Tag: arts
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Art, history collide at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
A numinous hush cloaks the Duff Gallery in “Gathering Place,” the new semi-permanent four-gallery exhibit at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College. Church almost feels in session as you enter the “Sacred Expressions Across Culture” exhibit, and walk inside the large, newly constructed cedar enclosure in the center of the space. Various santos…
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Filipino film gets a Colorado Springs premiere
The Colorado Springs Filipino community rarely gets to see itself represented in a film screened at a local theater. A screening of “How to Get Away From My Toxic Family” will be the first time a Filipino movie has had a premiere in the Springs, says event organizer Jonah “JChelle” Macaspac. It’s timed to Filipino…
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Faith-based Colorado Springs theater program to stage ‘Annie’ in new venue
The sun’ll come out tomorrow. Bam, bam bam goes the hammer. Bet your bottom dollar. Bzzzz goes the drill. The cast of Christian Youth Theater’s “Annie” is a resilient bunch. As students in the faith-based youth theater program rehearse the Tony Award-winning musical, the stage and venue are being built and renovated around them. “It’s…
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Colorado Springs tattoo festival features hundreds of artists from around the world
Americans love their tattoos. They might love them more than anyone else in the world. “Our cultural heroes, from sports to entertainment, all have heavy tattoos,” said Troy Timpel, a Philadelphia tattoo artist and promoter for the Villain Arts Tattoo Arts Festival. “Culturally, it’s a very significant American thing to have tattoos. Europe is kind…
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Pikes Pick: Sunday night scary movies
Instead of the Sunday scaries, which is the dread of going back to work on Monday, try Sunday Night Frights at Manitou Springs Heritage Museum, 517 Manitou Ave. The museum offers free old-school scary movies on Sundays through October, including the 1946 “Bedlam,” starring Boris Karloff. Special features are at 5:45 p.m. and the film’s…
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Colorado Springs graduate releases new comedy series ‘Hot Kitchen’
Bobby Rice moved to Los Angeles and found out he was funny. And he now has a Tubi and Apple TV+ comedy series to prove it. The Coronado High School graduate’s new eight-episode parody, “Hot Kitchen,” is a spoof on reality kitchen competition shows like “Top Chef.” In Rice’s version, eight over-the-top characters compete in…
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Colorado Springs company brings Golden Age classic ‘Brigadoon’ to stage
The Golden Age of Broadway in the 1940s brought us musicals like “Camelot,” “Fiddler on the Roof,” “Guys and Dolls” and “The Music Man.” It also introduced us to “Brigadoon,” Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s pre-“My Fair Lady” dreamy, fantastical confection that debuted on Broadway in 1947, and implanted in our American songbooks and…
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Longest-running women’s film festival in country to screen 40 films in Colorado Springs
Five hundred women who were either pregnant or had just given birth disappeared in Argentina after dictator General Jorge Rafael Videla rose to power in 1976. They were part of 30,000 Argentines who disagreed with the government and were kidnapped and murdered by security forces, known as Los Desaparacidos (“The Disappeared”). “What the regime would…
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Camille Pissarro retrospective coming to Denver Art Museum
Camille Pissarro’s retrospective is coming to the Denver Art Museum (DAM), and the Mile High City is the only U.S. venue to exhibit the first major show of the “Father of Impressionism” in 40 years. On Oct. 26, the DAM will open “The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro’s Impressionism,” the latest in its autumnal series of…
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Colorado Springs at 150 years | How we became known as ‘Little London’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Editor’s note: This July, as Colorado Springs gears up for its 150th birthday on the 31st, The Gazette has prepared a series of articles on the history of our city. Check back for fascinating glimpses into the people and events that have shaped Colorado Springs into…