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Andreadance:Basile brings a focus on wellness to Boulder Ballet

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e arts are also a pathway to diversity and inclusivity that, frankly, Boulder needs more than most other college towns. So what’s the problem?

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For those of us who’ve been here for a while, it’s easy to be nostalgic about an earlier time in Boulder. e early days of the Mall Crawl, the Kinetics, the World’s Shortest St. Patrick’s Day Parade and other events were just plain fun, silly and creative. ere was more live music, more spontaneous creativity, because there were more creatives living in Boulder.

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As Boulder becomes more of a tech and tourism town, the issue of how to develop and protect a vibrant creative community becomes more pressing. Multiple studies

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e problem is that, in the city’s most recent budget, arts and culture were not part of the long list of priorities used to justify a substantial budget increase. e city’s O ce of Arts and Culture does a great job with what they’re given, but Boulder, known worldwide as a creative

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have proven that art and music are critical components to early childhood development. Similarly, studies repeatedly demonstrate the economic bene ts of a robust creative community. From increases in restaurant and hotel reve nue and direct support through seat taxes, to the obvious bene ts to any company that wants to attract and retain top tier employees, the arts are economic drivers that sup port our community directly.

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all of those things are possible, but not unless we make them a priority. Other cities spend more on arts and culture than we do as a percentage of budget. at’s partly because Boulder made a commitment to buying open space a long time ago. But it’s also because city council has relied on the arts community to do what it’s always done: to keep making stu —be creative.

Dedicated, transformational funding is available starting in 2024 with the expiration of a small sales tax that currently just goes into the city’s general fund. Of course, there is never enough money to do every thing, and city sta will cite a long list of urgent needs. But don’t forget that we just passed a huge infrastructure tax that was supposed to catch up on the backlog of projects that needed support, all at a time when federal infrastructure dollars are most likely headed our way, too.A canthewealth.aoforadotherankwegoingisandphilanthropists,supportedmunitycreativevibrantcomisoftenbywhiletheresomeofthatonhere,apparentlydeadlastinstateofColintermsartsgivingaspercentageofWe’reatbottom.Wedobetter,

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Nick Forster is a co-founder of Create Boulder, a professional musician, record producer, arts and nonpro t en trepreneur, and radio host/producer. He is most widely known as a longstanding member of the award-winning bluegrass band Hot Rize, and as the host and founder of the musical and environmen tal radio and podcast program eTown, based in

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community, doesn’t put its money where its mouth is. e city’s own promotional literature lists cultural organizations that it uses to tell a story about how cool Boulder is, but then can’t support those same orga nizations because there isn’t enough money. Or, more accurately, funding for arts and culture is not seen as a priority, a nice-to-have, not a musthave.Of

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spend even half of 1% of our annual budget on arts and culture at a time when that segment of the economy is struggling? Or fully fund our cultural plan?

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a ordable housing options for creatives? Or fully fund our existing Cultural Plan? Or make sure that we have the perform ing arts facilities that would bring a more robust creative community together?Ofcourse

Great cities are measured by their culture. Boulder has an opportunity to reinforce and reinvigorate the creative community by investing in it, not by paying lip service and hoping for the best. It’s time to shift our priorities and recognize that a vibrant econo my is inextricably linked to having a creative and cultured city. It’s time for transformational funding that ensures the organizations that have already made Boulder home can stay here and grow, raise their sights and raise their game so we can all be proud of the variety and breadth of what local artists are doing.

course, there are other reasons why the creative vibrancy I remember from decades ago isn’t as whichtherestruggling?thethatatartsannualofspendBoulderoptionsentertainmentavailabilitydevicesaddictionincludingstrongourtoourandtheofathome.IsitOKthatdoesn’tevenhalf1%ofourbudgetonandcultureatimewhensegmentofeconomyisArewaysinwemightsupport

e pandemic was devastating to many of our cherished arts organiza tions. Now is the time to remember what made Boulder so special, what attracted us in the rst place, what has kept it interesting as the town has gentri ed. Let’s get to 1% for the arts. We can a ord it.

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and it starts with us. If we think it’s time for a shift, let’s get together and be creative. Let’s ght for the soul of our First,city. let city council know how much you appreciate what they already do for the arts and that you would support their e orts to do substantially more. Second, let the City Manager know that you would support a dedicated (existing) sales tax that would allow us to make a BIG di erence.

CLARE GALLAGHER IS THE GOAT

For the past couple of months I have been riding my bicycle to work. I have never felt our community of Boulder have such a strong presence in my day-to-day life as when I have stepped out of my vehicle and taken to the awesome bike paths of this town. When you commute to work on your bike (or walking), you have

to interact with others, you have to cross the paths of our brothers, sisters and grandparents who are sleeping in the hidden corners of this community and feel the impact of their humanity. Cars are isolating to the communi ty. Add cell phones, computers and COVID to the equation and we are not even interacting with one another on a human level anymore. I chal lenge you to com mute to work on your bicycle once or twice a week

Regarding the article on Clare Gallagher (Adventure, “Earthrag ing,” Sept. 8, 2022): In March of last year, Clare came across me under a bridge, sheltering from a snowstorm, homeless, elderly, and badly frostbit ten. She helped me into a hotel and afterwards drove me to a hospital and after I recovered from surgery drove me to Louisville to apply for Social Se curity bene ts and then she oversaw my journey to subsidized housing. GOAT? Yes, and not just in running.

for a month. Engage one another’s presence in this community outside of your vehicle’s protective armor, aside from shopping assembly lines, lling your gas tanks or punching the time clock. It’s too easy to remain callous as we whiz by in our cars and ignore one another and the growing need to address the increasing poverty and desperation of our brethren, veterans, seniors and young people in this ‘en lightened and awake’ community of Boulder, Colorado. Show some love!

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hen it comes to arts and culture, Boulder fghts above its weight class. What our little foothills hamlet lacks in size it makes up for in ambition, attracting world-class touring artists and incubating local talent in equal measure.

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That’s why Boulder Weekly is presenting our inaugural Fall Arts Preview. Here you’ll fnd a curated guide to the can’t-miss events coming to a creative space near you — from the stage to the page, and points in between.“When we watch a play together, our heartbeats sync up, our breathing starts to regulate together,” says Local Theater Co-Artistic Director Betty Hart, illustrating the broad community value of experiencing art in a group setting. “You can't get more communal than that.”

The following pages include plenty of opportunities to enjoy the kind of connection Hart is describing. It also includes stories about the challenges facing local arts organizations and the nonprofts who are stepping up to help, along with profles on local arts leaders, previews for performances you defnitely won’t want to sleep on, and a whole lot more.

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“And that is we lose, right now, $50 grand a Realistically,month.”Preston says, if the historical museum received no more money between now and the end of the year, “we have a survival rate of about 10 to 12 months.”

There are four main sources of grant funding for nonproft arts organizations in the city of Boulder: the Boulder Arts Commission (BAC), Colorado Creative Industries (CCI), the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and the Scientifc and Cultural Facilities District, or SCFD.

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Operating on insuffcient funds is a reality for many small-to-medium arts organizations across Boulder County, according to interviews with more than a dozen artists, city employees and advocates.

Who’s got the money?

SCFD — a tax district comprising seven counties, including Boulder — is the largest funder of all, doling out some $60 million annually to around 300 organizations. The majority of these grants are for general operating funds, which allow organizations to spend the money however they choose, unlike a project- or donor-driven grant. At the county level, the Boulder County Arts Alliance also provides a number of grants, though these are mostly project specifc.

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But as these programs sunset, Chasansky is concerned about arts organizations “falling off the cliff.”“We got one to two years of enormous amounts of funds coming into nonproft organizations, all of which was spent to get people paid and keep it afoat,” Chasansky says. “And so what does it mean on the other side of that?”

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The city of Boulder comes in second after SCFD. Boulder’s Offce of Arts and Culture grants $925,000 per year from the city’s general fund. The seven-person BAC deliberates on how to spend

The Offce of Arts and Culture got an additional $913,000 from City Council from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) for arts grants, which they split into two categories: One, an artist-hiring grant, gives a dozen organiza tions $3,000 each to hire a local artist to create, whether that’s mounting an exhibition or writing a play; the second provides 10 organizations with $30,000 each year for three years to hire back arts administration positions that were lost during the pandemic.TheMuseum of Boulder received one of these administrative rehire grants, recently onboarding Aubrie Reed as an instructional designer to create open-source curriculum for schools about Colorado's Black history.

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according to Matt Chasansky with the city’s Offce of Arts and Culture.

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'm going to give you a little slice of reality,” Lori Preston, executive director of the Museum of Boulder, says over a Zoom call.

Butit.the pandemic, as Chasansky puts it, “was weird.”

A wave of federal grant money buoyed local arts orgs through the hardest days of the pandemic — now what?

