Tag: arts
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Colorado Springs graduate returns for exhibit exploring our fear of unknown
Fear of the unknown is a great human truth. Artist Nina Elder wonders what would happen if we didn’t panic and turn away from the mystery. In her new exhibit, she’ll explore the idea of absence and how we can be with that absence through works that are predominantly black and made of trash. “I…
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World Ballet Company’s adaptation of ‘Great Gatsby’ comes to Colorado Springs
“The Handmaid’s Tale,” “A Streetcar Named Desire,” “The Graduate.” What do the three classic pieces of literature have in common? They, as well as numerous other written works, have been turned into ballets by companies around the world. And now there’s one more: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel “The Great Gatsby.” “‘The Great Gatsby’ was…
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Shakespeare, improv, puppetry fill Colorado Springs stages
Stages are busy this weekend with classics like Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” puppetry, improv and theater for children. Betsy Tobin and Michael Gunst have stripped the color from their show. Their evocative, “A Moment in Time,” a puppet performance art-type piece inspired by black and white photos, will be done in all black and white, including their…
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Pikes Pick: ‘Twin Peaks’ perfect autumn soundtrack
A drive through the burnished leaves under overcast skies while listening to American composer Angelo Badalamenti’s “Soundtrack from ‘Twin Peaks’” is all I want on an October day. Though the odd, mystery TV series only aired for two seasons in 1990-1991, it made many fans and made many marks on the cultural landscape, one of…
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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…