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...
What: The Sheridan Arts Foundation presents a night of New Orleans Jazz with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band When: Tuesday, June 9, 2015, 8:30 p.m. (doors at 8 p.m.) Where: Sheridan Opera House, 110 North Oak Street, Telluride, Colo. Ticket Info: Tickets are $35 general admission floor ($40 day...
The "Wild Boar" will be at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art. “To me, the boar represents our completely grounded, muscular, tough personality manifestation. Great for being a successful hard-charger in life,” says artist Robert Weatherford. [caption id="attachment_51094" align="aligncenter" width="511"] "Wild Boar," Robert Weatherford[/caption] Robert’s other paintings, a new...
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,...
Event takes place Thursday, June 4, 2015, 4-6 p.m., FREE in Elks Park For the past 24 years, the Sheridan Arts Foundation kicks off the summer with the Wild West Fest bringing 30-50 underserved youth from all over the country to Telluride for a week of...
Jill Burkey of Grand Junction received the $1000 Mark Fischer Poetry Prize for her poem, “Beginning Mind,” at a ceremony May 16, 2015, during the Talking Gourds poetry program segment of the Telluride Literary Arts Festival. [caption id="attachment_51009" align="aligncenter" width="384"] Jill Burkey, winner, Mark Fischer Poetry...
The Sheridan Arts Foundation kicks off its 2015 summer season with the 24th annual Wild West Fest, which runs June 1-7. Monday, June 1, 36 under-served youth from the Boys & Girls Clubs of America will come to Telluride from Atlanta, GA; Des Moines, IA; Denver,...
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...