Themoney.rehire grant requires a commitment to main tain the position after the three-year period, but with ticket sales still at just 40% of pre-pandemic levels at the arts

Of course, fnding the money to stay afoat is a perennial problem for creative endeavors, but the pandemic shifted the fnancial landscape along new faultFederallines. grants — CARES, the Shuttered Venue Operators grant, the Paycheck Protection Program — helped creative industries of all stripes make it through the crucible of the last two years. And the dollars were signifcant: Between the four largest arts-funding organizations in Boulder, federal grant money increased tenfold, from approximately $2.5 million in 2020 to more than $20 million in 2021,

However, because the museum decreased its budget in 2021, Preston says it received a smaller general operating grant from the city this year — a $30,000 difference. And next year, Preston can’t count on 10% of her operational funds coming from ARPA

“We're super blessed to be at The Dairy and have that space,” says Hubiak, of Boulder Ballet, which has administrative offce and rehearsal space at The Dairy. “That being said, there still is opportunity for growth within our organization, and there's nowhere for us to go. And I know that us being [at The Dairy] limits other people from being able to present work, and being able to have offce spaces. So there's a huge need in the community for the city or for private funding to create a 500-to-1,000-seat space that has administrative offces and rehearsal spaces. Because per capita, there are so many working artists in this town and if we're going to continue to support them, then we defnitely need more space.”While not a performance space, Boulder’s nonprofit arts advocacy group Open Studios just received a $1.5 million Community Revi talization Grant from Colorado Creative Industries to build a 12,000-square-foot community arts center that will provide space for teaching and Travisexhibitions.LaBerge, executive director of Parlan do School of Musical Arts, says that affordable housing for artists is becoming a bigger issue for his employees.“Wehavemore faculty members at Parlando commuting in from outside of Boulder,” he says. “And it's diffcult because they have to live further and further away to fnd something that's affordable to be an artist, a musician, and work in thisMaldenarea.”points

Museum of Boulder, there’s a lot of uncertainty.

For organizations like the Museum of Boul der, the answer can’t come soon enough.

“We so represent the city,” Preston says, mentioning the museum’s collaboration with the city to archive tributes in the aftermath of the King Soopers shooting. “But we're not in their budget in terms of preserving us as an institu tion.”

Ticket hesitancy and donor fatigue

Last year was the frst time Clack says she was able to take a salary for her work with Street Wise, “and it was a very tiny salary.”

“Because people cared about it, and it was something they could experience outside and feel connected through,” she explains.

But as federal relief dries up, so, it seems, is philanthropic giving, partially, some guess, from “donor“Donorsfatigue.”came out of the woodwork when the shutdown happened,” says Hubiak, with Boulder Ballet. “We were so supported, and I talked to a lot of organizations that felt the same way. But there's only so many times you can ask and continue to say, ‘We're rebounding from COVID; COVID has been hard; the rebuild is slower than we anticipated.’ To have the same problems year after year at this point, it's not compelling.”

number of performances it can host in a season.

“I would ask this question of our community: If not us, then who?” asks Preston. “If not the Museum of Boulder to preserve all of these items, who would do it?

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Preston points to the fact that Greeley, Fort Collins and Longmont all have municipally sup ported history/cultural museums like Museum of Boulder — but Boulder’s Offce of Arts and Culture doesn’t operate any facilities.

“Basaltspace.built a new performing arts center in 2021,” says Deborah Malden, Boulder County appointee to the SCFD board. “Crested Butte has a fairly new performing arts center. And Parker, Lone Tree, Arvada… I mean, many communities have performing art centers. I don't see [Boulder] having an Arvada Center, but it is remarkable that they have it. We have nothing like that. And The Dairy is a remarkable facility. It defnitely plays a key [role]. It's Boulder’s performing arts center, but it can't meet all of the needs.”Through her work with Create Boulder, an arts advocacy organization, Malden and her co-founders have funded an “envisioning study,” as Malden calls it, to see what kind of performing arts center Boulder needs, and where that could be located. (Boulder Weekly’s publisher, Fran Zankowski, is one of the four members of Create Boulder.)TheDairy is limited in the number of orga nizations it can provide offce space to, and the

“We get that the community has an appetite for more funding,” Chasansky says. “What does that look like?”

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‘If not us, then who?’

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Clack, founder and director of Street Wise Arts Mural Festival, running Sept. 29-Oct. 2. The nonproft offers workshops and artists talks for free, in addition to live painting on walls around Boulder during the festival. All artists are paid for their“Mostwork.of [the funding for the festival] comes from corporate sponsorships locally,” she says. “And those are just getting harder and harder to continue to get in a predictable way. And often they don't come in until later in the year and so you're trying to plan this huge event and not knowing if you have the money to fund it. That's kind of where we're at this year. I'm still trying to raise money to cover our bases. And I think in the future, if we want to keep doing this, we're going to have to fgure out either a way to scale it smaller or work with partners that have funding in advance.”Clacksays 2020 was the biggest mural festival Street Wise has put on since launching in 2019, thanks in part to COVID relief funds (which Clack also received in 2021), but also because of philanthropic giving from individuals and corporate sponsors.

to the fact that other commu nities around the state are investing in affordable housing, particularly rural communities like Trinidad.“They're positioning themselves to be a welcoming place for the creative community,” Malden says.

Chasansky takes the notion further, suggest ing that “private donations, individual donations, memberships, things like that, I think have always been a little anemic in Boulder,” with more focus in the area placed on environmental conservation.“Weonly have [around] 800 memberships in a community like ours, with over 100,000 people,” Preston, of Museum of Boulder, says. “And it's not that much — it's $35 for an annual membership. So, if we could get that mindset of ‘let's support local just by buying a $35 member ship,’ we could have more stability.”

Of course, grants — federal or municipal — aren’t the only way arts organizations get funding.“We need people paying attention to their role as an audience member and as a donor on the other side of [the federal relief fund ing], because everyone's going to be trying to adjust to a new normal in these organizations,” Chasansky says. “We need to rebalance the funding equation. The most important thing is getting people to buy tickets again. And there's no guarantee that habits haven't changed in such a way that it's not going to be [enough to support“Peopleorganizations].”arenotcoming back at the rate that we anticipated,” says Claudia Anata Hubiak, executive director of Boulder Ballet. “And so you budget for something, you take a guess, you hope you get it right. We've been conservative, and still, numbers have been signifcantly under what we Ticketsanticipated.”aren’tanissue for Leah Brenner

Nearly every artist, executive director, policy maker and arts advocate brought up problems that exacerbate funding diffculties, namely the cost of housing and a lack of affordable perfor mance

Affordable housing and a place to play

Despite frustrations, most artists still say funding for the arts has improved in Boulder over the last decade, particularly with the advent of the cultural plan in 2015. Chasansky says city staff are currently in the process of developing a new cultural plan by 2024 that will “cover some of the gaps” left by the original plan.

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“True learning isn't going to take place in the moment we're engaging with the play. It's going to happen on the ride home. It's going to happen in the shower. It's going to happen on your run the next day,” Hart says. “I’m interested in helping that learning deepen.”

Butlimited.”Hart’s performing arts career, which arguably began with a childhood hairbrush-mic rendition of “(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right” for her parents’ friends, eventually found new life on the Front Range.

I could, and I just assumed that's how the world worked,” Hart says. “Then I came here, and suddenly I was seen as a ‘Black actor.’ I'm used to being able to do whatever, and suddenly I was being

“I fnally just said, ‘You know what? You're here to help all the things you're seeing.’ I really feel like I was called to Colorado,” Hart says. “So then, instead of thinking of Coloradans as ‘them,’ it became ‘us.’ I made a shift, and that shift changed everything.”

‘Uniquely human’

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But when Hart moved from Atlanta to Denver in 2013, the theatrical polymath found her career strained in a way it had never been before.

“‘In Atlanta, I was only seen as an actor. I had never done a traditionally Black role with the exception of Tituba in The Cruci ble. I played roles like Portia in The Merchant of Venice because

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“We're allowed to be uniquely human. We don't have to show up with the guise of perfectionism. So we create something really beautiful and extraordinary that we all believe in, as opposed to it just being a job,” Hart says. “Something powerful happens when everyone is working together, moving in the same direction.”

To that end, Hart encourages audience members who stick around for discussion after the perfor mance to leave their hang-ups and preconceptions at the door. The post-show conversation surrounding a Boulder production of the racially charged politi cal drama The Firestorm by Meridith Friedman, for example, offered Hart an early chance to bring new understanding to a potentially uncomfortable subject. She sees such moments as an opportunity to do what theater does best: foster vibrant and critical communities.“There'sjust something magical that happens when we get to be in dialogue together. It enriches the entire experience,” Hart says. “I love when people walk out saying, ‘I never even thought about that.’ If you can help people feel seen and heard, and help them be open to other people's ideas, you want to come back for more.”

Stage leader Betty Hart brings a sharp eye and sensitive ear as co-artistic director of Local Theater Company by Jezy J. Gray spotlight

That’s why community engagement is a central part of Hart’s focus as she helps bring stage productions to life across the Front Range. While traditional post-show “talkbacks” offer a glimpse into the minds of a play’s performers and creators, the exchange fostered through her role as audience dialogue facilitator brings theatergoers into the conversation in a way that’s more collabora tive, dynamic and human.

Of course, Hart’s work on the stage isn’t limited to facilitating community conversations. She’s an actor and director in her own right, while also co-running Local Lab 11, Local Theater Com pany’s new-play festival. Her latest and most high-profle credit is co-assistant director for the immersive Theater of the Mind experience, co-created by former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne, at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.

With those crucial components in place, Hart says any linger ing questions of where she belongs are largely settled.

“It’s completely home — much to the chagrin of all my Atlanta friends who want me to come back,” Hart says of her new Front Range community. “It just speaks to me. I feel like Colorado wants me here, and I want to be here. Isn't that what home is all about?”

Part of what helped Hart fnd her place here was falling in with the team at Boulder’s Local Theater. She began with the company as an actor in 2016, eventually taking on facilitator and directing roles before settling into her current position as co-ar tistic director. Hart says a big part of the draw is using her skills within the organization to spur communication and collaboration.

