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EVENTS
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■ Blue Dime Cabaret
8 p.m. Friday, April 1, The Tune Up, 2355 30th St., Boulder. Tickets: $10, dimepieces.wixsite.com/bluedime Blue Dime Cabaret is a pop-up cabaret troupe producing a lowbrow, avant-garde variety sideshow with ludicrous acts and bawdy characters. The troupe includes burlesque performers, actors, dancers, contortionists, comedians, clowns, singers, musicians, magicians, drag artists and jugglers. This April Fool’s Day, join in the foolish fun as Blue Dime Cabaret brings in the sexy and the silly for Boulder Arts Week. This show, while a variety show, includes several drag and burlesque acts, and is not appropriate for those under the age of 18. Admission includes one free drink at the bar.
■ Venus Victrola presents Faebies and Theybies: A Non-Binary Centered Dance Party
10 p.m. Saturday, April 2, Trident Booksellers & Cafe, 940 Pearl St., Boulder. $10 via Eventbrite Join Venus Victrola and friends for drag pop-ups and dancing! Featuring cake, late night snacks and a curated drink menu.
MATT MAENPAA
■ Absurd April Fools Parade
5:47 p.m. Friday, April 1, Roosevelt Community Park, 700 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont. Free Dress up in your most absurd costume and join Left Hand Artists Group as they shamelessly parade down the streets of downtown Longmont. Meet at the Senior Center in Roosevelt Park at 5:47 p.m. Parade begins at 6:15. The parade will go south on Pratt Street, turn east on Sixth Avenue, march up Main Street to Longs Peak Avenue, and head west back to the park. Pets, kids and noise makers encouraged!
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■ Band of Toughs presents “Tularosa, And American Dreamtime”
6 p.m. Friday, April 1, Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Free, bandoftoughs.org/boulderartsweek As part of Boulder Arts Week, Band of Toughs: a Theater Collaboratory will host a free open rehearsal for “Tularosa: An American Dreamtime,” a song cycle created by visiting Durham, North Carolina, artist Kamara Thomas. “Tularosa” is a storywork that explores the American psyche through the mythology of the American West. This open rehearsal will feature a short, informal performance followed by a collaborative conversation with the audience.
■ Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet presents ‘WALD’
6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 31, Boulder JCC, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder. Free, lemonspongecake.org Internationally recognized choreographer Robert Sher-Machherndl debuts the new and uncompromising site-specific work WALD. A powerful response to global warming, environmental change, its impact on personal relationships, social interactions and the human condition. Sher-Machherndl reflects upon contemporary culture, responding via ground-breaking signature movement language, nuanced choreography and world-class performance.
■ Power Playback Theater: Pandora & Pandemics with special guest Dominique Christina
7 p.m. Saturday, April 2, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Tickets: $15-$25, motustheater.org Motus Theater invites you to join a special adventure in playback improvisational theater to support entertaining, edgy and awesome community storytelling. Motus calls these performances Power Playback Theater, because there is power within our stories and our truths. Come and share a short reflection or story inspired by the night’s theme, and then watch professional playback actors enact your story on the spot using movement, music, and dramatic spoken word. The stories may be funny or sad, memories from long ago or yesterday. Audience and performers co-create a theater event whose subject is the life experiences of the people attending the show. Dominique Christina is an award-winning poet, author, educator, and activist. She holds five national poetry slam titles, including the 2014 & 2012 Women of the World Slam Champion and 2011 National Poetry Slam Champion. Her work is greatly influenced by her family’s legacy in the Civil Rights Movement; her aunt Carlotta was one of nine students to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas and is a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient.
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