black comedy by William Missouri Downs, is headed our way courtesy of the 5th annual Telluride Playwrights Festival, July 13 – July 17, at venues around town.
by Jim Bedford
The Nugget Theatre in beautiful downtown Telluride shows movies all year long and screens two films this coming week.
Friday through Thursday, July 8-14, SUPER 8 continues at the Nugget in the best tradition of Steven Spielberg movies, sort of an E.T. meets meets CLOSE ENCOUNTERS. Wonderment abounds!
Also playing all week is Cameron Diaz in BAD TEACHER, showing Justin Timberlake and every student she has that she just doesn't give a F. Very funny and irreverent.
See the Nugget website for trailers and reviews, and below for movie times.
Magical works by Craft, Schultheis & Swire
Among Telluride's many talented writers, Rob Schultheis is an alpha male. In his columns in the Watch, and in his many books, Schultheis reclaims that turf over and over again with steady barrage of satiric, muscular, insightful, brash, bold prose.
But forget all the you know about Rob. Well, don't forget it. Amplify it.
Did you know Rob turned down a an art scholarship to college because he wanted to live in the Rockies? Rob the writer is also Rob the painter.
"Roads to Xanadu" features the work of Rob, his wife, Nancy Craft, and their friend, Renee Swire. The show goes up in the Daniel Tucker Gallery at Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts the first Thursday of the month, July 7, 5 – 7 p.m. The opening corresponds to Telluride Arts' First Thursday Art Walk, when galleries and other venues around town stay open late to strut their stuff. ( For a list of venues and participating restaurants, go to http://telluridearts.org/?page_id=111.) By Elisabeth Gick
What makes the Compassion Festival a festival rather than a conference or symposium? The short answer is that a festival is more fun than a conference. There is art, there is food, there are things to look at, touch, hear, smell and taste.
The Compassion Festival, to be hosted this coming weekend by the Telluride Institute, may not have all those tempting ingredients, but a good number of them.
Malcolm "Skip" Liepke's second one-man show opens at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, 130 East Colorado Avenue, Thursday, July 7, 5:30 – 8:00 p.m., in sync with Telluride Arts' First Thursday Art Walk, showing off the "Best Of" Telluride's fine art and retail scene.
If you missed it, the artist's first show was a doozy: wall-to-wall pulchritude and sensuality confronting us with looks that would melt steel, rendered by a painter who is an unapologetic realist.
By David Feela
For decades, when summer melons rolled into the produce aisle, my mouth would water and I’d buy the biggest one. Unfortunately, not every watermelon is endowed with inalienable perfection, and I have carted home quite a few duds. Until I met Margaret in the produce aisle.
If this sounds like a soap opera, it’s because I had humongous twin melons strapped in the child seat of my cart. That’s when I saw Margaret. We slowed our carts, paused, and exchanged warm greetings. She had a single watermelon about the size of a soccer ball, a dark and glossy green one that reminded me of unripe fruit.
“Are you going to buy both of those?” Margaret asked me.
Sunset Concert series continues with Darrell Scott & Brothers in performance
Guess you could call it his encore, a well deserved tribute to a man whose knock-out performances on the Main Stage bookended Sunday, June 19, at the recent 38th annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival. The day started with Darrell's Father's Day Gospel Hour, during which he was the main performer, supported by the likes of Buddy Miller, Patty Griffin and Abigail Washburn. It ended with a bang with Robert's Plant's Band of Joy, including Darrell on guitar and vocals.
If you were not one of the lucky ones with a Sunday ticket to Telluride Bluegrass, now you are in luck. Darrell Scott, a songwriter's songwriter and musician's musician, returns, this time with his brothers, to the Telluride region and the spotlight to headline the 12th annual Sunset Concert Series in Mountain Village, Wednesday, July 6, starting at 6 p.m.
Brazilian musician to curate special program of films for the four-day Festival
Telluride Film Festival (September 2-5, 2011), presented by National Film Preserve LTD., is proud to announce its 2011 Guest Director, Caetano Veloso. The beloved artist has been invited to select a series of films to present at the 38th Telluride Film Festival. The Guest Director program is sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Festival directors Tom Luddy, Gary Meyer and Julie Huntsinger annually select one of the world’s great film enthusiasts to join them in the creation of the Festival’s program lineup. The Guest Director serves as a key collaborator in the Festival’s programming decisions, bringing new ideas and overlooked films to Telluride.
Getting a jump on Telluride Art's upcoming First Thursday Art Walk, July 7, and at the tail end of the Sheridan Arts Foundation's Telluride Plein Air, an outdoor art show featuring American Impressionists that ends at 4 p.m. July 3, Lustre Gallery presents the work of Marshall Noice. The artist's reception is Sunday, July 3, 4 – 6 p.m., 171 South Pine Street, a great excuse for those who can't get enough light in their lives to continue to wave their plein air banner high.
Marshall Noice never met a sky or a tree he did not like. For 36 years, the artist has been obsessed by landscapes. What we see in his work resembles the outside world the artist depicts much in the way a guitar case resembles a guitar: Noice is not painting a grove of trees for instance. He is depicting his emotional response to a grove of trees, which makes him an Expressionist for those who require an "ist" or an "ism." Noice is an Expressionist with Impressionistic flourishes and a Fauve sense of color.
By Elisabeth Gick
[click "Play" to listen to Elisabeth's conversation with Peter Gold]Author/anthropologist Peter Gold is coming to the Telluride Institute’s Compassion for a World in Crisis Festival.
Peter Gold is a man of many titles - anthropologist, ethno musician, student of Buddhism, traveler, author, professor. Maybe it’s a result of his Buddhist training that he is so easy-going, with a great smile. He will give one of the keynote speeches at the Telluride Institute’s Compassion for a World in Crisis Festival, July 8 – 10.