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or Betty Hart, theater is both a call and a response. What happens on stage is a crucial piece of her work as a new co-artistic director at the Boulder-based Local Theater Company — but how the play reverberates in the lives of audience members looms just as large.

Call and response

Company, wants to help audiences engage with the artform in a way that's more collaborative, dynamic and human.

20 BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE FALL 2022 EXHIBITIONS Erin Hyunhee Kang, A Home in Between, Partial C: God’s plan for the redemption (detail), 2022, digital drawing. Image courtesy of the artist. Kristopher Wright: Just As I Am Erin Hyunhee Kang: A Home In Between Plane of Action Exhibiting Artists: Kevin Hoth and George P. Perez 800 S. Hover Rd. Suite 30, Longmont, CO 80504 • 303-827-3349 www.thelocoltheatre.com A Theatre company focused on local talent. An educational theatre to train and encourage kids in the gifts of acting and dance. A place for families to enjoy the family friendly productions. Scan Here to View Our Video Walk Through of the Theatre!

STEPHEN WEITZ WITH MOTUS THEATER AND SPECIAL GUESTS DINNER, COMMUNITY, CONVERSATION AND THE CONSTITUTION PerformancesUpcoming Register today at www.motustheater.org/events WITH MOTUS THEATER, ATTORNEY GENERAL PHIL WEISER AND SPECIAL GUESTS FAIR CHANCE HIRING IN COLORADO Saturday, October 22nd at 7pm MDT The Arts Hub, Lafaye e, CO BOUNDLESS TRUTH: WOMEN’S STORIES OF FREEDOM & INCARCERATION MOTUS PLAYBACK Tuesday, September 20th at 2:30pm MDT HQ Main Stage - adjacent to Skyline Park/CitySkate (1136 16th St Mall) Sunday, November 27th at 7pm MST Dairy Arts Center, Boulder, CO Saturday, September 17th at 6pm MDT Louisville Center for the Arts, Louisville, CO

That desire to affect change takes center stage in the upcoming BETC production of Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children, running Sept. 15-Oct. 8 at the Dairy Arts Center. Previously produced on Broadway by the Manhattan Theatre Club and the Royal Court Theatre, the 2016 play loosely inspired by the Fukushima nuclear explosion in Japan tells the story of a pair of retired nuclear physicists who process a similar disaster from their isolated home on the British coast.

Ecological disaster takes center stage in Butterfly Effect production of ‘The Children’

“It's a challenging play, and it asks difficult questions of us in the audience as individuals — and collectively — about how the deci sions we make today will have long-lasting effects that go well beyond our lives,” Weitz says. “But it's not a polemic. It's really organic and honest about who these people are and how they interact with each other. That, to me, is the mark of a great play.”

“Our vision is to be a catalyst for a better world. We're trying to affect peo ple in a way that they can take forward into their lives,” says Stephen Weitz, producing artistic director for BETC. “It's about changing the way people think, the way they feel and the way they empathize with others by exposing them to things on stage.”

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Various times, Sept. 15-Oct. 8, Grace Gamm Theater at Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Tickets: $25 general / $15 students, thedairy.org

great play should leave a mark. That’s the mission underpinning the Butterfy Effect Theatre of Colorado (BETC), whose name refects the company’s desire to put works on stage that stick with audiences long after the curtain closes.

— Jezy J. Gray

ere’s an itch you probably never thought you’d scratch: a mashup between Gulliver’s Travels and professional basketball. This fall, The Catamounts presents the regional debut of Chica go-based playwright Mickle Maher’s fantastical musical Small Ball

— Caitlin Rockett

The Catamounts presents a wild mashup in ‘SmallmusicalBall’

The story follows a basketball player named Michael Jordan, who is un fortunately not that Michael Jordan, but a lonely, aimless journeyman player. He ends up signing a contract with the Lilliputian Existers — the tiny folk from Jonathan Swift’s 18th-century novel. As you can imagine, it’s a tough collaboration, as Michael Jordan won’t pass a regulation-size basketball to his action-fgure-sized teammates for fear of killing them. Post-game press conferences aren’t much prettier than the games.

says Cats artistic director and co-founder Amanda Berg Wilson, who is also acting in David Byrne’s much-anticipated immersive production the Mind. “I mean, that's why David [Byrne] came here. It's why Daryl [Mo rey] is helping us get this production up on its feet. Because it's a great place to develop really wild new work.”

Daryl Morey, general manager of the Philadelphia 76’ers, commissioned the play.The Cats will be the second company to mount the musical, after Catastrophic Theater produced a six-week run in Houston in 2018.

“We (Colorado) are starting to be known for innovative, risk-taking work,”

The Infamous Stringdusters Peter Rowan’s Free Mexican Airforce Featuring Los Texmaniacs • Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway Lindsay Lou • James Keelaghan • Kyshona • Henhouse Prowlers Sweet Water Warblers • Maya de Vitry • Joe Craven COURTESY THE CATAMOUNTS theater

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Oct. 29-Nov. 20, Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan, Denver, thecatamounts.org

Oct. 27-Nov. 12, Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville. Tickets coming soon, cctlouisville. org

Dec. 9-11, CenterStage Theatre, 901 Front St., Louisville. Tickets coming soon, centerstagetheatrecompany.org

Nov. 25-Dec.4, Longmont Theatre, 513 East Main St., Long mont. Tickets: $30, longmonttheatre.org

‘Willy Wonka Jr.’

This performance workshop has a fexible cast size with roles for elementary kids grades 2-6 ready to tell this tasty tale. Registration is open with a $450 tuition fee, and rehearsals start on Oct. 11 ahead of the December perfor mance run at CenterStage.

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‘A 1940s Radio Christmas Carol’

‘ShakesFear: An Autumn’s Tale’

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‘Of Mice and Men’

ShakesFear is an “immersive theatrical experience” presented by CU Boulder Department of Theatre & Dance. Audience members will explore the theater and encounter some of Shakespeare’s characters haunting the campus.

Oct. 7-16, Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, Hellems Arts and Sciences, Boulder. Tickets: $16, cupresents.org

A 1940s Radio Christmas Carol takes place on Christmas Eve, 1943, as a group of performers prepare to broadcast their live radio version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Featuring Christmas favorites and four original songs, this show combines “heartwarming drama and side-splitting comedy” with a musical classic.

John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is a window into life during the Great Depression and its resulting social problems . Tracing the journey of migrant feld workers George Milton and Lennie Small, the classic play will come to life when the Coal Creek Theatre of Louisville brings this celebrated story to the stage.

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ballet have benefted from patron age — individuals who support a full season of activity,” says Kirsten Vermulen, executive di rector of the Colorado chapter of Black Fret. “The patronage model for Black Fret is a curated season of opportunities to discover new artists.”

The first was to see if the experiential creative space would be the venue for the annual La Posada event, a showcase of local Hispanic and Latin musicians curated by Alvina with his rock band iZCAL Li to close out each year. The second was a focus group of area musicians discussing the possibility of a Colorado chapter of Black Fret, a music patronage organi zation with roots in Austin.

Black Fret is also attempting to subvert the prevailing systemic structures of the corporate music

“Through Black Fret’s granting program, they're elevating the voices of some underrepresented artists by basically giving us resources to make art and circumvent traditional industry models like labels by having that type of funding,” says singer-songwriter Alysia Kraft, an inaugural Black Fret grantee.

But Black Fret isn’t trying to reinvent the wheel or replace what other arts organizations are already doing in Colorado, both Vermulen and Kennedy agree. They say it’s more of a complement to the existing structure, rather than a competition.

“I am a big believer that the arts really make places great places to live,” Kennedy says. “And so if you're a fan, you’re kind of obligated to help the scene in my opinion. But it's not always easy to do that,”

industry, which — like many U.S. institutions — has favored predominantly white and male artists. Women make on average 25% less than men in the music industry, while only a third of global record industry investments go to women.

Membership offers listeners access to Black Fret benefits, including public and private music events throughout the season and mixers with musicians and industry experts. Members can also join in nominating the annual group of Black Fret artists.

When it comes to people of color, labels and other music industry companies report median pay gaps between 25% and 35% in favor of white employees. But at least 50% of all artists across Black Fret chap ters are BIPOC and LGBTQ+ artists, Vermulen says, which is a step toward addressing that disparity.

This mission is also at the heart of Black Fret. The idea is to expose Colorado’s engaged music fan base to artists they may have never heard before, from genres they may not normally consider, all in the hopes of falling in love with new music and becoming patrons.

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As a queer artist from Wyoming, Kraft says she moved to Fort Collins years ago to be a part of the supportive music ecosystem. She quickly made a name for herself with projects Whippoorwill and The Patti Fiasco, but used the Black Fret support to help launch a solo career with the release of her debut album, First Light , released June 17. The money is also helping seed her next album, already in the works.

“It's been a good partnership so far… I mean, money always helps,” Alvina says with a laugh.

“Our approach to curating is to really mix it up and to make sure that if you think you're signing on for the indie rock band, you're gonna get surprised by something really different,” Vermulen says. “Mashup is sort of our brand.”

In the end, both meetings were a success — iZCALLi and other La Posa da musicians were the frst live show at The Perplexiplex inside The Conver gence Station at Meow Wolf Denver last December. The group (Alvina, his sister Brenda on bass and Luiggy Ramirez, drums) focus on original rock in Spanish, in line with the Rock En Tu Idioma movement of the late ’80s and early ’90s. Over the last decade and a half, the group has established itself as a mainstay of the Denver music scene.

