Mollie Fast in free concert at Christ Church in Telluride Sunday night These song birds seem to pop up our of nowhere, then their talent hits you like a fresh blast of gale force wind and bowls you over. Joey Lindly (the madam in "Best...
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Alanna Kaivalya was included in a Yoga Journal article featuring "Top 21 Instructors in the U.S. under 40." She returns to Telluride on the heels of her recent visit to town for the first annual Telluride Yoga Festival this past July, having woven her spell over that magical weekend. This time the senior Jivamukti instructor is here to teach a yoga workshop, "Compassion Through Action," in support of the San Miguel Resource Center.
On Saturday night, February 7, the SMRC holds its only public fundraiser, the 14th annual Chocolate Lovers' Fling. The SMRC is the region's only nonprofit that helps victims of domestic violence and sexual assault and offers prevention education.
Appropriately, the theme of Alanna's workshop is "Compassion Through Action," and book II, sutra 35 from the "Yoga Sutra's of Patanjali," the first and foremost scripture if Yoga, provides the leitmotif:
"Ahimsa Pratisthayam Tat Samnidhau Vaira Tyagah or "In the presence of one firmly established in non-violence, all hostilities cease."
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The First Thursday Art Walk, produced by the Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities, has become a highlight of the town’s high seasons of winter and summer. Galleries, studios and shops stay open late until eight to showcase the goods. Check out the scene at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, where Sally Strand has a one-woman show. (in 2007, Strand was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Pastel Society of America.)
Stalwart green apples keep company with a green plant, perched like sentries on a windowsill, while gleaming white cups cavort with a gang of tangerines. An unmade bed welcomes the morning light. A door opens into a private world we can only imagine. We follow the light.
Elsewhere people go about their daily routines. A woman sits lost in a book while another, much younger, buffs up the floors of a café to prepare for lunchtime traffic. A gaggle of chefs, elbow to elbow, hussle dinner.
At Lustre, 171 South Pine:
At this Thursday's Art Walk, Telluride’s Lustre Gallery is hosting a trunk show of Gurhan’s bling blockbusters. The designer's claim to fame is pioneering the revival of 24-karat gold, transforming the ancient metal into fine, contemporary jewelry.
“Gurhan is unique in his use of 24-karat gold, which is often considered too soft a metal to manipulate. After spending 18 months closeted in a small workshop in Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar, Gurhan rediscovered ancient metalsmithing techniques, some over 7000 years old, and improved upon them: pure gold is hand-worked, aged through a heating process, and given a stable form, resulting in a beautiful work of art,” said Christine Reich, co-owner of Lustre.
The Sheridan Arts Foundation's Young People's Theatre presents "Grease" this weekend at Telluride's Sheridan Opera House. The show runs Feb 6-8 (Fri-Sun) at 6:00 pm.
"Grease" is a jumping, jitterbugging and leaping, rocking and rolling spoof of 1950s teen innocence chockablock with songs you can whistle, tunes that recall the Buddy Holly hiccups, the Little Richard yodels, and the Elvis bumps and grinds that made the sounds of the era such a gas.
The enduring musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey is essentially a series of lively vignettes about black leather and shiny cars, satin pink and pajama parties, drive-ins, ear-piercing, smoking, wine-chugging, and dating. Home base, Rydell High is Never Never Land with classrooms, where classes are breaks between dances and hanging around in the hall.
TIO neglected to name the winners in the CoolSculpt competition in last weekend's Winter Snow Fest in the Telluride Mountain Village.First place was "Metaphor Machine" by students from the Mountain School, led by teacher Craig Wasserman.Second went to Duncan MacKenzie for his hypertrophic mushroom.Team Guest...
Police Inspector: “What can a slumdog possibly know?”
Jamal: [quietly] “The answers.
Nominated for 10 Academy Awards – film, director, cinematography, editing, original score, sound editing, sound mixing, adapted screenplay, and two for original song – "Slum Dog Millionaire" opens at Telluride's Nugget Theatre on Friday, February 6 and 8:30 p.m. nightly through Thursday, February 12, just before the Valentine Day weekend.
"Slum Dig Millionaire" is a valentine to the underdogs of the world who have not lost heart or hope – and that describes a lot of us who still choose to see the glass half full in challenging times.
"Slum Dog" is "Rocky," "Breaking Away," and "Cinderella" rolled up into one Dickensian fantasy about the American Dream outsourced to India.
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Melanie Montoya, Nicole Hagan, Melissa Sumpter,
Nancy Anderson, Angela Goforth, Lauren Shaddox
On Saturday night, February 7, 7:30 – 11:30 p.m., the San Miguel Resource Center holds its annual “Chocolate Lovers Fling,” an all-out bash and the nonprofit’s only major public fundraiser.
Supporting the Fling means help is on the way for you, a family member, or a neighbor should a call to the organization’s hotline ever become necessary.
The organization generates fully 1/3 of its annual budget from the Fling and counts on the generosity of contributors and the success of the event to be able to offer innovative services from these discretionary funds.
The Wilkinson Public Library and Telluride Adaptive Sports Program host a showing of the adventure movie, "Blindsight" and events with mountaineer/motivational speaker Jeff Evans on Wed, Feb. 4 and Thur, Feb. 5. On Wed. see Jeff at Schilling Studio and Gallery, 151 S. Pine, ($50/person,...
TIO's Eileen Burns was on hand this past weekend to capture (and join in) the festivities in the Mountain Village and on the Telluride ski mountain. Her video provides a view of the revelry, the scenery, and the art of ice sculpture that were enjoyed...
