Tag: arts
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Colorado Springs theater company mounts dystopian play that asks hard questions
Notes from playwright Lucy Kirkwood set a pleasant scene for her 2017 gentle dystopian play “The Children.” But don’t let the unassuming setting fool you. “A small cottage on the East Coast. A summer’s evening. The sound of the sea through the open door. The room is at a slight tilt. The land beneath it…
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Pikes Pick: Lying, scheming reality competition ‘Traitors’ is back
My favorite backstabbing, lying and conniving group of reality TV game players is back. A new season of “The Traitors,” hosted by the comedic fashionista Alan Cumming, is now streaming every week on Peacock. Once again, the cast features reality show participants and public figures, including Donna Kelce, Colton Underwood, Michael Rappaport, Lisa Rinna and…
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Colorado Springs fashion show features local designers, models
Astronomer Carl Sagan once told us we are made of star-stuff. That the dust and gases that make up the cosmos are the same that make up our bones and bodies. For the upcoming fashion show, “House of GOCA: Stardust,” designers were tasked with creating individual collections that reflected on the cosmos, and also the…
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Filmmaker looks at COS early art history
An art exhibit featuring the work of filmmaker and Palmer Divide resident Jim Sawatzki is being shown at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 30 West Dale St., Colorado Springs. The exhibit, The Gathering Place, features an 18-minute video, “The Teacher,” a segment from Sawatzki’s documentary, “Rarefied Air: Historic Artists of the Pikes Peak Region.”…
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Ice, snow carving, skijoring, competitions at winter festivals around Colorado
Time to bundle yourself up like the little brother in “A Christmas Story,” or, depending on Mother Nature, find a straw hat and Hawaiian shirt, and immerse yourself in the wilds of winter. Treasure whatever snow you can find in this, the winter of our perpetual summer. – Thursday through Sunday: Ouray Ice(less) Fest —…
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Cellist Yo-Yo Ma to perform with Colorado Symphony in Colorado Springs
Grammy Award-winning cellist Yo-Yo Ma will help kick off Ford Amphitheater’s new season. The beloved musician will perform with the Colorado Symphony on June 5. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday. Ticket prices haven’t been announced. Go online to axs.com or fordamphitheater.live, or call 719-563-9830. Ma and the Colorado Symphony will also perform…
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Rock cover band Hairball to channel old arena acts in Colorado Springs show
Before he morphed into David Lee Roth and Ozzy Osbourne, Patrick Stone turned himself into Thomas Edison. When the tiny fourth grader channeled the famous inventor for an elementary school play, little did he know decades later he’d be jumping around the stage like Roth or trying to develop a sinister look in his eyes…
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Colorado Springs theater company’s ‘Prince of Egypt’ musical first in region
Almost 100 kids will bring to life the Pikes Peak region’s first production of the musical “The Prince of Egypt.” Inspired by the 1998 animated movie of the same name, the show, by Philip LaZebnik and Academy Award-winning “Wicked” composer Stephen Schwartz, is based on the biblical tale from Exodus of the journey of Moses,…
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Colorado Springs group carries on centuries-old sacred harp singing tradition
The vibrations of vocal cords fill your ears well before you step inside Evergreen Cemetery’s historic chapel. What magnificent choir is this, you wonder, singing so powerfully it operates like smelling salts, opening up long-forgotten neural pathways in your brain, through which emotions hurtle like blood. For this All Souls’ Day Cemetery Sing in November,…
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Pop icon Bruno Mars will bring his ‘Romantic Tour’ to Colorado Springs
The Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Bruno Mars will include Colorado Springs on his new “The Romantic Tour.” He’ll perform Sept. 26 at Falcon Stadium at the Air Force Academy. Ticket prices haven’t been announced yet. Presale tickets are available starting at noon Wednesday. General tickets go on sale at noon Jan. 15. Go online to brunomars.com.…