“For generations, the symphony, the opera and the

Alvina and iZCALLi also used Black Fret funding to finish their latest album, REBIRTH , and launch it at Levitt Pavillion on June 18. Alvina says iZCALLi spent years only fielding requests to play for Cinco de Mayo and Día de los Muertos events due to their Latin background. And while that still happens, Alvina says they choose to play these events periodically, seeing it as an “opportunity to expose a different side of music ... a different side of culture.”

“We're trying to help the local music scene in a lot of different ways,” Kennedy says. “Black Fret is providing a fan base and a base of experts. If an artist wants to tap into that community and expertise, they can.”

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But it’s been more than that. He says Black Fret came to Denver asking what local musicians need most and how the nonproft could leverage the engaged local fan base along the Front Range to support emerging and established voices alike.

ast November, Miguel Alvina headed to the recently opened Meow Wolf Denver for a series of meetings that would set the course for his year to come.

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Music patronage

‘Money always helps’ nonproﬁt Black Fret launches a Colorado chapter to support local artists

This year, Black Fret launched the Colorado chap ter — its third in the country — naming iZCALLi one of its initial 10 grantees, which came with a check for $2,500 for the band to spend as they pleased.

The Austin chapter gives away about a quarter of a million dollars a year, Vermulen says, with a patronage of about 700. Currently, the Colorado chapter has about 40 patrons, with a goal of reaching 100 by the end of the year. That would put them on a sustainable track for years to Withcome.80%of dues going toward grants, Vermulen says the organization runs on very little overhead. For those interested in becoming patrons, there are three levels of engagement: a single annual membership for $750, a duo for $1,500 or a “party” membership for three people at $3,000.

The patronage model

It helps that the Black Fret launch committee is composed of Front Range industry heavy hitters like Dani Grant, owner and general manager of Misha waka Amphitheatre, Robert Leja from KUNC and The Colorado Sound, and Dave Kennedy from Boulder’s Roots Music Project, among others.

“The folks who are investing in Black Fret want to be changemakers and want to invest in the journey of these artists,” Vermulen says. “And it isn't a consumption, it's a partnership.”

What started in Austin in 2013 by music fans Colin Kendrick and Matt Ott has grown into a national nonproft with additional chapters in Seattle and now Colorado, with plans for more to come. Since its inception, Black Fret has infused $4 million — including $2.5 million directly to musicians — into these cities’ local music scenes, building community along the way.

Black Fret Colorado Listen ing Session with The Original iLLs and I.O. Underground. 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17, Roots Music Project, 4747 Pearl St., Suite V3A, Boulder. Free. Find more upcoming shows at blackfret.org/ colorado

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“I don’t have to stop and figure out where the money's going to come from for what I'm making next — that’s the type of thing that can really slow an artist’s momentum,” Kraft says. “I feel like I've spent a long time trying to set my sail in the direction of where I want to go, and getting the grant is just like getting a big gust of wind behind that sail.”

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ollowing in the footsteps of British rock ‘n’ roll bands like the Skids and Gang of Four that rode the punk wave by crafting hard-nosed classics out of sly poetic and musical intelligence, Shame arrives at the Fox Theatre in Boulder via South Lon don on the heels of two critically acclaimed studio albums.

On the cover of their debut LP Songs of Praise (2018), the young mem bers of Shame cradle small pigs under a clear blue sky, coyly signaling the music within — tasteful, spry dance beats played forcefully on rock instruments and blanketed by the passionate screams of frontman Charlie Steen. “I hope that you’re hearing me,” he wails in a voice recalling seminal English groups The Fall and Sham 69, whose fngerprints can be found throughout Shame’s brief but bruising discography.

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Drunk Tank Pink, Shame’s latest, cranks up the ferocity, presumably taking cues from Fugazi with anthemic, churning post-punk that spends little to no time on idyllic introductions. Unlike Ian McKaye’s call-outs of con formed society, however, Shame’s genius lies in metaphors and disillusioned everyman angst. The album peaked at No. 8 on the U.K. charts, juxtaposing explosive post-punk with a bit of Franz Ferdinand-style grooves and British cobblestone drawl.

Co-headlining with Swedish rock outft Viagra Boys, Shame’s set at the Fox Theatre on Oct. 7 could be the shot in the arm Boulder — so inundated with bluegrass and jam bands — needs as a palate cleanser.

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The post-punk outft, which is on the forward-thinking Dead Oceans label based in Indiana, has also released two searing live albums that will entice fans of heavy music to see the band in person — and also perhaps clue them in to wear protective gear, as moshing might be involved.

UK post-punk act Shame brings a searing sound from across the pond

8:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Tickets: $25, z2ent.com

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vocal and instrumental pop music throughout the ages.

On top of the live music, attendees can also participate in a Pearl Street scavenger hunt to win merchandise and gift certifcates. Whether you come for the prizes, the pop or simply a chance to see one of the area’s premier arts organizations in action, you won’t want to miss it.

— Jezy J. Gray

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Noon-4 p.m. Oct. 1, Trident Booksellers and Cafe, 940 Pearl St., Boulder. Free, tridentcafe.com

arlando is an Italian word meaning “to speak” — and the voices behind Boulder’s Parlando School of Musical Arts ring out loud and clear. Since 2003, the state’s largest stand-alone arts outreach and education provider has inspired countless people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to celebrate a shared love of music with the community.

Bouderites will have a chance to see the result of this vision for themselves when Parlando School of Musical Arts presents Parlando on Pearl at Trident Booksellers and Cafe. The one-day blowout on Oct. 1 will feature three performance sessions by students and faculty, focusing on

"The students haven't sent in their set lists yet, but you can expect anything from the Beatles to Bruno Mars," says Travis LaBerge, executive director of Parlando School of Musical Arts.

Parlando School of Musical Arts brings pop music to Pearl Street

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Journey to France, the festival’s frst performance, will feature Jory Vinikour on harpsichord, whom the Bach Festival calls “a lead ing interpreter of baroque music in our time.”

Pro Musica Colorado’s frst concert of the season spotlights Piano Concerto in One Movement by Florence Price, the frst Black woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer, featuring soloist Jennifer Hayghe. The show will open with the world premiere of [[i]]The Hill of Three Wishes[[i]], a composition by Ben Morris, winner of CU’s 2021 Composition Competition.

7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 25, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Tickets: $30, z2ent.com

New Jersey emo mainstays The Front Bottoms bring their one-of-akind brand of folk-infused pop punk to the Boulder Theater in support of their latest EP, Theresa, released earlier this month via Elektra Records. The duo will be joined by indie rockers Motherfolk and Austin-based singer-songwriter Mobley.

Bartees Strange with Pom Pom Squad and They Hate Change

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Breakout artist Bartees Strange brings his shapeshifting indie rock style to Denver’s Bluebird Theater on the heels of his new critically acclaimed Farm to Table LP, released earlier this year by 4AD. He’ll be joined by the high-energy Pom Pom Squad and Tampa hip-hop duo They Hate Change.

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8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 14, Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Tickets: $20, axs.com

The Front Bottoms with Motherfolk and Mobley

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The 42nd season of the Boulder Bach Festival features fve performances scheduled across Boulder County through May 2023.

Boulder Bach Festival — ‘Journey to France’ with Jory Vinikour

Offering private music lessons in violin, viola, cello, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, french horn, trumpet, trombone, piano, acoustic guitar, classical guitar, ukulele, and voice Study with the best! The teachers at the Boulder Symphony Music Academy are members of the Boulder Symphony! YOUR FRIST LESSON IS FREE!

Apotheosis of Dance — Beethoven, Price, Morris

7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, Mountain View United Methodist Church, 355 Ponca Place, Boulder. Tickets: $25 in-person / $20 virtual, promusicacolorado.org

4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, Longmont Museum Stewart Auditorium, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Tickets: $60 general / $25 student, boulderbachfestival.org

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spotlight Seeds, by Martinez,Robert air brushed acrylic and oil on panel with raised accent.

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With that sentiment in mind, the Dairy Arts Center teamed up with the Creative Nations Art Collective to develop the Creative Nations Sa cred Space — a space permanently dedicated to Native and Indigenous artists at the Dairy, opening on Friday, Sept. 16.

It's time, Martinez says, for Na tive artists to tell their own stories.

t may seem like Robert Martinez is established, "but it’s been a long road to walk,” says the Native artist from the Wind River Reservation in central Wyoming.

if I were to think of a single word, the word hub … if we can be a hub for Native art and Native artists, that would be incredi ble,” Strenczewilk says. “It’s about making art as much as it is about displaying it.”

Martinez, a Northern Arapaho Chicano artist, and Bruce Cook, a Haida (British Columbia) artist, were invited to curate the exhibition. Martinez says it was humbling to be asked to show his and other Native artists’ work at the new space.

The space, founded by fve Indigenous people, is managed and envisioned by people who identify as Native or Indigenous. The Dairy is taking a hands-off approach in managing the space — providing resources, facilitation and guidance rather than controlling it.

“Allyship is not about saying, it’s about doing,” Strenczewilk says.

Cheyenne and Ute tribes. This exhibition will be free and open to the public through November 2022.

Paying artists appropriately is a goal for Strenczewilk. He says Creative Nations staff talk about what they should pay artists versus what they can pay them, with the hopes of addressing pay inequities for artists of color and in the arts generally.

there is a lot of healing and reconciliation that needs to be done because of past abuses and crimes against Native people.

