Events: What to do when there’s ‘nothing’ to do

EVENTS 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.

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-specifi c work WALD. A powerful response to global warming, environmental change, its impact on personal relationships, social interactions and the human condition. Sher-Machherndl refl ects upon contemporary culture, responding via ground-breaking signature movement language, nuanced choreography and world-class performance.

■ 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!

■ 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 refl ection 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 fi ve national poetry slam titles, including the 2014 & 2012 Women of the World Slam Champion and 2011 National Poetry Slam Champion. Her work is greatly infl uenced 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.

■ CU Conference on World Affairs

April 6-9, 1344 Grandview Ave., 465 UCB, Boulder. Free, colorado.edu/cwa

The University of Colorado Boulder Conference on World Affairs returns in-person with most sessions livestreamed online April 6-9. One hundred diverse speakers and performers will participate in 125 panel discussions, performances and keynote events on the CU Boulder campus. The event will feature dialogue on a variety of topics including this year’s conference themes: art as activism; stories from the real world; the Constitution; racism in the United States; regenerative agriculture; and the entrepreneurial journey. Notable events include keynote presentations by:

• Victoria Garrick, mental health advocate, podcast host, and former Division I athlete • Steven Olikara, founder & president of Millennial Action Project and candidate for United States Senate in Wisconsin • Thomas Chatterton Williams, author, contributing writer at New York Times Magazine, and visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute • Akhil Amar, author and Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University All events are free and open to the public.

■ CU’s Playback Theatre Ensemble presents ‘Don’t Boulder My

Longmont! (Or Please Boulder My Longmont!)’

7 p.m. Thursday, March 31, Stewart Auditorium, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Tickets: $12-$18, longmontcolorado.gov

Playback Theatre is a non-scripted, interactive theater form in which audience members share true stories or experiences from their lives and see them “played back” by an ensemble of actors in ways that encourage insight across chasms of difference. Like a cross between a town hall meeting and an improvisational performance, one actor from the ensemble (“the conductor”) engages the audience in a collective conversation, asking questions that address the specifi c concerns of those who’ve gathered. The audience’s responses are played back on the spot in non-confrontational ways that build bridges, strengthen social bonds and lift civic spirit.

■ ‘And That’s Why We Drink’:

Here for the Boos Tour

7 p.m. Saturday, April 2, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Tickets: $30-$60, z2ent.com/boulder-theater-venue

And That’s Why We Drink is a twotime Webby award-winning, comedic true crime and paranormal focused podcast (Stitcher) hosted by Em Schulz and Christine Schiefer. Every Sunday, listeners are served deep dives into chilling ghost stories and the most provocative true crime cases. The world is a pretty scary place, and that’s why they drink (wine and milkshakes preferred)!

THAT’S WHY WE DRINK

■ Author Talk: Lauren Rankin—‘Bodies on the Line’

6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 5, Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Tickets: $5, boulderboookstore.net

Abortion has been legal for nearly 50 years in the United States, but with a new conservative majority on the Supreme Court and an emboldened opposition in the street, the threat to its existence has never been more pressing. Clinic escorts— everyday volunteers—are prepared to stand up and protect abortion access, as they have for decades, even in the face of terrorism and violence. They have lived, and sometimes died, to ensure that abortion remains not only accessible but also a basic human right. Clinic escorts have fought the “abortion wars” on the front lines, and it is clinic escorts who will win it, by replacing hostility with humanity. Collecting the stories of these brave volunteers from around the country—including the author’s own— interviews with clinic staff and patients, and research and input from abortion rights experts, Bodies on the Line makes a clear case for the right to an abortion as a fundamental part of human dignity, and the stakes facing us all if it ends. Bodies on the Line is a celebration of the crucial, often unsung heroes of abortion access and an inspiring call to defend this basic health care before it’s too late.

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EVENTS CONCERTS

Thursday, March 31

Anna Cutler. 5 p.m. BOCO Cider, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Unit 14, Boulder. Free.

Dry Mouth. 7 p.m. Trident Bookseller & Cafe, 940 Pearl St., Boulder

The Talbott Brothers. 7 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver. Tickets: $20

Dead Floyd with Legato. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Tickets: $12.50-$15

Harve with Kaegi, Gano B2B RPSM, Trejo B2B Spyda, Sami G B2B Eve-

lation, Mrgn Mrgn B2B Hankis. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Tickets: $20-$25

Friday, April 1

Baroness. 7 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver. Tickets: $60

AMBIENT OCCLUSION. 7 p.m. Trident Bookseller & Cafe, 940 Pearl St., Boulder

The Wailers with Green Buddha. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Tickets: $25- $29.50

Jazmine Sullivan. 8 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 N. Clarkson St., Denver. Tickets: $10

Denzel Curry. 8 p.m. Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop St., Denver. Tickets: $35.50-$59.50

Atish. 9 p.m. Meow Wolf, 1338 First St., Denver. Tickets: $25

Banshee Tree with Graham Good & The Painters, Sturtz. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Tickets: $15-$18

New Something Fridays: Emerald Wells with Amplifi ed Visuals. 10 p.m. Supermoon 909 Walnut St., Boulder