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[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Mia Borders]

 

SOS POSTER Local Teddy Errico's Telluride Cajun Festival is a little bit like the phoenix of mythology – or Harry Potter fame. Too much spice (music and food) burns it up, but the event inevitably returns better and stronger.

After a two-year break, The 2011 Telluride Cajun Festival and its partner, Oak, (the new Fat Alley), announce a South Oak Social with headliner Mia Borders performing on a program with the Great Funktier and Lily Von Shtupp. The main event takes place rain or shine Friday, July 29, at The Gondola Plaza at the base of Chair 8. Gates at 4 p.m. (Mia is scheduled to perform at 6 p.m.) Tickets are just $10 in advance and $15 day of show. Saturday, July 30, is a free night of music featuring Von Schtupp. Show time is 6 p.m.

26 July, 2011 /
[click "Play", Art Goodtimes talks about Mushroom Fest]

 

Mushroomfilm The Telluride Mushroom Festival, Thursday, August 18  – Sunday, August 21 bills itself as the nation's "oldest mycological conference exploring all things fungal." Which is saying a tasty mouthful since fungi have been around for a very long time. A lot longer than people, perhaps 500 million years. (The earliest known picture of a mushroom was found on a wall painting in the ruins of Pompeii.)

Fungi come in a wondrous variety of shapes, sizes and colors, from tiny cup fungi to puffballs the size of basketballs. Today, the sorts of wild shrooms sold at retail or served in your local restaurants are generally above suspicion. The main health hazard are fungi we collect ourselves.

26 July, 2011 /
[click "Play" to listen to Susan's interview with Etienne Delessert]

 

30 His all caps bona fides set the bar high for his peers: more than 80 books, translations in 14 languages and millions of copies sold worldwide. No wonder Etienne Delessert is considered a father of modern children's picture books. And Etienne Delessert is coming to Telluride. At least his work is: Etienne is featured in a show, "From Beasts to Barbar," of other bold-faced children's book illustrators opening at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art on July 28 and running through the Telluride Film Festival in early September.

(Also at the top of the list of illustrators in Will Thompson's groundbreaking show is the iconic Maurice Sendak, whom Etienne describes as a "friend and one of the reasons I came to New York in 1965." )

25 July, 2011 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Peter Sis]

 

Peter Sis As an artist/author, Peter Sís is equivalent of an Olympic gold medalist – only he never broke a sweat. Well, almost never. There were a few narrow escapes while living under Communist rule in Czechoslovakia, a story Peter tells in his newest book with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, "The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain."

Václav Havel, former president of the Czech Republic, said of the work: “Peter Sís’s book is most of all about the will to live one’s life in freedom and should be required reading for all those who take their freedom for granted.”

24 July, 2011 /
[click "Play", Eddie Roberts talks with Susan]

 

1107-walterdeitchroberts2 Funk grows horns when jam band sensation Walter, Roberts & Deitch takes to the Main Stage of the at the 35th annual Telluride Jazz Celebration, August 4 – August 7.

Soul jazz organist Robert Walter is one of America's heaviest jazz-funk crossover musicians. Walter earned international acclaim for his work with The Greyboy Allstars, a group credited with bringing 60s/70s soul jazz sounds to a modern jam band audience. For the past 15 years, Walter has toured extensively in the U.S. and Europe with the Allstars and his own ensembles: 20th Congress, Robert Walter Trio, Super Heavy Organ.

24 July, 2011 /

Sasha, Rob Story
1st 20xTelluride
Sasha Cuciniello, Rob Story

Here comes the judge.

We are talking about the top legal gun in San Miguel County and Telluride local Sharon Shuteran. Judge Sharon is joined by fellow vagabonds, activists David Byars and Jenny Jacobi, "professional hobo" Dan Hanley, photographer Gus Gusciora, artist John Fahnstock, landscape architect Angela Dye, artist/videographer Dean Rolley, fitness guru Nicole Lankes and travel writer Maribeth Clemente for the third in the series,Twenty(by)Telluride, presented by Telluride Arts, aka, Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities.

Twenty(by)Telluride takes place Monday, July 25, starting at 8 p.m. at The River Club, 550 West Depot Avenue. Come a half hour early, at 7:30 p.m., for drinks and little eats compliments of the River Club. The theme of the evening's talks is JOURNEYS.

23 July, 2011 /

Passholders w:o W2s BERKELEY, CA – Telluride Film Festival (September 2-5, 2011), presented by National Film Preserve LTD., will, for the first time, present the best moments from the 37th Telluride Film Festival on its inaugural TFF 37 DVD two-disc set. Proceeds of each purchase directly benefit the National Film Preserve, LTD.
 
TFF 37 DVD set features highlights of filmmakers and Festival guests as they share their insights and anecdotes about the films that made the 2010 Telluride Film Festival such a success. The two-disc set contains recordings of all the Noon Seminars, Conversations Series, and interviews from the Tributees. With nearly six hours of footage, viewers can relive their favorite moments of the Festival, or see them for the first time, with plenty to keep them busy until the upcoming 38th TFF, September 2-5, 2011.

23 July, 2011 /

[click "Play" to listen to Henry Osti's conversation with Susan]

 

RYDE-logo-email In his capacity as Marketing and Real Estate Services Director of the Peaks Resort & Spa, Mountain Village, Mike Hess gets tons of mail, including lots of requests for help. But this one particular letter caught his attention.

A young man named Henry Osti wrote to say he was cycling 4,000 miles across America from San Francisco, CA to Yorktown, VA to raise awareness, grow a bone marrow registry and generate funds to fight leukemia. He needed two rooms for four people who would be riding through Telluride and perhaps a host for a bone marrow registry event.

23 July, 2011 /

by Dan Collins

Drew Ludwig photo ATLAS of the San Miguel, an exhibition celebrating the San Miguel River Watershed, is kicking off next Saturday, July 30th at the Ah Haa School for the Arts (300 S. Townsend) from 6:30 - 10:30. 

In addition to an art exhibition, the public will experience a great band from Nashville called “Swing Shift”  (those of you who went to Baerbel’s birthday party at the Sheridan Opera House will remember them well), a silent art auction (a week in Florence, anyone? A raft trip down the San Miguel?  Dinner for two?), delicious food and drink, a photo competition, and informational tables featuring the full range of work that the Telluride Institute does in not only our watershed, but globally (check out Elisabeth Gick’s work supporting a Tibetan orphanage, for example).  This is TI’s annual fund raiser.

23 July, 2011 /

Tour and Educational Programs Poised to Expand

After the rain, Mountainfilm 2009
After the Rain
2009 Mountainfilm

Telluride, Colorado (July 20, 2011) – Mountainfilm on Tour has been operating for more than 12 years and takes films from the annual Memorial Day festival in Telluride to several dozen venues worldwide each year. Making Movies that Matter, Mountainfilm’s educational initiative, which started three years ago, takes festival films into classrooms where students not only learn about critical contemporary issues but also how to use video editing software.

Both programs, equally critical to Mountainfilm’s mission to educate and inspire audiences, are set to take big steps ahead with the hire this week of two new directors. For the tour,
successful local entrepreneur Henry Lystad will fill the shoes of Justin Clifton who is departing to take on responsibility as executive director of the 5 Point Film Festival. Tracy Biga MacLean, most recently the head of media studies at the Claremont Colleges in California, will take on the role of scaling the educational initiative to a national level. She will work with Ellen Shelton who created the program and piloted it through its start-up years.

22 July, 2011 /