ABOVE: "Cut Finger" by Robert Martinez, graphite and acrylic on vintage Colorado map.

Fathman was moved by the piece and Ortegon’s speech, which brought her to refect on the Dairy’s historic exclusion of Native artists.

The idea to create a dedicated space for Indigenous artists at the Dairy began in 2019 during the dedication for the mural Uncounted by Arapaho Shoshone artist Sarah Ortegon, whose family used to live on the land in the area. The mural raised awareness around violence against Native women and girls.

The frst Native art exhibition will feature works by artists from tribes with historical ties to Colorado and Boulder County: the Arapaho,

“Problems don’t go away if unaddressed,” says Melissa Fathman, executive director of the Dairy Arts Center. “It takes courage to step up, speak out, or make decisions that may make people mad or make you unpopular, but in the end, you know it’s the right thing to do.”

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The dedication of Creative Nations Sacred Space comes at a time when concert halls, art centers and museums are recognizing orig inal stewards of the land with land acknowledgements.MartyStrenczewilk, an Ojibwe storyteller and the managing direc tor of Creative Nations, says those acknowledgements are great, but have limited impact.

The Creative Nations Sacred Space at the Dairy opens Sept. 16

“It completely changed the way I viewed my workplace, an organization that prides itself on community, diversity and inclusion that had almost no connection to the people who used to live here. I internally vowed to fgure out how to reconcile the past,” Fathman says. “I realized that although I could not give the land back, I could carve out a space within the Dairy facility that is permanently dedicated to Native artists.”The opening event will start at 6 p.m. with a traditional blessing from Harvey Spoonhunter, chairman of the Northern Arapaho tribe. Artists Martinez and Cook will give a live art demonstration for attend ees. Art will be available for purchase during the exhibit, but not at the opening

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The space will serve multiple functions: providing a space for rehearsals, galleries, readings, poetry and music, while fostering collaboration and opportunities for Indig enous artists. Artists will have access to resources they might not have otherwise, and will bring the community together in healing and celebration.“Iguess

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“A non-Native artist, painting, drawing, sculpting Native themes and Native imagery, will have a longer and more lucrative career than an actual Native artist painting actual Native themes and imagery—and it's been like that forever,” Martinez says.

“They have created something that’s going to represent a moment of land back for us, a recognition of this land and what it is,” Strencze wilk says. “It is a bigger step than almost any organization ever takes.”

The Dairy is seeking to bridge that gap and empower Native artists through valuing autonomy and fair pay.

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“[Our people] haven’t been invited before recent times, so it was great to be invited back [to Boulder] to show our contemporary artwork.”Martinez says that Indigenous artists creating Native-themed art often do not have the same opportunities as white artists, emphasizing that “money is a huge factor.”

“I think there’s a real nice consciousness among most of the Dairy staff [to] not take over the project, because the Natives are really driving these things,” Strenczewilk says.

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Although it is not true land back, Creative Nations shows an actionable step toward land back and re-establishing Indigenous sovereignty in Boulder County.

“[This is] still a fairly new expe rience. [Native artists] have been marginalized and pigeon holed and stereotyped for so long.”

“Healing comes in many forms: It can come as a stark message; it can also come through laughter, or beautiful colors, cathartic move ments or healing sounds,” Fathman says. “The arts provide all of that — so many transformative opportunities that go beyond words.”

Despite his work being shown across the country, for most of his 25 years creating art, Martinez says he's felt overlooked. It hasn’t been until the last few years that Martinez has felt valued as a Native artist creating work about Native people.

Further, he sees Native artists giving back to Native communities, but doesn’t see non-Native artists doing the same. “But they don’t see the problem with that,” he says.

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Sept. 29-Jan. 22, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Union Works Gallery, 1750 13th St., Boulder, bmoca.org

Erin Hyunhee Kang captures loss and healing in ‘A Home

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“I felt lonely,” Hyunhee Kang says “Everyone was digging around us, and I just wanted to be at peace, you know — a quiet zone.”

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Hyunhee Kang’s husband opened a neighborhood Facebook page and found a picture a neighbor had taken of their street.

“He uploaded this picture of Mulberry Street from the corner of our front yard looking out,” Hyunhee Kang says, “and everything was burnt. And he said on the post, ‘Everything on Mulberry is gone, except one unit: 801.’ That was our home.”Hyunhee Kang’s upcoming show at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, A Home In Between, captures the conficting emotions she felt as her family moved back into their home and endured months of cleaning, renovation and construction, and the fnancial and bureaucratic headaches that come with it.

Days at home were now flled with the sights, sounds and smells of an entire neighborhood cleaning and building. Hyunhee Kang almost quit her graduate program, but faculty convinced her to take one class and process her emotions through her art. The series of black and white digital collaged images Hyunhee Kang will mount at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art are sourced from her burned out neighborhood and placed against fragmented landscapes that are both calm and chaotic.

rin Hyunhee Kang, her husband and their two children stayed in a hotel room on Dec. 30 as they waited to hear news about whether or not their house in Louisville burned in the Marshall Fire.

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The ofrenda is part of Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead. Though the festival shares Catholic roots with Halloween, along with an abundance of skele tons, the two holidays differ in intent.

“There are so many similar holidays around the world where death is recognized and celebrated. People tend to think Day of the Dead is Mexican Halloween, but it’s not,” says Anne Macca, curator of education at the Longmont Museum. “On Halloween you dress up to scare off spirits, but on Day of the Dead you’re welcoming back your loved ones.”

laborately painted sugar skulls rest beside photos, fanked by candles, a cross and fowers — an ofrenda, a memorial to the dead, honoring them with religious sacrament and artifacts representative of their life.

“[Fernandez] is doing a gigantar altar within that exhibit, and our community altars will be in

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From Oct. 8 to Nov. 6, both the Firehouse Art Center and Longmont Museum will host exhibi tions honoring Latin American culture and art from the Longmont community. Ofrendas will fll the Swan Atrium at the museum, including a massive altar by Latino artist Marcelo Fernandez.

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Longmont’s 22-year-old Dia de los Muertos celebration continues by Matt Maenpaa

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Longmont’s Day of the Dead celebration started in 2000, a collaboration between the museum and Latino social justice nonproft El Comite. Since then, the festivities have grown to encompass an exhibition of ofrendas at the museum, gallery showings of catrina paintings at the Firehouse Art Center, and a street festival to kick off the month.

“It feels very tokenizing and that’s kind of why I made the documentary. I wanted to show people how we feel about it,” he says. “I’m excited for people to see it, and for the opportunity to show people coming to see Day of the Dead that they don’t have to tokenize the art.”

• Day of the Dead Family Celebration, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Oct. 8, Fourth Avenue and Main Street, Longmont

Over at the Firehouse, the main gallery will host its sixth year of catrinas, paintings inspired by Mexican printmak er Jose Guadalupe Posada’s La Calave ra Catrina. Though originally intended as social commentary, Posada’s work has since become an iconic part of Dia de los Muertos.Localartists from around Boulder County paint their interpretations of La Catrina, some including pieces of jewelry and other materials worked into the painting. The catrinas are then auctioned off after the exhibition, with proceeds going toward funding the art nonproft’s programming.

• Dia de Los Muertos Exhibition, Oct. 8-Nov. 6, Longmont Museum & Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont

Chihuan says when he frst started making his own artwork, the death symbols present had no connection to Day of the Dead. The celebration wasn’t a big part of his upbringing, he explains, but people saw a Mexican artist with skeletons and just made the assumption for him.

“I interviewed Latino artists all around Colorado and how they feel like they’re being used for Day of the Dead specifcally,” Chihuan explains. “It feels like we’re only being called upon to show our work this time of year, or when you have other gentrifed Hispanic holidays like Cinco de Mayo.”

Chihuan, whose paintings are full of skeletons in red cloaks and other death ico nography, made the flm for a documentary class last year.

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• Catrinas on Parade & ‘Escuchame,’ Oct. 8-Nov. 6, Firehouse Art Center, Fourth Avenue and Coffman Street, Longmont

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the space around it,” Macca says.

Through the interviews with the art community, Chihuan found a mixed reaction. Some were grateful for the work, others less positive. Chihuan also found that pre dominantly white-owned galleries would exploit artists of other ethnicities to feature art during cultural-specifc holidays.

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“It’s not just Hispanics either,” Chihuan says. “I did more research and found out that African Americans and Asians are targeted too, all just to seem inclusive.”

“When the tradition started, the paintings were hung in our main gallery for our Dia de Los Muertos exhibit,” says Elaine Waterman, executive director at the Firehouse. “We’re bringing them back to the main gallery, so it’s like they’re coming full circle.”

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The work of two Latin American artists will be showcased in the south gallery, an exhibition called Escuchame. Jamie Chihuan and Adriana Paolo Palacios Luna bring paintings, prints, fber arts and flm to an immersive exhibit framed around cross-cultural experiences and the complexities of identity in the modern age. Part of the showing will be Chihuan’s documentary, a flm examining the Latinx artist community’s relationship with Dia de los Muertos, as well as Chihuan’s own struggle with identity and artistic expression.“Theirony of Latinx artists calling out how they only get featured during Dia de los Muertos isn’t lost on us,” Waterman says. “That’s why we decided to give our (South Gallery) artists free reign and not have their exhibit centered on the holiday.”

