The Telluride AIDS Benefit holds auditions for the 2011 TAB Fashion Show Monday – Wednesday, January 25 – 27. To prepare, the Telluride AIDS Benefit and The Ames Conservancy are offering a prep class for models and dancers. Fashion Show choreographer, Amanda Sturdevant, is the mentor...
Last night, the Golden Globes made Telluride proud of our golden girl.
Part-time local Laura Linney was awarded a Golden Globe for Best Actress, Comedy/Musical (TV) for her no-holds-barred performance in "The BIg C," the ultimate in when "life hands you a lemon..."
In "The Big C, " Linney plays Cathy Jamison, a dutiful suburban wife and mom, whose cancer diagnosis compels her to shed her inhibitions like last year's dress. Humor and hope move in. The immature hubbie moves out. Showtime has scheduled a second season.
Linney first came to Telluride in 2004 as a Telluride Film Festival tributee and to present two films, “Kinsey” and “P.S.” The trip rocked her world. Linney witnessed a rainbow, got to have a leisurely conversation with Joan Allen, an actress she long admired, and, then there was Marc. Marc is Marc Schauer, whose Film Fest assignment involved hosting Miss Linney. The rest is history: the Telluride Film Fest gave Linney much more than a medallion. It gave her a husband and a whole new world.
kicker: Exhibition of Civil Rights Movement images (1958 – 1965), unpublished by mainstream media
An exhibition of images of Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement opens today at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art to honor Martin Luther King Day, today, January 17, 2011.
According to Gallery director Baerbel Hacke, the show provides "a rare great opportunity for young people in this community to 'witness' events through the eyes of award-winning photographer Dan Budnik."
MOUNTAIN VILLAGE, CO, January 7, 2011 -- The Telluride Mountain Village Owners Association (TMVOA), sponsors and organizers of the Telluride Festival of the Arts (TFA) announced today the dates for 2011, which will take place Friday, Aug. 12 through Sunday, Aug. 14. The TFA celebrates the visual and culinary arts and will play host to over 5,000 local, regional and national visitors. Highlights of the event include nationally juried professional visual artists and the signature “Grand Tasting” event showcasing renowned culinary establishments, spirits and wineries.
Visual artists are invited to go online now and apply to be one of the exhibitors at the 2011 TFA. Prospectus and application are available at http://www.Zapplication.org, where artists create an online artist profile, prepare and upload images, and complete the online application. The deadline for application is midnight (MST) on Tuesday, February 22, 2011. The Cherry Creek Arts Festival, one of the nation’s most respected and competitive juried arts festivals, produces the show. The exhibition experience for the visual artists is like none other and includes breathtaking mountain views in a European-style resort town with a year-round population of second and third homeowners that embrace the visual arts. The artists' success and exhibition experience are the core values and measurements of success for the Telluride Festival of the Arts.
She all but shouted it from the rooftops of town.
When Telluride local Baerbel Hacke turned 60, there was an all-Caps urgency to the event and a no-holds-barred party to go with it.
Baerbel took (at least) a week off work – she is the director of the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art – so that the birthday girl could celebrate in high style with a little help from her friends, some of whom came all the way over from Germany. (Baerbel was born in Leipzig, but found her winding way to Telluride in the 1980s.)
Check out this weekend's snow sculpting contest....
James Vilona's chair, a lyrical bronze spiral, is the first thing guests to our Telluride home see, and it is, hands down, our favorite piece of functional art.
Mies van der Rohe’s “Barcelona Chair,” designed in 1929 for the World Exposition in Spain and Le Corbusier’s “Chaise,” created at about the same time, are considered 20th century classics. Charles and Ray Eames’ “Chaise Longue," was a prototype submitted for a competition held in 1948 at New York City’s The Museum of Modern Art. Elegantly asymmetrical, the Longue was meant to be inexpensive, lightweight, versatile and appealing to young families. Made of dyed cotton cords and steel, Brazilians Fernando and Humberto Campanas’ Vermelha Chair, 1993, looks like a kitchen mop or a bird’s nest on steel legs.
"Super Diamond, a Neil Diamond tribute band that tours nationally, have become enormously successful and have achieved pseudo-stardom in their own right," David Bernstein, New York Times
We're not talking De Beers. We're talking da beers, which will be flowing Friday night, January 14, when Telluride's historic Sheridan Opera House welcomes the band "Super Diamond: The Alternative Neil Diamond Experience" to town for an evening of glittering sequins, platform shoes, and bell-bottoms. In other words, a generation-spanning, uptempo walk down memory lane.
Doors and cash bar open at 8:30 p.m. Show time is 9 p.m.
kicker: Fundraiser in support of Scholars in the School and other programs
Telluride's Pinhead Institute has its feet on the ground, but its eyes on the stars this one particular night.
Friday, January 14, 2011, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m., Pinhead hosts an "Astronomical Evening" of cocktails, hors d'oeuvres and conversation with NASA Astronaut Joe Tanner.
kicker: "Like a finely made rug, The Return of Navajo Boy contains multiple layers of color, construction, and meaning.... A must-see." Native Peoples Magazine
On December 6, Dr. Doug Brugge, a guest of the Advocacy Coalition of Telluride, the Town of Telluride, the Pinhead Institute and the Telluride School District, spoke to an audience at The Palm about the environmental and health consequences of mining, milling and processing of uranium ore.
Dr Brugge, a Harvard PhD, grew up on the Navajo reservation. His wide-ranging expertise in public heath includes the subject of the of uranium mining and processing on Native Americans. In 2007, Brugge testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on uranium contamination in the Navajo Nation, whose chairman, Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) became an advocate for the tribe because of one powerful documentary and its powerful new epilogue produced one year later in 2008: "The Return of Navajo Boy."
