Tag: arts & entertainment
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Pikes Pick: Two brothers travel U.S. in search of birds in popular documentary
This one’s for the bird lovers. The 2025 documentary “Listers: A Glimpse into Extreme Birdwatching” follows brothers Owen and Quentin Reiser as they attempt a Big Year. That’s the birding term for trying to observe as many species of birds as possible in a year. The brothers travel the U.S., valiantly searching for birds while…
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Opera, PrideFest, hot air balloons, Japanese culture on offer this weekend around Colorado
– Central City Opera Festival: The country’s fifth-oldest professional opera company, renowned for its shows, will embark on its annual summer-long stretch of classic productions. This year’s roster features Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro,” running Saturday through Aug. 2; “The Ballad of Baby Doe,” by Douglas Moore, July 4-Aug. 1; and “Master Class,” by Terrence McNally, July…
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Juneteenth Festival moving to new Colorado Springs location
The celebration of freedom is moving indoors this year. For the first time, Southern Colorado Juneteenth Festival attendees won’t be beaten down by the sun, rain, wind or hail, as the sixth annual event moves from last year’s outdoor location at The Citadel mall to Norris Penrose Event Center. The free festival is Saturday and…
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Denver’s Transplant Games of America honor organ donors, recipients
She’s small in stature, but her voice is mighty, emotive and soulful, indicative of the struggles Sara Millard has survived in her four decades. At 4 feet 7 inches, she stands to play her autoharp, which rests on a table, and warms up with a cover of Christian singer-songwriter Amy Grant’s “Thy Word,” a fitting…
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Friendship between sanitation workers at heart of new comedic play in Colorado Springs
The New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) is the world’s largest municipal waste services organization, serving more than 8.5 million residents across five boroughs. And in playwright Lindsay Joelle’s “The Garbologists,” we meet two of its sanitation workers: Danny, male, White, blue-collar, native New Yorker, nine-year veteran of DSNY; and Marlowe, female, Black, Ivy…
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Bluegrass, Bob Seger tribute, Texas blues stack stages in Colorado Springs
• Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center’s 10th anniversary concert featuring Walker Wilson: The Nashville recording artist, known for his modern Southern rock and soul country sound, competed on NBC’s “The Voice” in 2023. The concert will help benefit Mt. Carmel’s military and veteran community, 7 p.m. Thursday, Cowboys, 25 N. Tejon St., $10; veteranscenter.org. •…
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Getting tanked: Paintball fights with a mini-tank twist in the Colorado Springs area
It’s WWII all over again on the plains east of Colorado Springs. Only this time, opposing forces are kitted out with mini-tanks and paintballs. Rocky Mountain Tanks is one of only two locations in the U.S., and the only one in Colorado, where people can drive a tiny tank and blast paint through a barrel.…
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‘Celestia:’ Immersive light, sound installation takes over historic Denver church
Episcopal church by day. Light-filled, multi-sensory arts experience by night. For almost three months this summer, Saint John’s Cathedral in Denver will be home to “Celestia,” a seated, immersive installation that uses projection mapping and an original orchestral score to transform the historic 1911 church into a 360-degree, 3D living canvas Thursdays through Sundays. On…
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Film festival will screen 150 Colorado-connected movies to celebrate state anniversary
Robert Redford, Samuel L. Jackson, Jane Fonda, Kevin Bacon, Jim Carrey and Christie Brinkley all have at least one thing in common: They have graced the streets, mountains and plains of Colorado while filming movies. To celebrate the state’s 150th anniversary and the nation’s 250th anniversary, the CO150 Film Festival this year will feature 150…
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New public art decorates downtown Colorado Springs in annual exhibit
A herd of tiny horses will live downtown for the next year. They arrived last month, packed into the bed of Denver artist Michael Brohman’s truck, as he pulled up to the sidewalk in front of Urban Egg, near the corner of Tejon Street and Colorado Avenue. The elegant equines, teeny enough to stuff in…