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■ Black Voices of Dance
EVENTS
Feb. 24-27, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Tickets: $25-$35, the dairy.org Boulder Ballet presents Black Voices of Dance, an evening of dance highlighting the nation’s most vibrant Black voices in the field. Three world premieres celebrate the work of today’s prestigious Black choreographers—Gregory Dawson, Sidra Bell and Amy Hall Garner—in an evening of original works sure to transcend.
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■ The Songwriter’s Living Room: Writers in the Round
■ Carnaval Dance with Creativity Alive and Live Brazilian Music
7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 25, Boulder Mennonite Church, 3910 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Free, register at: creativityalive.org Come dance your heart out and connect with friends. Gui Kroneberger will be accompanied by master guitar player Bill Kopper and drummer Raoul Rossiter from Ginga band.
■ Colorado Law Talk: Abortion Rights in the U.S. Supreme Court: A Tale of Three Wedges (virtual)
7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 25, Roots Music Project, 4747 Pearl St., Suite V3A, Boulder. Tickets: $15 at Eventbrite: bit.ly/34WVLAP Roots Music Project, a nonprofit music incubator, is proud to announce a special Writers in the Round event with four of Colorado’s best songwriters performing original songs in a turnbased format. Inspired by the well-loved songwriter rounds famously featured on Nashville’s Music Row, music lovers get the chance to hear songwriters perform their songs while telling the stories that inspired them. This seated, listening room event spotlights four songwriters in the center of the Roots warehouse, offering a unique and intimate way to get to know your new favorite songs.
■ Boulder Bach Festival: ‘Across Time Across Cultures’
4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26, Stewart Auditorium, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Tickets: $60, boulderbachfestival.org Across Time Across Cultures embraces a diversity of musical styles including works in romantic style with Moorish-Andalusian, Roma, and Sephardic influences. The entire ensemble will conclude the program with the Colorado premiere of two works by American composer Raymond Granlund. Composed for Boulder Bach Festival founder Zachary Carrettin, these highly contrapuntal and rhythmically passionate quartet pieces explore the nature of tango with influences ranging from Bach to Poulenc.
5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 24, Virtual Event URL: cu.law/RegisterFeb24 In this Colorado Law Talk, professor Jennifer Hendricks will engage in an important and timely conversation about the U.S. Supreme Court’s ongoing reconsideration of Roe v. Wade. Hendricks will describe the arc of the court’s abortion jurisprudence in terms of three wedges that pry the pregnant person apart from, first, the fetus; second, the doctor; and third, the community. The first two wedges have each taken a turn as the primary rationale for restricting abortion rights. Most recently, at least one justice has taken an interest in anti-abortion rhetoric that drives a wedge between the pregnant person and their community by accusing Black persons who have abortions of participating in eugenics and genocide. The cumulative effect of these three themes in abortion jurisprudence will shape the legal landscape of abortion in the U.S. after June 2022.
■ Colorado Conservatory of Dance presents ‘Beyond Moving’ a Free Public Film Screening
7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 25, Broomfield Auditorium, 3 Community Park Road, Broomfield. Free, ccdance.org/event Beyond Moving is a documentary about Siphe November, an exceptionally gifted ballet dancer from South Africa. The documentary follows his journey, from being discovered while dancing in the hard township of Zolani, to his intensive training at Canada’s National Ballet School, to eventually stepping into the world of professional ballet.
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■ An Evening with Fran Lebowitz
7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 28, Paramount Theatre, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver. Tickets: $35-$82, paramountdenver.com In a cultural landscape filled with endless pundits and talking heads, Fran Lebowitz stands out as one of our most insightful social commentators.
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