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[click "Play" to hear Jim Riley's conversation with Susan]

RWBFINAL Over the Fourth of July weekend, any lines in the sand between "uptown," the Mountain Village and "downtown," the Town of Telluride, dissolve in simple addresses with a single purpose: party large in celebration of our nation's independence.

The fun begins in Telluride with the Sheridan Arts Foundation's annual Telluride Plein Air Celebration starting July 2. The fun continues on Saturday July 3,  when the Telluride Mountain Village Owners Association presents a free concert featuring Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers,  a stand-out example of the jump/swing revival performing blues, swing and bop. The concert takes place in Sunset Plaza at the top of Lift 1 starting at 4 p.m., while family activities start at 2 p.m.
 
30 June, 2010 /

by Lauren Metzger
Marketing & Exhibitions Manager
Ah Haa School for the Arts

[click "Play" to hear Lauren's conversation with Brooke Ahana]

 

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Every now and then, if you are lucky, people come into your life who inspire you. Brooke Ahana is one of those people for me. She reminds me to have fun. Fun in life. In my work. In painting.

As a Los Angeles artist, Brooke Ahana has been leaving the big city and spending her last 7 summers in Telluride, CO inspiring kids and adults alike at the Ah Haa School for the Arts. An impassioned visiting artist instructor, Brooke teaches a variety of workshops for kids of all ages. From Portraits with Personality to Abstract Expressionism, Brooke covers the gamut and pushes her students to learn, explore and believe in their creativity (a woman after our own Ah Haa heart).

30 June, 2010 /

SHORTS AND STUDENT FILMS DEADLINE: JULY 1, 2010FEATURES DEADLINE: JULY 15, 2010Telluride Film Festival, a four-day international event celebrating the art of film, plays host to a selection of feature length and short films. Considered one of the world’s leading showcases for foreign and domestic...

26 June, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear Katie Singer talk about Touch-a-Truck]

Touch a truck Mountain Munchkins day care, operated by the Town of Mountain Village, hosts the third annual Touch-A-Truck fundraiser to benefit the childcare center’s infant, toddler and preschool programs. The event takes place Saturday, June 26, 2010, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. in the parking lot of the Telluride Middle/High School. 


Touch-A-Truck patrons get to interact with a variety of vehicles: touch, climb on, sit in the driver’s seat, or have a picture taken alongside their favorite service vehicle and/or work equipment. Returning to the annual fundraiser is the trick horse named Comanche, along with trucks, buses and fire engines.
25 June, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear Aaron Furlong on where his designs come from]

N1089(multi) Telluride's Lustre Gallery, 171 South Pine, hosts a trunk show of jewelry designed by Aaron Furlong, president Aaron Henry Designs, June 26 – July 12. Furlong is, according to National Jeweler, "One of the Top 100 Designers of the Past 30 Years."


Furlong comes by his design chops naturally: he is the third generation of a family of established jewelers and diamond merchants dating back to 1940. By 21, Furlong had earned both a graduate gemologist degree from the Gemological Institute of America and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Davis.
24 June, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear Michelle Curry Wright talk about her Wine Festival poster]

Web poster image wine fest Michelle Curry Wright is one of the faces regulars see when they visit the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art. She has worked at the gallery for six of the 25 years the must-visit art emporium has been in business. But what you see at the front desk is not all that you get.

Michelle Curry Wright is also a fine artist in the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art's stable and this year, the poster artist for the 29th annual Telluride Wine Festival. The original mixed media painting for the Festival poster is on display throughout the weekend at the Gallery, 130 East Colorado Avenue, open for bids through a silent auction. (Some of the proceeds from the sale go the the Tellluride Wine Fest.) Michelle signs poster, $25 each, during Friday's Toast of Telluride, 4 – 6 p.m.
23 June, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear Lauren Metzger's debut effort podcasting with Telluride Inside... and Out.]

by Lauren Metzger
Marketing & Exhibitions Director
Ah Haa School for the Arts

IMG_5431 If you are anything like me, you go into every journey gung-ho on documenting the amazing and crazy experiences you will have; the sights, the smells, the people, the food...I last about 3 days of journaling my thoughts and observations in a small book before it becomes boring and confining. So when Laura Kudo, traveler extraordinare, proposed a travel journaling 2-night workshop at the Ah Haa School, I was first in line to sign up.

23 June, 2010 /
[click "Play" for Adam Neiman's conversation with Susan]

Photo 32 The gravitational center of the Telluride Musicfest, June 23 – July 3, is the founding trio, The Trio Solisti: cellist Alexis Pia Gerlach, pianist Jon Klibonoff, and the event's artistic director, violinist Maria Bachmann. The group is renowned worldwide for sterling technical chops and no-holds-barred passion and lyricism. They play as one with perfect complicity.

"The most exciting piano trio in America," raved The New Yorker.

Like the Telluride Playwrights Festival, Telluride Musicfest is not a high profile event on Telluride's summer Festival calender: except like the heavies – Mountainfilm in Telluride and Telluride Film Festival – both attract world class talent. Case in point for Musicfest, pianist Adam Neiman. Adam joins Maria and the Trio for the 8th annual four-concert series: "From Russia with Love."
23 June, 2010 /