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Events: What to do when there’s nothing to do
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n Teton Gravity
Research: ‘Magic Hour’
6:45 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Tickets: $10-20, z2ent.com
Get ready for ski season with the release of Teton Gravity Research’s flm Magic Hour at Boulder Theater. Magic Hour is a feature-length ski and snowboard flm — the right place with the right crew at the perfect time to experience life to the fullest.
n Open Studios/Artists
of ‘Voces Vivas’ Opening Reception
5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30, Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Free
This dual opening at the Museum of Boulder features more than 150 works by local artists participating in this year’s Open Studios event, a self-guided tour of artist spaces across Boulder County. It also marks the debut of Artists of Voces Vivas in the museum’s Lodge Gallery, an exhibition by artists featured in the museum’s community-driven show about local Latino history. Refreshments provided by King Como Quesadillas and Eats & Sweets.
Impressionism. R Gallery +
Wine Bar, 2027 Broadway, Boulder. Through Oct. 16. Free, rgallery.art
Georgia O’Keeffe, Photog-
rapher. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 6. Tickets: $13 (Colorado residents), denverartmuseum.org
Marcella Marsella: Aqueous
Bodies. BMoCA at Macky, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Through Nov. 13. Tickets: $2, bmoca.org
Water is Life. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Nov. 19. Free
Native Artist Exhibition.
Creative Nations Sacred Space, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Nov. 2022. Free
Tipi to Tiny House: Hands-on
Homebuilding. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through Jan. 8. Tickets: $8, longmontmuseum.org
Kristopher Wright: Just As
I Am. BMoCA East Gallery, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Through Jan. 22. Tickets: $2, bmoca.org
TODD WEBB
ON VIEW: Denver Art Museum is currently exhibiting newly identifed photographs by famed painter Georiga O’Keeffe. Nearly 100 photographs, paintings and drawings shed light on her artistry across mediums. On view through Nov. 6.
The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic
Impulse. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Feb. 5. Tickets: $10, mcadenver.org
Lasting Impressions. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through June 2023. Free
Onward and Upward: Shark’s
Ink. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through July 2023. Free
n An Evening with Poets Emily Perez & Nicky Beer
7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6, Longmont Museum, Stewart Auditorium, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Tickets: $8, longmontcolorado.gov
Head to the Longmont Museum to hear Front Range poets Emily Perez and Nicky Beer read from their work. Emily Perez is the award-winning author of What Flies Want and Nicky Beer will read from her newest book, Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes.
5:15 p.m. Monday, Oct. 3 Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder. Tickets: $15, haandances.com
Mary Wohl Haan’s dance classes “challenge your mind and body with good, clean, lush movement, weight play, musicality and fun.” Starting Oct. 3, these weekly classes for intermediate and above dancers will be ongoing through Dec. 19.
n Eco-Tober
Noon. Sunday, Oct. 2, Centaurus High School, 10300 S. Boulder Road, Lafayette. Free
Eco-Tober is a sustainability event hosted by Lafayette, Superior, Centaurus High School and the Boulder Valley School District. More than 40 exhibitors and vendors will be on hand with booths and workshops, along with music and local food trucks.
n Art & Sip
6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6, Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Tickets: $40, longmontcolorado.gov
Enjoy wine or beer while learning bookbinding techniques and vocabulary. In this class, you will learn to fold, stack and sew pages together using the coptic stitch bookbinding method. Classes are designed to guide beginners as well as bring new skills to experienced crafters.
n Cal-Wood Fire-Burn
Scar Hike
9 a.m. Friday, Sept. 30, location provided upon registration.
Take a hike with naturalists through the burn scar left by the 2020 Cal-Wood Fire while learning about the fora and fauna of the area. This two-mile hike will take participants through the burn scar to see changes to the landscapes two years after Boulder County’s largest wildfre.
n Erie Brewfest
Noon. Saturday, Oct. 1, Historic Downtown Erie, Brigs and Wells streets. Tickets: $30, 21+
Head to downtown Erie to enjoy a fall afternoon with vendors, games and — of course — plenty of local beer. Slick and Machine will be playing music during the event, with food from local restaurants and food trucks. Leave your pets at home, please.
n Birds at Greenlee Wildlife Preserve
1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 2, Greenlee Wildlife Preserve, 1600 Caria Drive, Lafayette. Free
Greenlee Wildlife Preserve attracts thousands of birds each year, and you can see some of them for yourself during this birdwatching event hosted by the City of Lafayette. The event takes place around the northwest section of Waneka Lake Park, where feld guides will teach beginners how to use binoculars and recognize bird species through sound. ON STAGE: For in/Visible, Longmont’s T2 Dance Company developed choreography inspired by the research and artwork of In/Visible Labor; In/ Visible Laborer by fber artist Sara Rockinger. The result is collaborative exploration of immigration through dance, video and sculpture. Catch the performance on Oct. 6 at the Dairy Arts Center.
