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World Premiere of Tom Shadyac’s "I Am", Record Attendance Highlight 32nd Annual Festival

Telluride, Colorado (June 8th, 2010) – Mountainfilm in Telluride enjoyed record attendance this year with more than 15,000 seatings in theaters, up some 25% from 2009. Despite sunshine and warm temperatures, often deterrents to theater-goers, Mountainfilm venues operated at or near capacity throughout the Memorial Day weekend. “We benefited from several factors,” said Mountainfilm Executive Director Peter Kenworthy. “We received very favorable regional press leading up to the event. The weather lured a lot of people within driving range who might otherwise not have come. And, word-of-mouth momentum has been building steadily the past three years.”

13 June, 2010 /

HistoricalPoster_WESTFEST Telluride is crazy about Squids. And not just breaded and served with a side of marinara or aioli sauce. We like ours on stage.

Saturday, June 12, is the first day of the second annual Heritage Fest, which continues through Sunday, June 13.

Heritage Fest is a celebration of the history of the Telluride region. The family fun includes lots of activities especially for the young and young at heart: Galloping Goose Railcar Rides at the Ah Ha School, Stagecoach rides down Main Street, demonstrations of sheep sheering, blacksmithing, double and single jack drilling and gold panning, a Nickel Grab at the county courthouse, face painting at Ah Haa, more contests in Elks Park, and a reenactment of the Butch Cassidy bank robbery. The five-star Wilkinson Public Library is showing films in keeping with the historical theme: "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "We Skied It."

12 June, 2010 /

IMGP1229 The San Miguel River flowing through Telluride is important to Jagged Edge. So maybe it shouldn't come as a surprise that Jagged Edge organized a river cleanup day last Wednesday, June 9.

IMGP1240 Erik Dalton and Cari Mackie were on the river in kayaks, representing the company. Connor Intemann and I were in kayaks, Travis Julia was manning a whitewater canoe as the "trash boat" and George Greenbank patrolled the left bank on his mountain bike.

We put in just upstream from the Town Park bridge. The river was flowing fast, bank-to-bank, but we were able to find small eddies to pull in along the way to pick up the trash we found.

12 June, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear Nancy Landau speak about the used book sale]

Book Sale Just ask the Telluride Foundation or CCASE. Telluride has lots and lots of nonprofits. Some of them are dead center on the radar like Mountainfilm, Telluride Bluegrass Festival and the Telluride Film Festival. Others, not so much, but nonetheless noteworthy.

The Friends of the Library was established to assist the San Miguel County Public Library District #1. The goals of the organization include promoting public awareness of library services, support for library improvement and advancement, and sponsoring cultural and educational programs & activities. Given the five stars awarded to Telluride's Wilkinson Public Library again this year, the Friends of the Library must be doing something right (along with the Library's outstanding director and staff.)

11 June, 2010 /


Telluride Inside... and Out goes behind the scenes at Crow Canyon with Vice President of Programs Mark Varien, who has worked in the Crow Canyon research department since 1987.
 
Between 1987 and 1997, Varien directed Crow Canyon excavations at numerous archaeological sites. He earned a Ph.D. from Arizona State University, and won a Society for American Archaeology award for the best dissertation in archaeology in the United States for his investigations of regional settlement patterns. His paper later became a book:"Sedentism and Mobility in a Social Landscape: Mesa Verde and Beyond."
10 June, 2010 /

[click "Play" for Karl Schaeffer's conversation with Clint] The Ridgway Railroad Museum will help Telluride celebrate a chronologically short but rich cultural history this weekend, June 12-13, during the second annual Heritage Fest.  The Railroad Museum is an active participant...

10 June, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear George Patterson talk about differences Wild West Fest has made]

WWF09 029 Last Monday, Mountainfilm in Telluride ended with the kind of feel-good announcement that has become par for the course for the world-changing event: Dr. Rick Hodes had contacted a colleague, a back surgeon, and Prudence, a young woman from Mali, who had beguiled the crowd with her angelic voice and smile, suddenly has a shot to emerge from the wheelchair that has confined her twisted torso since childhood. The crowd yelped and cried for joy: it was Christmas in May.

Now it's Christmas in June for about 50 young people from Boys and Girls Clubs of America and Big Brothers/Big Sisters, thanks to the Sheridan Arts Foundation's 19th annual Wild West Fest and enrichment education at C.A.M.P. (Chip Allen Mentorship Program), a weeklong celebration of Western arts, cultural and custom. The Wild West Fest, like so much of Mountainfilm, One to One, and other local non-profits helps change the world one young person at a time.

09 June, 2010 /

Golf_pro The Telluride Ski & Golf Club welcomes Samantha Fritz as Head Golf Professional. Fritz is a PGA Class A Professional and comes to Telluride with extensive experience in the golf industry.

 Fritz graduated in 2007 from Ferris State University with a Bachelor’s degree in marketing and a concentration in Professional Golf Management. For the past three seasons, she has worked at some of the most elite resort facilities in the country, including The Club at Cordillera in Edwards, Colorado, and The Hawthorns Golf and Country Club in Fishers, Indiana. Fritz established and cultivated the women’s golf programs at both facilities. Through extensive lessons, clinics and relationships, she grew both into the excellent programs they are today.
09 June, 2010 /