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n ‘Stay Prayed Up’ Screening

Spend a weekend on beautiful Pearl Street and welcome the changing colors of fall with concerts featuring local artists, beers and food at Downtown Boulder Fall Fest. This year’s music lineup includes local bands playing folk rock, Americana and more.

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Join Arc’Teryx and The Spot Bouldering Gym for a night of free climbing and special events. Special guests Drew Ruana and Madeline Sorkin will host skill clinics meanwhile a vendor village will be set up outside for food and drinks.

n Downtown Boulder Fall Fest

Celebrate the traditional and contemporary culture of Brazil at the Dairy with dance and music. Featured artists from Brazil include Thai Rodrigues, the Queen of Brazilian Carnival, and Patrick Carvalho, a well known choreographer. There are also several dance workshops for participants throughout the festival.

Find new pieces of art to decorate your walls with at ARTMIX, the Boulder Museum of Contempo rary Art’s signature art auction and biggest party of the year. Celebrate artists from across the country at the silent auction and enjoy food and drinks from some of Boulder’s fnest establishments.

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n Moyo Nguvu & Luciana Da Silva present Viva Brazil Festival

n ARTMIX 2022

5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16; 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 17; 10 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 18; Pearl Street Mall, Boulder

6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16, The Spot Climbing Gym Boulder, 3240 Prairie Ave., Boulder

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Stay Prayed Up is a flm celebrating the story of 83-year-old Black woman Lena Mae Perry and her gospel group, The Brachettes. The North Carolina group combines ministry and music to move through life’s hardships, showing that “music, like faith, ain’t nothin’ without some fre inside.”

6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Tickets: $125-$300, bmoca.org

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7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Tickets: $20-$30, thedairy.org

5:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Tickets: $12, thedairy.org

n Arc’Teryx Boulder Pre-Opening Climbing Party

Screening

Join the Dairy Arts Center for a screening of El Gran Movimiento. Elder and his mining compatriots arrive in La Paz demanding reinstatement to their jobs when Elder starts to get sick. After getting work in the market, Elder’s con dition worsens and he is prescribed the help of Max, a witch doctor and clown who might be able to bring Elder back to life.

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8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Tickets: $50-$65, axs.com

5:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Tickets: $12, thedairy.org

n ‘El Gran Movimiento’

n Marc Maron Comedy Show

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The Larsen-Hall family had everything. Just as they are settling into their new life in Miami, hurricane Luna, the world’s frst cate gory 6 hurricane, hits the coast and everything is changed. Bruce Holsinger will speak about and sign his book The Displacements at Boulder Bookstore.

n Skills and Gear Clinic

Noon. Wednesday, Sept. 22, Norlin Library East Entrance, 1720 Pleasant St., Boulder.

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Fall is here, and Boulder County Parks & Open Space is organizing the Fall Colors Hike to get people outdoors. A volunteer naturalist will be your guide on a hike nearing 10,000 feet of elevation and will talk about how plants and animals prepare for the winter.

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Celebrate Banned Books Week at Norlin Library with a discussion of the current state of censorship in schools and libraries across the country. Banned Books Week “celebrates the freedom to read” by highlighting texts and information that has been censored, spotlighting current and historical attempts to censor books.

n Cooking Class — Flavors of Thailand

6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22, Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Tickets: $10, museumof boulder.com

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Head to Waneka Lake Park to see birds of prey up close with the city of Lafayette. Attendants will learn about bird migration paths, the ecosystems where they live and the role they play in our lives. The event will also feature educational and entertaining games, art projects, local organizations and a scavenger hunt.

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Follow the 2017 delegation of Northern Arapaho tribal members as they travel from Wyoming to Pennsylvania to retrieve the remains of three children who died at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in the 1880s. After the flm, join Jordan Dresser and Jerilyn DeCoteau for a discussion on the flm and a Q&A afterwards.

6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20, Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Tickets: $5, boulderbookstore.net

n Banned Books Week

6:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 19, Food Lab, 1825 Pearl St., Boulder. Tickets: $95, foodlabboulder.com

7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22, Neptune Mountaineering, 633 S. Broadway, Boulder. Free, register: mountaineering.comneptune

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Backpacker Magazine staff are heading to Neptune Mountaineering to present a backpacking clinic as part of the Get Out More Tour. At this event, outdoor experts will cover all the backpacking essentials, tips and techniques they’ve gathered over the years.

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The Food Lab on Pearl is hosting a Thai-dish cooking class. Participants will learn how to make muu bing, cucumber salad, green curry with shrimp and por pia tod in groups of four. Beer and wine are available for purchase during the class.

n Fall Colors Hike

n Screening of ‘Home from School: The Children of Carlisle’

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n Bruce Holsinger — ‘The Displacements’

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10 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 22, near Nederland. Location provided when registering: bouldercountyopenspace.org

n Celebrating Migratory Birds Festival

For more event listings, go online at boulderweekly.com/events

1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18, Waneka Lake Park, 1600 Caria Drive, Lafayette. Free.

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CHVRCHES. 8 p.m. Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop St., Denver. Tickets: $50-$100

7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Rd., Lafayette. Tickets: $15

Remi Wolf with Jelani Aryeh. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Tickets: $35

Face Vocal Band. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont. Tickets: $20-$25

Planet Bluegrass, 500 W. Main St., Lyons. Tickets: $75

Dave Tamkin Band. 6 p.m. St Julien Ho tel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder.

Mabon Harvest Concert Series. 3 p.m.

7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette. Tickets: $20 adults / $10 students

THE GLORIES,SMALL a roots powerhouse duo out of Canada, are set to play eTown Hall on Saturday, Sept. 17 at 7 p.m.

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H Tuesday, Sept. 20

Mabon Harvest Concert Series. 4 p.m. Planet Bluegrass, 500 W. Main St., Lyons. Tickets: $75

Tim O’Brien with Jan Fabricius. 7:30 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder. Tickets: $45

Wax Motif with BRKLYN, Gano. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Tickets: $22-$27

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H Monday, Sept. 19

Guerrilla Radio (Rage Against the Machine tribute) & TEN (Pearl Jam tribute). 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont. Tickets: $15

Hempress Sativa. 8 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland. Tickets: $25

Marcus Mumford with Danielle Potter. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boul der. Tickets: $45-$50

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Gov’t Mule. 7:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Tickets: $90

Stomp Street Heist. 8 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder. Tickets: $10 cash cover charge

The Small Glories. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder. Tickets: $24

Melvins with We Are The Asteroid. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Tickets: $25

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Ibibio Sound Machine with Terror Jr. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Tickets: $20-$25

Son of Town Hall. 7 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder. Tickets: $15 cash cover charge

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Brooks Lewis Trio. 6 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder.

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Phil Robinson Quartet. 6 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder.

H Sunday, Sept. 18

ollywood cinema has had a complicated relationship with race and ethnici ty since its very beginning,” says Luis I. Reyes at the beginning of his latest cinematic study, Viva Hollywood: The Legacy of Latin and Hispanic Artists in American Film Complicated? You bet. But as Reyes points out, that shouldn’t be the focus of the discussion. That would miss the forest for the trees: all the good work Latin American and Hispanic artists have contributed to America’s most exported art form.

“When you see the class photo of all the MGM stars of the late 1940s, Ricardo was right there,” Reyes says with a chuckle. “He was right there next to Lana Turner and Clark Gable.”

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Anthony Quinn, born in a railroad boxcar somewhere in Chihuahua, Mexico, enjoyed a 60-year career in Hollywood playing just about every kind of leading and supporting player. Ditto for Ricardo Montalban, who continued working into the 21st century, even after a degenerative spinal disease left him reliant on a wheelchair. And Montalban wasn’t just a leading man; he was one of Hollywood’s biggest stars.

Luis Reyes celebrates Latin and Hispanic artists with Hollywood’

Viva Hollywood chronicles two flms from Rios’ short career, 1950’s The Law less and 1952’s The Ring, both of which will be shown on Sunday, Sept. 18 on TCM as part of their Hispanic Heritage Month programming. Viva Hollywood, published through TCM and Running Press, was released on Sept. 13 — the perfect companion piece to TCM’s programming, not to mention a handy guide to seeking out other overlooked titles and underappreciated talent.

“We were there from the beginning,” Reyes said in a recent phone interview. “It didn’t start with Andy Garcia and Edward James Olmos. It started way back when, at the dawn of the motion picture industry. One of the reasons [the studios] came to Holly wood was the fact that there was an available labor pool, Mexican labor. So [local Hispanics] were utilized in the building of sets, as extra players and as principal actors.”

“The dreams that we’ve made — you know, celluloid dreams — really impacted the world. Hollywood movies are [America’s] greatest, most successful export to this day. And we’re there. I think our successes are incredible to behold in a very tough business.”

Reyes’ Viva Hollywood explores the contributions of Montalban and Quinn, along with Antonio Moreno, Rita Moreno, Penelope Cruz and hundreds more — some fa mous, some forgotten. Among the forgotten are actors like Lalo Rios, “Hollywood’s frst Latino working-class rebel hero.” Reyes compares Rios to James Dean, but “instead of James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause, Rios was a rebel with a cause, because he kind of exemplifed the beginnings of the Mexican American civil rights movement.”

ON THE BILL: Viva Hollywood is avail able wherever books are sold. TCM’s Hispanic Heritage Month programming will broadcast on Sept. 18 and 25.

And some of those actors went on to have signifcant careers.

“Latins are part of the entire Hollywood cinematic experience,” Reyes says. “It’s our story… and I think Viva Hollywood shows that we’ve been there since the beginning.

