Langhorne Slim returns to Telluride for an encore performance on Friday, June, 10, 8 p.m. at Telluride's historic Sheridan Opera House. The concert is a benefit for the Sheridan Arts Foundation's Wild West Fest, which includes the Chip Allen Mentorship Program (C.A.M.P.), special programs...
Poet and author Judyth Hill is scheduled to be a guest instructor at Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts. Her workshop take place Friday – Sunday, July 29 – July 31, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. The subject is WildWriting.
WildWriting is an innovative process that encourages us to coax our minds into a Zen-like state of deep listening and at the same time remain open to the sensuous stuff we know, see, feel, hear, remember, forget, taste, and ponder. Weaving together what we understand with what we experience generates WildWriting.
Beginning to seasoned writers are encouraged to attend and develop a supple, supportive community. Judyth also provides a wealth of hand-outs with this class, lively, inspiring offerings of the Dharma Lineage of great poetry: Rilke, Rumi, Mirabai, Neruda, Dylan Thomas as well as reading lists of fabulous anthologies, and resources for making, performing, and publishing your own poems.
By Dan Collins
Art Goodtimes, Mushfest
The Telluride Institute is on a roll! We are offering a menu of fabulous summer events you don't want to miss—from an outdoor eco-classroom, to our annual Ideas Festival; from an art exhibition, to the infamous Mushroom Festival. Mark your calendars!
The watershed education program will bring back its bi-annual Bridal Veil Living Classroom, led by Alessandra Jacobson and a host of guest teachers. It starts with two weeks of intensive fieldwork in the beautiful and ecologically rich headwaters of Bridal Veil Basin, and continues through the fall; it’s open to future scientists and ecologists!
kicker: at Telluride's Steaming Bean Wednesday, June 8, 2011, 8 pm
Is gossip good or bad for the soul? Does it lengthen your life or shorten it? The Telluride Playwrights Festival explores what exactly is the nature of gossip and why do we so like to gossip? Where does gossip end and propaganda begin?
A group of local actors explore the subject, taking their clue from the Bible to Shakespeare to Star Magazine. In addition, local writers such as Bob Rubadeau, Jeff Price, Rob Schultheis, Devin McCarthy, John Sutcliffe all have something interesting to say on the subject.
The Telluride Playwrights Festival brings playwrights and actors to town once a year to explore and workshop new plays by acclaimed playwrights from all over the country. This year, the Playwrights Festival has decided to expand the spirit of the Festival, which starts mid-July, to an early beginning on Wednesday, June 8.
Compassion for a World in Crisis--the Navajo, Tibetan Buddhist, and neuroscientists' perspective a TELLURIDE INSTITUTE IDEAS FESTIVAL July 8 - 10, 2011 at the Sheridan Opera House and Wilkinson Public Library Building on the overwhelming success and interest generated at the...
Telluride's Sheridan Arts Foundation opens the 20th annual Wild West Fest with a kick-off concert featuring alternative country artist Bob Schneider. Show time is Sunday, June 5, 8 p.m. All proceeds benefit the Wild West Fest mentorship programs.
The son of an opera singer, Schneider moved with his parents to Germany at age two. He learned to play guitar and piano as a young boy. His first live gigs were guest appearances at his parents' shindigs.
A mid-life crisis is a common occurrence at age 40. But Telluride Arts (aka Telluride Council for the Arts & Humanities) is experiencing anything but. In fact, Telluride Arts is entering its fourth decade with a new lease on life, thanks to the dynamic duo at the helm: Executive director Kate Jones and assistant director, Sasha Cuciniello (also of SquidShow Theatre).
If you have been paying attention, you know that new or enhanced initiatives keep rolling out the front door of the Stronghouse Studios, the home office: Art in Empty Spaces, 20(by)telluride, and now the First Thursday Art Walk, bigger and better than ever.
The First Thursday Art Walk is a walk about town to experience Telluride's vibrant cultural life. Venues stay open late until 8 p.m. Starting this week, Thursday, June 2, 5 – 8 p.m., an even dozen galleries, studios, retail outlets, even restaurants plan to showcase art and artists.
By J James McTigue
The first of the summer’s First Thursday Art Walks begins today June 2nd. But this summer, there is another first; a Kid’s Art Walk. Much like the regular Art Walk, Kids’s Art Walk will bring a festive air to exploring art as the town’s art galleries, art schools, coffee shops and restaurants open their doors.
Kid’s Art Walk is from 4:00 to 7:00pm the first Thursday of each month. Kate Jones, the Executive Director of TCAH, thought of including kids in first Thursdays and according to her colleagues, Kid’s Art Walk is her “baby.” “It’s about engaging families in the art and opening doors of local galleries to kids and families,” she says. “ It’s about starting to get kids and families to walk in the door and look at art in a meaningful and make some art themselves.”
kicker: Lemler teaches "Light & the Figurative Subject in Oil"
Telluride's Ah Haa School continues its summer immersions program with an intensive in "Light & the Figurative in Oil." The class is scheduled for Thursday, July 7 – Sunday, July 10. The instructor is Robert Lemler.
We hold these truths to be self evident.... Art and light became twins at the end of the 19th century with the emergence of the Impressionists, but throughout art history, artists have used light to direct the eye of the viewer. Rembrandt, for instance, routinely lit eyes, the windows of the soul, and hands. Vermeer transformed light into dots, blobs and dashes of white paint that danced in the foreground of his paintings, suggesting the eye land here or there. (And then go goofy about the details in the overall image.)
By Lauren Metzger
Hello Telluride. Though the weather does not reflect it, the summer season is starting! The Ah Haa School has quite the lineup this summer of dynamic local artist exhibitions, both in Daniel Tucker Gallery and our East Gallery. I am proud to announce that this June we will be featuring the photography of Carl Marcus and the oil paintings of Susan McCormick. Both will remind you of the beauty this amazing region holds and that spring is coming!
Carl Marcus has a true talent for capturing nature's awe-inspiring beauty. A constant supporter of the Ah Haa School, I was first introduced to Carl while working on my first auction several years ago. He had donated one of his "magical landscapes" and it did indeed take my breath away. When I asked him about how he is able to capture this beauty, he replied, "The images try to recreate the aspect of vast spaces in unfolding nature that literally take away ones breath; and attempt to convey them to others; not so much the detail, but the underlying immensity of the micro and macro." He added that always having his camera with him and being open to what is happening around him, are the times that those images present themselves and he is able to capture and share them with everyone. Thank you Carl, for being open! Other current works will be displayed with these magical landscapes. Which by the way will be 5 foot images. This is a show not to be missed!
