Tours set at water gardens

SONYA’S SAMPLER

The Colorado Water Garden Society will host the annual Water Blossom Celebration from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Aug. 12 at Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St., with tours of the water gardens and free aquatic plants, while they last. ere is a ne collection of water lilies, some carnivorous plants and information on how to grow them.

DBG members free, others pay an admission fee. See colowatergardensociety.org.

Newman Center e Newman Center at the University of Denver begins its 2023-2024 season with “Dogman: e Musical” at 6 p.m. Sept. 8 and 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Sept. 9, followed Sept. 22-23 with the Martha Graham Dance Company at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: 303871-7720. For the season program, go to denvercenter.org/ticketsevents for a rich program of music, dance and lectures through the season in the Gates Auditorium.

Black Cube

Black Cube, a nonpro t nomadic art museum, located in Englewood, o ers tours of Marguerite Humeau’s 160-acre earthwork, “Orisons,” located in Hooper, Colorado, in the San Luis Valley. It transforms an unfarmable piece of land into “a place of reverence,” we are told. A series of 84 kinetic and interactive sculptures “invoke the land’s histories” and a vast network of interrelations. ere are 77 kinetic, wind-activated sculptural works which lay on the seven