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Author Talk: Joanne Tubbs Kelly—‘Walking Him Home’
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Rocky Mountain Folk Festival
10 a.m. Aug. 12-14, 500 W. Main St., Lyons. Friday Tickets: $85.50, bluegrass.com For over 30 years, Folks Fest has brought together songwriters of all genres to the Planet Bluegrass Ranch in Lyons for three days of music, camping and inspiration. This year you can catch Ani DiFranco, Robert Earl Keen, Yola, Sarah Jarosz and more on the Main Stage. Not far away, you can come say “Hi!” to Boulder Weekly editors and writers, sign up for our newsletter and enter to win a gift card to local businesses like Avanti and OAK at fourteenth.
Arts in the Open Workshops
10 a.m.-noon, Saturday Aug. 13, Chautauqua Park, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Tickets: $25-$30, tickets.chautauqua.com Surround yourself with beauty at Chautauqua Park and paint a masterpiece, step by step, with help from a teacher. This event is appropriate for families, couples, and friends. Participants should wear clothes to paint in and bring a blanket to sit on, water bottles and sunscreen.
7 p.m.-midnight, Saturday, Aug. 13, Junkyard Social Club, 2525 Frontier Ave., Unit A, Boulder. Tickets at various price tiers, junkyardsocialclub.org/events As we work together to culturally smash the patriarchy, take your rage out physically right now while raising money for Colorado-based work to promote reproductive rights. Take a sledgehammer to a gutted-out Prius, and smash patriarchal
4:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 18, Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Tickets: $5, museumofboulder.org 2022 marks Boulder Community Health’s 100th anniversary. This fall, the Museum of Boulder is celebrating the contributions BCH has made to the community with an exhibit highlighting the organization’s history, partnerships, and innovations. Explore 100 years of history, from medical procedures in the 1920s to the pandemic response, and beyond to the future of BCH. Light refreshments and snacks will be served.
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he wants to end his suffering using Colorado’s Medical Aid in Dying law. Walking Him Home is Joanne Tubbs Kelly’s tale of coming to terms with her kind, funny husband’s illness; of learning to navigate caregiving and the pitfalls of our medical system; and of choosing to help her husband in his quest to die with dignity. (Kelly will also speak at Tattered Cover Bookstore, 8885 Westminster Blvd., on Aug. 18.)
FU Smash the Patriarchy: A Fundraiser for Reproductive Rights
Opening Reception of 100 Years of Boulder Community Health
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6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 11, Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Tickets: $5, boulderbookstore.net Alan and Joanne marry in midlife and live a happily-ever-after existence until, at 69, Alan is diagnosed with a rare, fatal, neurodegenerative illness. As he becomes increasingly disabled and dependent on others, and decreasingly
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Throw plates that will be repurplus cocktails by DV8 and food by Fancy AF, and an incredible line-up of live music and performance, including drag, circus, DJs, and an unnameable, local, 34-member band that engulfs the audience in an electric bog of music, ephemera, and spectacle. Proceeds go that advances reproductive rights, and COLOR Latino, the Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights.
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