Tag: colorado springs fine arts center
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Colorado Springs play reimagines Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson as women in season opener
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It’s spring of 2021 in London, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous sleuth and sidekick are about to meet. But this time they’re women. In playwright Kate Hamill’s “Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson, Apt. 2B,” Dr. Joan Watson, a recent divorcee, absconds to London after…
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New video installation in Colorado Springs chronicles Puerto Rican snow stunt
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save There are no snow days in Puerto Rico. But for a few years in the 1950s, around Christmas, snow did make its way to the tropical island. Children rode sleds and had snowball fights for the first time. The moisture didn’t come at the hands…
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Pikes Pick: Take an art class at Bemis School of Art in Colorado Springs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Channel that going back to school energy this fall by taking an art class at Bemis School of Art at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College. Registration is open now for all sorts…
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Pikes Pick: Colorado Springs youth theater program does ‘Hadestown’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Just because they’re young doesn’t mean they can’t belt. The Youth Repertory Ensemble at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College will perform singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell’s Tony Award-winning musical, “Hadestown,” as the culmination of…
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6 weekend things to do around Colorado Springs and beyond: Shen Yun, Women’s History Month, Junkin’ Market Days, Atlanta Rhythm Section
Colorado actor Seth Palmer Harris channels the long gone writer and humorist Mark Twain in “An Evening with Mark Twain.” Harris will take on the historical figure’s persona as he reads some of his works and interacts with the audience. It’s at 7 p.m. Thursday at Manitou Art Center, 513 Manitou Ave., Manitou Springs. Tickets…
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Colorado Springs nonprofit RAWtools features art made from guns in new exhibit
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The guns hanging on these gallery walls no longer pose a threat to any sentient creature. The hunting rifles, handguns, assault-style weapons and soft gun cases are now the stuff of dreamcatchers, sculptures, musical instruments and other works of art. They were surrendered to the nonprofit RAWtools for a variety of reasons — the owners…
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Colorado Springs painter leaves legacy in home built into Garden of the Gods
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Pat Musick’s childhood and now adult home sits directly on the boundary of Garden of the Gods, with the red rocks used as walls and offering a beautiful view of the park and Pikes Peak. Musick’s father, the painter Archie Musick, designed and built the…
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Colorado Springs music venues, theater companies look back on wreckage of 2020
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save We all know 2020 wreaked havoc upon those who entertain us. The musicians and actors, the music venues and theater companies. Jobs and gigs were lost. Shows were canceled. Entire seasons were slashed. But was there some gold in the rubble? For artists, the urge…
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Colorado Springs theaters livestreaming nightly holiday productions
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Grinch almost stole Christmas this year. But he was powerless in the face of two of the region’s longest-running arts organizations: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College and Theatreworks. The two institutions rounded up some of the Pikes Peak region’s best-loved musicians,…
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30 plays in 60 minutes at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save By Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, opens Friday, 8:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through July 21, CSFAC at CC, 30 W. Dale St., $18 FAC members, $20; 634-5581, csfineartscenter.org Thirty plays in 60 minutes. Sounds doable, right? Sometimes, if all the Legos…