Festivals

This year, the Telluride Playwrights Festival has upped its game by inviting acting, directing, and playwright members of the innovative Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company to come and use Telluride as a theatrical testing stage for groundbreaking new work. The relationship is a win win: this major company gets...

  “If you hold my hand we’ll chase your dream across the sky/For we can fly, we can fly” (Fifth Dimension’s “Up, Up and Away,” 1967) Icarus tried it, but he got too close to the sun and crashed. Peter Procopio has had lots more success flying.  "When I lived...

On its home page, Telluride WOW describes itself as a festival for EVERYONE,“ an event with a passion to change peoples’ lives through  health and fitness – to inspire, motivate and educate.”  [caption id="attachment_50900" align="aligncenter" width="277"] Bill Fabrocini in action[/caption] The workout weekend is designed to meet...

Ultimate opportunity for an up-and-coming or relatively unknown band to thrust themselves into the national spotlight on the stage of the 2015 Telluride Blues & Brews Festival alongside some of the biggest musical names in the country! Submissions through Friday, June 5. Telluride Blues & Brews Festival,...

ZZ Top, Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings, Gregg Allman, John Hiatt & The Combo, Taj Mahal Trio, Anders Osborne, Blackberry Smoke, The Revivalists, Otis Taylor’s Hey Joe Opus, Rich Robinson and more. Tickets/passes here. Event takes place September 18 – 20 in Telluride. The 22nd annual artist lineup...

The stunning new documentary feature film UNBRANDED –  from director/veteran cinematographer Phillip Baribeau and a team including executive producer Cindy Meehl, the director of the acclaimed Oscar-shortlisted documentary BUCK – has its U.S. premiere at Telluride Mountainfilm in Telluride, Colorado Saturday, May 23, and Sunday,...

Jacob and Isaac Seigel-Boettner’s “I Am Able” screens at Mountainfilm on Saturday, May 23, The Nugget, 5:45 p.m.; Sunday, May 24, twice: Telluride Library, 9:15 a.m., part of Mountainfilm on Tour and Mountainfilm for Students presentation and Masons Hall, 6:45 p.m. Full Mountainfilmschedule here. See notes below...

For a full schedule of Mountainfilm events, go here. “Frame by Frame” screens Friday, May 22, 9:15 p.m. at the Palm; Sunday, May 24, 6:45 p.m., The Palm.   Opening the Festival on Friday morning, Massoud Hossaini and Farzana Wahidy, photojournalists featured in the film, are scheduled to...

"Creative conservationist” and National Geographic Emerging Explorer Asher Jay at Mountainfilm 2015: Gallery Walk, East Gallery, Ah Haa, and panel discussion at the Telluride Library, Saturday, 12:45 - 2 p.m. Scroll down to bottom of story to find a podcast with Asher, whose work, conservation, is...