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 Univer- sity 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 large-scale net sculptures, inspired by sandhill cranes, which migrate through the valley in spring and fall. Open to the public by advance reservation only, but admission is free sunrise to sunset daily. Self-guided tour includes a two-hour walk in sandy soil. Visitors with accessibility issues can contact the Black Cube sta at hello@blackcube.art for more information before reserving a visit. See blackcube.art.

Author honored

Highlands Ranch author Claudia Cangilla McAdam was recently honored by the Colorado Authors League with a 2023 Writing Excellence Award for her children’s book, “Louie’s Lent.” It won third place in the Association of Catholic Publishers’ Children’s Book/Picture Book category. She has several other books in production as well.

Depot Art Gallery exhibit “Best of Colorado,” the next Depot Art Gallery exhibit, coinciding with Littleton’s Western Welcome Week,