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Feel the frisson? Thursday is the day the Telluride Film Festival announces its program for the 38th season. It is also Telluride Arts's First Thursday Art Walk, a celebration of the arts in downtown Telluride for art lovers, community, guests, and friends.

For the First Thursday Art Walk, one dozen venues open their doors from 5 – 8 p.m. to introduce new exhibitions and the artists themselves. Telluride's fine restaurants feature Art Walk specials to round out a great night out on the town.

30 August, 2011 /

[click "Play" to hear Nicole Finger describing recent work]


Nf3 It's that time again: Telluride Arts' First Thursday Art Walk (September 1, 2011), when venues of all stripes open their doors to showcase the best of Telluride's arts and crafts scene, with everyone staying open late until 8 p.m.  At the Ah Haa School for the Arts the featured show is new work by Nicole Finger. The artist's reception takes place 5 – 8 p.m.

Art is not just about the right color on the right surface. It is about synthesizing an artist’s experiences. Nicole’s new work,  new images of horses, proves we are what we create. "e-Motion"  – the name of Nicole's show – is highly autobiographical and all the more powerful because the paintings are metaphors for Nicole's life in particular and in the artist's words, the "fleeting nature of life" in general.

30 August, 2011 /

38th_tff_poster_layers "This festival (the Telluride Film Festival) is characterized by its small size and friendly atmosphere. If there were a few key words to describe Telluride, they might include 'intimate' and 'down home,' just as easily as 'monumental' and 'important," Boulder Daily Camera


Even without a pass, the 38th annual Telluride Film Festival, 9/2 – 9/5, has something for almost everyone.

The Telluride Film Festival opens with free films sponsored by Ralph and Ricky Lauren. The five film premieres start Wednesday night, August 31, just after dark  – and a day before the cat is let out of the bag about screenings on the long weekend to come.

(Thursday at noon, when the embargo is lifted, Telluride Inside… and Out releases four different posts about this year's Festival, interviews recorded live with Festival co-director Gary Meyer about the features, the tributes, documentaries, shorts and special programs and who's coming to town.)

29 August, 2011 /

Twenty(by)telluride grey web Want to know where the "in" crowd will be hanging Monday night, August 29, 8 pm? The historic Sheridan Bar, 231 West Colorado Avenue. Want to know why? The gathering is thanks to Telluride Arts, which dreamed up twenty(by)telluride as a nifty complement to the non-profit's First Thursday Art Walk. Both events showcase Telluride's robust cultural economy, Art Walk through the work hung at venues all over town and twenty(by)telluride, through the words of artists and the business people who support them.

27 August, 2011 /
[click "Play", Susan chats with Sarah Rosenberg and Luis Cardenas]

 

Mountainfilm in Telluride and Aspen's Wheeler Opera House announce their third annual joint production: MountainSummit: Mountainfilm in Telluride. The event bookends the Main Event, the annual of gathering of the tribe in Telluride, which happens over Memorial weekend and opens Telluride's summer festival season with a bang: lots of conversations about preserving and protecting endanger people, places and ideas.

MountainSummit takes place Thursday,  August 25 – Sunday, August 28. Among the films to be screened are “Magic Trip,” about the 1960s travels of writer Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, Christopher Paine's “Revenge of the Electric Car,” a follow-up to Paine's 2006 documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car?”, and “Happy,” a multicultural examination of the universal truths about happiness, produced by Tom Shadyac ("I Am").  The event closer and what a grand finale it is: "Shakespeare High."

24 August, 2011 /
[click "Play" to hear Johnnie Stevens talk about Senior Mahoney]

 

BBQ at Telluride Historical Museum Thursday evening to honor Senior

Senior, Johnnie, helicopter Every year, the Telluride Foundation solicits nominations from the greater Telluride Community for its Outstanding Citizen of the Year, an award given in recognition of someone who has unselfishly contributed to our community’s quality of life. Among the winners selected by the Telluride Foundation Board of Directors since 2003: Terry Tice, Lissa Margetts, John Micetic, Bill Carstens, Jane Hickcox, John Pryor, Kathy Green, Marilyn Branch, Andrea Benda and Greer & Dan Garner.  This year's winner is a guy who answers to the name "Senior."

Blame it on the Industrial Revolution, which jettisoned especially older workers from the job market, who were replaced by mechanization. Or even before, in the 18th century as more and more immigrants flooded our country, where the desire to become an American, to adapt to their adopted homeland, replaced tradition, including venerating elders. Or blame it on the glossies, magazines that celebrate the young and nubile and shun anything with wrinkles. But the rules on the books never applied to Billy "Senior" Mahoney, a trailblazer and highly revered local icon.

24 August, 2011 /

by Emily Brendler Shoff

It’s easy to come up with reasons not to go to Shakespeare in the Telluride Town Park. You’re broke. You’re afraid of Town Park after dark. You’re afraid of Shakespeare.

But here are a few reasons why you should dig more deeply into your wallet and soul and go see this year’s Repertory production of As You Like It.

For starters…. Hockey talent in the summer. It’s not often that you see many killer hockey players that can also act. It’s rarer still to see killer hockey players perform Shakespeare. This year, the Rep has two such stars, and they’re as successful on the stage as they are on the ice. Buff Hooper is a surly and charming Jacques, one whose melancholy energizes the stage. Emily Koren is a playful and puckish Touchstone, a fool who reminds us at once to reflect and to laugh.

23 August, 2011 /
[click "Play", Steve Gumble talks to Susan about the Taos Mountain Music Festival]

 

Taos Music poster Steve Gumble (and his SBG productions) is the force behind the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival, now in its 18th year and a sold-out success annually. So what's a nice guy like that doing in a place like Taos? The short answer: Making a good thing better.

Friends and producers of the Taos event were not in the Festival producing business like Steve. Their day job was running the mountain. So, they approached their friend Steve to grow a musical event with loads of promise.

The third annual Taos Mountain Music Festival takes place this year on Saturday, August 20 and Sunday, August 21. Northern New Mexico's music event of the summer features headliners Matisyahu, Railroad Earth, Ozomatli, and Leftover Salmon. Additional festival performances include Donna the Buffalo, Jackie Greene Duo, Afroman, Orgone, Dangermuffin, Langhorne Slim, Shannon McNally and Hot Sauce, Ryan McGarvey and Mariachi Luz de Luna.

15 August, 2011 /

By Jane Minarovic

 

If you have been fortunate enough to have attended a Mudd Butts Mystery Theatre Troupe production in the past 21 years, you have seen how the imagery of prop master Mike Stasiuk makes the narrative come alive. When he is not backstage creating fantastical masks and props out of cardboard boxes, newspaper, and paint, Mike creates whimsical sculptures from a variety found objects from his studio in Portsmouth, NH. He has had sculpture in private and corporate collections and is also published in books such as Found Object Art 1 and 2. He is represented by the Clark Gallery in Lincoln, MA and the George Marshall Store Gallery in York, ME.

Many of the Mike's magical props will be auctioned off after Sundays production.

See below for the Mudd Butts' cast list:

11 August, 2011 /

by  Jane Minarovic   Over the years, the Mudd Butts Mystery Theatre Troupe has grown from a small, all-girl cast at the Nugget Theatre, to a cast of 28 boys and girls who perform at the  state-of-the-art Michael D. Palm Theatre for the Performing Arts. ...

10 August, 2011 /