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Although Basile doesn’t remember making a conscious decision to join dance (she was 5), once she started, she never looked back.

In her two-decadenearlycareer, she performed with dance companies in the San Francisco area and in New York and Georgia.

There were a few moments like this in her 18-year career when Basile felt like she reached all the goals she ever wanted to achieve.

“The relationships that are built are pretty incredible,” she says. “The majority of everybody that I’ve danced with are still lifelong friends.”

“It was a really special summer with every one who was involved in that production and so we all felt like we became best friends,” says Needham-Wood, who had a 12-year dance careerWhenhimself.theschool director position opened at Boulder Ballet, Needham-Wood thought Basile would be a great ft.

“I just remember looking out into the huge opera house and thinking, ‘Is this even real?’,” says Basile, describing one of her fondest moments on stage while performing Swan Lake

“It was like a grieving process of what I felt like I had lost when I had fnished too soon. [I felt like] there’s so much more in me and that I should actually be dancing,” she says.

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Basile has always taught dance. She established the Five Point Dancer Method in her teaching, a practice that prioritizes the mental and physical health of dancers.

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As the newly appointed school director, Andrea Basile brings a focus on wellness to Boulder Ballet by Will Matuska

After getting back into performing for a few years, her career changed direction again, this time because she was pregnant. In her last performance, she danced with her daughter in her belly.

ndrea Basile was living her dream.childhood

Soon, she got into the San Francisco Ballet School and was on her way to beginning her career in San Francisco.

Then, when Basile was rehearsing for an upcoming tour on a new, stickier foor, she felt a pain in her calf.

Since her frst ballet class in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she grew up, Basile knew she wanted to be a professional dancer.

After her injury, Basile ran a successful skincare business in San Francisco for six years. Although she was passionate about her business, it wasn’t as fulflling for her as dancing. She was reminded of this whenever she would go see a dance performance.

One of those relation ships was with Ben Need ham-Wood, the artistic director at Boulder Ballet, who also started with the company this summer. Need ham-Wood and Basile danced for a summer together in 2011 in San Francisco and have stayed in touch since.

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Even during her performance career,

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All the hours spent in the studio practicing to perfec tion, pushing herself men tally and physically and leaving home at just 17 years old for ballet school paid off. She was dancing professionally across the nation, and loving it.

“There's a lot of emotions that go into that, because you feel like your dream is essentially crushed. And so I kind of honestly gave up, which I really regret,” she says.

“There was a moment where something was clearly wrong.”Because she was with a small company at the time, she did not have an understudy to cover her role — she couldn’t take time to heal. She had to keep dancing through the end of the tour season.

Refecting on her performance career, it isn’t the big companies or concert halls that Basile remembers the most — it's the rela tionships and camaraderie she built working with smaller companies.

Without health insurance, she eventually couldn’t keep her physical therapy going and had to stop dancing.

Basile thought of the hardest parts of her personal journey to develop this method — the injury, the physical and mental support and the physical toll of being a professional dancer. The fve points — mindset, work ethic, nutrition, injury prevention and cross training — help students become better dancers and provides a framework for life skills.

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The relationship Basile has with Needham-Wood and Claudia Anata Hubiak, Boulder Ballet’s executive director who Basile also previously worked with, were strong factors in her decision to take the job in Boulder. Coming in, Basile knew she would be working with like-minded people.

After using this method for years, Basile sees more body awareness, less injuries and a shift in mindset and work ethic.

On stage: Andrea Basile and Ben Needham-Wood in 2011. Basile (school director) and Need ham-Wood (artistic director) joined Boulder Ballet this summer.

But this year, Basile took an opportunity to start a new chapter in her life as the school director at Boulder Ballet, where she uses a wellness-focused approach to mentor students.

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“[My mom] tells me that my friend was in it,” Basile says. “She was like, ‘Oh, your friend is doing it, so I’ll just put you in it.’”

“I think [the Five Point Dancer Method] does a really amazing job integrating more sides of the human than a typical dance education would, that allows dancers to re ally embody their fullest potential,” Needham-Wood says.

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irque Mechanics has been elevating circus performance since the dance company’s inception 20 years ago, and they’re still using their limitless talent and unending creativity to push every show a little higher. With Zephyr—A Whirlwind of Circus, which CU Presents brings to Macky Auditorium on Oct. 28, they’ve taken to the air.

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The sculptures are the work of textile artist Sara Rockinger, from her series In/Visible, looking at the visibility of immigrants in labor jobs. The dancers are from Lafayette’s T2 Dance Company, interpreting Rockinger’s art with movement.

years to come.”

T2 Company director Erin Tunbridge says the performance has been in the works since before the pandemic, when T2 did a small interpretive response to an exhibition of Rockinger’s in 2019.

The performance isn’t a singular narrative, Tunbridge explains, but a series of connected and overlapping vignettes as parts of Conkle’s interviews precede each moment of choreography. Highlighting social issues and collaborating with artists to highlight a variety of perspectives is a founding principal of the company.

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n a dark stage, ghostly textile sculptures are frozen in time. They resemble scrubs, working clothes from a working class, with no bodies to fll out the shapes. Dancers shift and undulate on stage around the sculptures, highlighting their stillness.

T2 brings In/Visible to the stage of the Dairy Arts Center for a one-night performance in October. With a focus on interpreting both the art work and immigration stories that inspired them, T2 will intersperse interviews from documentarian Mark Conkle and immigrants in the Lafayette community with“We’redance.focusing on the research and artwork as the base for the collaboration,” Tunbridge says. “The themes explored are relevant today and will be for

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“During the pandemic it just wouldn’t work. It needed to be an in-person thing, based on what we were planning to do,” Tunbridge says. “So years later, we’re fnally able to bring this to light.”

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In/Visible, 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 2, Dairy Arts Center, Boulder. Tickets: $15-$20, thedairy.org

T2 Dance Company explores the visibility of immigrants

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7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder. Tickets: $25-$65, chautauqua.com

Boulder Ballet — 'Fall Passages'

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Danse Etoile is opening its season with Coppélia, a comic ballet originally choreographed by Arthur Saint-Léon in 1870, and excerpts from other famous ballets.

Danse Etoile — 'Coppélia'4p.m.and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, Broomfeld Auditorium, 3 Community Park Road, Broomfeld. Tickets: $25, danseetoile.org

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This diverse and dynamic show will feature four distinct works by three choreographers. Boulder Ballet will bring Twyla Tharp’s Junk Duet to the stage for the frst time, along with premieres of Wait less by Jacob Mora, a Denver-based artist, and EviDance by Ben Needham-Wood, artistic director of Boulder Ballet.

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“It’s a story about justice and inequity that is mind-blowing in terms of the backstory and what goes on in the justice system,” Friedman says.

“They will experience an array of diverse views and perspectives from places around the world, and from many different cultures,” she says. “They should expect a lot of intentional sharing of freedom of speech and freedom of thought. They should expect great joy, great cel ebration and the incredible experience of being a human community.”

The free book-forward event featuring writers from around the globe returns to the downtown public library, Sept. 16-18

So Friedman contacted Sanjoy Roy, man aging director of Teamwork Arts and a producer of the festival. He visited Boulder on a sunny summer day, and “he got it.”

traveling in India a few years ago, they came across a free literary festival in Jaipur, Rajasthan, featuring authors of the highest caliber.

But Boulder ft Roy’s vision of what makes a good festival city. It was walkable and within an hour from an international airport, for one thing, and the surrounding natural beauty spoke for itself. So in 2015, Boulder became the frst location to host JLF in the United States.

“I decided I had to bring this event to Boul der,” she says.

“The excitement and the passion and the joy that was there,” Friedman says. “It was like, ‘This is extraordinary. What on earth is going on Faceshere?’”inthe crowd of thou sands were smiling, peaceful, “like they had discovered something that wasn’t common in their everyday experience — like having found water in the desert.”

years after its inception, events have taken place in London and Adelaide, Australia, with other U.S. iterations happening this year in New York City and Houston.

The couple was foored by appearances from literary titans like Nobel Prize-winner Orhan Pamuk, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Kiran Desai, but Friedman says the real magic was in the crack ling intellectual energy coursing throughout the audience.

“He saw what Boulder is — he understood. He found the people incredibly well-educated,” Friedman says. “Though he did note that it’s a lot of white people.”

‘Great joy, great celebration’

The Jaipur Literature Festival—Colorado takes place Sept. 16-18 at the Boulder Public Library Main Branch. The event is free to attend. For tickets to the fundraising gala, visit: jlfitfest.org/colorado.

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“We. are the last people who have an opportunity to talk to somebody who naturally knew [Mahatma] Gandhi,” Friedman says. “I just get goosebumps when I say that.”Additionally, journalist Julian Rubinstein will talk about his documentary The Holly, based on his 2021 book of the same name, which depicts the multi-generational story of a northeast Denver community, exploring the history of gang violence and the takedown of activist Terrance Roberts.

The Jaipur festival in India has been around since 2006, and bills itself as the world’s largest free literary festival. Since expanding a few

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the elder Gandhi wrote to his son Devadas, recently collected in his co-au thored book Scorching Love

And on the long way home to the Front Range, Friedman couldn’t forget it.

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As for must-see sessions at the festival, Friedman highlights the appearance of journal ist and former Indian statesman Gopalkrishna Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi. The 77-year-old will be speaking about the letters

Someone attending the Jaipur Literature Festival for the frst time should expect to be ex posed to what Friedman calls “deep intelligence and knowledge with really eloquent articulation.”

