Tours set at water gardens

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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.

dance and lectures through the season in the Gates Auditorium.

Black Cube 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

Show runs Aug.8-Sept. 10. A reception will be from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Aug. 18 at the Littleton Fine Art Guild’s Town Hall Arts Center gallery, where “Home on the Range” will run through Sept. 10. Admission is free on both galleries. Town Hall hours: 10-5 Monday-Friday, 2450 Main St., Littleton.

Bega Park e Littleton Fine Arts Guild members will ll Bega Park in Downtown Littleton with tents and art on Aug. 12. Visitors encouraged ...

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,

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

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, is juried by artist Christian Dore. He chose 60 works from 400 entries.

Jazz

Dazzle Jazz is collaborating with an El Chapultepec Legacy project to give space in its new location at the Denver Center for Performing Arts to a series of paintings and to piano jazz called “the late set,” from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. on ursday, Friday, Saturday, starting in the fall. ePecLegacy.com is raising funds for the project. (Reach out to Anna@ thepeclegacy.com for information on becoming a donor.) Dazzle will have moved this past week to 1080 14th St. in the DPAC with ongoing concerts. Tickets will cost $15 to $45 via dazzledenver.com.