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If your organization is planning an event of any kind, please email Caitlin at crockett@boulderweekly.com.
‘JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH.’
Friday, April 16-18 and April 23-25, The Spark, 4847 Pearl St., Suite B4, Boulder. Tickets are $16-$22, thesparkcreates.org Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach is now a musical for the whole family to enjoy, featuring a wickedly tuneful score by the Tony Award-nominated team of Pasek and Paul and a curiously quirky book by Timothy Allen McDonald. When James is sent by his conniving aunts to chop down their old fruit tree, he discovers a magic potion that results in a tremendous peach... and launches a journey of enormous proportions.
MUSIC RODEO.
HOUSING HOW-TO: FOCUS ON RENT RELIEF.
11 a.m. Friday, April 16. Register: bit.ly/2QmezBG Join Mental Health Partners for a networking conversation about housing searches and resources. This virtual meeting is particularly focused on rent relief organizations and resources in Boulder and Broomfield counties. Register for the event in advance to receive a Zoom link and passcode.
YOU CAN’T STOP THE BEAT.
1-3 p.m. Friday, April 16, Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, boulderdance.org Join Kinesis Dance and Kidz Bop touring choreographer, Kelsie Jeffords, to learn family-friendly combos in the outdoors while mingling with community partners — a free community event for the whole family.
APRIL FIGURE DRAWING MARATHON.
1-5 p.m. Saturday, April 17, The Spark, 4847 Pearl St., Suite B4, Boulder. Tickets are $45, thesparkcreates.org Draw four different models, collectively offering 50 different poses over four hours. Artists must pre-register to maintain safe gathering numbers. With physical distancing, only 20 artists are allowed in the theater. All of the Spark’s theater garage doors will be wide open, essentially making this a covered plein air venue. Bring your own easel and wear a mask.
‘STITCHING THE SITUATION’: A COLLABORATIVE MEMORIAL FOR VICTIMS OF COVID-19 BY TEXTILE ARTIST HEATHER D. SCHULTE.
GROWING GARDENS PRESENTS GARDENING 201.
Noon. Monday, April 19. Tickets are $40, growinggardens.org/event/gardening-201-onlinecourse This online workshop will start up where Gardening 101 left off, by exploring best practices for maintaining a healthy garden once it is growing. It will cover a variety of topics including transplanting, crop rotations and succession planting, plus weeding and cover cropping. Lastly, it will take a look at some of the tools you can use to make these tasks more efficient.
BOULDER BOOK STORE PRESENTS HELEN NORTON — ‘THE GOVERNMENT’S SPEECH AND THE CONSTITUTION.’
11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, April 17, east window, 4949 Broadway, Unit 102B, Boulder, eastwindow.org. You must register for this event by emailing stitchingthesituation@gmail.com Stitching the Situation is an ongoing and collaborative project, recording diverse individual and community experiences in real time during the COVID-19 pandemic through community crossstitching gatherings. This project is an extension of artist Heather Schulte’s textile work, Situation Report, a daily cross-stitch documentation of the coronavirus case and death counts in the U.S. All materials provided and no experience in cross-stitching is required.
HOW MANY MORE WILL DIE — RALLY FOR GUN SAFETY.
5 p.m. Thursday, April 22. Tickets are $5, boulderbookstore.net In The Government’s Speech and the Constitution, CU Boulder professor Helen Norton investigates the variety and abundance of the government’s speech, from early proclamations and simple pamphlets, to the electronic media of radio and television, and ultimately to today’s digital age.
BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE
10 a.m.-noon. Saturday, April 17, via Zoom, greaterboulderyo.org Rounding up all fifth and sixth grade instrumentalists in Boulder and beyond! Get giddy about music, meet other musicians, enjoy rodeo games, build skills on your instrument — and learn a new tune at the Music Rodeo, hosted by Greater Boulder Youth Orchestras. There will also be a performance workshop with tips on how to share your music. All young musicians welcome to this free event. Geared toward ages 10 and up.
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1 p.m. Sunday, April 18, Boulder Bandshell, Broadway and Canyon Avenue, Boulder. Day after day, week after week, communities are torn apart by acts of gun violence. This can’t be the new normal, where we become numb to the carnage and accept this as an inevitable reality. Join Blue Rising with former Colorado Senate President John Morse in calling state legislators to take bold action of gun violence now. see EVENTS Page 20
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