in/Visible. 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 2. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Tickets: $15-25, thedairy.org
Butterfy Effect Theater of Colorado [BETC] presents The
Children. Dairy Arts Center, Grace Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Oct. 8. Tickets: $15-51, thedairy.org
The Chinese Lady. Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Singleton Theatre, 1400 Curtis St., Denver. Through Oct. 16. Tickets: $35, tickets.denvercenter.org
Arts in the Open Presents
Frankenstein. Chautauqua Park, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder. Through Oct. 30. Tickets: $15-20, artsintheopen.org
Theater of the Mind. York Street Yards, 3887 Steele St., Denver. Through Dec. 18. Tickets: $65, theateroftheminddenver.com
n Paws in the Park
9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont. Free
Celebrate Longmont Humane Society’s 50 years of providing animal-care services in the county on Saturday at the Boulder County Fairgrounds. Bring family, friends and pets to this year’s old-fashioned family Fall Festival and Pet Walk around Rogers Grove Park.
n Poetry Night
7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30, Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Free, donations accepted
Join fellow writers at the Firehouse Art Center for a monthly poetry night on the last Friday of the month. Firehouse asks that only original work be read.
7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, 2412 Regent Drive, Boulder. Tickets: $12
Celebrate NASA’s International Observe the Moon Night at Fiske with the flm Forward! To the Moon. Dr. Jack Burns, a CU Boulder faculty member working on NASA’s Network for Exploration and Space Science (NESS) program, will talk about making the flm and answer questions about space exploration.
n Afternoon of Cultural Dance
1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 2, Steinbaugh Pavilion, 824 Front St., Louisville. Free
Join the City of Louisville for an afternoon full of different dance classes and performers. One of the classes is with Ms. Jing Xu from Jasmine Flower Dance, who will teach the opening dance of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics opening ceremony. No registration is required.
n Life on Mars — Past, Present, and Future
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5, LASP Space Science Building, W120, 3665 Discovery Drive, Boulder. Free
Join members of the CU space community to talk about the exploration of Mars and examine the possibilities of future or past life on the Red Planet. This discussion will take an in-depth look at discoveries from the past 30 years and examine whether or not Mars could be a hospitable place for the future of human life.
see EVENTS Page 20
The Nickie and Vickie Rivers Show has invited you to be in their LIVE Studio Audience
It’s the invite of a Lifetime! People are dying to be on this show ... literally! Join us for this hilarious “whodunit” where you get to play detective! 9/30, 10/1, 10/14, 10/15, 10/29 and more in November!
Time: Dinner 5:30pm / Pre-Show 6:00pm Talk Show 7:00pm Tickets: $60 includes dinner and show Food Trucks: 10/14 & 10/15 - The Post. 10/29 - Georgia Boys BBQ.
For tickets: Scan the QR Code or contact the box o ce
boxo ce@the locoltheatre.com
DAN KENDALL
ON THE BILL: Off-the-map U.K. weirdos black midi bring their bonkers brand of genre-scrambling rock fusion to the Fox Theatre on Oct. 3, with opener Quelle Chris. The band performs in support of their latest LP, Hellfre, released July 15 via Rough Trade.
EVENTS from Page 19
H FRIDAY, SEPT. 30
Blue Collar Folk with Strange-
byrds. 6 p.m. BOCO Cider, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Unit 14, Boulder. Free, reservations recommended
Fruition with Heavy Diamond
Ring. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Tickets: $25, z2ent.com
The Wailin’ Jennys. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Tickets: $30, z2ent.com
Joslyn and the Sweet Com-
pression. 7 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland. Tickets: $12-$15, thecaribouroom.com
Bob Margolin. 7:30 p.m. Roots Music Project, 4747 Pearl St., Suite V3A, Boulder. Tickets: $15-$25, eventbrite.com
H SATURDAY, OCT. 1
G-Space with Don Jamal,
BWRZ. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Tickets: $16, z2ent.com
An Evening with Julian Lage. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Tickets: $21, z2ent.com
Chain Station. 8 p.m. Velvet Elk Lounge, 2037 13th St., Boulder. Tickets: $15, velvetelklounge.com H SUNDAY, OCT. 2 Sturtz. 7 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder. Tickets: $15, goldhillinn.com H MONDAY, OCT. 3
black midi with Quelle Chris.
8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Tickets: $25, z2ent.com
H TUESDAY, OCT. 4 Earth + Iceage. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Tickets: $23, z2ent.com
RY X with Her Mana. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Tickets: $25, z2ent.com
H WEDNESDAY, OCT. 5 Steve Vai: Inviolate Tour. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Tickets: $40, z2ent.com
H THURSDAY, OCT. 6
Willie Tea Taylor. 7 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder. Free, goldhillinn.com.