Although the festival is free, Friedman encourages people to attend the festival’s fundraising gala at eTown (1535 Spruce St.) on Friday night, which is a ticketed event starting at $80.Inaddition to dinner and drinks, the evening will feature the Colorado premiere of the documentary Ahimsa-Gandhi: The Power of the Powerless, a flm by Ramesh Sharma about the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi and his message of non-violence, with opening remarks from Gopalkrishna Gandhi.

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The actors enjoy it as well, because they can bring the emotion and humor to a single piece of writing, according to Powell.“There's something about a live audience experiencing a story together as a community that just kind of raises the stakes all around,” he says. “It's really fun.”

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The theater group will bring Miami-based author Kelly Link’s short story of the same name to life on Oct. 15 at the Nomad Playhouse in Boulder.

Link’s story follows a husband, his pregnant wife and their two kids as they move into a new home in the suburbs. However, Link is known for her fantastical, “slip stream” style of writing, so nothing is ever quite what it appears.

In its 22nd season, Stories on Stage takes real stories, often provided by community members, but other times from established authors like Link, and brings them to life in front of a live audience. A typical Stories on Stage performance is three or four shorter pieces around one theme, but Powell says Link’s story is good enough to fll the entire 90-minute time slot, especially when brought to life by two local actors, Chip Persons and Jessica Robblee, who play the husband and wife and the rest of the characters.“Ifyouwere lucky enough to be read to as a kid by a parent or a librarian, and if you love that, we still love it as grownups,” Powell says.

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be speaking and reading at three sessions during the Jaipur Literature Festival (see page 49).

For her frst session at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 17, Fox will join writers Suzi Q. Smith, Confdence Omenai, Bianca Mikahn and others for “a storytelling sanctuary.”

The following day’s 3:45 p.m. session will draw on Fox’s connection to her home city in conversation with inaugural Aurora poet laureate Jovan Mays and emeritus laureate Assétou Xango.

“Because through my whole writing career all I’ve wanted is a type of position that would allow me to spread poetry even further than I already had,” Fox says. “Having this title allows me to do that.”

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“I feel like any space created to represent a variety of voices, especially underrepresented voices, needs to be encouraged,” Fox says.

hen Aurora native Ahja Fox found out this August she was named the poet laureate of her hometown, she was moved to tears.

2:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17, 3:45 p.m. and 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18, Boulder Public Library Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Tickets: Free (donations encouraged)

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Fox plans to use her position as the city’s municipal poetry ambassador to create programs that spread aware ness of the form, including organizing readings in unusual forums like dog parks and sporting events.

Her own poems refect the artist’s upbringing as a woman of color in Aurora, exploring issues of identity, sexual violence and the mysteries of life and death. In “Proverb 91: Black Girl Reclaims Magic,” she writes: “all my love, blood, and effort has gone off into being; being / just a sharp whistle that reverberates through the spines of

all things.”Foxwill

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Sunday’s talk will be followed by a 5 p.m. poetry read ing featuring Fox alongside 2019 Colorado Poet Laureate Bobby LeFebre and Indian poet Arundhathi Subramaniam.

“Oh, I loved, loved, reading this novel. It’s wild and anarchic. Not a book for the fainthearted, Crosshairs of the Devil is violent, grisly and gruesome but also wonderfully charismatic and utterly compelling.”

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“Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas”: Harley Rustad in conversation with George Taylor. Rustad’s book is about an American backpacker who disap peared in the Parvati Valley and never returned. 3:45 p.m.-4:45 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18

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“Homo Irrealis”: André Aciman in conversation with David Nasaw. Aciman is the author of the 2007 novel Call Me By Name, which was also made into an Academy Award-winning major movie. This talk is about the latest collection of essays from the Italian-American author, released in paperback this year by Picador. 1:15 p.m.-2:15 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17.

“The Word, A Storytelling Sanctuary”: Readings by Suzi Q. Smith, Confdence Omenai, Bianca Mikahn, Joe Ponce, Ahja Fox and Manuel Aragon. 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 17

“Akia: The Other Side” Norma Dunning in conversation with Natalie Avalos. Dunning is an Inuk Canadian writer. She’ll be discussing a book of poems that is an ode to her heritage. 1:15 p.m.-2:15 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18

fascinating and wonderful. 2. When you give advice to others, be sure to listen to it yourself. 3. Move away from having a rigid conception of yourself and move toward having a fluid fantasy about yourself. 4. Be the first to laugh at and correct your own mistakes. (It’ll give you the credibility to make even better mistakes in the future.) 5. Inspire other people to love being themselves and not want to be like you.

You are an extra authentic Aquarius if people say that you get yourself into the weirdest, most interesting trouble they’ve ever seen. You are an ultra-genuine Aquarius if people follow the twists and pivots of your life as they would a soap opera. And I suspect you will fulfill these potentials to the max in the coming weeks. The upcoming chapter of your life story might be as entertaining as any you have had in years. Luckily, imminent events are also likely to bring you soulful lessons that make you wiser and wilder. I’m excited to see what happens!

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Tips to get the most out of the next three weeks: 1. Use your imagination to make everything seem

Capricorn poet William Stafford wrote, “Saying things you do not have to say weakens your talk. Hearing things you do not need to hear dulls your hearing.” Those ideas are always true, of course, but I think it’s especially cru cial that you heed them in the coming weeks. In my oracular opinion, you need to build your personal power right now. An important way to do that is by being discriminating about what you take in and put out. For best results, speak your truths as often and as clearly as possible. And do all you can to avoid exposing yourself to trivial and delusional “truths” that are really just opinions or misinformation.

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20: In 1946, medical professionals in the UK established the Common Cold Unit. Its goal was to discover practical treatments for the familiar viral infection known as the cold. Over the next 43 years, until it was shut down, the agency produced just one useful innovation: zinc gluconate lozenges. This treatment reduces the severity and length of a cold if taken within 24 hours of onset. So the results of all that research were modest, but they were also much better than nothing. During the coming weeks, you may experience com parable phenomena, Taurus: less spectacular outcomes than you might wish, but still very worthwhile.

thoughts. Free yourself of every concern and every idea. Keep rambling until you feel spacious and vast.

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20: Here’s a scenario that could be both an invig orating metaphor and a literal event. Put on rollerblades. Get out onto a long flat surface. Build up a comfortable speed. Fill your lungs with the elixir of life. Praise the sun and the wind. Sing your favorite songs. Swing your arms all the way forward and all the way back. Forward: power. Backward: power. Glide and coast and flow with sheer joy. Cruise along with confi dence in the instinctive skill of your beautiful body. Evaporate

22: For 15 years, Leo cartoonist Gary Larson created The Far Side , a hilarious comic strip featuring intel ligent talking animals. It was syndicated in more than 1,900 newspapers. But like all of us, he has had failures, too. In one of his books, Larson describes the most disappointing event in his life. He was eating a meal in the same dining area as a famous cartoonist he admired, Charles Addams, creator of The Addams Family . Larson felt a strong urge to go over and intro duce himself to Addams. But he was too shy and tongue-tied to do so. Don’t be like Larson in the coming weeks, dear Leo. Reach out and connect with receptive people you’d love to communicate with. Make the first move in contacting someone who could be important to you in the future. Be bold in seeking new links and affiliations. Always be respectful, of course.

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19: Even when your courage has a touch of foolhardiness, even when your quest for adventure makes you a bit reckless, you can be resourceful enough to avoid dicey consequences. Maybe more than any other sign of the zodiac, you periodically outfox karma. But in the coming weeks, I will nevertheless counsel you not to barge into situations where rash boldness might lead to wrong moves. Please do not flirt with escapades that could turn into chancy gambles. At least for the foreseeable future, I hope you will be prudent and cagey in your quest for interesting and educational fun.

22: I’m getting a psychic vision of you cuddled up in your warm bed, surrounded by stuffed animals and wrapped in soft, thick blankets with images of bunnies and dolphins on them. Your headphones are on, and the songs pouring into your cozy awareness are silky smooth tonics that rouse sweet memories of all the times you felt most wanted and most at home in the world. I think I see a cup of hot chocolate on your bed stand, too, and your favorite dessert. Got all that, fellow Cancerian? In the coming days and nights, I suggest you enjoy an abundance of experiences akin to what I’ve described here.

22: Tips for making the most of the next three weeks: 1. Be proud as you teeter charismatically on the fence. Relish the power that comes from being in between. 2. Act as vividly congenial and staunchly beautiful as you dare. 3. Experiment with making artful arrangements of pretty much everything you are part of. 4. Flatter others sincerely. Use praise as one of your secret powers. 5. Cultivate an open-minded skepticism that blends discernment and curiosity. 6. Plot and scheme in behalf of harmony, but never kiss ass.

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21: Poet Mary Oliver wrote, “There is within each of us a self that is neither a child, nor a servant of the hours. It is a third self, occasional in some of us, tyrant in others. This self is out of love with the ordinary; it is out of love with time. It has a hunger for eternity.” During the coming weeks, Scorpio, I will be cheering for the ascendancy of that self in you. More than usual, you need to commune with fantastic truths and transcendent joys. To be in maximum alignment with the good fortune that life has prepared for you, you must give your loving attention to the highest and noblest visions of your personal destiny that you can imagine.

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22: “Love your mistakes and foibles,” Virgo astrologer William Sebrans advises his fellow Virgos. “They

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Astrology: by Rob Brezsny

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